Posted by Terry Nelson on Jun 27th, 2008
Today!
“First it was artificial contraception, then abortion, then partial-birth abortion, then infanticide (all of which have been supported by many liberal politicians at one time or another, even some running for president) not to mention euthanasia, and outright killing of the disabled and sick. Actually, it’s even worse. Terri Schiavo wasn’t sick. She didn’t die from an illness. They killed her by starvation, a very cruel way to die.
Now it’s same sex marriage (no transmission of life, no fruit of natural love) and we call it inclusive and just. It is yet another nail in the coffin of a society that is clearly dying.
“All that evil requires to prosper is that good men remain silent.” The hour is late. We have had years to change course. Instead, we have obstinately refused and gone from bad to worse. May God have mercy on us, and grant us the courage and strength to act in accordance with that truth.” - Fr. Corapi, June 27, 2008
Posted by Terry Nelson on Jun 27th, 2008
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
It is interesting, but something very Catholic, very Italian was once included in the manual of prayers for devotions to Our Mother of Perpetual Help. It was a rather unusual prayer for the conversion of a sinner. In part, it went like this:
O Mary, Mother of Perpetual Help, Thou knowest so well the great value of an immortal soul… All that has been done for his soul has been unsuccessful; if Thou dost not come to his assistance he will go from bad to worse. Obtain for him an effectual grace that he may be moved and brought back to God and his duties. Send him, if necessary, temporal calamities and trials that he may enter into himself, and put an end to his sinful course… O Mother of Perpetual Help, show that Thou art the Advocate and Refuge of sinners. Amen.
Of course these lines have been expunged from the current prayers to OLPH - probably to be “nice” - for contemporary sensibilities and all of that.
Whatever happened to that old “evil eye”?
Posted by Terry Nelson on Jun 27th, 2008
The continuation of the revolution.
“Dissent is revolution!” - Warren Beatty’s character, John Reed from the film, “Reds”
[Photo credit: "Gay" seniors at St. Joan of Arc, dissenting from Church teaching at a secular prayer service held outside the church on June 25, 2008. Photo and story by Ray Marshall.]
