Hi Dolours! Hope you are well? We miss your very intellectual comments! Would you pop in just to let us know how you are? God bless you!
Yes, so many. I'm glad we hear from Potatosack and Rain and Bflocatholic now and then! Safe Under Mary's Mantle!
I miss many in the MOG forum but I have also met many new fantastic loving people. There are a lot of shaky things in my life but here we are building the "City of God". Peace be with all of you!
As crazy as the world is I always find support from those bonded by the love of Jesus. I'm sorry I don't get to come on the forum as much as I used to but please know every morning my prayers go out to those in need and to all on the Mother of God forum. I can't say it enough... Padraig and everyone here. Peace be with you all!
I do too, JAK, but every once in a while she pops up with something important to share. I miss a lot of people, but I notice that like Carol55, they pop up and leave us with an important message. Blessings
David Warren, in his latest blog post, informs us that Canada is currently legislating a 'hate speech' law, which will feature $50,000 fines for expressing the wrong opinion. Seemingly, the ultra-woke Canadian 'Human Rights Commission' will be prosecutor, judge and jury, as well as the definers of what, at any particular moment, consists of 'hate speech'. Unlike other breaches of law, there will apparently be no checks and balances or due process written into this legislation. Expect this to spread throughout the West, with Ireland-the world champions of COVID lockdown-signalling mightily its devotion to defeating 'hate speech'. I foresee possession of certain books, even silence, to eventually be 'crimes'. In such circumstances, it will be impossible to maintain anonymity on the Internet. We might pay for our historical 'hate speech', but we will certainly be forced into isolation. I can only console myself that they can't actually find out what anyone really thinks in their deep-down essence, no matter what they might make them sign or recite. Canada raises the prospect of dark days ahead, indeed. Of course, as in the French Revolution, the guillotiners will eventually be guillotined by those even more extreme than themselves or when the frame of reference is altered. Dolours is an extremely astute lady. She might have already foreseen these dangers and gone to ground, so to speak. May God bless her. May the Lord God have mercy on us all.
The soul that unites itself to God is like a Monastery Cloister garden always enclosed.A port always at rest in the ongoing storms that surround it.
Such a huge Comfort! That we can in a very instant, even in the times of Greatest danger, even death, transport ourselves in an instant into the arms of a loving God.
My biggest fear for the future is not the kind of persecution that involves martyrdom to the point of death. It is the kind that is pursued by 'soft tyranny', which consists of small, perhaps seemingly insignificant, deprivations of freedom, often for ulterior motives (for example, the abolition in Ireland of confession due to COVID, without a squeek of objection or even advice to the laity-at least in my experience). Each little deprivation is not sufficient in itself to go to war over, but the cumulative effect risks the abolition of Catholicism. It's like trying to wrestle with an eel-how does one go about resisting this?
So true. I do not know from experience because my pastor had drive up Confessions wherein he leaned out the window of the building and heard your Confession as you sat in your car or walked up. I received Absolution that way. I have never been deprived of Confession. God bless you.
