Tuesday, April 9, 2013

courtesy of The Graphics Fairy

For reflection - this is not my writing but when someone sent it to me, it spoke to my heart and I have to share. Just think about it, no need to comment.
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Another article to ponder from the Blog of Fr. Chori Jonathin Seraiah


....So here we are looking to the future and seeing the likelihood that
we are going to move further down the scale into socialism, and we need
to realize that communism is just around the corner. We fought it for
years (and mocked those who accepted it), and now we have people saying
"I'm all for it if it will help us" (exactly as people said with Lenin).

What, then, is it that I have been praying for? Mercy. I have prayed,
"Lord keep this nation under thy care" and "guide us in the way of justice
and truth". I believe that He will answer this prayer for mercy, but that
does not mean that He will answer it in the way that we desire.

If we have been putting our hopes in a politician, then we are eventually
going to be disappointed. They are not Jesus Christ, so they cannot live
up to His perfection. They will always fail at one time or another........
....
It is not who is in the oval office that gives me confidence that God will
be merciful.

For sometimes, God's mercy comes in unexpected ways. Sometimes it comes
through the ministrations of wicked men. Yes, God can even use the
foolishness of a man who advocates murdering innocent babies (like Herod,
or President Obama) to open an avenue for mercy.

No, we do not want to encourage wicked leaders, but we cannot place our
hope in the righteousness of our leaders. Only Christ can fulfill that
hope. Only His righteousness will never fail.

Yes, there are some politicians who could do a better job than others, and
yes there are some whose understanding of civil government accords with
the Catholic Church's teaching on social and economic issues. Yet, we
cannot put our hope in them. For with them, or without them, the Lord God
can still protect His people and show them His mercy.

I would even say that we should be thanking God for doing what He knows is
best for us. Will He use our current President for our good? Of course He
will; but, once again, it may not be in the manner that we expect.

God promises to be merciful to us, so if we believe those promises and we
pray for Him to fulfill them, we can have perfect confidence that He will
do so. We can also rest assured that He will do so in the manner that is
best for us (as Scripture says so often--Rom8:28).

This means that God has chosen to bless us through the particular trial of
having a President come against the Church. What our current commander in
chief is advocating is not only a destruction of the religious freedom
that our forefathers fought so hard to achieve, but also a further
entrenchment of the current practice of war on the womb.

I cannot tell what this will lead to precisely, but one thing is definite:
it will lead to a strengthening of the Catholic Church in America. Yes, it
will likely also lead to a shrinking of the Church, for (as always happens
in times of trial) it will weed out those who are unwilling to suffer for
the sake of Christ.

We have been enjoying the blessings of the past for a long time, and this
means that we have become a bit lax in our faith. In this fallen world,
the Church grows best when she is persecuted. The blood of the martyrs is
the seed of the Church.

As I said, once again, I prayed for mercy. I continue to pray for mercy. I
pray that God will be merciful to grant us strength to stand true to the
faith of our fathers. I pray that those who are weak in their faith (or
who have compromised much of it away) will be encouraged to revive their
spirits.

I pray for our children. They are the ones who will likely have to endure
the consequences of our actions today, and I know that they will need a
powerful sense of tradition and the dogmas of Mother Church.

Without a strong anchor, they will falter, and we are responsible to
nurture them in a way that gives them that strong anchor. May we all
persevere in whatever God sends our way, and may we each be bold to
confess Jesus before all men. God have mercy on us.

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6 comments:

Gail Dixon said...

I agree that we need to pray for mercy every single day. I often cite 2 Chronicles 7:14 for myself, but it's appropriate for the nation as well: if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Suzan said...

GOD - have mercy on us!

hootnonny said...

Pray every day indeed! I've heard 2 Chronicles 7:14 a lot in the last few years!

Donna said...

I'm commenting dear Charlotte to let you know I read it...also, in 2009 I posted a letter from a woman (onto my political blog) who lived in Vienna, Austria before the war. My grandparents (father's side) lived outside of Vienna at the time. The writing at the bottom of the letter in red is my personal note...

http://wwwamericanpie.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-if.html

We Have to continue to fight!
hughugs

Chatty Crone said...

Amen and amen. sandie

Lisa Gordon said...

Amen.
Thank you for posting this, Charlotte.