In a post earlier today I talked about how corruption has a lot to do with the failures of Russia in their War vs Ukraine and also how the media protecting them helped preserve this corruption.
Don Surber is a retired newspaperman who writes a very good blog at donsurber.blogspot.com and has for a lot of years. A few days back he wrote a good, but not all that provocative post about the corruption at the FBI. A couple of days ago in his daily update of the news closed with this:
FINALLY, I received this email from Blogger.com:
“Your post titled ‘How to end the FBI’ has been deleted.” No reason. No rhyme. No appeal. Just deleted. The email cited community standards but the community has no say in what those standards are, so they are by definition not community standards.
Readers can still read it here, and decide for themselves if it meets our community standards.
Meanwhile, I started a substack — donsurber.substack.com Guess what the first post is….
This tells me that none of this is happening in a vacuum and that it will either end it a collapse of this corruption or a collapse of our freedoms.
If anything confirms the need for this novena, confirms the choice of St. Matthew as the best patron for it.
So let’s go out on a high note of prayer.
St. Matthew Novena - Day 9 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Matthew as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the devotion to You he showed in his years of service to Your Church. St. Matthew, you were called by Jesus to leave behind your old life as a tax collector and follow Him. After this, you devoted the rest of your life to following and serving Him. Please bring my petitions before Christ Whom you served so faithfully! You wrote of Jesus’ life and ministry in your Gospel so that others could come to know Him. You devoted the rest of your life to preaching the Good News and helping to establish the Church. Pray for me, that I may be as faithful a servant of God and His Church as you were. Pray that I may always be eager to put my gifts to use serving God. Please also pray for the FBI agents involved in the arrest of Mark Houck. St. Matthew, pray for us! In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Read more at: https://www.praymorenovenas.com/st-matthew-novena