A bad video of a hopeful sign that passed underneath our window this evening. A Catholic prolife procession. I’m thinking they were on their way up to Sacre Coeur, since it’s that way and the Poor Clares who are associated with the parish were in the procession…
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Abortion bears a resemblance to the ongoing child sacrifice of the Old Testament Baal worshippers ( and the many Jewish generations that imitated them…especially in the northern kingdom) that brought on terrible punishments by God…but not right away but when God saw these sins as “complete” (Gen.15:16) after 400 plus years.
God punished such groups little by little for centuries prior to the great punishments of the dooms. We know this from Wisdom 12 which is only in the Catholic Bible as canon:
Wisdom 12:3-10
” For truly, the ancient inhabitants of your holy land,
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whom you hated for deeds most odious– Works of witchcraft and impious sacrifices;
5 a cannibal feast of human flesh and of blood, from the midst of. . .– These merciless murderers of children,
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and parents who took with their own hands defenseless lives, You willed to destroy by the hands of our fathers,
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that the land that is dearest of all to you might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.
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But even these, as they were men, you spared, and sent wasps as forerunners of your army that they might exterminate them by degrees.
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Not that you were without power to have the wicked vanquished in battle by the just, or wiped out at once by terrible beasts or by one decisive word;
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But condemning them bit by bit, you gave them space for repentance.”
Remember that last line people… when folks ask you about the dooms. The offenders were given over 400 years to repent via lighter punishments so that the dooms would not be necessary at all. Only when their sins were “filled up”, did God resort to destruction. Christ repeats this concept of completed sin…filled up sin… to the Jewish leaders in a veiled reference to the coming destruction of Jerusalem as He says in Matt. 23 to the Jewish leaders: ” 31 Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets; 32 now FILL UP what your ancestors measured out!”. This is similar to Christ saying to Judas, ” What thou doest, do quickly” in one hortatory sense but more similar in content to God speaking to Abraham in Gen.15:16:
” …for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Ironically the issue of the dooms is one of incredible mercy and longsuffering by God as He appealed to the child killers for over 400 years first through lighter punishments so that final destruction would not have to occur at all….this beneficent willing Aquinas called the “antecedent will of God”…what God wills prior to sin or continued sin. He wills the best for everyone…prior to obstinacy.
Beautiful. I love the singing. Sounded like the Hail Mary.
So wonderfully uplifting to see, we always hear about secular Europe as if the Catholics have all list the way. Thank you for sharing!
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Floods at Lourdes…
http://te-deum.blogspot.com/2012/10/video-footage-of-lourdes-grotto-flooding.html