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“Our once great western Christian civilization is dying. If this matters to followers of Jesus Christ, then we must set aside our denominational differences and work together to strengthen the things that remain and reclaim what has been lost. Evangelicals and Catholics must stand together to re-establish that former Christian culture and moral consensus. We have the numbers and the organization but the question is this: Do we have the will to win this present spiritual battle for Jesus Christ against secularism? Will we prayerfully and cooperatively work toward a new Christian spiritual revival ― or will we choose to hunker down in our churches and denominationalisms and watch everything sink into the spiritual and moral abyss of a New Dark Age?” - Mark Davis Pickup
Monday, September 14, 2015
IDOLATRY OF SELF THREATENS ALL WE ONCE HELD DEAR
Every abortion in Canada
is paid for with our tax dollars (without our consent or any public consensus). It is a moral outrage! Then in late July 2015, the abortion
pill RU-486 was quietly approved by Health Canada. Although women will
need a prescription to obtain it, a whole new phase of early abortion is about
to begin in 2016. It will be secret killing, under the radar so to speak. Canadians
will not have the slightest clue how many little lives will be deliberately snuffed
out in utero. The intentional taking
of human life won’t end there.
Earlier this year Canada’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down the law prohibiting assisted suicide. The suicidal sick, disabled or depressed are
likely to be helped to kill themselves beginning in 2016. Canada truly has
become a culture of death. O Canada! Where did we go wrong?
I
think I have a vague idea of our societal error. Throughout the twentieth
century, Canada experienced a gradual cultural drift from its Christian
foundations. Others have chronicled the drift
more adeptly and thoroughly than I could possibly do, but let me tell you generally
where I think we went off course from truth. Much of society ceased to believe
or care that the real presence of Christ was possible in their lives ― or the
Blessed Sacrament for
that matter. With it came a loss of holiness and a sense
of wonder for the sacred. C.S Lewis wrote: “Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest
object presented to your senses.” That is a simple, profound truth yet vast
portions of our culture became blind to the concept of holiness and the
transforming sense of wonder that it brings to life. Just as the real presence
of Christ is what makes the Sacrament blessed, it is the image of God that gives
sanctity to all humanity. Hearts that are indifferent to the things of God can make any atrocity possible ― like digging out a developing unborn child from its womb or helping a suicidal disabled or sick person kill himself. As Christians we must never become indifferent to abortion or the euthanizing of people.
Pope Benedict XVI said:
“Not
all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There
may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war
and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and
euthanasia.”
Personal
autonomy elevated to the highest ideal at the expense of
community concern and
the common good is treacherous indeed. It does not enhance our humanity; it
takes away from our humanity and leaves society poorer, much poorer. It is the
tyranny of self that excludes consideration for the good of others. Unaccountable
personal autonomy inevitably hurts the most vulnerable and those with the least
power. Again, Pope Benedict said elsewhere: “We are moving toward a
dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize as for certain and which
has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.”
Our
culture is infected with the deadly combination of the eyeless ‘I’ of
narcissism, and the moral corruption of nihilism which rejects long-held
beliefs and morals of a previous Judeo-Christian culture.
Have
we come to a point of nihilism where each person is his own judge and jury and
his personal convictions of self-interest are
infallible? Is every person is his
own god? Have we come to a point where Frederic Neitzsche’s terrible predictions
have come true? He said: “Nihilism is standing at the door. A triumph of
nihilism is evitable.” Has nihilism crossed the threshold and overcome our previous tried
and true Christian culture? Will those faithful to the gospel and commandments
of Jesus Christ and his Church acquiesce to such a perilous the unproven future? We must not.
Everything
Christians should hold dear – like the sanctity of human life – is at stake. I do not
want you to take this lightly. The lives of the powerless as well as the hearts
and souls of the powerful hang in the sway!
Jesus
Christ commanded us to take the Good News to the world which includes our
neighborhoods. The Gospel message has changed and transformed individuals and
entire societies before in history. I pray it can happen again. Countless lives
depend on the transforming grace of Jesus Christ. If you and I do not take news
of the internal transformation that a personal encounter with Christ can bring,
who will?
Wear your Christianity
for all to see and always be prepared to give an account for the hope that is
within you. [Click on image below or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FExIWex_vc for Celtic Thunder - Heritage, 4:45]
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