# 25 OF 25 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

# 25 OF 25 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

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PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY BY C. BERNARD

THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL - 110-114

    "Again, Pio speaks of his longing to be united with Jesus in heaven when he writes Agostino a New Year's letter on December 29, 1912, speaking of another year "about to lose itself in eternity." have entered into the house of Jesus, there to remain forever! ... Life here below is bitter grief to me, a life of exile that is a torment so bitter to me that I can scarcely bear it. The thought that any moment I could lose Jesus distresses me in an unspeakable way....

    
"Not only is he horrified by his actual sins, he is filled with terror at his potential to sin. In September 1915 he writes to Agostino that "the thought of going astray and ... offending God fills me with terror. It paralyzes my limbs, and both body and soul feel as if they are being squeezed in a powerful vise. My bones feel as if they were being dislocated ... crushed and ground up." All this anguish at the mere thought of sinning....

  
  "Padre Pio goes on to explain how God purged the soul, totally emptying it of itself. All self-centeredness must be replaced by "a new way of thinking and wishing that is simply and purely supernatural and celestial." In order to arrive at this state, the Christian must be subjected to this painful trial whereby he is purged by an intense light that reveals faults hitherto unseen. He sees God not as a loving Father, but as a terrifying Judge. He feels as if God were casting him out, he feels hopelessly lost..

   
 "Padre Pio continued to be subject to attacks by demonic forces. In August, 1912, for a space of several days, whenever days, whenever he decided to write to his superiors, he was seized with violent migraine headaches and spasms in his writing arm. Recognizing devilish interference, he prayed and as able to write. The devil continued to visit him through temptations against purity, which, in his modesty, he did not detail. In addition, he continued being subject to physical attacks by infernal forces, attacks accompanied by terrifying noises clearly audible to neighbors. But he continued to receive visits from his guardian angel, as well as from Jesus and Mary. It was his angel who frequently rescued him from physical assaults from demonic powers....

   
 "In March 1913, Padre Pio describes a vision in which Jesus deplores the lack of spirituality among modern Christians and a lack of dedication among the clergy. In his bodily vision, Jesus appeared in human form and spoke words perceptible to the organs of hearing. At times Jesus was silent, ar other times his throat was choked with sobs, as he lamented that people "make no effort to control themselves amidst their temptations and ... even delight in their iniquity. The souls in which I most delight lose their faith when they are put to the test. They ignore me day and night, in the churches.

   
  "They no longer care about the sacrament of the Altar .... No one cares any more about the love that I bear them. I am continually saddened. My house has become for many a theatre of amusements ... My ministers ...whose I have loved as the apple of my eye ... ought to have comforted my heart which is now filled with sorrow. They ought to have aided me in redemption of souls, but instead  ... I receive ingratitude and thanklessness from them. Son, I see many of them who ... betray me with hypocritical countenances and ... sacrilegious communions....

   
 "Jesus seems humanly petulant in this vision, but perhaps the Lord was appearing to Padre Pio in a manner that the friar could comprehend and interpret to those he served. The result of the vision was a kindling of Pio's zeal to win souls for Christ and renew his offering of himself as a victim. In other visions and revelations, as we have seen, Jesus sometimes presented souls to Padre Pio whom he had never met before. Through the visions Pio learned about the interior state of these souls so that they would be in a position to help them.

    
There are doubtless many readers of modern and secular bent who, after reading about Padre Pio's spiritual life, would still be inclined to dismiss Capuchin as a madman or, at least, a fellow with a very vivid imagination. But they must admit that many of these supernatural experiences, particularly the hellish assaults, were accompanied by phenomena that could be seen and heard by people nearby; that the revelations and locutions usually corresponded to some general observable reality:that the supersensible communications almost always resulted in some act of kindness or concern; and that all the supernatural experiences centered on the love for God and man....   George H. Kubeck

THE BETRAYALS: THE LEGACIES OF GOV. BROWN AND V.P. JOE BIDEN # 1

THE BETRAYALS: THE LEGACIES OF GOV. BROWN AND V.P. JOE BIDEN # 1

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INTRODUCTION:
        "On this day in 1799, De Jedediah Morse, minister and "the father of American geography", assessed the decision the country faced - and faces still, two centuries later:

    "To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.

    In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation ... in the same proportion will be the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom ... 

    Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present Republican forms of government and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them." Hall, Constitution, V.

COMMENTARY:

     The things that come to my mind. Where do I start with V.P. Biden and Gov. Brown?

1.) Both men, as leaders of our nation,  betrayed the core principles of Christianity and also their own religious beliefs. Both men were and are Catholic-in-name-only politicians. They failed to adhere to the "Catechism of the Catholic Church." They got away with murder. They promoted the secular humanistic culture. Reread the letter on my blog, Fri. March 1, 2019, Dear Congresswoman Loretta Loretta Sanchez.

You, Brown and Biden have her mindset.                                                                                                       

     You won elections because the secular culture and the mainstream media love catholic-in-name-only politicians. Today, They need the Catholic vote to win the presidency in 2020. By the way, V.P. Biden only 40 years ago, you would have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church in marrying two men in the Oval Office. Today, there is no guidance or  leadership among the  U.S. Catholic bishops.

2) The duped and misguided Catholic vote elected President Obama and V.P. Biden twice. All the other American Christian voters did not vote for the change that will redo America. Thankfully, President Trump is undoing the deadly changes of  president Obama. 

3) Today, Biden announces 2020 bid. Biden says Democracy "is at stake." President Trump response was: "Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe. I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign. It will be nasty - you will be dealing with people who truly have some very sick & demented ideas. But if you make it, I will see you at the Starting Gate."

4) As a pro-life, family and marriage activist, everything possible must be done to promote Bernie Sanders to be at the Starting Gate. HE REPRESENTS TODAY'S REAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTROL.  Pro-life democrats should vote for him in the primaries. Look forward to Bernie Sanders candidacy and the overwhelming defeat of the once great Democratic Party. And then, may common-sense new leadership arise.

5) With respect to the legacy of Governor Jerry Brown. BROWN betrayed the integrity and independence of the public school teacher (including university professors on campuses) in California. Let me explain. 

 

  My plaque at home reads: Westminster School District, George H. Kubeck, 9-3-63 -8-20-86.

For the first five years of teaching, I was proud member of the professional  N.E.A., C.T.A. and Westminster Teacher Organization. They had a history in their publication of saying no to  unionization of the profession. Saying no to adversary relationships, exclusivity and politicization of this great teaching profession. 

    We had "Meet and Confer" process. All views were respected. We worked together with the school board and community. Along comes a democratic bill rejected by Governor Reagan and called, "THE RODDA ACT OF 1976." GOV. BROWN SIGNED FOR LEGALIZED UNIONISM IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER PROFESSION. 

    What is equally disgusting, the N.E.A., and C.T.A. BETRAYED THEIR OWN FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES, and now that they had competition from the New York Teacher unions, we will become a union but still call ourselves professional. I believe that one of the diabolical culprits in the politics was Sol Alinsky, role models for Hillary Clinton and Obama. Enough said.

George H. Kubeck

PATHETIC/DISGUSTING CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP IN VENEZUELA

PATHETIC/DISGUSTING CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP IN VENEZUELA

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SOCIALISM VS. 'THE PERSON'

BY MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, MON. APRIL 22, 2019

    "This week Roman Catholics mark the octave of Easter, a time when the glory of the Resurrection fills believers with anticipation of good things to come - if not in this life then in the next.

But hope is hard to come by in Catholic Venezuela these days. The nation is racked by despair as it faces privation so extreme that families eat garbage from dumpsters. Millions have fled, often with only what they can carry.

    Venezuela was once the richest country in South America. Now it's a place of malnourished children, starving adults and pullulating disease. Yet its corrupt and cruel military dictatorship clings to power. The world looks on in horror as Venezuelans are helpless to combat this evil. Inside and outside the country the refrain is the same. How could this have happened?

Venezuela's abundant supplies of petroleum reserves played a role in corrupting the nation. But the real problem is ideological, and it's a lesson for Americans. Venezuela's intelligentsia spent much of the 20th century inculcating the population with socialist pap. If you're not sure what that means, listen to Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They spout the same nonsense.

    Intellectuals, educators and politicians promised that sticking it to the rich was the path to socialist paradise. As government intervention in the economy was the path to socialist paradise.

as government intervention in the economy - particularly through price and exchange controls - damaged living standards, Venezuelans voted for more of it. Little did the know that by targeting the rights of successful entrepreneurs in the name of social just, they were setting up the country to fail.

Venezuelan socialism fomented envy and deep distrust of business. This destroyed respect for persons who dared to be creative and build wealth. Poverty and dystopia were inevitable. Climbing out of this hole will take more than removing Nicolas Maduro. The country is devastated, but Venezuelans haven't abandoned the collectivist cause.

    Many popular opposition politicians still call themselves socialists, unwilling to defend the creative class and its members' rights to the fruits of their labor. Venezuela needs an ideas revolution that recognizes business as an endeavor of the human spirit.

Socialist pose as humanitarians and some times even as Christians but their system strangles the person, who is at the heart of Catholic teaching. Catholic University of America research fellow Father John McNerney, author of "Wealth of Persons" (2016), describes "real wellspring" of human progress as emanating from "the unique, irreplaceable ... reality of the individual acting in relation to his neighbor."

    We more than simply individuals, because it is in relation with one another "as persons" that we discover ourselves, Father McNerney told me by email last week. "As persons' we have intellect and will, allowing us to go 'beyond' the material. It is as 'persons' that human creativity unfolds."

Economists understand that the profit motive is integral to entrepreneurship. But it is about much more than material gains. Father McNerney illustrates the point in his book with the story of Agnes Morrogh-Bernard, a Sister of Charity who worked in the west of Ireland...."

George H. Kubeck

   

    The biggest question is, "Whose side is the Vatican on?"  There is a call for mass demonstration on May 1st. Without doubt, the infiltration of Cuban communist propaganda for decades is responsible for the mindset in Venezuela today. We may get rid of this communist cancer within the next few years with the call for free elections, supervised by the U.N., not only in Venezuela but Cuba and Nicaragua.

SEEING ABORTION: BY BISHOP ROBERT BARRON

SEEING ABORTION: BY BISHOP ROBERT BARRON

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REF. OCCATHOLIC, APRIL 31, 2019

   "We stand at a pivotal point in the great moral debate over abortion in our country - not because new arguments have emerged, but rather because laws so breathtaking in their barbarism have been passed, and a film so visceral in its presentation of the reality of abortion has found a wide audience....

  
  The legal protocols now in effect in New York, Delaware, and a number of other states allowing for the butchering of a child in the womb at any point in his or her nine-month gestation - and indeed, on the clinic and hospital table, should the child by some miracle survive the abortion - have sickened much of the country. And they have allowed people to see, in unmistakable clear terms, the full implications of the twisted "pro-choice" ideology.

  
  If a mother chooses to bring her baby to term and to be born, that child is, somehow by that choice, the subject of dignity and worthy of the full protection of the law, and if a mother chooses otherwise, even a new born baby struggling to breath on, on operating table can be murdered and discarded as so much garbage. Biology and metaphysics be damned: our subjective decisions determine reality - and the result is state-sanctioned infanticide.  So obviously insane, so clearly dangerous, so unmistakably wicked are these laws that they are causing many people to reconsider their position on abortion.

    
Unplanned (the movie), the story of Abby Johnson's wrenching transition from from director of a "Planned Parenthood" clinic to vocal opponent of abortion, has proven to be a surprising popular film, despite its rather grim theme and despite considerable institutional opposition. As many have pointed out, Mrs. Johnson is playing a role anagolous to that plagued by Harriet Beecher Stowe to the nineteenth century. While there were plenty of arguments on both side of the slavery debate at the times, nany advocates of slavery underwent a conversion to abolitionism, not because of national demonstrations but precisely because of the influence of Stowe's vivid presentation of the concrete reality of slavery in Uncle Tom's cabin.

  So today arguments and slogans on both sides of the abortion controversy are well known, and most people seem more or less locked in their respective camps... The film opens with the event that proved decisive for Abby John herself. As director and administrator of a Planned Parenthood clinic, she was certainly aware of what was happening on the premises, but she had rarely been involved in an actual abortion. One afternoon she was summoned to the operating room  and asked to hold the device hat allowed the doctor to see the ultrasound image of the child in the womb. As the physician went about his work, Abbey could clearly see the child resting comfortably and then reacting violently as a suctioning device was inserted in the womb. To her horror she then saw a tiny arm sucked off, only to reappear moments later as a bloody soup in a catheter next to her. As she watched unable to take her eyes off the horrific display, she saw the severely wounded baby continuing to evade the device, until a leg disappeared, then another arm, and finally the baby's head ... 

   
 With that, she ran from the room, vomited in the bathroom, and resolved to dissociate herself forever from "Planned Parenthood." The film makes clear that she had heard arguments against abortion all of her life, for her parents and husband were ardently and vocally pro-life, but she made the decision ... Her hope, obviously, is that her film will have a similar effect on many others.

     
One of the most memorable scenes in Unplanned deals with an odd little party that took place at the clinic after hours. Abby, it turns out, was pregnant, and her colleagues,all female, gathered together give her a baby shower. Out came the balloons, the thoughtful presents, ... all meant to show their joy at the birth of a new baby. But then we realize ... these good friends of Abby, have spent their entire day killing babies of other women, Indeed, the blood of those procedures is on their shoes and scrubs. 

How is this scene possible? The condition for this possibility is the lunatic ideology of "choice... if the baby is desired have a party, if the baby is unwanted, kill him and cast his remains in a dumpster...

In 1850, lot of good and thoughtful people defended the institution of slavery. Now, only insane people would. In 2019, lots of decent and thoughtful people defend the pro-choice position. One can only hop ... that this viscerally disturbing film will hasten the day when only insane people would."

George H. Kubeck

DEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP; COPY TO VICE-PRESIDENT PENCE

DEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP;  COPY TO VICE-PRESIDENT PENCE

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    THIS IS MY SECOND LETTER TO YOU CALLING  YOU TO PERSUADE THE FBI GIVE A REPORT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON "THE ANTIFA MOVEMENT." THE RESPONSE OF THE FIRST LETTER DIDN'T SAY YES OR NO.

 

     I BELIEVE IN "AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE" AND "MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF INFORMATION. 

   
FOR EXAMPLE, THE MOST IMPORTANT AND UNREPORTED OCCURRENCE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE IN 2018 AND 2019 WAS THE HORRENDOUS NEWS FROM VENEZUELA.

   THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DID NOT REPORT THIS STORY. WHY? WHERE ARE THE LOVERS OF MEDURO AND CASTRO IN HOLLYWOOD AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

    
THEY COULD PUBLICLY CALL FOR MEDURO TO RESIGN AND EXHORT FOR A  U..N. SUPERVISED FREE ELECTIONS IN VENEZUELA. EVEN TODAY, THEY CAN STILL DO SO. THE PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH.

   
 YESTERDAY, THERE WAS A STORY FROM THE "WASHINGTON POST" BY KAREN DEYOUND, "THAT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CUBAN MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE AGENTS ARE ENABLING MADURO TO STAY IN POWER." PROBABLY, LESS THAN 5% OF AMERICANS KNEW THIS.

    MR. PRESIDENT, TO PREVENT THE MURDER OF EVEN ONE MORE POLICE OFFICER, THE EXPOSE OF "THE ANTI-FA MOVEMENT" IS THAT IMPORTANT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.                                                                                                                    

     I BELIEVE THAT THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN THE U.S.A. IS OUTLAWED. WHY? THEY BELIEVE IN THE VIOLENT OVER THROW OF THE GOVERNMENT. HOWEVER, THE COMMUNISTS ARE MASTERS OF DECEIT AND DECEPTION.                                                                                                                                     

    I READ OF ONE REPORT ABOUT THEIR INFILTRATION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THEY CAME UP WITH "LIBERATION THEOLOGY" WITHIN THE CHURCH. TALK ABOUT INFILTRATION, WE HAVE CERTIFIED MARXIST PROFESSORS ON OUR  CAMPUSES AND NOW ALL THIS TALK OF RUSSIAN INFLUENCE. WE ARE DEALING WITH MASTERS OF DECEIT, INFILTRATION AND DECEPTION IN THE PUBLIC ARENA.

   ON MARCH 24TH AND 25TH, I SENT MY READERS TWO BOOK REPORTS FROM MONA CHAREN'S BOOK, "USEFOOL IDIOTS" HOW LIBERALS GOT IN WRONG IN THE COLD WAR AND STILL BLAME AMERICA FIRST" 2003,   UNDER THE TITLE, "LIVING IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE." # 1 AND # 2.

   
 I WISH SOME JOURNALISTS GET INVOLVED AND REPORT ON "THE VENONA SECRETS' BY HERBERT ROMERSTEIN AND ERIC BREINDE, "EXPOSING SOVIET ESPIONAGE AND AMERICA'S TRAITORS."  WASN'T  VLADIMIR PUTIN THERE AT THE VERY BEGINNING?

   
 FORTUNATELY, AND THANKS TO DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER, I AM ENCLOSING TWO BOOK REPORTS ON "THE U.S.A. ANTIFA COMMUNIST AND ANARCHIST MOVEMENTS."

RESPECTFULLY YOURS,

GEORGE H. KUBECK

    

U.S.A.ANTIFA COMMUNIST AND ANARCHIST MOVEMENTS # 2 OF 2

THE U.S.A. ANTIFA COMMUNIST AND ANARCHIST MOVEMENTS # 2 OF 2

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"Anti-fa" 2018 Booklet by David Horowitz Freedom Center, # 1 - Sat. Feb. 9. 2019

Preface: Anti-fa is a diabolical organization and a front for the communist party. "Mainstream media outlets have typically refrained from acknowledging just how radical and revolutionary. Antifa's objectives and practices are, portraying the movement instead as a well-meaning alliance of idealists who seek nothing more than to thwart the evils of right-wing "fascism."....On August 15. 2017, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, likened Antifa to the American soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in World War II...

"On August 20, 2017, CNN.com published a story "Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement: Activists seek peace through violence" - a highly inaccurate headline, in light of the fact that Antifa members subsequently complained about the headline's reference to their movement's violence, CNN removed the entire phrase, "Activists seek peace through violence."  And the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that routinely likens conservatives to racists and fascists, has elected not to include Antifa in its list of "hate groups."...

"Democratic political figures have likewise been extremely reluctant to criticize Antifa. As Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass wrote on August 29, 2017: "It's all over the internet, young men of the hard left in black masks, black gloves, armed with clubs, hunting down prey who dare speak their minds. What's striking about all this is the silence. There has been no concerted media effort to pressure Democratic politicians have been relatively silent, as have many of their loyal pundits...

"Conservative broadcaster and bestselling author Mark Levin, for his part, has characterized Antifa as "the paramilitary militia wing of the Democratic Party" because "the Democrats either defend it, or they're passive in their criticism of it, or thirdly. They say nothing."....

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: Antifa's roots can be traced back to the 1920s and '30s, when militant leftists squared off against fascists in the streets of Spain, Italy, and Germany. The German antifa movement, for instance, was established in 1932 to counter the rapid rise of the Nazi Party, and was disbanded in 1932 to counter the rapid rise of the Nazi party and was disbanded the following year after Hitler took control of parliament. In 1930s Italy, meanwhile, Benito Mussolini's secret police coined the term "antifacismo" to describe the violent, Communist Party-supported opponents of the fascist regime in Italy....

WHO ARE ANTIFA ACTIVISTS?  According to CNN, many Antifa activists "are millennials and [people who] live on society's fringes undocumented immigration, transgender people, low-wage workers, those who don't conform to the traditional 9 to 5. In an August 2017 interview with podcaster Stefan Molyneux a former Antifa activist-turned-conservative said that the drug addiction is "extremely common" among anarchists, and that those anarchists "who aren't addicted to drugs or to alcohol, are very often addicted to rage" and "violence."... When Antifa activists show up for demonstrations or counter protests, they mostly come prepared to fight, carrying items like brass knuckles, poles and sticks, bricks, bottles, road flares, chains, knives, pepper spray, bullet-proof vests, guns, and sometimes bottles, of urine that can throw at police officers....

The Antifa mindset views violence as a wholly legitimate and justifiable means of social activism.... Antif's uncompromising hatred of police officers is embodied in Michael Isaacson, co-founder of the Washington-based Antifa group called Smash RacismDC.... Antifa activists direct their violence not only at people whom they characterize as "fascists" and "white supremicists  but also at material property as a symbol of materialism and unfair wealth distribution....

ANTIFA AFFILIATES:   11) Black Live Matter is black supremacist movement that was founded by Marxist revolutionaries who uniformly revere Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther and convicted cop killer who has spent decades as a fugitive in Communist Cuba. James Anderson, who helps run the ItsGoingDown.orgwebsite, proudly affirms that Antifa groups "are working with Black Lives Matter."

The Antifa movement and its foot soldiers can rightfully be categorized as a special-operations unit of the modern Communist/anarchist left. The movement's professed mission is to beat back the forces of "facism," which it falsely and slanderously equates with conservatism.... George H. Kubeck

#24 OF 25 -THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

# 24 OF 25 -THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

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PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY BY C. BERNARD

CHAPTER 8 THE DARK KNIGHT OF THE SOUL - 104-9 - OF 448 PAGES

    "Within this mystical state, Pio was frequently visited by invisible beings from the heavenly world. Writing to Agostino in 1912, he declared, "Heavenly beings do not cease to visit me and make me anticipate the delight of the blessed." On another occasion he wrote his confidant: "At night, as my eyes close, I see a veil come down and my paradise opens to me, and, rejoicing in this vision, I sleep with a happy smile and with complete calm, expecting the little companions of my infancy [his guardian angel] to come to wake me and sing praises each morning with me to the delight of our hearts....

Now, granted that the mystical life is in some ways incomprehensible to most people, such experience nevertheless tends to fit a definite pattern. This was true of Padre Pio. Many mystics have traced several definite states through which they can pass until they attain the highest state of spiritual exaltation that can be achieved this side of heaven. Evelyn Underhill and others have distinguished five stages which the Christina mystic usually passes on the way to "divine union."

In the first stage, which Underhill calls "the awakening of the self." the individual becomes aware of the spiritual world and begins the quest for holiness....

The second state is what Underhill speaks of as "the purification of the self." For the first time the person sees the enormity of the gulf that stands between himself and the perfection of God....

The third stage is called "the illumination," in which the mystic is overcome with deep awe and a "renewed ecstatic awareness of the absolute." An excellent example of this comes from the pen of Emmanuele Brunata, who was led to Christ bu Padre Pio in 1919: ....

In the fourth stage, called by St. John of the Cross "the dark side of the soul," God purges the soul not of its carnal attachments - which have by this time long since surrendered -- but of its very selfhood...

Ultimately, the dark side gives way to the final stage of Christian growth, the stage the Eastern Orthodox call "deifiation" and Roman Catholics "spiritual marriage." Jeanne-Marie Bouvier Guuyon describes the transition this way: "The soul, after many a redoubled death, expires at last in the arms of Love but ... reduced to nought, there is ... in her ashes a seed of immortality...."

    
Thus self-will finally dies, and the soul learns to say with Job (13:15), "Though he slay me, yet will I trust Him." Thus does the soul learn to love God, not for physical or even spiritual delights or consolations; and thus does it come to rest entirely in God. Then the self, in the words of Underhill, is "wholly penetrated - as a sponge by the sea - by the Ocean of Life and Love to which [it] has attained."...

Now Padre Pio's spiritual life progressed generally along the same lines. He has lefty a beautiful description of his "awakening" on a letter that he wrote to his disciple Maria Campanile in 1922 in 1922. It is the closest he ever came to writing a spiritual biography: ...

By 1944, while Padre Pio was still suffering from his"usual trial" Padre Agostino became aware that his friend and protege live in "a habitual intimate union with God." Even as late as 1946,  when Pio was fifty-nine, Agostino commented that Pio's trial had "abated, but not disappeared." In fact, it seemed to coexist with the friar's increasing "elevation in God."...

On April 18, 1912, he writes Agostino again: "Oh, how delightful the conversation was that I held this morning with Paradise! ... things impossible to translate into human language ... The heart of Jesus and my heart were - allow me to use the expression - fused. The joy in me was so intense and so profound that I was able to contain myself no longer, and my face was bathed in the most delightful tears."

Further, on July 7, 1913, Pio describes a vision of Christ. The Lord, he wrote Agostino, "immersed my soul in such peace and contentment, that all the sweetest delights of this world, even if they were doubled, pale in comparison to even a drop of this blessedness!"...

George H. Kubeck

ALL BERNIE'S SOCIALISTS

ALL BERNIE'S SOCIALISTS

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 "WALL STREET JOURNAL" EDITORIAL, MON. APRIL 8, 2019

    
"Socialism is cool again, and Bernie Sanders want to reassure voters that there is nothing to worry about. "I think what we have to do, and will be doing it, is to do a better job maybe in explaining what we mean by socialism - democratic socialism," Mr. Sanders said last month. He has also said that conservatives portray his brand of socialism "as authoritarianism and communism and Venezuela, and that's nonsense."

  
  We wish that were true. But we have reading the work of Bernie's senior political advisers, and their words deserve more attention. Take speechwriter David Sirota, who joined the Sanders campaign in March. though he had been attacking the Vermont Senator's Democratic opponents on Twitter for months.

   Mr. Sirota wrote an op-ed for Salon in 2013 titled "Hugo Chavez's Economic Miracle." Mr. Sirota conceded, Chavez "was no saint" and "amassed a troubling record when it came to protecting human rights and basic democratic freedom." Those pesky disclaimers aside, Mr. Sirota suggested that there's plenty to learn from Chavez.

    
"For example, the United States has adamantly rejected the concept of nationalization and instead pursued a bailout/subsidy strategy when it come to rapacious banks and oil companies - and those forms have often gone to wreak economic havoc. Are there any lessons to be learned from Venezuela's decision to avoid that subsidization route and instead pursue full-on nationalization?" Mr. Sirota wrote. "And in the United States that has become more unequal than many Latin American nations, are there an constructive lessons to be learned from Chavez's grand experiment with more aggressive redistribution?"

  
  He wrote this in 2013, nearly 15 years after Chavez took power. Mr. Sirota has also opposed nearly all U.S. military actions abroad, and he blames the U.S. for inciting terrorism. Days after the Boston marathon bombing in 2013, Mr. Zirota wrote that "with America having killed thousands of civilians in its wars, we should be appalled by acts of terrorism but we shouldn't be surprised by them." His disclaimer: "Noting this is not to argue that such attacks are justified  or that we should deserve them.

  
  Mr. Sanders' political director, Analilia Mejia, spend part of her childhood in Venezuela and told the "Atlantic" in 2016 that "it was better to live on poverty-level wages in a shantytown in Venezuela than on a garment-worker's salary in Elizabeth, New Jersey."

  
  Mr. Sanders' senior policy adviser Heather Gautney visited Caracas in 2006 to attend the World Social Forum. The event featured a two-hour speech by Chavez lauding Karl Marx and Fidel Castro and pledging to "bury the U.S. empire." Ms. Gautney admitted the event had " a militarized feel" but wrote about how Chavez had "implemented a serious [sic] of programs to redistribute the wealth of the country and bolster social welfare."

   
 She defended Chavez's nationalization of private industry and efforts to rewrite the Venezuela constitution on grounds that Chavez's "proposals advocated for a system in which the presidency would be decided via popular vote." She also wrote that "today's neoliberal capitalist system has become utterly incompatible with the requisites of democratic freedom." And she says that "as it stands, U.S. representative political and economic institutions are not structured as representative bodies in any real sort of way."... [The candidate's advisers want America to be more like Venezuela.]

   
Redistribution of wealth and property is a major theme among the Bernie brigades. In a column for Intercept this year, Mr. Sanders' national press secretary, Briahna Joy Gray, wrote" "There will be no racial equality under capitalism .... voters should be clear that 'recognizing' disparities and doing something about them through aggressive, redistributive policies are not the same thing." ....

    
Mr, Sanders isn't a gadfly on the fringes of the Democratic Party. He's a leading candidate for its presidential nomination, and these are the people who would staff his White House.  Voters need to understand that they don't merely admire Venezuela/ By their words, they want America to emulate it." 

George H. Kubeck 

P.S. For a Republican landslide, everything possible must be done to have Bernie Sanders as the Democratic nominee for president.  Re-register and vote for him in the primaries.                                                                                                         

EARLY MORNING MESSAGES TO U.S. CATHOLIC BISHOPS # 1

EARLY MORNING MESSAGES TO U.S. CATHOLIC BISHOPS

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH- HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - MON. APR. 8, 2019

1. APR. 8, 2019  (12:30 A.M.)

   

The CINOP (Catholic-in-name-only Politician) is a traitor to our Catholic Faith and an enemy of our U.S.A. Constitution. Indirectly, via the wisdom that God's law is the foundation on which this nation was founded and that He alone is the True Source of our cherished rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Be informed that Leftism and the Culture of Death are atheists. 

The Leftist will use the CINOP in your diocese for successful electioneering purposes. They tried last month in Orange County with CINOP Democrat Loretta Sanchez. She failed in winning the seat on the OCBoard of Supervisors. She was the only Democrat running against several other Republicans running. Irvine Mayor Don Wagner won. 

Catholic voters were successfully duped in voting for Obama and CINOP Biden for president twice. Without the misinformed majority Catholic vote, President Obama would not have been elected. All the other American Christian voters voted against Obama. Today is the desperate attempt and rehab for CINOP Biden to run. He has a better chance than Socialist Bernie Sanders.

2. APRIL 4, 2019 (A.M.)

What kind of Catholic mindset comes up with liberation theology. Aware that Communists are master of deceit and deception. Would Blessed Fulton Sheen work with an Obama and a Sol Alinsky? Yet we had Catholic bishops and priests work with these two and promote them within the American Catholic community. And yet directly and indirectly Catholic Americans were duped to have elected Obama.

  
  None of the other Christian religions in America gave Obama a majority of their vote. That's why the culture of death promotes fake Catholic V.P. Biden to run for President. The Culture of Death needs the Catholic vote to defeat President Trump.

3. APRIL 2, 2019 (2:48 A.M.)

We have the Monroe Doctrine. In the Western Hemisphere, we do not cooperate with communists. We destroy them, politically, religiously and educationally before election time and after election time. Somehow our religious faith in the U.S.A. got infected with liberation theology. There is some evidence that liberation theology is an offspring of the Russian Communist Party. Maybe one day, Vladimir Putin will tell us. He was there at the very beginning.

   
 When you think what Communist Castro has done to the Cuban people during the past 55 years cooperating with Castro via Catholic support was a diabolical mistake. (The informed American Catholic is fed up with this diabolical mistake.)

    
Yet during the Nicaragua Civil War, we had elements of the Catholic Church support the Communists in Nicaragua. Today, leftism has morphed into infanticide. The McCarthy mindset propaganda is the creation of communists. 

  
 The U.S.A. has the Constitution. And in support, the American Catholics have Blessed Fulton Sheen, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, St. John Paul 11, St. Dominic and St. Thomas Aquinas.All  concur with the above.

George H. Kubeck

AMERICA REELS UNDER LEFTIST AGENADA

AMERICA REELS UNDER LEFTIST AGENDA

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - SUN. APRIL 7, 2019

BY BEN STEIN IN NEWSMAX - OCTOBER 2018

    "Truly, we live in an age of Miracles. Technology kept us cool over a brutally warm summer and brought us out of a terrible fire season in California.

    But there are some things happening which are not miracles. I would say they are of the devil. The unifying theme of all of them is that wicked combination of hate and envy that leads to fascism.

  
  The extreme left has been a major power in Hollywood for decades. Ronald Reagan's main triumph before the White House was fighting Communism and the blacklisting of anti-communism actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Hollywood is long past those days, to the point where unless you conform to the left-wing, anti-capitalist, anti-white, anti-Second Amendment mores of "the industry," you get shut out and shut up.

  
  It's been building for the decades in the media, too. Starting from the election of the war hero Dwight Eisenhower to the presidency in 1953, the mass media has been consistently contemptuous of conservatives, families, religion - anything does not fit its progressive agenda.

    It was the media that brought down President Richard Nixon, the greatest friend that peace ever had, and hounded him out of office. In the process, they turned over Cambodia to the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. That horror show killed over one-third of the population of the nation....

  
  The media treated Bush 41 and 43 as if they were stupid, when in fact both had placed highly in their classes at Yale and Bush 41 had been a major war hero. 

    But all of this was just a prologue to the Pearl Harbor of cultural attacks on President Trump, who has been treated with as much contempt as a large nation's rich media can drum up. Don't get me wrong. I was a supporter of Lindsey Graham for President. I considered Donald Trump a flawed human being and still do. But he has been a good, sturdy, president. He has been a superior friend of Israel. He has stood up for the police when his enemies were running them down. 

   
 He has made terrible mistakes about tariffs, but his moves for deregulation have been widely successful in liberating the animal spirit of American business, an we are enjoying a fantastic boom. The media has been chewing the carpet with rage over Trump ... late-night talk shows to the extent .. some of them unwatchable.  

   
 The worst is that since the struggle between the wicked witch, Hillary Clinton, and Trump, the baller, we have seen the demolition of the American legal system. We now see that there is one legal system for conservatives .... a hoax called Trump/Russian collusion to affect the 2016 election....  We have seen that the special counsel wet up by the DOJ to investigate Trump/Russia collusion fraud has a staff of almost all rabidly left wing, anti-Trump progressives.

  
 What is worse, thanks to the questioning of an evil, arrogant man, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, by a genius, Trey Gowdy, Republican of Greenville,S.C., we have seen the FBI has been rendered an instrument of political revanchism. As school kids were were all brought up to worship the FBI agents as square shooting men and women above politics. Now, they are politically motivated secret police much more in the mold of Al Capone than that of J.Edgar Hoover.                                                           

  There was a plot within the FBI to bring down Trump. Incredibly no one has been indicted for that plot. How can Paul Manafort be in prison while Peter Strzok is free?.....

    Can you imagine what it will be like if the leftists take control of government?

George H. Kubeck

VIEWING THE FILM "UNPLANNED"

VIEWING THE FILM "UNPLANNED"

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM -  TUES., APRIL 2, 2019

Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange,

March 26, 2019,

Dear Parents, Educators, and Pastors,

As many of you know, we recently screened the movie Unplanned  at Christ Cathedral Campus. The film tells the story of Abby Johnson, a top performing Planned Parenthood employee, who left the industry after participating directly in an abortion. It was recently previewed ... at the Freed Theatre....

Some have called the film the Uncle Tom's Cabin pro-life movement. Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel was published in 1852 and is considered by many to be the catalyst for the abolition of slavery in the United States. Many have been searching for and praying for such a catalyst....

You see, abortion became a lot harder to defend, or even accept, when we actually know what it is, thanks to the advantages of technology. For decades, the abortion lobby has used all sorts of euphemisms to mask the reality. They use words like "procedure," "pregnancy termination to mask the reality and so on...

Unplanned is rated R for mature audience. This makes sense given the reality of abortion. Still, I urge you to consider taking the teens in your life to see this movie. It will be difficult, and it will be painful...

The movie opens this weekend. I you trust your children, your students, take them to see the movie....

Sincerely in Christ,

Most Rev. Kevin W. Vann, J.C.D. DD         (OCCatholic March 31, 2019)

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WASHINGTON TIMES - APRIL 1, 2019 - "DESPITE TWITTER BAN, MEDIA BLACKOUT AND AN R-RATING, 'UNPLANNED' CLEANS UP AT THE BOX OFFICE"

"WHAT SHE SAW CHANGED EVERYTHING" -  "UNPLANNED"

"Unplanned," a feature film which takes a stand against abortion, doubled its projected earnings, coming in at fifth place overall with a $6.1 million dollar opening despite previous industry prediction of $2-3 million for its opening weekend.

The independent production did well despite a temporary Twitter ban on the film's social media presence, limited release on the nation's movie screens and very little coverage from the mainstream media. Major cable networks refused to air promotional ads for "Unplanned," including Lifetime, Hallmark, HGTV and others, according to a Hollywood Reporter tally. The movie also was given a surprise R - rated by MPAA last month.

  
 Pure Flix, the film's distributor, now will add an additional 600 screens to the count, bring the total number to 1,700 screens after the film earned a rare A-plus from CinemaScore.

  
  We are very happy for the success of this film," said Flix CEO Michael Scott, who noted that the unexpected audience turnout shows the significance of abortion as a cultural topic.

"We hope that those on both side of the debate will see Unplanned and being to have their own dialogue. This film can be that spark to bring more hearts and minds to understanding the value of life," Mr. Scott said.

Partially financial by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, the reveals the story Abby Johnson., a former Planned Parenthood clinic director who became pro-life after her experiences. The film was released nationally on 1,000 screens on Friday.

   
 Mr. Scott also noted, that by Saturday morning, the "Unplanned" had 1.7 million views on YouTube, and received a 93 percent positive audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, the online movie review site.

George H. Kubeck