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O God Beyond All Praising submitted by Irene Ortiz

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O God beyond all praising, We worship you today And sing the love amazing That songs cannot repay; For we can only wonder At every gift you send, At blessings without number And mercies without end: We lift our hearts before you And wait upon your word, We honor and adore you, Our great and mighty Lord. The flower of earthly splendor In time must surely die, Its fragile bloom surrender To you, the Lord most high; But hidden from all nature Th'eternal seed is sown-- Though small in mortal stature, To heaven's garden grown: For Christ the man from heaven From death has set us free, And we through him are given The final victory! Then hear, O gracious Savior, Accept the love we bring, That we who know your favor May serve you as our king; And whether our tomorrows Be filled with good or ill, We'II triumph through our sorrows And rise to bless you still: To marvel at your beauty And glory in your ways, And make a joyful duty Our sacrif

Tick-tock lockdown by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

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  Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock goes the old-fashioned clock on the wall   When will the next lockdown come down no one knows for sure   But as sure as the nose on your face it will come knocking on your door   Lock the door and shut it tight, day and night   Let no one see you, let no one hear you   Let no one smell you, let no one touch you   Let no one greet you with a smile because their face is covered with a mask   Let no one greet you with a handshake or a hug because of microbes that might be spread and cause so much sickness and so much death   Each one of us has our own inner clock that started ticking at our conception and will stop ticking at our death   It has been decreed that you must fear death   Life is so precious that it must be lived in dread   Life is worth living if only living is worth it   A life of fear is a life that is not dear, oh dear   So hear the clock ticking, day-in and day-out  

Being Second Place is a Choice by Gene Chapman

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Who could deny communist China plans to dominate the world militarily and economically, replacing America.  The world doesn’t want that domination, understanding its cruelty,   looking to America for leadership.  Trump jawboned the European Union (E.U.) into paying military dues agreed upon, rebuilding NATO’s deterrence against communist domination.  He formed alliances with the E.U., India, Japan, Australia and many other allies, using mutually advantaged trade deals to better resist the brutal yoke of Communism.  Early on, he successfully persuaded these allies to avoid cheaper China computer technology from Huawei.  Being State owned, they installed a back door capacity to steal technology, using it against the free world.  Trump’s first budgets spent billions rebuilding our depleted military, ignored with peanuts for eight years of the Obama Administration.  Anna was appointed a Commissioner with Texas Military Preparedness, with millions of budgeted State funds, to more fully pres

Mother Teresa’s Emergency Novena submitted by Irene Ortiz

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Mother Teresa’s Emergency Novena (also called the Flying Novena or Express Novena).    Mother Teresa was flooded with prayer requests, and she had many intentions that she wanted to send up quickly to Our Lady. Her solution? Pray a novena of Memorares. Mother Teresa would pray nine Memorares in a row — and then she immediately added a tenth in thanksgiving for graces received.    And if your suffering is so intense and overwhelming that even the Emergency Novena is too much for you to say, here is an even smaller prayer from Mother Teresa: “ Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now. ”    St. Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us!    Memorare    Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.  Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother o

Authenticity is appreciated by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

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Love him or hate him, one thing everyone can say about Donald J. Trump, he is who he is. The world is filled with so much “phoniness”; fake this and that, fakeness all-around, make-up this and make-this-up, filtering photos and stories that generate the most “clicks”, we can’t escape it. And then there’s Trump. The media who is the epitome of “fake” hates the truth and truth-tellers. They hate him because he exposes them for what they are: liars. They live in a make-believe world that they want us to believe in also. They hate him because he doesn’t bow-down to them. They slice and splice news-clips to fit their narrative and present us with neatly packaged sound bites that resoundingly bite us, giving us rabies or leaving us to hemorrhage from our wounds. They have all the power and they are in control. They sit in their studio control-rooms and force-feed us pabulum and then they have the audacity to tell us it is for our own good because we can’t handle the truth. If they think we a

Val Verde County Republican Party Update by Francisco Lopez Jr., Chairman Val Verde County Republican Party

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  The Border Crisis Symposium - Thursday, April 1, 2021, 6:30 p.m., Ramada Inn, Del Rio, Texas is garnering statewide attention.  I contacted Senator Cruz’ office to see if he can call in as a morale booster! I have a tentative “yes” from the Party to bring candidate training to Val Verde!!!!!!   More info to come soon.  Also, I asked for Senator Cruz to come to Val Verde. The response was that he wants to visit our border community! More info to come! 

Rally to Reinstate Father Clay Hunt Update by Ian Hernandez, San Antonio SA Resistance – Church Militant

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  The rally will be in front of the Chancery at  2718 West Woodlawn Dr., San Antonio, TX. It will be on Wednesday, March 31 from 3 to 5 PM, and we will have his sister, (the woman who has been championing his cause from the beginning) there speaking.

Liberals Child Porn, but No Trump Tweets by Gene Chapman

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  There are many endeavors, worthy of adulation, but what does unprincipled societies first seek?   Instant gratification, sparkling Cadillacs, $150 Air Jordan sneakers, actually superficial equality in hatred.   But not principled economic disciplines, lifting the willing masses out of poverty, with sweaty hard work and ideas, creating honest wealth, producing inequality on merits. While serious humanity develops blood test detecting cancer, or go to Mars, creating greater futures, others only demand to be first in line.   Growing up in the humble cotton patches of humility, I eventually observed that pushy liberals demand equality without picking the cotton of success.   They use loud demanding emotions, heart breaking crying children, blaming it all on heartless Trump.   But when the crying children are purposely separated immigrant children, packed into Covid-19 contaminated insufficient housing by liberals, it’s OK.   They don’t allow the media to see it, because one could be a

The idolatry of man-made, made-up science by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

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The radical left is intent on having us all only believe in their science and only follow their science, when we are called to only believe in God and God’s science and to only follow God and God’s science. We do not believe in their science and we do not follow their science. The science they want us to believe in is a man-made, made-up science and the science they want us to follow is a man-made, made-up science. Definitions from Medical Dictionary: “Sex: The structural and functional characteristics of a person or organism that allow assignment as either male or female; sex is determined by chromosomes, hormones and external and internal genitalia.” “Fertilization: In human reproduction, the process by which the male’s sperm unites with the female’s ovum, creating a new life.” Genesis 5:2 states, “He created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and named them humankind.” God’s science says there are only two sexes, male and female He created them

A prayer for peace By Pope Saint John Paul II submitted by Irene Ortiz

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  Hear my voice, for it is the voice of the victims of all wars and violence among individuals and nations. Hear my voice, for it is the voice of all children who suffer and will suffer when people put their faith in weapons and war. Hear my voice when I beg You to install into the hearts of all human beings the wisdom of peace, the strength of justice, and the joy of fellowship. Hear my voice, for I speak for the multitudes in every country and in every period of history who do not want war and are ready to walk the road of peace. Hear my voice and grant insight and strength so that we may always respond to hatred with love, to injustice with total dedication to justice, to need with the sharing of self, to war with peace. O God, hear my voice and grant unto the world Your everlasting peace. Amen.

Demons delight in Catholic-in-name only Democrats by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

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  Commander-in-Chief of Hell speaks to his Second-in-Command, “I see how well you have done your job. I am so proud of you,” as he points to all the Catholics-in-name-only in the Biden Administration. “You have them doing our work for us so well.” Second-in-Command responds, “Thank you for your praise. I live to do your will.” Commander continues, “You are so diabolically clever.” Second quickly interjects, “I learned it all from you.” “How did you ever think of putting Biden as President of the United States, he is the most duplicitous Catholic politician there is. He just says and does Catholic things, but it’s all only for show-and-tell.” Second replies, “It was easy, I made the Americans hate their Former President so much that they just wanted a nice, sweet-sounding, normal-looking, old grandfatherly type of man, even though their Former President had enacted so many pro-life policies. The American people loved it when Biden was shown on the news going to Sunday Mass, ta

My Gift to the Christ Child submitted by Irene Ortiz

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My Gift to the Christ Child Lord Jesus, I give you my hands    to do your work, I give you my feet    to go your way. I give you my eyes    to see as you see. I give you my ears    to hear as your hear. I give you my tongue    to speak as you speak. I give you my heart    that you may love in me your Father and all mankind.    I give you my spirit    that it may be you who    prays in me. I give you my whole self,    Lord, Jesus that it may be You who grows, works, loves    and prays in me. Amen.  

Why Am I so illiterate? by Gene Chapman

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  As County chairman, I ran many Primary elections, and thought I had a basic knowledge concerning the political process.  But I obviously knew nothing at all.  Obama had 69 million votes in 2012 and won, Trump had near 75 million in 2020, but Biden had 81 million campaigning from his basement.  Obama won 873 counties and won, Trump won 2,497 Counties and lost to Biden, who won 477 Counties.  Obama won 18 out of 19 Bellwether Counties, Trump won 18 of 19 also in 2020, but Biden won 1 out of 19 and is president.   Obama won Florida, Ohio, and Iowa, so did Trump in 2020, but Biden lost Florida, Ohio, and Iowa and is president.  Obama’s party won House seats in 2012, Trump’s party won 15 House Democrat seats in 2020, and Biden lost 15 Democrat seats, and is president.  That doesn’t make sense to me, but I avoided advanced Algebra with every fiber in my body!  I could count up to five of the leading fox hounds in a roiling fox race, so why bother with all that Albert Einstein stuff. I