Wow – HHS mandate demeans women March 26, 2012
Posted by Tantumblogo in Abortion, awesomeness, Basics, contraception, episcopate, General Catholic, persecution, sadness, sickness, Society, unadulterated evil.comments closed
In this HHS mandate disaster, we have been told by our betters in the media and other elites that the Catholic Church and its evil Republican “allies” are planning to outlaw contraception and to chain women to their beds…….errr…..or maybe their kitchens………hmmmm…….or maybe both……..and turn them into baby making cooking cleaning clothes washing machines. We’re told that the hated Church is trying to drag women back to some prehistoric time, way back in the 1950s, when most cars were made in the US, if you can believe it!, and when women were slaves of their biology because pills did not rain from the sky with an Organizing For America stamp on them. Such an evil, evil time. The suffering women endured then……it was like the Flintstones!11!, or something.
Joking aside, it is the elites, almost entirely leftist, who caricature and demean women. So says Gloria Purvis, of the Northwest Center in Washington, DC, a crisis pregnancy center in one of the most abortive cities in the country (especially watch the first 2 minutes):
I think her argument is brilliant. The feminists, and the elites who have completely accepted their arguments, have determined that women are deficient due to biology. That women can never be empowered and live happy, fulfilled lives UNLESS they reject their biology and render themselves sterile is one of the greatest lies ever told. And getting women to not only sterilize themselves (with many men eagerly, cheerfully involved, and at times forcefully demanding such), but to even murder their child should the normal medical “corrective procedure” fail, and then calling all this “empowerment,” is such a monstrous lie that only he “who was a liar and a murderer from the beginning” (Jn 8:44) could be the author of it. And yet, this is rightthink for our elites, almost unquestioningly. The same elites who cheer for this war on the Church, and Christianity in general.
And yet who really “hates women?” The people who claim that the only way to be an “authentic, happy, successful” woman is to deny her biology almost totally, or the Church, which has always cherished and glorified true femininity and motherhood, in the example of the holiest human being who ever lived, our Blessed Mother? None of that is to say that a woman, a mom, can’t have a career, it just means that the bedrock assumption of femininity, so hostile to the traditional female roles and especially motherhood, is wrong. Not only wrong, but sick.
Dark times. We must continue to preach the Truth to the spreading darkness.
The moral doctor on suffering March 26, 2012
Posted by Tantumblogo in awesomeness, Basics, General Catholic, Glory, Holy suffering, Interior Life, Lent, religious, Tradition, Virtue.comments closed
We’re in Passion week. We’re heading down to the wire in Lent. For some, the suffering, denial, and/or mortification, may be tiring. Here are some words from St. Alphonse Ligouri, the Moral Doctor, on suffering:
We should receive whatever crosses God sends us, unperturbed, calm and in great confidence. “But,” you reply, “these sufferings are really punishments.” The answer to that remark is: are not the punishments God sends us in this life also graces and benefits? Our offenses against God must be atoned for somehow, either in this life or in the next. [boy, what a counter-cultural idea in today’s world!] Hence we should all make St. Augustine’s prayer our own: “Lord, here cut, here burn and spare me not, but spare me in eternity!”……………
……Having merited hell for our sins, we should be consoled that God chastises us in this life, and animate ourselves to look upon such treatment as a pledge that God wishes to spare us in the next. [the more we suffer here, the better it should go for us in the after-life] When God sends us punishments let us say with the high-priest Heli: “It is the Lord, let him do what is good in His Sight!” (1 Kg 3:18)
The time of spiritual desolation is also a time for being resigned. When a soul begins to cultivate the spiritual life, God usually showers his consolations upon her to wean her away from the world; but when he sees her making solid progress, he withdraws his hand to test her and to see if she will love and serve him without the reward of sensible consolations. “In this life,” as St. Teresa used to say, “our lot is not to enjoy God, but to do his holy will.”……….
…….This earth is a place of merit which is acquired by suffering; [would that I would avail myself of that suffering better!] Heaven is a place of reward and happiness. Hence, in this life the Saints neither desired nor sought the joys of sensible fervor, but rather the fervor of the spirit toughened in the crucible of suffering. “O how much better it is,” says St. John of Avila, “to endure ….temptation by God’s Will than to be raised to the heights of contemplation without God’s Will!”
Sung Latin Mass tonight at St. Mark March 26, 2012
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Latin Mass is in effect tonight at St. Mark at 7pm. No Confession ongoing, I don’t believe. But the Mass will be sung and be something like a High Mass, but in the Novus Ordo. I pray some more new faces show, there’s been a few new folks and it’s great to see. And Fr. Hopka does sing the Mass very well, his pronunciation of Latin befits his reputation as something of a Diocesan Latin expert, and the Schola led by Kenton Kravig is really coming along. Now, if I can just not screw up the readings for once, all will be good!
Actually, that could be a reason to come – if you hate me, and want to see me fail, come to Mass! Divine Intimacy says humiliations are very good for our spiritual development, properly taken.
Maybe one day we’ll sing the Salve like this after Mass!
I’m late, but please consider praying this Novena March 26, 2012
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This was supposed to start yesterday, but I don’t think it’s devoid of all Grace if you don’t start until today. Mother Regina Marie is very concerned, as we all are, about where this country is headed:
An Urgent Appeal From Mother Regina Marie, OCD (I received this email from a parishioner of Mater Dei Church in Irving, TX) |
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