“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.” (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, writer, and Catholic philosopher; born 1623 AD at Clermont-Ferrand; passed away 1662 AD at Paris)
“How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?” (Teresa of Ávila, great Spanish mystic of the Carmelite order; born 1515 AD at Ávila; passed away 1582 AD at Alba de Tormes)
“In tribulation, immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.” (St. John of the Cross, outstanding Spanish mystic of the Carmelite tradition; born 1542 AD at Fontiveros; passed away 1591 AD at Ubeda)
“He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.” (St. Augustine, philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church; born 354 AD at Thagaste, Numidia (today: Algeria); passed away 430 AD at Hippo Regius, Numidia)
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Powerful reminders of the true priorities that ever so often these days we have completely forgotten about. Sure, many things can be investigated and exposed in our era of overall decline, disintegration, and possible collapse. And, to a certain extent there lies of course value in making oneself and others aware of the ongoing development – after all, profound information is a sine qua non for making correct decisions. Yet, without putting all that into a wider, spiritual picture, one is easily drawn into either amok, panic, or endless desperation. All three reactions, whatever understandable from a psychological point of view, don’t make sense. They add to the problem at hand rather than anything else. What we need, not instead of information but in addition to it, is an awareness of the spiritual, a knowledge of a higher order - what usually is referred to as “wisdom” – that not only can give us comfort and a sense of meaning in whatever troubling times there may still lie ahead but that also can serve as a reliable guide keeping us on the road of goodness, righteousness, and faith.
This blog is intended to be a humble contribution, so God will, in encouraging whoever is going to read it to either re-establish or significantly deepen their most intimate relationship with their Lord, no matter what religious confession they are part of. As, by only “getting ready” practically, we miss the most important point: getting ready spiritually! We are all children of the One and Only God in Heaven. Yet, we’ve fairly forgotten the importance of worship and prayer. Let us now remember and reconnect with the spiritual heritage of our forefathers and withstand the temptation of “taking it easy” any longer, whether by complete heedlessness or by feel-good or feel-great “spirituality”: as, no other relationship in our lives – we may think otherwise – is as crucial as the one with our Creator!
ARTICLES SO FAR PRESENTED ON THIS BLOG:
1. NEW!!! Red Surprise: Russian-Chinese Military Blackmail: Accept Communism or Face World War III - On December 10, 2011 ‘former’ Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev received an honorary award at Munich, Germany, from the conservative Hanns Seidel Foundation, presumably for his ‘life’s work’. In his acceptance speech, however, this unchanged leading Bolshevik from the unchanged Soviet Union, far from delivering smooth ceremonial gestures of thanks, gave a most brutal attack speech the message of which basically was just this: Do as we wish (i.e. accept the communist ‘model’) or face World War III. This author found that speech pretty much by chance as a live video recording on Youtube, with Gorbachev of course speaking Russian and a simultaneous German interpretation; except for this one-time-only broadcast on Bavarian television, the content of the speech appears to have been completely ignored by the MSM. This author then did a thorough translation of the speech into English and compiled a huge 280-page file full with excerpts and extracts from books as well as interviews or lectures by first class analysts as well as outstanding men from the spiritual domain, to be precise: from the Catholic Church: the well-known Irish/American Jesuit priest Fr. Malachi Martin; the late German Catholic priest, Fr. Hans Milch; as well as selected encyclicals by Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI. Furthermore, there are included a number of observations by this author that seamlessly confirm the thesis by prominent authors Anatoliy Golitsyn and Christopher Story: the ’collapse of communism’ was but a gigantic hoax so to pave the way for gradual convergence between both systems; yet: on communist terms! – To read 280-page-compilation, click here! ll
2. The Georgia “Guide”-Stones: Signposts to World Tyranny - Rarely can be met undebatable proof of the factual existence of a global conspiracy towards a one-world dictatorship more strikingly and more brutally in-your-face than in the case of the so-named Georgia Guidestones, a granite monument erected anonymously in 1980 in the grazelands of Northeastern Georgia, United States. The highly political and extremely cynical postulates engraved in it show in breathtaking clarity what geopolitical planners who don’t care about humans have in store for all of us. – Analyzing this disturbing issue in depth hasn’t been a particularly pleasant occupation, nevertheless the outcome is now a quite comprehensive introduction, if you will, in fact, a 50,000-word-treatise, into the reality of an insane project that has been pursued over many centuries and that seeks the irreversible implementation of a Utopian, technocratic tyranny, Satanic in essence and thus merciless beyond comprehension; in other words: the final culmination of Marxism-Leninism and Hitlerism combined! - To read article, click here! 
THANKING FOR YOUR INTEREST AND READING,
The Contemplative Observer, October 20, 2010
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