Sunday of All Saints

(Commemorated on the first Sunday after the Feast of Holy Pentecost)

The first Sunday after the Feast of Holy Pentecost is observed by the Orthodox Church as the Sunday of All Saints. This day has been designated as a commemoration of all of the Saints, all the Righteous, the Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Shepherds, Teachers, and Holy Monastics, both men and women alike, known and unknown, who have been added to the choirs of the Saints and shall be added, from the time of Adam until the end of the world, who have been perfected in piety and have glorified God by their holy lives.

Background

9/11 Emergency Dispatch Radio - 'The Exploding Mural Van' Source Audio

The site seems to have gone down in 2009...

With the help of the Wayback Machine... I was able to resurrect the site shown in the image above.

It was a website for the 'North Brunswick Volunteer Fire/Ladder Company #3'...

It had contained links to recordings of emergency dispatch radio transmissions from September 11th, 2001. I never expected the audio files would still be downloadable, since the site itself was no longer in existence... but surprisingly the links yet worked so I'm going to make them available here now.

AFP Headline: 'Holocaust Hoax Exposed!'

Why would anyone ever perpetrate and perpetuate a hoax regarding a burnt offering; AKA a sacrifice, as to God?

Now that's quite a headline!

A Dose of Reality From a Palestinian Christian

Palestinian believers light candles in the Church of Nativity, Palestinian town of Bethlehem

A Palestinian Christian Response to Michael Oren

By Faysal Hijazeen

As the parish priest of Ramallah, an op-ed by Israel's envoy to the US gave me pause for thought. Michael Oren's article spoke volumes of Israel's unending misrepresentation of Palestinian daily life.

The presence of our 13 Latin Patriarchate Schools throughout the West Bank and Gaza, for over 150 years, is a living witness to the coexistence of Palestinian Christians and Muslims.

We have never faced in our schools or society the supposed persecution of Christians by Muslims to which Mr Oren referred in "Israel and the Plight of Mideast Christians," published Friday in the Wall Street Journal.

Contrary to Oren’s statements, the persecution of Christians here is caused mainly by the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory. This occupation humiliates us, destroys our economy, causes demographic changes and deprives millions of the freedom of movement and their right to decent lives, in addition to the confiscation of land.

These are the main ways Christians are persecuted in Palestine.

On the Parable of the Prodigal Son

St. Cyril of Alexandria ca. 376-444

I hear one of the holy prophets trying to win unto repentance those who are far from God, and saying, “Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God: for you have become weak in your iniquity. Take with you words, and return to the Lord our God.” What sort of words then did he, under the influence of the Spirit, command them to take with them? Or were they not such as become those who wish to repent; such namely, as would appease God, Who is gentle, and loves mercy. For He even said by one of the holy prophets, “Return you returning children, and I will heal your breaches.” And yet again by the voice of Ezekiel, “Return you altogether from your wickednesses, O house of Israel. Cast away from you all your iniquities which you have committed, that they be not to you for a punishment of iniquity. For I have no pleasure in the death of the sinner, as that he should turn from his evil way and live.” And the same truth Christ here also teaches us, by this most beautifully composed parable, which I will now to the best of my ability endeavour to discuss, briefly gathering up its broad statements, and explaining and defending the ideas which it contains.

Iranian She-Ninjas - Are You Scared Yet?!?

This is not a joke. This is from MSNBC (I messed with the graphics a bit in the first video but that was it).


Following President Obama's declaring the threat of Iran a National Emergency, the 'mainstream' media is running reports Iran is training thousand of female ninja assassins.

Palestinian Land Loss: 1946-2000

"How does a 'defensive' action result in the complete & total conquest of another people's homes & lands? The answer is that it does not. The Jews are the blatant aggressors. "

Albert Einstein on Antisemitism

From the book 'Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb' by David E. Rowe, Robert J. Schulmann - Princeton University Press, 2007, Pg. 306.

Christ is born! Glorify Him!