tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905099428784628728.post6198795029527921377..comments2022-11-18T03:53:54.613-06:00Comments on Lay Mystagogues: The Sky is Falling!!!Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747757703724299047noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905099428784628728.post-17606657460112996812009-05-13T13:30:00.000-05:002009-05-13T13:30:00.000-05:00It is truly an honor to receive our first "outside...It is truly an honor to receive our first "outside" blog comment from the Curé of Ars. That Adoro has some serious pull.<br /><br />Thanks for the comment and you're welcome. No doubt this anxiousness about the future is significant in the population. I have some brother issues myself, not quite the same, but serious nevertheless.<br /><br />Let's just take Our Lady's advice (pray, pray, pray), and especially today thank her for the confirmation of faith she granted to us in Fatima. Fatima is where we can point to when we are in despair. It defies skeptical attacks. And we can put our hope in her promise of ultimate victory.<br /><br />Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God. Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins. The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken. - Isaiah 40:1-5Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04747757703724299047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905099428784628728.post-71693062685213671882009-05-13T06:00:00.000-05:002009-05-13T06:00:00.000-05:00I just discovered this blog today. What you wrote...I just discovered this blog today. What you wrote about your week of anxiety describes this past week for me to a tee. Many of my co-workers were let go on Thursday, I attended an Encourage meeting in an attempt to deal with my( married and father of 4)brother who decided he is a homosexual, and found out my other brother is having seizures. All mixed in with the same anxiety about our world and Church that you wrote about. I too tried to comfort myself with pop music on the way home from work since my favorite Catholic station is having a fund drive this week. I had similar thoughts on the lyrics being so horrible and thought of how many lives where ruined partially because our songs like these that led to similar bad choices as the lyrics suggest. I guess the answers is as our Lady says; "pray, pray, pray".<br />Thanks for a great blog.Vianney33noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905099428784628728.post-87904125862043793722009-05-06T11:47:00.000-05:002009-05-06T11:47:00.000-05:00Jack, you weren't anxious. You were just a nut.Jack, you weren't anxious. You were just a nut.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08592538623046593819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905099428784628728.post-67351812372674428202009-05-05T21:17:00.000-05:002009-05-05T21:17:00.000-05:00It's a connection, Mrs. Andy, but I'm sure we're d...It's a connection, Mrs. Andy, but I'm sure we're distant cousins. Before listening to profane music, I used to listen to profane talk. When I lived in California, I couldn't get to sleep from the anxiety. Back then, prayer wasn't an option. I was an atheist of course. So, I listened to Art Bell talk about Area 51, ghosts, the Philadelphia Experiment, HARP, Gordon Michael Scallion, Hale Bop's companion, and my personal favorite - remote viewing. By the second commercial break, I was sound asleep, and I never got to hear the good stuff.<br /><br />My guess - you've never tried that.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04747757703724299047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905099428784628728.post-35434864546240054002009-05-04T08:54:00.000-05:002009-05-04T08:54:00.000-05:00Well, my dear friend, this post has confirmed my s...Well, my dear friend, this post has confirmed my suspicions. You ARE my long lost brother. I don't know how it happened, but we must have been separated at birth. I have been experiencing these same thoughts. To me, the immorality and suffering of the world seems to be cycling and spinning faster on its wicked axis lately. Yes, Christ is Victor and He can bring about a greater good. Knowing this is one thing. I can know this, but truthfully, I am often terrible about suffering. It's the waiting, watching and sitting through it phase (um...life?). A shameful lack of perseverance sometimes. So, when I am not self medicating by deafening my ear drums with pop music in my hot-rod of a mini-van (don't worry the kids aren't with me) I pray for peace. Sometimes, there is a correlation to the noise/volume in my mini-van and that of the anxiety in my soul. It's too loud to hear Him and to feel the peace he offers me. <br />So, I hear ya.' I will continue to pray for you and your dear family.<br />"Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."~Philippians 4:6-7<br /><br />P.S<br />Shoot! Now my husband knows that isn't the default setting for the van speakers!Mrs. Andynoreply@blogger.com