Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—April 5, 2020

Tragically true: For the first time in history, all churches will remain closed during Holy Week.

Holy Week 2020 begins with Pope Francis—who apparently no longer lays claim to being Vicar of Christ—celebrating Palm Sunday Mass in an empty Vatican church:

It’s Palm Sunday in ‘The Time of Coronavirus’ and donkeys are renting the air with loud braying

“In the latest Vatican yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio, the title “Vicar of Christ” does not appear on the listing for Pope Francis.(Catholic Culture, April 3, 2020)

“In the 2020 edition of the Annuario, the page devoted to Pope Francis is headed simply by his name: Jorge Maria Bergoglio.

“ Past editions have always been headed by the titles accorded to the Pope, beginning with “Vicar of Jesus Christ.” Other titles have been “Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman province, Sovereign of the Vatican City-State.” In the 2020 edition, these titles appear at the bottom of the page devoted to Pope Francis, identified only as “historical” titles.

“Such a change would undoubtedly have required the approval of the Pontiff.”

It’s Palm Sunday in ‘The Time of Coronavirus’ and donkeys are renting the air with loud braying.

The braying of globalist donkeys defiantly attempts to celebrate the cancellation of something impossible to cancel: Easter Sunday.

ALL THINGS ARE PASSING

When COVID-19 passes—and it will, because ALL THINGS ARE PASSING—untold legions of Christians and their undying belief in the Almighty,  will still be there.

Someday in the distant future historians will write that the year 2020 was the one when ‘Easter Came Home’.

Brick and mortar churches,  reassuring as they have been, are not the only places to pray during Holy Week.

But braying donkeys will never see that the human soul all were born with is far more enduring than anything constructed of mere brick and mortar.

Amidst the celebratory braying of the globalist donkeys, untold millions of Christians worldwide, are thinking today of the Savior who rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, preparing for His death in less than a week.

Even the Fake News of our day cannot touch, in any way,  the true story of the first Palm Sunday that happened almost 2,000 years ago, or the many Palm Sundays that made it through many pandemics in all the years that followed:

“On the Sunday morning after the dinner party given for Jesus in Bethany, He entered the Holy City of Jerusalem in a distinctly unique way.  (From: “Fr. Victor Brown’s Catholic Daily Message.”)

“First, he sent some of his apostles to borrow a donkey from an acquaintance.  This probably struck them as odd.  They had gone into Jerusalem many time before, always on foot.  Why the donkey now?

“But even before getting into the city, they had to cross the brow of the Mount of Olives, a hill to the east of the city, to contemplate the beautiful view of the Holy City, gleaming in the morning sunshine of a fine spring day.  They were Jews; this was their capital city.  But more than that, this was their HOLY city where God dwelt with His people.  The temple stood there in its glory, proclaiming to the whole world the sovereignty of the Jewish God Yahweh.

“They paused there to contemplate the scene; it made them proud and happy.  All but Jesus, that is.  He wept and said, “Oh, Jerusalem, if only you had realized your opportunity!  I would have gathered you to myself as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you rejected me.  And therefore, you will be destroyed, with not one stone left upon another.”

“Having said this, he went flip-flopping down the steep Mount of Olives, across Kidron brook, which was probably dry and up into the city.  Then something unusual happened.  People gave Jesus a royal welcome, probably because he had recently raised Lazarus from the dead.

“They stripped branches from the trees and put them in His path.  They even laid articles of clothing along the road, in their simple attempt at a red-carpet treatment.

“And they shouted “Hosanna to the Son of David,” That would be equivalent to their saying “Hooray for the promised Savior.”

 “And then, “Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.”  When His enemies heard the shouting, they said to Him, “You hear what they are shouting?  Make them stop.”  That is, make them stop using Messianic titles in reference to you.  Jesus answered very powerfully: if they were to stop, the very stones would cry out.  When Christ enters Jerusalem to die there for the salvation of the world, He must be acclaimed and welcomed, even by stones, if human voices will not acclaim Him.

“The reason why Jesus chose to enter the city on a donkey was to fulfil the prophecy of Zecariah who foretold that the Savior would come riding upon a donkey, the symbol of humility because poor people used donkeys, and the symbol of peace, since donkeys are no good in battle, being as slow, small, and unresponsive to human command as they are.  So the Savior—poor, humble, and a man of peace, comes to this Holy City, accepts the Messianic titles of the Crowds and prepares for His death in less than a week.  The people gave Our Lord the red-carpet treatment by strewing branches of trees and even articles of their clothing in the streets before Him.  And so do we celebrate Palm Sunday by way of welcoming our Savior into our lives, coming as He is to accomplish our salvation.

“Thank you for seeking God’s truth.  God bless you. Father Victor Brown, O.P.

“Note:  Father Brown composed this message some years ago. Please pray for the souls of the faithful departed, including Father Brown”.

No Pope, no closed churches, no braying donkeys, not even a pandemic can ever change what Palm Sunday and Holy Week lead to.  Easter Sunday and its forever message: “He is risen!”

Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Cliff Kincaid —— Bio and Archives—April 4, 2020

When FDR waged World War II, he could mobilize the entire country. President Trump faces an assortment of enemies, here and abroad. These include China, source of the virus; Russia, which is driving American oil producers out of business through overproduction of cheap oil; a toxic anti-American media culture; and a Democratic Party that wants to undermine Trump through investigations and make him (and the country) fail.

Another factor is that FDR could mobilize American industrial power. We are now learning that much of that power was outsourced to China. It is sad and tragic that the once-great United States made decisions over the course of the last 40 years that facilitated the build-up of China into an industrial and economic superpower. Henry Kissinger began the policy of appeasing China and it was implemented through its ascension to the World Trade Organization. China became a Frankenstein monster devouring the world.

China virus was revenge for Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods

Coming into office, Trump recognized this problem and sought through various policies to rectify the situation. As I see it, the China virus was revenge for Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods. Otherwise, China and its handmaidens in the World Health Organization would have quickly alerted the world to the nature of this beast. They lied and Americans died.

Although opinions differ, the consensus of the various medical experts is that this is a highly contagious disease, with symptoms in severe cases much worse than the flu, lung damage worse than the flu, and a death rate overall that may be much worse than seasonal flu.

President Trump had no alternative but to defer to these authorities. But he has to suspect, based on its contagious and deadly nature, that the virus may have been engineered. China has a bioweapons program that has been documented by such authorities as former Soviet scientist Ken Alibek and analyst Eric Croddy. Nobody with a serious mind assumes it was just a coincidence that the virus came out of a region with a Chinese lab conducting secret research.

Our enemies seem to have us where they want us – our people are dying and the economy is collapsing. China is betting that it will come out on top of the world. Then, the old Sino/Soviet split will be exposed as another great deception. Russia will dominate the oil markets and have Europe under its control.

In the middle of all of this, President Trump is attempting to rally the nation. He is stuck with a medical bureaucracy that relied on China for misinformation about the virus and a media that plays gotcha at daily press briefings. He understands the gravity of the situation but is obviously limited by what he can say publicly about the threat. As I argued in a recent column, the invisible enemy has a name.

Difficult path of safeguarding America’s survival

To his credit, Trump has broken with the “experts” to facilitate public access to various alternative drugs and treatments. This could be the development that helps America turn the corner in the weeks ahead.

While FDR could rally the nation into war production for the United States military, which was deployed abroad, today’s threat is so great that the military is being diverted into domestic uses and purposes. America’s military and National Guard are building hospitals and taking care of patients. Meanwhile, Navy ships are being infected with the virus and the Pentagon is warning that the spread of the virus could affect U.S. military readiness and our ability to deter our enemies from further strikes.

This is yet another problem that Trump has to take into account as he navigates the difficult path of safeguarding America’s survival.

At the same time, the globalists opposed to his election and candidacy are continuing the drumbeat of opposing the only way—through America-first policies – that we have of escaping the morass we found ourselves in.

Consider that the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) journal Foreign Affairs has published another anti-Trump article, “‘America First’ Is a Dangerous Fantasy in a Pandemic: Foreign Aid and Global Leadership Will Be Integral to Any Solution,” which endorses the same mistakes that got us into this mess in the first place. The article is by former Obama official Philip H. Gordon.

China is directly implicated in the genocide

The use of a CFR publication to attack Trump is not unexpected. This is the organization that boasted Soviet spy Alger Hiss, a founder of the United Nations, as a prominent member.

This article ignores China’s lies, as well as the fact that the World Health Organization told the world on January 14 that the virus could not be transmitted between people. On January 21, relying on Chinese and WHO’s data, Dr. Anthony Fauci told TV host Greg Kelly that “this is not a major threat for the people of the United States. And this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.” Dr. Deborah Birx admits China gave the U.S. “incomplete data” about the virus. That’s a polite way of saying the Red Chinese lied so Americans died.

In the face of this mass murder, socialist U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres demands a “global cease fire,” adding, “The virus does not care about nationality or ethnicity, faction or faith. It attacks all, relentlessly.” But China is directly implicated in the genocide.

Former Obama officials are ignoring the role of China in this worldwide meltdown for an obvious reason: Barack Hussein Obama was an acolyte of global Marxism and actually met with Chinese dictator Xi in November 2017 during a meeting described by the British Guardian as a chat between two “veteran cadres.” They were “all smiles.”

A Russian media organ took note as well, saying the term “veteran cadres” is “generally used to refer to retired Chinese Communist Party officials.” It was a tip-off that Obama was serving the communist cause all the time he was serving as president of the United States.

It’s the case we were making in our three books on Obama, including Red Star Rising: The Making of Barack Hussein Obama and the Transformation of America.

Trump is facing a difficult fight that is made worse by the actions of publicity-seeking governors who complain about delivery of supplies while closing churches and keeping abortion clinics, liquor stores, and pot shops open.

The only thing worse is the conduct of certain reporters at the daily press briefings, as they attempt to bring down a president trying hard to save lives.

Whatever executive orders may remain in place, the people of the various states are not going to wait long to return in numbers to the closed churches, even risking their lives in a desperate attempt to appeal to God to save their nation. Many Americans are praying now more than ever. They are praying for their president.