Octave Day of St Stephen, Deacon & Protomartyr: Missa “Sederunt principes”

The Jewish origin of Saint Stephen is universally acknowledged; he is known and loved everywhere as the first follower of Christ to give to his martyred God love for love, blood for blood. It is not certain whether he was among the seventy-two disciples of Jesus; some believe he was of the Greek tongue and not a native of Palestine. He studied with Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas under the famous Doctor of the Law, Gamaliel, who, being a member of the Sanhedrin, attempted to stop the persecution of the Apostles. (Acts of the Apostles 5:34-40) What is certain, however, is that he distinguished himself among his brethren as an admirable Christian, replete with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. To his great beauty and angelic chastity were joined humility, patience, gentleness and charity, so perfect that they drew…

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If Christians are a new creation, why isn’t everything perfect? I ask the question because oftoday’s Verse of the Day, from YouVersion. It says we are a new creation. The old is gone. The new is here. It sounds so exciting! So how come things aren’t perfect? For that matter, how come little or nothing seems to have changed? Is the verse wrong?

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

See what I mean?

What’s the problem?

Why isn’t everything perfect?

Well, there are several reasons.

Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God

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It happens every year as far back as I can remember, and maybe as far back as you can remember yourselves. When the old year makes way for the new, we say “Good riddance.” And we sing “Auld Lang Syne” and drink champagne and spin noisemakers and light up the night sky with fireworks. We may have done some of those things last night, or maybe you just went to bed early like you’ve done the last decade or so, as I did. But we like to think that we’ve put all of it squarely behind us. “See ya later 2020.” It makes sense that we want to pin blame on someone or something for everything that did not go well or anything we didn’t particularly like. So 2020 gets to be the scapegoat for all things ugly and disagreeable…

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN? 

Joel 1:4 

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten, and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten, and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. 

OPENING STATEMENT 

I released this warning in December 2019 of events to come, there were 2 of the four events Joel spoke of in the warning and as the year ended the third in Dec. 2020 Joel spoke of, was making its appearance. The warning given in 2019 displayed below shows four plagues, will manifest.  

In the book of Joel “The prophet Joel” describes how an attack will take place. First as a palmerworm, then locust then cankerworm and finally the caterpillar. Each will destroy what the first had left behind. He says for a nation is come up upon my land, strong and…