Well its morning time and unfortunately this was not just a nightmare that will fade from memory in the morning light.
A reader echoes this sentiment after reading my post “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done”
I just read your blog entry with this title, and it comes very close to the way I feel–everything you said about America and socialism, the babies, the justice of God the Lord of history. The profound sadness…yes. The resignation, yes. I feel a little as if someone has died, complete with the hopeless hope that when I wake up tomorrow I will find that they got it wrong. I feel a little better reading what I know many Catholics also feel…what I think of Catholics who voted for Obama I am trying not to think. I hope you will continue to write about this season to come, because I am convinced of it being a desert time for the souls in the Church, and I bet I’m not the only one who could use a buffering word.
It does have that next day mourning feeling after someone has died but it has yet to fully sink in. Even with that, we know life goes on.
A commenter on my previous post took issue with my assertion that God is in charge of history saying “Our Lord said very clearly 3 times in the gospel of John that it is indeed Satan who is the ‘prince of this world’.” Yes, but no. I am too tired to go into any detail in this post, but suffice it to say that God allows Satan his temporary dominion and there is no doubt that God can restrict that dominion if He so pleases.
A quote from Glenn Olsen about the future of the Church sums it up nicely I think.
I have no delusion that I or anyone else can sit down and in some comprehensive way plan the future. We can know what sides to take in the great struggle of our days, but it can not be stressed too much that God is the author of history, and all history lies in his hands. What is asked of us is fidelity. We should expect neither to succeed nor to fail: this is in God’s hand. Likely, our lives and the age that is upon us will be mixed, with both triumphs and losses. In any case nothing in history lasts, and we would be advised to think more in categories of “temporary” or “mixed” successes and “temporary” or “mixed” reverses.
One last thing on this point, we should all recall the Blessed Mother’s promise of a period of peace. We know that the consecration was done, albeit late, and we still await the period of peace as promised. God keeps his promises.
Clichés are phrases that have been overused due to the simple truth that they express. Let me use a cliché to express my hope for the future, my trust in God and in His promises. It is always darkest before the dawn.
November 6, 2008 at 1:59 am
Actually, I am inclined to believe that the apparitions at Fatima occurred. Unlike most of the “eat-drink-and-see-Mary” crowd, however, I also leave what to make of Our Lady’s words, and what to do about them, to the judgment of those who shepherd the Church that Her Son established on Earth, including the successor to Peter.
Read what the Catechism says about private revelations, and quit b!†©#ing about it when Rome doesn’t meet your every teeny-weeny expectation about matters not essential to the Faith.
November 6, 2008 at 2:00 am
Oh, and another thing. This thread isn’t even ABOUT the apparitions at Fatima!
November 6, 2008 at 2:35 am
David,
Chill out dude… Whoosah, my friend. Really, it isn’t that big of a deal. Why does everybody get so excited about this sort of a thing? I mentioned the consecration because Patrick did:
“One last thing on this point, we should all recall the Blessed Mother’s promise of a period of peace. We know that the consecration was done, albeit late, and we still await the period of peace as promised. God keeps his promises.”
In my private theological opinion, the consecration wasn’t performed, and therefore peace is not promised as Patrick seems to think. It isn’t promised because we didn’t keep up our end of the bargain. That is all I was trying to say. But since you insist, bring on the peace! 😉
I am more than aware what the Catechism says about apparitions. Better yet, I know what the Pontiffs and Councils say about apparitions. For some reason, people think the Catechism is infallible or something. It isn’t. The Catechism was put together for all the people too busy or too lazy to read the doctrine from original sources. Why read the Catechism when we have the original sources of the concerned doctrine?
Back to my point: I don’t think the consecration that Our Lady asked happened. Therefore, no peace. That is all I was saying. And I am the last person to expect Rome to be perfect. It obviously isn’t and I accept that. You seem to have me pegged as one of the people Cardinal Hoyos recently rebuked for being “insatiable.” I. am. not. that. guy. Take it easy, you’ll need your apologetic energies for the next four years! Friends?
Vester frater,
~cmpt
November 6, 2008 at 2:42 am
“You seem to have me pegged as one of the people Cardinal Hoyos recently rebuked for being “insatiable.” I. am. not. that. guy. Take it easy, you’ll need your apologetic energies for the next four years! Friends?”
Yes, you are forgiven. Go in peace, my son. And read my blog. You might learn something.
PAX
November 8, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Lets be serious, you have many whose only source of information are blogs like this, where the Mark Shea’s of the world who are out there speaking and writing for supposed mainstream Catholic journals sit there and day in and day out bash the GOP over of all things torture, so what happens? You get a pro abortion, pro gay marriage president presiding over the free world, rushed to and congratulated by the Vicar of Christ?
Would Pope Pius X reach out the day after to congratulate him? Did Pius XII congratulate Mussolini on taking over Italy? And yes I am comparing the genocide of the unborn to Mussolini.
Get back to the basics, the faith of 40 and 50 years ago when Catholics voted as a block, today they are taken for granted and stand for nothing, have no morals and the present day Popes actually never ever even recognize the teachings of the church before 1962-1965, like it never existed. Can anyone please show me where Pope JPII or B16 for that matter even referred to an encyclical written by a Pope before John XXIII or a council other than Vatican II?
So we have modernism at its zenith
November 8, 2008 at 9:32 pm
By the way, I know that Mussolini was in power before Pius XII, but was using such as an example before the Sarah Palin like pundits start throwing jabs!