Posted on 10/31/2005 11:22:04 AM PST by Gillibrand
from the attacks of blasphemers at the first night of the play "Our Lady of Flanders" at the Flemish theatre in Brussels, KVS (logo behind the banners)
150 demonstrators were met with some three van loads of police - some of whom were friendly others a little less so.
Advertising for the play in the foyer. Those who attended the state-subsidised play were noticeably "middle class". The whole charade has more to do with bourgeois liberal guilt than anything else. It is not just American universities that are victims of this guilt!
(Excerpt) Read more at cathcon.blogspot.com ...
Our patron, St. Maximilian Kolbe, responded to the blasphemies the Masons paraded about in Rome in 1917 by founding the Militia Immaculatae. This sounds like exactly the thing people consecrated to Our Lord through the Immaculate Heart of His Mother need to pray and take action about!
More info, what was the play about?
Check the first link on the blog post. It's disgusting how they portay the Theotokos.
All of Western Europe, and ESPECIALLY Belgium, has truly become "mission territory." When I was in Rome in 1988, I remember talking to a Belgian priest who said - in 1988 remember! - that Mass attendance had dwindled to 3%. He was there in Rome with two seminarians studying at a seminary whose name I've forgotten. Why? Because there were *no* seminaries left active in the entire country of Belgium.
I imagine, if anything, the situation is even worse now...
I think the term "sacrilege" is applies better to this sort of thing than "blasphemy". "Blasphemy" really should be reserved for offenses against God directly.
A recent article I read stated that beginning in 2007, the word "Christ" would be written without a capital "C" in both the Netherlands and Belgium. The word "Jewish" would retain the capital "J" for the people but not the religion.
It seems our friends are secularizing themselves into oblivion. And to think they were once bastions of Christianity.
Frank
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