As I was driving...I was thinking. The destruction of genders in the United States. You can be any gender you want...on any given day. For a party that says... science first. How can they say sexuality is a gender. God created male and female as the cornerstones of life. So sad that our country is turning towards this madness. But what is more evil...is that if this narrative takes over and becomes the law of the land. Bibles will become a hate book. And the only bibles you will be able to buy...is gender neutral bibles. There is a great evil growing. Prayer Warriors...time to pray.
The evil has been growing for many years. We are reaping the consequences of laziness in the West. The "tolerance" crowd has been spoon feeding this stuff to us as children and are now spoon feeding it TO our children. I have told my kids that gender is not a feeling....it is a set of chromosomes. It's science. I walk every morning and pray the rosary as I walk. I always say a decade especially for the darkness that seems to be growing in our world.
"The reason we have such massive slaughter of the innocents is because we have become a fornicating society, an adulterous society, a masturbating society, a homosexual society, and a contraceptive society. Unchaste people are selfish people. They will not stop at murder if an unborn child would be a burden to their indulgence and sexual pleasure." Fr. John A. Hardon, SJ One could also follow Fr Hardon's thinking and say that in order to fulfill its 'self realization' sexual indulgeance our society is ready to deny, reject and erase the very cornerstone upon which mankind was founded by God, which is (sexual) difference.
Pray, hope, and do not worry. At my work place, a great number of young people seem to be either engaged in sane sex relationships, or self-identity as "transgender". A great number. It is a soul sickness, a feeling, a want, but for the ungodly, desires can feel like an essential part of one's being, and no way or thought to say "no" to desire. Certainly without Christ, attempts at saying "no" to such feelings will likely fail, or lack sufficient power. We need to pray for everyone caught / entrapped by these feelings. Without divine help, recognizing a problem is not possible. Certainly without divine help, I'd give in to or see absolutely nothing wrong with a lot of wrong thoughts and feelings that course through my head.
Being eager-to-please and a bit of a coward and worry wort, I worry that when, in real life, I'm forced to take a stand, I'll cave. Pray for me, that when that day comes, I'll be loving and honest, too.
I remember an army officer saying one time that 90% of a military operation lies in Intelligence and planning. I would say that in our relationships with others who take an unGodly path 99.9% lies in prayer and example. In the very small amount of cases were we are called to bear open verbal or active witness it will be because the Holy Spirit has knocked on the doors off their hearts and gone in ahead of us to prepare the way. Otherwise it is a waste of time. It would simply be a waste of time. I saw this at work a few years back when a wonderful Protestant lady came to be and started talking right out of the blue about converting to the Faith. I had never even discussed religion of spirituality with her, I was amazed. But God had planted the seed I was just there for the Harvesting.
There can be no doubt that we are on the verge of a Great Persecution. The phrase , 'There ways are not our ways ', rings more and more true https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/priests-told-to-reveal-sex-abuse-confessions-xvws99b3dwb
Whoa. The confessional will empty forever should people think that their most private thoughts and actions can be used against them by their Priest! It seems that this is precisely what the enemy would want. Exactly. What better way to do it as well. And then we have one less sacrament. This reminds me of Maccabees very much.
We (the world) have fallen from grace. It has been a subtle and gradual process. How did Christians ever allow this working on Sundays for example? How and why did this and everything else ever happen? Christians must have been quiet when they needed to speak out, just like now. It has only gotten worse. If all Christians acted like Christians, we wouldn't be in the crises we are today. Pray, pray, pray. The rosary is the weapon of choice and our only hope.
There are two new videos on the Sensus Fidelium channel about the apparitions at Tre Fontane and later messages or locutions given to the visionary. Both contain details which are new to me. The second video concentrates mainly on the prophetic messages, one of which says that the world will be shaken by an earthquake. The videos are really worth watching (listen to, really, because they are sermons) but if you are short of time, watch the second one. A warning to believers in Medjugorje: the priest giving the sermon is not a fan. The videos:
I watched these and listened. Powerful. This priest has given wonderful talks. He seems very committed to the Church and to priesthood and to the flock he shepherds and to our Blessed Mother.
Dolours what do you think of his warning about Medjugorje. I think very highly of this priest. Also Fr Hardon was not a fan either. Until the Church speaks I think I will give it a pass.
Thank you for your words here. I struggle with this but I never seem to get the green light to speak. Once in awhile I do and it amazes me at the ease with which the conversation ensues. The 99.9%is s great analogy.