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Pope Benedict and Saint Boniface

Saint Boniface: Laying the Axe to the Root of Evil

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The Sacred Heart of Jesus Explained: Why It Is More Than a Symbol
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David Lamb said:

Just to let you know that since Apple Sky wrote the post to which you are replying over a year ago, she has been diagnosed with stage 4 liver and bone cancer - see her post here: The Seed I am sure she would value prayer at this time. She may well not see or answer your post in her current situation.

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I have, thank you

As someone else mentioned that music can help. Music as a therapy seems to open pathways to memory. Music lights up acrossthe brain in ways we don't understand.

Playing music from a persons past may also connect to memories and experiences associated. Gospel music and hymes can have strong associations with experiences of God or growing up in the family and church.

I use to work in a nursing home where patients would come alive and even dance. Recalling the dance steps.

I think there is something spiritual that transcends and can give peace. David soothed Saul when he was going mad with his harp and songs.

Thankfully, those criminal protesters are still facing federal charges for their crimes against the people of that church.

RileyG said:

I have never respected PP nor believe anything they say! Praying they become extinct in my lifetime!

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Amen

Tianjin, China

St. Thomas the Apostle, pray for us!

Ugh how awful! May she rest in peace!

She’s a hero and I hope many more people follow her lead!

Peace!

Thanks for sharing

Once July comes, they stop caring.

Many organizations do what is popular because they want support or appear trendy or cool.

No surprises here.

SMH

Thank you, Holy Father!

May he rest in peace.

How incredibly sad!

Ugh Lord have mercy!

Well well well, color me surprised! If it isn’t the consequences of their own actions!

Glory to God!

The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, will not press charges against anti-ICE protesters who disrupted a worship service at Cities Church after the city determined that the protest was peaceful.

On Jan. 18, a group of anti-ICE protesters disrupted a worship service at Cities Church, a church plant in St. Paul supported by the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Send Network. Videos of the incident show protesters chanting and screaming in the faces of church members as congregants attempted to worship.

Following the incident, Cities Church Lead Pastor Jonathan Parnell told Fox News that “several folks at that moment actually scattered, fearful it was a shooter situation. Children were obviously terrorized. Mothers were terrorized.”

Pam Bondi, who was recently removed from her position as U.S. attorney general by President Donald Trump, led the arrests of 39 people involved in the protests, including independent journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon.


Earlier this week, St. Paul City Attorney Irene Kao described videos captured during the protest as peaceful and said nothing unlawful occurred.

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The House passed a measure to provide almost $2 billion in aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions against Russia Thursday, sending the measure to the Senate behind a 226-to-195 tally -- despite GOP leadership in full opposition to the measure.

Eighteen Republicans voted in favor of the bill -- creating a bipartisan majority -- although Democrats carried most of the water on the vote.

"Today’s bipartisan vote sends a strong message to Ukraine that we support them and a clear message to Putin that we stand against Russian tyranny,” Republican Rep. Michael McCaul said in a statement after the vote.

A vote on the package was forced after a discharge petition amassed 218 signatures, the threshold of support required for lawmakers to circumvent the majority leadership's will and force a floor vote.

Rather ironic that Trump endorses Paxton, a man who was impeached by his fellow Republicans for bribery and corruption. Then there is this:

“This isn’t justice”​

Judge Sparkman was not happy.
Molest a child repeatedly and get one day in jail.

SPRINGDALE, Utah — Towering 1,500 feet over the floor of Zion National Park, Angels Landing is one of the most recognizable rock formation in the American West. Famous for its steep grades, sheer cliffs and razor thin paths, it draws hundreds of thousands of thrill-seeking hikers each year. Yet, long before it became an internet sensation and arguably the “deadliest hike” in America’s National Park system, it was a summit deemed entirely unreachable by humans.

The trail enjoyed by modern hikers is the result of a century old historical gamble, a wandering Methodist minister, and a pioneering engineer who believed regular people deserved access to the heavens no matter the risk.

A Minister’s Vision and the Birth of a Holy Metaphor​

For thousands of years, the towering vertical walls of Zion Canyon were known as Mukuntuweap—a Southern Paiute word meaning “straight canyon.” It was under this moniker that President William Howard Taft first designated the area as a federally protected National Monument in 1909. However, fearing that American tourists would struggle to pronounce the Indigenous name, the National Park Service officially rebranded the sanctuary as Zion in 1918.

Two years before that name change, a 50-year-old traveling motivational speaker and Methodist minister from Ohio named Frederick Vining Fisher stepped off a stagecoach into the region. Seeking pristine landscapes to anchor his popular illustrated travel lectures, Fisher spent two weeks exploring the canyon floor in October 1916 alongside two local Mormon teenagers who served as his guides.

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President Donald Trump’s top Nevada prosecutor, Sigal Chattah, pushed to launch investigations at the behest of former clients and friends while repeatedly bypassing Justice Department orders recusing her from cases, according to three people with direct knowledge.

Chattah, a former Republican party official who took over the US attorney’s office in Nevada 14 months ago, also opened a probe targeting her past political foe, the three individuals said. It is one of many circumstances in which she’s leveraged her role to advance personal interests.

The first-time prosecutor frequently sought status updates on cases despite warnings that she was disregarding recusals signed by the deputy attorney general’s office in Washington that barred her involvement in matters where she had conflicts of interest, said several individuals.

“It’s charitable to call it chaos,” said Rick Pocker, who was Nevada US attorney under President George H. W. Bush, about Chattah’s leadership. “I don’t think she quite understands how you’re not supposed to use that office for personal or political purposes.”

Chattah is one of several Trump-aligned top federal prosecutors whose appointment as acting US attorney was deemed invalid by a judge, leaving her future in doubt. She remains in charge while the court order disqualifying her is pending appeal.

Previously in Chattah news

Romans 6:1-6,12,16 NKJV


The Wedding Ceremony

Imagine with me for a moment that you have just gotten married to your spouse. This is the moment you had been waiting for, and now you did it. You said your vows, and you signed the contract, and now you are husband and wife, a married couple. But then imagine with me that soon after you decide to take a vacation from your spouse, to go away somewhere else where they cannot see you or what you are up to, where they are not included, and which opens the door wide for you to find someone else.

This is how many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ treat the Lord, who is their spiritual husband (whether they are male or female), for they committed themselves to be his bride. The big difference is that he can and does see what we are doing in secret when no one else is looking. So he does know what we are up to. But they think that just because they prayed the prayer and said the words that they now have what they want, but that they are still free to live however they want, to go where they want to go.

Death to Old Life

But that is not how it works. That is not what a marriage should look like, and it is definitely not what a marriage relationship with Jesus Christ should look like. For God’s grace to us is not carte blanche (absolute freedom) to live however we want now that our sins are forgiven and we believe that heaven is guaranteed us. God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives now and forever (Titus 2:11-14).

So, we are not free to continue in sin. For by faith in Jesus Christ we die to sin that we might no longer live under its control. And this does not mean that we will never sin again (1 John 2:1-2), but that sin should no longer have dominion over us to where it is what we obey, in practice, instead of us obeying our Lord. For by faith in Jesus our former self is put to death with Christ that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we should no longer be slaves to sin but now servants of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Baptism Into Death

Now, with regard to the verses here speaking of us being baptized into Christ, thus being baptized into Christ’s death, this is clearly speaking of a spiritual baptism which may or may not include water baptism. For in the Scriptures there were people who believed, then were baptized, and those who received the Holy Spirit upon belief, and then were baptized in water. And many people get baptized in water who never, in truth, give their lives over to the Lord Jesus Christ to belong to him and to obey him forever.

But our water baptism serves as an outward sign of an inward faith, if truly we have believed in Jesus with biblical faith which saves. And if we are baptized by dunking in the water, it symbolizes our faith. For biblical faith involves us dying with Christ to sin and being raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord in holy living for the glory of God. And all of this is of God, and not of the flesh, for it to be genuine.

Slaves to What?

And this is what it all comes down to. Are you, in truth, a slave to sin? Or are you a slave to God and to obedience to his commands? You cannot be both at the same time. As followers of Jesus Christ we are no longer to let sin reign (rule) in our mortal bodies, to where we still obey its lusts, in practice. For, if we present ourselves, by our actions, as slaves to sin, that leads to death (eternal separation from God). But if obedience to our Lord is what we obey, in practice, it leads to sanctification and eternal life with God.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

Marriage to Christ
An Original Work / June 4, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love