Canada's Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, is another veiled attack on Christian belief. It changes the criminal code to include measures to fight hate propaganda and hate-motivated crimes. The law creates new criminal offences for obstructing and intimidating access to places of worship, schools, seniors' residences and the display of hate symbols in public places. Readers may have already realized the problem with such law: who gets to define the meaning of "hate"? To get a better idea of what the law could mean once passed we can look at the recent guilty decision against Finnish MP Paivi Rasanen. She expressed her Christian views in a pamphlet and for that she was convicted of "insulting" speech. When this happens everyone becomes afraid of speaking openly and freely. Rasanen had written a pamphlet back in 2004 expressing Christian teaching on marriage and human sexuality. The court ruled the publication's content “insults homosexuals as a group.” She did not harass anyone. The …
Liberal values are according to PM “Catholic” Marc Carney are abortion and all the sexual letters of the alphabet. Euthanasia too. Sorry, not my values and those of many other Canadians.
Darwinism and residential schools lethal concoction of culture genocide that drag the church through one of its darkest history. A lesson not to trust the Science.
There is something terribly wrong with that kind of people. Terribly terribly wrong. For 2000 years already. And that, my friends, is a very long time. Go figure it.
by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, we post the short reflection for Wednesday in the Octave of Easter. Keep in mind that this is Easter Week and Easter season or Eastertide lasts until Pentecost Sunday, that's 50 days. Cyril and John of Jerusalem, Mystagogical Catecheses II, 5In the exchange of Christ for humanity, we only have to gain: his all for our nothing—who would not call that a bargain? Yes, it’s all strange and unimaginable, but who thinks they can know God’s plans? Perhaps we do, who do not even really know who we truly are? Our task is to trust in him and to carry our cross, always looking to him. O strange and paradoxical thing! We are not truly dead, nor truly buried, nor truly crucified and risen, but imitation by image brings true salvation. Christ was truly crucified and truly buried, and he is truly risen. So many graces are lavished upon us because we imitate him by participating in his suffering, and true salvation is earned. O boundless mercy! Christ even received nails …
This is the dangerous and threatening language that U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social just hours ago: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran! Is this the language of a sane president of any nation? Who asks God to bless the very people he wants to kill? Only a demented person could do that. It's desperate words a madman. Who is actually been doing for "47 years (the) extortion, corruption, and death?" Here's a comment made online that best up the insanity that is coming in both words and action from …
Trump is fulfilling a script about the destruction of the Israeli state and Christianity using the Muslim force united with the Communist Russian and China states. Cui Bono? Certainly not the Christian West or the Israeli state. Russia and China are only gaining strength from the actions of the US. It is all about the "Errors of Russia!"
American Bishop Robert Barron posted a message for Easter on his Word on Fire YouTube channel titled, "The Earthquake of the Resurrection." He writes, "Friends, Happy Easter! We’ve come to the high point of the Church’s liturgical year, the reason why we’re Christians at all. If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, Christianity is a waste of time; the resurrection is the hinge point, the standing or falling point, of our faith. Taking Easter seriously is the source of our joy and our hope. Everything else is secondary to the great declaration of our Easter faith. In light of that, I want to talk to you today about earthquakes." His talk is in the video posted below. In his commentary, he tells us not to domesticate the message of Easter for it's truly an earthquake that should shake and radically transform everything about us. The Resurrection of Christ is: ... the earthquake. That's the light. Don't allow them to domesticate it. That's my message to fellow Christians listening to me. …
From the book, Lent and Easter With the Church Fathers by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, we post the reflection for Easter Sunday. Keep in mind that this is Easter Week and Easter season or Eastertide lasts until Pentecost Sunday, that's 50 days. We must let the meaning of Easter transform our souls and hearts. Easter: Resurrection Sunday: St. John Chrysostom, On the Resurrection, 3-5: Jesus has freed us from sin and from the power of death. He has joined what was separated by Adam and Original Sin. He redeemed the corrupt world through his Death on the Cross, and he paid the ransom for us all through his Resurrection. He has reestablished the original order before handing everything over to the Father on the last day. Let us celebrate this great and glorious feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, let us celebrate it with joy and devotion; the Lord is risen and has reawakened the whole earth. Adam sinned and died; Christ did not sin, but died. This is a new and surprising reality: the …
message. It's especially important this Easter, as the war against Iran and in Ukraine have not ended. ... Brothers and sisters, through his resurrection, the Lord confronts us even more powerfully with the dramatic reality of our freedom. Before the empty tomb, we can be filled with hope and wonder, like the disciples, or with fear like the guards and the Pharisees, forced to resort to lies and subterfuge rather than acknowledge that the one who had been condemned is truly risen!In the light of Easter, let us allow ourselves to be amazed by Christ! Let us allow our hearts to be transformed by his immense love for us! Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people. Indifferent to the …
Apr 3 Good Friday: the largest Cricifix in the world and the Canadian connection The "Cross in the Woods" is the "Catholic Shrine ... located in Indian River, Michigan. The Shrine is home to the largest crucifix in the world." About the shrine: The sculpture of the crucified Christ was titled 'The Man on the Cross' by the renowned Michigan sculptor Marshall Fredericks. It is made of bronze 3/8″ to 1/2″ thick. It weighs seven tons, is twenty-eight feet tall from head to toe, and the outstretched arms span twenty-one feet. The figure of Christ is attached by thirteen bolts 30″ long and 2″ thick that were made when the figure was cast in Norway. Fredericks wanted to portray Christ in a peaceful way. It was his dream to 'give the face an expression of great peace and strength and offer encouragement to everyone who viewed the Cross'. Apr 2 "You are clean, but not all of you" This is a very thoughtful homily given by Pope Benedict XVI for the Mass of the Lord's Supper. It was delivered at …
This is a very thoughtful homily given by Pope Benedict XVI for the Mass of the Lord's Supper. It was delivered at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on Holy Thursday, April 13, 2006 Dear Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood, Dear Brothers and Sisters, 'Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end' (Jn 13: 1). God loves his creature, man; he even loves him in his fall and does not leave him to himself. He loves him to the end. He is impelled with his love to the very end, to the extreme: he came down from his divine glory. He cast aside the raiment of his divine glory and put on the garb of a slave. He came down to the extreme lowliness of our fall. He kneels before us and carries out for us the service of a slave: he washes our dirty feet so that we might be admitted to God's banquet and be made worthy to take our place at his table - something that on our own we neither could nor would ever be able to do. God is not a remote God, too distant or …
MagnificatTwelve frightened men who feel that death is hovering near crowd around the Son of Man whose hand is lifted over a piece of bread and over a cup. Of what value is this gesture, of what use can it be? How futile it seems when already a mob is arming itself with clubs, when in a few hours Jesus will be delivered to the courts, ranked among scoundrels, tortured, disfigured, laughed at by his enemies, pitiable to those who love him, and shown to be powerless before all. However, this Man condemned to death does not offer any defense; he does nothing but bless the bread and the wine and, with eyes raised, pronounce a few words.It seems that, after [twenty] centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert, remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in …