Posted on 03/23/2005 12:45:28 PM PST by jobim
Terri's parents have no doubt been attending daily Mass. On Sunday, day of the Palm Sunday Compromise, they heard yet Christ Jesus did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave (Philippians 2:7)
There is an irony to this case that no one has yet mentioned. In the second reading this Palm Sunday, Paul speaks of Christ coming to us as a slave. The Italian word for "slave" is... "schiavo". (from Amy Wellborn's site)
Then this morning, they would have heard:
Does anyone start proceedings against me? Then let us go to court together. Who thinks he has a case against me? Let him approach me. The Lord is coming to my help, who dare condemn me? (Isaiah 50:9)
I have been thinking about some of the dialogue in 12 Angry Men (1957), a movie heralded by liberals everywhere (I like it too). The switchblade lost in the hole of the boy's pocket, the movies he couldn't remember seeing, the invalid thinking he saw the boy running down the stairs, his having screamed at his father "I'm gonna kill you!" Henry Fonda persisted in trying to get Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, and Ed Begley to see some shred of REASONABLE DOUBT, saying testimony must be absolutely unimpeachable before sending a boy off to die.
Where is the REASONABLE DOUBT exercised on behalf of Terri Schiavo?
whoa!
Who's this Terri Schiavo person I keep hearing about??
But the Lord sometimes means justice for the next life. His perspective is eternal. There is no explaining it.
I agonize over this situation and where God has been all these years. Yet there is a biblical principle that God also allows evil to play itself out so that people demonstrate just how evil they are and then are judged for it. I am sorry, I know many would disagree, but if those who were caring for her spoke up years ago about this evil husband and what he was doing to her, maybe we never would have gotten this far. Gag order or not--our first obedience is to GOD--we have to do what is right not what is legal when the two conflict. Maybe gag orders are becoming the courts way to silence legitimate dissention.
It just makes me sick what this poor woman has been through. When I picture the hell that is talked about in the bible, there is fear, unbearable regret, solitude, pain, and more and more. I can't bear to think about it for anyone. Yet this precious person has lived in her own personal hell for over a decade while this husband of hers possibly abused her and she could do nothing about it. The bible is clear.....his time is coming.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1369054/posts?page=9
"Schiavo" is Italian?
"SCH" is typically a Germanic formation; I don't think of it as Italian or an Romance language. I thought perhaps "Schiavo" was some kind of slavic name, probably abbreviated.
Actually, this from some1 posting on the Genealogy.com fora:
"Schiavo means 'slave' in Italian. It seems that the word much relates to Yugoslavia and 'slavonic' origins. There is a region in former Yugoslavia - south of Danube river - still known as SLAVONIA"
All the posts looked Italian. So I guess I'm wrong - but curious this poster mentions (ironically) possible Slavic connections.
And BTW, bless Terri SCHINDLER, and may God use her to fix our problems, however that may be.
Child of God...
We pray those judicial sinners...
Do not cause the hour of thy death...
Amen !!!
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I am not a particularly religious man, do not even attend church, but this sends a chill up my spine and makes the hairs on my neck stand.
you make good points
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