Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe: Is Justin Trudeau biased against Christianity?

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe: Is Justin Trudeau biased against Christianity?: Is Justin Trudeau biased against Christianity?   As Rex Murphy's pointed out today in the National Post, that there have been  48 counts...

Should Biden Be Denied Communion? w/ Seamus Coughlin

Happy Canada Day and Happy birthday Barb!

O Canada We Stand on Guard for thee!

We love you Canada!

Happy birthday to the baby of our family!

We love you Barb!

Dallas gives emotional award speech for The Chosen

The Kingdom of God - Parking Lot Mass - Annunciation Parish Ottawa

When a society actually endorses evil, where will it end?

 From He Leadeth Me  ( pages 120-121 )

 by Father Walter Ciszek S.J.

"Abortion is legal in the Soviet Union. Anyone who wants one can have it performed. The government says it has to be legal in order to prevent private abuses. The wages of husband and wife together make it hard to support more than one or two children so everyone wants an abortion. Yet the question haunts them. The hallways of the clinics adjoining the abortion rooms were full of posters, not praising abortion, but informing patients of the possible detrimental effects on both mind and body such an operation could have. The doctors, mostly women, and the nurses and other personnel would try to dissuade patients from the operation. Women confided years later that they could not rid themselves of feelings of guilt about it. And these were not "believers" but women and girls who had received a complete atheistic education in Soviet schools. 

Even for Communism, it is a basic question of life and death, of wrong and right. If life at its very roots can be treated so lightly, people would say, who is going to stop such a mentality from spreading? Society? Hardly. Society can't even handle properly its present problems of crime and other social disorders. And when a society actually endorses evil, where will it end? Can man alone be trusted to solve mankind's problems? Look at history and the depths to which civilized countries have sunk, time after time." 

Walter J Ciszek. S.J. (1904-1984 ) a servant of God, spent twenty-three years in the Soviet Gulag and is now being considered for beatification in the Roman Catholic Church

Pray the Mass Like Never Before - Father Mike Schmitz

 

The Kingdom of God

From Pope Benedict XVI by by ubique lucet

https://ubiquelucet.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/benedict-xvi-on-the-kingdom-of-god/

As an interlude between Catechism summaries, it’s worth looking a bit more at the concept of the Kingdom of God.

Pope Benedict XVI discusses the Kingdom in the first volume of  Jesus of Nazareth, especially in Chapter 3.

Benedict outlines three ways of interpreting the Kingdom, drawn from the Fathers of the Church:

• as Jesus Himself;
• as located deep within the believer;
• as being in close relationship to the Church.

Then he critiques a few modern theories that fall short: e.g., that the Kingdom is all about the end of the world, or that it is all about our efforts to bring about peace and justice on earth (“the secular-utopian idea”).

After mentioning that both the Hebrew and Greek words for Kingdom are action words — connoting “God’s actual sovereignty over the world” — Benedict goes on to offer his own explication of this richly evocative term, and espouses the interpretation of Jesus being the Kingdom in person:

The new and totally specific thing about his message is that he is telling us: God is acting now — this is the hour when God is showing himself in history as its Lord, as the living God, in a way that goes beyond anything seen before. ‘Kingdom of God’ is therefore an inadequate translation. It would be better to speak of God’s being-Lord, of his lordship (p. 56).

The new proximity of the Kingdom of which Jesus speaks — the distinguishing feature of his message — is to be found in Jesus himself. Through Jesus’ presence and action, God has here and now entered actively into history in a wholly new way (p. 60).

In Jesus, God is now the one who acts and who rules as Lord — rules in a divine way, without worldly power, rules through the love that reaches ‘to the end’ (Jn 13:1), to the Cross (p. 61).

…the Kingdom of God is ‘realized’ in his coming….Jesus, as the One who has come, is nonetheless the One who comes throughout the whole of history…(p. 188).

Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008).

March for Life, May 13, 2021

"The common outcry which is justly made on behalf of human rights - for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family to culture, is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination." Pope John Paul II, Christifideles laici

"Those who deem themselves to be Christian must know this fact. They are bound by conscience to the basic, imperative duty of bearing witness to the truth in which they believe and to the grace that has transformed their soul. "Blessed Pope John XXIII

Photos from my sister, Pat 

 

Videos by Pat

Jeff Gunnarson President of CLC Speaks before the March

Mama Mary Pray for us and for our children and for our country

Videos and photos by Maureen

Videos are below the photos

 The Kingdom of God 

Scenes from the March

MP Derek Sloan 

Leaving Parliament Hill and footage of the entire March 

Returning to Parliament Hill - coming down Kent Street

Hymn to Mother Mary - Edgar Alan Poe

 https://www.churchpop.com/2015/10/04/edgar-allen-poes-forgotten-hymn-to-our-lady/

At morn – at noon – at twilight dim –

Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!

In joy and woe – in good and ill –

Mother of God, be with me still!

When the Hours flew brightly by,

And not a cloud obscured the sky,

My soul, lest it should truant be,

Thy grace did guide to thine and thee

Now, when storms of Fate o’ercast

Darkly my Present and my Past,

Let my future radiant shine 

With sweet hopes of thee and thine.

Edgar Allan Poe