God’s sunlight streams in from the west at Lucas Oil as Adoration commences July 17th
James 1:22 ff Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror. 24He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like...
27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows* in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Fellow sojourners: The Jubilee year of Hope commences…the rejuvenation of belief in the Father’s Ultimate Gift of His Eucharistic Son continues. Our Church needs this refreshing “retraining” time. God has done His part!
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Tony gets a hug
My wife Mary and I heard in late November 2023 on Relevant Radio about the upcoming June 2024 NEC event in Indianapolis. We have a local love for Adoration, have Holy Hours at odd times at St Martin’s and believe deeply in John 6th. In fact, my fave T-Shirt from decades of youth ministry and DRE staffing is “We are here for the Food..John 6” at St Anthony Claret.
We adore thee, O Lord!…
We had not been involved on the two-three year lead up nor on NEC’s staff or volunteers for the Eucharistic Real Presence push previously, but this seemed a great way, as involved Orange County, CA Catholics, to further a great need: rejuvenating a true understanding of the Father’s Ultimate Gift of His Eucharistic Son.
Despite many prophetic tools, like the Eucharist miracles from Lanciano onward, about the Eternal Promise of the Father monumented for millennia in the desert at Giza etc., active and fallen away Catholics were both losing their faith about Jesus’ True Presence, not to mention coupled with a decline in hope. Covid did not help in the least, encouraging lock downs of Mass buildings massively.
Down to an estimated 25% believing it’s real! Another Catholic leader claims 59% of Catholics just don’t believe Jesus is real. Whatever the real percentage, this is not good, especially with the incredible planning, symbolizing, prophecies, Scriptures and more that the Eternal Father “invested” in eternally loving His Son and offering Him for daily consumption.
But, understand, our passivity and allowing (at least in California) our godless government elected/employees to shut us down, violating every bit of the 1st amendment and common sense, has contributed to this dilemma.
We, as a Church, must be honest and realize that due in part to unforced errors by us and our leaders, including the ridiculous Covid handling & aftermath, response, NEC would be a beautiful way to reignite the Truth at our local parishes.
November 2023 Ticketing.
10 minutes on line, $700 drained from the savings, but well invested and registered for the event the following year! On the way in 7 months.
June 13~Our Flight to Cincinatti, a very ominous day in American history.
First foster adopted (Jason) at his baptism in Dayton
We headed East early June 13th, to visit our Chicago Polish cousins and foster grandkids in Ohio; Nathan, the Chesterton Academy of Dayton headmaster, his lovely bride, Jen and 4 kids, 3 of them fosters soon to be adopted in November.
During the flight, we heard about the shooting of President Trump, a providential assassination attempt that failed. Did that cause the NEC security to tighten up? Not according to NEC security director, Steve Garcia.
One amazing highlight, suggested by my Daughter in law Jen, was visiting the JRRTolkien~CSLewis museum in Wheaton, Illinois; two great writers’ desks side by side with a supply of their work. This is something any Chesterton or Lord of the Rings~Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe fan should not pass up.
June 17~Arrival at Lucas Oil and the Convention/Exhibit Hall about 11am.
Wednesday, first stopped at our beautiful host’s home located 4 miles from the NEC site, such a blessing; and then we had to search for the best place to park, not having previously done so.
We got LUCKY! God did bless us with the former Hurst factory parking lot, now an event site, that was separate but attached to the football stadium’s parking lot. We paid $10 a day to park there, a total Godsend. Easy access and set for the week that ended Sunday afternoon/evening.
Hurst parking lot
After parking, Mary and I walked past the stadium to the registration lines that circled the Exhibit Hall complex. It became obvious it would be a long time until we registered, so we made the most of the time talking to fellow Catholics in line, families (homeschooling people from everywhere: we had homeschooled our 11 kids for 40 years and with youngest now 21, there was a lot to share).
I must confess, as a three decade former staffer in OC parishes as youth minister, music minister, DRE,
OCIA at three parishes, it is in my blood to humbly be available for others. As you are!!
Corporal and spiritual works of mercy, come to mind. Something our Church communities need, especially in this world dying to know the Truth. Faith is often better caught than just taught and the better we serve, the better the witness and the hope for others to catch the good virus.
In that vein, I came to Indianapolis, not to be served but to serve others, making myself available to the needs of others. Apparently, possibly, it was a big mistake I found out two days later on Friday about midday.
Amazing homeschoolers
Registration Lines.
While waiting for hours, we met so many amazing people, nuns by the tons, people old and young, from many states outside the Exhibit Hall waiting to get inside and get our “credentials” as they were called. I usually call them “nametags” and credentials are your curriculum vitae. Such is life!
Part of the ‘waiting outside’ time, a local pastor from a non-denominational church called Aletheia walked up to me and introduced himself. The word Aletheia in the Greek means “truth” or “truth revealed” and it is a common name for Protestant churches across our land.
“Sisters, Sisters…”
Pastor Noah, the father of 4 kids under 5, opened our 10 minute dialogue with a very simple theme common in Catholic apologetics: Sola scriptura, meaning faith and Christian truth is only contained in the Bible, selling Jesus and His Chief Promoter short.
Noah was kind and truly concerned for my soul, but I should carry a “Sola Scriptura” cue card, since it is typical starting point to keep Catholics out of hell by our protestant brothers and sisters; much like the ultimate and greatest verse, John 3:16 is seen on screen in the end zone of most stadia, including the Colts’ Lucas Oil especially when kicking extra points against the Saints.
Point is, we discussed our different churches and I shared what the conference was about; he wasn’t getting far with me, but it’s not a game, like big league sports, of gaining points on the other person. He could sense my convictions and the Socratic method of asking questions does help.
I did tell Noah, as busy at having little ones, ie a father as you are, are you sure you aren’t Catholic? Of course I invited him to join the church, gave him a card; I told him I have 11 kids and 22 23 grandkids, that Mary and I came to your fair city to celebrate Jesus’ True Presence in the Eucharist and appreciated the time he spent talking and sharing.
My wife and I were in different parts of the line but we knew we’d get caught up eventually. Having done over 100 retreats in 30+ years, plus youth conferences like pro-life training, Steubenville regional and religious education gatherings in Anaheim, I was used to different registration methods. I believe the fine NEC leadership tried real hard to plan this out, but due to the massive number, 65000, it would take over 4 hours to get to the table of computers and printers.
Finally, inside the Indy building Day 1!
Sr Marcina is proof that age, location and SIZE has nothing to do with the definition of life. The mighty MofCharity rock!!
Once inside, we moved like sheep along the outside corridor until we got to the massive multi-purpose hall; there were about 25? long lines, separated by portable dividers, that ultimately would lead to the actual registration tables. Similar to bank turnstiles, you’d go maybe 100 feet then turn the corner and head back the other way, until the 26th time (a guess), you’d get into the quick moving registration table lines. All you needed was your name! Picked up your gig bag with your lanyard nametag (OK, credentials)and schedule. But…
I had a dilemma: once inside, standing at the back of the huge room, I noticed walkers, wheel chair bound, one blind guy and many folks in their 80s sprinkled among the thousands.
In simple basic Catholic teaching terms, the vulnerable did NOT belong there. If someone on the large NEC 2033 team is taking notes, lets practice “comfort the afflicted” as if it is a current Work of Mercy.
Could this be the mysterious Anne? A wheelchaired nanogenarian got a Fast Pass after hours in line
I first asked a 80s something woman pushing her walker, “how long have you been in line?” She told me an hour and a half; I just can’t tolerate stupid, humbly of course, but pick two or three from the “mercy chart” and my dilemma is obvious. None of these faithful, most seasoned devoted Catholics, deserved to be in the line: so I asked Walker Woman Susan: “would you like to move to the head of the line?”
The relief in her eyes and voice made it obvious:
“Please, this is very difficult for me”.
No one on the NEC team seemed assigned to helping the vulnerable in the Registration Room, so like the energized Catholic I have become known (still check my label: I’m not dangerous nor fattening or habit forming),
I said “Let’s go!” And we did!
I lifted one of the aluminum cross pieces off the vertical pole, had her move into the next line and repeated it at the end. Of course, I replaced the piping each time; as a scoutmaster, you always want to leave your campground or other sites better or the same than when you arrived.
I moved Suzie to the front, going around the side and told the volunteer line monitor she should not be in the line for hours and would you usher her to the table and assist her! The young lady volunteer graciously said “Sure of course,” and took care of Suzie. That’s what engaged Catholics do! We look for the needy, and serve…
Temporary Ambassador of the Ailing…or Concierge to the Crippled?
I headed back to the lines, now apparently a NCom volunteer docent without credentials, since I hadn’t been able to register as of yet; Mary was somewhere back in the line. I had first spotted a frail older woman in a wheel chair near one of the turnabouts and headed her way. Next stop was 90 year old Anne. What’s a 90 year old doing at NEC? Bigger question, why stuck in line for hours?
Anne looked tiny in her chair; she was flanked by care givers, typically called “family”. They too had been in line for hours and I had no idea if there was a spot for the less than able to gather, like a Fast Pass at Disneyland or World. So I asked if they might be interested in moving to the front; funny, I got no complaints from other line walking folks, nor football stadium security who probably watch every move from above…or staff.
They said that would be excellent for our mother; they told me her name was Anne from Minnesocold and she was 90 years old. One of the three escorting her, pointed out this was Anne’s SECOND National Eucharist Congress, the last one in 1941 when she was 7 years old. Just Amazing! Where were the headlines!!
Later, I mentioned it to some people I know at relevant radio and also the organizer par excellence Sarah Houde, the former wedding planner turned chief NEC organizer; she mentioned it would be great to get her story. Another day, I happened to be on the floor below the end zone seats, Sarah was near a colleague, asked if she wanted a pic (she rarely had time I would think), took one and told her I would look.
Some journalist I was, because I did not take info/numbers from Anne’s team; however looking around for her on the floor of the arena etc. I never could find her again.
Of course, I only had two of the five conference days to locate her, but wouldn’t that be amazing if Anne makes it to NEC 2033 at age 99. I still think the NEC leaders are missing out on not following up on her. How many 90 year old Anne’s could there be from Minnesota? wheel chair bound? for NEC 2033. The NEC presumably has computers to search for different participants; they certainly keyed on this 72 year old it turns out.
Back at work, for a total of 24-25 in-line participants, it was a blessing to help! One situation I missed was a dad separated from his two kids and wife but no success there.
Note that the most ironic man in the line happened to be a blind guy, white cane in hand going back and forth through the lines with his “assistant”. I asked the man (remember, blind people have ears and can hear) if he would like to move to the front.
He simply said “No thank you. I’m ok to walk with everyone else”. His helper just nodded and I knew a “NO!” was final. Important part of being an engaged Catholic is treating everyone with the same dignity: never assume… because many of you know that when you assume you make an…
I am sure, in nine years, as Bishop Freyer told me in a note, better provision for disabled or seasoned Catholics will be made. Organizing an event like this is very complex. How can we preach to the world about Jesus’ Divine Mercy if we ignore those in need of basic mercy that can be easily given.
Jesus is serious about Catholics doing good for others, not just in His brother James’ writings. Imagine if the whole Church learns to put others first, not for fan glory but for the sake of the Gospel, what the world would be like. The Obamanation has been throttled back, restrained for the time: now is the time to revitalize and rejuvenate.
“And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple—amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.” — Matthew 10
The Relevant Radio booth in the Exhibit Hall
Completed the concierge finally, got registered, though sure more would be coming; I finally caught up with Mary and we headed late afternoon to see the sights…ok, visit exhibitors like Franciscan U, Relevant Radio and more.
Mr. Experience Patrick Madrid with two excellent grandkkids at the booth. Cyrus is at the low stage behind the balloons
We looked forward to seeing the different ministries, many of which we have had worked with over the years of parish ministry, as homeschooling parents, re-acquainting with so many.
This was the side benefit of celebrating Jesus IN the Eucharist, the Center of the World, of Eternity, Source and Summit of the Faith after Jesus left and the Holy Spirit energized one Pentecost AD33.
Back when Church upper room lock-outs (actually lock ins) happened out of fear, just as our Church practiced AD 2020-23. STILL residual poison must be cured and cleared.
My fellow Catholics: think about this seriously. Jesus asks us to honor our authorities for they will be held accountable. But, if a significantly unjust action(s) occurs, we must take action and speak up or more.
How TexasU Med bought “Dr” Theiler’s abortions from the morning for her second job at Planned Parenthood. Parts for her “lab”. NO charge to ship but livers sold as “Consents Obtained”. Lies and more lies.
In California, the godless lefty Gov and Mrs. Newsom shut down the Churches by EDICT which today we know is medical malpractice and lies.
The gender fluidics star still waived and engaged Planned Parenthood volunteers/workers, many from Covered California departments, as “essential workers” so they got a waiver and continued their evil.
Essential workers who rape women with sharp objects by death doctors who harvest smaller organs for resale. You’ve heard of David Daleiden; I know of David and rejoice with you sir! California finally ended their persecution.
Yet, the disgrace is private citizen Kamala HAS NOT returned David’s stolen intellectual property taken by 11 goons one April in the past when she was attorney general.
This is my call to all of us being bold, fearless and passionate about our faith and circumstances that surround its 
practice. You need not be violent even when you are combatting satanic violence. But, fearlessness has been called for by Jesus, Pope Saint John Paul the Great, and St Padre Pio P.
Like in the planned parenthood marketplace of ripping prebirth baby parts out and selling them to Texas med units.
~~~~~~~~~~~~Exhibit Hall Wed night
The Pilgrims come in and first night commences….the following is adapted from a blog posted last year
on Hugs N Roses
Lessons of the armless Tony hug & Lila’s Roses at NEC
Looking to the Eucharistic Renaissance. at Jason’s urging, just joined the Society of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus I believe “Our Church has got to move beyond passivity ensconced in FEAR if we are to revive the True and Real Presence beliefs and help get more souls to heaven. FEAR..is an anagram for False Expectations Appearing REAL.
The Renaissance is poised to come…Let’s set the historical worldwide Church suppression timetable:
From Oct, 2019 onward, based on the hegemonic Mao Tse Xi’s (pronounced in the King’s English as Mao Say Cheese) duplicity and evil incubation of SARS/Covid among 11 million Wuhanians.
These city dwellers included infected workers flown to Italian and Spanish companies, owned by China, that aided (recall?) early major outbreaks where? Italy and Spain.
We can’t overlook massive medical suppression, lies and Dr… Pfaucinstein’s arrogance, while the California Church allowed, tail between our legs, a toddler totalitarian reprobate Catholic tyrant couple, Jen & Gavin Newsom, to do endless evil.
”They locked down schools like loons and worse, talked our Bishops into closing the churches…Get this, NOT in Soviet Russian or atheist communist China, but AMERICA, they locked down all the churches, except for a few unmentioned, like home churches, who defied this nonsense; it really was a wake up call AND theologically, a replay of the First Pentecost upper room lock in.
NEVER again.” ~anonymous Same words as the Auschwitz-Berkinau camp posters. We need to mean it!
And the ultimate ANSWER of Who IS important from eternity onward, is written in the stars.
Soon to be revealed, God the Father planned before time immemorial His Eucharistic Son’s place of destiny, as the daily bloodless Sacrifice in two common earthen species: bread and wine. Heralded on the winter solstice, one Dec 25th in Gregory the Great’s calendar, as the day of His first appearance on this earth.
I call Him the Ultimate Gift… what do YOU call Him?
Giza as it appears when the Holy Family fled Herod’s evil and stayed nearby in a Jewish settlement in Cairo.
Leaving nothing to chance, the Father placed the world’s largest stone monument in the desert, sitting at the exact Center of the World that points to the entrance of His Beloved Son’s eternal Eucharistic gift at the House of Bread…of Life.
True GodFatherly Love. (see the article/blog called “The Theology of Giza” released for details. No Len isn’t a conspiracy theorist or wears aluminum hats, just seeking the Truth)
For example, God TOLD us how expansive His real star collection, His universe of celestials, was through Abram/Abraham revelations.
Hindsight seems to be 20/20: Until the 1620s, humanity thought the sky had at most, about 1000 stars, max, that existed in the firmament/universe; Galileo put this lowballing count to rest.
Just discovered, the stars on Mary’s mantle match the Dec 12, 1531 sky making the filling in easy. Note where constellations Virgo and Leo are!
Yet there’s a Marian star chart, built onto her cactus fiber Tilma, keyed to the night sky of Dec 12, 1531; Mexico City depicting the Virgin and Child, constellation Virgo over her heart and Leo over her womb, the King of kings. and the discernment of the theological virtues. Yes, there is faith, and hope, but the greatest is:
LOVE!
‘If I speak in human and angelic tongues* but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. 2And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have LOVE,
I am nothing ‘ ~~1 Corinthians 13…
Now let’s talk Tony.
An old friend, Tony Melendez deserved life, like all young Nicaraguans, Polish, German, Americans…all humans. Creed and colors are secondarily incidental to the incredibly perfect work of our eternal Creator; with a club foot and no arms, Tony couldn’t qualify to be a priest and probably not so good at basketball.
But, like his Nicaraguan grandma and Pope Saint John Paul the Great, God knew what He was doing…for all eternity, God has made ZERO mistakes. Just another human child that defies the evil of DEI and the dying world’s definition of success…EVERY human has a place in God’s perfect Plan. And no one is sans talents. None. Tony proves that God will use all that answer His call.
With Tony, look at how he’s changed the world over 37 years, one amazing Catholic icon of hope and healing. Drew Mariani, on a recent show put out a beautiful truth:
“Humility is the Crystal Bridge that leads us to heaven”
Tony fits that bill so well, no more humble servant on earth than Mr. Toe Jam Pilgrim.
I so wish I can be as humble, for we are at a crisis point as a culture and in need of reawakening this Church to boldness, speaking the Truth in Love. NEC and this ambitious movement to reacquaint the body Catholic populace to Jesus’ REAL Presence, can be a part of it, it MUST be a part of it.
Few can deny our Church is decaying in many parts of America and the world…but Jesus is faithful to His Bride. We’ve gone through much worse times. ALL hands on deck!
This is no time for “legends in our own minds” and arrogance. Remember, He washed feet and He was God! Servant to all.
Please understand, as you read this, humbly, my goal is to encourage others like you the reader to see we are on the ground, looking up as this revival heats up into a Renaissance; no one can deny we are passing through Neo Dark Ages.
Especially the last 4 years… my friend Steve Hager, the father of a Levi who became a Premonstratensian (ok, Norbertine) named Fr. Louis, at St Michaels Abbey, says it simply: “the solution IS the Eucharist”.
Steve, a member with his wife, Regina, of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, is the father of two of my kids’ spouses…Levi was Steve & Regina’s 3rd born son, destined and dedicated to God as a Norbertine today, as is the Jewish tradition in the Torah regarding priesthood and birth order of sons.
The Eucharist is the Source/Flow, the Summit and Center of our Faith…as we can show, Jesus IS the center of time (AD & BC), salvation history and in fact, in a very physical way, the world/planet.
All this is pointed out in the object named ‘Border Middle Fire’ and also known as Giza (see the Theology of Giza), still towering though its brilliant shell was harvested for its pure white cover/ casing stones.
Only a few of the original 144,000 that once graced the world’s last wonder are still attached…below the sand line
Chew on Isaiah 19:19-20 and ruminate this: when the Holy Family fled TO Egypt to avoid the arrogant fool Herod, they stayed in a emigrated Jewish settlement near Cairo. I have no doubt Joseph and Mary, and possibly the young Jesus, saw this marvelous stone gift built 2500 years previously. Like the show “Chosen”, it’s ok to conjecture. IF Jesus was old enough at this time:
He would have seen His Father’s enormous monument to Himself, unmistakably the summary of the source of our faith today encased in 2.3 million giant blocks and mysterious carvings, FROM the outside.
An Egyptian tourist destination identified in Isaiah 19:19-21:
On that day there shall be an altar to the LORD at the center of Egypt, and a sacred pillar to the LORD near its boundary. 20This will be a sign and witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt, so that when they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior to defend and deliver them. 21The LORD shall make himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day…
As Catholics, we don’t believe that ONLY what is revealed in Scripture reveals Salvation History; God uses other parts of His Creation to complete His picture, His story.
Giza’s blinding brilliance would be impossible to ignore and possibly retracing the steps of someone going from Cairo to Bethlehem then Jerusalem, the City of David. Something the Holy Family would have done, leaving the Cairo Jewish settlement to return home , soon after Herod died. Sadly, thousands of young boys, the Holy Innocents, had to die for a godless arrogant Herod.
What does all this have to do with NEC and the True Presence in the Eucharist? A lot!
Reawakening KNOWING what is true, for starters. And realizing how totally important the Father ranks His Son as the Ultimate Gift.
We just need more than the recently polled 25% of true believers (out of 100% Catholics) to see the Real Presence AS the True Gift of Jesus and witness to Its Reality; after all, we are the caretaker of the Gift of the Eucharist, while our Protestant brothers and sisters think Consubstantiation or just In Memory, suffices.
It doesn’t suffice, and by their choice, our separated brethren are deprived of so much richness in following the Savior. As a T-Shirt we made decades ago for our religious ed and youth ministry at St Anthony Claret:
We are here for the Food. ~John 6
The Eucharistic Mass, receivable daily, is NOT a mausoleum of ancient rituals but what Jesus required us to partake in. Something the Father herald from eternity past about His beloved Ultimate Gift that KEEPS ON GIVING!
I believe our Proud GodFather, for the first half of eternity (we exist in mid Eternity), seeks this Role of His Son as well…for he pointed us directly to the House of Bread of Life four millennia ago concretely, with no doubt at all, at Giza.
A royal birth took place at a minor little hamlet 5 miles to the City of Peace: Bethlehem. The House of Bread, as it is known to the Jews; by the way, known as the House of Meat to the followers of Mohammad. But, this Giza object is yet another, though the world’s largest, prefigurement like manna (the bread of life for the wandering Jews); the wedding at Cana (where water became wine) etc.
Paraphrasing the 2nd greatest commandment, “See a need, meet the need IF you can, than move on to the next!” is how I live my life in year 73...I begin each sunrise with a phrase: “It’s a GREAT day to be alive! Lord, use me as You Will, not my will”.
‘DON’T BE DECEIVED BY THE EVIL THAT SURROUNDS US IN THE DEATH CULTURE’ (POPE St JP the GREAT’s words). See the Good!
Segue: some of you are fans of JRR Tolkien; before we got to Indianapolis last year, we were privileged to go to Wheaton College, where Tolkien and CS Lewis famous desks are preserved side by side with much of their works. Definitely worth a visit. As to “good”, in Lord of the Rings II, Sam Gangee utters this encouragement to Froto:
“There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for”.
Words for us to live by in these end days of the last days. Whether we have two days, years or centuries more.
In so many ways, we have succumbed to the world’s rule, like it’s the 49th day after the Resurrection or 9 days past the Ascension (Thursday, NOT the West’s version of move it to Sunday because Thursday no one will come! Secret: they still don’t come as they should on Sunday IF they only knew).
But, as Pilgrims in this Jubilee year of HOPE, as Hope springs eternal. To this man of Joy, yes! Don’t let anything get you down.
Uh, my beloved Catholic brothers and sisters, listen to the stats: they already are NOT coming to the greatest blessings and gifts darkening the Church’s doors ALL Sundays, holy days of opportunity (obligation) and daily Mass.
Mark these words: this will change for the better! Don’t wait and see>>>> DO! Be a part of the Renaissance.
What great times we are living in, if only we take off the blinders of fear (there’s that word again first uttered by Jesus to His Apostles ) from the godless and the constant lies of the loons, leftists and ObamaaNation of Decepticons and Desolators (excellent definition of what ails us, rooted in Scripture).
Maybe the party of slavery doesn’t, but I understand bearing false witness is one of the written in stone commands most violated!
Look at hell’s immediate response at the Paris Olympics after NEC shut down; what happened soon after the latest National Eucharistic Congress, acknowledging on the American scene Jesus’ REAL Presence, 83 years out: 1941. Ask Anne of Minnesota. She was there in 1941 AND in Indianapolis.
Dateline, Paris: The Olympics starts out with, as the Jesus impersonator called it, the “Gay Last Supper.” Oh, it was only a Greek myth played out in a former Catholic stronghold, France… never mind the arrangement of four sets of threesomes. This is how Donna and I positioned adults and teens in the Living Last Supper for over a decade on Holy Thursday nights.
Boy pretend girl punches out Girl for the gold.
…meanwhile Da Vinci turns in his grave. Next, proving Hell’s ascendancy is real, like that fake woman Mr Khelif, the de-emasculation of manhood, husbands and protective men, one of God’s greatest created beings, woman gets pulverized by a sad sick male fake girl punching out a real Italian woman and getting his worthless Gold medal.
A few years ago, an acquaintance of mine threepeated in Olympic gold over 3 olympics, and today she is the mother to 3 beautiful girls. Point is God created male and female, with appropriate attributes and skills. But evil never rests.
Hell assaults God’s Design every chance the demons get; sounding and appearing like a gleeful Hamasian, the Algerian Imane Khelif both physically and, as later replays prove, obviously sexually abused Italian Angela Carini, and despite the claims he is a DSD Intersex human, he can never have children like the aforementioned 3peater champ of beach volleyball… OR pass the XX chromosome test.
Zounds of Li Thomas…. someone call Riley Gaines!! Point is, God is NOT pleased; He knew what He was doing when he created this massive universe. He did NOT need Khelif or Thomas’ help in the design process as consultants. And He is not happy about our attempts to mutilate women’s breasts and vaginas so Gender Mutilators, MDs can buy a yacht.
Sad was these profane demoniacs practicing their evil craft in a former Catholic land of Lourdes and more…
But, we are called to build others up, especially the Church. So much spiritual activity, so little time to do it all. Living sacrifices to get more souls to the eternal heavenlies.
On to Patrick and Tony! Day 3 July 19th
Friday, July 19th, my wife, Mary and I were enjoying Friday Day 3 of the National Eucharistic Congress; after a glorious Fr Rocky led family rosary and just another incredible celebration of the Real Presence redo, the Mass, we stayed in Lucas Oil Stadium after the beautiful Friday Mass for the testimonials.
In his short time up front, Mr. Experience Patrick Madrid shared two important lessons.
1) His famous six words aid to show the Bible is interpreted by people differently, typically according to their own biases: “I didn’t say you stole money”.
Another being a story coming home to America soon:
2) In 1950s China, after communist Maoists deliberately tossed consecrated hosts on the church floor, the child martyr Li daily self administered by tongue one Eucharist each night; she was killed after pressing her tongue to the 32nd and last Eucharist host. She wouldn’t dare touch the consecrated Hosts with her hands…
Great stories: go to the
NEC Manna pay wall site, or relevantradio.com and pull in the relevant radio app for more info. TY Patrick!
After Mr. Madrid finished, the announcer called out that Tony Melendez was coming up next; I had no idea he was coming to NEC. I truly was surprised but should have known he’d be there.
Wednesday Registration was busy as a volunteer Concierge for the Crippled and Lame. Busy with so much Catholic opportunities to minister and dialogue with fellow Catholics, I didn’t read the vast number of choices for ministry, adoration, Mass, confession completely since we bought the tickets and arrived days before.
Mary and I were in the end zone seats, though no John 3:16 placards around, and I turned to my wife and stepmom to 11, Mary and said:
“If they let me…I gotta go give Tony a hug”.
Anyone can hold a For Life! sign with a hand, but your toes?
Impulsive yet instinctive! My goodness, this NEC is a Catholic gathering of brothers and sisters honoring the Father’s Eucharistic Real Present Son and somehow the blind, wheelchaired and walkered were unattended to for hours of turnstiled lines toward the one minute check-in at the tables. An unforced error by the leadership but that’s where we come in: seeing and filling true needs.
Plus Thursday night, someone had forgotten EVERY woman deserves a rose every day; one of the most amazing Catholic pro life heroes, the storied and voice for the voiceless, Lila Rose arrived on stage sans her namesake: a rose.
That Thursday afternoon Mary and I had headed to Kroger’s, a dozen beautiful reds were purchased for the night’s keynote.
With Lila sharing her conversion to Catholicism testimony, no one put roses in her hands as she came to the podium.
Some unidentified guy in a Sacred Heart Patrol hat tossed roses on stage so as not to disturb her amazing story.
A staffer quickly gathered them up, all 11, and hopefully delivered them to the rightful owner. (later I found out at a Sept 28th prolife rally didn’t happen. I asked Lila if they gave her the bunch. “No, Len, I never got them”. Another weird thing; did NOT get the roses from the stage hand or staffer. Maybe the NEC folks were protecting Lila from danger: after all, THORNs have roses as Fr Tang used to say. Good news, I had a replacement rose that Saturday at Planned Parenthood Tustin, which she gratefully accepted.
Sometimes, like it seems at NEC, rigid organizational zero tolerance planning gets in the way of the Spirit, and the organism of the bride of Christ misses the most important needs. Being a doer isn’t always easy to discern.
Stifling the Spirit is something that happens often, but God leaves NOTHING to chance. His God-incidences occur, like butterflies, appear when you least expect.
Tony’s huglessness is made up with excessive kisses by Lynn…
Tony and his wife Lynn (plus daughter Marisa) are loved by so many; as to my beautiful bride, Mary and I, we’ve been on an adventure, married for almost 6 years and I think Mary’s a bit resigned to her hubby doing the harmless but NOT ordinary.
Kind of like the Church of old, he sees everyone in need of hope and joy on this third rock from the sun. Spreading the JOY is job 1. Always. For all of us!
Donna, the mom to our 11, in heaven since 49 days short of age 49 on 9/9/11, is probably smirking from above.
One odd thing, butterflies remind me almost daily of Donna’s boundless love celebrated with 1400 at Holy Family Cathedral a week after she had passed away.
Two decades ago, it became the Mariposa nickname for our Faustina, soon to be married before year end on Dec 28th, the feast mentioned above of Holy Innocents. Choice for the date goes to Elijah, his love for a beautiful reason.
Frankly, the time for Catholic mealy mouth passivity is over, BOLD the effort d’ jour. Corinthians continues; IF we truly love others:
“…If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing…”
Maybe a character flaw that embarrasses some of my 11 kids, I try to always encourage and help others seek Christ in all things and when a good friend is in need, I must act IF it can help. Tony was precisely that person that Friday the 19th.
You can’t see it by his armless demeanor, Tony is one in need, a friend and brother I had not seen in a few years; last time 
was before Tony and Lynn lost their beloved son, Andres. Imagine losing your son in his 20s while sleeping; God calls each of us home when He decides…but I believe there is more to the story about Andres’ passing. Yet, God and only God controls the length of each of our days.
Over a decade ago, God decided my Donna, after 11 kids and time on earth now over, needed to be moved to eternity 49 days short of 49 years old;but Andres at half that age is just as difficult to understand.
But, you should know, Andres’ birthday was coming just days after Tony’s testimony on stage at the NEC and made this a double opportunity for merciful love of a brother IF the security would allow. Which it did!
Tony’s testimony followed Mr. Experience Fri July 19th; both Patrick and Tony are true St Joseph archetypes working hard for the Lord
It turns out they did give permission: as the transcript and audio would bear out, they gave Len permission to do a work of mercy for an old friend. Yes, it wasn’t in the sacred cast in stone script for the stage, but it melded well with Tony’s testimony.
When my Donna went to be with the Lord after a nine month struggle with cancer, she WAS ready and we came to accept this reality: she told me, soon after a healing Mass, “Len, I got a spiritual healing tonight but the physical was not to be.”
Chemo, radiation, alternative treatments, tons of prayer since Christmas 2010, Donna finished her last 6 months generously devoting her pain to others’ needs.
900at our birth parish, St Anthony Claret, for her rosary… followed by 1400 at her Holy Family Cathedral funeral Mass attests to her being loved by a wide swath of humans. Not to mention, the kindness of a family we would soon be related to, gave us the perfect reception for celebration, Steve and Regina Hager.
Holy Sepulcher cemetery’s Jack Nixon told us later Donna was #2 in the number of cars, second to the beloved Carl Karcher of Hardees/Carl’s Jr fame, someone Donna and I honored in years past for his prolife work.
Point is, God uses whom He wills; Tony does more than many sporting both arms to toss a football, get drunk and cheer boys, 11 to a side on the gridiron instead of at Mass many Sundays. Tony answered the call.
When Tony was born, his grandma knew, reassuring Tony’s well loved crying mom God had plans for her son.
Part of this societal decay, what a great sainted pope called the culture of death, we KILL so many today prebirth because our inane, stupid understanding of what quality of life is all about. Down syndrome kids are precious and the happiest people on earth. Yet, hell and hell’s demons like in the party of slavery that calls out mutilate and kill them prebirth.
It doesn’t stop there. Look at school boards spaying our daughters like they are junkyard dogs, installing suicidal ideations into girls ravaged with her breasts gone and her vagina scissor~handed to zero hope… where post pubescence discovery and growing up should reign.
Imagine her torment when she realizes she will never nurse the child she will never bear.
How did we get here? Part of it, is abandoning Jesus in the Eucharist no doubt. Let the revival lead to a Renaissance of Love.
Good news: in 2025, Trump exec ordered out the right to mutilate under age human children by the demented death doctors of so called “gender affirming” carelessness.
Yes our world IS decaying before our eyes…but we must take courage and smile. JOY remains and hope does spring…eternal. The Renaissance is coming. But WE not them, need to have the confident (not arrogant) smiles and knowledge there IS a Savior they need to know.
These “consent payment” baby parts are more costly than livers; possibly hearts. NOT heads which go for $715 sold to Boston U MedSchool
Tony proves man’s designs and plans are NOT God’s. Today, in the world of satanists and imbeciles like Kamala and AOC, young prebirth children, built with 30 trillion intricate cells, tissues, organs, systems are routinely killed off and parts sold to planned parenthoodlums, a form of senseless enslavement and baby harvesting.
What was Len’s motivation to step up his service? Read on…
But, for Tony and Lynn, losing an only beloved son in their 20s instantaneously is a tougher burden; another young man we know well took his life, became a germaphobe during Mao Tse Xi’s Wuhan incubated virus days; like so many today, our reaction as a Church coupled with infused fear has created a whole generation of fearful automatons: the Gospel and our personal ministering with the Gospel and Eucharist… ARE the only solution to renewing our Church’s health. Fr. Louis is absolutely right!
Meanwhile, in the surreal world, the godless party still has a laser carved wooden party plank pushing the killing of prebirth kids for sport now being was broadcast by the Democrat leadership.
Mr. Daleiden’s first Pulitzer
The same woman, governor candidate Kamala, who prostituted herself at age 29 for $166,000 $400,000 in government panel bucks, built a career that included trying to destroy all crisis pregnancy centers. She forced them to advertise for her satanic kill mills and burglarizing David Daleiden’s small Irvine apartment because she is owned by hell’s lieutenants. (for the record, David is now OUT and the state of insanity Calif. dropped the charges; now to champion David getting his second Pulitzer)
Strong words? Just the truth.
Angels in heaven celebrate every time a soul is saved, while Hell celebrates while we major in the minors,
too often, now estimated at 67 million, at another abortion. Demonrats
Here’s hoping the revival begun by NEC will fuel massive renewal, starting with NEC’s 65,000 “6th day” victorious apostles of love and hope like on Pentecost ad33, they became emboldened with the Spirit desire to spread GREAT news to anyone who’d listen. The 4th or 6th day represents the day AFTER a significant faith event like a retreat or Congress when the energized Catholic gets busier.
Our Church undeniably failed somewhat in its response to the tyrants like the sad Newsom twosome, Jen & Gavin, who shut down schools; worse, closed down OUR churches based on med malpractice frauds and we timidly complied with the Pentecost 2020 lockdowns in upper and lower rooms across the state and country.
People of God, NEC vets and everyday Catholics, the time is NOW.
The fields are flush with humans ripe for the harvest; meanwhile, we squabble over one Lingua Latinam as if the language of Rome suddenly belongs to lucifer; one wonders if our sister/brother, mainly Lebanese, followers of St John Maron will be shuttered for saying the Mass in the language the first Mass was spoken in: Aramaic.
Only time will tell. John and James demanded on His heavenly right and left, and today we are incredibly rich, surrounded with so much Jesus stuff…but do our actions match the uttered words? Does the high of the NECongress gain traction? Let’s see.
Tony blesses us!! Len heads to the front
I moved quickly toward the ‘stage left’ side on the right. On the way, I told some awesome nuns and greeted the missionary of charity sisters if I got permission I would give him a hug from them.
I stood watching and listening as Tony went through his testimony of a blessed purpose filled life; God gives EVERY human being certain talents, discoverable IF we listen to good counsel and the Holy Spirit. Tony has so much to give. Here’s a part of Tony’s ascendance into becoming an opened gift around the world.
A great pope and excellent ToeJammer. The pope is the one standing.
As his testimony portrayed, Tony’s life path was inaugurated one Tuesday Sept 15, 1987.
In God’s irony and providence, I was privileged to be there in 1987 among the 6000, with our 30 teens from St Callistus parish in Garden Grove, CA
Mike McHenry, RIP, a great man…Tony, Steve, a ToeJam pilgrim and Tony’s brother Jose
If you weren’t at the recent NEC with pictures from the past, and/or don’t know him, Tony first appeared on the Church scene in LA California.
Hollywood style, Tony first rose up from below the Universal Amphitheater stage that Pope Saint John Paul the Great was standing on.
Bushy head of hair, guitar on the floor, he began strumming with his right foot, left playing the frets and singing a song he wrote for our well loved pontiff.
We all were surprised! So were the other three US cities on a 4 city simulcast hookup, with each having a
gift for the pope and Tony was last in the lineup from the City of the Angels.
Our regional gift was a bit unusual but so typical: God uses whom He wants and with major miracles that defy man and hell’s design, He causes good to overcome cheap evil ways of politicians, tyrants, tenured left professors pushing Harvard Hamas hopeless encampments of Jewish hatred and revisionist history.
So many Scriptures come to mind: Romans 8:28 or “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world”. As this post on roses and hugs should show, “All things work together for good for those who Love the Lord”.
Read the continuation of I Corinthians:
* Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated…
Fast forward to July 2024, though, sometimes there is a kink…despite no complaints over a short Tony hug from anyone in the 30,000 or so, in fact a smattering of thanks for giving him the “hug he could not give us”, from sisters, friends and lay people alike.
Only by relying on God, can greatness increase!
“Tony, you are truly a courageous young man,” this great Pope told him that Tuesday.
“You are giving hope to all of us. My wish is to continue giving this hope to all other people.” Over the years, he has, travelling to far away places. 49 countries.
13 years later after his LA Papal floor show, I was privileged to be one of the youth ministry leaders on the WYD 2000 tour that began at Fatima, Portugal and ended in Rome; Tony and another NEC veteran Catholic musician Steve Angrisano led music for Mass and workshops, as we traveled across Europe seeing Catholic sites…like repurposed cathedrals now wedding chapels, and sacred sights Mary appeared at, including a country with a capital Paris formerly heavily Catholic. How times change!
With a million of our closest friends at the time on the Roman field, we closed the WYD week with a huge open air Mass, celebrated by one of the greatest popes of all time, PStJPtheG. Next came 2002, across Canada into Toronto.
A new day and new pope, BXVI, 2005 was in Divine Mercy Poland, Czech and Germany, just months after we lost PSJPtheGreat to Parkinson’s. This story within the story is fascinating as the Culture of Life Pope’s ending covered God’s control of the enemy’s necromantic celebrations. Odd? Something you may not have thought about. Read on:
“Little known, the pope was an important part of the last days of the Eucharistic miracle Terri Schiavo Schindler…a Catholic sister treated like one of Kamala’s Catholic targets, only out of the womb already.
God used the end of our beloved pope’s life to overshadow the celebratory evil of the godless Terri killers,. God allowed his dormant Parkinson’s to go critical hours after Terri died; she miraculously survived, after going 13 days only receiving on the Eucharist three times (from Priests for Life Fr. Pavone, another of the “obedience victims” in this current pontificate).
“… Thursday, March 31, 2005, after the Pope took terminally ill, was followed by the beloved Giovanni Pablo passing Saturday night, April 2nd just as the Divine Mercy liturgy finished. Amazing the intertwining links God has for us.”
George, John, Teddy, Abe and Tony. Tony is the one in black
BACK TO THE NEC. At the stage stairs, the man with the Sacred Heart Patrol cap chatted briefly with the staffer and said he was going up to give Tony a surprise short hug (if given permission). Maybe the communications with NEC central was delinked, the staffer let him proceed up the stairs. Who knows; NEC never calls back or answers emails. So far.
I saw no sign or hint of guys who bench 400 pounds before breakfast…no Colts Cops signaling no one is to go on stage… Tony had just mentioned “I can’t give you a hug…” As if on cue…
Does this deserve arrest? Up on stage, circling around him, I gave Tony a few seconds hug from behind and when he recognized me, I told him “but we can give you one, Tony.”
We chatted super quick, for total of 17 seconds, then signalling for applause for the armless wonder. He needed to get to his new song, created for the National Eucharistic Congress. tony’s 17 second video
Decades as a kids theatre dad for our 11, I knew to leave the stage quietly and quickly…then headed back to the end zone to sit with my beloved wife Mary and stepmom to an amazing family. I greeted the nuns, of course, on the way back to the back.
It was about Tony’s life not mine; but his grief was latent to those who know him.
Nice of Tony to call this dad of 11 a friend, a brother and blessing, something we all are called to, those who call themselves servants of Jesus and Catholic.
Tony then sat down and got his feet in position to wow the crowd…something he does well
Sadly, the audio in the control booth must have accidentally got muted and the NEC did not have time
for vetting the friend of Tony’s on stage: one guesses it was easier to kick out a Catholic who doesn’t passively follow the crowd but esteems all as better than himself. Bizarre, especially when you hear or read the transcript of the ensuing interrogation. Here are both transcripts, word for word.
Here’s the actual Transcript of Tony’s 17 second hug at NEC
Tony is talking: “First kiss (from the Pope Sept 15, 1987) a true blessing. Second kiss my wife’s kiss,,, A true blessing when it comes to marriage and later on…”
(Len now was on stage behind Tony, I grasp gently Tony’s sides and he turns around to the right)
Tony: Yes…heeey. How you doing there? Good seeing you. Good seeing you
Len: Tony can’t give you a hug (spoken to the people). (but) we can give Tony a hug. Give him a round of applause…
Tony: “thank you so much”..You know we have WYD friends…he’s one of the World Youth Day friends I traveled with. A true blessing”
Len is off the stage and Tony continues. No gang signs, loaded backpack, just an old guy with a blue hat that says “Sacred Heart Patrol”. Tony knew the hugger. Fitted in with decades of “I can’t hug you but…”
Why did NEC kick out the Sacred Heart Patrol wearing hugger? Then, more recently, why did they, in true Nixon style, erase the 17+ seconds by a purposeful cut and edit, for the “behind the pay wall” testimony on their archival site Manna? Was the hug an embarrassment to the well organized, timed to the second planning? Was a 70+ yr old Catholic deemed a heathen or worse, a protestant or party crasher to be erased for doing Catholic works of mercy? He had permission and the mere act fit in well with the spirit of the event.
Yes, this last bit is mystifying. Why did they painstakingly erase 17 seconds from Tony’s testimony than charge $100 bucks for access? Bizarre. Funny, You can still go to Relevant Radio and find the contrabanded Nixonian erased Hug “‘tape” segment is still there. But not at NEC??
For the record, Fr Hoffman is on the NEC Board of Directors, but he has NO involvement in this odd banishment. Truth is, NEC knows who orchestrated it but is not telling. They circled the wagons for an innocent show of hope for a Godly armless man. Need Proof? What do you call the effort to edit the 20 seconds but not doing what was promised by their staff security: providing the interrogation transcript and its destinations to the one they threatened to arrest and jail.
See for yourself
Easy directions to see the short clip for the Tony hug no longer at NEC fundraising site:
Go to Relevant Radio website. Click on the “The 10th National Eucharistic Congress On Demand” button. Click on Friday July 19th and go to the full day recording. At hour 3:23:14, Len walks on stage. At 3:23:22 Len and Tony look at each other after Len taps his shoulders from behind. At 3:23:24 Len hugs Tony. At 3:23:37, Len exited the “stage”.
Judge for yourself. Nothing pornographic, seamlessly fits into the testimony.
Editing is commonly used in media these days, but I recall in the early 80s producing and creating hour long programs/teachings, long before today’s easier but highly useful graphic tech for ministry.
We used 3 giant screens, 10,000 slides and 3 multi-projector stacks. It was called interactive media then, with slides dissolving into each other, with text and sound. Video clips added later. I had to edit seamlessly with a 3 track Teac desk controlling the slide changes and the story. One was “Now is the Time” with a live birth on the screne. It was shown at different SoCalif. parishes for youth ministry events for a few years, at the Pasadena Convention Center and other “venues”. Called the “company” Donnel Imagineering ministry (honoring the busy mom Donna of a gaggle of small kids) through the early 80s.
One dumb question: who at the NEC decided to “dump the hug?” Hugs were common at NEC on
the “stage”, at the Exhibit hall and on the streets. It is a common part of being Catholic, although one of my fave young adults Kevin needed a little retraining on how to hug a young woman. Was it because it was man to man? I mean, no more Hug Certificates needed because the evil Xi JinglePingle’s covid plan was outed showing medical malpractice and extent effective alternative therapies.
They or he/she, the NEC decision maker must have thought it ruined his or her perfect week long show…or as the chief of football police Billy called it “performers” and performance. I doubt if he was Catholic, in his defense. This wasn’t a heavy metal Megadeth or Black Sabbath event but a worship conference.
———-back to the timeline————-
I had no idea what was happening next.
As I headed back to my seat in the rear, I stopped a couple times, quietly telling the sisters and couples, the Tony hug was from you just as the 60 year old performer had mentioned he could NOT give us.
Though he couldn’t wrap his non existent, Thalidomide UNgenerated, arms around any of us, Tony is truly one great magnanimous man, although graduating 2024 Thomas Aquinas senior Elijah points out in his thesis the Aristotelian MagMan is Jesus the Christ, our Savior.
Tony, still, a true servant of the Living God. Blessed with the most amazing wife, Lynn and Marisa and Andres.
God does not seek to glorify the strong and capable; He can use Whom the Spirit discerns will fulfill special purposes. Especially in a world dying to hear the words of Eternal Life.
Back with my patient wife Mary who always has her first husband’s back; however, ten minutes later the tap on the shoulder came.
The Perp Walk and Interrogation Process
Three Lucas Oil Stadium Cops, football security officers? told me to “follow them”. Cops tell you to move, you move, even mall cops on Segways name Kevin.
You’ve seen it watching Monday or Sunday football, or in the stands; noisy adult beverage laden fans raising holy hell around themselves. Get yanked and ushered to the parking lot. Only I hadn’t been drinking…and as the chief of police stated multiple times, I had permission to be up there and Tony confirmed my immigrant status as a toe jam pilgrim who traveled with him. I only knew Tony, as of last Sept 15th, 37 years.
The officer said “Follow me.”
As you have, I heard that many times before in the Gospels, and I simply complied (always a good idea when police ask you to comply even in a Catholic worship event) but they took me to their security room near the first aid station, behind the seats for our command session.
His follow me apparently NOT to fish for souls…NO NEC officials in sight, which one would expect, especially at a Catholic revival: mature adults, even ones like Len, usually can look a man in the eye and ask why? explain why the NEC hierarchy decided, without facts or explanation, Len, you gotta go. You were not in the script, just a paid sojourner from Orange County. Judge, jury, verdict, gavel. Gone!
Something even the lowest member of the NEC team could have done before targeting a paying customer for unilateral banishment. I wasn’t even a shudder “Protesting protestant”.
Then for weeks now months after, ignore repeated requests for a report long promised. Amazing what $700 doesn’t buy these days; must be Bidenflation.
Along the perp walkway, I asked the football security guys what they wanted and was cordial but greeted with the non conversational; I wasn’t their usual meth head or drunk Colts fan apparently.
Recall, the words of Paul in Corinth continue:
(Love) is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
Still no NEC team members, unless they hid in the shadows. AS we arrived, in the security room was a woman with a laptop at the table; she told me the boss would appear soon and asked for my license, which I provided and the “chief” as they called him came in. He began asking questions:
… from the security chief:
“did you know we could have tackled you just now?”
(cute: this is Intimidation 101: get the perp to cower and sweat)
I said, of course, you are the police and hired security and are there to protect those on stage and the participants. But…
My Dumb question: then WHY would you give permission for ascending the side stairs?
Was it to do a little Colosseum action like in Gladiators’ days? If tackled, it easily could be a trip to the hospital or worse, but being on their Watch list (I discovered later) could have fueled a testosterone burst by the boys in blue.
What they, nor I, did NOT know at the time, on St Michael’s feast day Sept 29th, I would have a heart attackthat required a stent after unblocking the ‘widowmaker’ artery. So, maybe death was not off the table should they have played “cops and old man” hitting the stage floor.
Of course, I thanked him for not… I’ve never played professional football and it might make an interesting show, but oddly, despite Tony saying I was a friend and brother on stage, less than an hour later, I was treated like a terrorist or a secret Satanist trying to steal the Eucharist… and obviously learning a lesson. I did apologize hoping for a CAtholic NEC human to appear. The saddest truth is I am treated better by security at my decades long mission at Planned Parenthood Tustin @ 22 in the OC.
Conform or get punished; zero tolerance for an unwritten rule never mentioned. Be careful whom you show kindness to. The usual lies against spreading the Gospel joyfully.
What I didn’t tell my interrogators was if they listened to Tony’s last words, calling me a brother and friend, just maybe they would have made a call to their NEC bosses for advice who might be hiding in the shadows… but God was in control, I was at peace and ready to go back to my seat once it was resolved…
Rush to Judgement. A common ailment today
Recall, Mother Teresa coached us followers of Christ with these words:
“”If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.” ~ Mother Teresa
There are costs attached to the benefits of loving Jesus; Mother Teresa focused, not on the millions in the streets of Calcutta the reporter asked about, but “one at a time”.
These words of St Mother Teresa MUST be taken to heart: the road ahead to bring Jesus back to center stage for most Catholics, worshipped as the True Presence, will NOT be easy. But, we MUST!! Success in spreading the Gospel, should you look at Beautitudes #8 or 10th, is not always smooth. Sacrifice follows Prayer in the Dictionary of Life. I wasn’t there the whole time in Indianapolis as you know, but not sure how many speakers spoke of the road ahead WILL be bumpy IF we are doing God’s plan for our lives.
Interrogation Central June 19 2025
40 days (now 8 months) and counting later, I STILL HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO VERIFY IF THE
NEC, DESPITE MAJOR ATTEMPTS, IS EVEN AWARE HOW ONE OF THEIR EARLY TICKET BUYERS AND SOLID CATHOLIC’S WAS TREATED BY THE ‘LAW ENFORCEMENT’ TEAM. Zero return calls or emails from NEC central, Bishop Cozzens on down. Even Sec Chief Steve Garcia’s priority package came back unopened.
Certainly, I was not another 20 year old delivering an earshot heard ’round the world…but fear IS a motivator and killer in itself. Despite a great pope’s oft repeated “Be not afraid” or my fave bilocating confessor saint, Padre Pio: “Pray, Hope, Don’t Worry”.
Head officer, identified as chief of police, who didn’t really look like Chris Bailey, the new acting Indianapolis chief of police at the time, continued:
“We noticed you had talked to the boom camera operator and didn’t perceive a threat”.
Talk about a comment out of left field. I conceded I wasn’t a threat (what beat a security guard senseless with my Sacred Heart hat?) and what my conversation with a hardworking staffer had to do with being pulled from my seat, I had no idea. The chief of brawlers continued and explained:
He next asked “why did you do it?” and “What were you thinking partner?” Intone the creepy shivers, Big Colts Cops are watching your every move, a lesson I learned with his next words.
“We were watching you, having seen you toss roses on stage last night.” Ahh, the tell and the reveal are one and the same.
Wow! A bouquet Rose tossis now a terrorist indicative act?!? More importantly, the lightbulb, tho dim in my brain that day, went off in my head. I’m on a Watch list that began when? Was it Wednesday helping the vulnerable? Outside and inside?
It came out they had started a cumulative Terrorist Watch file the night before or was it even before that on Wednesday helping the blind and lame? To this day, I have no idea.
It’s time to appeal to Caesar apparently to get this resolved. As you might have read, NO not one, member of the exclusive NEC hatchet team has made contact this February 2025
As a chest beating show of his position, the chief let this “I have power!” fact slip out, which is a good thing: the NEC was not in danger from the Sacred Heart Patrol hatted old guy; the people were protected by super facial recognition tech, terabytes of processing and storage and the best cyber tools, apparently second only to the protection of the Holy Spirit. Even AI probably had its role. But robots should never replace homo sapiens sapiens abilities.
At age 72, a planned parenthood sidewalk regular and dad of 11, PapaLen to 22 grandkids, I knew more was at work here, a lesson for all of us: as we wake up and leave our passivity behind, boldness without the left’s usual violence IS achievable.
Decades working in prolife roles, including three decades on the board, many years as president, of a crisis pregnancy center, had prepared me for knowing: HELL is not dormant and very active, even at the NEC. Abortion lovers’ sacrament is the dead child; their protection is supernatural but not Godly, spawned in the pit of hell.
We MUST have trained eyes and instincts these days, even among 55,000 65,000 minus one, make that two on fire Catholics, because my wife elected to leave as well. She didn’t have to, but she did.
We lose people from the Church for far less treatment than I and Mary indirectly married to a guy like Len, experienced from our so called Church. We are going nowhere, the Church is our home…Not a chance with us, but we as the Bride of Christ MUST improve our serve for next time IF there is a next time for a national event like this.
Roses and hugs are NOT acceptable at a sooo well planned event, orged down to single
layer molecules, orchestrated well. No room for change.
Maybe, with Tim no longer in charge or Jason the new CEO, the NEC leadership could explain, because we NEVER heard back if my pulled credentials could have been restored (as if Divine Mercy was somewhere in the House of Colts,) so we could finish up an incredible revival week of Eucharistic Thanksgiving that the Proud GodFather is pleased occurred.
NEVER happened. But I have promised MY report even if they stiff arm me from getting my promised copy of the interview. Ok, interrogation. There are reasons I need it and grandstanding is NOT one of them.
Anyone know someone at the NEC for answers?
Still asking. Might be useful information for the next US Eucharist Congress in 2033. The registration drudgery was an obvious fail, but resolvable; Bishop Freyer assured me it would be remedied in a note he sent me after the event. Bishop Freyer is a good bishop but not on the NEC team.
But, how do you respond when an obviously involved Catholic dad did NOT “intrude, disturb or disrupt” the participants who thought it was part of the plan and program. You could easily verify this IF you hadn’t scrubbed the 17 seconds from your Manna pay wall site…
People of God, this is MY cross to bear; absolutely no complaints, the police did their job, though their transcript would show odd confusion on their part; as most security and police agencies will attest, it is not easy, as if it ever was, to do events like this.
My question is not for the beer brawl bouncers with badges and guns, but with my brothers and sisters in the faith, the NEC hierarchy, those we paid substantial pecunia to, to celebrate and learn. Paul speaks further across the millennia:
“it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things…”
8* Love never fails.
“If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing…”
Since these gentlemen and ladies of the law handle Colt beer brawls in-season and the upcoming heavy metal concerts, one can understand they might have a zero tolerance for people doing different things. Like hugs and roses. Hugs N Roses, a new rock band?
I was told, it wasn’t due to a gun shot heard worldwide per Steven Garcia, super security chief in interviews regarding his security apparatus. I sent him a package by Priority Mail; it was returned a month later. I’d be happy to provide it to Bishop Cozzen’s office as proof I’m not a crackpot loser blaming the Church for all ails and evils.
The earshot heard around the world as I got on an LAX jet the Saturday July 13th early AM DID NOT impact their “threat level.” Why would Steve say this to the world if it WASN’T true. After all, words have meanings.
However, with good police work, when most victims don’t call their victimizer friend and brother a blessing, you might make another call to the NEC head of excessive enthusiasm and joy for thumbs up or down. Or have them listen in if they feared a face to face. That blue hat can be intimidating it seems.
In fact, hired gun head of all security Steve Garcia stated specifically in interviews there was no need to change their plans due to Trump’s assassination attempt
Frankly, I am patient. I’m still not even sure the NEC was aware, because I NEVER heard back in time to seek forgiveness or beg so my wife could enjoy the rest of the CAtholic experience she looked forward to.
Neither alternative is good. If they did not know, and their security force lied, called an audible for you football fans, and said the NEC wanted the Tony hugger kicked out or arrested, then the leaders need to be very careful who they hire in the future. Mixing the secular with the faith filled… grow a couple and speak the truth.
If they did know, and signaled thumbs down or the middle finger like happens so often outside planned parenthood kill mills, then some serious retraining or firing should ensue.
I did try, though at a disadvantage since locked out of all the NECemail a couple times that Friday and early Saturday to a contact (Sarah Houde) i had at the NEC and hadn’t heard if my credentials could be restored…or at least get my nametag back. I didn’t bother Relevant Radio, Tony or other presenters and participants, for it wasn’t their issue. NOT desiring to make this a big issue just get a little justice and a better explanation than you are a terrorist risking the Congress. Still hoping despite the NEC cone of silence, to get permission to return.
I was still in a bit of shock, trying to figure out what to do next. Remember, I would be arrested if I was in the stadium, exhibit hall and presumably the church across the street. Without credentials, the eucharistic procession was no longer on the possibilities list.
Email attempts to get back in.
Len to Sarah after the expulsion: 7/19 12:41Central Sarah, thank you for the amazing work you’re doing for the NEC. Also, thank you for trying to find Anne who attended the June 1941 national Eucharistic Congress in Minnesota Saint Paul area. She was seven at the time I pulled her from the line with her family so she would be in a wheelchair somewhat fragile at age 90 and with probably three or four other family members.
After we talked, I was looking around the stadium and the exhibit hall to see if I could find that family. By the way, I hope I didn’t cause any heart or physical injury to anyone, but I did toss those roses to Lila Rose on Thursday night. I also had not known that my old buddy Tony Melendez was going to be one of the testimonials.
I bought my tickets last November (2023)and have not done a good job of following up on the thing (itinerary); anyways I did go up on stage, I did give him a hug Tony for the years. I known him since 1987 when he first came out of the floor at Universal and LA, mentions a simple thing I can’t give you a hug; so I gave him a hug from the audience for all the sisters and others and I know it probably made things a little bit difficult because I did get us shxxt over to the security office was interrogated better way to put that we just had a conversation and I won’t be back to the convention. I’ll maybe see you at the next one in 30 or 40 years. I had my credentials removed. My wife is still there and I do apologize for any pain or injury I’ve caused, however, I will not apologize for giving some love roses and a hug to two great people I’ve known over the years. I did travel with Tony and Steve Angrisano at World Youth Day 2000, 2002, 2005 and other events that I have sponsored him to come to.
I do ask that everyone pray for that family Lynne and Tony and for his son Andre, who passed away in his early 20s. Tony as you probably know is a Catholic icon no different than some of the relics that we know or some of the is that are around the world. Tony just keeps on giving no different than Lila Rose, who mentioned Saint Joan and I’d like to mention Lauren Handy, who also faces prison
Sarah, God bless your work ,if you want to restore my credentials. You can call or text me at 714-2671413 or 7147743339. If I don’t hear from you, I’ll make other plans. There’s no problem. I’m very content.
After all, I do spend enough hours during the course of the year at Planned Parenthood handing out roses so that when women stop as they come out of the kill we can actually help them make a decision that saves the life within. You are part of an incredible event. You’ve worked so hard for three years. All I ask is that you have a great and adventurous future and thank you for the gifts that you’ve given all of us.
I won’t start rumors; the officers were very cordial in their interrogation, which is more of an interview, and I explained the story; Keith, the officer who answered me out, was very kind. He did say my wife Mary could continue to be at the event that Mary Beckman and she did she still enjoying it I will not darken the doors of the convention center. You know the exhibit hall north the Lucas oil not because I am a ram fan but primarily because I do honor so it seems I should ask permission instead of seek forgiveness (which I did). God bless there’s been so many special things that happened
Because I got kicked out including a witness to a whole group of staffers for the convention center, and some mighty great people I’ve met on this adventure here in Indianapolis. God bless Len Beckman dad of 11. Grandfather of 22. Catholic Homeschooler for 40 years. Imperfect soul and blessed with a stepmom wife named Mary who said yes five years ago ; Sarah wishing you the best all that God is offered you and Life presents. Thank you.
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Sarah auto email response: 7/19 I am on site in Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Congress! Response time to emails will be delayed. I hope to see you there! Peace, Sarah
Len to Sarah: 7/19 Sorry Sarah. Oops. Siri interpreted my words regarding that Latin word sh…t. I did not proofread as I was driving. Great seeing you, Sarah while getting a video feed of my bishop Tim Fryer from orange County and a few of his closest friends God is good; the church is very much alive and those deep theological questions I can wait on until heaven for answers
Len to Sarah 7/21 6am central Sarah:
I had not heard back since (first try) Friday about 1:30 PM about the possibility of returning to the Congress after the NEC leadership review what are fine oiler officers had felt necessary to remove me from the stadium and exhibit hall areas until Monday.
I still do not know if any NEC leadership authorized my removal, or had any knowledge since the oiler officers relied on advanced cyber technology to find me within 10 minutes of leaving the stage after giving Tony the hug.
I honored the four officers request since I would’ve been arrested should I return to oiler properties; I emailed you, nothing in 90 minutes nor the last two days. Ie To stay away.
I know you’re busy, and that is why I took that one picture of you with one of your favorite prelates which you now have in your possession.
I do not seek a refund for myself, but should you evaluate, in case you did not know that I had been booted, happening after giving my long time friend of 40 25 years Tony Melendez on stage a harmless armless hug., IF my explanation and calls was just, my cause was just., please donate whatever funds you find just, to Bishop Fryer and Bishop Vann‘s favorite charities. Times they are a changing and I am no victim nor desiring sympathy, but I am requesting Justice as any good revival that is now ongoing demands
I paid full price in November of last year of $700 for two tickets no discount. I am not a part of, nor was I invited as part of the orange diocese contingent.
However, should the NEC executive committee of which you are the leader decide, please donate whatever portion you would believe is just for the two full days I was excluded as well as my wife who very much enjoyed the experience.
Have mercy on Mary since five years ago, she said yes to being my 11 kids’ stepmom and grandma Mary to our 22 grandkids. Two soon to be adopted pictured below
Since we have not heard back, and on the feast of Daniel the prophet, and the readings shadowing Jesus as our Shepherd, Mary and I will attend morning mass in Dayton.
Enjoy the rest of the Congress and please when you do your debriefing, in your notes, please create an ambassador to the alien and ailing or a concierge to the cripple to the walkers, the wheelchaired , the drunken sailors and the blind, and no,repeat NO person less than able Should enter into a registration line, especially a four hour one.
My guess is my activities of pulling these grateful people from the lines, especially the 85-year-old woman who was in a walker for 2 1/2 hours and 90 year old and from the St. Paul Minnesota 1941 Congress age 7 at the time, the Oilers officers began a profile on me with the Oilers officers security program.
In my interview, (it was not an interrogation because I love the police and they were just doing their duty with or without any NEC inter face) the chief mentioned they continued to build a dossier of sorts re: my tossing roses for Lila Rose, which I’ve explained, and the fact that they did not tackle me, even though I asked the attendant at the base of the stairs if I could go up and give Tony just a quick hug.
These guys were excellent since after all, they handled the beer, brawls and Oilers games and have two upcoming heavy metal concerts.
By the way, anyone that you expel from the future Congress, which at age 72 I probably won’t have the privilege like 90-year-old and who attended the St. Paul Minnesota 1941 celebration of Jesus in the Eucharist.
Sorry about the length, but wishing you the best. My pro life work, including Planned Parenthood and other delicate situations with 40 years of excellent groups, participation as a board member, and the various organizations, have hardened me in a good way that I peacefully went along with the officers when they pulled me from the seat, and took me to the security den.
No disabled should have to endure that (next Congress) if we’re trying to be a witness to the world about the real presence of Jesus.
Interestingly, it was only the blind man that wanted to continue in line. May God bless and the revival intensify. Interestingly, being kicked out, led me on my route back to my parking near property a chance to witness to seven event personnel about noon on Friday who had questions about what was going on inside, the Eucharist, Catholics in general and I did invite them to join our church after eight minute or so conversation, God is alive and the church is very much not dead! Ava and Olivia say hi and wish you the best. Len Beckman.
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The obfuscation is NOT over, Bishop C et al. Here’s why
Now that the sets are down and shipped, the show is over, the best thing, would be the NEC to KEEP its PROMISES and provide the interrogation report. Couldn’t cost that much nor involve that much time. UNLESS they are trying to bury the story and report; something sadly our Church has had a habit in the past.
Why do I suspect so? Well, when I purchased the Manna to see the other speakers and events, I noticed a minor change to the record: the 17 second segment of Tony’s hug was scrubbed, edited out. Even though it added to the testimonial and story, a reasonable man theorizes they are hiding something. Other hugs throughout the event were NOT edited out. Was it because this 73 year old Catholic apologist wasn’t on the NEC “A” list of dignitaries and acceptable Catholics? Trust me, friends, I am not a “legend in my own mind”. I know my place and work hard, as you do, to spread the Gospel with enthusiasm, boldness,fearlessness, compassionate passion. Did the fake Police Chief (a lie) Billie request the video clip removed. Was it Jason, Steve Garcia, Tim? It wasn’t my local bishops…
Did they “lose” the interview/interrogation (on purpose)? That, my friend, is very sad for a supposed important Eucharistic movement to actively change history. At least they are not changing His Story…
Maybe I will see it in time for my 81st birthday at the next Eucharistic Congress in country in Minnesota Anne’s 99th year and 3rd Euch Congress, I can come off the “do not fly” list… But, so many other things have priority, but when Tony called me brother and friend BEFORE i was perp walked, they might have consulted with the Catholic side of the house. NEC
Maybe they saved a job by kicking me out, as my son David posited, by having me removed from the Church gathered that day (NO martyr nor victim be I); I will never know until NEC makes contact. IF they ever will; it won’t be the first time some members of my Church has failed me and my family, nor will I never fail my Church as well. The priest abuse of a sibling comes to mind, but he remains involved as a good Catholic. Jesus built His Church on the shoulders of failure prone humans because He knew us better than we do.
I can’t believe they really feared an old guy with a Sacred Heart patrol cap, no weapons but the Gospel in his heart… In their view, their inaction could have led to me escalating, maybe without permission, giving some of my past ministry friends a hug or flowers, hugging them like I did Tony…but trust me, I carried no C4 laden backpack, a passport to 72 Virgins in the next life.
But I am a friend of just law enforcement, don’t hate yet only despise baby killers like KamalAbort Harris and her ilk.
Trust me, with 11 kids willing to express opinions, this dad got opinions, which I forever appreciate. Especially my Ohio daughter in law before facts came in: “They should have tackled you!” Touche!
We raise our children, the next generation, to discern, think critically, use their God given talents and brains to sort through morals, develop character and in THEIR, not mine, begin leading. One or two thought I should have been tackled. I value their telling the truth inside their opinions.
In the song of yesteryear, all of us must look to:
“Jesus, reduce me to LOVE”
But until the facts are all in, it is incumbent on me to say the truth:
GREAT Event. Fruits coming in in baskets. Looking to pilgrimage in 2025 from Indiana to LA; 2033, next American Eucharistic Congress. And the discovery of the 2 timer, 90 yr old Anne of Minnesota.
That is IF I am not banned from participating in the next part of the journey? Your team asked what were you thinking, Len. I answered that question. So I ask the same thing, what the heavens do you do to prepare for next time, streamlining the registration, giving aid to the disabled, making sure no hugs or roses stain your Eucharistic interpretation. Put CATHOLICS in key roles to interpret actions since hell is always at the ready to destroy good. Don’t overdo Hollywood next time.
I remained peaceful and content, knowing I was in Good Hands (not Allstate, tho they insure much).
My good friend, travel partner, fellow lover of Jesus, the Church, helping others often,
Tony messaged me later he had heard I was arrested. I messaged back, that “No, things were fine…keep doing the great things you are doing.”
My brother and friend Tony is so caring, always worrying about others. I didn’t want to worry him since he had work to do. Ok, a white lie is still a lie but it wasn’t Tony’s fault the NEC leadership had issues.
Why the Roses thursday nite?
Ever hear of this future saint of Life, Lila nee Rose? Facts matter: a confessional disclosure regarding the roses: guilty as charged. I still believe God’s greatest most complex best designed being is woman. And EVERY woman deserves a rose…every day. Or at least a Spring bouquet.
With Mary, I bought a dozen roses Thursday afternoon at Krogers near the NEC stadium, and brought them thru security (no thorns set off alarms) with no problem Thursday night, July 18.
They were destined for Lila Rose, but she already was on stage and talking; the purpose was, as a surprise from her husband Joe, to keep up a tradition I had begun many years before, that never seemed something for the CIA or Colt Cop blue to track. Thorns with roses.
How many arrests do the ice rink officials make in the crowd when the prima ballerina on blades is tossed roses by the nursery full? None?
Security picked up the bouquet but apparently it did not delivered, because I witnessed a staffer reach down. The note had her name…and after all, she was a Rose before her excellent marriage.
Security and the NEC saw them as a threat? Do either realize just how powerful a rose is? And how silly they sound?
For example, in the hands of a sidewalk counselor offering them to a woman leaving PP in a car, they most often stop to take the rose and are given life saving information at Planned Parenthood, Orange CA that takes business away from the chief baby killer Jon Dunn who services two counties of female victims. Roses got a friend Lauren Handy by hell’s justice department, a 54 months sentence in the Tallehassee federal pen. For GIVING roses to the vulnerable in DC. Maybe the NEC F-troop cops got training from Merrill Garland and his ilk.
Adopted daughter Maria, the military wife Lila and my beloved Briana at a Downey area Prolife conference…and Rose#1
That Thursday, Already beginning her witness talk, I had no intent to interrupt, so I quietly tossed them on stage away from the podium, later picked up by the staffer. I was hopeful she got them, since there was only 11 left after a nun/sister behind Mary and I requested one in the crowd.
How do you say “No!” to a consecrated religious even if they are destined for a future saint Lila on stage?
But NOTHING escapes the Lucas Oil eyes, cameras, surveillance drones etc. NOTHING even a rose.
My annual rose bill is way higher than most drunken football fan or sailors pub bill, because I ‘gift’ them out, one by one at Planned Parenthood Orange, for the sidewalk workers, and, as women drive out of our local abortion constabulary. No brag, just fact.
Something EVERY Catholic can do; in California, Staters and Trader Joe’s sells ’em for life. Roses SAVE lives, whether on stage, married to a military man, with 3 kids…or in the hands of a pro life servant.
Most drivers, usually the culpable man, stop, because the lady inside instinctively wants the rose, no matter what happened the minutes before inside Sangers satanic kill mills.
No matter what transpired inside the abortuary to the victims, vulnerable mothers and the status of their child, each is offered a rose and an information flyer covering all options. Hell has lost the war, but the battles continue.
An officer and his beloved
ROSES SAVE LIVES. For example, some couples in the car decide to keep their kids and never come back to Sanger Hell; others need post Kamalabortion counsel. “See the need etc.”
At least they have a chance to hear the truth and give informed consent to life after being lie to and deceived by the Gruesome Newsom Twosome’s two step. I remember one recipient, telling me as she accepted the rose: “I don’t want to hurt my baby.” I told Alicia, noticing the ultrasound pics between the front seats, ” you won’t especially since you won’t have to come back to this hellhole.” She and Greg left grateful and since have borne a child in another nearby state. Praise God for another life lived! Please prayer warriors, 40days, LiveAction slow down on saying we “saved” another. The Holy Spirit did the saving, we the willing vessels do all we can for it to happen. But we are the instruments.
55,000 65,000 on fire Catholics will make a difference; its ALL of our abilities to respond, to help women not get injured or killed as their precious prebirth children are massacred inside them inside the Planned Parenthood Kill Mills. Of course our purists will stick their fingers in their ears if you mention Trump. Odd how we Catholics preach metanoia, change but give little provision, even after successfully protecting life for 4 tormented years.
In case you haven’t heard, Melania IS a Catholic but sending mixed signals on life. When Hillary asked “who painted” the OLGuadalupe tilma, the Mexican priest answered simply: “God!”
Here is the First Lady with the Second Eve. A Catholic woman like this influences our future current & past president, immensely one hopes
Melania is pictured leaving flowers at the feet of a tall Second Eve statue below
Truth be told, this bunch that Thursday was to be my 3rd and final rose donation for the Rose of Lila lady because NOW it is husband Joe’s job.
At two conferences over ten years, I gave her a rose from the “guys”. At the Steubenville conference, my youth ministry guys chickened out about going up and handing her a rose…so did it myself. In case you never knew:
For years I’ve preached: EVERY WOMAN DESERVES A ROSE EVERYDAY,
…it is a simple way to value the invaluable precious: Womanhood. For example, you probably have heard the faux science climate change 100 times before being told women ARE the final created being that led to millions, then the Ark and Flood, then now 9 billion less than the 2.2 BILLION kill mill kill offs already dead, buried but not forgotten. That’s a mouthful.
Everyone should know, God left His absolute best for last, the last act of general creation. He did the simple first: light, stars by the billions, insects by the trillions, animals including skunks and plants, then a muddy male type we know as Adam.
It WAS worth the six day (or to placard the insecure, billions of years evolutionary crowd) wait.
The immensely intricate design of the first working model, a 50 trillion celled woman, first example called Eve, that can provide, with a husband’s help, a new life to further the survival of mankind. She lost her second born at the hand of her first born, but God chose her to lead the human race, be the first.
Our world is literally dying by the influencer degrowthers, depolulationists: 50 nations are one generation away from obsolescence, going the way of the doo doo birdand so many think kid killing prebirth is like getting a latte as your mani-pedi proceeds.
It’s not: it is destroying the earth’s RACE
This design work left God to take the next day off and rest. After all, He just created the most intricate, most complex being on earth. Ok, your billion year evolution fans or 6 day Creation, it doesn’t matter as much as God wants ALL to live happily forever and ever and…
“I’m no victim and I accept the results of the hug and roses as my cross to bear.” Is that apology sufficient to satisfy, family, NEC, Colts Cops?
I still don’t know who objected to Tony getting a hug, but I would be happy to give both of them a crisp $2 bill decorated with the blood of 53 signers who gave life, family and wealth for the privilege of 60,000 to gather in Oil stadium. If ignorant about the $2, look at the reverse side.
But roses for a Rosemother and Hug for a harmless armless Tony did have consequences. The intake lady took my license, typed a report which some day I may get a copy of, as promised.
So much for Roses… Chief interrogator continues:
As the chief of police continued, he told me he was not going to arrest me but should I darken the Lucas stadium or Exhibit Hall again, I WOULD be arrested. I got down on my knees and pled for mercy.
Ok, maybe not. I wondered where the Godly Catholic NEC staffer was hiding, like the wizard of Oz famed “behind the curtain” screen. Yes, I felt betrayed and now that I know they scrubbed the few seconds on the video record from the record, I better understand they ARE hiding something.
Please don’t mistake this for arrogance; there is NOT enough time left on earthfor wimpouts and mealy mouthing the Gospel. And with the Super cybersecurity devices and cameras everywhere, it’s obvious when he mentioned a dozen (actually only 11) roses I tossed up a day earlier, he started a dossier on the guy with the Sacred Heart Patrol hat.
Future action items to resolve:
1) I may have to open an FOIA request with the Indianapolis police department’s new chief to get to the bottom. They promised the interrogation transcript/report and have never complied. They claimed it will come from NEC, but the NEC will not respond. I’ve gotten better treatment at Planned Parenthoods than I get from my fellow Catholic leadership NEC after paying $700 for two days of a 5 day tour. Gilligan’s Island comes to mind.
2) What are you hiding by scrubbing the recording?
3) Are you able to tell the truth?
4) Does ANYONE at the NEC take responsibility for resolving this?
I do love my son deeply but my oldest thinks I come across as a crazy person EVEN though I got permission…and should just drop this.
We already know how the beautiful Ohioan mom of 4 weighs in: Tackle him!!
Humbly, this is not about me. It’s about the stacked deck against religious freedom, against any Catholic witness, only secular religions like satanism, killing kids for sacramental Satanic Mass re enactments, etc are allowed. The definition of communism is foolish godless Socialism pushed by the father of lies.
You’ve heard the “devil” is in the details; so are the angels.
Time to confess I have the audio, even if the NEC is hiding it: Since I was surprised at the end zone, I had my phone voice recorder already going in my front pocket. I still need the details what the renegade cops did WITH their interrogation, but a transcript of the audio recording of the Colts Cops treatment of your Catholic brother and co-participant follows:
Other then the Colts Cops and an unknown NEC human who hid and never went face to face with his (or her, the other sex/gender) accused Matthew 18 style, Again: NO ONE COMPLAINED. THE 30,000 THOUGHT IT WAS PART OF THE PROGRAM. As promised, I WILL GIVE A $2 BILL TO EVERYONE WHO PAID TO GET IN WHO COMPLAINED, ONCE I PICK UP THE $4 IN 2’s TO RANSOM the two folks BEING OFFENDED. WHAT THE HEAVEN HAS HAPPENED TO US AS A CHURCH?
Are we men of valor? Are we women of courage?
The self proclaimed chief called it a “show”. Sorry chief It wasn’t a show; it was a witness to brotherly love and FURTHER evidence ANY thing we do beyond clutching our rosaries in the front pew of a locked out Mass room, will NOT be tolerated by the secular world.
I now almost believe the Colts Cops had zero interface with an NEC official, and if they did, God help us if we throw our Catholic siblings to the wolves like in the recent decade.
Think about it: There was a 10 minute gap between Tony calling me his brother and friend and when the trinity of Colts Cops escorted me to security.
The NEC staffer, volunteer liaison must have seen and heard that. Epic fail, and as St Paul, as a roman citizen demanded Rome, as a member of the Catholic Church, I firmly request a meeting with the decision makers. Chances are, I will never see the promised report.
Not that critical with the audio recording, but helping some one keep a promise is only fair. And my other involvements can lead to unjust lies applied as evidence in so much pro life tyranny applied.
Flashback a decade. Reminds me of the 11 goons that Kamalabort dispatched to David Daleiden’s 600 sf apartment to steal, never return, his recordings of planned parenthoodlums selling body snatcher parts to med labs worldwide…just doing what they were told. Update: finally, after a decade, David is free to do more great investigative reporting now that California has quit persecuting him. The war is won and ocassional battle victories are welcome. Thank you David for all you do, and Sandra too!
Boldness is NOT violence, it is St Paul, it is us, IF we really believe we hold the everlasting life truths in our hearts and hands. And our friends, neighbors and family are dying to know what we know. Remember, NO ONE cares what you know, until they know that you care.
More on the crime in progress.
From the audio record (by the way, I inadvertently recorded it): “When you stopped and talked with the cameraman there(obviously, chief and cop crew were watching me, and maybe with the elusive NEC head of security over their shoulder) and they thought you were with the cameraman and if the guy (at the stairs to the left of Tony) (had) not let you up, if that guy had not stopped you (chief, which way is it?) you would probably would have been taken off that stage in a different form and fashion. Huh??
Does he mean pulverized or dead? Oddly, he might have saved my life by not tackling me that day.
He, in his odd logic, is probably right since I had a latent heart arterial obstruction of the widowmaker discovered 72 days later on Sept 29th, the feast day of St Michael the Archangel. In English, a heart attack.
I had no weapon but the Gospel and the love of a CAtholic brother; I carefully identified myself to Tony, and walked back. The people clapped politely, not for me but the sentiment of hugging a man who can’t hug and his decades long witness to our Savior. NOT football fan drunk, just preaching the Gospel with actions.
I said to the Chief: He didn’t stop me; he let me up. Words have meaning as do actions. Look at the “fear fuel” of the 2020s.
Based on Mao Tse Xi’s skillful incubation of the emerging leaked gain of function virus in Wuhan in 2019, 11 million city dwellers were not allowed to infect other Chinese cities with “no fly Chi rules”; just OUT of the country to the Chinese owned businesses in Spain and Italy. When Wuhan day laborers were sent to them and became the earliest hotspots.
We must believe there are many interactive God-incidences in life. A great example was the earliest Calif. Covid death was a good Catholic man and acquaintance, on Feb 16, 2020, Stephen Atchley, one incredible professor who taught foreign including Wuhan students.
Yes we’ve been lied to but that is the first word and work of the godless. We just must improve our serve and get REAL with the Real Presence of Christ. But something has nagged me about Andres’ death, the son of Lynn and Tony, who I first met when age 3. I hope to find out this year if my suspicions are spot on.
Other soundbites from the Chief:
“you will be able to get an official copy through the NEC”Fat chance, the NEC does not return emails….even 8 months later and counting. Let alone calls. Too busy for a dad of 11 Catholic kids.
I asked, “Can i keep the orange lanyard… “Unfortunately that is part of the access credential”At least, I kept the now useless schedule torn away but how weird is that? They are afraid I will try and get back in using a piece of plastic twine.
“You are very very lucky that you didn’t get tackled off the stage by law enforcement down there”…Why, because the staff security guy let me go on stage? What was THIS guy, thinking, with his double talk?
“Understand the environment in which we live today”Unfortunately, Chief, it’s the environment we have brought on ourselves, where being Catholic is right where the father of lies wants us: oppressed and passive. Your overall security boss for the NEC Steve Garcia, is quoted as saying Trump’s assassination attempt had NOTHING to do with his plans to protect. Did he lie as well?
Let’s hope this hug was sanctioned by the big poobahs in leadership
I do thank Colts Cop Central for their exceptional professionalism, assuming some NEC staffer directed their action from the shadows; and hoping no one else faced expulsion…apparently, hugs and roses are dangerous. Nor any one lost a job, including my own family members.
Did the word on the hat, Sacred Heart Patrol, raise threat level to red from yellow, DEFCON 3? Fact is, when we as DREs had 400 kids in St Anthony Claret’s weekly…
…Tuesday night religious ed program, I had them made for the dads; it gave them purpose and the kids more security with dads around at an inner city parish for night classes. It’s a leftover from 1995!
Looking back CSI/NCIS style, surveillance might have begun in registration line, though. The man is always watching apparently.
Yes, I confess, I have a form of ADHD called ADAD. I talk to everyone, encourage them to dialogue (the lost art before covid, cell phones and shutdowns) and communicate. Some call it “witness”; my kids just say, “there goes dad again”.
Faith question: when did roses and hugs become a federal issue at the state level in a Catholic conference talking mercy, kindness and love?
I tried to help families make the registration journey easier for these tired UNcredentialed: joyful, walking and encouraging the registrants. Especially the sisters and the families, since it looked like the line would take a bit. I may have been caught on camera; just be bland, don’t cause excess smiles, never assume people want to dialogue. The usual drivel.
I asked the chief about my wife, Mary and he said no, she could stay. Really? How’d that work out 2000 miles from home! NEC showed total incompetence and serial nonchalance to the needs of their California “delegates”. Is there ONE competent, Catholic NEC official who can help with this?
Interrogation finished, I eSigned the unprinted report and officer Keith
professionally showed me the way to the curb. Warning NOT to step onto stadium or convention center property unless I wanted to be arrested. There’s that threat again…
I told them I did not have any priors, but actually I have given former Miss Lila Rose a rose in the past, as previously mentioned and hugged Tony similarly at the Anaheim Convention Center Religious Ed conference a couple decades ago…also, on the WYD buses and Disneyland area stage, I played his hands at times like the old puppet trick.
Thank you, Keith, you are a good officer as well as all your team. But, maybe listen to the whole story from the hugged next time. No next time for me. I’m pretty much done with posturing and broken promises.
Tony texted me hours later, which you can read here.
======NEC Testimony===We ALL have a story to tell=======
Transcript of July 19th midday at the Indianapolis Colts’ Lucas Oil Stadium. Meeting in the security room after pulled from my end zone seat. Three officers, chief of police arrives later. It is a word for word transcription of an audio recording that did NOT come from the promised source: the NEC leadership.
While Tony’s song was underway, three security officers came to where Mary, my wife and stepmother to
the 11, and I were sitting in the end zone, peacefully watching and listening to Tony.
The Colt Cops: you need to come with us
Len Shall I tell my wife, are you taking me out, or just asking questions?
CCops: taking you to the security office
All four of us walked up the aisle and headed to the security office
Len: thank you guys for being here (I always thank officers for their service, even football cops), 50,000 65,000 Catholics, you have a beautiful city
I remained cordial during the 5 minute perp walk; the security officers were just doing their jobs…assuming someone in NEC leadership requested my removal. Obviously, as dangerous as I was, I assumed NEC would appear. The cops, like soldiers at the cross or at the train cars of Auschwitz, were just following orders. I am NOT worthy to clean the sandals of the Savior. Are you? Like Mary Magdalene, ever hear a stone whiz by your ear like a rifle shot one July 13.
At the security office; Sound of a door opening
Lady officer: “Hello!” desk officer, a nice lady
Len: “am i to sit with you here (woman on other side of table)”
Fine lady: “Do you have your ID on you sir?”
Len: sure I do. would you like the license or…
Fine Lady: License will be fine.
Len: here it is. I am Len by the way.
No priors I think. I have 11 kids and 22 grandkids. 40 years of Catholic home based education.
Fine lady: the Boss is going to talk to you
Len: oh ok Bach, I don’t know Bach
Fine lady: No… boss (with a chuckle)
Len who is he?
Fine lady: “He’s the chief of police”
Len: ok happy to talk
25 seconds of dead time. In comes alleged Chief of Police who identified as Billy Ingalls. (later Checking Archbishop Charles Thompson’s home city’s website, Billy and the acting Indy Chief must be fraternal twins.)
NEC Colt Cops “Sir, my name is Billy Ingalls, the security manager
Len Good to meet you, I am Len
NEC Colt Cops or NEC: “What were you thinking, partner?” (referring to hugging Tony Melendez)
Len Let me give you the backgrounder. I first met Tony in 1987, he was (a gift to the Pope at the Universal Amphitheater) up on stage. (Sept 15, 1987) I had 30 kids from St Callistus that special day.
(13 years later) I traveled with Tony to WYD sites in 2000, 2002, 2005. I have 11 kids 22 grandkids and 40 years of homeschooling. I’ve known Tony and Lynn for more years than we’ve known
each other. He lost his son Andres, 3 years ago age 22 (actually 24) My lovely wife, Mary married me 5 years ago. I have been involved in youth ministry at three different churches. Tony was a surprise to me; because I did not know he was coming here. and I had not seen Tony for a few years. I’ve actually played his arms and hands on buses in Europe and had the privilege of sponsoring him, having him come to different churches and to do all that. It was a little bit impulsive only because Tony has been one of the greatest gifts to our country and the world. (and your security man at the stairs allowed me up)
The long and the short of it is, uhm, give him a good hug and go from there. He knows who I am, if you want to check with Tony. If he didn’t, it could be because he is a lot older than me (attempt at humor: I’m 12 years older) right now, no I’m kidding. He is actually a great man doing great things.
There was no intent to hurt or harm, i’ve been involved in the neighborhood of 100 retreats over the years serving almost 38 years of church ministry as the director of religious ed in some places, mainly as a youth minister, I’ve seen Tony at conferences and doing the other things together. Long and the short.
Here is the brief time Len was with Tony on stage/ dialogue: Fri July 19:
Tony: I can’t hug you. I can’t serve you a plate of food. I’m married. I love my wife. Her name is Lynn, …for all the ladies here, we can’t hold hands which means we gotta do a lot more kissing. That’s ok with me. we’ve been together 33 years.
Two kisses that changed my life (Pope St John Paul the Great and Lynn’s). The first, the Pope, not a romantic kiss. A true blessing. The second my wife’s A true blessing when it comes to marriage and later on (kisses).
Len comes on behind Tony and touches gently his shoulders; Tony looks up and turns to Len
Tony: Yes (pause, recognizes; Len quietly says his name) Hey how you doing there. Good seeing you. Good seeing you.
Len: (facing the crowd) “Tony can’t give you a hug. We can give Tony a hug. Give him a round (signaling applause) The crowd applauds Tony. “I getting off now..(quietly to Tony; he traveled with six of my kids) I’m at 11 and 22 grandkids. Len leaves the stage
Tony: Good seeing you. You know we have World Youth Day friends, he’s one of the WYD friends I’ve traveled with. A true blessing... (did the Colt Cops’ Chief Billy or the NEC security liaison even hear Tony before their rush to judgement?)
He didn’t call me Khoumenei or Hamas, but a friend, brother and blessing. Follows is Billy the Intimidator setting up the removal:)
NEC Billy security:
“Ok and…You did it yesterday as well” (referring to giving roses to Lila Rose tossed on stage). (when the Chief Billy said this, my chess brain kicked in. He’s been surveilling me for more than just today Friday, maybe the whole congress while helping the St Lawrence Treasures as well on Wednesday)
Len: Oh, the flowers. Yeah, the flowers…that’s a fair question. Roses for Lila Rose, I go back probably when she first came out. I’m a pro life, literally a prolife activist. In that regard, I don’t block doors. I usually give roses…
Billy: “as you did yesterday”
Len: …to women (ladies leaving planned parenthood Tustin@22fwy Orange). I did not hand them to her, I tossed them on stage (away from the dais) probably 15 seconds, probably late.
I saw a staffer pick them up. What it was, if you didn’t get the evidence (the 11 roses) was simply three times, this is the third time. Last two times it was at two different youth conferences, I would give her a rose on stage as a sign of the love and compassion (for her courage) from the people. Usually as a youth group, I would have them with me. This third one, the roses actually were (technically) from her husband Joe. She didn’t know about it, it was a surprise. But since I was late (15 seconds) I basically tossed them on stage (not to disrupt) when you picked them up, and I don’t know if they got to her, I haven’t talked to her since then.
Bottom line, that will be my last incident (of surprise) if that is what your concern is (for NEC). (agreeing to stifle joy and Catholic hospitality with a chief/man whose faith life is unknown). I paid $700 to be here 12 months ago and it’s been a joy. I’m just here to be a good Catholic and witness. so…
Billy: “well, on behalf of the NIC err NEC (Len: OK) I am instructed to pull your credentials.” (Can I face the judge, jury and executioner? Obviously not; after all, this is Church typical)
Len Ok, that’s fine. Can I get my wife. (tho I’m of little importance, I expected an NEC staffer to come out from behind the curtain)
Billy: we can get your wife… (this indicated, mind racing, I’m done here unless the NEC security person shows his or her face, comes out of the shadows)
Len: actually a better idea. Let her do what she is doing and I will pick her up outside. (I figured there was little chance of being at the Congress after the interrogation)
Billy: can you meet her out?
Len: does she have to go as well?
Billy: she does not. she does not. (good interrogator, he was careful to localize on his “suspect/target” and not Mary)
Billy: so if you want to attend any of the other NEC events, because you are being ejected from
this stadium and you are being ejected from the convention center
Len: we’re fine, I understand (Huh? what events?)
Billy: you are not allowed back on either property through the end of the event, thru Sunday ok?
Len: ok
Billy: so if you are found on either of the properties you are subject to arrest for trespassing. Ok?
Len Ok (what was i to do? The NEC must be in the shadows. I’ve heard the phrase “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive…” from time to time over 72 years)
Len The reason I am asking (question) is a simple one. (phone rings) No, go ahead and get that phone call.
Len: We came into Dayton via Cincinatti, in Dayton with my son and daughter in law their 4 children (my son is the headmaster of Chesterton Academy Dayton, adopting 4 great fosters this year)
to Chicago and met some long lost Polish cousins. I will be happy to go, I have the keys
Happy to go, if you think its the thing I have to do. Could you send me a copy if I give you my email?
(still expecting this great org NEC staffer, even a volunteer like me, to appear. Didn’t happen. Sarah Houde never answered my emails Friday or Saturday)
Billy: I appreciate your help in doing this
Girl stenographer recorder: Uh, I don’t know if it’s hooked up
Len: i don’t care if it’s later just so…
Billy: YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET AN OFFICIAL COPY FROM THE NEC (fat chance, it’s been three four weeks) Eight months
Len: no, that’s fine, I apologize… (for doing a good deed for a grieving friend)
Billy: (holding the nametag) is there anything in the back you’d like to hold on to?
Len: good point, similar, actually, what you need more than anything would be this guy here, this is the actual credential. (Len tears it from the schedule) This is the schedule where my wife would be..this is Patrick (Madrid’s) card in here. I can keep this (the plastic part) and…how about the clip?
Billy: unfortunately that (the orange lanyard) is part of the access credential. (that’s what I paid $700 for?) We can’t allow you to take it.
Len: ok that’s fine.I tried to be careful and not disruptive when I was surprised that Tony was up there…
Billy: “well, honestly, honestly you are very, very lucky you didn’t get tackled off the stage by law enforcement down there”
Len Well…
Billy OK?
Len I appreciate that since they are probably bigger than me
Billy …if you had not stopped and talked to the cameraman (truth is, I complimented him on his work…I didn’t know I was under surveillance from the night before. Apparently, roses have power!)
Len Right
Billy “…when they (implies more than one NEC staffer made the decision) thought that you were with the camera crew, when the guy (not sure whom the stairs staffer belonged to) let you up…had that guy not let you up …had that guy not stopped you, you would have probably been taken off that stage in a different form and fashion.” (uhhhh, hmmm…does this make any sense? My 4 year olds covered their cookie thefts better than this guy. What an embarrassment NEC has become in this instance)
(Bishops/your excellencies/NEC hatchet team. A little analysis here: my BS meter is on. Ok, let’s chew on this.
A soft threat, which is his right as the chief of police to pull on me, if he’s trying to extract necessary information. But, trying to understand their frame of mind, if the staffer said no to going up, I would have returned to the end zone seats..and Billy or NEC Wizard security, decided, they would attack me with their bouncers? Come on.
Who the heaven are these people and who is “they?” members of NEC or only God knows; so I was going to be tackled because I was allowed up on stage? Do you realize how insane double talk sounds like? What, set up for hospital or possible death for Hunger Games style blood sport. My chickens and cats make more sense then this doublespeak nonsense.
My regret is I support and donate to a number of the entities at this Congress, joyfully and know a healthy number of the presenters over my decades of ministry; and exhibitors. Getting kicked out early blew a lot of opportunities but I’d do the same thing again. ASK PERMISSION. GET PERMISSION. Give a hug to a friend who was in need.
Certainly, NEC knew I hadn’t sponsored a Hitler Harvard Hamas rally or threw paint on the monstance.. I’m not sure if the Cops knew what a monstrance is. Notice that Tony just called me friend and World Youth Day traveler 10 minutes before the extraction team of the Colts Cops showed up)
Len “…and I don’t play football, i just watch it (occasionally but sorry Archbishop Thompson, I’m not a Colts fan)
Billy: understand, understand the environment in which we live today. That’s where we are at with it. (I DO understand the environment we are in: prebirth kids are killed by the millions and that prostitute VP Prez candidate can kill more with little response from the Church?)
Billy: “You know you are breeching security”. (I don’t know I’m breeching anything: no signs, no instruction, allowed up to do a mission of short duration mercy…if told I couldn’t go up, I would have just returned to Mary)
Billy: “If we let every individual in this building do what you did,what kind of PERFORMANCE, WHAT KIND OF SHOW would this be for the participants (come on, chief, did you hear the “performer’s” words? I was in a foreign land, this was a CATHOLIC worship gathering not druggies and drunks, meth heads and others that need our help. I hope you bishops and NEC leaders have the capacity to read between these secular lines that make no sense)
Len: yeah, a good point, but it’s actually not a show, it’s a witness. (another waste of breath)
Billy You disrupted it, and that’s what caused this (Disrupted what? Certainly not the speaker/singer Tony. Read his text he sent me. Bishops Cozzens/Thompson etc, you were out of the stadium, there was no disruption, just nervous trigger happy security and incompetent NEC staff, which can be a good thing at times because law enforcement is being bullied and lawless disorder promoted by the Democrat radical left… Ask YOUR people if they were offended having a ‘stand-in’ give Tony a short hug! OTHER then Sarah and people so stiff they would break if they fell. They certainly lack the maturity to answer my inquiries. Must I file a FOIA request to get what your team promised me?
Len ok and I will contact them (tony, Lila) since I have their numbers. not this weekend. To say Thank you guys for a great experience. and they’ve done great things
Recorder lady: ‘Let me explain to you are being ejected from the stadium and you were trespassed from the property and I will ask you to sign that statement.’
Len electronically signs, acknowledging the interview…no copy given even though it is legally required in most states including Indiana.
Billy ..Think about your actions a little bit..I understand your side of it. Think from the security side…” (I did, where the heaven was NEC? or as usual, ducking responsibility. Yes, I am repentant for ruining my wife Mary’s experience, but was the pomp and circumstance more important then the details of ministry? Do we accept zero risk of witness, enforce by zero tolerance of the good for the perfect lock-step “yes, sir” to corrupt civil “authorities” like gov Newsom locking out school and Church while making planned parenthoodlums “essential workers”. I guess we do!
Newsom’s the same plastic fallen away Catholic fan of killing prebirth kids, spaying daughters into suicide like they are junkyard dogs; that’s his excuse. What is ours as a Church? Yes, three fingers pointing back at me, but Francis heard the words from Our Lord in Assisi. Do we? )
“Francis, go and rebuild my Church which, as you see, is falling down.” Now the American Church has its work cut out for it.
We all see and are trying to revive the patient, the Bride of Christ.
Outside the Stadium on the way to the car…
Security Kevin escorts Len off the property onto the streets. To get to the rental car in the Hurst parking lot, I had to ring around the building, do 270 degrees. I did stop and dialogue/witness with 7 EVENTS staffers on break, event people, about the Congress, the Real Presence of Christ, the Church etc. Anything an involved Catholic would do. Great people, about the work of missionaries. Once their pizza arrived…
At the rental car, I met new arrivals:
Paul and his wife from New York. I greeted them, gave them directions, discusses homeschooling since they are homeschoolers with kids. One of the kids is John Paul; the respectful 7 yr old young man says he’s named after John Paul II You just missed Tony I told dad. They said they know him. To the young man:
Len: “son, the proper name is Pope Saint John Paul the Great.”
‘ they come from a very rural part of NY..
To JP’s mom and dad: “You are in the 2-10 club, you have two and on the way to 10.” they chuckled.
Catholic commercial alert: Too many bishops miss how important servants Catholic home schooling families are to parish life (San Diego now DC’s Bishop McElroy comes to mind who banned homeschoolers from using parish facilities. Is that why he was reassigned to DC?); after 40 years of practicing, I see this and the benefits are enormous.
Few clerics (though the number is on the increase positively)understand Catholic parents HOMESCHOOL FROM BIRTH; LATER ON, THEY TAKE different paths to fulfill CCC 2223.
Next, “Don’t miss the Hillbillies” I told them. We finish with “now John Paul who are you named after.
John Paul responds Pope Saint John Paul. Smart kid!
(While playing chess with myself, did I do the right thing with Tony?)
Len gives the family directions and as they begin to leave…
Another current credentialed attendee walks up to my car while the New Yorkers were still there; his name on his credentials is Thomas Payne. (the irony was not missed)
Tom: “I need a hug”
Len ” I need a…this man Tom needs a hug!” (joking to the NY family: Why does Tom need a hug?)
Tom: “It was great up there (referring to the Tony hug)
Len “I’m banned so I guess it’s fine”
Tom: “He’s one of your best buddies, huh?”
Len: “Yeah, Tony, I was just telling the people here from New York. Hey guys! Tom hold on (talking to the uncredentialed family from New York) (Len shouts) make sure you register and get your credentials
for the events in the Exhibit Hall Check out the Hillbillies and when you get to Relevant Radio, tell Patrick or anybody that Len Beckman sent you. (Obviously I won’t get back to Relevant unless I can get my credentials back from the NEC. Never did get a call back or email back Friday or Saturday. Nothing even today.
(back to Tom at the rental car in the Hurst parking lot)
Len “I – I honestly didn’t know Tony was coming. And I’ve known (of) Tony since late 1980s, I saw Tony come up out of the floor (sept 15) 1987. I was with 35 maybe 40 kids from our parish, St Callistus
(today both St Callistus churches are gone, now luxury homes and embodied in Christ Cathedral a stone’s throw away)…it’s Christ Cathedral now and Tony was a gift, no one knew him then…I traveled with Tony 2000, 2002, 2005 World Youth Days. Tony has been everywhere (45 countries). He’s suffering, obviously, he’s suffering from the loss of his son a few years ago Andres (Andres passed away in April 2022). We know he’s in heaven (still pray for him and the Melendez fam) As much as Tony works and God’s given him a burden but he meets that burden so well. The way he handles helping and doing all these things
So, Tom, you’re local you are from Indiana? Had you ever seen him before?”
Tom: “on TV (a car alarm goes off in the Hurst parking lot with no one else around) Uh Oh!
Len: “that is hilarious”
Tom: “no one’s even around that car”
Len: “It’ll shut off after it gets tired”.
So, tom anyways (alarm continues) Tony’s just an amazing guy
Tom: So you saw him just…
Len: well I saw him well I’m 72, so i first saw him Sept of 1987 when he
came up out of the floor, and he just did as you saw on the screen…with the Pope
Tom: yup, yup yup
Len …and I’m Polish and German and have a deep love for John Paul the Great
Tom: whattya talking about, man, I say John Paul the Excellent!
Len: Well you remember how the Parkinson’s just took over
Tom yeah
Len: I really believe God used him throughout his life and he showed us how to
(live and) die gracefully (suffering Parkinson’s) unfortunately for our president right now, it’s sad, pray for
him. He needs a lot of prayer. because (Biden) he has parkinsons for probably 8 years
Len: JPII was a hiker and everything but when Terri Schiavo died that morning (March 31, 2005)
she’d been starved to death, she was murdered, she couldn’t move much, she
couldn’t speak well. (but her family, the Schindlers, were willing to give Michael a million to keep his ex wife alive. Go figure)
Len: When JPII passed away as the Divine Mercy mass (vigil) ended April 2nd, he had gotten…
Tom: I remember
Len …seriously ill on March 31st just hours after Terri was murdered (no coincidence, certainly a Godincidence) the best way to put it. But, to answer your question, Tony was that gift whose been to every WYD since I seem to remember and his ministry is sooo sound.
He’s such a generous soul, giving everything that he can
Tom: especially since you can tell, on his younger days, when the pope wanted to kiss him
Len But that was the freaky thing..I had no idea he was gonna be here, so
I told (my wife) Mary I got to go do this. The day before (Last night) I had tossed Roses for
Lila Rose on stage and it was my 3rd shot at that. I’m a prolife activist and had seen her
at different (events) things. I had missed her by 15 seconds so tossed them on stage (not to disrupt)
When Tony got on stage, I told Mary I gotta go.
Tom: really
Len: He’d said it had not been easy. Tony had just said “I can’t hug you” Tom, did that come through?
I’m here to hug you.
Tom: it did
Len I told the sisters (on the way back to seat) especially Missionaries of Charity that hugs for, from
you to him. (did the same with other individuals and groups) God bless you Tom
I think I did the right thing. Thanks for the kind words. I wasn’t sure I did the right thing
Tom: you did fine
Len: I hope to get my credentials back otherwise I will go see my kids in Dayton. (Bishop Cozzens: couldn’t get anyone to respond. Emails to one of your key staffers not returned)
Tom: did they take them from you? (Yes)
Len: I probably deserved it. There’s a lot of hoot and holler crazy people out there.
To Tom, are you with a group or by yourself?
Tom: I’m by myself
No arrest just banishment Tony! All for God’s Glory
Len: well go celebrate! Go, go, go. Go see the hillbillies (people mentioned them; it was lunchtime) Wish you the best! Thank you Mr Payne, you are the best!
–end of iPhone recordings transcript/testimony/interrogation July 19
I got in my car and left the Hurst parking lot, headed to a neutral location(Burger King) for a few hours of laptop work.
I picked up Mary after 3pm. What a stepmom and wife: she knew we were probably locked out of NEC, like Pentecost 2020;
NEC leaders, understand how my kids’ stepmom acted to your adversity. Mary met a woman in her last session, giving her the remainder of our parking fees/pass who really needed help having a place to park through Sunday.
It made sense following NEC and the Colt Cops banishment orders (no one called back to see if we could re enter.
Never heard back from NEC team. They don’t have time for the little people. They get your money at registration and they are not accountable. But you are. Weird
We left the city early Saturday heading east.
NEC: for the record, I was not a fanboy but truly concerned for Tony; but you left ZERO room for a Catholic apologist sensitive to the needs of others to add 17 seconds to your sacred itinerary. Ok, maybe 25 seconds. The sisters didn’t mind; few until now will know. It’s the WHY no explanation is coming forth.
Later, Tony had messaged me on Facebook that Friday evening (yes, armless folks can do amazing things, even text) and here are the messages for the record…I was no Hamas terrorist, NEC, but I didn’t want to rain on his parade. I just hope you decide WHAT is most important in banishing people from your gatherings.
I told Tony I wasn’t arrested but to enjoy his time at the Congress. I would catch him later. Which I will.
All I need from NEC is the promised interrogation report and if/to whom you circulated it. The reasons are sound.
So, please, no more excuses, no apologies. Just the promise kept this will never happen again, with the Church allowing the godless or ignorant to set policies, like we do with wasting and draining poor families believing climate change is man caused NOT God controlled.
You might have heard about this unforced error I call the most egregious heresy embraced by too many: the Algorean Heresy of Ignorance
I must count it joy, if being a target is due to being active in tossing roses on the NEC platform, or giving roses at planned parenthood Orange HQ on Tustin @ 22 fwy or Congress.
Most Saturdays, as the distraught confused girls are driven down the driveway across the sidewalk, having aborted, got a Covid shot, Fetalkyll poison or just some anti-having kid pills, explains a lot of the whys of this experience.
WE don’t save, the Holy Spirit does the “saving” but 66 million have not made it
to daylight. Yet as Mother Teresa (I just LOVE the Missionaries of Charity) answered the reporter who asked:
“there are thousands in need, how can you hope to help all these people?”
Her answer is our call; not just the fanfare of big celebrations, but the nitty gritty of “helping one person at a time”
This was my goal, without permission since the need was immediate, to help in the lines those less than capable.
Even after expulsion, I remained hospitable to the needs of others, following the Prime Directive and encouraged people we encountered.
Our Church is still clawing its way back since Pentecost 2020 lock-outs and I hope to continue to surprise with joy those within two feet of me, as we all should. The Gospel IS efficacious IF it is shared with those dying to know Jesus. Especially in the Eucharist.
To do this, we need fearlessness, boldness and compassion. Bishops Cozzens & your excellencies & lay people: May you begin your day with this mantra: “It IS a great day to be alive. Lord, use me as You, not I, will” ie: shout Joy with your every encounter.
Paul spoke so much in this passage: Romans 8:28
“We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.29For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.30And those he predestined he also called; and those he called he also justified; and those he justified he also glorified.31What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against is?32He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him?33Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us.34Who will condemn? It is Christ [Jesus] who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.
Please take this admonition, not with pride or a closed heart. Certainly, I am not a bishop for we have many excellent bishops; nor am I the pope. I am NOT an ordained priest of which there are many. But as a Catholic apologist, father of 11 and devoted to teaching the Truth whenever possible, risk doing good even when it is inconvenient.
The Father made it exceedingly plain how much He loved His Son and wanted to gift Him to us. I believe this Ultimate Gift was heralded (and hope to prove in time) by His unmistakably well designed monument. Not only the world’s largest monument to His Eucharistic Son, but incredibly precise being located at the Center of the World. For, as the Scriptures teach us, Jesus IS the center of not only the world, but the center of history. His Story must be retold, concisely (much more concisely than this writing) and enthusiastically to a world fast becoming antagonistic to the GREATEST story ever told.
Isaiah is packed with prophecies, part of the 612 Christ prophecies; within it, is Isaiah 19:19-20 which points to Bethlehem from the desert, from Giza a mere 270 miles away. The same Giza that JMJ traveled to live for 2 years in a peaceful Jewish settlement in Cairo, in the Great Pyramid’s shadow. Before you revolt over this notion, do your own research or read “The Theology of Giza” and expose the fraud should their be some. Simply:
The Proud GodFather’s contribution to His Son’s Real Presence 4600 years ago. Yes, provable as a Catholic icon.
I remain a son of the Church, devoted to truth, surprising with joy, still spreading the Gospel as long as possible. My real estate clients know I am retiring at age 100 but in our faith work, no retire. Retiring is defined as putting new rubber/wheels on the family van, NOT quitting. There will be plenty of time in heaven to retire and sleep.
Wishing each of your ministries to be successful in the spirit of Phil 2:3-4:
“Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but [also] everyone for those of others.”
Signed/
Len Beckman
Mini CV~dad 0f 11, PapaLen to 22 23 grandkids, 40 years, so far, homeschooling, lover of life. 1980-95 at St Callistus as youth minister | 95-2005 Directors of Religious Ed & YM | 2007-2012 Youth Director, Holy Family Cathedral | volunteer youth leader and music minister 1975-1980 at SAC, John the Baptist & other parishes | MBA CSUF 1975 |
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And remember, you might not know the cost or not expect the cost of a certain act of Catholic charity (ROCK or Random Opportunity for Catholic Kindness), but as the Calcutta saint said, ‘do it anyway’ We need fearless and bold advocates on the greatest mission field in the world: USA and Calif.
When I hugged my 30 year friend/brother Tony Melendez on stage July 19th at NEC Congress, with permission and timed as flawlessly as possible to NOT disrupt, people enjoyed their “hugs” symbolically given to a humble armless servant by one of them. Losing his only beloved son, Andres in his sleep and days until Andres’ birthday, you’d think the NEC security team, many football sunday drunk removers, would not be so brazen: they ushered me to the stadium interrogation room 15 minutes later, threatened to arrest me even though I had permission, unless I “allowed” them to eject me from the NEC completely. Even today, never heard a word from an NEC official, though we left at the half way part missing decades of friendships in the Exhibit Hall and the rest of the Mass, family rosaries and Adoration nights.
Involved in planned parenthood battles all these years, I know Lauren Handy and was a small part of her training years ago before like Lila, she converted Catholic and was pardoned of the ridiculous now serves 50+ months. Lauren was helping the largest demographic of post abortive women: ladies in prison
Personally, I am hardened to the games playing of the PP director calling the police for no good reason; but mystified at the actions of leadership of the Catholic revival that is ushering in the true Renaissance of the Eucharistic Lord, as His Father announced in stone 4600 years ago. What were they thinking? Rush to judgement without competent investigation.
NEC‘s rush to judgement and lack of investigation and/or divine Mercy is how the evil one battles good: father of lies. Point is, be JOYOUS and spread BY Joy. Keep doing good, ladies. Answer adversity with “Yes, Lord I am come to do YOUR Will, not mine” oct4
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I am blessed to have two of my kids married to two siblings of an amazing Norbertine, Fr. Louis assigned to the Premonstratensian abbey in Silverado Canyon: St Michaels. Appropriately, the 3rd son, his given name was Levi, as if his parents Steve & Regina gave him to God at birth like Hannah and Samuel. Abbot Hayes’ confrers are great and untold blessings in southern california and other states.
When I lost my wife and the mother of my 11 kids, Donna on 9/9/11, it was two years before I could take a breath. 1400 people saw her off to the heavenlies at Holy Family Cathedral 9/15/11. Odd turnout maybe because she was much more than a “stay at home” mom, she affected so many lives in parish ministry. She did so much for the faith dying 49 days short of 49 years.
Abortion is hell installed in the mind, hearts even souls of desperate moms; it completes the demonic sacrifice emulation of Catholic Mass with a terrible reward: the life of a prebirth body so few Catholics understand is real, especially when satanists like Josh King performed an Anti-Mass at planned parenthood and other kill mills. Your advice Patrick Madrid was exceptional.
Truth be told, I was surprised Tony Melendez was coming on stage that Friday at NEC; I have zero idea.
Tony is a living Catholic icon and itinerant preacher of love; I first saw him come out of the floor at Universal with 30 of my St Callistus youth in 1987. Then I traveled as one of the Youth Ministers with him and Steve Angrisano to 2000,2002, 2005 World Youth Days. Like other grieving parents, Tony needs our love and prayers; he and Lynn lost Andre their beloved son a couple years ago and his grieving continues on Facebook. I suspect the cause is discoverable.
I count him as a blessed friend, so instinctively (stepmom, wife Mary can attest) I got up and headed to the stage…I asked the staffer at the side steps conversationally a question then told him “I am going up to give Tony a hug from all of us.” He didn’t stop me, gave tacit permission, so I proceeded: I thought the surprise would be helpful to a great man.
Just after Tony mentioned “I can’t give you a hug…” I embraced him from behind and told him
I love him; here’s a hug from all of us. Of course, he was startled but recognized me as a co-pilgrim from many WYDays and acquaintance, even friend. 17 seconds and I left the stage so he could get his toes and club foot into action with his new song. As it turns out, this 17 second Sacred Heart Patrol hug cost me a plenary indulgence, two more days of NEC including seeing many friends in ministry, two Masses, the world’s largest Eucharist procession, etc.
But Patrick, it was worth the cost because what happened next as I was escorted out of the stadium. Tony needs our sincere prayers, as does his beloved wife Lynn. I recall young Andre on the buses in Europe & Canada, because he and his sister traveled with the Toejam Pilgrims. His testimony happened moments after yours on the six words and the Eucharist miracle girl, truly a saint, taking the last host on the floor before being martyred. Tony’s ministry started late 1987 but continues today, with yet another new song. Please pray and ask listeners to pray when your show goes live again this week. It was great seeing the Relevant Radio family Wed and Thursday..what an amazing ministry. The revival continues; the Eucharist remains real. Opportunities to see a need, meet the need if able and move on to the next is our creed, IF we believe the Gospel, John 6 and our calling as “journeymen and women” on this earth codified in Command #2 to love our neighbor. I love Tony as a brother and know he is hurting; my “hurt” losing Donna has abated and God has gifted me with Mary never married now step mother to 12 but it IS a great day to BE alive. LIVE the ADVENTURE!
Cyrus is right! Never think we have more than the present to be on earth: text, call those you love. NOW Patrick I DO love you as you requested from the life ending episode on a rewind show. I will continue to do your ministry of love to family as well.
TY Cyrus as usual Great seeing you as well last year in Indianapolis. You ARE truly Cyrus the Great Producer.
Praying for the extended leadership of Pilgrimage 2025 and NEC2033
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Bishop Andrew Cozzens~Diocese of Crookston
Archbishop Samuel Aquila~Archdiocese of Denver
Archbishop Leonard Blair~Archdiocese of Hartford
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone~Archdiocese of San Francisco
Archbishop William Lori~Archdiocese of Baltimore
Archbishop Joseph Naumann~Archdiocese of Kansas City
Archbishop Charles Thompson~Archdiocese of Indianapolis
Bishop Robert Barron~Diocese of Winona-Rochester
Bishop Arturo Cepeda~Archdiocese of Detroit (Auxiliary)
Bishop Gerardo Colacicco~Archdiocese of New York (Auxiliary)
Great people come in small packages sometime. The mighty Missionaries of Charity. Sister Marcina
Bishop Thomas A. Daly~Diocese of Spokane
Bishop Enrique Delgado~Archdiocese of Miami (Auxiliary)
Bishop Daniel E. Flores~Diocese of Brownsville
Bishop Francis Kalabat~Chaldean Diocese of St. Thomas the Apostle USA
Bishop Robert Lombardo~Archdiocese of Chicago (Auxiliary)
Bishop Steven Lopes~Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
Bishop David Malloy~Diocese of Rockford
Bishop Kevin Rhoades~Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend
Bishop Mark Spalding~Diocese of Nashville
Board of Directors
Board Chairman Bishop Andrew Cozzens Bishop of Crookston, MN
Vice Chairman of the Board Archbishop Charles Thompson Archbishop of Archdiocese of Indianapolis, IN
Members:
Archbishop José Gomez Archbishop of Archdiocese of Los Angeles, CA
Bishop Gerardo Colacicco Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of New York, NY
Board Member & USCCB Liaison Bishop Daniel Flores Bishop of Diocese of Brownsville, TX
Bishop Kevin Rhoades Bishop of Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, IN
Therese Coons Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, MN
Tim Gray President and Founder of Augustine Institute
Rev. Francis J. Hoffman CEO of Relevant Radio
Maureen Stern Archdiocese of Milwaukee, WI
Board Treasurer Michael Luongo Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, IN
Other Catholic Brothers and Sisters in Christ
Mr. Tony and Lynn Melendez ~Missouri
The amazing Lila Rose~LA
Mr. Chris Stephanik~wherever the San Damiano Cross travels to.
Mr Scott Hahn
Mr Steve Angrisano~Texas
Bobby and Jackie~ Dallas
The 2030s will be here sooner than you think. Much greatness happened June 2024 in Indianapolis and following months and years. May Jesus, His Eucharistic Son, bless you all mightily.
In His Service
Len (and Mary) Beckman
updated Feb 19,2025 Seven months since banishment one July 19,2024 Anyone know someone at NEC?
the Israelites from Egypt. Its Hebrew title, Shemoth (“Names”), is from the book’s opening phrase, “These are the names….” Continuing the history of Israel from the point where the Book of Genesis leaves off, Exodus recounts the Egyptian oppression of Jacob’s ever-increasing descendants (no issues of abortion nor contraceptives Latin for ‘against conceiving babies’ at that time)and their miraculous deliverance by God through Moses, who led them across the Red Sea to Mount Sinai where they entered into a covenant with the Lord.”
Chapter 16: “Observe the month of Abib* by keeping the Passover of the LORD, your God, since it was in the month of Abib that the LORD, your God, brought you out of Egypt by night.”
13th) and you can’t miss, as Shroud Center director, retired judge Dave Belz put it: the herringbone 3 in 1(eerily like the Trinity and manipulations of Lucky for us 13). I believe God uses the number 13 to point us to the hard to understand composition of God having three distinct persons.
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in the US and internationally. Notably the 65,000 gathered in Bishop Cozzen’s led 5 day event at Lucas Oil stadium, Indianapolis, IN July, 2024. Soon after, another Eucharistic celebration took place in a special city: Quito.
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Kamala was attorney general and invaded his small SoCal apartment a dozen years ago. It’s funny who the self absorbed media reward themselves with Pulitzers, much like Hollyweird gives out gold statues and globes to their own.
Obamakamalacabal & Jill’s Joe administration, which kickoff on Jan 20, 2021 plus 4 years of corruption and destruction had just ended.
to read the minds hidden in the control booth somewhere in the Colts stadium? But I’m no prophet nor the son of a prophet; and unlike Cupertino Joe I don’t fly nor bi-locate like Zaragoza’s Our Lady of Pilar or St Padre Pio. Just your typical 72 yr old.
I was on a transcontinental flight that July 13th, heading to the National Eucharist Congress in Indianapolis when word got to us someone had tried to assassinate the now President 47; at first, we didn’t know he was alive, injured or dead and gone. Like the pope, he was distracted for a short second before the 1 of 8 bullets ripped through his ear and not his brain; although one of those eight Thomas Matthew Crooks shot off, killed a good family man. Chances are, he’s in hell but even that depends on God’s judgement. Not mine. Not yours.
Eucharistic Son, Jesus at one time was adorned with 
The importance of this Jewish community was such that after the looting of Jerusalem in 167 B.C., a Jewish temple was built near Memphis, “
together at one time. Just a theory, but…Or maybe God’s design originally WAS one supercontinent. Recall the tower of babel days with everyone speaking the same language? From the site answersingenesis.com:
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