Sunday, February 17, 2019
1584-1585: For the Pope and All My English Friends from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
I struggled for forty plus years to find all the playing pieces, stood back, looked at the history, knew what was going on and "who" was doing what in what capacity, and then logically, according to
Maxim of Law ----- "As a thing is bound, so it is unbound."-----hit the reboot button. They began this process by seizing upon our Lawful Person --- our Given Name --- and trafficking it into the foreign international jurisdiction of the sea and thence into the even more foreign realm of global commerce....
So, I began the reversal by seizing
up my own Given Name, and trafficking it back to the international
jurisdiction of the land, permanently domiciling it on "the land and
soil" jurisdiction of my State (would be the County and Province most
places on Earth), Expatriating from all foreign citizenship obligations
"conferred" on my Good Name, and then seizing upon all the related NAMES
and issuing a Certificate of Assumed Name(s) and trafficking them back
and permanently domiciling them on the land and soil of my State of the
Union.
This is all a process exactly like re-flagging a vessel.
Pretend that you buy a sailboat in
Greece named "The Jolly Ann" and it is registered in Spain. You can
sail that boat anywhere on Earth, and it will still be under Spanish law
until you change its registration. So you, coming from England, might
want to change that, and take it to the British agencies in charge of
registering "vessels" and you might then "re-flag" your sailboat as a
British "vessel" operating under the law of Great Britain and Presto!
You are now internationally identified as a British sailboat and
globally recognized as a "UK" sailboat, instead of a Spanish sailboat
--- and you are sailing under British law, instead of Spanish law.
This is the same kind of process. I
was born as an American, one of the natural born people of Wisconsin.
The Queen's Agents operating the hospital where I was born as a
disguised military facility (See Territorial Title 37 that illegally
conscripted American doctors) "offered under force" to register my
Given Name. They didn't disclose the end result of this to my Mother,
and she unknowingly signed "me" over as a "ward" of their Territorial
State of State commercial corporation. So, I -- my Proper Name -- was
misidentified almost from birth as a "U.S. Citizen" and a chattel
property owned and operated (like any other "vessel" at sea) by the
British Crown Corporation. They subsequently copyrighted my Given Name
in Breach of Trust and subjected "me" to British Territorial Statutory
Law.
So I am rightfully an American State
National, a Wisconsinite, but as a result of this primary Breach of
Trust and Fraud against me, I have been misidentified and "sailing
around" the world as a British Territorial United States "Vessel". My
identity has been stolen, in exactly the same way that a credit card
hacker steals identities.
There is just one other twist to
this particular story --- the British Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
operates under Spanish Law, which still allows them to impose The
Inquisition on all "vessels" registered in Puerto Rico. This creates a
back door for the Pope to profit from this identity theft, too, and also
a means for the Holy Roman Empire to get its claws into innocent people
worldwide.
So, after the first fraud and breach
of trust by the Queen's disguised agents, they created a Roman Inferior
Trust benefiting the Pope and named it after my stolen Proper Name.
They removed this Cestui Que Vie Trust operated as "ANNA MARIA
RIEZINGER" to Puerto Rico and registered it there.
Now this leaves me with a British
"Vessel" operating as a franchise of the British Crown Corporation under
British Territorial Law, registered to a British Territorial State of
State doing business as "the" State of Wisconsin.....and, a Puerto Rican
"VESSEL" operated by the Holy Roman Empire under Spanish law, also
drifting around --- and all of this is happening via a process of
totally "unconscionable" and undisclosed contract, without my knowledge,
and against my will. Totally non-consensual.
I never knew a thing about any of this skulduggery being done "for" me by Undisclosed Foreign (British) Territorial Agents.
And there is absolutely no plausible
reason --- other than pure profit and self-interest --- for any of this
to have taken place.
As an American, I didn't ever need
or want any of their international or commercial franchises to operate
my business interests, because my State of the Union, Wisconsin, is
perfectly intact and competent to float my boats as American
"Vessels".
The British Territorial United
States is under contract to provide me and my State of the Union with
Good Faith Service under the actual Territorial Constitution ratified in
1789, and the British Monarch is under contract as a result of the
Treaties of Versailles (1778-1784), Treaties of Westminster (1784-1794)
and Definitive Treaty of Peace, Paris, 1783 ---- to act as my "Trustee
on the High Seas and Navigable Inland Waterways".
Like Evil Uncle Ernie, the Queen has
been caught diddling the children, making contracts with infants,
trafficking us into the foreign international jurisdiction of the sea,
and then letting her Bar Attorneys pillage and plunder us under false
pretenses, and letting her bankers "salvage" our ESTATES under the same
outrageous false pretenses.
Then, using our own Delegated Powers
against us, and again, in Gross Breach of Trust and criminality, she
has ordered her Territorial workers to keep mum about all of this ----
18 USC 472---- in an effort to ensure that all these false claims and
all this chicanery would never be discovered, and if it was discovered,
the people who knew could not talk about it. And all the Americans
bound up in this scheme were told it was a matter of "National Security"
and not to be questioned --- they just weren't told which 'nation" was
securing itself.
And the Popes, who are supposed to
be our Trustees in the global jurisdiction of commerce, have not been a
bit better. Oh, no, they jumped on the bandwagon, and their only
objection to all this fraud and racketeering and identity theft has been
to demand a cut of the action.
The same thing has been done to
people worldwide. The Queen created and condoned this "system" in
Britain, too, and orchestrated it while sitting in The Chair of the
Estates, instead of the British Throne.
By rights, they all ought to be
taken out and shot, and they know it --- which makes them desperate and
unwilling to come to an accommodation, because that would admit their
guilt. It would also divest them of a large portion of their ill-gotten
wealth.
I have been repeatedly asked ---what do I want? What do I want?
I want what most people want. I
want my freedom, control of my own life and assets, and to be left
alone. I am not offering to cause anyone any harm but by the same
token, I have not donated my assets to the British Crown. I want this
identity theft and fraud and all these false claims in commerce to
stop. I want those responsible for this situation to disgorge the
profits from it back to the people who have been harmed by it. And I
want peace and a normal course of business from now on.
Since disgorging the profits all at
once would cause chaos and devalue the assets, I have directed them to
convert the debt system into a credit system and begin paying everyone
on Earth a Basic Living Stipend equivalent to $2000 in local currency
per month per person. I have also told them to issue an equivalent
$1000 in local currency per month per person as an "Investment Credit"
that people can use to make investments of their own in any peaceful
business enterprise, with the principal and the profits becoming
available to them for their use upon reaching the retirement age of 60.
Those of us who have been defrauded
and suffered and who will not be able to benefit from the long term
enactment of this remedy are owed the return of every penny we have paid
into fraudulent mortgages, "federal income taxes" paid by people who
were never actually federal citizens or employees or dependents, federal
pension "contributions" (Social Security, etc.) by people who were
never actually federal employees, property taxes on our own property----
etc., all to be calculated and returned to us with reasonable interest
as completely non-taxable dividend earnings. Any service, such as
medical services under SSI and Medicare, and all insurances that we are
owed, will continue to be owed together with free pharmaceuticals and
physical therapy and hospice care --- full boat.
Everyone on Earth has more than enough reason to demand such reasonable settlement of their personal accounts.
As for our national
accounts owed to, for example, our actual States of the Union, they need
to similarly be paid off and accounted for in a forthright and proper
manner. allocated to our State Trusts, and passed through to provide
infrastructure and environmental remediation and long term care taking and
management of natural resources (not including people as "natural
resources" -- thank you, very much) that belong to the People of each
State.
And no, we are not fooled by the
Carbon Tax fraud-in-the-making. We will not be diapering our cows any
time soon. Please take the fake "Treaty" agreeing to carbon taxes being
proposed by the commercial corporations involved --- and have a nice
bonfire as it passes into the dustbin of history.
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Reply to Sun Tzu
By Anna Von Reitz
Americans are not naturally "U.S.
Citizens". They have to be converted into "U.S. Citizens" and they
have to be re-conveyed out of "U.S. Citizenship" if they want to get out
of it once they stumble into it. Like stumbling into a cow pie.
Once you put your foot (or your name) in, you have to take your foot (or
name) out.
All the concerns in this letter (posted below)
are predicated on the wrong idea that you are naturally some form of
"U.S. Citizen" and that you could "lose something" by denying such
citizenship.
The only "United States" that any of
us are associated with is "The United States". Notice the "The". And
we are not even "citizens" of The United States. We are nationals of
The United States. When is the last time you or anyone you know took a
soil jurisdiction office? I can tell you: 1851. So there are at this
time exactly zero Americans owing citizenship obligations to "The
United States".
Whether you like it or not, your
Proper Name has been kidnapped and transported into the realm of
Commercial Fiction and falsely identified as a franchise corporation ---
like a Burger King franchise --- belonging to the British Crown. That
franchise is a United States Citizen under their "diversity of
citizenship" clause and no United States Citizen has any rights or
guarantees or treaties or constitutional guarantees.
This is a process begun when your
Mother unknowingly "surrendered" your name at the hospital and they
"seized upon it" in Breach of Trust.
Their "franchise offer" is a false
gift you are offered before you are even competent to accept an offer,
so they get your clueless Mother to sign "for" you and then they use
that to concoct claims in commerce against you. It's like the free
magazine subscription that obligates you to pay for fifty other
subscriptions you don't want or need in the first place.
As for how do we get our stuff back
--- get fifty million Americans up to speed and claiming their proper
identity and political status and exposing these vermin for what they've
done and you will have more than just your own stuff back. You will
have your country back.
Continue down the road you are on,
trying to straddle the fence, and all you do is leave people as sitting
ducks ready to be plucked off by the Brits and the Pope's men--- who
will exercise control over anyone presumed to be working for their
corporations and over any "property" presumed to be donated to them.
Americans who have been falsely
conscripted into "service" as "U.S. citizens" have nothing to lose and
everything to gain by coming home to the land and soil they are heir
to. The Brits and the Holy Roman Empire won't like this, because they
have been holding false title to us and to all our property and using us
and our assets as collateral for their debts. Ask me --- do I care
what they like?
The process that I have suggested to
recoup and evidence your actual identity and standing allows you to
"re-flag" the "U.S. Citizen" NAMES as American entities, put all and any
assets belonging to those entities back on the American land and soil
of your States, subject them to the Public Law of our country, and
control them yourselves.
You have an "Authorizing Signature"
so use it. And be sure to copyright it with a by-line or a copyright
symbol (small "c" inside a circle") whenever you do.
Just take all the playing pieces
associated with your Name and permanently domicile them on the land and
soil of your State, so that the Queen and her Bar Attorneys no longer
have jurisdiction over your playing pieces and no authority to address
you.
"U.S. Citizenship" in any form is
not anything that any American should cherish or regard as a benefit and
it is not possible to retain it and enjoy your birthright as an
American. So just ditch it and be done. If you are not a Federal
Employee --- Civilian or active duty Military --- there is no reason for
you to adopt "U.S. Citizenship" of any kind, and once you leave such
employment, there is no reason for you to stay in that status.
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Is Anna aware of what's going on at NESARA? Destry & Sun going full drama queen against doing Anna's paperwork
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Do Not Repudiate U.S. Citizenship - Do Not Change Status - Here is why (Another Layer of Deception Peeled Back From the Onion That Is - The Matrix of Enslavement):
New evidence has come to light suggesting previous ideas thought true, now appear to be false. Temporarily,
cease performing any correspondence in the form of "U.S. Citizenship
Repudiation" or "Political Status Change" with "United States Inc," a
foreign corporation committing fraud.
What we have discovered:
- Why should the people have to correct their status?
- It was the foreign corporation, "United States Inc," who committed the fraud, the natives were simply born upon the land, then defrauded, the natives are innocent, and should be free of burden.
- We The People, the indigenous natives on the land, are not required to communicate or have business dealings with a foreign corporation, "United States Inc," operating criminally.
Any failure to heed this warning may be monetizing yourself for financial gain of the crime syndicate, maximizing profits for the foreign corporation, "United States Inc," and their parent corporation, "United Nations Inc," and the subsidiary corporations, "Your Nation Inc."
US Supreme Court decisions state that the Crime Syndicate, "United States Inc," can only do business with other fictional entities, which is why we have all been turned into corporations in the jurisdiction of the sea under maritime law.
If you repudiate your U.S. citizenship, this may release the crime syndicate from having to pay you recompense and restitution for fraud/damages because there will be no fictional entity for the crime syndicate to do business with or have communications with.
By repudiating your U.S. citizenship, the Crime Syndicate may seize your social security benefits as no one individual has proven to have received these monies and or damages (restitution for fraud) and as The Handbook from the Michigan Jural Assembly proves, this "status change" or "US citizenship repudiation," is not necessary and may cause great financial harm to both the native and to future moneys (remedy) received (owed).
The biggest person pushing this, she has never shown proof of receiving moneys back from the crime syndicate post processing.
Other evidence has come to light that we shall bring before you shortly. This is a temporary notice to get the word out as quickly as possible.
The real notice with proof will be coming shortly.
Sincerely,
Sun Tzu
What we have discovered:
- Why should the people have to correct their status?
- It was the foreign corporation, "United States Inc," who committed the fraud, the natives were simply born upon the land, then defrauded, the natives are innocent, and should be free of burden.
- We The People, the indigenous natives on the land, are not required to communicate or have business dealings with a foreign corporation, "United States Inc," operating criminally.
Any failure to heed this warning may be monetizing yourself for financial gain of the crime syndicate, maximizing profits for the foreign corporation, "United States Inc," and their parent corporation, "United Nations Inc," and the subsidiary corporations, "Your Nation Inc."
US Supreme Court decisions state that the Crime Syndicate, "United States Inc," can only do business with other fictional entities, which is why we have all been turned into corporations in the jurisdiction of the sea under maritime law.
If you repudiate your U.S. citizenship, this may release the crime syndicate from having to pay you recompense and restitution for fraud/damages because there will be no fictional entity for the crime syndicate to do business with or have communications with.
By repudiating your U.S. citizenship, the Crime Syndicate may seize your social security benefits as no one individual has proven to have received these monies and or damages (restitution for fraud) and as The Handbook from the Michigan Jural Assembly proves, this "status change" or "US citizenship repudiation," is not necessary and may cause great financial harm to both the native and to future moneys (remedy) received (owed).
The biggest person pushing this, she has never shown proof of receiving moneys back from the crime syndicate post processing.
Other evidence has come to light that we shall bring before you shortly. This is a temporary notice to get the word out as quickly as possible.
The real notice with proof will be coming shortly.
Sincerely,
Sun Tzu
Anna Von Reitz vs The Jural Assemblies, The Michigan Jural Assembly, The Handbook vs Citizenship Repudiation/Political Status Change
I Sun Tzu, currently freeze all support and aid for Anna Von Reitz. You all know me well, I have supported her for a very long time, she in fact woke me up, but you will see below, something with Anna is very troubling, needs to be addressed, and directions she is giving, could cost you everything.
While I look forward to working with Anna Von Reitz, correcting the record and urging her to join the forces of good (maximum benefit for the We the Indigenous Native victims), currently she may be leading all the lemmings off the cliff to their doom.
Evidence:
1) Anna's first several hundred articles were packed full of valuable information; the foreign owned corporation, "United Nations Inc," and all her subsidiary corporations like, "United States Inc," are all foreign with respect to the natives which they enslave, and Anna helped shine light on that and upon the unlawful conversion of natives into corporations by infringing upon all our copyright(s).
2) Monetization of natives who change their political status (dissolve their corporation).
- If you dissolve your corporation by changing your political status (mailing back your birth certificate to the de facto corporation), you will likely never receive the "monies," (inheritance) you are owed as Anna Von Reitz says you will (at least not anytime in the near future).
- In Anna's earlier writings, she told you to inform the de facto corporation to place all monies owed into your bank account (account number provided).
- So if Anna received her billions of dollars she is owed by being the first in her family line to receive all the assets of her family line that had been fraudulently claimed and stolen (IRS) by the "United States Inc," as "Un-claimed," "Abandoned," or "Belonging to Missing Peoples," then she would be one of the richest people in the country and she would not be asking everyone for money to buy jars of food to fill her pantry. So Anna, where is all this great wealth you have received? Why are you asking everyone for money if you have received your family's inheritance?
- If you follow Anna into what appears to be a vicious Deep State trap, there is one thing for sure, you will not get your inheritance anytime soon, because the "United States Inc," foreign owned corporation has statutes and administrative rulings from the administrative corporate courts most notably the "United States Supreme Court," which says that the de facto corporation, "United States Inc," is a fictional entity, and can only have business dealings and communication with other fictional entities (corporations), so if you dissolve your corporation (U.S. Citizen), then the de facto corporation, "United States Inc," will not be able to communicate with you or have business dealings with you, it will be as though you never existed. I will be posting the above mentioned U.S. Supreme Court ruling as soon as Freewill sends it to me again, it is the real deal, the United States Inc can only have communication or business dealings with other fictional entities, such as corporations. So how would you receive your inheritance if the de facto corporation cannot communicate or do business with you?
The de facto corporation, "United States Inc," will also be able to say that any injury due to copyright infringement was alleviated and resolved by the victim themselves when they informed the "United States Inc," that they were in fact not missing and that the victim corrected the mistake by dissolving the U.S. Citizen corporation created in Probate Court(for dead, missing, missing presumed dead), thus you will never get your damages for the copyright infringement upon your name, at least not anytime soon.
Furthermore, if you do what Anna is telling you to do, your life will be one of misery and suffering. Anyone who would like to know what life is like after changing your political status, just ask Freewill. Life gets pretty tough without a social security number and a driver's license.
QUESTION:
If a foreign owned corporation, "Death Inc," perpetrates attacks against the indigenous native population, why should any burden be placed on the victims? Why should the natives have any burden of correcting any fraudulent paperwork in a foreign corporation that is operating as a crime syndicate, not operating on the land jurisdiction, and operating illegally from the jurisdiction of the sea through maritime law?
I will answer this for you:
The "United States Inc," is the Criminal Operation that is infringing upon copyrights, genociding natives all over the world, and committing all sorts of other crimes against the native population of Earth. Why should any victim be expected to communicate with a Crime Syndicate?
If a corporation, "Bob's Burgers" slipped cyanide into your mom's soft drink and she died, would you be required to fill out corporate paperwork for Bob's Burgers Inc?
No, I don't think so.
Anna Von Reitz appears to be aiding and abetting the foreign owned Crime Syndicate in limiting its liabilities. By getting people to dissolve their U.S. Citizenship, Anna is essentially monetizing victims for the Crime Syndicate, this decreases the amount of money that the "United States Inc" will have to pay out for both copyright infringement as well as the "Inheritance," which cannot be paid out to a living native as the "United States Inc" by its own U.S. Supreme Court decisions, can only have business dealings with corporations or non fictional entities. By dissolving your U.S. Citizenship, you may be allowing the Crime Syndicate to keep all your inheritance.
The Michigan Jural Assembly did everything right! (Quote From Anna's Own Mouth
The Jural Assemblies are the solution.
The Handbook is the solution.
You can find out everything you need to save yourself and the world, right here:
www.National-Assembly.net
You do not need to correct your political status. You simply need to form up your Jural Assemblies.
Once the Jural Assemblies are formed, we can take the de facto "United States Inc" to task for copyright infringement and all other horrible crimes they've committed.
But you need to do this fast. As you can see, it appears that Trump and Qanon are just a distraction, just another layer of control in "The Matrix" of enslavement and suffering. There is mixed words on the subject of the recent funding bill signed by Trump, that it allows for all illegal aliens, their roommates, and their family members, to have a path to citizenship. It appears to me that Anna Von Reitz is helping the Crime Syndicate get rid of the citizens they don't want (victims they owe restitution to) and refilling the ranks of Citizens with illegal immigration and immediate path to citizenship for all who illegally enter the country. Remember, the de facto Corporation, "United States Inc," and her parent corporation, "United Nations Inc," cannot survive without "Citizens" to provide services for (or should I say rob, murder, cheat and steal from). So it appears that Qanon and Trump are just a means to erase liabilities (reparations, recompense, and restitution for crimes) and then replace those lost Citizens with more Citizens, stealing our nation from us at the same time.
Anna Von Reitz:
Where is your inheritance that you have collected from the de facto "United States Inc?" You wrote in your articles of how to collect it upon correction of political status. So show us your big fat billion dollar bank account.
Furthermore, you tell us that you have filed all these injunctions and legal proceedings in our defense and in protection of our inheritance and in protection of our property, and in protection of our Sovereign Un-Incorporated Republic, PLEASE SHOW US PROOF OF THIS. If you are filing legal arguments in our benefit, should we not be privy to these documents?
Anna. Why did you drop the name "Judge" Anna Von Reitz?
Is it correct that you removed the title, "Judge" from your name upon being visited by the FEDS?
Is it true that the Colorado-9 (Nine students of Anna Von Reitz all using the title Judge) were visited by the FEDS after the FEDS visited you, except that the FEDS arrested those nine individuals, all of whom I am informed are still in prison? Why did the FEDS tip you off, but arrest your students?
Anna Von Reitz, are you currently working for the DEEP State?
Anna Von Reitz, are you currently working for the Vatican?
Anna Von Reitz, in your earlier writings, you claimed to have been a United States Federal Postal Judge, but the union has no records of you having ever been a Federal Postal Judge.
Anna Von Reitz, we ask you to present evidence to your fellow natives that proves you are who you say you are, that you have received your inheritance as you are telling people to change their political status to do so. We ask you to prove that you were a Federal Postal Judge.
We ask you to furthermore prove that the "Living Law Firm" is real.
We ask you to furthermore prove that the legal paperwork and legal matters for protection of our properties, names, and inheritance have actually been filed.
We would like to solve these issues with you civilly and avoid a mud slinging contest. We desire a solution that best fits all injured natives on Earth (the whole population).
But please understand, if you are aiding a foreign owned corporation, "United States Inc," or the Vatican, or any other individual or entity in attacks against Americans, you would be committing Treason.
We kindly ask you to help us resolve these matters.
Sincerely,
Sun Tzu
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Sixth Sunday After Epiphany
Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's Year
INTROIT Adore God, all ye His angels: Sion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Juda rejoiced. The Lord hath reigned; let the earth rejoice; let the many islands be glad. (Ps. XCVI. 1.) 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.
The Church's Year
INTROIT Adore God, all ye His angels: Sion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Juda rejoiced. The Lord hath reigned; let the earth rejoice; let the many islands be glad. (Ps. XCVI. 1.) 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 Grant,
we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that ever fixing our thoughts on such
things as are reasonable, we may both in our words and works do what is
pleasing in Thy sight. 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.
Thess. I. 2-10.) Brethren, we give thanks to God for you all, making a
remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing; being mindful of the
work of your faith, and labor, and charity, and of the enduring of the
hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father: knowing,
brethren, beloved of God, your election: for our gospel hath not been
unto you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Ghost, and in
much fullness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for
your sakes. And you became followers of us and of the Lord, receiving
the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost: so that you
were made a pattern to all that believe, in Macedonia and in Achaia. For
from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia
and in Achaia, but also in every place, your faith, which is towards
God, is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything. For they
themselves relate of us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and
how ye turned, to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, and
to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised from the dead), Jesus,
who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.
EXPLANATION The
apostle gives thanks to God in prayer for those inhabitants of
Thessalonia, who have been converted to Christianity by his words, and
declares to them his joy at their Christian life which they prove by
their good works and their perseverance, even through all trials, in
expectation of eternal reward through Christ. He assures them also of
their salvation, (election) because God had caused the preaching of His
gospel, which they so willingly received, to produce in them such
extraordinary fruit. He praises them not only for having listened to the
gospel and abandoned idolatry, but for having regulated their lives in
accordance with the faith, and having become a model to distant nations,
for the report of their faith had spread far, and everywhere their
zealous reception of the gospel was spoken of. Would that the same could
be said of all Christians!
GOSPEL (Matt.
XIII. 31-35.) At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to the multitudes:
The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man
took and sowed in his field: which is the least indeed of all seeds; but
when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree,
so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.
Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to
leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the
whole was leavened. All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the
multitude, and without parables he did not speak to them, that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my
mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the
world.
What is here understood by the kingdom of heaven?
The Church and the doctrine of Christ.
Why is the Church compared to a grain of mustard-seed?
Because
there is a great similarity between them. The mustard-seed, though so
small, grows in Palestine so high and so rapidly, that it becomes a
broad tree, in which birds can build their nests. In like manner the
Church of Christ was in the beginning very small like the mustard-seed,
but it soon spread so wide that numberless people, even great
philosophers and princes, came to find peace and protection under its
branches.
Why is Christ's doctrine compared to leaven?
Because
like the leaven, which quickly penetrates the flour, and makes it
palatable bread, the doctrine of Christ, spreading with surprising
swiftness over the then known parts of the globe, gave the Gentiles a
taste for divine things and for heavenly wisdom. Thus Christ’s doctrine
penetrates him who receives it, sanctifies all his thoughts, words, and
deeds, and makes him pleasing to God.
By what means, in particular, was the Church of Christ propagated?
By the
omnipotence of God and the miracles which He so frequently wrought to
prove the truth and divinity of the Christian religion; the courageous
faith, and the pure moral life of the early Christians, which led many
pagan minds to accept the doctrine of Christ; and the persecution of
Christianity, for, as Tertullian says: "The blood of the martyrs was the
seed of the Church." The false doctrine of Mahomet, the erroneous
teachings of Luther, Calvin, and earlier and later heretics have, it is
true, also spread quickly far and wide; but this is not to be wondered
at, for it is easy to lead people to a doctrine that encourages
sensuality, and to which they are carried by their evil inclinations, as
was the case with the doctrine of the impostor Mahomet, and three
hundred years ago with the heresy of Luther; but to spread a doctrine
which demands the subduing of the carnal, earthly inclinations, and to
bend the will to the yoke of obedience to faith, something more than
human eloquence is required. Thus, the Chancellor of England, Thomas
More, who gave his blood for the true doctrine of Christ, wrote to
Luther, who was boasting of the rapid increase of his sect: "It is easy
to descend; seducing the people to a bad life is nothing more
marvelous than that a heavy stone should fall of its own accord to the
ground;" and Melanchton, a friend of Luther, in answer to his mother's
question, whether she should remain a Catholic or receive Luther's
doctrine, wrote : "In this religion it is easy to live, in the Catholic
it is easy to die."
Why did Christ always speak in parables?
That His
teaching by being simple might be more easily understood, and better
remembered. He who is called upon to teach others, should, as did
Christ, always speak to
them according to their ability to understand, and by no means seek his
own honor, but the honor of God, and the benefit of those who hear him.
PRAYER O
most benign Jesus. How much do we give Thee thanks that Thou hast
permitted us to be born in Thy holy Church, and instructed in Thy holy
doctrine, which, like the mustard-seed, has grown to be a large tree,
spreading over the whole earth. Grant that under the shadow of this
tree, in Thy holy Church, we may ever rest securely, cling to her
faithfully, and penetrated, as by leaven, with her doctrine may bring
Thee pleasing fruits of faith and virtue. Amen.
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