MUST READ: Young person’s account of harassment and violence at WYD

What Does The Prayer Really Say? ^ | 21 August 2011 | Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

[markomalley]

Nolite mirari fratres si odit vos mundus.

Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.

1 John 3:13

In Madrid during WYD the were no lack of twisted, benighted wing-nut protesters harrassing the pilgrims and young people.

One of the readers here has a daughter who was in the midst of the unrest the protesters caused.  She wrote to me about her daughter’s description of what happened.  I asked her permission, and through her her daughter’s to post the young lady’s account here, which I believe was posted on her Facebook page.  I am anonymizing it for now.

The the reader and/or her daughter want to identified, they can chime in.

You might remember the photo I posted of the protests.  The girl who wrote what follows was in one of the photos.

With some editing and my emphases:

We had been wandering Madrid all day, chillin
The boys were wearing their kilts so we got stopped for photos many times
One guy who stopped us said there was an anti Catholic protest in Sol so we went to check it out
There was this HUGE crowd of people so Seamus & Louise didn´t want to come check it out with us, they sat at a corner
We went in and people were shouting filthy slurs and cursing the Pope and it was awful
So we knelt down and prayed a Rosary for them in the crowd and got surrounded by angry protesters, shouting and threatening and spitting and filming us and mocking us and trying to burn our flags.
A gay couple came and made out in front of us but whatever
Anyway, Dominic made us stand up because he felt threatened so we finished our Rosary standing but on the last decade, a fight broke out right next to us between the Catholics who had been standing behind us and and the protesters so some of the other Catholics lead us out of the crowd.
We went back and dropped our bags with Louise and this time Mim stayed back so it was just Me & Dominic & Greg & Billy who went back and prayed a second rosary on the side of the crowd and we got more of the same, people getting up in our faces screaming
We were met with a couple more of Juventutem but they left after we finished our second Rosary before one had an emotional breakdown.
Everyone left but the group I just mentioned above and we chanted BENEDICTO, BENEDICTO and VIVA PAPA and waved our Papal flag and so on up against the police line
Lots of people yelled at us still
Then, the police line broke and they charged at us and we had to run for our lives a little more urgently than after our Rosary
Then the riot police came out and beat the ___ out of the protesters
At least one guy lost a WYD pilgrim from his group in the crowd and a lot of medics showed up… A lot of people got lost & hurt

The cops wouldnt let us take the metro there so we went off to find a pub

That´s BASICALLY what happened

Expect more of this in the future, dear readers.

This is the cloaca secularism and even the liberal Catholic agenda brings us, allied as it is with secularism, because it undermines Christian values and therefore respect for human freedom and dignity.

Start think about this sort of thing every day.

Start getting used to the idea.

• Jeremiah 20:11 (But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be effaced.)
• Psalms 31:16 (My lots are in your hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.)
• Psalm 44:22 (Because for your sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.)
• Matthew 5:10-12 (Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: )
• Matthew 5:44 (But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: )
• John 15:19-21 (19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me. )
• Acts 5:29 (But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God rather than men. )
• Romans 8:35-39 (35 Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? 36 (As it is written: For your sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) 37 But in all these things we overcome, because of him that has loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.)
• Romans 12:2 (And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God. )
• 2 Corinthians 4: 8-11 (8 In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute. 9 We suffer persecution: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: but we perish not. 10 Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake: that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. )
• 2 Corinthians 12:10 (For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful. )
• 2 Thessalonians 1:3-6 (3 We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly and the charity of every one of you towards each other abounds. 4 So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: which you endure 5 for an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer. 6 Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you: )
• 2 Timothy 3:12 (And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.)
• 1 Peter 3:14-15 (14 But if also you suffer anything for justice' sake, blessed are you. And be not afraid of their fear: and be not troubled. 15 But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asks you a reason of that hope which is in you. )
• 1 Peter 4:12-14, 16 (12 Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you: as if some new thing happened to you. 13 But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and that which is his Spirit rests upon you. 16 But, if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify God in that name. )
• 1 John 3:13 (Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. )
• Revelation 2:10-11 (Fear none of those things which you shall suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death: and I will give you the crown of life. )

[Biggirl]

You said it.

I do hope that the conservatives who are set to be elected this fall will help get Spain back on track, including spiritual.

[jboot]

I hope you are right about the elections. Spain is a great nation that has been brought right to the brink of disaster by socialism and liberalism.

Sounds like another great nation I know...

[bronxville]

Terrific thread. Thank you for posting it.

Here’s a video of the event. One can see they were being attacked as they came up the steps from the train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZnPqWTkc8M

Ugly name-calling by the hedonists - not for the easily offended.

[bronxville]

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