Is Society on the Brink of Collapse?

Sad. I wondered why there was no mention of the anniversary of the bomb on Nagasaki this year. Now I know .

 

Apparently he has an unusual and long history with China. He and his wife were married on June 4, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre because it was a date he would never forget. Strange.

 

How romantic

 

I had very little faith in the federal government up until the Trump assassination attempt, now from here on out I have zero faith in the fed. I think this country is communist at this moment. Trump said something very sobering in a recent interview when he was asked who's running the country considering Biden's mental state, when he said far left wing radicals in Biden's cabinet are I interpret that to mean communists. I won't go into lengthy detail to explain how China has bought and paid for the democrap party, it's laid out right in front of you.

 

Exactly... the communists have majority control of the DNC.

 

Yes our country has been gone for a long time.

 

The level of repression and control being exerted by the administration is made clear when you consider that Tulsi Gabbard has been put on the U.S domestic terror watch list. The reason seems to be that she said on TV that foreign policy decisions are being made by unelected people in the military industrial complex who are profiting from the U.S. being in a constant state of war. And that's coming from someone who served their country abroad in the military!

 

Earlier in the year I stated my reservations concerning Trump, especially in regard to the issue of abortion. My concerns have only grown with his latest sidestepping the question of whether or not he will vote in favor of the proposed amendment enshrining abortion in Florida's Constitution. Trump has reduced himself to an opportunist with little moral fiber.

He might manage the government well, but I want someone who will stand for the helpless ones. That is a stand that will restore American greatness again.

Lord have mercy on America!

 

The Grace of the Present Moment



By Roberto de Mattei

Centuries pass, circumstances are different, but God does not change, the Catholic Church is the same, and the struggle continues to be that between the two cities that oppose each other in history like two armies. The theology of Christian history assures us that the City of God is always victorious; Our Lady's apparition at Fatima assures us that the historical triumph of the Immaculate Heart is near; the historical and logical analysis of revolutionary dynamism, assures us of the irreversibility of the counter-revolutionary movement. However, those immersed in the struggle miss the great horizon of the battlefield, which sometimes seems shrouded in fog or the shadows of night. There is a risk of losing our way, but more importantly, of losing sight of the ultimate goal of our battles and our path. For the path is long and it is not linear. We advance along winding paths, with wide curves, sometimes the terrain is steep and impassable, sometimes flat, descending then suddenly rising again. Overall, the certain movement is ascending, but not straight. We climb to the top, but passing peaks, skirting chasms and cliffs, through an uneven path. And the enemies that assail us are of all kinds. Such is the history of humanity, such is our life. And when the night of confusion falls, the darkness of chaos, fear assails us.

A French writer of the 1930s, Louis-Ferdinand Céline wrote a novel entitled, Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night). In this novel, Céline attributes to an officer of the Swiss Guards, who immolated themselves at the Tuileries in 1793 to defend Louis XVI, a song that says "Notre vie est un voyage / Dans l'Hiver et dans la Nuit / Nous cherchons notre passage / Dans le Ciel où rien ne luit " (Our life is a journey / in Winter and in Night / we seek our passage / in a Sky without light").

This romantic pessimism does not correspond to reality. It is true that we often advance in the darkness of night. But night is always followed by the bright dawn of day. And by day and by night the supernatural light that guides our path never fails.

When we advance through the night, our path is lit by a torchlight, which illuminates our steps, even though it does not allow us to see far ahead or behind. This torch is the grace of the present moment, which through its albeit limited beam of light, allows us not to stumble, not to lose the path, to keep the right direction.

It is to this grace of the present moment that Our Lord refers when he says, "I will be with you forever, until the end of the world" (Mt, 28-18-20). Every day, no one excluded, but also every moment, because there is not a moment in history or in our lives that is removed from His grace.

The present moment is the one that brings us closest to eternity, because the present moment "is." The past is no more, the future is not yet here, but it is in the being of the present moment that we encounter God, who can be defined as an eternal present, because God is Being by essence.

We will be judged by God in the present moment, which will be that of our death. Our life, knows shadows and lights, highs and lows, or at least the possibility of highs and lows, different peaks, because no one is in more danger of falling than those who aspire to be perfect, but the moment of truth will be that of our death.

Sometimes we think that, then, God will take stock of our lives and judge us according to an arithmetic average. This is not so. The image of the scale is deceptive. Our life will not be judged as a whole, but in a single moment, what we might call the snapshot of death.

If we were to conceive of judgment as a scale in which we weigh the amount of evil or good we have committed, we might make foolish calculations whereby today's sin might be balanced by tomorrow's act of virtue. It is not so. Of course every failure counts, as does every correspondence to grace, because every act has consequences, but not in the sense of an arithmetic average. What really counts is the last moment of our lives, the flash at the finish line, and no one knows what the image will be in that flash of time that will be consigned to eternity. No one knows what is the last grace we will receive and whether we will correspond to that last grace. And no one knows the moment of one's death.

That is why we must live in the present moment. Our life is not a movie, with a happy ending, but a succession of photographic snapshots of the present moment.

Living in the present moment means never becoming discouraged, but living abandoned from moment to moment to Divine Providence, which knows the profound significance of that fleeting moment. By living in the present moment, we exercise the virtue we need most, especially in these days: hope, trust in the final triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart.

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Sourece:
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-grace-of-present-moment-by-roberto.html#more

 

Its a long time since I readsomething so true and powerful. A good reminder in these days of shadow.

 

Don’t be discouraged. Our world is fake. Don’t focus on earth but on heaven. The world will never satisfy you. Only Jesus can fulfill your heart and soul.

QUOTE="Mario, post: 456362, member: 5"]Earlier in the year I stated my reservations concerning Trump, especially in regard to the issue of abortion. My concerns have only grown with his latest sidestepping the question of whether or not he will vote in favor of the proposed amendment enshrining abortion in Florida's Constitution. Trump has reduced himself to an opportunist with little moral fiber.

He might manage the government well, but I want someone who will stand for the helpless ones. That is a stand that will restore American greatness again.

Lord have mercy on America![/QUOTE]

 

I'm enthralled by the painting in the above article. Mary is appropriately young, yet the tranquility of her expression is a beautiful depiction of a mature countenance. She lifts up a corner of the swaddling cloth to clearly reveal her Son. The colors are warm, but the thorns prophesy what is to come.

...And she will be with Him at the foot of the Cross!

I wonder who the artist is.

 

Maybe, if the govt is managed well, the room will be provided for the growth of those who stand for the helpless ones; for the growth of that important work to be done and the effects to spread......

 

Agree

 

I just read yesterday morning that English hospitals will require radiographers to ask male patients if they are pregnant. This came after a trans patient complained that he had not been popped the big question before an xray.

This tells me all I need to know about where we are all at.

Beam me up Scotty.

 

If I were a guy, I would be very very tempted to say yes, just to see what the reaction would be....

 

Well...as the old saying goes--the inmates are running the asylum.

 

From all I have read it seems in every case to go back to the HR departments. They tell everyone else what to do and think.

It reminds me of what someone in forensic criminal science once wrote. Control the Coroner and you control the city.

Well I say control the HR department and you control the country.

They even control the police now.

 

I wonder if it is created with AI.
Here is an image I just created using AI and your description...

 

Or perhaps a younger Mary..




Actually I found the artist's name...Marianne Stokes