Babylon Bee Article (Satire alert) Wrote:10 Ways To Survive At A Woke Corporation
Jul 13, 2022 - BabylonBee.com

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So, you're working for a woke corporation. Sad! It's a hard life working for "the man," and it's even harder when "the man" is a non-binary pansexual neurodivergent transspecies disabled person who will fire you if you misgender them. How will you ever survive?


Here are a few great ways to survive working at a woke corporation:

1. Visit the water cooler every twenty minutes to remind people how WOKE you are: "Gee I sure am feeling diverse, equitable, and inclusive today, am I right, fellow SJWs?"
   
2. Dye your hair and wear flamboyant rainbow colors for camouflage: Practice at home so it looks like you do it all the time.
   
3. Start telling "that's what HE said" jokes: Equity!
   
4. When asked to state your pronouns in a meeting, jump out the nearest plate glass window: You may die when you hit the pavement, but your chances are still better than if you fail to declare your pronouns.
   
5. Every time you walk by a black co-worker's desk, take a knee and raise one fist in the air: This will make your minority coworkers feel SEEN.
   
6. Be a minority: They can't fire you.
   
7. Tell a racist joke and if anyone laughs say "HA! I was just testing you!" and then run and tell HR: They'll be fired and you will live to be fired another day.
   
8. Weep loudly for the dead trees every time you make copies at the copy machine: You'll be an environmental justice hero.
   
9. Claim you are trans-abled when you get caught using the handicap stall because of how nice and roomy it is: Why should wheelchair guys have all the fun?
   
10. Call all your Latinx coworkers "unique breakfast burritos": Follow the example of our great First Lady.
    

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How Our Lady of La Leche Cured Us of Infertility
Walker Larson

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As many as 15 percent of couples are infertile, and many have struggled with this cross much more intensely than I have. But I want to share my story to bring comfort to others who have walked this same path. And I owe it to Our Lady to tell this tale. 
I learned as a teenager that I had a much higher chance than most men of being infertile. The knowledge hung about me for years like tendrils of gloomy fog clinging to the hillsides. I wanted to get married and have a family, but I feared I would never father a child.

This fear was confirmed after I married my beautiful wife and month after month rolled by with only negative pregnancy tests. With a sickening sensation, I felt the worry turning to reality. We both new ahead of time that this was a possibility, but I think neither of us was prepared for the grief we experienced as the fear was vindicated.

On our wedding day, I could almost feel the little souls of our children hovering around us, just on the brink of slipping through the seam of the worlds, right from the hand of God, and bursting into vibrant life. I seemed to hear the words of Psalm 127: “Blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.” Those little olive plants felt very close on that day, as though already beginning to sprout.

But as time passed, those souls soon seemed infinitely far away. Generally, the medical community defines infertility as the inability to conceive after a year of trying. Though we knew of people who had conceived after a year, of course, we nevertheless felt the weight of that label as our first anniversary passed by with no baby. We began to try various minor treatments, particularly to help regulate my wife’s cycles, but with no success.

There were many tears, many awkward attempts to comfort my wife. There were nights, too, when I looked up at the stars and felt as though those souls, my souls (though really His, I tried to remind myself), were trapped up there somewhere, and I couldn’t rescue them. I apologized to them, wept, told them that I had tried to rescue them from nothingness but could not find a way. I could almost call them all by name, the people who were meant to be already warming our home with their unique personalities, were it not for some inexplicable wrench in the cogs of the universe.


Of course, we prayed for children every day. We offered penances and novenas. But the more we prayed the more discouraged we became. And because of my weak faith, I sometimes grew distrusting of God’s plan.

Finally, in a chance conversation, a priest I knew directed me to a devotion to Mary known as Our Lady of La Leche. This means “Our Lady of the Milk” in Spanish. It is a devotion brought to the Americas by the Spanish explorers and settlers in the 16th century. They appealed to Mary under this title for fertility and healthy pregnancies. Another priest I spoke to told me about parishioners of his who had visited the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche in St. Augustine, Florida, and had their prayers answered.

With hope surging inside us, we began to plan a trip to the shrine. Our Lady had taken pity on many couples there, according to the words of these priests and accounts I read online. Perhaps she would take pity on us, too, though I questioned whether I had sufficient faith or the proper motives to deserve to be heard. I tried to check my enthusiasm a little because for every person on the internet who wrote a story of prayers answered, I wondered, how many others visited the shrine and did not receive the healing they desired?

As we prepared for our 1,400-mile trip, the feast day of Our Lady of La Leche came. On that day, a massive, clearly visible rainbow overspread our house. I tried not to put too much stock in it, knowing my tendency to interpret happenings as signs when they aren’t, or at least aren’t the kind I think they are. But I couldn’t help wondering if it meant something.

Gliding over clouds that looked like massive snowy crags while reading Dante’s Purgatorio, I felt as though I, too, might be nearing the peak of a mountain of purification. At least I hoped so. And when we stepped off the plane near midnight and I smelled the rich, lively, ocean-tinted Floridian air, the hope burned brighter.


St. Augustine is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the United States and served as the capital for Spanish Florida for over 200 years. It has deep Catholic roots. The city was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida’s first governor. He chose the name “San Augustin” because his ships first sighted land on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine. The streets are small and winding, clearly established in the days before automobiles dominated the thoroughfares. Many of the buildings are old and in the Spanish style. You can feel the age of the city in your bones. It was unlike any other town I had visited in the country.

On October 21, about midday, we pulled our rental car into the parking lot for the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche. The shrine is composed of a main visitors’ center and museum connected to the shrine’s primary church and a park-like area filled with statues, flowers, a rosary walk, and the humble little vine-covered chapel housing the statue of Our Lady of La Leche. Across an inlet stands an enormous cross, almost tall enough to require lights on top to alert planes to its presence. Beyond that lies a little bay and then the ocean.

We first visited the museum, where a soft-spoken yet warm and friendly older gentleman—whom I’ll call Dale—gave us a tour of the remarkable artifacts housed there, including old vestments, the coffin of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, and a recording of the Our Father in the native Indian language. There was a miniature diorama of this mission—for that’s what the shrine was originally—as it would have looked when the Spaniards first arrived: small and vulnerable and alone. It consisted of a flimsy looking palisade, a few little huts, and a priest standing at an outdoor altar with a small congregation behind him, surrounded by impenetrable forest and swampland.

Dale told us of the founding of this place, how the Spaniards sailed from Spain, sent by King Philip II, without knowledge of hurricane season in the Western Atlantic. As a result, most of the expedition perished on the way. When the ragged and storm-wracked survivors finally came to shore, right in this place, they immediately venerated the cross and then offered a Mass of thanksgiving—likely the first parish Mass offered in what would become the United States. Our Lady had brought them through. She had been their Star of the Sea, Stella Maris, their sure guide, in the most literal of senses, providing them with the crossing over treacherous waters.

Fr. Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales, the priest of the expedition, described the scene in his journal:
On Saturday the eighth the General landed with many banners spread, to the sounds of trumpets and the salutes of artillery. As I had gone ashore the evening before, I took a cross and went to meet him, singing the hymn ‘Te Deum Laudamus.’ The General, followed by all who accompanied him, marched up to the cross, knelt and kissed it. A large number of Indians watched these proceedings and imitated all that they saw done.

The Spaniards eventually built a fort in St. Augustine along with the mission that grew up around their original landing point and from which they evangelized the natives. In the early 1600s, the Shrine to Nuestra Senora de La Leche, Mary nursing the infant Jesus, was established. It was the first shrine to Mary in the United States. The mission and shrine, we were told, was destroyed many times over the centuries by pirates, other settlers, and hurricanes. But it was always rebuilt, including the little chapel housing the statue of Our Lady of La Leche.


The guide also told us the origins of this unusual devotion, which the Spanish had brought with them from Spain. Some years before the coming to the New World, a Spanish peasant man had a heavy cross. His wife was pregnant, but complications with the pregnancy meant that both she and the baby were going to die. Weighed down with his grief, the man was out walking one day when he encountered a group of boys tossing an object back and forth as part of a game. Coming closer, he realized it was a statue. He took it away from the boys and their disrespectful treatment and saw that it was an image of Our Lady seated and nursing the child Jesus. He took it home and began to pray before the image, asking for a safe delivery for his wife and baby. His prayers were miraculously answered, and news of this miracle began to spread. Soon, devotion to the image of “Our Lady of the Milk” disbursed throughout Spain, and, eventually, the New World.

After touring the museum, my wife and I walked into the little paradise, the “sacred acre,” as it is known, at the center of the shrine property. There are many statues, grottos, and gravestones under the shade of the trees there. In the center, the chapel stands, looking very much like it would have looked 450 years ago.

Inside, all is quiet and calm and peaceful. There are wooden benches on the floor, wooden beams on the ceiling, stucco walls, and at the front, in an alcove above the altar, one of the most beautiful statues of Our Lady I have ever seen. She holds Jesus gently to her breast and looks down at him with inexpressible tenderness. A magnificent crown adorns her inclining head. The statue is remarkably lifelike. The overwhelming impression I felt, kneeling before it, was that she was about to speak or move at any moment. Though the statue remained motionless, I knew that Our Lady was watching us from Heaven; that she was listening to us with great care and attention. And we prayed our hearts out there, before the statue.

Later that day, we visited the beach. It was windy, and great breakers of indigo-blue waves were rearing up and falling into foam on the beach. We waded in, hand in hand, until we were shoulder deep. We let the water lift us again and again, wash over us, crash into us, but we held on to each other. Like our life, I thought. Hand in hand, we face the waves that come against us and try to overwhelm us. But we won’t let go of each other. And Mary is our guiding light, our navigation point. Ave Stella Maris. Even if we never become parents.

After a waterfront dinner at an Irish pub, we wandered the glittering, European-style streets and plazas, passed the restaurants that lined the bayside, overheard the murmuring of the milling crowds and the diners tasting fine wines and seafood on patios. We passed the old university, blanketed with Spanish moss, and passed the grand cathedral where we heard the echoing of an organ concert drifting into the street. The warm and salty air was against our faces, and the stars were beginning to come out over the ocean.


My wife held my hand tightly. “Even if Our Lady doesn’t give us a baby, I’m still glad we came,” she said.
“Yes,” I said. “It was still worth it to honor her at her shrine.”

And so one of the most peaceful and happy days of my life came to a close.
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A few months later, after our return, while researching natural infertility treatments online, I learned about Maca root. Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is a root-like cruciferous vegetable from the Andes of Peru. It manages to grow in some of the harshest farmlands in the world, facing, at times, freezing temperatures, raging winds, and oppressive sunlight. This is the only food crop that can grow and thrive at such high altitudes and in difficult weather. The native Peruvians have used Maca root as food and medicine for two millennia.

But I really began to pay attention when I read about Maca’s connection to the Spanish Conquest. Soon after the arrival of the Spanish in the New World, they began to experience illness and infertility, possibly due to the adjustment to the higher altitudes of the Andes. The Peruvians advised the use of Maca, and the dramatic results formed the basis for some of the first written records ever kept of the Andean region. It is speculated that the first Spanish baby born in the Highland was conceived through the aid of Maca. Some accounts even say that the Conquistadors began requiring payment in Maca instead of gold. To this day, Maca is known to support reproductive health for both men and women.

Somehow, after the journey to Florida, I felt I was connected to that ragged band of courageous Spanish settlers and missionaries who came to the New World, and even that poor man back in Spain who had found the statue. I shared something with them. They were my brothers, for we had a common Mother. The Maca seemed to solidify this notion. Was it mere coincidence that this fertility food had deep historical links to the very people and time period connected to Our Lady of La Leche? Or was this heavenly help sent by our Mother? Either way, we had to try it.

There are moments in life, however fleeting, that are a foretaste of Heaven, when we see briefly but lucidly the demarcations of a grand plan in the universe, of which we are a part, a plan that is moving toward the ultimate triumph of the good and the rectification of all that has somehow gone wrong. We experience for a space the fulfillment of those deepest desires, some of which go too deep for words, and we know what we have scarcely dared to hope in the darkness of the trial, what we have almost let ourselves disbelieve: that God is there, that He sees our yearnings, and that He fulfills them in His own mysterious way.
The happy ending is not a myth; neither in our lives nor in history broadly speaking, though its final completion will only come at the end of time. In the meantime, we receive fragments of it, such as the unexpected blooming of new life within the flower of our little family.

For my wife is now, at the time of this writing, 17 weeks pregnant with our La Leche baby. We learned of the pregnancy on the feast of the Annunciation. And now a statue of Our Lady nursing Jesus, which we brought home with us from the shrine, sits by her bedside and watches over her and the child.

The answering of our prayers—even the most extravagant, and even in a miraculous or semi-miraculous way—is not reserved only for the saints, as I have sometimes thought. It is for you and me and all poor sinners who believe that Mary is their mother and the Star of the Sea, guiding her children through the storm.

[Photo: Our Lady of La Leche Shrine at Nombre de Dios Mission]

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Study Reveals Monkeypox Virus Was MANIPULATED in a Lab and Released Intentionally to Cause an Outbreak
by Zoey Sky
July 13, 2022
 

Data from a shocking study published by Portugal’s National Institute of Health (NIH) suggests that the monkeypox outbreak was intentional and that the virus was manipulated in a lab.

When a person has monkeypox, they will usually get a fever before they develop a rash one to five days later. The rash will often appear on their face before spreading to other parts of the body. The rash then changes and goes through different stages before finally forming a scab that eventually falls off. If you’re infected, you are contagious until all the scabs have fallen off and the skin underneath is intact.

Monkeypox has always been extremely rare and the disease was first identified in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, human cases of monkeypox have been reported in 11 African countries.

But it wasn’t until 2003 that the first monkeypox outbreak was recorded in the United States. Monkeypox has never been recorded in multiple countries at the same time until this year.

This year’s cases of monkeypox have been recorded in the U.S., Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the U.K. all at the same time.

As of July, the alleged number of cases in the U.K. has skyrocketed to 1,235.

However, there’s something unusual about the outbreak, especially since the world is allegedly experiencing an outbreak across first-world countries all at the same time.

Back in March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) collaborated with the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to run a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. The exercise analyzed gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures to find out possible opportunities to “improve prevention and response capabilities for high-consequence biological events.”

This is the scenario the NTI and the MSC conducted: A monkeypox outbreak that began on May 15 resulted in 3.2 billion cases and 271 million deaths by December 1, 2023.

The similarities are too close to reality and it would be unwise to consider the current monkeypox outbreak as an unusual coincidence, especially since the first cases were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 13.
Portugal’s NIH suggests monkeypox outbreak may have been engineered.

Findings from the study conducted by Portugal’s NIH suggest that the current monkeypox outbreak may be engineered.
For the study, NIH researchers gathered specimens from nine patients with monkeypox between May 15 and May 17 of this year and analyzed them. Results revealed that the recent multi-country outbreak of monkeypox is probably the result of a single origin since all sequences of viruses released to date tightly cluster together.

The research team also reported that the virus belongs to the West African group of monkeypox viruses. Additionally, they discovered that the virus is most closely related to monkeypox viruses that were exported from Nigeria to several countries in 2018 and 2019, specifically the U.K., Israel and Singapore.

This is the first clue that shows how the latest outbreak may be the result of an engineered virus that leaked from a lab.
The second clue that the monkeypox virus was leaked from a lab is the fact that even though the virus closely resembles those exported from Nigeria, it is still different with more than 50 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).

SNPs are genetic variations and the researchers explained that 50 SNPs are “far more than one would expect.” This implies that someone manipulated the monkeypox virus in a lab. (Related: Study finds monkeypox virus has been heavily manipulated in a lab.)
Dr. Robert Malone broke down the Portugal study in an op-ed piece published by Life Site News and concluded that the current monkeypox outbreak is indeed engineered. “This double stranded DNA virus, infections by which have historically been self-limiting, appears to be evolving to a form that is more readily transmitted from human to human. Bad news,” he wrote.

Visit MonkeyPoxReport.com for more information about the monkeypox virus.

Watch the video below to know more about the monkeypox virus.

This video is from the Thrivetime Show channel on Brighteon.com.
More related stories:

• Monkeypox outbreak could be used to justify expansion of medical surveillance.
  
• Monkeypox release is PSYCHOLOGICAL TERRORISM to keep humanity paralyzed with FEAR.
  
• Same Wuhan lab linked to covid recently tampered with monkeypox strains.
  

Sources include:

• Expose-News.com
  
• LifeSiteNews.com
  
• Brighteon.com
  
• NATURAL NEWS
  

Article and comments Wrote:Chow Hall - US Marine Corps Camp LeJeune – HOLLY NOTE: It used to be that our military, police and firefighters embodied masculinity, strength. The latter 2 still do; however, some in our military look like ridiculous pansies.

'Men' in skirts and fishnet stockings? Skirts look good on Scots because they're manly enough to carry it off and it's part of their culture.

In the photo that goes with this article, check the man in the foreground. He's laughing at this skirted person. That 'he' is a Marine – the epitome of rugged male in military service – makes this doubly nauseating.

How are we respected around the world? We aren't. We were good with 'don't ask, don't tell.

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More from Webb: Hubble vs. Webb, no contest

CAPTION: Top image from Webb. Bottom from Hubble

Some stars save the best for last.

The dimmer star at the center of this scene has been sending out rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed for the first time that this star is cloaked in dust.

Two cameras aboard Webb captured the latest image of this planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 3132, and known informally as the Southern Ring Nebula. It is approximately 2,500 light-years away.

Webb will allow astronomers to dig into many more specifics about planetary nebulae like this one – clouds of gas and dust expelled by dying stars. Understanding which molecules are present, and where they lie throughout the shells of gas and dust will help researchers refine their knowledge of these objects.

This observation shows the Southern Ring Nebula almost face-on, but if we could rotate it to view it edge-on, its three-dimensional shape would more clearly look like two bowls placed together at the bottom, opening away from one another with a large hole at the center.

Two stars, which are locked in a tight orbit, shape the local landscape. Webb's infrared images feature new details in this complex system. The stars – and their layers of light – are prominent in the image from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the left, while the image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the right shows for the first time that the second star is surrounded by dust. The brighter star is in an earlier stage of its stellar evolution and will probably eject its own planetary nebula in the future.

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The Worst Breakfast Habits for Dementia, Say Dietitians

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 Dementia can be a devastating diagnosis to receive. And one of the most difficult aspects of dementia to deal with is the fact that a cure hasn't been discovered yet. However, there are thankfully plenty of treatments and medications that are continually being researched as effective solutions for slowing down its progression.

For example, your diet and nutrition play an enormous role in slowing down dementia. With a healthy diet, medication, exercise, and cognitive treatments, your chances of slowing down the progression increase greatly.

But what does a brain-healthy diet include, and what are some of the eating habits people with dementia may want to stay away from? To learn more, we talked with some expert dietitians about the worst breakfast habits for dementia.

 
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While a good old-fashioned breakfast sausage and egg combo is a delicious way to start your day, dietitians warn that too much processed meat can contribute to poorer cognitive health over time.

"Processed breakfast meats such as sausage and bacon can be problematic because they are highly inflammatory. This is because of their added nitrites, processing, and animal proteins and fats, which can increase inflammation (IGF-1) in the body and may increase plaques in the brain," says Dana Ellis Hunnes, PhD, MPH, RD, a registered dietitian and author of Recipe for Survival.


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Consuming too much added sugar is one of the more harmful breakfast habits you can have for many aspects of your health, including your brain health.

"Sugar and processed foods are highly inflammatory and can increase blood sugars and the insulin response, as well as the inflammatory response (IGF-1). Individuals with dementia should try and eat a whole, mostly plant-based diet as much as possible, due to it being anti-inflammatory, high in phyto(plant)-nutrients, antioxidants, and other nutrients (fiber) that are very healthy and beneficial for brain health," says Hunnes.


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Although it can be tempting to skip breakfast on your busiest days, this habit may not be good for your brain.

"Skipping breakfast is the worst breakfast habit for dementia. Eating breakfast provides you with the energy you need to stay active all day long. Breakfast also helps you focus. Studies show that people who skip breakfast have a higher risk of developing dementia," says Bill Bradley, RD, a registered dietitian and CEO at Mediterranean Living.

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It's okay to have a little bit of saturated fat in your diet, but experts warn that consuming too much of it can lead to some unwanted health issues, especially in regards to your cognitive health.

"When you can, pass on the cheesy omelet with bacon, home fries, and butter. These are packed with saturated fat, another inflammation booster. Studies on the MIND diet for cognitive health show that added sugar and saturated fat play a big role in worsening cognitive health and dementia and increasing the risk of Alzheimer's disease," says registered dietitian nutritionist Anne Danahy, RDN.

Article Wrote:theepochtimes.com

Meet the Maine coon kitten that is so large people mistake it to be a dog
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A Maine coon living in Russia is so massive that people mistake it to be a dog.

Meet Kefir, an oversized feline that is on its way to becoming the world’s largest cat.

The oversized kitten, who weighs a whopping 12.5 kilograms (27 pounds), belongs to Yulia Minina, who lives in the small Russian town of Stary Oskol.

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At less than 2 years old, Kefir has already crossed the average adult weight for his breed and it’s believed he’s only going to get bigger until roughly the age of 3–4 years old.

Yulia bought Kefir—named after a milky drink—as a small kitten from a cattery after she fell in love with his striking snow-white fur, as reported by The Metro.

According to Yulia, Kefir refused to consume dry food and is thus fed meat and natural feed.

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When Yulia first met Kefir she couldn’t believe that he would grow so big.

“He not only grew up big in appearance, he is also very smart and always behaves calmly,” Yulia said of Kefir’s personality. “The look is generally like that of a person, and Kefir has a formidable appearance, but he is a very affectionate and modest child.”

Although he is mistaken to be a dog by family, friends, and netizens, Kefir proves that he is a sweet and gentle kitty with his purrs and cuddles.

“He willingly allows himself to be stroked,” Yulia explained.

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Unaware of his own physique, Kefir has “one more habit,” said Yulia. “At night, he likes to climb on me and sleep. When he was a kitten, it didn’t cause me any inconvenience. But now he has become big and heavy, and, of course, it is difficult to sleep like that.”
Yulia strongly believes that Kefir will only grow bigger in the years to come.

While documenting Kefir’s life on [url=https://tiktok.com/@mainecoonkefir]TikTok, she is often questioned if he is really that big, to which she replies: “I don’t use Photoshop.”
Epoch Times Staff contributed to this report.

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Quote:“I loved her and sought her from my youth, and desired to take her as a bride for myself. And I became a lover of her beauty. She glorifies her noble birth by living with God, and the Master of all loves her.” (Wisdom of Solomon)

Quote:“Nowadays men cannot love seven nights but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded, and hasty heat, soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so; men and women could love together seven years, and no lycours lusts were between them, and then was love, truth and faithfulness: and lo, in likewise was used love in King Arthur’s days.” (Le Morte d’Arthur)

Quote:“But the angel [Raphael] said to him, “Do you not remember the words your father commanded you, to take a wife for yourself from among your people? Now listen to me, brother, for she will be a wife to you. As for the demon [Asmodeus], have no concern, for this night she will be given to you as a wife. If you enter the bridal chamber, you will take with you ashes of incense, and lay some of it on the heart and liver of the fish. Then you will make smoke, and the demon will smell it and flee and never return. When you approach her, both of you will rise up and cry out to the merciful God. He will save you and be merciful. Do not fear for yourself, for she has been prepared for you from of old. You will save her and she will go with you. I believe that you will have children by her.”
“As Tobias heard these words, he loved her and his soul was very much united to her.” (Book of Tobit: 6)
When they finished dining, they led Tobias to her. As he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and put the heart and the liver of the fish upon the embers of the incense and made smoke. When the demon smelled the fragrant scent, he fled to the upper parts of Egypt, and there the angel bound him. While both were enclosed in the room, Tobias rose up from the bed and said,
“Arise, sister, and let us pray that the Lord will have mercy upon us… Blessed are You, O God of our fathers, and blessed is Your holy and glorious name unto the ages. The heavens and all Your creatures bless You. You made Adam and gave him Eve as a helper, his wife as a support. From them the seed of mankind came to be. You said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. Let Us make a helper for him like himself.’ O Lord, I now take this my sister as my wife, not on account of fornication, but in Truth. Command that she and I may have mercy, and in this grow old together.”
And with him she said, “Amen.” (Book of Tobit: 8)

Quote:“For I am wounded with love. His left hand shall be under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me..."

"The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes leaping on the mountains, and skipping over the hills… My beloved answers and says to me, “Rise up and come, my companion, my fair one, my dove. For behold, the winter is past, and the rain is gone; it has departed. The flowers are seen in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the dove is heard in our land. The fig tree has put forth its young figs, and the vines are in bloom and give forth their fragrance. Arise and come, my companion, my fair one, my dove, and come, my dove, to the shelter of the rock, and take hold of the wall. Show me your face, and cause me to hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is beautiful.”

“I sleep, but my heart keeps watch; the voice of my beloved – he knocks at the door!”

“If you find my beloved, what should you tell him? That I am wounded with love.”

“Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is as strong as death. “Much water will not quench love, nor will rivers drown it.”

Quote:“Who is she who comes up, is made white, and leans on her beloved?”

• “We are created in order to evolve the cosmos." A quote from Montessori's book The Absorbent Mind (original version published in 1949). In the same paragraph she states "Nor is the purpose of life to perfect oneself, nor only to evolve. The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and create an even better world."
  
  Maria Montessori pictured with a third eye, a Hindu pagan practice associated with chakras
  
  
• Montessori wore on multiple occasions a "third eye," a Hindu pagan practice dealing with chakras.
  
  
  
• "The child unconscious drinks in divine power, whilst the reasoning consciousness of the adult is but human." (In The Child, Society, and the World)
  
  
  
• "The teacher cannot have any immediate influence either upon the formation or upon the inner discipline of the students, ... her confidence must be placed and must rest in their hidden and latent energies." (In "The Child" published in The Theosophist, Dec 1941)
  
  
  
• "Just as language has many expressions ... so does elevation express itself by way of different creeds: Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and many different belief systems in order to communicate with and about god." (In The Child, Society, and the World.)
  
  
  
• "Religion is a universal sentiment which is inside everybody ... [and] is not something which we must give to the child." (In The Child, Society, and the World)
  

Hands on teaching material to learn all the world religious

• Buddhist, Islamic, Zenergy Chimes and other pagan materials are sold for use specifically in the CGS classroom by the Center for Children and Theology. The CTT is promoted by the national CGS association on their website (CGS-USA), and holds the national CGS conference every year. (See here and here)
  
  
  
• A yin yang symbol was worn by speaker – a teaching sister – at the 2019 national CGS conference. (See a summary critique here.)
  
  
  
• "Ecumenism is not just a branch of catechesis; rather, the spirit of ecumenism must permeate the whole of catechesis," a quote by CGS program creator Sofia Cavalletti. (See here.)
  
  
  
• Episcopalian and "Orthodox" CGS programs are being promoted by CGS-USA official website on an equal footing with what they call "CGS in the Catholic Tradition" (see screenshot below taken this week by me, and see national CGS website here
  
  
  
• A female, protestant "clergy-woman" was the keynote speaker at the CGS workshops titled "De-Colonizing Our Atrium" and "Steps Towards an Anti-Racist Atrium" workshop, all at the most recent national CGS conference in October 2021. The Agenda can be seen here and the protestant "reverend" woman bio is found here.
  
  Yin Yang necklace, instead of crucifix, worn by 2019 CGS National Conference Speaker (religious sister); below another key note speaker was a protestant ‘minister’
  
  
• "The subjects of ecumenism, interfaith dialogue and solidarity with all of creation are integral to what Maria Montessori names 'cosmic education' or 'expansive education.'" Quote by CGS program creator Sophia Cavalletti. See here.
  
  
  
• An Episcopalian catechist woman was featured on the national CGS website discussing Catholic and Episcopalian "bishops" taking turns at celebrating "Mass or Eucharist" together in an inter-faith pilgrimage. (Video on the left here)
  
  
  
• Religious indifferentism on the official CGS-USA website regarding Catholics, Episcopalians, and "Orthodox:" "The gift of the knowledge that our unity is in what is essential," and "The gift of growing esteem and respect for our diverse traditions." See website here.
  
  
  
• Approbation of the "historical-critical method of scripture study and much collaboration across denominational lines," another quote from the CGS-USA website. See here.
  
  
  
• Approbation of "our various faith traditions" by current CGS-USA National Director on their website, as she places Catholicism and protestant sects on equal footing.
  
  At the beginning of this video, she visibly almost makes the sign of the cross to begin the group prayer, then catches herself and stops. (Video on the right here)
  
  
  
• Sisters of Grandchamp Switzerland are promoted on the CGS-USA site;the CGS-USA Director states that these "sisters" chose the song for the CGS "Prayer for Christian Unity" event. These non-Catholic sisters are "a monastic community [that] brings together sisters from different churches," begun by women from the "Reformed Church of French-speaking Switzerland." They celebrate a unique "liturgy [that] is rooted in that of the early Church and the Jewish tradition." They are NOT Catholic. See here.
  
  Additionally, the "sisters" have some sort of pagan-looking items for their ecumenical worship service that can be seen here.
  
  
  
• If you are inclined to research more, some additional resources are provided in the footnote. (1)
  

Montessori-style quiet meditative ‘play’ on the floor

No need to explain the ‘Good Shepherd’ is Jesus Christ...

Banalizing the Mass, said Novus-Ordo style