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PopeWatch: Year of Terror

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Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Saturday, January 4, AD 2014 8:26am

The phrase that jumps into my mind is “laughing in the face of adversity”. A healthy response!
What is the adversity? Obviously the increasing terror in the public square, but also there is a current of worry about the pope- that office and that person having always been seen by faithful Catholics as a safe “home base” – a stable refuge , which now seems to be on a fluctuating movable platform. We chide each other: don’t worry! Everything will be all Right! It is imaginary, a misunderstanding! Nothing is moving.
and waiting, with nervous laughter, for vindication

slainte
slainte
Saturday, January 4, AD 2014 9:56am

Safety and security are illusory concepts. To become saints, we are called to engage the world even when gripped by fear or shackled with despair. Our comfort is the assurance that God is with us on the journey…firmly holding our hand as a kind father would do with his beloved child.

We are living in interesting times. I hope that we may live them joyfully.

The beatific vision awaits.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Saturday, January 4, AD 2014 10:50am

Illusory perhaps. the barque of Peter, has been a place of safety, and now the boat is – or seems to be – rocking.

slainte
slainte
Saturday, January 4, AD 2014 11:44pm

He tells us not to be afraid because He is always with us….

Matthew 8:23-27

23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

And His voice tells us “Be Not Afraid” in this beautiful hymn…

“You shall cross the barren desert
But you shall not die of thirst
You shall wander far in safety
Though you do not know the way.

You shall speak your words in foreign lands
And all will understand
You shall see the face of God and live.

Be not afraid
I go before you always
Come follow Me
And I shall give you rest.

If you pass through raging waters
In the sea, you shall not drown
If you walk amidst the burning flames
You shall not be harmed.

If you stand before the pow’r of hell
And death is at your side
Know that I am with you, through it all.

Be not afraid
I go before you always
Come follow Me
And I shall give you rest.

Blessed are your poor
For the Kingdom shall be theirs
Blest are you that weep and mourn
for one day you shall laugh.

And if wicked men insult and hate you
All because of Me
Blessed, blessed are you!

Be not afraid
I go before you always
Come follow Me
and I shall give you rest…”

(Bob Dufford, S.J., a Catholic Hymn)

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