Posted on 06/27/2015 6:00:02 AM PDT by NYer
Maybe I should be upset and disheartened at today's Supreme Court decision. But I'm smiling. And I don't feel sad. I feel strangely excited.
I remember the night that Obama was elected for his second term. I went to bed early, sick to my stomach, depressed and afraid. It was truly awful. I felt a dark shroud had descended on our nation, the America that I love so much.
But I have grown and changed. The ins and outs of politics and courts and men do not bother me so much anymore. And in this case, I find myself untroubled. I am almost shocked at my peace! But isn't that what Christ came to give us, if we follow Him and not the world?
Some random thoughts (unpolished, redundant, I've not had breakfast yet) now that gay "marriage" is newly, magically discovered as a Constitutional right:
-- Pray for the soul of Justice Kennedy. He is a Catholic. He will be accountable for his decision. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
-- America is and was always an experiment. If we put our hopes and faith in a fallible nation, even one so promising as America, we miss the boat. The only home for us is Christ's Church, which has outlasted every empire and nation and will outlast even the world itself. If you have built your house on the Rock instead of shifting sand, and if you are safe in the Barque of Peter, and not flailing in the stormy waters, then relax and rejoice. Life is good. And Christ's promises stand. (And if you are still in the stormy waters, get in the boat!! There is room for all!)
-- God called each of us to live in this moment, at this time, in this culture. He did so for a reason. Are you ready to fulfill your baptismal mandate?
-- So many lost souls. Pray for them.
-- So many children will suffer, and we will see that fallout in the coming decades. Pray for them.
-- Everything that happened today falls under the very capable hands of Divine Providence. Now is the time to step up and really live your faith. If not, then what is your faith for, anyway?
-- Don't be afraid. I'm not. God is so good. He knows just what we need and he has given it to us. Find your courage, people!
-- Become a saint. Trust me, it's the only way. It's what will dispel the darkness and it's what will attract people to you, and to the Church, and to Christ Himself. This is about the salvation of souls, not whether or not America will continue to be a comfortable place for us.
-- America was never the "shining city on the hill", the Church is! We need to get that straight, because I think a lot of American Christians misunderstand that point.
-- Just as with the evil decision of Roe v. Wade, this decision will continue to divide the nation. There can be no healing and unity when natural law and our very natures are dismissed and contradicted. God will not be mocked. Nature will not be mocked. It will be the children of these "unions" who will eventually bring us back to sanity. It will take some decades, but like abortion, the tide will turn back to reality and truth. And if we don't live to see it, so what? This world is passing away. Christ has overcome the world. How can we not be filled with joy?!
-- What to do now? Live your life. Become a saint. Teach your children well (start with this), because they will need to find some firm footing and sense in a crazy, upside-down world. The Church will continue to be a beacon, but even more so now. I praise God for making the line very clear! Now, the choice is more obvious. My overriding thought is "bring it on!" We were made for this, my dear Christians. Why are you afraid?
-- Finally, if you are truly, profoundly rattled and even devastated by this Court decision, you have put waaaaaaay too much faith in the things of this world. Change course. You will not find peace nor salvation in the things of this world. Turn to Christ, the source of our joy. He Himself asked if He would find any faith in this world upon His return. Well, will He?
He will in my house.
God bless and have a beautiful day, as I leave you with some prescient words from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen:
We are at the end of a tradition and a civilization which believed we could preserve Christianity without Christ, religion without a creed, meditation without sacrifice, family life without moral responsibility, sex without purity, and economics without ethics. We have completed our experiment of living without God and have proven the fallacy of a system of education which calls itself progressive because it finds new excuses for sins. Our so-called progressiveness, did we but realize it, is like unto the progressive putrefaction of a corpse. The soul is gone, and what we call change is only decay. How stop it except by reversing the process by which we drove God out of the world, namely by relighting the lamp of faith in the souls of men?
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The millions of the world who keep their fingers on the pulse of public opinion and follow every theory, every vogue, every panacea, every popular immorality, and who approve the appointment of every anti-moral educator, have no standard of right and wrong. A thing cannot measure itself: A tape measure must be outside the cloth; a speedometer must not be a brick in the roadway; a judge must not be a shareholder in the corporation whose cause he judges. In like manner the judgment of the world must be from outside the world. Such a standard is the need of the hour -- an authority that does not, like some politician, find out what the people want and then give it to them, but which gives them what is true and good whether it is popular or not. We need someone to be healthy when the world is sick; someone to be a stretcher-bearer when the battlefields are freighted with wounded; someone to be calm when the house is burning; someone to be right when the world is wrong, as on Easter when they who slew the Foe lost the day.
Where is that authority except in the Church of the Risen Christ which in each new generation is condemned by the world and then rises to a new and glorious Easter? At least a thousand times the bells have tolled in history for the death of the Church, but the execution never took place; the coffin is ordered but the corpse never appears; the mourners assist at her burial but she sings a requiem over her mourners; still doomed to death, but fated not to die, she survives a thousand crucifixions and a thousand deaths, and alone has survived the crash of all civilizations, because not involved in their ruin.
There is often an hour when the world cannot understand the reason the Church gives for her position, but there is never a time when men do not live to see that her judgment was reasonable.
I know what your reply means, sadly.
It means I am casting pearls before something that can’t (at least at this point) appreciate.
Post 13 has nothing to do with anyone’s theology.
What does all this posting to me, have to do with post 13?
If you REALLY care to know, I could tell you. It’s that you are focusing on darkness, to come in with the devil’s “DAMN” whenever and wherever God ventures to “BLESS.”
But if you won’t brook any such counters, then all I can say is God rebuke you. Because Jesus remains the light AND... because yes He is widely seen worshiped among many Christian worship communities including Roman Catholics. And to discourage anyone who is carrying Jesus really ought to be the LAST thing on our minds. In the face of a common demonic spiritual danger the word should be to unite over Jesus even if we can’t unite over anything else.
You are in there trying to blanketly damn on behalf of the devil.
LOL, wow, and it always takes you two posts to post the insane gibberish and nasty personal attacks.
Jesus is personal, and yes to people stubbornly embracing their sin He seems nasty! Because He does not welcome their bringing that stuff in and calling it wisdom!
Your choice to pick the side. NO, “political conservatism” is not equivalent to “worshiping Jesus, the Light.”
Unless people fight Christianity will be crushed.All the praying, preaching and posturing will not change a number of tremendous facts; the government supports perverted “marriages.” and will support the “spouses” through tax breaks; legitimate businesses will be crushed at the whim of perverts;babies will continue to be murdered in the womb and in many instances at the moment of birth; the sick will be pressured to die and eventually be murdered. I have no doubt that there is a God and Christ is his son but also I have no doubt that the current interpretation’s of God’s will by some human being is based upon smoke.
Says the libertarian who opposes the pro-life movement, and supports libertarianism.
You got this raging angry over this simple post 13?
Really, THIS is what set you off..... or was the tag line?
To: NYer
The majority of Catholics are pleased with this, they vote for the gay marriage party, and the polls show that they support gay marriage at about the same percentage that their Irish members voted in gay marriage by.
To the majority of Catholic members, this is a goal attained.
“Other groups showing at least 60% support for legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide include Democrats, adults aged 18 to 34, those who rarely or never attend a church or other place of worship, moderates, Easterners, and Catholics.”
13 posted on 6/27/2015, 8:22:04 AM by ansel12 (libertarians have always been for gay marriage and polygamy, gay Scout leaders, gay military.)
You are such a wicked misrepresenter aren’t you.
Unless “people” fight “Christianity” will be crushed?
Well this cannot be the “Christianity” of the bible but only a shadow of it. There is the LITTLE matter of a divine promise.
I would ask YOU, what does YOUR Post 13 constitute except personal nastiness?
Heal yourself hypocrite.
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