My all-time favorite crackers. Excellent base for cheese. Can be purchased at most supermarkets, or online.
Here is the link to purchase them online: https://www.marysgonecrackers.com/collections/original
MUSIC / JAZZ / TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI
Yet another example of the incredible jazz coming out of Japan!
PB
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Quite simply the best jazz guitarist alive right now, aside from Pat Metheny.
PB
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My all-time favorite crackers. Excellent base for cheese. Can be purchased at most supermarkets, or online.
Here is the link to purchase them online: https://www.marysgonecrackers.com/collections/original
MUSIC / MUSICALS / SOUND OF MUSIC
2024-12-16 Monday
The song "Edelweiss" was written by two Jewish guys in New York City for the musical "Sound of Music." They knew the flower was important to Austrian culture, but the song itself was an American creation, not Austrian. Hence, it's not sung in Austria.
So it was very surprising to see two very talented Austrian girls singing a beautiful duet of Edelweiss! They do a huge number of great American songs on their channel.
- Pseudo Boethius
MUSIC / JAZZ / ANDREA MOTIS
2024-12-16 Monday
Well, it's nearly winter time here in the midwestern United States, but that doesn't mean I can't listen to one of the great jazz standards of all time: "Summertime" by George Gershwin. And the best rendition of that particular song is by Andrea Motis in collaboration with Joan Chamorro Quintet.
Here is Andrea playing LIVE at the Jamboree Club in Barcelona, Spain back in 2013, and making this song all her own.
Absolutely incredible!
- Pseudo Boethius
CARS / SUBARU / ENGINES
2024-12-16 Monday
Subaru engines are very different from those in almost any other car. How so? Well, watch the video and find out!
- Pseudo Boethius
MUSIC / CHRISTMAS
2024-12-15 Sunday
It’s “Carol of the Bells” by bass singer Geoff Castellucci. It’s a version of this song you’ve never heard before. Why all the buzz around it? Well, just listen for yourselves, preferably on a good stereo system with a subwoofer….
For those who prefer something more traditional, you can listen to the original UKRANIAN version of the song, which has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas! But it’s a beautiful song none-the-less:
On a personal note, of all the versions of Carol of the Bells I've heard in my life, this one by George Winston from his well loved "December" album is the one I've listened to most often. I remember buying this album when it came out (on vinyl!) and loving it immediately. It's still surprisingly popular some 42 years later.
- Pseudo Boethius
2024-03-30 Saturday
CHRISTIANITY / SPIRITUAL WARFARE / FATHER DAN REHILL
Father Dan Reehil sits down with Mark McLean and they have a very honest, and straight forward conversation about spiritual warfare and the end-times.
As Fr. Reehil correctly points out, the end-times does not mean the end of the world itself, but it certainly means the end of the world as we know it, and that's a good thing.
As for the church and Christians, the coming end-times will mean intense persecution of Christians, even unto death. The Catholic church does not believe in a "pre-tribulation rapture", rather they teach that the events in the book of Daniel and Revelation will be used to purify the church as is. More importantly, they firmly believe that after the events of the antichrist, and his defeat, the world will be a far, far better place than it is now.
This is a conversation that is well worth listening to.
- Pseudo Boethius
CHRISTIANITY / PRAYER / FAUSTINA GORHAM
Faustina shares with us a song that came to her via the Holy Spirit. WOW!!!
]]>"But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him again. One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question: “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?”
"If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing."
- Paul the Apostle, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, New Living Translation, 2nd Edition
To be saved, you must choose to love, and God himself must be that which you love the most. A theology of salvation based on anything other than love is a waste of time.
All you need is love.
- Pseudo Boethius
CHRISTIANITY / PROPHECY / CHRISTA ELISHA
Christa was given a very severe word from God for the American church. Use your own discernment and see what you think of this message. Whether or not you think she is a prophet, she is making a lot of sense in what's she's saying. Christa posted this message on March 26, 2024.
]]>CHRISTIANITY / CONTEMPLATIVES / NUNS
I give to you the testimony of Mary Faustina "Tina" Gorham. She has a very special announcement that we all need to hear: she is becoming a nun! She enters the convent on June 27, 2024.
So who are "The Benedictine Daughters of Devine Will", the order that Mary Faustina has decided to join??? They are an order that seems to be inspired by Catholic mystic Luisa Piccarreta, who had an AMAZING revelation about God's divine will. The Mother Superior: Mother Garbrielle, is an incredible woman, and she explains what's involved in the teachings about The Divine Will. Very interesting stuff!
MUSIC / COUNTRY / SIERRA FERREL
My goodness, this girl is something else.
Seems she has had at least one near death experience. She goes over it very briefly.
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This young lady, Sierra Ferrell, is fast becoming the most popular country singer in the world. Listen and you will understand why.
MUSIC / JAZZ / NORAH JONES
So the greatest living female jazz singer in America walks into a record store...
]]>CURRENT EVENTS / MURDER / ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
This all happened on a Wednesday afternoon (March 27, 2024) in a quiet neighborhood in Rockford, Illinois:
]]>CHRISTIANITY / THEOLOGY / UNBELIEF
Just saw this following excerpt in a newsletter I subscribe to.
The author talks about a simple conversation he had with a Catholic priest after the Catholic abuse crisis began to surface:
"In my case, the anguish I felt over the abuse scandal, and the way the institutional Catholic Church reacted to it, was more than I could handle. I guess a lot of this has to do with the kind of man I am, and my own history. Whatever. The point I want to make in this particular discussion is that when Catholics see their priests, and even their Pope, behaving in certain ways, especially with the liturgy, it signals to some of them that these men don’t really believe in Catholicism. As a matter of fact, I remember in the first year of the scandal, asking a Catholic priest friend of mine how on earth the bishops could have done what they did, with all the cover-ups and the punishing of victims and families. I’ll never forget where we were walking on the street in New York when he answered: “Because they don’t believe in God.” "
I've seen scandals and abuses by church leaders, government leaders, people in private industry, and just about everywhere else during my life. Yet it especially hurts when you see it in the church, regardless of which denomination. Church officials preying on children, or involved in illicit affairs of all kinds. This is not just a problem amongst Catholics, but amongst the entire Christian world: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant.
So why does this evil stuff keep happening in the church? Because many of our "Christian" leaders really don't believe in the stuff they are selling to us. Even as a child, I was very much aware of this hypocrisy, and wondered seriously if the whole "God" thing was just a another clever ruse like the "Santa Claus" narrative: just a story we were told to keep us in line, to keep us docile, to keep us from chopping off the heads of the idiots who were running the country.
Well, as an adult, it's obvious to me that there are, in fact, many in leadership in Christianity as a whole, who really don't believe in God. But they get a paycheck from their denomination for pretending there is, so they keep at it, because it's a living, after all.
There are also some really good priests, pastors and leaders in the various denominations who know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there are leaders, if not a whole bunch of leaders, in their denominations who are, in fact, corrupt. But they can't say an honest word about it, because if they do, they will be cast out like yesterday's garbage, without a dollar to show for it. So they keep quiet, as their livelihood depends upon it.
Hence, since the mid 1960's to this very day, we have seen one of the greatest decline in Christianity in world history, in Western Civilization. Church historians have compared this current epoch to the famous Arian heresy of 300 AD. But, at least with the Arian heresy, everyone stayed in church, unless they were excommunicated! But today's crisis in Christianity is much worse, because the church in the West is losing people quickly, not because of a single heresy, but due to a lack of faith in God that is evident everywhere in the developed world. If there is a heresy that is at the core of this crisis, it would be modernism, which made atheism intellectually respectable for the first time in history.
So, here we are, in the 21st century, and never in the history of Western Civilization has Christianity looked so horrid and ragged as it does right now, and things seem to be just getting worst.
Is there any hope that things will get better? Not really. Our only hope, is the return of Jesus to earth, and using his Second Coming as a means of cleansing the church. Anything short of that, and we are doomed.
CHRISTIANITY / THEOLOGY / HATE
Here's a Psalm for your consideration:
Psalm 5 - (New Living Translation)
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by the flute.
1 O Lord, hear me as I pray;
pay attention to my groaning.
2 Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God,
for I pray to no one but you.
3 Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord.
Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.
4 O God, you take no pleasure in wickedness;
you cannot tolerate the sins of the wicked.
5 Therefore, the proud may not stand in your presence,
for you hate all who do evil.
6 You will destroy those who tell lies.
The Lord detests murderers and deceivers.
7 Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house;
I will worship at your Temple with deepest awe.
8 Lead me in the right path, O Lord,
or my enemies will conquer me.
Make your way plain for me to follow.
9 My enemies cannot speak a truthful word.
Their deepest desire is to destroy others.
Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave.
Their tongues are filled with flattery.
10 O God, declare them guilty.
Let them be caught in their own traps.
Drive them away because of their many sins,
for they have rebelled against you.
11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;
let them sing joyful praises forever.
Spread your protection over them,
that all who love your name may be filled with joy.
12 For you bless the godly, O Lord;
you surround them with your shield of love.
Yes, there are those who God hates, especially those who murder and tell lies.
It's interesting to note that telling lies are equated to murder here, which is bad news for those who think they are good, because they've never murdered anyone. Well, have you never told a lie? Have you never deceived anyone? While it's not explicitly stated in this Psalm, there are many other places in the Bible where words themselves are equated with murder and evil.
In the modern day "woke" culture, you will often hear the phrase "silence is violence"! But in the Bible, angry speech is violence. Even Jesus, when falsely accused, kept mostly silent.
There are, of course, many instances in the Bible where prophets, including Jesus himself, speak very forcefully about the evil happening in Jewish society. Almost always, those prophets where treated badly, and even killed, like Jesus himself was, because people don't like it when prophets speak truthfully about the evil people are engaged in.
You can fool people constantly, but you can never, ever fool God, as he sees what's truly in your heart. You can kill all the prophets you like, but that won't keep God silent.
The take-away is this: we all need to be people who speak the truth, even when it hurts. This world is filled with lies and liars who constantly lie to us about all sorts of things. In a world like that, the most revolutionary thing you can do is take a stand for the truth.
- Pseudo Boethius
CHRISTIANITY / SPIRITUAL WARFARE / FR. RIPPERGER
Father Chad Ripperger's most recent talk about spiritual warfare and demonic possession at St Patrick's Cathedral.
- Pseudo Boethius
CHRISTIANITY / HOMILY / JIM BLOUNT
2024-01-27
This is one of the most fun little homilies you will ever hear! Father Jim Blount recalls his time working as a sign apprentice in Tampa Florida, and his miraculous encounter with a poor black woman.
This is must see TV!
And, he talks about the infamous Georgia Guidestones.
- Pseudo Boethius
Delivered at OCON 2023 in Miami, Florida on July 3, 2023.
Catholic prophets Mark Mallett and Daniel O'Connor talks about the convergence of prophecies that all point to October, 2023.
This video aired on August 2023.
They start with words they have been hearing about the great UFO deception. (And they are correct to be warning about that...)
More on October 13, 2023 from a CATHOLIC perspective.
The Catholic prophets and mystics have been warning about the month of October for some time now, and they appear to be right on the money.
One prophet/mystic has even gone so far as to state that October 13, 2023 will be the beginning of the End Times.
]]>The Palestinian Hamas terror group known as Hamas has called on Muslims worldwide to stage a “Day of Jihad,” or holy war, on Friday, October 13th — coincidentally, a date that resonates with horror movies and the upcoming Halloween holiday.
Hamas referred to the day as “Al-Aqsa Flood” Friday, referring to the name of the operation in which it murdered more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded roughly 3,000, and kidnapped over 100.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported Hamas as saying:
We declare next Friday, ‘The Friday of the Al-Aqsa Flood,’ as a day of general mobilization in our Arab and Islamic world and among the free people of the world. It is a day to rally support, offer aid, and participate actively. It is a day to expose the crimes of the occupation, isolate it, and foil all its aggressive schemes. It is a day to demonstrate our love for Palestine, Jerusalem, and Al-Aqsa. It is a day for sacrifice, heroism, and dedication, and to earn the honor of defending the first Qibla of Muslims, the third holiest mosque, and the ascension of the trusted Messenger.
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We call upon the free people of the world to mobilize in solidarity with our Palestinian people and in support of their just cause and legitimate rights to freedom, independence, return, and self-determination.
Hamas also called on Palestinians within the West Bank (known to Israelis as Judea and Samaria) to rise up against Israeli soldiers, and called on Arab citizens of Israel (“Our people within the occupied territories of 1948”) to revolt against the state.
In the entertainment industry, Friday the 13th is seen as a major day to launch new releases of horror films, with graphic depictions of imaginary violence. Unfortunately, the horrors of the Hamas terror attack in Israel were all too real.
Khalid Mashal the leader and founding member of Hamas gave a speech today asking Muslims all around the world to do the following:Khalid Mashal the leader and founding member of Hamas gave a speech today asking Muslims all around the world to do the following:⁰⁰1. To show anger, especially next Friday, in Muslim countries and Also among Muslim diaspora around the world; he called it “the Friday of Al-Aqsa… pic.twitter.com/koJ42DRFMy
— Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد (@BrotherRasheed) October 11, 2023
Funds are important but today we are asking for your blood and souls [to be sacrificed for Palestine]
U.S. Grace Force - Catholic Perspective
The vicious attack that took place against Israel and the many protests, rallies and threats of escalating violence that have followed are dominating our world right now. We asked Daniel O'Connor to join on this episode of the US Grace Force to break all this down and discuss how these events relate to prophecy, especially those messages that we have heard recently about the days that we are living in. We should prayerfully consider may be coming next and what we should do about it?