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To: Mrs. Don-o; livius; amorphous

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.


23 posted on 01/02/2016 5:31:20 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: RitaOK
How has God dealt with this kind of situation historically? Always by raising up saints.

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.

29 posted on 01/02/2016 8:59:12 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("May the Lord bless you and keep you; may He turn to you His countenance and give you peace.")
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