[Salvation]

Pray!

Yes, no matter how high the body count rises from abortion, from the broken lives of children raised without fathers, from exposure to pornography, from the celebration of greed and whatever is base or decadent—the modern West is too drunk to notice the harm she inflicts on herself. 70 million abortions, more than half of children raised in fatherless homes and in chaos

And pray some more Ping!

[defconw]

"Welcome to America after the social revolution. Pre-revolution America (prior to 1968) was no paradise, but there was more of a sense of basic right and wrong. Now everything is up for debate, and what used to slink around in back alleys now parades down Main Street in broad daylight."

Boy Howdy! If that's not the truth!

[Grateful2God]

Let's focus together and pray!

From famine and war, deliver us.

From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war, deliver us.

From sins against the life of man from its very beginning, deliver us.

From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us.

From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, deliver us.

From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us.

From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us.

From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.

From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us, deliver us.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html

[9thLife]

Bump.

[Grateful2God]

I enjoy a good discussion. I like to learn, and I do from these. Let's remember something, though. The bottom line is, we need to find our common ground: a desire for peace; a return to moral values given us by God in the Old Testament; the end of the culture of death- abortion, euthanasia, obsession with and abuse of, God's gift of human procreative intimacy.

Pray against our enemy, the devil. Pray alone, with others of like faith, with those of other faiths, but pray! It is time to stop focusing on our differences and zoom in on our commonality: we are God's children, made in His Image and likeness, and we are thus brethren!

May God bless all of us who seek Him with a loving heart, and may He grant us the grace to unite in prayer for the whole human race! A blessed new year to everyone! Pray without ceasing!