Posted on 12/26/2016 6:27:49 AM PST by Kaslin
The second line of the Christmas carol slips past us. We hear “Good King Wenceslas looked out…” But what about the next bit, “…on the Feast of Stephen?” What’s that about?
December 26th is St. Stephen’s Day—the Feast of Stephen—long an important celebration in the Christian calendar and now largely ignored. It’s time to bring it back.
Stephen was the first Christian martyr, the protomartyr, stoned to death in the years of persecution that followed the death of Jesus. In the Acts of the Apostles, Chapters Six to Eight, we learn that Stephen was “a man full of faith,” appointed to oversee the care of neglected widows. Stephen took on the established authorities, corrupt in deed and belief, and they could not refute his arguments.
So, in timeless human fashion, the powers-that-were bribed witnesses against him. At the climax of his trial, knowing he was doomed, Stephen declared, “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.”
Out came the rocks.
What has this to do with us, as the Year of Our Lord 2017 approaches? To believing Christians, the answer might be “Everything.”
The 2,000-year-old Middle-Eastern Christian civilization that began in the days of St. Stephen lies in ruins, persecuted as never before. As the Obama administration averted its self-righteous gaze, a religious genocide already underway accelerated across the region. Stubborn and dogmatic, the administration refused to acknowledge the problem of Christian refugees—those who’d survived the kidnappings, tortures, rapes, massacres and broad religious cleansing—even to the extent of labeling those who wished to help Christians as bigots.
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This, from the moron who preferred Clinton over Trump.
Clinton would have created American Christian martyrs.
He could have written this a year ago.
I do not recall that he did.
Boxing Day
Isn’t Boxing Day celebrated in Canada?
It was in New Zealand when I was a child...
Ralph Peters is not to be trusted. He endorsed Clinton over Trump: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/07/ralph_peters_im_voting_for_hillary_clinton.html
Hildebeast is so full of hate, I have no doubt that is true.
Yep, Ralph can go straight to hell.
I feel the same way about this guy. I used to have a lot of respect for Peters. But after he came out for Hillary I was done with him. Still am.
I feel the same way about this guy. I used to have a lot of respect for Peters. But after he came out for Hillary I was done with him. Still am.
Ralph Peters is a NeveRTrump idiot, who was for Clinton the crook. He will never live it down, him and Colon Bowel
Ralph Peters can now replace the phonies from John McCain’s staff as the token “conservative” commentator on a major media outlet. Neither he, Glenn Beck, or most of the staff of The National Review have anything to say to me.
Indeed....sort of like Black Friday
Ralph Peters, faux Conservative and Hillary Clinton supporter. Who gives a damn about what he thinks or writes?
Mark, hope you had a great Christmas and that the typhoon passed you by.
Yes it is. My daughter-in-law is from Calgary and Boxing Day is THE big shopping day in Canada.
Peters is an idiot. He says Angela Merkel is a conservative and wishes people would stop picking on her.
The subject is the Christian holiday of St. Stephen the first true compared to the Muslim definition.
In some European countries, notably Germany, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Nordic countries, 26 December is celebrated as a Second Christmas Day.
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