Comments for This Sad – and Glorious – Day at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 13 out of 13 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 03:58:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5813 dear billy, i am praying esp today (Tues 1/25) for your family just because i will be ABLE to remember your request this day. i have asked our Lady-Mom to hold your family in Her own apron pockets so that no intentions will go un-begged-for just because i have no memory! to grump: it is the very sadness of sin that brings about the glorious mercy of God....His mercy bends all the way down to embrace our sadness, if we but ask for forgiveness. any "on-going" sadness should only be a agent of contrition to grow our hearts to receive and pass on this forgiving love of God Who, "while we were putrefying in our sins, Christ died for us...." He does not wait for our sadness to change, He comes and changes our sadness & restores our life. it starts out sad, and is transformed to glory. is that right- RR? - debby Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:14:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5808 Billy, great men are often misunderstood. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) - Grump Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:15:04 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5807 Debby (most especially): Please pray for me and for my family. - Billy Bean Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:00:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5806 Please allow me to Amen every comment thus far, except perhaps Grump's, which I am not sure I understand. - Billy Bean Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:57:44 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5805 I'm confused. Was it "sad" or "glorious"? - Grump Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:57:13 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5803 On the walk from the car to the church, we regularly passed a parked car with two bumper stickers. One read, "I brake for trolls," and the other read "Someone you know may need a choice." I passed them more times than I can count. Finally, one snowy Sunday morning, we parked right next to that driveway. I asked my husband if he had a scrap of paper and a pen. He supplied both. I wrote: "Why would I want my daughter to have a choice that would kill my grandchild? It seems you care more for trolls than for human infants." I added my name, address, and telephone number. Several weeks/months went by before I finally glanced over at the car. The only bumper sticker remaining was "I brake for trolls." I don't know when the other came off, but it was gone. Thanks be to God. As long as the sisters, daughters, good friends, friends of friends, whom we love and who, in our hearts, we know to be "good, kind, loving people who would never hurt a fly" decide to terminate their pregnancies "because they were in just horrible, emotional depression and we felt so sorry for them, and we know that they would never do anyone any harm, so it must not be so bad after all", well . . . that's very difficult to wage war against because, after all, it is only one, and she is such a good person, and she would have had to give up her education, her scholarship, her future, her ski trip to Switzerland that she had her heart set on, etc. etc. Many a pro-lifer has been won over by just such personal situations. So there is the macro war and the micro war, and one is as difficult to combat as the other, even though we have all the weapons on our side. - Louise Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:28:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5801 The numbers - especially in New York City - give lie to the wedge rhetoric used by the heartless to push through abortion on demand as a choice without moral implications; that it would only be used in cases of incest, rape or the endangered health of the mother. In New York City, to judge by the numbers, it is used to clean up after all that sex in the city. The moral implications exist even if they are ignored. - Other Joe Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:27:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5800 today reminds me of "Good Friday." God left Heaven, emptied Himself of all glory and willingly clothed Himself in the straight-jacket of humanity for the sake of my soul. Love could not help Himself. and what did i require? nothing less than all of Him...every bit of His sacred flesh torn, while i mocked Him, while i denied Him, while i refused to see, to hear, to be touched, while i demanded my own way....His joints were pulled out of place, His beard plucked, and then when it was not quite enough, He looked at me then toward Heaven and begged still for mercy for me, for He knew i had no idea..... all those little babies' bodies. all those mothers. all those "doctors." all this sin. and Jesus bore all this and more. i have never personally had an abortion. but the spirit of abortion is alive, sometimes even now, even after so many Sacraments, so many confessions, so many receptions of my Lord's most Sacred Body Blood Soul Divinity. because at 50 years old, i still want my way all too often, i still think i have the way, i still resist Grace, i still remain ignorant and grasping at the right to decide what is good (or evil) for me..... so Jesus received all these, my sins, in His body on Good Friday. He received every sin of perversion, death, lies, hate, lust, apathy. and where sin abounds HIS GRACE SUPER ABOUNDS!!! to wash- to drown- to consume- to envelope- to embrace- to recreate- yes, TO MAKE ALL THINGS NEW. so, yes, today is a glorious day. for this enemy has lost. death is overcome in Him. LIFE LIVES. O Come O Come Emmanuel, Come desire of my own heart, Your chosen manger, Your chosen Cross, Rise again dearest Lord and shatter the crypt/cave of my heart! oh Lord, i repent of ever having offended Thee, let me never offend Thee again and do with me as You wish. - debby Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:04:15 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5799 I was just wondering why if life meant so much to American Catholics they voted in a President who never met an abortion procedure he didn't like? - Just Wondering Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:23:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5798 Sometimes we forget the lessons from past mass murderers: the the Nazis killed 6 Million Jews or the 20 Million Russians killed by Stalin or another 30 Million by the cultural revolution in China. It boggles the mind to realize how puny these figures are compared to the mass murder of babies by supposedly "moral and upright people" of America! I would not be surprised if many years from now a tribunal will be set up by our grand children to indict this generation of inhumanity against mankind. - Ike Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:52:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5797 Obama rightly asked that the nation's flags be lowered to half mast in commemoration of the attack on Congresswoman Giffords. It's a somber reminder, indeed. But what is needed to remind us of the unspeakable horror of the slaughter of innocents taking place around us daily in airconditioned secrecy is for a black flag to be lashed to the mast of the White House to remain there until the day when the last drop of a preborn's blood goes down the pro choice drain. - Yezhov Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:50:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5796 James Real inroads are being made against abortion right now for the first time in decades. Perhaps if the pro-life movement is so flimsy you should figure out a way to strengthen it rather than standing by the wayside and lamenting the hopelessness of it all. One of the main reasons abortion is so available is because so many people who didn't fall in love with it did take the libertarian stance rather than fighting it vehemently. Cowards. - Jacob Richard Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:36:54 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/this-sad-and-glorious-day.html#comment-5795 "Glorious" might be reaching a bit far as a description of this day (though things are shaping up nicely here in Florida). We have a generation of Americans who've never lived in a country where abortion-on-demand was illegal. So even if a pro-life majority emerges, it seems reasonable to think that it will be a largely "libertarian" majority, disapproving of abortion, but not wishing to meddle with other people's choices. - James Danielson Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:43:11 +0100