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u  are being very “humanitarian”! One will say, for ex-  good thing, for the good of the people. We must be
        ample, that the United Nations Organization (UN) is in   very careful of these coalitions. Each one of us, in
        the Congo to save the people, to prevent the war!But,   one way or another, is guilty. Look at our cell phones,
        my God, the truth is that millions of dollars are piled   our computers: we carry the blood of the victims of
        up in  debt  towards the  people  of the  Congo  just to   the war in the Congo (DRC). We carry the blood of all
        keep the UNO in the Congo! And yet, when people      those women who were violated and died. We carry
        fight, the soldiers of the UNO do not even intervene,   the blood of all those who later die because of AIDS.
        they do nothing to prevent the fighting. These same   All this because of coltan, that source of tantalum used
        soldiers accept that other soldiers abuse the Congo-  in electronic devices such as cell phones and laptop
        lese population in the cruelest ways. Raping women is   computers. This is the true reason for the war in Con-
        already serious enough, it is inadmissible, intolerable;   go, so that they can continue to exploit the people of
        but worse than that, is that soldiers who are afflicted   Congo, continue to balkanize the people, weakening
        with the AIDS virus, are sent out on a “mission” to sys-  them until they are no longer able to exist as a State.
        tematically rape the most women possible: therefore,     My dear brothers and sisters, we will ask our Lord
        attacking the very future of these people.           to helps us, and that Social Credit will triumph. But
            You can see with what cynicism they claim to do   even  there,  we  must  be  very  careful:  Social  Credit
        good,  yet,  this  is not  true,  this  is false  charity!  This   is not a magic potion, it is not a miracle drug; Social
        is pharisaic, it is to be an agent of death; they are all   Credit needs  to be applied  by man.  Therefore,  this
        agents of death…                                     man who applies it, must apply it in truth. If it is not
            We too though, are Pharisees of modern times, we   done in truth, then it could even make things worse.
        each have a Pharisee that sleeps within us. In each one   We will pray for the Pilgrims of St. Michael; that the
        of us there is also a goldsmith (in reference to the text   Lord will give them the strength and courage to con-
        of Louis Even that explains how the goldsmith became   tinue their battle, that they may become invaluable
        a banker). We need to look more closely at ourselves,   instruments, the spearheads used by the Church, for
        at the actions we perform, being sure that they are ac-  justice, for truth, for love.
        tions performed in truth. That the actions are truly per-  We will pray for all those who are victims of the
        formed in charity, and not with selfish motives.     bankers, as much here  in Occident,  as in our own
            When we do look more closely at ourselves, each   country Africa.
        one of us, we see that we are not far from being Phari-  We will pray for our children who will be receiv-
        sees. After all, the Pharisees, the large financial ones,   ing  the  Sacrament  of  Confirmation  today.  That  this
        the bankers, do not act alone, they act with us. They   sacrament may confirm them as Christians. That they
        act with the collusion of the politicians, with the col-  may continue to be educated in a Christian environ-
        lusion even of those uninformed people who accept    ment enabling them to develop to their full potential
        that his/her children engage in wars, believing it is a   as Christians, so that later they may be true soldiers of
                                                             justice, true soldiers of the advent of the reign of God
        Procession with the Blessed Sacrament in the streets of Rougemont after the Sunday Mass, Sept. 2, 2012.
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