Englishman in Africa

Am again thinking about the transmission through time of the Sanhedrin's hatred for Christ. Revolutions, Marxism, ruination of Christian morals, Vatican II, alliance bwt Israel & evanhellicals. Didn't want to take it seriously, especially after my day at Auschwitz. But now ..

Because Iran blocked the Straits, I have lifted sanctions on Iranian oil so the price of petrol in Ded Injun Gulch (pop. 21) doesn't rise. This means even greater Iranian resistance to US forces! Such beautiful resistance, never before seen maybe not in history my ballroom

The Catholic Church invented the hospital system. That's not a boast. It's a historical fact. Around 369 AD, St. Basil of Caesarea built the Basiliad. A massive complex for the sick, the poor, and travelers. It was so large that St. Gregory of Nazianzus called it "a new city." Nothing like it had ever existed in the ancient world. The idea spread across Christendom. By the medieval period, the Church operated thousands of hospitals across Europe. The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD had already instructed bishops to establish hospices in every cathedral city. Then the Church carried it across the ocean. In 1524, Hernán Cortés founded the Hospital de Jesús in Mexico City at the direction of Franciscan missionaries. It still stands today. It is the oldest hospital in the Americas, nearly 500 years in continuous operation. When critics say the Church has been an obstacle to human progress, ask them a simple question. Who was caring for the sick, the dying, and the abandoned before the modern state existed? The answer is the same across every century and every continent. The Catholic Church. St. Basil wrote: "A man who has two coats should share with the one who has none." The Church didn't just preach that. She built institutions around it. Who else has a 1,700-year track record of building hospitals for the poor?

Heartbreaking, to what Trump's mafia regime has brought the United States.

The word 'hospice' comes from the medieval Latin 'hospitium', a Catholic shelter for pilgrims and the dying The first hospices were run by Catholic religious orders, and were free to anyone Cicely Saunders founded the modern hospice movement in 1967 She spent seven years training at St. Joseph's, a Catholic hospice in Hackney run by nuns She named her own hospice St. Christopher's after the patron saint of travellers Modern palliative care is secularised Catholic charity

If the Eucharist is just a symbol, someone forgot to tell one of the earliest bishops in Christian history — a man who received his theology from the apostolic generation itself. Ignatius of Antioch was the third Bishop of Antioch. Early Church historians including Origen, Eusebius, and Jerome attest that he was a disciple of the Apostle John. Around 107 AD, the Roman Emperor Trajan sentenced him to death. Ignatius was transported in chains from Syria to Rome, where he would be torn apart by wild beasts in the arena. Along the way, he wrote seven letters to various churches — letters universally recognized by scholars as among the most important documents of early Christianity. In his Letter to the Ephesians, chapter 20, verse 2, Ignatius writes this about the Eucharist: "Breaking one bread, which is the medicine of immortality, the antidote against death, enabling us to live forever in Jesus Christ." Read that again slowly. Medicine of immortality. Antidote against death. Enabling us to live forever. The Greek phrase Ignatius uses is "pharmakon athanasias." Pharmakon — medicine. This is precise language implying real efficacy. Real power. Real effect on the one who receives it. Think about that for a moment. A symbol cannot be medicine. A symbol cannot be an antidote. If someone is poisoned, you do not hand them a representation of the cure. You hand them the cure itself. Ignatius is not using the language of symbolism. He is using the language of substance — of real transformative power acting on the human person. Now consider where Ignatius received this understanding. Early tradition places him directly under the teaching of John — the same Apostle who recorded these words of Jesus in John 6:53-54: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." Unless you eat. No life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh has eternal life. Ignatius received his understanding of the Eucharist from the apostolic generation — from those who heard Christ teach these very words. And what did he conclude? Not that the bread was a helpful reminder. Not that it was a memorial pointing to something absent. He concluded it was the medicine of immortality. The antidote against death. The means by which believers live forever in Jesus Christ. That should tell you something. Throughout the early centuries of Christianity, no major Christian tradition held a purely symbolic view of the Eucharist. The belief that the Eucharist truly contained the Body and Blood of Christ was held universally — East and West — across every major Christian community. A purely symbolic interpretation did not emerge as a significant theological position until the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Ignatius is not an outlier. He is a representative witness to what the early Church believed. If the symbolic view is correct, then Ignatius was wrong. And if Ignatius was wrong, then the apostolic generation that formed him was wrong. And if they were wrong, then either they misunderstood Jesus or Jesus failed to communicate clearly to His own chosen witnesses. The early Church did not believe in a symbolic Eucharist. The man formed by the apostolic generation did not believe in a symbolic Eucharist. The Christians who were willing to die in Roman arenas were not giving their lives for a mere symbol. If the first generation after the Apostles universally understood the Eucharist as the real Body and Blood of Christ — the medicine of immortality — at what point did the entire Church supposedly get this wrong, and who had the authority to overrule what the Apostles themselves handed down?

The Sanhedrin and other demonic is the answer.

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@erinmariegavin @tag4UK You haven't understood at all what has been written. But you're an American? You are forgiven.

@BCJCarter @tag4UK The “fumes” of the Catholic Church will never be “given out.” Jesus’s promise is to be with us until the end of time.

You know, @tag4UK, it never HAS represented Christians of the UK. What DID was the Christian Church, the Catholic Church, which formed England c.550 to c.1550. A thousand years. We've been running on the fumes of those 1,000 Catholic years ever since. But they've now given out.

This is not what Catholics want to hear.

@TeresaOfGod @Burgess7281975 @Judianna Poor Nick and you and other family. Prayers offered.

@Burgess7281975 @BCJCarter @Judianna Please keep prayers up for my nephew Nick. He is slightly awake, but hallucinating. He has pulled out his lines several times and it’s a struggle to get them back in. He has developed fluid in his lungs and there are many problems associated with getting him up and moving to help prevent that. Please pray that he rests easy and that there is a surcease in the added difficulties he faces. 🙏🙏🙏

@MalHay It started off there mate.

The Church of England - has just gone to HELL

@TheStaad Yes.

Why is this? Are we that infiltrated?

@kokeeffe49 Little one is likely to get more spin than grandad ever did!

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Well, God respects the freewill of those who voted for death. We must accept His Will when it comes to His response.

Dear Father in Heaven, in the name of Your son, Our Lord Jesus Christ please protect the helpless little ones under attack by Satan and his fallen angels. May the hearts of those responsible incline to good and not to evil.

Men, drones.

This is so appalling that I find I have no emotional reaction at all. I cannot process that my beloved England is now worse than ancient Rome in its pagan blood lust.

Eminences in Rome should pause to consider before spouting on about 'anti-semitism': while racism is an evil, so is the contempt and hatred of Zionists for everyone, up to claiming divine sanction for their murder and claims of racial dominance. The whole thing stinks.

If Israel attacks Iranian gas fields again we will attack Israel very bigly with power never seen before in the history of our country maybe not for thousands of years even the Romans never saw such power the history of Mankind will show that never before have gold curtains been

How's about this, you MAGA clowns?