Posted on 09/14/2021 5:57:49 PM PDT by marshmallow
Twenty years ago, Father John A. Perricone sat down at his desk in the rectory of St. Agnes Catholic Church in midtown Manhattan and began to write.
“I sit here writing this piece coughing on the fumes of hell,” is how he began.
It was Sept. 14, 2001. Three days earlier, Islamic terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, setting off a cataclysmic chain reaction that killed more than 3,000 people and reduced the iconic Twin Towers to a smoldering, toxic pire.
Then a professor of philosophy at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, Father Perricone lived at St. Agnes, a historic parish located across the street from the Chrysler Building and a half block from Grand Central Terminal.
Like other city residents, and the nation as a whole, he was still struggling to process what had just happened. Others felt compelled to write about the tragic loss of life, or the heroism of first responders.
Father Perricone wrote about evil.
“Though I sit some one hundred blocks from ground zero of Manhattan Island, the winds shift and billows of that smoke of death stretch all the way to my room at St. Agnes rectory — and to every one of you, wherever you sit in this beloved nation of ours, now supine before an Islamic monster,” he wrote.
“For the evil that growls at us now sits on the doorstep of every person in America, and of the world. More importantly, it proves to over-intellectualized Americans that indeed evil exists. It kills. It corrupts. It demands a daily war against it, sometimes even requiring our blood.”
A prolific writer and lecturer, Father Perricone shared his words with friends and others in his social circle. But his reflections weren’t widely read until Saturday, the 20th anniversary of 9/11................
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Look in the mirror, Father. (I’m speaking collectively).
Maybe if the clergy wasn’t so woke, the Church might have capitalized on the sentiment and helped lead more to Christ.
Instead, we get SJW with a thin veneer of tradition hiding the rot of corruption and worldly influences. We dont’t need the church for that when we can it from Hollywood and without the associated faux guilt trips.
Fr. Perricone is aware of this. From the article:
“Writing 20 years ago, he observed, “Words like ‘sin,’ ‘Satan,’ ‘saintliness,’ and ‘virtue’ have all been made to sound slightly eccentric by secularism’s totalizing reach. It is no surprise that it has tunneled deep within religion itself. More than a few priests are slightly embarrassed by the vocabulary of religion.”
Fr. Perricone is aware of this. From the article:
“Writing 20 years ago, he observed, “Words like ‘sin,’ ‘Satan,’ ‘saintliness,’ and ‘virtue’ have all been made to sound slightly eccentric by secularism’s totalizing reach. It is no surprise that it has tunneled deep within religion itself. More than a few priests are slightly embarrassed by the vocabulary of religion.”
You want to know where those words ended up?
In marketing for foods, lingerie and cosmetics.
When elites used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to demonize the January 6th demonstrators, it was clear that this country was dead. Never mind bemoaning that WWII veterans wouldn’t recognize it; normals from 20 years ago wouldn’t. Bush II, who famously referred to Islam as a “religion of peace”, was one of those who compared “domestic terrorists” (apparently unarmed peaceful patriots) to terrorists.
If anyone ever doubted we are getting played by a Uniparty/Republocrat elite, they can’t any more.
One thing remains
One doesn't need another "man" to get right with God.
All that is needed is Jesus.
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