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GScheid
Mary's Servant
USA
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 Posted - Nov 13 2008 : 4:30:12 PM
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Election Part I: "We Have No King But Caesar"
The following is the first of a three-part series on the 2008 Elections. In the next two weeks we will deal with issues of Culture and Conscience.
Now that the election is over, we can separate the real Catholics from those who just act the part. Those still reeling from the results of the election can rest assured that they are in good company with the saints. Those who have drawn a line in blood and made a decision to stand with the culture of death need a serious examination of conscience. Now look at what we've done to ourselves. America has made her "choice" for maximum leader and it is not pretty. In fact, it is one of the most devastating blows to American civilization that we have ever undergone, and I do not speak in hyperbole. Even such a saintly figure as Mother Theresa said that "a nation that kills its children has no future;" likewise, an authority like Fr. Benedict Groeschel recently commented that we have entered into "the beginning of the twilight" of our country - dire words that touch on the reality of electing the most extreme, pro-abortion candidate America has ever had the misfortune of occupying the highest office of our land.
This has happened before though. When the prophet Samuel complained to God that the people of Israel were asking for a king, the Lord God replied that they were not rejecting Samuel but were in actual fact rejecting God Himself, His sovereignty and His authority over them (cf. 1 Sam, ch. 8). He also told Samuel that the people would have to accept the consequences of their wicked desire, and as we know, the craven need to be like the surrounding pagan nations was a bitter pill for them to swallow. The people of Israel echoed that rejection of their God more than a thousand years later when the King of Kings and Lord of Lords stood before them in Herod's derisive purple robe and the people shouted, this time with vehemence: "We have no king but Caesar!" In essence, we have chosen a Barabbas over Christ - again.
And choices have consequences they say. The consequences of this election will be imprinted upon our national conscience for years to come, one of which is that, by electing abortion extremists to rule over us, both in the Presidency and in the Congress, we have now lost the blessing promised in Psalm 41:1-4 - "Happy those concerned for the lowly and the poor; when misfortune strikes, the Lord delivers them. The Lord keeps and preserves them, makes them happy in the land, and does not betray them to their enemies. The Lord sustains them on their sickbed." It is hard for Americans to imagine that a land so consecrated could be shriven of that blessing. Yet, we have made our sickbed and we must lie in it.
This did not happen, though, without dire and prolonged warnings about the institutionalization of evil. We can't say we were not warned. When moral persuasion about the killing of innocents did not work, rational science was our witness. When science was ignored and then co-opted for the works of death, AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases came to awaken people's consciences, but these did little better. God then had to allow such an onslaught of terrorism, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes and tsunamis in the past decade that He surely thought we would wake up to the deadly reality of the culture of death and repent. When that didn't happen, He hit us in the most sensitive spot on the human body: our wallets. The gas price hikes and the recent financial meltdown surely would do the trick, He thought, but apparently that did not work either because our people adamantly refused to be deterred at any price from our lust for abortion and put into office all those who would serve the interests of this unholy agenda for decades to come. Alas, we all need to get on our knees and repent from the very depths of our hearts for the plague that we have just invited onto our beloved nation.
At the same time, my friends, despite the dismal picture, this is a time to thank Almighty God for the gifts of life, love and family that we have been given. It is also the time to seriously engage in efforts to take the culture back so that eventually our politics will follow the growth of a new pro-life culture from the seeds we are planting today.
Stay tuned for next week's segment on winning the culture wars.
Sincerely Yours in Christ,
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International
“Everyone needs thirty minutes of personal prayer time each day, unless they are too busy to pray—in which case, they need an hour!”
Saint Francis de Sales
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BARBAQUED
Mary's Servant
USA
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Posted - Nov 13 2008 : 4:44:36 PM
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| I am very disappointed in my brothers and sisters in Christ who voted their wallets. Many of these friends used the excuse, “I am not a single issue voter”. Very sad, because when you have true faith in God as your friend and provider, there isn’t any grey area, He is the issue. Why would anyone do anything to disappoint their truest friend? He is Jesus, and we have disappointed Him. Thankfully He already knew we would and He has forgiven us. How much longer will we put our faith in earthly kings, who flutter in the wind like blades of grass? There is only one truth and it never changes. Christ have mercy |
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stevhep
Mary's Servant
United Kingdom
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Posted - Nov 13 2008 : 5:08:08 PM
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God then had to allow such an onslaught of terrorism, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes and tsunamis in the past decade that He surely thought we would wake up to the deadly reality of the culture of death and repent.
So natural disasters like the tsunami are Gods judgement on the Culture of Death. That explains it then. Although in a Mass after the disaster Cardinal Sodano said "Christ has not suppressed suffering; He has not even revealed its mystery; He took it upon himself and this is enough to understand its meaning.".
perhaps he had less insight than Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer. God certainly chose His victims as AsiaNews reported-
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"I am absolutely devastated to see the near annihilation of my diocese as well as 1,500 km of India's coastline." These are the grief-stricken words of Monsignor Michael Augustine, Archbishop of Pondicherry-Cuddalore, one of the districts hardest hit by the tsunami in Tamil Nadu (South East India). "This tragedy smashed and destroyed entire families, on the day we were to celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family," said Archbishop Augustine in an interview with AsiaNews. "A Protestant church in Chinglepeth, about 100 kms away from our Cathedral, just caved in, killing instantly all the 100-odd worshippers who had gone there for Sunday service."
"A pall of gloom has descended upon Cuddalore," he went on to say, "People are in total shock and unable to react. Some 50 villages have been totally washed away."
Also following a cyclone which devastated Bangladesh last year the Holy Father reflected http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/angelus/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ang_20071118_en.html
The Lord says: "When you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified; for this must first take place, but the end will not be at once" (Lk 21: 9). Keeping this admonition in mind, from the beginning the Church lives in prayerful waiting for her Lord, scrutinizing the signs of the times and putting the faithful on guard against recurring messiahs, who from time to time announce the world's end as imminent. In reality, history must run its course, which brings with it also human dramas and natural calamities. In it a design of salvation is developed that Christ has already brought to fulfilment in his Incarnation, death and Resurrection. The Church continues to proclaim this mystery and to announce and accomplish it with her preaching, celebration of the sacraments and witness of charity. ...
...A few days ago a tremendous cyclone struck southern Bangladesh, causing many victims and severe destruction. Renewing the expression of my profound condolences to the families and entire Nation, so dear to me, I appeal for international solidarity, which has already begun in the face of the immediate needs. I encourage the use of every possible effort to assist these sorely tried brethren.
Before all things and above all things,
care must be taken of the sick,
so that they will be served as if they were Christ in person;
for He Himself said, "I was sick, and you visited Me" and, "What you did for one of these least ones, you did for Me"
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avila
Postulant
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Posted - Nov 13 2008 : 11:09:04 PM
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| A long time ago I might have seen abortion as a one issue decider of elections, but I have come to realize it is evil, and the Pope calls abortion, intrinsic evil. Those who accept abortion must realize that conception should be an act of love and not sex which is recreational and this is the line in the sand. The price for this recreation is the life of the unborn. Sex as recreation was always a pagan idea and indeed pagan temples has temple prostitutes. The present position of the pres elect regarding abortion and embryonic stem cell is heinous. |
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BARBAQUED
Mary's Servant
USA
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Posted - Nov 14 2008 : 4:52:06 PM
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DeniseLawson
Moderator
USA
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Posted - Nov 15 2008 : 02:55:12 AM
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Interesting read, though I find the some of the views put forth to be a bit extremist, perhaps even sensationalist.
On whose authority has the author decided that we have lost the blessing of the promised, or that we even had it to begin with? And source documentation to prove his other theories?
It is one thing to say that we reap what we sew. It is another altogether to give into despair, as this author seems to have done. The latter, if memory serves, is a sin.
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GScheid
Mary's Servant
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Posted - Nov 16 2008 : 12:42:32 PM
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Originally posted by DeniseLawson
Interesting read, though I find the some of the views put forth to be a bit extremist, perhaps even sensationalist.
On whose authority has the author decided that we have lost the blessing of the promised, or that we even had it to begin with? And source documentation to prove his other theories?
It is one thing to say that we reap what we sew. It is another altogether to give into despair, as this author seems to have done. The latter, if memory serves, is a sin.
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Jesus meek and humble of heart, make my heart like yours.
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International? He has got to be one of the more prominent/ outspoken LIFE priest we have not only in the US but the World.
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