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Gabrielis
Guest
Catholic radio is new to my area, been around only since last December. But since then I’ve been doing a lot of listening, especially to Fr Corapi. Most of the talks being aired are from some years back. Tonight the talk dated back to shortly after 9/11, almost 7 years ago by now. Many of Fr Corapi’s talks deal with spiritual warfare, and there is always a sense of urgency in what he says. Tonight (or over 6 years ago) he spoke of how Satan is a terrorist and the part we must all play in combatting this spiritual terrorism. If the situation was desperate then, how much more so now. It was ironic to hear him wonder what things would be like “a year from now,” meaning what they would be like in 2002 or 2003. Well, here we are in 2008 and it is my turn to wonder what things will be like a year from now, having seen what has in fact transpired over the last six-and-three-quarter years since 9/11/2001.
The downward spiral of the world has accelerated to such an extent that it has become almost impossible to keep up. Unless one has been on another planet during all this time this fact is impossible to deny. A good analogy would be to watch water go down a drain: it moves slowly at first but as it goes it speeds up until it suddenly disappears in a flash.
I need not point out the many things that have happened since September 11th, 2001. We should all have observed them. And the changes have come fast and furious, almost on a daily level. Time itself has accelerated. One can’t help but wonder how near the end is.
Of course, as Jesus warned us, no one knows the day or the hour when the end of the world will come, no one, that is, but the Father (Jesus, I take it, was speaking in His human capacity at the time) yet He also told us to observe the signs of the times. He told us that when the clouds gather we can expect the storm to break. Whether this means that THE end is at hand no one can say. But with reasonable assurance I think we can observe that certainly we have come to AN end, perhaps even “the end of the world as we know it” (TEOTWAWKI).
As things now stand, it seems to me, something has got to give. Perhaps the actual physical end of the world would be a blessing. For if this world of ours were to continue on its downward spiral the likely result would be something very much like hell on earth. What C. S. Lewis wrote about over a half-century ago in “The Abolition of Man” has largely come to pass, in spades. The vast majority of humanity has become brainwashed, “conditioned” as he put it. The Conditioners have been hard at it for a long time now. We have large numbers of people who have lost the ability to think for themselves. They have bought the lies fed to them by the Conditioners, the propagandists who dominate the media, the entertainment industry and much of politics. And long before Lewis, G. K. Chesterton predicted a world much like what we live in today in his writings, notably “The Well and the Shallows.”
If things are to turn around, if there is to be any hope of restoring sanity to this world gone completely awry, it will have to be, as Fr Corapi and many other good men and women of God have pointed out, for us as Catholics to begin living a vibrant Christianity by a total self-giving, even, if need be, to the point of death. It has come to this, I believe. “Christianity and water,” the brand of Christianity practised by all too many people, tinged as it is with political correctness, dissent and self-seeking, simply will no longer do. How many of us are willing to meet the challenge?
The downward spiral of the world has accelerated to such an extent that it has become almost impossible to keep up. Unless one has been on another planet during all this time this fact is impossible to deny. A good analogy would be to watch water go down a drain: it moves slowly at first but as it goes it speeds up until it suddenly disappears in a flash.
I need not point out the many things that have happened since September 11th, 2001. We should all have observed them. And the changes have come fast and furious, almost on a daily level. Time itself has accelerated. One can’t help but wonder how near the end is.
Of course, as Jesus warned us, no one knows the day or the hour when the end of the world will come, no one, that is, but the Father (Jesus, I take it, was speaking in His human capacity at the time) yet He also told us to observe the signs of the times. He told us that when the clouds gather we can expect the storm to break. Whether this means that THE end is at hand no one can say. But with reasonable assurance I think we can observe that certainly we have come to AN end, perhaps even “the end of the world as we know it” (TEOTWAWKI).
As things now stand, it seems to me, something has got to give. Perhaps the actual physical end of the world would be a blessing. For if this world of ours were to continue on its downward spiral the likely result would be something very much like hell on earth. What C. S. Lewis wrote about over a half-century ago in “The Abolition of Man” has largely come to pass, in spades. The vast majority of humanity has become brainwashed, “conditioned” as he put it. The Conditioners have been hard at it for a long time now. We have large numbers of people who have lost the ability to think for themselves. They have bought the lies fed to them by the Conditioners, the propagandists who dominate the media, the entertainment industry and much of politics. And long before Lewis, G. K. Chesterton predicted a world much like what we live in today in his writings, notably “The Well and the Shallows.”
If things are to turn around, if there is to be any hope of restoring sanity to this world gone completely awry, it will have to be, as Fr Corapi and many other good men and women of God have pointed out, for us as Catholics to begin living a vibrant Christianity by a total self-giving, even, if need be, to the point of death. It has come to this, I believe. “Christianity and water,” the brand of Christianity practised by all too many people, tinged as it is with political correctness, dissent and self-seeking, simply will no longer do. How many of us are willing to meet the challenge?
