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More Historic Happenings
March 11
0222 - Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18
0417 - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome
0537 - Goths lay siege to Rome
0843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia, Constantinople
1513 - Giovanni de' Medici becomes Pope Leo X
1665 - New York's English Deputies approved a new legal code, which guaranteed
all Protestants the right to practice their religious observances unhindered.
(There were currently a host of Protestant groups thriving within this, now,
English colony, acquired only seven months earlier from the Dutch.)
1738 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal:
'Suffering times are a Christian's best improving times;
for they break the will, wean us from the creature, prove the heart.'
1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1985 - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
March 12
0417 - Innocent I dies - Catholic Pope (401-417). Established the 'primacy
of the Pope'
0604 - Gregory I dies - Catholic Pope (590-604). First Pope to grant indulgences
and pardons. Enforced celibacy of priests yet wrote numerous books covering
all manner of sexual behavior.
1000 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 - Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus
II
1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria
1507 - Cesare Borgia cardinal/soldier/politician and son of Rodrigo Borgia
(Pope Alexander VI) killed
1622 - Gregory XV canonized Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits; Philip
Neri, Italian co-founder of a medical religious order; Teresa of Avila, a
Spanish Carmelite nun; and Francis Xavier, the Jesuit "Apostle of Eastern
Asia."
1664 - 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies. This was the Pope who
is still chastized for not doing more to help the Jews during WWII.
1950 - Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1945 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
March 13
0483 - Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope (he was grandfather to
Pope Gregory I)
1569 - Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for Catholic clergyman John Harvard
1656 - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1868 - Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1925 - Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signed legislation prohibiting the
teaching of evolution within the state's public school system. (A celebrated
violation of this law led to the famous July Scopes Monkey Trial.)
1981 - Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
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3-11: Terror in Spain
On Thursday, Madrid, Spain experienced a series of 13 simultaneous bomb attacks
on crowded commuter trains arriving at 3 separate railway stations. Terror
now adds 3-11 to the dates of 'terror' attacks. Move over America's 9-11
... Europe's 3-11 is here. Anyone notice the occultic number patterns in
the attack? The terrible attack has left more than 190 dead, and some 1200
injured in Europe's worst ever terrorist atrocity. The terrorist attacks
prompted the European Parliament to declare March 11th as European Day of
Victims of Terrorism. Pat Cox, (Ireland) president of the European Parliament,
said: "There will be no refuge at all in the European Union for any terrorists.
No more bombs, no more dead. Among all of us, we will put an end to terrorists."
ETA was suspected as the perpetrator but claims of Al Qaeda have appeared.
ETA is a leftist group (not Islamic/Muslim but actually calling themselves
'Christian') that uses terrorism in hopes of forming an independent Basque
state in parts of northern Spain and southwest France. ETA stands for Euskadi
ta Askatasuna, which means “Basque Fatherland and Liberty” in the Basque
language.
An Arabic newspaper said Thursday it had received a 5 page email with an
Al Qaeda claim of responsibility for the Madrid train bombings. It said the
Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri's 'death squad' had penetrated 'one of the pillars
of the crusade alliance, Spain,' and carried out what it called Operation
Death Trains. The claim also said that a major attack, "The Black Wind of
Death", against America was '90 percent ready'.
Madrid's Roman Catholic Bishops, including Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela,
expressed their "immense sadness and profound and uncontainable sorrow" over
this "tragedy that reaches dimensions of an unbelievable indiscriminate
violence." The church statement said: "The plague of the present world, also
of our Spain, is today terrorism." The Executive Committee of the Spanish
Episcopal conference said in a statement: "ETA is an intrinsically perverse
organization, whose roots are found in a type of totalitarian and idolatrous
nationalism."
A common enemy can unite peoples of different ideologies. As the Arabs say,
the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So the push against "terror", now is
also tied then to 'nationalism', and seems to continue to beckon people to
a new world order.
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Liberty Loss
In America, we are losing more liberties every year due to international
and domestic "terror" but this is not where our loss of liberty has its roots.
It is in our willing loss of morality and fear of God as a people - as a
country.
"A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow
the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While
the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their
virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external
or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people,
they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security." By:
Samuel Adams (1722-1803), known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams, ed., Harry Alonzo Cushing (G. P. Putman's
Sons, 190
, Vol. 4, p. 124.
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Satan's Be-attitudes
Author Unknown [contributed by Sam & Faye
Stamper]
If Satan were to write his Be-attitudes, they would probably go something
like this:
Blessed are those who are too tired, too distracted to spend at least an
hour once a week with their fellow Christians; they are my best workers.
Blessed are those Christians who wait to be asked and expected to be thanked;
I can use them.
Blessed are the touchy who stop going to church; they are my missionaries.
Blessed are the troublemakers; they shall be called my children.
Blessed are the complainers; I'm all ears to them.
Blessed are those who are bored with the teachers' mannerisms and mistakes,
for they get nothing out of the sermons.
Blessed is the church member who expects to be invited to his own church,
for he is a part of the problem instead of the solution.
Blessed are those who gossip, for they shall cause strife and divisions that
please me.
Blessed are those who are easily offended, for they will soon get angry and
quit.
Blessed are those who do not give their offering to carry on God's work,
for they are my helpers.
Blessed is he who professes to love God but hates his brother and sister,
for he is with me.
Blessed are you who, when you read this, think it is about other people and
not yourself; I've got you too!
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Sabbath Morning Companion
by Lenny Cacchio - [used by
permission]
Led Into the Wilderness
"Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness"
(Matthew 4:1).
Often when God is about to do a great work in someone, he first drives them
into the wilderness. We have the example of Jesus, who just before
the start of his earthly ministry, spent forty days and forty nights in a
desolate place. Abraham left the wealth of Ur of the Chaldees
to dwell in tents. Moses fled the courts of Egypt and herded sheep
in a scraggly land for forty years before leading Israel to freedom.
Israel sojourned in the wilderness for forty years before taking possession
of the promised land. David fled Saul and was holed up in the desert
before taking the throne of Israel. Elijah disappeared into the wilderness
for long stretches, and John the Baptist did the same. Even Paul spent three
years in Arabia before his ministry, where many believe he was instructed
personally by the risen Christ. (Gal. 1:17-1
The pattern is one that should encourage us. The wilderness spoken
of in scripture is often a dry, desolate place, and quite often in our lives
we can feel that we have been driven into our own spiritual dry places.
Trials come our way, and we naturally struggle trying to square our circumstances
with our concept of a loving, generous God. Maybe we struggle with
the pressures of life, or financial pressures not of our own making, or
depression, or family problems, or a job that seems more like a prison
term. Whatever it is, we all go through the dry places, and so often
we just can't see why.
I doubt that Moses knew God's purpose when he fled Egypt and lived in a
hardscrabble land, but God was preparing him for one of the landmark events
of history. If David's Psalms are any indication, David must have fought
terrible bouts of depression when fleeing from Saul. We know that Elijah
became so distraught that he wanted to die. Yet for all these men,
God had a great work for them to do, and their time in the wilderness was
nothing less than necessary training for the job God had for them.
If you feel like you are in the wilderness right now, take heart. God
knows what he is doing, and he just might be preparing you for greater things.
~ Lenny C.
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Prayer Requests
[The following email prayer request has been reformatted for
this publication]
Greetings from Walled Lake Michigan, Brenda Spencer, sister of Faye Stamper,
is scheduled to undergo surgery for a ballooning of an artery under her left
arm, This will entail removing all the foreign matter and excess waste blood.
At present, the size of the ballooning artery is the size of a large orange.
She will also have a micro valve installed to help correct the heart problem
which was caused by rheumatic fever as a child. At the present time, she
is waiting for a call from the hospital to inform her of the date for the
surgery.Your prayers for a succesful surgery and recovery is requested. Thank
you for your continued prayers on Brenda's behalf. - Sam and Faye Stamper
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