I do think that the "news" likes to concentrate on the bad things with everything and the higher our stature in life, the bigger target that we become. The pope does give the news some fodder but he says good things too. Here is a link to Jimmy Akin's site so we can reflect on some of the good things that the Pope has said in the past few weeks, http://jimmyakin.com/2017/05/the-weekly-francis-17-may-2017.html From that link, here are his papal tweets: “With Mary, as a pilgrim of hope and peace I travel to Fatima tomorrow.Let us see in her that everything is God’s gift and He is our strength” @Pontifex 11 May 2017 “I ask everyone to join me as pilgrims of hope and peace: may your hands in prayer continue to support mine.” @Pontifex 12 May 2017 “Here in Fatima, I give praise to Christ, our peace, and I implore for the world concord among all peoples.” @Pontifex 12 May 2017 “Whenever we look to Mary, we come to believe once again in the revolutionary nature of love and tenderness.” @Pontifex 13 May 2017 “Fatima is more than anything this mantle of Light where we take refuge when we ask the Virgin Mary: “show unto us Jesus”.” @Pontifex 13 May 2017 “Let us all ask for the gift to understand God’s word.” @Pontifex 14 May 2017 “Let us ask for the grace to follow Jesus faithfully, not in words but in deeds, and to have the patience to carry our own cross.” @Pontifex 15 May 2017 “Jesus asks to be looked in the eye, to be acknowledged, to be loved.” @Pontifex 16 May 2017 “Our hope is the Lord Jesus whom we recognize as living and present in us and in our brothers and sisters.” @Pontifex 18 May 2017 I simply do want to reflect on that "fanatics" comment very much.
Yes, three Hail Marys as specifically requested. Not just the three we are asked to say as part of the Rosary. Maybe if we all said the three requested daily Francis would be making much less mistakes and errors as he is. My first prayers of each day have been the three as requested, surely no Hail Marys are ever wasted on anyone.
And yet Pope Francis comes to the defense of the Orthodox in Ukraine and is putting his weight behind the blocking of two bills which would severely limit the church there, subjecting everything it does, even the election of its leaders to the approval of the government. I am very glad to see the warming of relations with the Orthodox of Russia. https://sputniknews.com/society/201705191053773870-catholic-response-ukrainian-anti-orthodox-bill/ In an unprecedented sign of inter-faith solidarity, Ukraine's Ambassador to the Vatican has been summoned by Pope Francis over a new bill by Ukrainian lawmakers which would impose discriminatory restrictions against the Moscow branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. On Thursday, Ukrainian lawmakers delayed voting on two bills which would impose severe restrictions on the Moscow Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a major religious organization accounting for half of Ukraine's total Eastern Orthodox parishes, churches and communities, with over 11,500 parishes and monasteries and representation in every region of the country. Lawmakers' proposals included assigning a "special status" for religious organizations whose leadership was based in an "aggressor state," the term used by Kiev to describe Russia. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church's Moscow Patriarchate is the major target of the legislation. The proposed bills see the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches under the Moscow Patriarchate as a possible threat to the country's 'national interests, sovereignty, and territorial integrity', and thus requiring special control by the government, including the power to approve church appointees, confiscate property, or even ban churches outright. Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, appealed to foreign political and religious leaders, including Pope Francis, to convince Kiev not to go forward with the bills, which he said would be an unheard-of level of religious discrimination for modern-day Europe. Kirill warned that if the bills were approved, they would "threaten the constitutional rights of millions of Ukrainian believers" and "escalate intercommunal conflict in Ukraine." The Vatican responded to Kirill's plea. Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich, Cleric of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, confirmed that the Ukrainian Ambassador to the Vatican had been summoned in connection with the draft legislation. "The Vatican is concerned about the possibility of adopting bills 4,128 and 4,511 [the bills proposing restrictions against the work of the Moscow branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church]. Our Ambassador to the Vatican has been summoned. The Vatican fully agrees with the position expressed by Roman Catholic Bishop Stanislav Shirokoradyuk on this subject," Danilevich explained in a post his Facebook page. Earlier, Senior Bishop Shirokoradyuk, head of the Kharkiv and Zaporizhia Dioceses, had criticized the bills' proposals. In addition to the Pope, Patriarch Kirill appealed to the United Nations, the president of the World Council of Churches, and the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France (the members of the so-called Normandy Four group on peace in eastern Ukraine). In addition to being a sign of its defense of Christianity, regardless of denomination, the Vatican's response to the controversial bills appears as another sign of the warming relations between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, which began last year in a historic meeting between Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis in Cuba. That meeting was the first of its kind since Christianity was split into western and eastern branches in 1054. Ukraine has three denominations of Orthodoxy, each referring to themselves as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Only the one reporting to the Moscow Patriarchate is considered canonical and recognized by all other national Orthodox Churches in the world, and by the Ecumenical Orthodox Church in Constantinople. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukrainian authorities have made repeated attempts to build up support for a local Ukrainian Orthodox Church disconnected from the Moscow Patriarchate. Church leaders and worshippers alike have resisted these efforts, even amid the sharp deterioration in relations between Moscow and Kiev over the last several years.
I could not help but notice the folks in the congregation looking downcast and perplexed By their fruits ye shall know them
This is about another sign which just happened here this morning. There is a sleazy "talk" show as part of the NewsChannel 8 broadcast in the DC area which purports to follow what is trending. Today the two talkers, a gay man and a woman, blasphemously derided going to Holy Communion in the Catholic Church, talking about serving gin at Communion time, even mentioned the Body of Christ, at which point I turned it off and wrote an email to the station. I will let you know what, if anything, they reply. I think both of the show hosts are fallen-away Catholics, but I am not going into that sewer and desire not to have any other viewers subjected to that. Fallen away or not, free speech or not....I was horrified that they went in that direction.
I liked and then unliked your post as I felt kind of strange liking it Good for you HH for writing a letter! We all need to get used to starting to do these things as our rights are stripped more and more. Why is it only Christians that can be mocked like this? You would never see the same sort of bigotry against Jews or Muslims.
Just saw this on a great site called Courageous Priest http://www.courageouspriest.com/bre...ed:+courageouspriest/qTKF+(Courageous+Priest) Breaking News! Jefferson City Diocese Paving Way for Transgender Students On May 9, 2017 the Jefferson City Diocese held a meeting with all priests to present the new policy for transgender students. On May 11th, the policy was presented to all Catholic School principals of the diocese. This Diocesan policy will be the fundamental policy for every diocese with accommodating Bishops. Don’t be fooled, your diocese is next. The result will be boys being in the girls bathroom.
Reminds me of the poster for the original Jaws movie: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..." So horrible and so blasphemous to their name Catholic that as someone mentioned on another thread it makes one think of Millstones.
Yes I am subscribed to receive their blogs. I feel like we are being placed in a pot of warm water as the water starts to boil people will not notice.
Here ya go....somehow the great "brains" think that continuing human "evolution" means replacing humans....go figure. Godlike 'Homo Deus' Could Replace Humans as Tech Evolves What happens when the twin worlds of biotechnology and artificial intelligence merge, allowing us to re-design our species to meet our whims and desires? Historian Yuval Noah Harari explores these questions in his runaway bestseller, "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow," a kind of sequel to his 2014 book, "Sapiens." The title of his new book suggests a startling stage in our evolution: Homo sapiens (“wise man”), far from being the pinnacle of creation, is a temporary creature, one soon to be replaced by Homo deus (“god man”). “It is very likely, within a century or two, Homo sapiens, as we have known it for thousands of years, will disappear,” Harari told an audience at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs recently. “Not because, like in some Hollywood science fiction movie, the robots will come and kill us, but rather because we will use technology to upgrade ourselves — or at least some of us — into something different; something which is far more different from us than we are different from Neanderthals.” https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/godlike-homo-deus-could-replace-humans-tech-evolves-n757971
Why is this even being allowed? Imagine if they tried to do this in years past. Off to the monastery with you.
The issue that was hardest to swallow was the nuns role-playing as non-traditional family members so that the students could practice their gracious acceptance into the fold.
It appears that many SIGNS from Revelation are upon us. It's good to hope and pray for that new Jerusalem that God has promised us! HeartLight Daily Verse - 1 June Revelation 21:2-4 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride, beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of thing has passed away. Thoughts on today's verse: I don't know about you, but I'm kind of ready for that old order stuff to go away. The end of tears, death, mourning, crying and pain sounds pretty good to me! No wonder the early Christians would say, "Marantha. Come Lord Jesus!" They couldn't wait. Prayer: Holy God, please help me as I try to continue serving you faithfully. My desire is to be steadfast in my love and living for you until the glorious day that so many of your children have longed for over the centuries. I long to see you in your glory and to share in your presence and to join with the saints of all ages past praising you around your glorious throne. Through Jesus, I pray. Amen. Visit heartlight.org for more GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
