Rampant Blood Lust

Scapegoating is rampant.
Jesus reminds us of the spiritual principle:
           "With what judgment we 'judge' others we are judged ourselves."
It is not a superficial thing.
The ancient Romans' blood lust had to be fed 'daily'. Augustine lamented that his friend had succumbed.
We are being suctioned by the vacuum cleaner of this evil today.  Romans roamed from site to site to watch poor, unwary souls in courts of law being castigated.  It was the 'soap operas' of its time...the superstar 'reality series.'  It is no different today.
Honor(?) killings abound throughout our world. The more we sin and stray from 'The Cross' and its redemption the greater the sin of projecting our sins on others.  Its deviant process devolves into the vampire morass of false judgment, bearing false witness, scapegoating and bullying, self-righteous plundering of the souls of others, cruelty and blood lust.
More and more we see this spiritual ignorance and cruelty on TV as human beings are tried on TV, condemned without mercy and often bullied to the point of madness.  It is troubling because it leaves each one of us unprotected without justice and due process.  It also makes all who participate in such a travesty real murderers.
Into the late 19th century in Great Britain people turned out in droves for public hangings.  Even a well-known 'intellectual' and philosopher lambasted those trying to end such barbaric debacles.  The French revolutionaries revelled in their public executions.
It is barbarity at its worst.  It means that society members refuse to acknowledge their sins, confess them, and repent of them.  Far from repenting of their sins the people involved in such promote such practices--rabidly.
Jesus said in the last days mankind would descend once again into the same sins as those of the ancients.
The one thing marking Christians is 'love and mercy' because we understand we need it.  Standing at the Foot of the Cross, seen as we really are by Christ down to the last crumb, receiving His forgiveness and mercy we can go out knowing that we can forgive and love even our enemies because of this great gift.
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Now for the 'rest of the story':
Our Pope knows it.  The same day a deranged man in London ratcheted to the point of 'blood lust' beheads a soldier is the feast day of St. Rita.  A wife and mother who knew about 'revenge' the foundation of the lust for the blood of 'another'--the mark of Cain.
Our Pope knows from where the only Blood that washes clean from torment comes...the ONLY answer to the barbarity of man.
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On Rita's Day, The Pope's Tribute

 from Whispers in the Loggia:
Good Italian grandson that he is, Papa Bergoglio closed out his morning homily with an unusually keen plug for today's patroness....

"The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone! And this Blood makes us children of God of the first class! We are created children in the likeness of God and the Blood of Christ has redeemed us all! And we all have a duty to do good. And this commandment for everyone to do good, I think, is a beautiful path towards peace. If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good. ‘But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!’ But do good: we will meet one another there.
"Today is [the feast of] Santa Rita, Patron Saint of impossible things – but this seems impossible: let us ask of her this grace, this grace that all, all, all people would do good and that we would encounter one another in this work, which is a work of creation, like the creation of the Father. A work of the family, because we are all children of God, all of us, all of us! And God loves us, all of us! May Santa Rita grant us this grace, which seems almost impossible. Amen."

As veterans 'round these parts know, that's a scribe-whistle if ever there were one – after all, the national shrine to the mother-peacemaker turned Augustinian mystic is right here at home.

[...]Much as Francis' tribute is a special thing for everyone who's kept up Rita's cult through the years, that it's remained the case here is a reminder of this town's particular debt to the venerable Fr Michael DiGregorio, who rebuilt the shrine with such great dedication and care before his election as vicar-general of the Augustinian Curia in Rome. To him, the whole family of the friars, and everyone celebrating today – a group which, so it seems, now includes the Pope – tanti auguri per una buona festa.

AtonementOnline: ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

AtonementOnline: ¡Viva Cristo Rey!
Excerpt:

That's the cry heard before the executioner's bullet found its mark. With an evil attempt in the 1920's and into the 1930's by Mexico's civil government to eradicate the Catholic Church from the country, the people's response to the persecution was the rising up of the Cristeros - Catholics who would not have their faith ripped away from them. Most Catholics resisted peacefully, but there also were some who felt driven to take up arms against the government troops.

Of the twenty-five martyrs (who were executed at different times and different states throughout Mexico), twenty-two of them were priests....

emigres de l'interieur: LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: "Disabled children should be put down"

emigres de l'interieur: LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: "Disabled children should be put down"

My Note: Now if you REALLY want to talk about 'crazy' check this out. And supposedly a 'leader(?)' of his community?
Excerpt:
That anyone could be so callous and crass in making such a statement is beyond comprehension, yet that is what, allegedly, Cornish Councillor, Colin Brewer has said.
Both The Independent and The Huffington Post carried the story, extracts below:-

The Cornish councillor who was re-elected despite saying that disabled children "should be put down because they cost too much money" has again insisted that there may be a case for killing some disabled children with high support needs...

[...]

Looking for analogies to support his view, Brewer compared disabled children to farmers' treatment of animals, telling the agency: “If they have a misshapen lamb, they get rid of it. They get rid of it. Bang!” He continued: "We are just animals. He [the farmer] obviously has got a point… 

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My Response: There we have it: 'We are just animals.'  Thus we have reached the 'crown' of Darwinian socialism who not only deny God, it seems, but man.  So who belongs to this 'elite' group of theirs--if not God or man?  The crux of the matter: socialism reducts everything to this thus denying the soul.  Now who I wonder hates man and so denigrates him?

For over a decade I was Education Director at a 'special' school.  It was my job to coordinate with the university and community in training developmentally disabled adults and teens to live and work in the community.  I will never forget when the first (US)government interventions began.  The institutions were to be emptied out with residents sent back to families for 'local' agencies--including public schools--to train and care for. For a solid week I was required to participate in 'testing' each one's skills.  One afternoon a middle-aged gentleman who worked in the greenhouse/farm area came in.  He was irritated that he had to leave his job.  Staff, employers, and residents alike respected and liked him.  I was tired and irritated too after a day of utter inane questioning.  So I went right to the point with him.  

"Can you read, Pete?"

He retorted: "I read my Bible everyday.  Do you?"

Pete passed. 

Oh, BTW.  He was diagnosed with brain-damage and Down's Syndrome.  I wonder if Mr. Brewer has read Exodus?  I think he will find the injunction:  "Thou shall not kill."  It doesn't take an act of God to declare which human being I have greater respect for.

Pentimento: Louise Glück

Pentimento: Louise Glück

The Gift

Lord, You may not recognize me
speaking for someone else.
I have a son.  He is
so little, so ignorant.
He likes to stand
at the screen door, calling
oggie, oggie, entering
language, and sometimes
a dog will stop and come up
the walk, perhaps
accidentally.  May he believe
this is not an accident?
At the screen
welcoming each beast
in love's name, Your emissary.
-- Louise Glück
....Heavenly Grass":

My feet took a walk in heavenly grass.
All day while the sky shone clear as glass.
My feet took a walk in heavenly grass,
All night while the lonesome stars rolled past.
Then my feet come down to walk on earth,
And my mother cried when she give me birth.
Now my feet walk far and my feet walk fast,
But they still got an itch for heavenly grass.
But they still got an itch for heavenly grass.      ~Tennessee Williams
 

Excerpt:George Herbert: "Whitsunday" - Light On Dark Water

George Herbert: "Whitsunday" - Light On Dark Water
Excerpt:
Listen sweet Dove unto my song
And spread thy golden wings in me;
Hatching my tender heart so long
Till it get wing, and flie away with thee.
Where is that fire which once descended
On thy Apostles? thou didst then
Keep open house, richly attended,
Feasting all comers by twelve chosen men.
Such glorious gifts thou didst bestow,
That th’ earth did like a heav’n appeare;
The starres were coming down to know
If they might mend their wages, and serve here.
The sunne, which once did shine alone,
Hung down his head, and wisht for night,
When he beheld twelve sunnes for one
Going about the world, and giving light.......

Abbey-Roads: The Pope knows what we know...

Abbey-Roads: The Pope knows what we know...

My addendum:
                                  The lowest place is at the Foot of the Cross.
              [His Precious Blood is there.  His Mother is there.  The Beloved Disciple is there.]
Luke 14…9And he that bade you and him come and say to you, Give this man place; and you begin with shame to take the lowest room. 10But when you are bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher: then shall you have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with you. 11For whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. …
Bible Commentary:
But it was reserved for the matchless Teacher to utter articulately, and apply to the regulation of the minutest features of social life, such great laws of the Kingdom of God, as that of Lu 14...

                                          "You cannot serve both God and money." 

                                    "For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."
Luke 16:14
Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him.
                                          ...from Fathers of the Desert:
The three doors of temptation...
          gluttony            avarice       self-love

Blazing Cat Fur: France: Priest Beaten By Muslim

Blazing Cat Fur: France: Priest Beaten By Muslim
"...the deputy mayor of Orange Jacques Bompard (Ligue du Sud) [League of the South] calls it an "act of racism (in the sense of the penal code) with regard to a Catholic priest, which is also the consequence of the hatred which a certain islamism propagates with regards to everything that is French and Christian."...

Exposing Liberal Lies: Air Force Officer Ordered to Remove His Bible from His Desk

Exposing Liberal Lies: Air Force Officer Ordered to Remove His Bible from His Desk

Pope surprises, delights 40,000 Italian pro-lifers, joins March for Life | LifeSiteNews.com

Pope surprises, delights 40,000 Italian pro-lifers, joins March for Life | LifeSiteNews.com
Excerpt:
[   Q: "How come the Pope wasn't at Our Lady's Fatima Mass consecrating his papacy?"
    A:  He was busy serving her....et al...]

Pope surprises, delights 40,000 Italian pro-lifers, joins March for Life

by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent

ROME, May 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Francis surprised about 40,000 Italian and international participants in today’s Marcia per la Vita (March for Life) Internazionale in Rome this morning, when he left the Apostolic Palace to greet them personally from his popemobile in the street where they were lined up.
Monsignore Ignacio Barreiro, the head of the Rome office of Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews.com that for the pope to have effectively joined the March for Life was highly unusual...

Roses Staked in My Life

John Humphrey Spender, "Staked Rose" (1953)

Misogyny is the scourge of mankind.  
Happy Mother's Day
Let's talk Mothers. I prefer to begin with eternal gratitude to Mary, Mother of God, who has suffered with me long, hard and with many tears. It's all about her for me there always at the Foot of her Son's Cross...unwavering. Someone gave me her name. I don't even begin to place myself in the same universe with that magnificence. My own Mother--asleep now with Jesus--I defend with my life and soul...regardless of what...always have...from the beginning. What that woman endured as daughter, wife, and mother! She forged through granite taking the brunt of it all! Her reward is great. She too bore that wonderful name. I didn't deserve her as my mother.

My great-grandmothers and grandmothers were always there for me. I honor each of them with tender love and gratitude. I have had many mothers but no fathers in the faith. Zilch. Nada. Nichts. NONE. Still don't. I have so little respect for men(?) today--clergy or not. I abhor their degradation of their spiritual manhood and their lack of respect for the spirituality of women, children and life. I become enraged too at their treatment of their mothers, sisters and daughters.

The damage done to generations spiritually unprotected against evil because of men refusing to be loving, faithful spiritual leaders of their home FIRST is frightening. I have yet to meet even one man that manfully submits himself to God and wears that mantle to protect, love and serve his God, his wife, his children, his family, his friends and his community. NOT ONE. All I have ever known is men set on violence, pride, their success, egoistic demanding anger and love of gross lustfulness. Sometimes they will go the distance in violence just to win an argument! And every one of them were willing to do whatever to get what they wanted: lie, deceive, mock, cheat and aggressively knock anyone around who got in their way. It angers me because it is destructive of families--wives and children. This irresponsibility angers and saddens God too.

Women, too, need to stop believing it is their job to 'preen' egos. The mantle of womanhood is a mighty one and we need to stand up and put on its armor for our families. Men deceive to have sex but destructively demand abortions of women and then when the spiritual, emotional and psychological traumas from that hit the woman's soul those men are still out playing caring nothing at all for the destruction they have wrought on not only the woman's being but the families involved.

There are other Mothers in the Faith whom I must honor. Mother Mary Regina, Mother Juanita, Mother Louise, and Mother Carmen. Jacqueline, Barbara, Regina, Loni, Carlota, Ruth, Julia and Beth. ...you of the byways and unseen struggles... May your souls be honored this day. May your spirits be gladdened. And may your rewards be many. And most of all:  May God the Father's Love embrace you forever.