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Medjugorje Day By Day Jan 26 - MAKE A COMMITMENT

Rosary written by Bishop

Fulton Sheen in 1953.

"The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of the world and open on the  substance of the next."

"God's Bread comes down from Heaven and gives life to the world" (Jn 6:33).

"The Church implores this divine Gift, the source of every other gift" (Art 17).  Share about the True Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist with children, teens, college and adult students by using appropriate means and materials in classes and inviting them to weekly Adoration.

Pope John Paul II -

In a private conversation with the visionary Mirjana Soldo the Pope said: "If I were not pope I would already be in Medjugorje confessing."(1987) http://www.medjugorje.org/pope.htm

Mother Teresa  -

We must love with Jesus' love and his spirit of sacrifice. God loved us by giving himself to us. We too must give ourselves to one another. Because of this, we must reject whatever would keep us from giving ourselves to one another.

2Meditations by Padre Pio - One must always go forward and never back in the spiritual life. When a boat stops, instead of going forward the wind blows it back.

0 Archbishop Fulton Sheen -

The heart steers our actions

"The heart is the mint wherein the coinage of human life is stamped; it is the anvil which forges habits and routines; it is the `stick' which pilots the plane of life. Sir Walter Scott once said to his son-in-law Lockhart: `We shall never learn to feel and respect our own calling and destiny, until we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.'"

2St. Faustina's diary  http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html  -

 As I was preparing for confession, I said to Jesus, hidden in the Blessed Sacrament, "Jesus, I beg You to speak to me through the mouth of this priest. And this will be a sign to me, because he does not know at all that You want me to establish that Congregation of Mercy. Let him say something to me about this mercy."

When I approached the confessional and started my confession, the priest interrupted me and started telling me about the great mercy of God, and he spoke more forcefully about it than I had ever heard anyone speak before. And he asked me, "Do you know that the mercy of the Lord is greater than all His works, that it is the crown of His works?" And I listened attentively to these words which the Lord was speaking through the mouth of the priest. Although I believe that it is always God who speaks through the lips of the priest in the confessional, I experienced it in a special way on that occasion.

Although I did not reveal anything of the divine life that is in my soul and only accused myself of my offenses, the priest himself told me very much of what was in my soul and put me under obligation to be faithful to the inspirations of God. He said to me, "You are going through life with the Mother of God, who faithfully responded to every divine inspiration." O my Jesus, who can ever comprehend Your goodness?       (637)

0MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY

These thoughts for a day are taken from a daily meditation book based on the Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje by Father Richard J. Beyer, Ave Maria Press.

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Jan 26 - MAKE A COMMITMENT

Today Our Lady asks for our commitment so that her plans in Medjugorje will succeed:

Dear children, I would like this to be a time of decision for you. Make a commitment to follow me, follow me! I wish to do so much, but I cannot do anything without you; your resolve is too weak.

So pray during this time, dear children. Only through prayer can you receive the strength of commitment that you need. I am here to help you, my children (Visionary Prayer Group August 19, 1988).

In Mark's gospel, Jesus also asks for a decision:

As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, "Follow me and I will make you fish for people." And immediately they left their nets and followed him (Mk 1 :16-18).

Reflection:

Discipleship, or commitment, is foundational to our Christian faith; both Mary in her messages and Jesus in the gospels, speak of the necessity of deciding completely for God.

And this decision, which we are asked to renew periodically in prayer, surfaces naturally from the grace of God in our hearts. "Happy are they", writes Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "who know that discipleship simply means the life that springs from grace, and that grace simply means discipleship."

Application:

In prayer today, ask Christ and the Blessed Mother to strengthen your commitment if following them with enthusiasm and courage.

AND FROM THE ERA OF PEACE WEB SITE (fair use 17 U.S.C. for those in the African Diaspora who would not be exposed to such):

US FDA Plans to Eliminate Many Vitamin Companies

"You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.  A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of ththe wicked.  Because you have made the LORD your refuge, the Most High your habitation, no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent.  For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways."   (cf. Psa 91:5-11)



We have published a number of pieces containing warnings and directives from Our Lord regarding the plagues to come, and how we should prepare for them.  Such plagues will include pandemics resulting from biological warfare, disease released intentionally (e.g. via chemtrails), disease released from melting glaciers, etc.

Our Lord has advised us to build up our immune system with Hawthorn herbs, vitamins and antioxidants in order to withstand these pandemics.  Further He has told us to store extra herbs, vitamins, antioxidants, food, water, fuel, clothing and other supplies and equipment for Hi to multiply during the forthcoming Tribulation.

Further, He has told us that evil men are making false excuses to remove vitamins and dietary supplements from the market.  Once free access to vitamins and dietary supplements by the population at large has been restricted and disease is prevalent, they will require all to receive the subdermal microchip in order to obtain both prescription drugs as well as vitamins and dietary supplements.

God will provide.  He always takes care of His Faithful.

The days of Elijah have arrived!

The words of Our Lord contained in the following writing should be re-read in conjunction with reading this writing:
 
Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Ending Soon
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/era-of-peace/message/302

John Leary (1)

March 30, 2007
Jesus said: "My people, your modern day medicine treats most of your sicknesses with shots and pills. Your medical profession is a big business and health costs are the fastest increasing expense in many of your budgets. Many give excuses that the high cost of research is why these expenses are increasing. What they are not telling you is that your medicines are overpriced and many of your diseases are man-made. These diseases give excuses for spending all the money on research as on AIDS and cancer. Many of these medicines may have some beneficial effect, but they are poisons to the body and are causing many side effects to your muscles and organs that could be worse than the disease. They keep you just well enough to keep you coming back for more expensive visits to the doctor and more drugs. Your immune systems are being compromised by your manipulated foods, pollution in the environment, chemtrails in the sky, and all of the pesticides and poisons in your water and on your foods. The profit on medicines and bad foods are driving your medical and food industries with little care for your health and less concern for proper nutrition and alternative medicines in herbs and vitamins. Pray that you will discern what is best for your body in all of what you eat."

April 21, 2005
Jesus said: "My people, the United Nations and many one world organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) are trying to flaunt their authority over all national laws. Many of your government leaders are giving up their authority to go along with all of these one world edicts. A current proposal is to put all of your herbs and vitamins under control of WHO and your FDA that would control these substances as drugs and raise their prices by ten to twenty times your current prices. This is just the beginning of how the one world order will control you."

End of messages

FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies

NewsTarget -- January 15, 2008 - The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with business and intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from the market. The FDA announcement came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under the guise of a final rule for dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (CGMPs). Within this 800 page rule the FDA states, "We find that this final rule will have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities --- Establishments with above average costs, and even establishments with average costs, could be hard pressed to continue to operate. Some of these may decide it is too costly and either change product lines or go out of business--- 140 very small [less than 20 employees] and 32 small dietary supplement manufacturers [less than 500 employees] will be at risk of going out of business ---  costs per establishment are proportionally higher for very small than for large establishments --- The regulatory costs of this final rule will also discourage new small businesses from entering the industry."

This FDA rule will directly raise the price of dietary supplements for all consumers. The FDA acknowledges this and says "We expect that the majority of these costs will be borne by consumers of dietary supplements, who will likely respond to the increase in prices by reducing consumption." Thus, the FDA is intentionally seeking to shrink the size of the dietary supplement industry and reduce the influence of safe and effective options to improve the dreadful trend in the health of Americans. The goal is to leave toxic drugs as the primary health option.

Independent analysis of this FDA rule has placed cost of compliance at 10 fold what the FDA estimates with as many as 50% of small companies unable to comply.

The gutless cowards of Congress, a majority of whom are on the Big Pharma payroll or will be on it once they leave Congress, have delegated their lawmaking powers granted by the U.S. Constitution to a bunch of Big Pharma-friendly unelected bureaucrats at the FDA, who are in turn using this power to undermine free commerce and help Big Pharma eliminate competition from the market. This is the behavior of a government in tyranny, inviting a revolution by the people. It is noteworthy that fascist governments of the past have eliminated health freedom and health options as a necessary condition to enslave and brainwash a population. Congress has delegated its responsibility to the people to such an extent that over half the laws in this country are now concocted by unelected bureaucrats with vested interests.

A Vehicle for Unprecedented Harassment

Any company that can afford to comply with the costs and regulations of this new FDA rule can be targeted and eliminated at will by the FDA. In essence, the FDA is seeking to make the dietary supplement industry document every phase of production, including expensive testing at multiple points in the production process. Massive record keeping will be required, including all customer complaints and returns for any reason! This is utterly draconian and an unnecessary interference and burden to free commerce. It is completely Anti-American.

No doubt, the FDA will impose user fees as an additional charge so that FDA agents will have the funding required to enforce the regulations. Under the new rule any flaw in bookkeeping can result in a company's products being declared adulterated, allowing the FDA to remove them from the market even though nothing is wrong with them! A company can then be forced out of business because they won't be able to sell any products to raise the money to comply. The rules are so complex and vague that the FDA can selectively target any company it chooses, even those attempting to comply in good faith.

The FDA is doing this under the pretense of improved consumer safety.  Consumer safety could readily be guaranteed by simply having all companies test their final products for purity and potency. Instead of this simple approach the FDA has gone to the extreme of burdening the dietary supplement industry with regulations in excess of the drug industry. Supplements are foods, not drugs. The food industry couldn't begin to comply with these FDA rules, even though food contamination is far more dangerous to health than dietary supplements.

The FDA intends to phase this rule in over the next three years. This means that within five years half the industry and many of the health options individuals rely on will either be gone or significantly more expensive.

Even more chilling is that forces within the dietary supplement industry itself are in no small part responsible for this FDA final rule.

Trade Groups and their Big Companies Turn on America

The Natural Products Association (formerly the National Nutritional Food Association - NNFA) and the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have been instrumental in forcing these drug-like rules on dietary supplements. These globalist organizations are selling out America, destroying American jobs, undermining the U.S. Constitution, and working in conjunction with pharmaceutical companies to usher in Codex and the New World Order. Consumers of dietary supplements should learn who these companies are before buying their products and helping to inadvertently fund the destruction of health freedom in this country.

When DSHEA was passed in 1994 part of that law required the FDA to establish current good manufacturing practices (CGMPs) for the dietary supplement industry. During a period of FDA outreach to the industry the FDA was surprised to learn that CRN and NPA were in favor of drug-like CGMPs for the dietary supplement industry. These trade groups, working closely with Senators Orin Hatch (R-UT) and Tom Harkin (D-IA), have intentionally taken the supplement industry down a slippery slope. It is noteworthy that Hatch takes in more money from Big Pharma than he does from dietary supplement companies. Not only is Hatch a big supporter of the Medicare Part D drug rip off of Americans he has saved Big Pharma billions by protecting them from generic competition, as he is currently attempting to do with his legislation for new biologic drugs. Hatch also has a son working for NPA and another son that lobbies for NPA and the dietary supplement industry. When Hatch leaves the Senate he will be first in line for a six or seven figure Big Pharma salary.

The CRN has been taken over by multinational drug and food companies. Key players are the nutritional divisions of Bayer, BASF, Cargill, Monsanto, Wyeth, and Archer Daniels Midland.  Nutrition companies that participate are in most cases owned by pharmaceutical companies, heavily invested in pharmaceutical companies, or jockeying for position in the international market as part of the New World Order. Key names include Mannatech, Shacklee, Herbalife, GNLD International, The Vitamin Shoppe, and GNC. These companies are glad to eliminate competition from small companies and start up ventures.

Carrying on the general theme of Big Pharma ownership and a globalist agenda are the companies that control the NPA. One need only look at the new NPA China board to understand who these key players are. Jarrow Formulas, Now Foods, GNC, and Herbalife top the list. At the end of 2006 Jarrow and Now helped lead the charge with Senators Hatch and Harkin to burden the dietary supplement industry with bizarre Adverse Event Reporting legislation (AER) which insisted that dietary supplement companies keep extensive records on any type of consumer complaint. Aspects of this AER law are now implemented in the FDA final rule on CGMPs. Of course, NPA was quick to offer expensive training to its members to indoctrinate them into how to comply with the rules that NPA, working on behalf of the FDA, just forced on its own members. Are their member companies really this stupid? Or are they all working together? I would recommend that any NPA member that believes itself to be a true American company that values our constitution immediately withdraw from NPA membership - consumers will be looking to see who you are.

The picture is now crystal clear for any person who cares to look. Numerous dietary supplement companies are anti-American and actively selling out our country and our constitution, working hand-in-glove with the FDA and Big Pharma. The majority of such companies can be found as members of CRN and NPA. It will be up to the American consumer to save the dietary industry from itself and preserve their own access to safe and effective natural health remedies. This is a relatively simple task. Quit buying products from or quit being a distributor in these fascist organizations. Support the small companies that are the backbone of America, otherwise they will soon be extinct.

Update on S.1082 Threat to Dietary Supplements

Many of you have been following the extreme threat to dietary supplements posed by S.1082. Similar legislation has now cleared the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is headed for the floor of the House in the next week or two. The House version of this bill now contains the "food and food ingredients" language that the FDA can use to apply drug-related risk/benefit analysis to dietary supplements and have them removed from the market at their whim.

It is noteworthy that both CRN and NPA have posted on their websites information stating that S.1082 is not a threat to dietary supplements. Both organizations are flat out wrong. They cite a colloquy by Hatch, Harkin, Kennedy, and Enzi as their evidence. This colloquy was a direct result of our grassroots campaign to alert the American consumer to this major threat. In no way does this colloquy protect dietary supplements. Until the language in the bill is changed the threat exists and is very real. CRN and NPA also tell their members that the Codex initiative to scare consumers into thinking that dietary supplements are unsafe above minuscule amounts and need to be regulated by international laws is also no big deal. It is clear that CRN and NPA, again working hand-in-glove with the FDA, are a major part of the problem and are actively engaged in forwarding the globalist agenda of the New World Order. While pretending to represent the dietary supplement industry these organizations are in fact shooting the industry in the back and undermining health options for Americans.

The FDA is Out of Control

The FDA is a tyrannical organization that is now emboldened and completely out of control. It is not surprising that the FDA is seeking to eliminate competition to Big Pharma, they have been doing that for much of the past century. What is surprising is that they are openly stating in their final rule a plan that directly eliminates small businesses from existence. This fascist organization believes itself to be above the rule of law and is actively working against America and the rights of Americans. It must be stopped.

Source (published with permission):
www.newstarget.com/022499.html

Related Information is Provided at the Following Links:

Video:  CODEX and 'Nutricide'
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&hl=en


Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"
www.newstarget.com/021789.html


Food supplements targeted by trilateral deal
Mexico put in charge as U.S., Canada agree to follow
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55028


CAFTA and Dietary Supplements
www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst071805.htm


U.S. under U.N. law in health emergency
Bush's SPP power grab sets stage for military to manage flu threats
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57369

Footnotes

(1)   The visions and messages of John Leary have yet-to-be-approved by the Church.
www.johnleary.com

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#342......Heavenly Warnings Reiterated - The Times Are Upon Us
#333......The Plagues Will Now Begin
#358..... Chemtrails: Smoke Signals of the End Times
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#361...... China Is Flooding the American Market with Poisoned Products
#363..... Read All Labels for Poison Content--Purchase Nothing From China
#222......Tomkiel - Crops & Foods Poisoned - How to Purify
#150.......Tomkiel - Water Poisoned, How to Purify
#351........Pray and Bless in Jesus' Name Everything That is Used or Ingested
#293.......Be Prepared, Not Frightened
#297.......Additional Messages of Preparation I
#298......Additional Messages of Preparation II
#299......Additional Messages of Preparation III
#304......Additional Messages of Preparation IV
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#228......Tomkiel - Wash, Cook, Bless & Sterilize
#236......Tomkiel - Additional Tribulation Preparations
#281.......Beware of Imports & Synthetics
#318.......Beware of Household Chemicals
#291.......Everything is Tainted
#360......Disease Tainted Rubber Sandals & Exploding Free Samples
#334......Lung Cancer Epidemic From Depleted Uranium Has Begun
#287......Avoid Crowds & Strangers - Answer No Questions
#225......Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
#179.......Holy Mass Appeases Divine Justice - Fr. Arnoudt
#226......St. Joseph: A Saint For the End Times
#205......Tomkiel - Prayer For Safety
#180.......Lead A Life of Confident Hope - Fr. Arnoudt
#157........Fr. Doucette - Period of Chastisement Has Arrived
#167.......Tomkiel: Plagues, Pestilences & Persecution
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