So those who do not reply and comfort you and or thank you are lepers? Who exactly did you “cure”? Who exactly are you healing by giving up and leaving America altogether?
Personally I’d like to see a lot less whining among some Catholics over the election result and for a lot of our Catholic brethren who are apparently so deeply wounded by it rather get up and continue to fight the good fight. Instead though you are going to abandon the fight and retreat, to Italy?
Italy, where abortion is legal, btw, and paid for by the gov’t (tax payer $$).
Frankly I’ve heard a lot of retreat and licking of wounds since last night’s result. As if we didn’t see this result coming. It’s the way of the world today (and you will not escape it by moving to Italy). All that we can do is stand against it. C’mon people. Get up! Pick up your sword. Put on the armor of God, and drive on!
You ask who was the leper was without knowing me. You ask who was cured. Then you assume that my post was divided into parts by neglecting the fact that
I thanked 244Rocket.
As for the 1 in 44 comment - I decided to start this post because no one else had… It is and was a petition for the healing done on behalf of Catholics who persecute the church…
Who am I? I’m a lonely, disabled, unemployed, homeless guy looking at four huge exams for my CPA license, but terribly afraid of another four years of unemployment and living off welfare payments. Church is honestly my only consolation in life, but I am not naive about the dark night of the crucifixion either. This is where I find healing - in church, and it is sacred ground upon which I stand. The sections on prayer in the CCC make it very clear the answer to our prayers may well result in a crucifixion, as it was good enough for Our Lord, so it must be good enough for me. So, if I go out begging for prayers, then that is my right.
But that doesn’t give you (or the current evil administration) to go out stifling religious liberties. After all - this is a Catholic website.
As for the personal attacks on me - my conscience is completely clear, as it is completely in keeping with the church’s directives. Please know I am not alone in these prayerful sentiments, although I will be the 1 in over 44 to have made it know first. If you wish to throw rocks, then I guess that is where you’ll just have to reconsider your response in a prayer forum.
I now turn the matter over to Jesus. From Psalm 95:
Today, if only you would hear his voice,
“Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah
as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”
William777:
