1094-Charnel Houses and Shinola Sensors By Anna Von Reitz from Lincoln County Watch

Sunday, June 24, 2018

1094-Charnel Houses and Shinola Sensors

By Anna Von Reitz

I have often and with considerable vigor criticized the Roman Catholic Church for numerous things, including their tolerance for Babylonian practices of idolatry and usury and mismanagement of the assets of the World Trust and Gross Breach of Trust with respect to obligations owed to the American
people and government.  Now, I find myself honor-bound to defend the Roman Catholic Church and explain some basic facts of life and history to Americans and Aussies and others around the world who have not had cause to spend time in Europe.  

It also requires discussing some not-so-pleasant subjects. 

Like death.  Human death.  

Although you might not have cause to think about it while traveling through Europe--- if you did think about it --- you would realize that aside from some large war memorial cemeteries and a few notable public and church cemeteries, there are not nearly the number of cemeteries you would expect to see, given the size of the population.  

Arable land in Europe is at a premium and has been for centuries. 

So instead of cemeteries, Europeans have used a long tradition of "green burials".  They set aside a place to bury the dead in cloth shrouds and mark the spot.  Seven years later, family and friends and the local clergy come back and dig up the skeletal remains of the loved one, and bear those bones to the local charnel house --- a building or vault or crypt, often with an iron grate underlying it, where the bones are piled up together with the bones of other ancestors. 

The charnel house of a community is often associated with the local church, though not always, and it is sometimes in the same building as the church -- in the basement, typically, or a side room or outbuilding. 

The bones themselves gradually disintegrate into their mineral components and the dust falls through the iron grid into a space below.  In the spring, when the farmers need to fertilize their fields, they come to the charnel house and sack or shovel the bone meal into carts and haul it away to spread on the fields.  

Thus, the cycle of life and death turns, and the bones of a village's dead contribute to the well-being of the Earth and the sustenance of the living inhabitants who need the fertilizer to grow food crops and woodlots. 

Only the lords of the manor had private burial plots and mausoleums associated with their grand homes.  My Father was taxed by the East German Government for the family mausoleum outside Gdansk (Danzig) and every year was a run around with the various authorities to get the cemetery tax paid and forestall the demolition and razing of the mausoleum--- a separate stone building full of ancestral bones ----and all that remained of our once-vast holdings.  

It was a hefty sum, too.  

After my Father died, my Cousin Friedrich had grown up enough to take over this duty and expense, so now it gets paid from Berlin.  I suppose it is only right and fitting that we pay in money for the rent of the land that the building occupies, giving back to the community which has long been cheated out of our share of fertilizer. 

Since the advent of inexpensive and available modern fertilizers some community charnel houses have become artistic memorials.  See the Hallstatt, Austria, charnel house with over 1,200 intricately painted human skulls.  After the initial shock you realize that this is indeed a loving and respectful memorial and that the people of Hallstatt have stayed together in death as in life, as a community.

In Asia and India, they go so far as to use human skeletons to build architectural structures, such as dykes and low bridges and even small one or two room huts for shelter.  

Not everyone has boundless acres for cemeteries and other cultures do not deny the realities of death as we do in America. 

So now the internet is awash with ignorant articles by people alarmed because there are large quantities of human bones in St. Peter's Basilica and in many, many other Churches scattered throughout the world.  They assume, like Kevin Annett, that this is evidence of foul play and "ritual sacrifices" and they are making all sorts of wild, hysterical claims against the Church as a result of their "discovery" of all these charnel houses "hidden" in plain sight.   

They have never heard of a green burial, nor of a charnel house.  

Likewise, are there reasons why there would be mass graves in Western Canada, aside from genocide? 

We forget or we never knew just how rough life was on the frontier, but in Riverside Cemetery, in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, you can see the grave of my Great-Grandfather, Julius Alfred Schnur, his wife, and five little daughters.  He lost his wife and the little girls in two successive epidemics, diphtheria and Scarlet Fever, one after the other.  He also lost his home and multiple successful businesses to a flood of the Black River in 1911.  The family was completely wiped out except for the land and a horse barn. 

Even today, in Alaska, we struggle with tuberculosis and endemic hepatitis as Public Health concerns. We lost our first home in Big Lake to a mammoth wildfire, Millers Reach II, in June of 1996.  Even after penicillin and electricity and paved highways and combustion engines, there are perils that can easily result in mass graves. 

Perhaps it is my knowledge of these and other facts --- and the failure after ten years to produce conclusive proof of wrong-doing --- that tends to make me discount the claims of ITCCS as a witch hunt, most likely funded by the banks.

Is it coincidence that Kevin Annett appeared the same exact year that Pope Benedict XVI began the push for reform of the secular side of the Church, and brought pressure to bear on the out-of-control banks?  

For a while, it was almost a tit-for-tat exchange, with a pedophile accusation in response to every bank reform suggestion---similar to the rash of sex-related complaints being leveled against politicians and celebrities, all of whom just happen to be fairly conservative.  

Last year, in April, as a result of "police investigations" in Belgium, I was led by ITCCS announcements to expect criminal charges following arrests and to hear the results of these investigations and eye-witness accounts in the papers and from more ITCCS news blurbs.  

Nothing.  Not a word.  No end of the story.  No result. 

This year, two people try to arrest Pope Francis, who was on his way to an ecumenical meeting, and everyone concerned was hurt.

Why--- if ITCCS had information about a Black Mass occurring--- didn't they simply wait until later that night, surround the gathering place, and arrest the whole lot of them at once, caught red-handed? 

Again, the story line doesn't make logical sense, and there is no result.  

I am all for being aware of Satanism in the modern world, being aware of its practices and beliefs, being on guard against these "professional" liars--- yes, also being aware of their long and bloody history as child murderers.  But one need not look very far to see the evidence of their actual mass murdering in modern times. Just look at the statistics concerning state-sponsored abortions. 

Millions of babies are sacrificed every year, and it doesn't require any special robes and rituals or signs or symbols. No secret meetings in the dead of night on a full moon, no stone altars or sacred dates on the calendar.  Child murder worldwide is tragically accepted as "legal" and common place.  

And as long as that is accepted as "okay" and as a means of birth control, then it is only a small step down the slippery slope of immorality that, like one Obama Administration official proposed, not counting children as "human" until age six, and being able to cull them at will until then.  Or, conversely, saying that anyone over the age of 75 is useless and subject to mandatory extinction "for the good of the planet".  

Perhaps instead of beating around in the bushes and attacking elderly priests on their way to ecumenical meetings, we would do better to sharpen up our Shinola Sensors overall and take a broader view of what we are allowing and participating in and how that is affecting our values --- not only our family values, but our valuation of life in general. 

We all need to be thinking and feeling more deeply and  taking more responsibility for the true, obvious, provable, and actual evils in our midst.  

Last time I checked, the Roman Catholic Church is one of the few institutions on Earth that has taken a firm and unyielding stand against abortion--that is, against child murder. 

If individual priests are in fact functioning as Satanists, they are merely pretending to be priests.  They are not Christian.  They are not Catholic.  

If the day comes and we actually catch such individuals participating in a Black Mass, they will be accountable for their own bad beliefs and evil actions.  They cannot blame the teachings or the doctrines of the Church. 

As for the rest of us, we are also responsible for what we believe and what we do according to those beliefs.  

I, myself, am considering a "green burial".  There is something peaceful about the concept of returning my physical body to the Earth from which it sprang and letting it naturally decay and become part of other beings and things yet undreamed of--- oak trees, moss, and falling stars. 

When I began to sharpen my pen to write this article and explain the whole concept of charnel houses to Americans, I chanced upon some additional information about this subject I would like to share with my readers.  There are organizations and businesses in this country that assist families who wish to follow the ancient and natural way of dealing with death and dead bodies and bones. 

Let me recommend: 

GreenBurialCouncil.org

Funerals.org

BeATree.com

NaturalEnd.com

Instruction on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's Year

At the Introit implore God's assistance and say, with the priest:

INTROIT Hear, O Lord, my voice with which I have cried to thee: be thou my helper, forsake me not, nor do Thou despise me, O god, my Savior. (Ps. XXVI.) The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

COLLECT O God, who host prepared invisible good things for those that love Thee: pour into our hearts such a sense of Thy love, that we, loving Thee in all, and above all, may obtain Thy promises, which exceed all our desire: Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.

EPISTLE (I Peter III. 8-15.) Dearly beloved, Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble: not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this you are called; that you may inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. Let him decline from evil, and do good: let him seek?after peace, and, pursue it: because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their. prayers: but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil, things. And, who is he that can, hurt you, if you: be zealous of good? But if also you suffer any thing for, justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear, and be not troubled: but sanctify the Lord Christ, in your hearts.

How can and how should we sanctify the Lord in our hearts?

By practising those virtues which Peter here recommends, and which he so exactly describes; for thereby we become true disciples of Christ, honor Him and edify others, who by our good example are led to admire Christianity, and to become His followers. Moreover, we thus render ourselves more worthy of God's grace and protection, so that if for justice' sake we are persecuted by, wicked men, we need not fear, because God is for us and will reward us with eternal happiness.

ASPIRATION O good Saviour, Jesus Christ, grant that I may make Thy virtues my own; especially Thy humility, patience, mercy, and love; grant that I may practise them diligently, that I may glorify Thee, sanctify myself, and thus become worthy of Thy protection.

GOSPEL (Matt. V. 20-24.) At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: Except your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill: and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. If therefore, thou bring thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother: and then coming, thou shalt offer thy gift.

In what did the justice of the Pharisees consist?

In external works of piety, in the avoidance of such gross vices as could not be concealed, and would have brought them to shame and disgrace. But in their hearts these Pharisees cherished evil, corrupt inclinations and desires, pride, envy, avarice, and studied malice and vengeance. Jesus, therefore, called them hypocrites, whitened sepulchres, and St. John calls them a brood of vipers. True Justice consists not only in external works of piety, that is, devotional works, but especially in a pure, sincere, self-sacrificing feeling towards God and man; without this all works, however good, are only a shell without a kernel.

How are we to understand that which Christ here says of anger and abusive words?

The meaning of Christ's words are:. You have heard that murder was forbidden to your fathers in the desert, and that the murderer had to be given up to justice: but I say to you, whoever becomes angry with his neighbor, shall be in danger of divine judgment, and he who with abusive words, such as Raca, Villain, gives vent to his anger, using expressions of contempt and insult, as fool, scoundrel, profligate, wretch, is more liable to punishment. These degrees of anger are punished in different ways by God.

Is anger always sinful?

No, anger is sinful only when we wish or actually inflict some evil to the body, property, or honor of our neighbor; when we make use of such insulting and abusive words as injure his character, provoke and irritate him. If we become angry at the vices and crimes of others, when our office or the duties of our station demand that we watch over the conduct of those under our care, to punish and correct them, (as in the case of parents, teachers, and superiors) then anger is no sin. When one through pure love of God, becomes irritated at the sins and vices of his fellowmen, like King David, or if one urged to wrong, repels the tempter with indignation, this is even a holy anger. Thus St. Gregory Says; "It is to be understood that anger created by impatience is a very different thing from anger produced by a zeal for justice. The one is caused by vice, the other by virtue." He, then, who becomes angry for justice' sake, commits no sin, but his conduct is holy and praiseworthy, for even our Lord was angry at those who bought and sold in the temple, (John II. 15.) Paul at the magician Elymas, (Acts XIII. 8.) and Peter at the deceit of Ananias and Saphira. (Acts V. 3.) Anger, then, to be without sin, must proceed from true zeal for God's honor and the salvation of souls, by which we seek to prevent others from sin, and to make them better. Even in this respect, we must be careful to allow our anger no control over our reason, but to use it merely as a means of doing good, for we are often apt to take the sting of anger for holy zeal, when it is really nothing but egotism and ambition.

Why must we first be reconciled with our neighbor before bringing an offering to God, or undertaking any good work?

Because no offering or other good work can be pleasing to God, while we live in enmity, hatred, and strife with our neighbor; for by living thus we act altogether contrary to God's will. This should be remembered by all Christians, who go to confession and holy Communion, without forgiving those who have offended them, and asking pardon of those whom they have injured. These must know that instead of receiving absolution for their sins, they by an invalid confession are guilty of another sin, and eat their own judgment in holy Communion.

How should reconciliation be made with our neighbor?

With promptness, because the apostle says: Let not the sun go down upon your anger. (Eph. IV. 26.) But if the person you have offended is absent, says St. Augustine, and you cannot easily meet him, you are bound to be reconciled to him interiorly, that is, to humble yourself before God, and ask His forgiveness, making the firm resolution to be reconciled to your enemy as soon as possible. If he is accessible, go to him, and ask his forgiveness; if he has offended you, forgive him from your heart. The reconciliation should be sincere, for God sees into the heart; it should also be permanent, for if it is not lasting, it may be questioned if it was ever sincere. On account of this command of Christ to be reconciled to our enemies before bringing sacrifice, it was the custom in ancient times that the faithful gave. the kiss of peace to one another at the sacrifice of Mass, before Communion, as even to this day do the priests and deacons, by which those who are present, are admonished to love one another with holy love, and to be perfectly reconciled with their enemies, before Communion.

ASPIRATION O God, strike me not with the blindness of the Pharisees that, like them, I may seek to please man by my works, and thus be deprived of eternal reward. Banish from my heart all sinful anger, and give me a holy zeal in charity that I may be anxious only for Thy honor and for the salvation of my neighbor. Grant me also that I may offend no one, and willingly forgive those who have offended me, thus practicing true Christian justice, and become agreeable to Thee.

MEANS OF PREVENTING ANGER

The first and most effectual preventive is humility; for as among the proud there are always quarrels and contentions, (Prov. XIII. 10.) so among the humble reign peace, meekness and patience. To be humble, meek, and patient, we must frequently bring before our minds the example of Christ who did not sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, (I Peter II. 22.) yet suffered great contradictions, many persecutions, scoffs and sneers from sinners, without threatening vengeance to any one for all He suffered; He say's to us in truth: Learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart. (Matt. XI. Z9.) A very good preventive of anger is to think over in the morning what causes will be likely to draw us into anger at any time during the day, and to arm ourselves against it by a firm resolution to bear all with patience and silence; and when afterwards anything unpleasant occurs, let us think, "What will I effect by my anger? Can I thereby make things better? Will I not even make myself ridiculous and injure my health?" (for experience as well as holy Scripture teaches, that anger shortens life.) (Eccles. XXX. 26.) Finally, the most necessary preventive of anger is fervent prayer to God for the grace of meekness and patience, for although it seems difficult and almost impossible to our nature to be patient, by the grace of God it becomes not only possible, but even easy.

INSTRUCTION ON SACRIFICE
Offer thy gift. (Matt. V. 24.)

In its wider and more universal sense sacrifice comprehends all religious actions by which a rational being; presents himself to God, to be united with Him; and in this sense prayer, praising God, a contrite heart, charity to others, every good work, and observance of God's commandments is a sacrifice. Thus the Holy Scriptures say: Offer up the sacrifice of justice and trust in the Lord. (Fs. IV. 6.) Offer to God the sacrifice of praise. (Ps. XLIX. iq..) Sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit; a contrite and humble heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Ps. 1. 19.) It is a wholesome sacrifice to take heed to the commandments, and to depart from, all iniquity. (Ecclus. XXXV. 2.) "Therefore," says St. Augustine, "every good work which is united in sanctity with God, is a true sacrifice, because it refers to the end of all good, to God, by whom we can be truly happy." As often, then, as you humble yourself in prayer before the majesty of God, when you give yourself up to God, and when you make your will subject to His divine will, you bring a sacrifice to God; as often as you punish your body by continency, and your senses by mortification, you bring a sacrifice to God, because you offer them as instruments of justice; (Rom. VI. 13.) as often as you subdue the evil concupiscence of the flesh, the perverted inclinations of your soul, deny yourself any worldly pleasure for the love of God, you bring a sacrifice to God. Such sacrifices you should daily offer to God; without which all others have no value and do not please God, such as these you can make every moment, when you think, speak, and act all for the love, of God.

Strive then, Christian soul, to offer these pleasing sacrifices to God, the supreme Lord, and as you thus glorify Him, so will He one day reward you with unutterable glory.

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