When is the Men's NCAA 2025 Basketball Tournament Final Four and Championship game?

Saturday April 5, 2025

ALAMODome, San Antonio, TX

6:09 p.m. start

Monday April 7, 2025

ALAMODome, San Antonio, TX

8:50 p.m. 

CBS will televise the semi-final and final

Basketball games for 2024-2025

Ten Years of LAUDATO SI (Pope Francis' encyclical): April 15, lecture 4 - 5:30 p.m.

 PANEL Discussion on 

Operationalizing Integral Ecology

1030 Jenkins Hall - Nanovic Hall

How can the principles of Integral 

Ecology help with work to preserve

our common home, achieve integral

human development, and build peace.

Moderator, Richard Marcantonio

assistant prof. of peace, environment,

public affairs, at Kroc Institute

Notre Dame, International Peace Studies.

kroc.nd.edu/

Living w/ the wounds: the Passion in theology & in our lives : Lecturer Bishop Erik Varden

April 2, 2025

4:30 - 5:15 p.m.

Geddes Hall, sponsored by McGrath Institute

Notre Dame, IN

Bishop Varden is from Trondheim, Norway

Introduction by Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Indiana Diocese

Building Narratives of Roman Power Past & Present

 all-day April 2, 2025

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Conference on the attitudes toward Roman imperialism

from Greek historians writing under the Roman empire,

to compare these views and their evolution over time

with Roman historians writing in Latin language.

classics.nd.edu/events/2025/04/02/conference-building-narratives-of-roman-power

past-and-present

Held at McKenna Hall, Notre Dame Campus, Notre Dame, IN

conferences schedule at this web address.

Fervent Faith, Relentless Persecution - March 31, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.

lecture at Notre Dame, 102 Hesburgh auditorium, Campus, Notre Dame, IN

Prof. Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University

THE DAILY LIFE OF Erna Becker-Kohen, a Catholic of

Jewish Descent in Nazi Germany

Free and Open to the Public

more information about 80th Anniversary of end of W W II exhibit

www.nd.edu/

Leaking attack plans on Signal chat angers fighter pilots

News that senior officials in the Trump 2.0

administration (including VP Vance) discussed

impending attacks on Signal Chat , a commerical

messaging app, angered and bewildered

current and former fighter pilots . . .

nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/pilot-signal-leak.html

WTO

The United States government has

suspended its financial contributions to

the WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

according to Reuters dot-com

They relied on trade sources for

this "Breaking News"

March 27, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern

U.S. AID cuts include fighting Malaria, providing access to food & water, education access abroad

CBS News has totalled up from "Wall Of Receipts"

[ Elon Musk and his DOGE raiders including "big balls" ]

a list of USAID projects of

$1.39 billion in efforts to fight disease & increase global health

$171.7 million in providing access to clean water and food sources

$435.2 million in providing access to education abroad . . .

ALL OF THESE ARE CANCELLED / FROZEN / HAMPERED

doge-usaid-contracts-details-removed-wall-of-receipts

Why does Trump need Greenland?

Wednesday interview of POTUS with

Vince Coglianese (pod cast):

. . .we need Greenland for

international safety & security. . .

We need it. We have to have it.

It's island from a defensive posture

and even offensive posture is 

something we need. . .When you

look at the ships going up their shores

by the hundreds, it's a busy place

March 26, 2025

Tom Bowman & Michele Keleman

NPR reporters - contributors

State Department funding for Greenland Sled Dog Race (begins today)

NPR has learned that 

the STATE DEPARTMENT

has provided a grant (tens of thousands of dollars)

to transport the dogs, sleds, and racers by air

from around Greenland for the March 2025 race.

This all comes as Secy. Rubio has cancelled

80% of all US AID programs around the world

and frozen funding for Fulbright scholars (leaving

many in the lurch already at their international

study locations).

Katherine Maher

CEO of National Public Radio

she also chairs the board of the SIGNAL Foundation

(Signal is the webchat utility / algorithm that

encrypts both incoming transmissions and group

comments / replies / emoticons shared back)

Spillage

What does carelessness with OPSEC (Operational Security)

mean?  Did leading National Security officials "spill"

information over the SIGNAL webchat discussion forum

into which a journalist / editor-in-chief of THE ATLANTIC

(Jeffrey Goldberg) had been invited by NSC chief Mike Waltz?

Details at

npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341552/signal-leak-military-double-standard

#3 Seed plays #2 Seed in NCAA Sweet Sixteen Saturday (ESPN+ and ABC)

ESPN.com/womenscollegebasketball/

game

Saturday 1 p.m. Eastern

at Birmingham AL

#3 Notre Dame Women (28-5)

face the

#2 TCU Horned Frogs (33-3)

Alex Ambrose (Notre Dame's Kaneb Center)

 He leads initiatives on 

learning assessment,

analytics, and 

AI (artificial intelligence);

his mission is to

empower individuals to

use the smartest AI in the

smartest way! 

Social Security (under Trump-Vance management) backs off plans

Washingtonpost online article

March 27, 2025

Social Security Administration (Washington, D.C.)

backs off plan to cut phone services for

disabled people

CNN.com 27 March

SSA backs off plan for anti-fraud measures . . .

Planet Neptune has AURORAS : new pictures from Webb Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope has sighted

auroras, that spill over either side

of Neptune's equator; this discovery

will allow astronomers to study

aspects of that our planet in our

solar system that have previously

been out of reach!

nytimes.com/science/

neptune-aurora-nasa-webb-telescope.html

Ramadan (Feb. 28 - March 30) this year

The spring 30-day Fast for Muslims

ends on Sunday night with 

Eid al-Fitr.

NATO and EU naval missions underway in Suez Canal / Red Sea (ongoing & current)

As of March 2025

NATO allies patrol the Red Sea

along with the U.S. Navy vessels;

the EU (European Union) is now

conducting a naval mission in

the contested waterway with 

10 countries.

[in the Signal groupchat

several members (Hegseth/Vance)

groused that "PATHETIC"

"Loathing of European free-loading"]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife office -- victim of Elon Musk closing / lease terminating

Ann Arbor, Michigan

The US Fish & Wildlife office space

was told to close March 3 but the

notification on official communication

website was only this week of March 24.

mlive.com/elon-musks-doge-closes

office in Michigan.html

This saves $86,301 this year.

Usha Vance opts to visit Greenland Military Base instead of Sled-Dog event

apnews.com/article/vance-greenland-trump-denmark

pituffik-base-arctic . . .

March 26 update on story where

she and her son were to wave a flag at the start of

the Sled-Dog race . . .

VP JD Vance has decided instead that his family will

visit a U.S. military base (1951 

treaty for land use); that has

removed the risk of violating potential diplomatic taboos

by sending an official delegation to another country

without an official invitation. Recent anti-U.S. demonstrations

at Nuuk might have scared the Trump-Vance administration

enough to revise Usha and child's trip to avoid angry interactions

with angry Greenlanders.

The trip's flip-flop continues to cause major confusion on the

island.  The U.S. government has still NOT articulated specific

demands from Denmark or from Greenland's just elected

and still organizing government/Parliament.

Texas Governor may leave 18th District seat unfilled until 2026: Sylvester Turner died earlier this month

In the largely African-American district near and in Houston, TX

constituents have heard of three leading candidates but

NO Assurance

that GOP Governor Greg Abbott will call an election to 

fill the seat of former Houston Mayor Turner who died

in D.C. earlier on March 5, 2025.

The three are:

Amanda Edwards,

Isaiah Martin,

Christian Menefee

FURTHER INFORMATION at

ncronline.org/news/two-black-catholics-running-to-fill-

texas-vacant-us-house-seat

25 March 2025

Pentagon spokesman who defended Scrubbing - Deleting of "Jackie Robinson"

In mid-March, the Pentagon removed a series of

government web pages on Black pioneers and 

notable military members;

John Ullyot

who answered the media's questions about the

scrubbing / deleting of information concerning

Jackie Robinson's service in the Military forces

said, "DEI is dead at the defense department."

Adding that "he was pleased with the department's

rapid compliance with a directive ordering that

diversity-related content be removed from all

platforms."

Mr. Ullyot was removed from his position

shortly afterward.

March 25, 2025 coverage in NY TIMES

article by Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt

Gaines County, Texas parents following RFK, Jr. advice now deal with liver damage

 Parents in the midst of the Measles outbreak of 2025

are learning of 

liver damage

seizures

coma

when they administer dosages recommended by non-physician

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of cod liver oil (Vitamin A);

physicians at Lubbock, TX have treated a handful of

unvaccinated children who were given so much Vitamin A

that they had signs of liver damage.  Experts warn parents

from giving it to children without physician supervision.

nytimes.com/2025/03/25/health/measles-kennedy-vitamin-a.html

Nicaea Council -- met in May and June 325 Common Era -- called by Emperor

The Emperor Constantine I called the

Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (modern-day Turkey)

from May 20 until June 19, in the year 325.

Around 300 bishops attended that Council.

See Further:

christianitytoday.com/1990/10/325-first-council-of-nicea/

Das Niza"isch Glaubensbekenntnis (Translation German/Deutsch)

 Wir glauben an den einen Gott,

den Vater,

den Allma"chtigen,

der alles geschaffen hat,

Himmel and Erde,

die sichtbare and die unsichtbare Welt.

Und an den einen Herrn Jesus Christus,

Gottes eingeborenen Sohn,

aus Dem Vater geboren vor aller Zeit:

Gott von Gott,

Licht vom Licht,

wahrer Gott vom wahren Gott,

gezeugt, nicht geschaffen,

eines Wesens mit Dem Vater;

durch in its alles geschaffen.

Fuer uns Menschen and zu unsem Heil

ist er von Himmel gekommen,

hat Fleisch angenommen durch 

den Heiligen Geist von der Jungfrau Maria

und ist Mensch geworden.  Er wurde fuer

uns gekreuzigt unter Pontius Pilatus,

hat gelitten and its begraben worden,

ist am dritten Tage auferstanden nach

der Schrift und aufgefahren in den Himmel.

Er sitzt zur Rechten _des Vaters und wird

wiederkommen in Herrlichkeit, zu richten

die Lebenden and die Toten;

seiner Herrschaft wird kein Ende sein.

Wir glauben an den Heiligen Geist,

der Herr ist und lebendig macht,

der aus dem Vater und dem Sohn hervorgeht,

der mit _dem Sohn angebetet und verherrlicht

wird, der gesprochen hat durch die Propheten,

und die eine, Heiligen, christliche und

apostolische Kirche.

Wire bekennen die eine Taufe zur Vergebung

der Suenden.  Wir erwarten die Auferstehung der

Toten und das Leben der kommenden Welt.

Amen.

Palestinian beaten -- 2025 Academy Award winner co-director

Hamdan Ballal

told of beatings and armed threats by settlers

and IDF forces -- he was beaten and detained

after he witnessed 15 vandalizing a smashing

cars and water tanks, throwing rocks at anyone

moving 

bbc.com/news/articles/cp8yg20yy7mo

Do Danish folk celebrate a summer festival to honor John the Baptist?

Yes

on June 23 annually they observe

Sankt Hans

who in English is known as

John the Baptist --

that evening is celebrated with

a dinner at home followed by

a stroll to a community bonfire,

often to a beach, park, or Lakeshore.

details: Denmark.dk/people-and-culture/

danish-traditions

Hamdan Ballal

 Hamdan Ballal -- according to POLITICO --

was assaulted in the West Bank, Palestine, with his

whereabouts unknown after he was detained by the

Israeli military Monday March 24, 2025.

He was co-director of the Academy Award-winning

documentary

No Other Land

and his co-director, Yuval Abraham, an Israeli documentary

producer, reported the beating by Israeli settlers.

The IDF denies that they apprehended anyone

beaten yesterday (Monday) from inside the ambulance

taking such a person to a hospital or emergency treatment.

Pete Hegseth

Also calling for the Defense Secy. to resign

is Senior Senator (AZ) Mark Kelly NPR.org interview

March 27, 2025

JOINING in the on-the-record Senators

who likewise want Hegseth to resign - to be fired

are

Mark Warner (VA),

Tammy Duckworth (IL),

Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), &

Ron Wyden (Oregon).

_______________________

NY Times Opinion columnist / National

security author / Veteran

David French

has called on the Secy. of Defense

(on-the-job since approval by the U.S.

Senate 50 - 50 - VP Vote in favor)

to resign after details of the March 15

attack on Houthi positions was being

discussed on "SIGNAL" web chat site

with the varied group including National

Security advisor Mike Waltz (not

voted on by the 100-member Senate)

and VP Vance (sworn into office 20 Jan.

2025), Stephen Miller (Trump adviser

not Senate-approved), Secy. of State

Marco Rubio (99 - 0 Senate approval)

as well.

DAVID FRENCH tells in his Op-Ed piece

that from his years as a JAG Officer (Army

lawyer), he helped investigate numerous

instances of classified information spillages

and he's "never heard of anything this 

egregious" . . .

March 25/opinion/pete-hegseth-security-

breach-resign.html

Credo: symbole de Nice'e - Constantinople (French language)

 Je crois en un_ seul Dieu, Le Pere

tout puissant, cre'ateur du ciel

et de la terre, de l'univers visible

et invisible,

Je croise en un_ seul Seigneur,

Je'sus Christ, Le Fils unique de Dieu,

ne' du Pe're avant tous les_ siecles:

Il est Dieu, ne' de Dieu,

lumie're, ne'e de la lumie're,

vrai Dieu, ne' du vrai Dieu

Engendre' non pas Cre'e',

consubstantiel au Pe're;

et par lui tout a e'te' fait.

Pour nos los hommes, et pour 

notre salut, il descendit du ciel;

Par l'Esprit Saint, il a pris chair

de la Vierge Marie, et s'est fait homme.

Crucife' pour nous sous Ponce Pilate,

Il souffrit sa passion et fut mis au tombeau.

Il ressuscitta la troisieme jour,

conforme'ment aux Ecritures, et il monta

au ciel; il est assis a' la droite du Pe're.

Il reviendra Dan's la Gloria, pour juger les

vivants et les morts

et son re'gne n'aura pas de fin.

Je croise en l'Esprit Saint, qui est Seigneur

et qui donne la vie;

il proce'de du Pe're et du Fils.

Avec le Pe're et le Fils, il recoit me'me adoration

et me'me gloire;

il a parle' par Les prophe'tes.

Je croise en l'Eglise, une, Sainte, catholique et

apostolique.

Je reconnaissance un seul bapte'me pour le pardon

des pe'che's.

J'attends la re'surrection Des morts, et la vie ud

monde a' venir.  AMEN

Louis DeJoy

the former Logistics / Transportation magnate

who served the Trump-Pence administration

appointed June 20, 2020 (height of COVID-19)

and then continued in office during Biden-Harris

four years has announced his resignation

March 2025.

The Post Office will soon be subject to lay-offs

and firings as well as budget cuts and program

cessation.

Farewell POSTMASTER #75 since before

1776 and the independent founding of the 

Constitutional republic that is the USA.

(First postmaster in 1775 was Ben Franklin

of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania).

Ancient Church Commentators (for example HILARY OF POITIERS)

 From his introduction to COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW

(Hilary's verse-by-verse, section-by-section interpretation -

application of the First Gospel) -- Translator-Editor D.H. Williams

of Baylor University explains what the earliest Christian

writers kept in mind as they wrote for peers and fellow believers:

In keeping with the practice of previous

ancient commentators (Origen, Tertullian,

Cyprian), Hilary perceives the Gospel text

as a literary whole, and its message as a 

doctrinal unity.  If the Gospel is allowed to

speak for itself, the inquirer will be able to

find in any given pericope a general 

coherence.  The reader does not bring

his or her own interpretation to the text.

Whether obvious or hidden, the meaning

of the text is already within the text.  Hilary

operates on the principle that Scripture

should interpret Scripture.  Through COMMENTARY

on MATTHEW, references to what has already

been said in the text are common, and Hilary

is content to let certain parts of MATTHEW

interpret other parts.  If followed faithfully,

there may be conflicting views about the 

proper interpretation, but these are unnecessary.

"The Lord instructs through things as well as

through words"

Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (agreed at Ecumenical Council in AD 381) - Latin

Credimus in unum Deum,

Patrem omnipotentem,

factorem coeli et terrae,

visibilium omnium et

invisibilium,

et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum,

Filium Dei unicum,

de Patre natum ante omnia saecula;

Deum verum de Deo Vero;

natum, non factum;

ejusdemque substantiae qua Pater est;

per quem omnia facta sunt;

qui propter nos hominess et propter

nostram salutem descendit,

incarnatus est de Spiritu sancto,

in Maria virgine homo factus,

crucifixus pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato,

sepultus,

resurrexit tertia die,

ascendit ad coelos,

sedet ad dexteram Patris;

inde venturus est cum Gloria judicare

vivos ac mortuos,

cujus regni non erit finis.

Et in Spiritum sanctum, Dominum ac

vivificatorem a Patre procendentem,

qui cum Patre et Filio adoratur et

glorificatur,

qui locusts est per Prophetas;

in unam catholicism atque apostolicam

Ecclesiam.

Confitemur unum baptismum in

remissionem peccatorum;

speramus resurrectionem mortuorum,

vitam futuri saeculi.  Amen.

Nicene-Constantinoplitan Creed (English transl.)

 We believe

in One God,

the Father All-governing

[Greek pantokratora]

Creator [Greek poieten]

of Heaven and Earth,

of all things visible

and invisible;

and in One Lord Jesus Christ,

the only-begotten Son of God,

begotten from the Father

before all time [Greek pro panton

ton aionon], Light from Light,

true God from true God,

begotten not created [Greek

poiethenta], of the same

essence/reality as the Father

[Greek homoousion to patri],

through whom all things came

into being, Who for us and because

of our salvation came down from

Heaven, and was incarnate by the

Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary

and became human [Greek

enanthropesanta]. He was crucified

for us under Pontius Pilate, and

suffered and was buried, and

rose on the Third Day, according

to the Scriptures, and ascended

to heaven, and sits on the right

hand of the Father, and will come

again with glory to judge the

living and the dead.  His Kingdom

shall have no end [Greek telos];

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord

and Life-Giver, who proceeds from

the Father, who is worshipped and

glorified together with the Father

and Son, who spoke through the

prophets;

And in One, holy, Catholic, Apostolic

Church.  We confess one Baptism for

the remission of sins.  We look

forward to the Resurrection of

the Dead and the Life of the World

to come. Amen.

{John H. Leith - THE CREEDS OF
THE CHURCHES} page 33

also "Niceno-Constantinopolitan

Creed" of AD 381.

Alina Habba

Trump's pick for 

Interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey

Monday March 24, 2025

She was his personal lawyer in

sexual abuse and defamation lawyers.

She will immediately begin to supervise

the work of about 150 prosecutors.

She previously ran a small firm

specializing in civil litigation;

her style is pugilistic, openly political.

Atlas, the Vance family German Shepherd

Esquire magazine (October 2024 profile):

esquire.com/news-politics/a62501111/jd-vance-dog

a case study in how good MISINFORMATION

is believable MISINFORMATION

In a Tucker Carlson interview,

JD Vance admitted that the 

German shepherd was assigned

to him by the TRUMP campaign

to make it seem that he was a 

dog-lover.

"You're WEIRD, HOW WEIRD"

Tucker Carlson giggled back.

Pituffik Space Base - VP & Mrs. Vance to visit 27 March instead of Nuuk, Greenland (Capital)

The largest military base for the Pentagon

outside the Continental United States.

covers 657.86 square Kilometers

of the island of GREENLAND.

PERSONNEL: about 650 people;

airfield is open year-round even though

the base itself is locked in by ice 9 months

of the year

Greenland (3 X size of TEXAS)

Ice-covered island

Avannaata Qimussersua -- Usha Vance opted not to wave flag to open the race - this visit to Nuuk canceled

Further update (Thursday 27th)

The Hill.com reports that the planned trip by

Usha Vance and son to Greenland's capital have

been canceled in favor of a visit to the Military Base,

Pituffik (on lease to U.S. by treaty)

NPR update = 3/25/25

Usha Vance according to her aide Nikki Reeves,

accepted the offer of a dogsledding association to

wave the starting flag, citing conversations between

the U.S. consulate and event organizers.

Mute Egede did say in FACEBook that there will

be no meetings between U.S. officials and govt.

officials in Greenland during the Vance family visit.

_________________________________________

Greenland Dog Sled Race

[one of the world's foremost dog sledding events]

it began in 1988 and is the national championship

consisting in 37 mushers and 444 dogs (each team

made up of 10 - 14 dogs)

has commented publicly about

Usha Vance and son Vivek's

drop-in visit:

We did NOT invite them

and it is a public event

so they may attend as 

spectators . . . We will not 

shy away from showing

and defending that our 

way of life and our culture

and our identity are NOT

for sale"

The history of dog sledding in Greenland is

more than 4,000 years old and has played a

key role for generations of Arctic people

including the Thule, the predecessor-ancestors

of the Inuit.

nytimes.com/2025/03/24/world/usha-vance-

dogsled-race-greenland.html

Generative AI (one-hour lecture-discussion): Alex Ambrose of Kaneb Center

Generative AI Unveiled:

Real Stories

NDL (Niles, Michigan) District Library

Community Room

FREE session on 

March 27, 5 - 6 p.m.

No pre-registration required

Details at Nileslibrary.com/

single-event/generative-ai-unveiled-

real-stories-from-the-frontline

TELEPHONE: 269-683-8545

Adult Services sponsors this event

Mark Twain Award for Humor: 2025 winner was Conan O'Brien

Event at the Kennedy Center for the Arts

Washington, D.C.

Saturday March 23, 2025

fellow comedians / TV hosts roast the

American stand-up comedian - interviewer

TO BE Televised later on in 2025 on

Netflix -- will air an edited version of the 

speeches and acceptance comments

May 4 -- "There's not a lot going on the

world, but taking control of the Kennedy

Center should be at the top of the list,"

O'Brien said.  Stephen Colbert chomped

down on a bucket of chicken wings during

a skit called "Hot Ones" and commented

in light of the new leadership at Kennedy

Center "all of these are right wings."

Mute B. Egede

Greenland's new elected Prime Minister

said today (March 23) that a planned trip

to the island by Usha (Mrs. JD) Vance and

national security advisor Michael Waltz

(former FL Congressman) was

"highly aggressive".  He made the comments

to a Greenlandic newspaper (23 March 2025).

UPDATE: Also part of the visiting beside

Mrs. Vance and one of her children are the

National Security adviser, Energy Secretary,

and other senior administration officials.  White

House spokespersons would not say whether

the entourage had been invited or not to visit.

The prime minister of Denmark said Sunday

that neither Greenland nor Denmark had

solicited the visits/visitors.

Corporate sponsorships: White House Easter Egg Roll tradition up for corporate profit - exposure

Salon. Com

HARBINGER events production company offers to

Corporate buy-ins a chance to display trademarks

and naming rights and signage, Easter baskets and

mentions in event Social Media postings --

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, D.C.

this year's Easter Egg Roll is Monday

April 21, 2025.

Buy-ins cost $75,000 to 

$200,000.

Willie Brown, Mayor -- has eBay collection for charity

Clothes and shoes and fedoras

He is one of the few politicians, retired or otherwise,

whose closet would be stylish enough to raid.

Salah Bardawil

 Palestinian parliament and HAMAS

political bureau member and his wife

were among 26 killed in southern

Gaza Strip by IDF air strikes from

Saturday night - Sunday morning

March 23, 2025.

thehill.com/policy/defense/

5209459-israeli-strike-hamas-officials-deaths

Mike Waltz

 The "Signal webchat security War Plan Leak" of mid-March 2025 --

a scandal with ramifications of National Security

issues for Defense Secy. Hegseth and Waltz, the 

National Security Adviser, at the White House in D.C.

Trump 2.0 named him early on after his Nov. 2024

election confirmation days that then-

Congressman of Florida Mike Waltz was 

his chosen pick for "National Security Chief"

(did not require Senate hearing nor confirmation

vote).

More information at 

nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/signal-michael-waltz-

trump-goldberg.html

NASA

POLITICO reports that

willingly or unwillingly

National Space Administration

faces closure of its D.C. HQ 

which will dilute its coordination

and influence in the nation's capital.

This affects up to 2,500 jobs; Tom Culligan,

believes, "The biggest fear if you're

NASA is you lose that connectivity."

March 21, 2025 posted article by Sam Skove

FLOTUS executive producing own documentary: Netflix making a "Carmen San Diego" documentary 2025

NEW YORK magazine

nymag.com/intelligencer/article/melania-trump-

documentary-amazon.html

Among executive producers are MELANIA herself,

and Fernando Sulichin (Argentinian producer);

Pay-out = $40 million // FLOTUS salary $28 million.

___________________________________________

Busy 24-day out-of-public-eye period due to 

travel between New York City, Florida, and D.C.

residences/official address.  

She defended her 24-day absence, saying that she will

never be a "traditional First Lady" . . .

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

People Magazine quote / source

She hasn't spent meaningful time at 1600

Pennsylvania in an official capacity . . .

AMAZON billionaire and new Trump BFF

Jeff Bezos -- hired Brett Ratner to follow around

the third Mrs. Trump while she steps away from

official duties to take a break from official duties ? ? !

Unclear whether any other Trump family members

will appear in the non-fiction film or docu-series.

It will have a theatrical release, even if limited.

Empty Bowls : Buchanan, MI (Berrien County)

World Hunger fundraiser (now in 30th Annual year)

Location: Buchanan (Michigan) High School

$5 soup and chili take-out meal

includes Mac 'n Cheese for kids

and vegetarian option: benefits

Redbud Area Ministries' food

pantry

Roti Roti Art Center dot-org

details : Pick out a clay pottery

bowl.  All profits go to RAM

local pantry (usually $5000+).

Thursday April 17, 2025

4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Eastern

After mid-4th Century, did Christian writers and preachers re-discover Paul's emphasis on RIGHTEOUSNESS?

Prof. D.H. Williams in his Introduction to

a 2012 translation of St. Hilary of Poitier's

COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW (FC vol. 125:

CUA Press, Washington,D.C.) pages 32-33 :

Hilary's emphasis on the bestowal of God's

righteousness upon a helpless race before

the demands of the Law represents a more

pronounced application of this side of Paul's

thought than is perceptible in any previous

writer.  There is the strong likelihood that

Hilary's commentary was the earliest stimulus

for the revival of Pauline studies in the Western

Roman empire during the last decades (4th Century).

Within a decade of Hilary's work a concerted

interest in Pauline texts and themes is evident

among such widely divergent thinkers as

Marius Victorinus / Augustine of Hippo /

Tyconius / Pelagius / Priscillian of Avila.

footnote 117: two writers produced commentaries

on all Paul's Epistles: Ambrosiaster & Pelagius.

Marius V. in the 360s wrote on Ephesians, Galatians,

& Philippians while Jerome wrote on Galatians,

Ephesians, Philemon.

Commentary and Interpretation on Jesus' death by crucifixion (GospMatthew 27)

From COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW

by Bishop Hilary of Poitiers, Gaul

FC vol. 125: translation/edited by

Prof. D.H. Williams, Baylor Univ.

Chapter 33, sections 4-5

The location of the cross

is such that, placed in the

center of the earth [Latin

positus in media terrae],

it stands, as it were, above

this world, offering equally

to all pagan peoples the means

of embracing the knowledge

of God (Cyprian, Test. II:18)

Jesus refused to drink a

mixture of wine and gall which

was offered to him, because

the bitterness of sin is not

mixed with the incorruption

of eternal glory (Romans 3:14

and Eph. 4:31).  And his

garments, which, rather than

being torn, were divided up

by casting lots (Matt. 27:34),

signified that his body

remained incorruptible.  And

so it was that the salvation and

life of all was hung on the tree

of life.  To his left and right,

two thieves were crucified

(Latin adfiguntur) showing

that the whole human race

everywhere is called to the

sacrament of the Lord's Passion.

But because there is a difference

between believers and unbelievers

there is an overall division between

those on the right and those on

the left (third parable Matt.25).

The thief placed to the right

was saved by the justification

of faith. . .As there is a dividing

between the hours of night and

day, so too the number of three

days and nights is fulfilled (as

in Book of Jonah) while the

veiled mystery of divine action

is realized in the confusion of

all creation (darkness Matt.27:45).

Then there is the cry unto God

which is the voice of the Lord's 

body (Latin corporis vox est )

attesting to the separation of

the Word of God as it withdrew

from him.  Why did he cry out

about being abandoned, My God,

my God, why have you forsaken

me? He is abandoned because it

was necessary for him to be subject

to his humanity until the finality

of death.  Moreover, we must

consider carefully why he drank

sour wine given to him from a

sponge on a stick and then

rendered up his spirit with a cry.

The wine is the honor and power

of immortality, which turned sour

on account of our sin and

negligence.  Although the wine

had soured in Adam (I Cor. 15:22),

Christ accepted it from pagan

hands and drank it.

Gospel of Matthew 18:10

See that you do not look down on one

of these little ones who believes in me.

Jesus has forged a tightly linked chain 

of mutual love [Latin phrase from

Cicero : vincula amoris artissima ]

for those especially who truly have

believed in the Lord.  For the angels

of little children look upon God every

day (Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude

IX.29), because the Son of Man comes

to save that which was lost.  The Son

of Man saves, the angels see God, and

the angels of small children protect

them.  It is absolutely important that

the angels assist the prayers of the

faithful (Tertullian On Prayer 16.6),

for the angels offer prayers to God

every day for those who are saved

through Christ (Ep. to Hebrews 1:14).

It is dangerous to look down upon

the one whose wishes and petitions are

conveyed to the eternal and invisible

God by the devoted service and ministry

of the angels.

[ Exposition and admonition by Bishop

Hilary of Poitiers, Gaul during the

Ancient Church era, he died AD 367]

from COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW

vol. 125 FC: CUA Press translated

and edited by Prof. D.H. Williams

of Baylor University.

Rachel Cohen, Attorney

to her law firm (March 20, 2025)

If being on this career path

demands that I accept that

my industry. . .will allow an

authoritarian government to

ignore the courts, I refuse to

take it any further.  As I have

said before, others stand to lose

far, far more than a paycheck.

[on social media, critics of

that law firm claim it has given

in to a "shakedown" by POTUS

Trump 2.0 ]

Nothing concealed that will not be revealed

 Gospel of Matthew 10:26

There is nothing concealed

that will not be revealed.

Jesus is referring to the Day of

Judgment, which will reveal

the hidden conscience of our will.

Those things that they thought were 

covered up, he will uncover in the

light of open acknowledgment.

He tells us, therefore, that we should 

not be afraid of threats, schemes,

or the power of our persecutors,

because the day of judgment will

reveal that those things were really

of no account and unfounded.

[ interpretation of St. Hilary of

Poitiers, Gaul (France during

Roman Empire) he died A.D. 367 ]

Gospel of Matthew 10 : simple as doves and wise as serpents

When the Lord says that

he is sending them out like

sheep in the midst of wolves

(Matthew 10:16), he indicates

that there will be many of those

who will rage against the 

apostles in an insane fury.  But

the Lord preaches that they ought

to be simple as doves and wise as

serpents.  Whereas the simplicity

of a dove is already established,

the wisdom of a serpent has to

be considered.  I do not know

how a serpent could be regarded 

as wise or thoughtful (Latin

consiliique) .  Even if certain

writers have reminded us of 

certain point from this (Virgil

in his Georgics II. 473-4),

we understand that whenever

a serpent comes within a man's

reach, he always strikes off its

head, and once the body is

gathered up, he buries it in the

ground (Latin in orbem corporem)

or throws it into a pit to get rid of

the bloody remains.  According to

this example, it is necessary that

should any persecution occur, we

would hide in our head (that is,

Christ) [Ephesians 4:15].  Once

we have delivered ourselves to 

all our tortures by sacrificing our

body, we may participate in that

faith which we received from him.

COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW

10.11 (page 117, Fathers of the

Church volume 125, Bishop

Hilary of Poitiers, Gaul in

the Ancient Church) St. Hilary

died c. A.D. 367

The Mirror and the Light

Thomas Cromwell - adviser / "fixer"

for Henry VIII as far as

divorce, remarriages, court intrigue,

dealings with Cardinal Wolsey,

and more --

new BBC series airs with stars returning :

Mark Ryland as the chief minister and

Damian Lewis as the Tudor King and

oft-married sovereign of England.

nytimes.com/2025/03/21/arts/television/

the-mirror-and-the-light-pbs-wolf-hall.html

Global Measles Laboratory (a WHO organization) is likely to collapse with funding withdrawal

The US State Department is deciding to no longer fund

the GLOBAL Measles and Rubella

Laboratory Network

details: NPR.org/measles-us-diagnosis-

vaccination online article

March 21, 2025

Gospel of Matthew 8 : interpretation of "disciples on board the ship"

Matthew 8:18

comments by Bishop Hilary of Poitiers (Gaul in 

Ancient Church) - FC vol. 125, ch. 7 #8

When Jesus saw the great crowd gathered

around him, he gave orders for his 

disciples to go across to the other side of

the sea.  And a certain scribe approached

him and said, 'Teacher, I will follow you

wherever you go!'

. . .The crowd is large and the Lord

instructs the disciples to go across the 

sea to the other side.  I do not think that

it was a lapse in the Savior's goodness 

that he wanted to leave those who were

around him and to choose a secret place

for the imparting of salvation.  Then a

scribe approached him saying that he was

going to follow the Teacher wherever he

might go.  We read that the scribe said

or did nothing offensive. . .The name

disciple should not be applied to the

apostles only.  For we read that there

had been a great many disciples besides

the Apostles. . .For the Church is just

like a ship -- as it has been called in

numerous places -- a ship which,

having taken on board a very great

diversity of races and nations, is

subjected to everything: the blowing

of the wind and the motion of the sea.

Accordingly, the Church is buffeted by

the attacks of the world and of unclean

spirits.  Even though it is exposed to

so many dangers, we enter the ship of Christ

. . .knowing that we have to be tossed

around by the sea and the wind.  In order

to make a figurative meaning [ Latin

typicae significantiae ]  coherent and

to make sense of the proportion of

believers who remain behind, the role

[ Latin persona ] of the scribe and that

of the disciple are joined together!

. . .While everyone has been invited

into the Church to board the ship, it

happens that only a few will follow

because of their fear of the sea, that

is, fear of the world.

(Translation in 2012 by Prof. D.H.

Williams, Baylor University)

ISBN: 9789813201252

Judge James Boasberg -- DOJ and Trump in turmoil -- Speaker Johnson (Louisiana)

Trump is in legal standoff between his

Legal staff at DOJ and the Immigration

Judge -- does Trump have unlimited power

to deport and imprison anyone the Atty.

General and ICE has in custody?

___________________________________

March 21 update at The Hill dot-com

the Top Lawmaker at House of Repr.

is looking forward to working with

House Judiciary Cmte. as they

review all options as far as those

judges' impeachments when they

disagree with Trump-Musk

Musk only meets Hegseth at Pentagon : denied meeting w/ Joint Chiefs (Military higher-ups)

UPDATE 7:45 p.m. March 21 (Friday)

"Why the Pentagon Scuttled Its Briefing

in a ultra-secret room ("Tank") on War

Plans against China"

THIS entire re-shuffle raises questions

about the communication between an

inexperienced Defense Secy., Musk,

and the White House. . .

The idea that a civilian who's not in

the chain of command would be getting

any briefing in the "TANK" was certainly

unusual and alarming to some people . . .

ABC News .go.com

Martha Raddatz reporting at

7 a.m. for GMA

Musk will get help with

briefing on future war plans against

China . . .

Alfred Masters, 1st Black United States Marine - also Medgar Evers Dept. Defense website wiped / purged

UPDATE: USA TODAY op-ed on "Disappearance

from Arlington Cemetery web pages / platform"

was Medgar Evers (one of many revisionist

history blatant attempts by Hegseth's Defense dept.)

ABC News reports that the recognition

of the first US Marine Corps member 

ALFRED MASTERS was purged /

taken down by A.I. wipe-out

ABC News.com/ March 22, 2025

Rollingstone dot-com has reported that

Trump Jan. 2025 executive order banning

Diversity

Equality

Inclusion 

efforts led to mass removal of Black

and Latino 

Veteran and War Dead

content of DOD websites

of many kinds.

Pentagon work force had

assigned duties to "scrub"

those web pages mentioning

Black or "gay" wording, including

Medal of Honor recipient 

Charles Calvin Rogers.

Justin Eichorn - MN legislator who hates Trump Derangement also resigns after Sex Crime

State Senator (now resigned) Justin Eichorn of

the Minnesota State legislature (GOP - obviously

MAGA) worked with colleagues to write a 

state law formally labeling "Trump Derangement

Syndrome" as a form of mental illness, couching

the legal terms as if he and those favoring it were

able to diagnose and polarize those who oppose

Trump 2.0 and his adminstration of Vance & Musk.

Eichorn submitted his resignation

to Gov. Tim Walz after being arrested

by local police in a sting operation;

he solicited sex with a 17-yr.-old female

but instead met up with law enforcement

and immediately booked and jailed.

He faces federal felony charges and

was released on his own recognizance;

his fellow senators were preparing to

vote on his expulsion, when Eichorn

submitted his e-resignation.

thehill.com/ March 20, 2025

George Glezmann [Taliban hostage since 2022]

Agence France Presse 

has announced March 20, 2025

that 

prisoner of Taliban

GEORGE GLEZMANN

has been released and

will be handed to US Officials

Adam Boehler (Hostage Czar)

and former ambassador

Zalmay Khalilzad

at Qatar.

barrons.com/news/us-citizen-george-glezmann-

freed-from-detention-in-afghanistan-source-with

knowledge of release .html

State Dept. and Trump administration officials

detailed that he was NOT part of a larger

prisoner exchange -- after engagement with the

oppressive Muslim fundamentalist regime that

continues to make the former monarchy and

brief experiment in democracy a "failed state"

to its women, children, and weak minorities.

Steve Davis, age 45, is running Elon Musk operation to dismantle govt. (Profile)

 For more than 20 years, the engineer

has devoted himself to fulfilling Elon

Musk's desires following him to

SpaceX

and the social media Twitter, renamed

X [ Davis also oversaw layoffs there]. . .

Davis is an engineer who will throw

himself at any task, even if he has

no expertise in the area. . .

nytimes.com/2025/03/20/technology/

elon-musk-steve-davis-doge.html

No Other Land -- Oscar-winning documentary -- Theater in Miami Beach FL threatened by Mayor

The mayor Of Miami Beach.FL

Steven Meiner

today March 19 dropped his

threat of eviction and closure

of a non-profit cinema for showing

a Gaza & Israel co-production

that won Best Documentary on March 2, 2025.

After an emotional City Commission meeting

where it became clear that he did not have the

votes and therefore withdrew a resolution

that threatened the cinema operators.

All of the showings of "No Other Land"

had been sold out.  MORE BACKGROUND

nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us-politics/florida-mayor

eviction-o-cinema-no-other-land.html

Scrubbing Fed. Government Web materials -- systematic erasure

NPR March 19 main headline

npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5317567/federal-websites-lgbtq-diversity-erased

The SBA (Small Business Administration) staffer said the minor

task of removing a photo of a group of Americans

(varying ages, genders, skin colors) smiling in front of a display board

"If someone says stop everything , do this specifically . .

it's been reserved for instances when there's like a system failure;

To have an immediate deployment of a visual change is very,

very uncommon!"

HISTORIANS warn that this kind of systematic erasure

has in the past come when governments strip rights from

people, starting from the most marginalized groups!

A troubling example from the Defense Department (Pentagon)

are deletion of pages celebrating the military service of

Jackie Robinson, Japanese-Americans

serving in WW II, Navajo Code talkers.

John Ratcliffe (CIA Director) concerned with security hazards from JFK Assassination file "dump"

The Presidential Proclamation that all

JFK Assassination files (POTUS who

was killed in Dallas, TX November 1963)

continued to need administration staff 

attention when POTUS, Usha Vance, 

Suzie Wiles, Richard Grenell, visited the Kennedy

Center for the Arts Monday and he

stressed that he would release them that

night (March 17, 2025).

_____________________________________

DETAILS:

nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/politics/

national-security-officials-jfk-documents.html

UPDATE from Washingtonpost online

the Social Security numbers of +400

former Congressional staffers and other

officials were made public Monday when

Trump official John Ratcliffe raced to release the 

JFK Assassination document-drop, seeking

to complete in first two months of the

Trump 2.0 term of office a "campaign

promise" that was left undone beforehand.

Chemists, biologists, toxicologists, scientists in EPA to be fired from Trump-Musk cuts

APnews.com/

expected to be fired from the Trump

Environmental Protection Agency are

+1,000 scientists in the research office.

- - - a massive dismantling of the 

longstanding mission to protect 

public health and the environment

March 18, 2025 

Lee Zeldin, Trump EPA head who

was approved by Senate GOP and 

MAGA members, expects to eliminate

65% of the agency's budget.

Rose Garden (1600 Pennsylvania Ave., D.C.) -- put up a paved deck on historic yard in order to schmooze donors, BFFs

washingtontimes.com/news/2025/March/18/

donald-trump-eyes-paving-rose-garden-part

white-house-makeover

Taking away the rose bushes and flowering

plants would be controversial as it has had

longstanding space usage for greeting 

official State visits and celebratory occasions.

Melania Trump oversaw during 2017-2020

the replacement of the irrigation system

which helps the lawn drain properly.

By Powers of Good

Hymn Stanzas translated and edited from

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS IN ENGLISH

martyred April 1945 at Flossenberg Prison, Germany

Letter and Papers from Prison

Fortress Press, 2015

By faithful, quiet powers of good surrounded

so wondrously consoled and sheltered here --

I wish to live these days with you in spirit

and with you enter into a new year!

The old Year still would try our hearts to torment,

of evil times we still do bear the weight;

O Lord, do grant our souls, now

terror-stricken, salvation for which you

did us create!

And should you offer us the cup of

suffering, though heavy, brimming full and bitter brand,

we'll thankfully accept it, never flinching,

from your good heart and your beloved hand!

But should you wish now once again to give us

the joys of this world and its glorious sun,

then we'll recall anew what past times brought us

and then our life belongs to you alone!

The candles you have brought into

our darkness, let them today be burning

warm and bright,

and if it's possible, do reunite us!

We know your light is shining

through the night.

When now the quiet deepens all around us,

O, let our ears that fullest sound amaze

of this, your world, invisibly expanding

as all your children sing high hymns of praise!

By powers of good so wondrously protected,

we wait with confidence, befall what may.

God is with us at night and in the morning

and oh, most certainly on each new day!

_________________________________

FORTRESS "Reader's Edition"

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Kennedy Center for the Arts visit by POTUS, Usha Vance, Lee Greenwood, Susie Wiles, R. Grenell

UPDATE: More about Trump's nostalgia and

wishes for a do-over . . . SOURCE:

NYTimes.com/2025/03/19/arts/music/Trump-Kennedy

Center-music.html

__________________________________________

Already up for bidding are the broadcast rights

for the December 2025 "Kennedy Center Honors"

broadcast -- POTUS told his hand-picked board

(all members he nominated) that "WE'RE GOING TO GET

SOME GOOD SHOWS -- Les Miz in June & July --

WE WANTED Lee Greenwood TO SING A LITTLE

FOR TODAY's MEETING,

BUT UNIONIZED LABOR MADE IT TOO EXPENSIVE

TO MOVE A PIANO. . ."

Already ahead of the March 17 tour and meeting,

portraits of POTUS Donald J. Trump and FLOTUS

Melania (Knauss) Trump and the VP & "Second Lady"

JD and Usha Vance were up and in place at the

Kennedy Center walls / entrance-exits. . .

Layoffs in the federal Mine Health & Safety Administration (WY) -- voters raise questions at town hall

Repr. Harriet Hageman (Wyoming)

had questions put to her about the Trump-Musk approach

to cuts in present Social Security recipients benefits;

as well as about the shuttering of offices of the

Mine Health and Safety department

branch office in her state / her district

nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/

republicans-town-halls.html

Solar Farms : Butterbee Farm and One Acre Farm

According to The Hill dot-com

the farmers are suing the Government over

loans they received via the Inflation

Reduction Act that will assist in

installing renewable energy or 

energy efficiency updates.

Details: the hill.com/policy/energy-environment/

5139656-farmers-sue-trump-administration-

over-halted-ira-grants . . .

Bob Dylan (song lyric)

 The Times They Are A-Changin'

Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

around you have grown,

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone.

If your time to you is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

or you'll sink like a stone.

For the times they are a-changin'!

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again.

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin,

And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'

For the loser now will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'!

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call!

Don't stand in the doorway,

Don't block up the hall.

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled.

There's a battle outside and it is ragin'!

It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

For the times they are a-changin'!

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command.

Your old road is rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one

if you can't lend your hand.

For the times they are a-changin'!

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast!

The slow one now

Will later be fast.

As the present now

Will later be past.

The order is rapidly fadin',

and the fist one now will later

be last, for the times they are a-changin'!

St. Patrick's Breastplate

 I arise today

Through a might strength,

the invocation of the Trinity,

Through belief in the threeness,

Through confession of the oneness

Of the Creator of Creation.

I arise today

Through the strength of

Christ's birth with his baptism,

Through the strength of

his crucifixion with his burial,

Through the strength of

his resurrection with his ascension,

Through the strength of

his descent for the judgement of Doom.

I arise today

Through the strength of the love of Cherubim,

In obedience of angels,

In the service of archangels,

In hope of resurrection to meet with reward,

In prayers of patriarchs,

In predictions of prophet,

In preaching of apostles,

In faith of confessors,

In innocence of holy virgins,

In deeds of righteous men.

I arise 

Through the strength of heaven:

Light of sun,

Radiance of moon,

Splendor of fire,

Speed of lightning,

Swiftness of wind,

Depth of sea,

Stability of earth,

Firmness of rock.

I arise today

Through God's strength to pilot me:

God's might to uphold me,

God's wisdom to guide me,

God's eye to look before me,

God's ear to hear me,

God's word to speak for me,

God's hand to guard me,

God's way to lie before me,

God's shield to protect me

From snares of devils,

From temptations of vices,

From everyone who shall me I'll,

Afar and Anwar,

Alone and in multitude.

I summon today all these power between

me and those evils,

Against every cruel merciless power that

may oppose my body and soul

Against incantations of false prophets,

Against black laws of paganism,

Against false laws of heretics,

Against craft of idolatry,

Against spells of witches and smiths and wizards,

Against every knowledge

that corrupts man's body and soul

Christ to shield me today

Against poison, against burning,

Against drowning, against wounding,

So that there may come to me

abundance of reward,

Christ with me, Christ before me,

Christ behind me, Christ in me,

Christ beneath me, Christ above me,

Christ on my right, Christ on my left,

Christ when I lie down, Christ when

I sit down, Christ when I arise,

Christ in the heart of every man who

thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of

everyone who speaks of me,  Christ

in every eye that sees me,

Christ in every year that hears me.

I arise today

Through a mighty strength, the 

invocation of the Trinity, through

belief in the threeness,  

Through confession of the oneness,

Of the Creator of Creation.

from

How the Irish Saved Civilization

by Thomas Cahill (Doubleday, 1995)

Voice of America // Judge rules Radio Free Europe CANNOT be shut down

District Court Judge of D.C.

rules that Radio Free Europe/

Radio Liberty CANNOT be shut down

since Trump-Vance cannot shut down

the Congressionally established news media

that is an anti-Russian broadcaster unilaterally,

deadline March 28 -- NYTimes.com/live/2025/03/26/

us/trump-news

MONDAY -- Trump withdrew the nomination of

L. Brent Bozell III to run the RFE/RL

platform 

POTUS closes this agency

Employees all fired: 

UPDATE: Six V of A staff

sue Kari Lake and the Trump administration

alleging that their moves to shut down

and eliminate the U.S. funded network

were

unlawful and unconstitutional.

More than 900 full-time workers

were placed on indefinite leave

last weekend (March 15- 16);

550 contractors were terminated

from their jobs.

VOA is effectively shut down.

npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5336351/

voice-of-america-trump-lawsuit-

kari-lake-voa

Gospel of Luke 13:31 - 35

NRSV, Updated edition (2021)

Lament over Jerusalem

At that very hour some

Pharisees came and said

to Jesus, "Get away from here

for Herod (Antipas) wants to

kill you."

He said to them, "Go and

tell that fox for me, 'Listen,

I am casting out demons and

performing cures today and

tomorrow, and on the third

I finish my work.  Yet, today,

tomorrow, and the next day I 

must be on my way, because

it is impossible for a prophet

to be killed outside of Jerusalem.'

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the

city that kills the prophets and

stones those who are sent to

it!  How often have I desired

to gather your children together

as a hen gathers her brood under

her wings, and you were not

willing!  See, your house is left

to you [desolate].  And I tell

you, you will not see me until

the time comes when you

say, 'Blessed is the one who

comes in the name of the Lord'!

along with Epistle lesson

Philippians 3:17 - 4:1

PREACHING Text for 

Archbishop John McDowell

of Ireland speaking to 

National Cathedral (Episcopal

Church of the U.S.) in D.C.

today at 11:15 a.m. Holy

Eucharist (2nd Sunday in Lent)

Chuckwalla National Monument & Satittla National Monument (both in California)

March 14, 2025 Publicity / fact sheet from

Executive Branch headed by POTUS

announced that two National Monuments

will be eliminated // then scrubbed on March 17

the language authorizing that eliminations

of environmental protections against use of

the federal lands.

thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5198542-

white-house-national-monuments-elimination-announcement/

?tbref=hp

Second Sunday in Lent - Preacher at D.C. is John McDowell (March 16, 2025)

Online coverage

Sunday Holy Eucharist and Service

Music (Hymns, Contemp. anthems)

Preacher from Ireland is

Most Rev. John McDowell

archbishop (Ch. of England)

primate of all Ireland

Philippians 3:17 - 4:1

GospLuke 13:31-35

cathedral.org/calendar/principal-sunday-holy-eucharist-106/

MUSIC:

"I Love You, Jesus" / Kirk Franklin, composer 1971

Beati Quorum Vita -- composer Stanfield 19th Century (Choral piece)

"Be Thou, My Vision" processional hymn

"Lord, have mercy" responsorial

Thankful prayer for Patrick, the Apostle to the Irish

Psalm 27: Plainsong (6 in singing group)

My Jesus, I love Thee - composer Adoniram Judson