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RETURNING THE LOST SHEEP TO THE FOLD Exactly HOW does one get, assist, convince, entice the lost sheep to return to the fold? page 4
EXORCISM RITUALS We have completed the book on exorcisms, entitled Exorcism Orthodox and Roman Rituals,  edition date 29 April 2009 A.D. page 4
PRICE REDUCED ON ST. MARY MAGDALENE PROPERTY page 5
SEARCH FOR A NEW FACILITY EFFECTS ONGOING WORK AND PROJECTS page 5

DECEPTION A SIN AGAINST THE COMMAND TO NOT LIE And often a self-contradiction. Examples as practiced by government from proposed medical care to removal of inspectors tasked with preventing abuse,  page 6

HUMOR The Best Way To Pray A priest, a minister and a guru page 9

CHILDREN’S PAGE The Orthodox - Basilian Catechism Q. 1031. To receive the Sacrament of Matrimony worthily is it necessary to be in the state of grace? - Q. 1054. Do the Sacramentals of themselves remit venial sins? page 10 - 11

COMMENTS ON SOME INDICATORS OF OUR TIMES Vasectomy rates rise amid recession woes; Atheist sue to take God out of Obama inauguration; Lung cancer patients get blamed for their disease; Bea (Beatrice) Arthur; Have you noticed that there are more and more severe crimes, and an increase in the level of “weirdness” in crime?; Polish (sic) clash with Kent State students; The Department of Homeland Security under Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano considers veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to be security risks because they could be susceptible to being recruited by right-wingers a/k/a Republicans!; Enron, Ken Lay, Al Gore, and cap-and-trade carbon emissions as related to “global warming”; Peace deal with Taliban in doubt after roadblock; Text Box: Presbyterians defeat bid to allow gay ministers; The Flu; General David McKlernan replaced by Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan; Tuscon Citizen newspaper RIP page 12

PRODUCTS REQUEST FORM page 13

WHEN CATHOLICS ARE NOT CATHOLIC Does an Orthodox priest or bishop ever have the right or the duty to determine and to declare one who is believed to be a Roman Catholic, to not be Roman Catholic? There are certain situations wherein even in those Orthodox jurisdictions where it is not normally permitted, an Orthodox priest would give Holy Communion or another Sacrament to a Roman Catholic whom the priest knows is dogmatically correct and in spiritual good standing. page 17

THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTES BUT FIVE PER CENT OF THE WORLD POPULATION BUT USES TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT OF ITS ENERGY What has the U.S.A. done with this massive consumption of energy?  It has rebuilt Europe, fed and relieved the medical needs of  Europe and Russia through two world wars, page 18

THE ADVICE: FIRST YOU MUST FORGIVE YOURSELF Troubled individuals often are advised that they must first forgive themselves. So, Who died and made you god? And when did God die? page 18

AMOS CHAPTER 4 In our times might this not be a message to those who participate in the Corporate - Government Financial and Power Complex / Interchange? The Israelites are reproved for their oppressing the poor, for their idolatry, and their incorrigibleness. page 18

WHEN WE RECEIVE FROM GOD THAT WHICH WE PROPERLY REQUEST WE RECEIVE FROM THE BLESSED TRINITY And that provides us with a slight insight to there being but one God, yet three Divine Persons, yet also the  oneness Text Box: of God. Read carefully from Saint John: 14:13. Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in the Son. So, if you ask the Father in the name of Jesus, then Jesus will do it. 14:14. If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do. And if you ask Jesus in His own name, then He will do it. page 19

THE JOY WHICH NO MAN CAN TAKE FROM YOU We know that the quest to be, become, and once obtained, to remain, holy, is not only fraught with dangers, oppressions, attacks, ridicules, and other obstacles, but it also is simply difficult and hard. page 20

GOD’S WILL NOT OURS Funerals are for the Dead, not their survivors. God WILL enforce His requirements. A good example is the Priest who recently stated: a funeral is not for the deceased, it is for the support of the family page 23

GOD’S PRE-KINDERGARTEN FOR TWO YEAR OLDS We can obtain a good grasp of spiritual reality if we think of mankind as a bunch of two year olds attending pre kindergarten. page 24

THE TIME OF ITCHING EARS page 25

HUMOR TEMPERANCE A minister was completing a temperance sermon. page 25

EXORCISM OF THE POSSESSED - PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS continuation of the series page 25

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE BOOK NINE (Cont'd) CHAPTER IV page 27

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