"It is the time of the harvest, and the reaper cuts into the ripe grain with wide strokes. Mourning takes up her abode in the country cottages, and there is no one to dry the tears of the mothers. Yet Hitler feeds those people whose most precious belongings he has stolen and whom he has driven to a meaningless death with lies.
Every word that comes from Hitler's mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan. His mouth is the foul maw of Hell, and his power is at bottom accursed. True, we must conduct a struggle against the Nazi terrorist state with rational means; but whoever today still doubts the reality, the existence of demonic powers, has failed by a wide margin to understand the metaphysical background of this war.
Behind the concrete, the visible events, behind all objective, logical considerations, we find the irrational element: The struggle against the demon, against the servants of the Antichrist.
Everywhere and always demonic powers lurk in the dark, waiting for the moment when man is weak; when of his own volition he leaves his place in Creation, as founded for him by God in freedom; when he yields to the force of evil, he separates himself from the powers of a higher order; and after voluntarily taking the first step, he is driven on to the next and the next at a furiously accelerating rate.
Everywhere, and at times of greatest trials, men have appeared, prophets and saints who cherished their freedom, who preached the One God and who with His help brought the people to a reversal of their downward course. Man is free, to be sure, but without the true God he is defenseless against the principle of evil. He is a like rudderless ship, at the mercy of the storm, an infant without his mother, a cloud dissolving into thin air."
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The White Rose, Fourth Leaflet, Munich, 1942
“"It is very easy to get drunk with hate. Hate is like the glass of whisky which is given to the soldiers before a bayonet charge. Whisky stimulates but does not nourish. Hate is not creative, only love is creative.
No one in the world can change truth. What we can do and and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the catacombs of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?”
Maximilian Kolbe, executed at Auschwitz, 14 August 1941
"The most important problem in the world today is your soul, for that is what the struggle is all about."
Fulton J. Sheen
Stocks tried to shake off the bad earnings report from Snap, which cast doubt on the health of the online advertising milieu.
And some of the big tech regulars are announcing hiring freezes.
Next week the big tech heavyweights will be rolling out their earnings reports. That may likely set the tone for the week.
And the Fed will be meeting again.
Gold and silver rose with the continuing Dollar drift lower.
Gold managed to hold on to some of its gains, but silver fell with equities and finished up flat on the week.
Most investors will find it more practical to play the long game with gold and silver, and hold it without leverage for the longer term.
Wall Street is a corrupting and poorly policed casino.
Need little, want less, love more. For those who abide in love abide in God, and God in them.
Have a pleasant weekend.
