Friday, 4 April 2014

Queen Elizabeth Greets Pope With Eggs, Whiskey and Beer




Queen Elizabeth and Pope Francis





Britain's Queen Elizabeth talks with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican Thursday. (Reuters/Stefano Rellandini )
Queen Elizabeth met Pope Francis for the first time on Thursday and gave a bemused pontiff culinary delights from the royal estates, including a dozen eggs and a bottle of whisky.
"I've also brought something from all our estates, which is for you personally," said the queen, wearing a lavender dress and a purple hat, as she handed Francis a wicker basket full of food at the end of a 17-minute private meeting in the Vatican.
The 18 items from Buckingham Palace, Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral also included two types of honey, "Coronation Best Bitter," "Grandad's chutney" and "Sandringham handmade aromatherapy soaps".
A Vatican official said the pope would likely share the food with other residents of the guest house where he has lived since his election after renouncing the spacious papal apartments or would donate it.
The Queen and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, met the pope in a modern room attached to the Vatican's audience hall without much of the ceremonial pomp that usually accompanies such visits.
A Vatican statement did not say what the two discussed. The Queen is also the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which split from Rome in 1534.
The pope is Argentine and Britain went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas, in 1982.
To cut short any speculation that the two might have discussed the Falklands, the British embassy reminded reporters that while the pope may be Argentine, the Vatican's official position on the territorial dispute is a neutral one.
Francis also gave the queen a gift for her eight-month-old great-grandson, Prince George of Cambridge. It was a sphere made of lapis lazuli, a deep blue semi-precious stone, topped with the silver cross of St. Edward.
"He will be thrilled by it," the queen told the pope. Then she paused and added: "When he is a little older."
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Preacher asked his congregants to eat grass to "get closer to God"

Preacher asked his congregants to eat grass to "get closer to God" (SHOCKING PHOTOS)

comemgramaA South African preacher to his congregation did eat grass to "get closer to God." Under the direction of Pastor Daniel Lesego Rabboni Ministries Center where dozens of fans fell down to eat the grass in his ministry in Garankuwa, north of Pretoria after they were told that "would approach God."
His controversial methods have drawn criticism from thousands of people, even members of his congregation swear by his methods, who claim that humans can eat anything to feed their bodies and survive with what meal.
"Yes, eat grass and are proud of it is because it shows that, without the power of God, we can do nothing," said Romero Phetha South Africa. 
The law student said he had been battling a sore throat for more than a year, but was cured after eating grass.
The actions of the pastor during the service led to a series of complaints online, as many of his followers ended up in the bathroom sick.
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Monday, 31 March 2014

BREAKING NEWS April 1, 2014.....MISSING MALAYSIAN AIRLINE

Is passenger Phillip Wood and others still alive after flight 370 was hijacked then taken to a secret U.S. military base located on a remote island in the Indian Ocean?

By Shepard Ambellas
INDIAN OCEAN (INTELLIHUB) — According to freelance journalist Jim Stone, one of the American passengers, Phillip Wood, a technical storage executive at IBM, who was aboard the now missing Malaysian Airlines flight, keystered his iPhone 5 in his anus after the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people was hijacked by military personnel while on route to China.
Amazingly, Stone claims that metadata within the photo yields evidence confirming “100 percent” that Phillip Wood sent the photo, along with a brief voice activated text, from GPS coordinates which put Wood only a few miles away from the U.S. controlled Diego Garcia military base which is located on an island south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. In his post Stone claims that the coordinates are off by a few miles, proving that the iPhone actually sent the otherwise blank black picture revealing nothing else. Stone speculates the picture was taken in a dark room or in some position in which Wood’s hands were bound.
As reported by Stone, the picture was posted along with the following text allegedly from Wood:
“I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked (blindfolded). I work for IBM and I have managed to hide my cellphone in my ass during the hijack. I have been separated from the rest of the passengers and I am in a cell. My name is Philip Wood. I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly.”
Strangely the blank black image labeled “1395192158752.jpg” contains the following metadata:
1395192158752Dimensions: 240 x 320
Device Make: Apple 
Device Model: iPhone 5
Color Space: RGB
Color Profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1
Focal Length: 4.12
Alpha Channel: No
Red Eye: No
F Number: 2.4
Exposure Program: 2
Exposure Time: 1/15
Stone also points out in detail how the above Exchangeable Image Format (EXIF) image data is the “smoking gun”, writing:
The Exif is intact. Exif data gets embedded in every image by every camera and includes the circumstances under which the photo was taken. It can be viewed by saving the image to your desktop, and then right clicking it and selecting image properties. Hit the details tab. You can see that the image was taken on March 18 with an iPhone 5, with the ISO at 3200 and a shutter of 1/15. The coordinates are included in the exif data because the iPhone knows where it is, and the coordinates are for Diego Garcia. THE FIRST TIME A BLANK PHOTO SAID IT ALL. 
Exif can’t be rewritten with common software, it can only be added to in fields such as image credits with some advanced applications. It can be erased as well but NOT CHANGED. Photos with the exif intact will hold up in court. If the Exif is hacked and this is not real, the CIA or a really good hacker did this, which I doubt, I’d say it’s probably real.
Another smoking gun is that the voice recognition software put the word personal instead of personnel. This is completely consistent with a blind software assisted dial out.
Surrounding this story is the fact that the man who managed to get this information to Farganne (forum member Glitch) was harassed and received many threatening voice mails over it, that is another piece of evidence pointing to this as being real. One thing is certain, once it’s posted here on this site the genie is OUT OF THE BOTTLE. I cannot stress how important it is that the GPS coordinates in the photo do not perfectly match what Google says and are not posted anywhere on the web, because it proves that the source of those coordinates did not come from google or Wikipedia, they really did come from the imaging device and it HAD TO be at Diego Garcia when it took the photo.
Interestingly, 7-days ago, on March 24, 2014  at 2:30 AM EDT, it was reported by Intellihub News that flight 370 landed at Diego Garcia, a secret U.S. military base leased from the EU, during the early morning hours of March 8, 2014 after a YouTuber by the name of Montagraph put two-and-two together following other reports.
An excerpt from the article reads:
“[...] MH370 most likely landed at Diego Garcia and the plane may have been ushered into a massive “Faraday cage” style hangar to avoid passengers from communicating with the outside world.”
Surprisingly, this all dovetails with a Malaysian Insider report released on Mar. 18 titled “US military base, South Asian airports in MH370 pilot’s simulator, says paper“, as the pilot of MH370 was found to have had scale simulations of Diego Garcia in his home flight simulator.
An except from the Malaysian Insider reads:
Investigations into the flight simulator taken from the missing pilot’s home showed a software for five practice runways, including one belonging to the United States, Berita Harian reported today.
“Among the software we checked so far is the Male International Airport in Maldives, three airports in India and Sri Lanka, and one belonging to the US military base in Diego Garcia. All have a runway length of 1,000 metres,” a source told the Malay daily.
Police seized the flight simulator from pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s house last Saturday before reassembling it at the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman, where experts were conducting checks.
If anyone has anymore information on this matter we urge you contact us at Intellihub News right away.
Update 2:49 PM EST: The following information was posted as a tip on Steve Quayle’s website:
Hi Steve,
Re: the black/blank photo from the IBM tech on the lost Malaysian jet. The photo was taken inside a building just off the runways at Diego Garcia. I put the photo into my editing software, grabbed the GPS point and here it is. Try this: go to: itouchmap.com , choose #6, go to the bottom right box and input the info:
-7 18 58.3 LATITUDE
72 25 35.6 LONGITUDE
Click on: SHOW POINT
Zoom in and you will see where the photo originated. Wow. You’ll probably recognize the heavy aircraft parked nearby.
Via SteveQuayle.com:
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Saturday, 29 March 2014

BE WATCHFUL







*Saturday, March 29, 2014*

''Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage —with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.'' 2 Timothy 4:2-4 2

God revealed to the apostles that some people will infiltrate Christendom 'with the mantra of being ''God-sent'' but in actually sense ''being sent by their belly.'' Such people would come up with doctrines, traditions and teachings that would appear to be biblical, but a careful scrutiny under the guidance of the Spirit of Truth, would expose it as scam. And because many Christians would also have itching ears to hear these belly-sent preachers, both groups (i.e. Christians with itching ears & belly-sent preachers) would multiply.

Consider these TWO cases:

1. Christmas & Easter: If these two holidays were so important in Christendom; if they were so vital for our salvation, WHY DIDN'T JESUS COMMAND THE DISCIPLES/APOSTLES & THE EARLY CHURCH TO CELEBRATE IT? So U may do well to ask WHEN DID THESE TWO HOLIDAYS CREEP INTO CHRISTENDOM? The Answer is: IT WAS NOT IN THE APOSTLES' TIME; IT WAS WHEN THEY HAD GONE & EVERYTHING THAT GOD WANTED IN THE BIBLE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY WRITTEN. THE APOSTLE DIDN'T KNOW & NEVER CELEBRATED ANYTHING LIKE CHRISTMAS OR EASTER. But Some centuries after them, these two holidays were forced on Christians and since then, more than 80% Christians observe these holidays. If The Messiah of the Bible was not born on 25th December, and if He didn't Command the Apostles to observe or write to Christians to observe His birthday, why should 'Christians' who have come after the Apostles decide to do the contrary? DO they know better than Christ & the apostles? Why have they decided that, AT ALL COST, they would celebrate Christ's birth as Christmas? Again, if Christ Himself Instituted the Lord's Supper (Luke 22:19), which the Apostles also observed as a memorial for Christ's death (1 Corinthians 11:23-26), WHY SHOULD 'Christians' who have come after the Apostles decide to GO AHEAD AND INSTITUTE ANOTHER PARALLEL tradition/ (Easter) to remember the Death of Christ? Of course, U can say U are doin' it to the Lord. But the question is: DID THE LORD ASK U TO Celebrate Christmas & Easter unto Him? Why Don' U observe what He Has asked Us to Observe (The Lord's Supper) Unto Him? Why should U add Christmas & Easter? Are U telling God that the Lord's Supper is not enough? Well, in the wilderness, when Moses was on the Mountain and Aaron was taking care of the people, they cried out to Aaron and  he collected their earrings and other ornaments and made a golden calf for them. He told them; O Israel, this (golden calf) is the one who has brought U out of Egypt. So they offered burnt and peace offerings and they sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. EVEN WHEN THEY OFFERED BURNT & PEACE OFFERINGS TO & IN THE NAME OF GOD, WAS GOD PLEASED WITH THEM? The answer is a resounding NO.  (Read Exodus 32:-32). This tells us that U can say U are doin' something unto God; But if He hasn't asked U to do such a thing, PLEASE DON' DO IT. Uzzah also wanted to hold the Ark of God so that it would not fall when the horse carrying it tripped. He had a good intention. But God struck and killed him because He warned that no one should touch it (2 Samuel 6:7; 1 Chronicles 13:10).  

2. Prosperity Message: Is it bad to be rich or prosper? No. Abraham, Isaac and many Children of God were rich. So there is nothing wrong if a Child of God is rich. 3 John 1:2 talks about Christians' prosperity. But many preachers have misconstrued and misapplied that scripture. We must prosper physical (health & wealth) BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE MUST PROSPER SPIRITUALLY (BEING SAVED & LIVING IN OBEDIENCE TO GOD DAILY). As stated some days ago, a person can go to heaven if he is physically challenged but saved; BUT A PERSON Cannot go to Heaven even if he is Physically healthy & wealthy but is not saved. SO CLEARLY, TRUE PROSPERITY AS CHRIST AND THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT, STARTS FROM WITHIN (FROM THE SOUL). IF U ARE SAVED AND DAILY LIVING FOR GOD, THAT IS TRUE PROSPERITY; THAT IS PRIMARY PROSPERITY. IF U AFTERWARDS GET PHYSICAL BLESSINGS LIKE CARS, HOUSES, CHILDREN, ETC, THAT IS SECONDARY. The horse (spiritual prosperity; being saved) comes before the Cart (physical prosperity; cars, houses, etc). But what do we see/hear pastors preach? They have placed the Cart before the horse. Sin is glorified in our days, under the pretext of ''For all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God.'' Romans 3:23. Yes, we're all sinners and by our own works, we CAN NEVER MEET THE RIGHTEOUS STANDARD OF GOD. That's why Christ came to save us through grace. And after salvation, shall we continue to sin because we're under grace (Romans 6:1)? Don' U know God says ''Be Holy for I am Holy''? (1 Peter 1:16) The grace of God is to strengthen us by the power of the Holy Spirit TO SAVE US & TO HELP US TO LIVE FOR CHRIST. THE GRACE OF GOD HAS NEVER BEEN, AND WILL NEVER BE, A LICENSE FOR US TO SIN.

THIS IS THE LITMUS TEST FOR EVERY TEACHINGS, HOLIDAYS, DOCTRINES, VISIONS, DREAMS, REVELATIONS OR PREACHING/SERMON THAT U WILL HEAR OR PREACH.......THE BIBLE. IF ANY OF THESE CONTRADICTS WITH THE WORD OF GOD/THE BIBLE, PLEASE THROW IT AWAY -- EVEN IF IT IS FROM AN ANGEL. TEST EVERYTHING; DON' SWALLOW IT DOWN BECAUSE IT IS COMING FROM ''Most Rt. Rev. Dr. Father etc.'' GOD'S WORD IS ABOVE EVERYTHING; EVEN ABOVE HIS NAME (Ps 138:2).

Monday, 24 March 2014

U ARE BEING SPIED

(NaturalNews) Indiscriminate spying is not just the arena of the National Security Agency (NSA), though the super-spy wing of the U.S. government is certainly involved in many things.

Now comes news that the GCHQ, the surveillance agency of the British government -- with NSA assistance -- has intercepted and then stored millions of internet users' webcam images, even though they were never under suspicion for anything, secret documents have revealed.

As reported by London's Guardian newspaper -- the same paper that broke the initial story of widespread, rampant and global NSA spying last year based on evidence provided by former NSA intelligence analyst contractor Edward Snowden -- GCHQ files that date back to between 2008 and 2010 "explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not."

Further, the paper reported:

In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery -- including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications -- from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.

Part of the 'Five Eyes' network

The web-based media company responded with fury at revelations of webcam interception after being approached about the findings regarding the secretive operation. Yahoo officials said they had no prior knowledge of the program and accused the spy agencies of "a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy."

The Guardian reported that the British agency has no technical means to ensure that no images of UK or U.S. citizens are collected and then stored by the system. Also, the paper said there are no restrictions under UK law to even prevent images of Americans from being accessed by British analysts without an individual warrant.

Further, as Natural News found in its own investigation of Optic Nerve, the U.S. and UK governments -- along with Australia, New Zealand and Canada -- are part of the "Five Eyes" partnership, which grew out of World War II and in which the member nations share signals intelligence (SIGNINT), in part (at least in the case of the U.S.) as a way to skirt domestic laws barring unwarranted spying.

The secret documents, provided to The Guardian by Snowden, also detail how GCHQ struggled to prevent members of its own staff from accessing the large store of sexually explicit materials.

The operation became active in 2008 and remained so at least until 2012, according to reports.

Per The Guardian:

The system, eerily reminiscent of the telescreens evoked in George Orwell's 1984, was used for experiments in automated facial recognition, to monitor GCHQ's existing targets, and to discover new targets of interest. Such searches could be used to try to find terror suspects or criminals making use of multiple, anonymous user IDs.

Large number of innocents exposed

Instead of collecting entire webcam chats, the program saved only one image every five minutes from users' web feeds, in part to comply with human rights legislation, but also to avoid overloading GCHQ's servers. The Snowden-provided documents described those users as "unselected" -- intelligence agency lingo for bulk, rather than targeted, collection.

One document even likened the program's "bulk access to Yahoo webcam images/events" to a massive digital police mugbook of previously arrested individuals, the paper said.

"Face detection has the potential to aid selection of useful images for 'mugshots' or even for face recognition by assessing the angle of the face," says the document, according to The Guardian. "The best images are ones where the person is facing the camera with their face upright."

Apparently, there was an effort to limit intelligence analysts' ability to see webcam images; bulk searches were limited to metadata only.

Nevertheless, analysts were shown faces of anyone who had a similar username as surveillance targets, which left open the potential for exposing large numbers of innocent people.

Sources:

http://www.theguardian.com

http://www.privacyinternational.org

http://www.naturalnews.com



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Former Presidents Warn about Shadow Government

Shadow Government The purpose of this piece is to introduce the reader to the possibility that much of what we typically believe about our world, notably its history and its political structure, may be some distance from the truth. In writing it is not my intention to reveal some vast, secret government or destiny, but simply to allow interested readers to indulge themselves in the exercise of re-evaluating just what is going on around us.
Past presidents of the United States and other high profile political leaders have repeatedly issued warnings since at least 1836 that the U.S. government is under the control of an “invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
According to six of our former presidents, one vice-president,  and a myriad of other high profile political leaders, an invisible government that is “incredibly evil in intent” has been in control of the U.S. government “ever since the days of Andrew Jackson”.  They “virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties… It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”
As a result, “we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.”
Some of the sources for the quotes of this article are listed below. All of the quotes in this article have been verified as authentic.

Warnings About the Invisible Government Running the U.S.

JFK_ruthless_conspiracy_memeRead what our political leaders have said about the invisible government, bellow. The last president to speak out against the “Invisible Government” was JFK. He was assassinated soon thereafter. Here is his famous  “Secret Society” speech:
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings… Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe… no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of “clear and present danger,” then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent… For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” — John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, from a speech delivered to the American Newspaper Publishers Association on April 27, 1961 and known as the “Secret Society” speech.
As long ago as 1954,  Senator William Jenner warned against a “ruthless power-seeking elite”, “answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts.” Here is his quote in whole:
“Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means… We have a well-organized political-action group in this country,determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government… This ruthless power-seeking elite is a disease of our century… This group…is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.”– Senator William Jenner, 1954
Even Edgar Hoover, who I consider to be one of the “bad guys” had something interesting to say about our government:
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy somonstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”  - J. Edgar Hoover, The Elks Magazine, 1956
But perhaps the most tell-tale quote of them all came from FDR in a letter to Colonel Edward M House dated November 21, 1933, as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945. Here is what our 32nd President of the United States had to say:
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, former President of the United States
There are a plenty more exposing quotes from both well meaning governmet officials, as well as from “the enemy”, but I’m sure you don’t want to go there. If you want to read more of these quotes, check out, “Verified Warnings From Former U.S. Presidents About the “Invisible Government” Running the U.S. With “No Allegiance To the People” by .
Shadow Government LogoRemember, the elite are just a few among the six billion people on this planet. The entire source of their power is their ability to corrupt natural instincts and direct subconscious needs into channels of expression that further the ends of total control. This is all they have. And once this principle is understood by more people, it will cease to be effective.
Every day, across the Globe, more and more  people are waking up. Never before in history have their been so may protests, uprisings, revolts, rebellions and revolutions.
The majority is tired of minority rule!
By Tom Retterbush

Friday, 21 March 2014

POPE TO COPELAND: CATHOLICS AND CHARISMATICS MUST SPIRITUALLY UNITE


POPE TO COPELAND: CATHOLICS AND CHARISMATICS MUST SPIRITUALLY UNITE

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We are galloping toward a one-world melding of religions, and the ramifications are staggering. Pope Francis has now sent a video message to Word of Faith father Kenneth Copeland, urging a reconciliation between Catholics and Charismatics.
“The Catholic and Charismatic Renewal is the hope of the Church,” exclaims Anglican Episcopal Bishop Tony Palmer, before a group of cheering followers at the Kenneth Copeland Ministries.   Palmer said those words are from the Vatican. Before playing the video message from Pope Francis to Kenneth Copeland, Palmer told the crowd,  “When my wife saw that she could be Catholic, and Charismatic, and Evangelical, and Pentecostal, and it was absolutely accepted in the Catholic Church, she said that she would like to reconnect her roots with the Catholic culture. So she did.”
The crowd cheered, as he continued, “Brothers and sisters, Luther’s protest is over. Is yours?”
Even Kenneth Copeland finds this development incredible: Said Copeland, “Heaven is thrilled over this…You know what is so thrilling to me? When we went into the ministry 47 years ago, this was impossible.”
How can this impossibility be? Could the ears of those once aware of the evils of ecumenicism suddenly be sealing shut? What is even more gobsmackingly painful is the reaction from evangelicals, who seem quite thrilled with this unholy alliance.
Here is the longer version of what Copeland and Palmer said. Note that at about 40 minutes in, Copeland and the congregants join in prayer for the “Holy Father,” then watch as Anthony Palmer videotapes a return message to Pope Francis from Kenneth Copeland himself.
Here is just the Pope’s message, at about 30 minutes in:
Here is the transcript:
“Two rules: Love God above all, and love the other (neighbor), because he is your brother and sister. With these two rules we can go ahead. I am here with my brother, my bishop brother, Tony Palmer. We’ve been friends for years.
He told me about your conference, about your meeting. And it’s my pleasure to greet you. A greeting both joyful and nostalgic (yearning). Joyful because it gives me joy that you have come together to worship Jesus Christ the only Lord. And to pray to the Father and to receive the Holy Spirit. This brings me joy because we can see that God is working all over the world. Nostalgic (yearning) because but…it happens, as within our suburbs. In the suburbs there are families that love each other and families that don’t love each other. Families that come together and families who separate themselves. We are kind of…permit me to say, separated.
Separated because, it’s sin that has separated us, all our sins. The misunderstandings throughout history. It has been a long road of sins that we all shared in. Who is to blame? We all share the blame. We have all sinned. There is only one blameless, the Lord. I am nostalgic (yearning), that this separation comes to an end and gives us communion. I am nostalgic (yearning), of that embrace that the Holy Scripture speaks of when Joseph’s brothers began to starve from hunger, they went to Egypt, to buy, so that they could eat.
They went to buy. They had money. But they couldn’t eat the money. But there they found something more than food, they found their brother. All of us have currency. The currency of our culture. The currency of our history. We have lot of cultural riches, and religious riches. And we have diverse traditions. But we have to encounter one another as brothers. We must cry together like Joseph did. These tears will unite us. The tears of love.
I am speaking to you as a brother. I speak to you in a simple way. With joy and nostalgia (yearning). Let us allow our nostalgia (yearning) to grow, because this will propel us to find each other, to embrace one another. And together to worship Jesus Christ as the only Lord of History.
I thank you profoundly for listening to me. I thank you profoundly for allowing me to speak the language of the heart. And I also ask you a favor. Please pray for me, because I need your prayers. And I will pray for you, I will do it, but I need your prayers. And let us pray to the Lord that He unites us all. Come on, we are brothers. Let’s give each other a spiritual hug and let God complete the work that he has begun. And this is a miracle; the miracle of unity has begun.
A famous Italian author named Manzoni, once wrote in his novel, of a simle man amongst the people, who once said this, “I’ve never seen God begin a miracle without Him finishing it well.” He will complete this miracle of unity. I ask you to bless me, and I bless you. From brother to brother, I embrace you. Thank you.”