JB Hodl

Intriguing https://news.gab.com/2024/01/gabs-vision-for-2024-an-uncensored-ai-platform/

Happy and Blessed New Year friends! Happy Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. May she intercede for us and for all this new year. Monday 1 January 2024 Mary, the Holy Mother of God - Solemnity  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Mary, the Holy Mother of God From a letter of St Athanasius The Word took our nature from Mary The Word took to himself the sons of Abraham, says the Apostle, and so had to be like his brothers in all things. He had then to take a body like ours. This explains the fact of Mary’s presence: she is to provide him with a body of his own, to be offered for our sake. Scripture records her giving birth, and says: She wrapped him in swaddling clothes. Her breasts, which fed him, were called blessed. Sacrifice was offered because the child was her firstborn. Gabriel used careful and prudent language when he announced his birth. He did not speak of “what will be born in you” to avoid the impression that a body would be introduced into her womb from outside; he spoke of “what will be born from you,” so that we might know by faith that her child originated within her and from her. By taking our nature and offering it in sacrifice, the Word was to destroy it completely and then invest it with his own nature, and so prompt the Apostle to say: This corruptible body must put on incorruption; this mortal body must put on immortality. This was not done in outward show only, as some have imagined. This is not so. Our Saviour truly became man, and from this has followed the salvation of man as a whole. Our salvation is in no way fictitious, nor does it apply only to the body. The salvation of the whole man, that is, of soul and body, has really been achieved in the Word himself. What was born of Mary was therefore human by nature, in accordance with the inspired Scriptures, and the body of the Lord was a true body: It was a true body because it was the same as ours. Mary, you see, is our sister, for we are all born from Adam. The words of St John, the Word was made flesh, bear the same meaning, as we may see from a similar turn of phrase in St Paul: Christ was made a curse for our sake. Man’s body has acquired something great through its communion and union with the Word. From being mortal it has been made immortal; though it was a living body it has become a spiritual one; though it was made from the earth it has passed through the gates of heaven. Even when the Word takes a body from Mary, the Trinity remains a Trinity, with neither increase nor decrease. It is for ever perfect. In the Trinity we acknowledge one Godhead, and thus one God, the Father of the Word, is proclaimed in the Church.

This is so excellent. Brilliant woman. https://pca.st/episode/cc94d89f-db5f-4541-9031-9873261dbc92

Was listening to this. Pretty insane. Will finish later but got a bit freaky. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZcBHvjhGMTTdGF3fIdvg9?si=dcoBwOQtQm2JF0EMD5cvaw

Excellent BTC explanation. His book is great. https://pca.st/episode/add75ce6-da58-4468-87e5-7239923e07d4

Thursday 28 December 2023 The Holy Innocents, Martyrs - Feast  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: The Holy Innocents, Martyrs The Massacre of the Innocents (c.1585) by Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice. A sermon of St Quodvultdeus Even before they learn to speak, they proclaim Christ A tiny child is born, who is a great king. Wise men are led to him from afar. They come to adore one who lies in a manger and yet reigns in heaven and on earth. When they tell of one who is born a king, Herod is disturbed. To save his kingdom he resolves to kill him, though if he would have faith in the child, he himself would reign in peace in this life and for ever in the life to come. Why are you afraid, Herod, when you hear of the birth of a king? He does not come to drive you out, but to conquer the devil. But because you do not understand this you are disturbed and in a rage, and to destroy one child whom you seek, you show your cruelty in the death of so many children. You are not restrained by the love of weeping mothers or fathers mourning the deaths of their sons, nor by the cries and sobs of the children. You destroy those who are tiny in body because fear is destroying your heart. You imagine that if you accomplish your desire you can prolong your own life, though you are seeking to kill Life himself. Yet your throne is threatened by the source of grace, so small, yet so great, who is lying in the manger. He is using you, all unaware of it, to work out his own purposes freeing souls from captivity to the devil. He has taken up the sons of the enemy into the ranks of God’s adopted children. The children die for Christ, though they do not know it. The parents mourn for the death of martyrs. The child makes of those as yet unable to speak fit witnesses to himself. See the kind of kingdom that is his, coming as he did in order to be this kind of king. See how the deliverer is already working deliverance, the saviour already working salvation. But you, Herod, do not know this and are disturbed and furious. While you vent your fury against the child, you are already paying him homage, and do not know it. How great a gift of grace is here! To what merits of their own do the children owe this kind of victory? They cannot speak, yet they bear witness to Christ. They cannot use their limbs to engage in battle, yet already they bear off the palm of victory.

Next up on my reading list. Looking forward to it. Recommended by several people. Howard was also instrumental on my path to the Catholic Church with his Evangelical is Not Enough book.

Saint John the Apostle, pray for us.

St Stephen, the first martyr, pray for us!

This really is an excellent brief summary of Saylors orange pilling ideas! nostr:note1fnvpa9eh9539d37xccavrmasj86tay4njp8eulyfxgll52tf3haqrxh7jl

Merry Christmas everyone!! 🎄🎅🎁 There is so much to be thankful for! Big things and little things…God is good and the truth shines in the darkness.

The antiphons for Christmas are beautiful (from the Universalis app): Christmas is close!

Sunday 24 December 2023 4th Sunday of Advent  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 4th Sunday of Advent From a sermon by Saint Augustine Truth has arisen from the earth and justice has looked down from heaven Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell you again: for your sake, God became man. You would have suffered eternal death, had he not been born in time. Never would you have been freed from sinful flesh, had he not taken on himself the likeness of sinful flesh. You would have suffered everlasting unhappiness, had it not been for this mercy. You would never have returned to life, had he not shared your death. You would have been lost if he had not hastened to your aid. You would have perished, had he not come. Let us then joyfully celebrate the coming of our salvation and redemption. Let us celebrate the festive day on which he who is the great and eternal day came from the great and endless day of eternity into our own short day of time. He has become our justice, our sanctification, our redemption, so that, as it is written: Let him who glories glory in the Lord. Truth, then, has arisen from the earth: Christ who said, I am the Truth, was born of the Virgin. And justice looked down from heaven: because believing in this new-born child, man is justified not by himself but by God. Truth has arisen from the earth: because the Word was made flesh. And justice looked down from heaven: because every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. Truth has arisen from the earth: flesh from Mary. And justice looked down from heaven: for man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Justified by faith, let us be at peace with God: for justice and peace have embraced one another. Through our Lord Jesus Christ: for Truth has arisen from the earth. Through whom we have access to that grace in which we stand, and our boast is in our hope of God’s glory. He does not say: “of our glory,” but of God’s glory: for justice has not come out of us but has looked down from heaven. Therefore he who glories, let him glory, not in himself, but in the Lord. For this reason, when our Lord was born of the Virgin, the message of the angelic voices was: Glory to God in the highest, and peace to men of good will. For how could there be peace on earth unless Truth has arisen from the earth, that is, unless Christ were born of our flesh? And he is our peace who made the two into one: that we might be men of good will, sweetly linked by the bond of unity. Let us then rejoice in this grace, so that our glorying may bear witness to our good conscience by which we glory, not in ourselves, but in the Lord. That is why Scripture says: He is my glory, the one who lifts up my head. For what greater grace could God have made to dawn on us than to make his only Son become the son of man, so that a son of man might in his turn become son of God? Ask if this were merited; ask for its reason, for its justification, and see whether you will find any other answer but sheer grace.

Bills piling up here. Car needs new engine too. I have some BTC and gold, not enough of either. Gotta pay the bills. Bye bye gold. Easy decision. It would take a LOT to sell any of my BTC

I am not as familiar with the Bible as I should be. Typical Catholic? Sorry… I heard this reference on a recent podcast, to Revelations 6:5. It seems clear, in the end times food prices for the masses, among other things, will inflate to very high prices. While the “wine” for the elites will be fine. Just seemed…timely…and something I hadn't noticed. Thank God for bitcoin. https://www.bibleref.com/Revelation/6/Revelation-6-6.html

How did I miss this from JP - perfection!! https://youtu.be/eC21gC0Wjtg?si=mNcBZ5_jEhEaCv4T

This was excellent https://pca.st/episode/623cf780-25cf-43bd-9e7d-eba541f56960

Happy feast day of Our Lady Of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas