I think this was Americas chance to”Choose Life” and America said give us Death. Like the Cardinal alluded, Catholics voted for Death.
Before Pope Benedict came to America to celebrate Mass in New York and Washington, it was revealed that as a young boy in Germany he had had a cousin with Down Syndrome. One day a Nazi doctor came and claimed his cousin for the Third Reich. Taken to be cared for at the hospital young Joseph Ratzinger never saw his cousin again: one of the host of useless eaters marked for extermination by that brutal regime.
My wife and I operate St. Josephs House, a daycare and respite care home for handicapped children. As it happened one of the children we care for, a wheelchair bound young lady, was chosen along with three other handicapped folks to carry the gifts up to the altar before the consecration at the Mass at Nationals Stadium in Washington D.C. on April 17, 2008. One of these was James, a 30ish man who works in the Officers Club at Andrews AFB. James has Down Syndrome. He was chosen to carry the large host which would become the Body of Christ lifted up before the assembled. As James with great ceremony advanced toward the Pope, his native enthusiasm overcame his reserve and he started to run. Simultaneously the Holy Father leapt from his chair and walked towards James with his arms outstretched. We have a picture of this moment which I cannot look at without tearing up. What did he see as he gazed so lovingly at James? I believe he saw his cousin. I believe he saw the face of Jesus. And I believe that his great prayer as he elevated that host on that impossibly beautiful day was As long as you did to these the least of my brethren, you did it to Me.
The next day April 18th, a boy was born to of all people, the Governor of Alaska. They named him Trig.
What a marvelous reply! I know it had to come from the Holy Spirit!
God is alive! God is alive!
Obama, bow down and kneel to your God!
I love you, Brother, for posting this!
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**I think this was Americas chance toChoose Life and America said give us Death.**
I agree. And I also agree with the priest that said if you voted for Obama you must go to Confession.
Throughout history, people from one generation to the next tend to forget the past. It becomes 'foggy' or is rewritten in such a way that they believe it will never happen again. You cited the story of Ratzinger's cousin. It was quite a surprise to read that more than 75% of the American Jewish vote went to Obama. In our generation, we have all heard, seen and read about the holocaust. While we are asked to 'remember' this horror, the Jews voted in another man who promises reform.
One of my favorite OT books is Ecclesiastes. The author begins his narrative with:
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- What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun.
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- Even the thing of which we say, "See, this is new!" has already existed in the ages that preceded us.
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- 5 There is no remembrance of the men of old; nor of those to come will there be any remembrance among those who come after them.
Nothing has changed - there is still nothing new under the sun.
WOW what a wonderful wonderful story!!!
That’s so beautifully expressed it should be published in one of the pro-life magazines or some such. Thank you.