Posted on 01/02/2016 3:29:34 PM PST by amorphous
Too bad for this woman. I know women like her.
They’ve murdered babies. Time to repent and believe in the Master.
I don’t agree. If you offered her your teenagers, I’m sure that she would be happy to use them.
Thank you, Mrs.D. I appreciate the tagline, very much.
My stated percentage was rather arbitrary, so far as accuracy, but the sentiment for what is seen and heard more broadly in the USA and in the West just might reach that awful percentage, indeed.
As you point out, the Holy Eucharist is quite recognizable, certainly, and accounts for 100% of what little overall, remains miraculous, and in continuity, saved from “change”.
However, I am holding my breath on even that.
In fact, God works in magnificent ways, in this era of decline. Less is truly more, even as teaching broadly begins to fail utterly, and the vandalism to the Holy Mass is nearly complete, becoming milquetoast at best with the consistent sleeper homilies, having all to do with anything handy, but not the Readings, and mostly liberal RCIA materials and curriculum taught by liberals, or the faithless, or the compromisers in many, many parishes.
Still, the reliance on Holy Communion ever increases, speaking knowledge mystically, to even greater effect, and growing exponentially with the increasingly grave losses to the faith and to the Church Militant.
There are few “good” spiritual experiences and quite a climb to even access those priests and parishes. You are fortunate, but American Catholics are mostly starving. It seems sometimes to me a mockery to even pray for vocations.
Vocations into what? This? I mostly don’t think so.
Sad that she didn’t give those babies life — by letting someone else adopt them.
Everything she says is self-centered. She wishes she had children for her comfort and pleasure and to take care of her when she’s old and lonely. She likely would have made a terrible mother.
A little housecleaning in Barbados, go to the beach ... they’d probably go for it.
She is still self centered . She laments what they could do for her. Take care of her when she’s old. How about sorry I deprived them of life?
I don’t think most who abort think about it at all: it’s just their way of “taking care of a problem” as they see it. Many rejoice at their decision. Many make the same choices repeatedly.
And abortion is the biggie. We are bringing down a terrible judgment upon ourselves. Even the "natural and logical consequences" --- depopulation --- constitute a terrible judgment. Look at the Muslims in Europe: expanding into a demographic and spiritual vacuum. Frightening that they could turn out to be the scourge of God upon our backs.
Vocations? Yes, absolutely. Good priests in the vocation of Holy Orders, good men and women in the vocation of Holy Matrimony. But more than that, pray for saints. And pray in solidarity WITH the saints that God is even now raising up. Fast and sacrifice for them.
They are there. God is equipping them spiritually now. They will be the pivots --- like small hinges on a massive door --- upon which everything eventually turns.
Amen, dear sister.
“As Evil increases so doeth my Grace.” The blood of martyrs is the seed of faith.
I know how true that has been, and shall be, until He comes.
Well said. I'm in 100% agreement as well.
I think so too.
*RitaOK > “We are reaching remnant territory.”
*amorphous > “I think so too.”
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And, you know, having said that I take no great, great comfort actually. When our Lord said, “My people perish for lack of knowledge”,... if He means that (and he does) then ignorance may be bliss, but loss of salvation is not.
That wolves are among the shepherds and lead many to perdition, is an alarming state of affairs. From my own perch, this is inarguably and predominately the case now.
Do I know what I must? Am I under the teaching authority and the heart of a wolf, or a shepherd, locally or universally? Is evil now being called “good”, in Holy Mother Church, or good now being called “evil”. And, how can I know?
The fruits of Vatican II abound. It is lamentable.
Nor I. There are so many convergences taking place now, it's hard to keep up with them all. Evil abounds and is indeed being "called good".
Now is the time to remember to be of good cheer and all these things must take place - but it is not easy.
I find the greatest comfort in daily/nightly prayer and the word of the Almighty. In fact, never one of great courage; it has strengthened in me of late - strangely.
I so agree with you.
With all the grievous losses in the Mass, to the Mass, strangely, the experience of deeper union with the Holy Eucharist more than ever before, has come.
When our Lord is blocked in ways out of our control, He kindly enters in other ways, with sustaining power, bringing conviction.
He truly works in poverty. We in the West are in a new paradigm. I pray we hold the Spirit anew daily, in order to
be found in a state of Grace, as we ought.
Totally agree! I see it as a form of insidious (- operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect) Apostasy.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
So according to James (same message found in all gospels), loving/faithful to Christ is in doing/living as we Christians were commanded. Western Christianity of late has truly "fallen away" from this primary directive, IMO.
From living righteously, Grace (blessings/power/wisdom) from the Almighty abounds - just as we were promised.
1 John 5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him. 2 This is how we know that we love God's children when we love God and obey His commands. 3 For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands.
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