A blessed continued Eastertide to all our readers! Christus resurrexit! In spe gaudentes! Alleluia! Χριστός Ανέστη!

I just finished grading my final exams – hence the mild note of euphoria – so a few thoughts for your ponderings, and please do send along your own. After all, truth is best sought in dialogue:

In the spirit of that Greek greeting, would that we Catholics might hear a sermon like this one preached in an Orthodox church. As one friend put it, the Easterners will play a central role in the final eschatological battle, as recounted in Soloviev’s ‘The Tale of the Antichrist‘.

As a supplement to the ongoing ‘debate’ – are we still allowed to debate? – on the vaccine, here is one succinct summary why one person has decided not to get the shot. Well worth a perusal.

And on the lunatic lockdowns, which are now being declared illegal across a growing swath of the world, except for feckless Ford’s Ontario and a few other totalitarian regimes:

The Portuguese, German and Dutch rulings and now the Austrian court has ruled that PCR tests are not suitable for COVID-19 diagnosis and that lockdowns have no legal or scientific basis.

On a note of hope and sanity, every municipal police force in Ontario refused to enforce Ford’s draconian decree, except, of course, the new-Praetorian guard, the hyper-militarized O.P.P., the highest paid police service in the province (by law, which is why their salaries keep ratcheting up, and we drown in debt). As Nero advised those who would follow him: Pay your soldiers well. 

And what of merciless mask mandates, particularly harmful to children, on different levels?
@MikkoPackalen | Economics prof at UW. Let kids live normal lives. Their rights were taken away by panic not science.
And here from John Tierney at City Journal. I especially liked his bit about ‘jug ears’ caused by the perpetual strain of the mask elastics. I wonder about that, but there’s nothing like vanity to motivate people. After all the ear is cartilage, not bone, so is more open to shaping (and grows even after bone ceases to). But I’m most concerned about the long-lasting psychological and spiritual effects of this.
In Ottawa – yes, the capital of oppressed Ontario – masks are mandated on children two years old and up at outdoor playgrounds. My own nephew, soon turning seven, was all set to play soccer – or, as we said in our Scottish household, ‘football’ – but the municipality (or whoever) mandated masks on all the players. Try playing sports in a mask.
Meanwhile Finland’s leading pediatricians write in the country’s main newspaper that there is NO scientific basis for masks on primary school children even indoors.  https://twitter.com/MikkoPackalen/status/1384828826753060866
When is enough, enough?

In light of the priest’s, shall we say, exhortation, keep in mind the following:

Live free, amici mei – for freedom, Christ has set us free.

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