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Female Italian Senator that is pro-homosexual and pro-abortion “As a lay person, I hold that nobody can judge the actions of a high ranking religious leader as the Pope is,”
Throughout its history, the struggle for the Irish soul has always been over its Druids. Ireland only abandons the ardor of the Faith when it allows its hidden Druids to return and dominate.
What the Druids Believed
This is what has happened now. The Druid label fits perfectly on the political caste that has imposed divorce, same-sex “marriage” and now abortion on the Emerald Isle. The diviners, charmers, priest, magicians, astrologists and wizards of old were amazingly similar to their neo-pagan counterparts today.
The Druids’ principal doctrine supported a life without moral consequences since they believed the soul did not die but passed at death from one person to another. Although these frequenters of sacred oak groves are viewed as a priestly sect, they were quite secular. Their influence was much more social than religious since their role was mostly administrative and ceremonial. The Druids had no god of their own nor did they introduce any new divinity. They merely lived with the local gods as they were.
Finally, as a part of their duties, the Druids performed human sacrifices. It was their custom to have large wickerwork structures that were filled with people and then burned as part of their offerings to appease local divinities.http://www.tfp.org/the-return-of-the-druids-in-ireland/
The honoring of paganism surrounds us – with the newly emerged Catholic philosophy having confused the John Locke forma of egalitarian American version of freedom = freedom for each to do as one pleases and social laws and mores to respect AND honor what each person believes as opposed to the authentic Roman Catholic definition of freedom which is = freedom from sin ! And sin as interpreted by the precepts and commands as previously interpreted , determined, and fixed by the Holy Roman Catholic Church. The honoring of paganism and pagan peoples can only attempt to change the truth by political statements and symbolic ceremony but in reality it can never change the truth that what the are attempting to embrace and partner with is incompatible with the Truth
Pope Francis encourages growth of Pantheist religions – On Church Revolution In Photos –TIA
Watch This Satanic Video Of Mostly Young People The Moment Restrictions On Abortion Were Lifted On Ireland On gloria.tv
Fever pitched cheering for responsibility free sex without procreation – whistling and fist pumping for fornication without babies Witness the beginning of a satanic dying race – The Mohammadian Sheiks laughed at it and said within several decades this country will be ours – and for the first time the muslims said something I believe
Devoid of the one true religion, paganism always and eventually (in each region and situation) reverts to man’s lowest common denominator original sin – It takes out those pulling for the abolition of the majority’s access to mortal sin as “freedom” . it takes out the weaker, the less strong, the ill, the elderly, and the babies that it does not want and it will place them in the wicker cages of the Druids , the Aztecs, and the Incas and it will sacrifice them. We already know that the Lord promised that in the closing of one of the seven convents between God and man, the covenant between Noah and his people , God would never bring death to the world by flood ever again But when the 7th covenant between God and mankind ends ( the Eucharistic covenant ) the world will end by fire. The Mass of the Druids simulates these sacrificial fires in the name of their form of freedom – freedom to sin by fire. Prior to the missions of Roman Catholicism those pagan cultures , all of them , always had the solution for these: the weaker , the minority , the authentic liturgical Trinitarian Christians ……kill them !
What ‘s Next ? Post Legalization Era Of Abortion Always Brings A Socialism Form Of Communism to A Country
Putting Ireland and the rest of western Europe aside for the moment, what happens when more Latin American countries inch toward the legalization of infanticide , the ones that already legalized same inch toward abortion on demand, legalized sex selection abortion, and the attempts to eliminate all birth defects (eugenics ) by killing them in the womb
What ALWAYS follows is socialized medicine , government controlled hospitals in life and death decision making business and real Catholic doctors that resist persecuted. What comes next from eugenics, is tax payer subsidizing of transgender creations, euthanasia for both young and old, government doctors and insurance managers revel in the growth of the temptations for power over life and death. Killing becomes addictive , which old people get operations and which are denied. Liberals smooth over communism light with socialism justifications, They are just fights against “materialism”
It’s anthropocentrism gone wild. The failure at Vatican II to dig into the philosophies of communism and the theologies of freemasonry , their relationship to one another the culture of death and publicly & formally denounce the infiltration of communism. The so-called progress of mankind has its natural end in his lowest common denominator which is original sin. It’s natural end always has the strong determine the fate of the weak for the supposed greater good. This is what resulted from the proliferation of a new type of Catholicism in an ecumenism with a new type of neo-Protestantism that embraced “the world”. Saint Paul taught us in Sacred Scripture that we can ‘live in the world but not be of the world’
Many do not realize how deep the well goes, in how many unexplored legs the caterpillar has. One such subject, of the many not dug into in nearly enough depth, is the intrinsic relationship of the Catholic Pentecostal movement of Charismatic Catholicism to the socialism of liberation theology and how partnered the two have been in philosophy and hierarchy through its’ lifetime. Only now are traditional academic Catholics beginning to study these subjects amid the many people that are being used and deceived in a much broader movement.
Vatican II is the smoking gun. Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveria , founder of the Society for the Defense of Tradition family and property, put it in this way. He denounced the enigmatic disconcerting dreadful and apocalypticaly tragic silence that the Second Vatican Council kept with regard to Communism (which also explained the entire suppression of the 3rd secret of Fatima on the infiltration of the Catholic hierarchy and the suppression of the Consecration of Russia due to a Vatican deal with Russia with sitting dignitaries of Russia and eastern orthodox Patriarchs in attendance at Vatican II)
The Professor was quoted as saying publicly
“The council intended to be pastoral and not dogmatic In fact it had no dogmatic import. Moreover it’s omission with respect to communism may make it go down in history as the a-pastoral council par excellence. With its up-to-date tactics – about which nevertheless, the least that can be said is that they are debatable on the theoretical practical plane ( with some conciliar documents noting a dissonance with traditional teaching and even a systematic ambiguity that is incompatible with full orthodoxy) the Second Vatican Council attempted to drive away, so to speak, bees, wasps and birds of prey. Its silence on communism let the wolves run free. The work conducted by the Council cannot be written down as really pastoral; neither in history nor in the Book of Life.
In is harsh to say it yet the factual evidence points , in this sense , to Vatican II as one of the greatest calamities, if not the greatest in the history of the Church . As a result of it “ the smoke of satan’ has penetrated into the Church to an unthinkable extent , and it is still spreading day by day , with the terrible expanding gases. To the scandal of countless souls, the Mystical Body of Christ has entered into a sinister process that could be called self-destruction.”
Among the common elements almost never discussed , we repeatedly find many . Upon Pope Paul VI death the grand master of the grand orient freemasonry in Italy proclaimed that Freemasonry was proud for the first time in history to honor a Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in Paul VI.
Several conservative and traditional Catholic dignitaries of the Italian government at the same time were murdered. Suddenly Pope John Paul I turns up dead after only one month in the chair of Peter, with more than several private testimonies of his murder. Several Bishops that pushed for some of the most progressive changes to the Catholic Church at Vatican II and wrote & distributed volumes of propaganda left the Catholic Church following Vatican II after having served their self-destructive mission.The lodges of freemasonry in Rome are built on specific geographic points forming a pentagram , all but one point in the lower corner constructed , one whose properties they still continue to be unsuccessful at commandeering The fact that this sub-terrain world still goes on and is now coming to the surface in this Pontificate is most visible in the masonic Vatican banking scandals and several on-going trials that the US Catholic media refuse to cover. If you don’t read Italian and you are not a traditional rite Catholic it’s invisible to you just the way they want it . Progress, they say, must continue the belief in the evolution of the brotherhood of mankind. What they don’t tell you until you are bought in to this school of thought , eventually man becomes god.
Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveria , in respect to the TFP’s alliance with conservative and traditional Catholics at Vatican II, on the many tragic things they witnessed first-hand would latter follow-up to his writings in his Revolution and Counter Revolutionbook with a latter statement in 1989 “ When in the last part of Revolution and Counter Revolution was that Vatican II was the greatest calamity in Church history, I maintained something that I would maintain today much more vehemently than before.”
Only now are scholars beginning to study this era far enough out to collect all the data and its bad fruit in analyzing all the facts in an objective manner. Among which deeply runs their philosophy of the need to level all the classes from nobility /aristocracy down through the upper classes, the middle classes, the merchant & skilled labor trades and their sodalities
In 1962 the Professor and TFP founder met with Cardinal Tisserant , the virtual MC of Vatican II , where the Cardinal confided in him that he participated in the high level negotiations with the schimatic Russian Orthodox “ “Moscow demanded that no one speak against communism at the Council and Rome agreed “ Subsequently, all the schemas were lost , not processed, and suppressed at the Council. No one ever mentions that THIS was Archbishop Lefebvre’s main argument, secondly the Religious Liberty /Ecumenism heresy and the protestantization of the Liturgy was only third. Many don’t realize how deeply communism morphed into the Church in new shapes in liberation theology and was exported all over the world not just to Latin America And hence the theology of “the poor Church” , itself a heresy, was invented and propagated at this moment
And so what comes next after the legalization of abortion ?, the anthropocentric road map of Vatican II , self destruction resident within the culture of death hiding within the vehicle that drives it deeper into more countries , “Communism Light” , Socialism, Social Medicine, Liberation Theology, and the various aberration movements of the novus ordo , the new rite of the Catholic Church
Study and pray for the truth to emerge for the Truth shall set us all free !
Prayers for
A Catholic restoration minded Pope taking the name of the Pius line to take the Throne of Peter
Consecrate Russia to The Immaculate Heart Of Mary with All the Bishops
Infallibly denounce Communism, Socialism, and Liberation theology as abject evil in all its forms and hereby condemned
Begin the age of Mary and the declaration of the 5th Dogma of the Mediatrix , Coredemtrix, Advocatrix of All Graces
A declaration of the restoration of the nobility and Roman Catholic aristocracy
Propagate the social teachings of the reign of the Kingship of Christ in government, society, schools , economics and banking
Restore the Sacred Heart of Jesus and suppress all pseudo devotions of false Mercy and condemn as anathema ecumenism with heresy and apostasy
Why Is Socialism Still Popular? – On The Society For The Defense Of Tradition Family And Property
Catholics and the Revolutionary State – Crisis Magazine church and state, Democracy, despotism / tyranny, Managerial State, political legitimacy- and communism
Who have the power to change the weightings within the automated software? Will criticizing the government online generate 1 negative point this month but 10 points next month? How can citizens with a handful of negative points, some perhaps incorrect mis-identifications, avoid crossing the dreaded threshold if they don’t know how the system is truly ranking various violations?
Fordham University hosts the longest running NY Traditional Irish Music program – on WFUV Radio, also available to NJ area over the air listeners as well as internet casts
Declan O’Byrne’s news from Ireland at 2:00pm on Sundays (90.7FM In NY and Northern NJ) has become a serious concern to both us and our extended family and friends
In this last show, this past Sunday, he went on an anti-Catholic tirade in a very lengthy support of Mrs. Mary McAleese as if she was either his mother or some form of a new Saint. Mrs. McAleese, as you folks I am sure know well, is not only the former President of Ireland but an apostate Catholic. She opposes our Church’s teaching on homosexuality , most likely due to her outspoken pro-sodomite son. She tells European Catholics the Church is wrong on its teachings and once adopting this position, as we have seen elsewhere, one naturally gravitates towards cherry picking other Church teachings each person’s personal interpretation and emotions feels at odds with today. She opposes celibate male Priesthood and believes Priests should also be Priestesses , married, and or homosexual. She opposes our Church’s teaching on contraception which gave rise the legalization of abortion
As for the murder of the unborn, Declan O’Byrne, continued to rave on as to Mrs. McAleese support of Ireland’s referendum on the 8th Amendment overrun attempt, while pro-life Irish Catholics are largely rejecting the Government’s plan for a UK-style abortion regime in Ireland. This former President of Ireland, it is believed, has animosity towards our Roman Catholic Church due to family members being abused by a Priest, Father Malachy Finnegan, in her northern Ireland homeland.
My wife and I have this newsblog to which we network with both other Catholic apostolates and over a thousand different connected souls to which we intend to inform not only of this situation but other similar outrageous predicaments to which everyday Catholics can have an impact. In today’s world unlike the Catholic world of years ago only large public outcry has any semblance of a substantial impact. There are many people that to this day gather round the radio to listen to the news from Ireland on Sundays and this version of the news corrupts and mis-forms the youth of the tri-state area. Mrs. McAlesse was also just recently ‘officially’ banned in sanctions by the Vatican from speaking in Rome at a Women’s Day Conference due to her apostate anti-Catholic views which was also not mentioned.
These highly subjective ant-Catholic news items become a presentation of WFUV views and by extension the Jesuit Catholic University of Fordham in the Bronx and its extended NYC locations representing same and Irish people & Irish American people in general and are more over are false and highly offensive – Please help to correct this by letting as many people as possible know of this tragic situation going on at Fordham University, WFUV and the beloved Ceol na nGael program which we may have to abandon and urge other Irish Catholics to do same as part of their after Mass Sundays sacrifice.
Here are some stories substantiating Mrs. McAleese anti-Catholic views if you had not already known of her opposition to Catholicism
Mary McAleese describes Catholic Church as ‘an empire of misogyny’ – The Irish News
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From a sermon by Saint Leo the Great, pope The virtue of charity
In the gospel of John the Lord says: In this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for each other. In a letter of the same apostle we read: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God; he who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
The faithful should therefore enter into themselves and make a true judgment on their attitudes of mind and heart. If they find some store of love’s fruit in their hearts, they must not doubt God’s presence within them. If they would increase their capacity to receive so great a guest, they should practice greater generosity in doing good, with persevering charity.
If God is love, charity should know no limit, for God cannot be confined.
Any time is the right time for works of charity, but these days of Lent provide a special encouragement. Those who want to be present at the Lord’s Passover in holiness of mind and body should seek above all to win this grace, for charity contains all other virtues and covers a multitude of sins.
As we prepare to celebrate that greatest of all mysteries, by which the blood of Jesus Christ did away with our sins, let us first of all make ready the sacrificial offerings of works of mercy. In this way we shall give to those who have sinned against us what God in his goodness has already given us.
Let us now extend to the poor and those afflicted in different ways a more open-handed generosity, so that God may be thanked through many voices and the relief of the needy supported by our fasting. No act of devotion on the part of the faithful gives God more pleasure than that which is lavished on his poor. Where he finds charity with its loving concern, there he recognizes the reflection of his own fatherly care.
In these acts of giving do not fear a lack of means. A generous spirit is itself great wealth. There can be no shortage of material for generosity where it is Christ who feeds and Christ who is fed. In all this activity there is present the hand of him who multiplies the bread by breaking it, and increasing it by giving it away.
The giver of alms should be free from anxiety and full of joy. His gain will be greatest when he keeps back least for himself. The holy apostle Paul tells us: He who provides seed for the sower will also provide bread for eating; he will provide you with more seed, and will increase the harvest of your goodness, in Christ Jesus our Lord, who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.
Every element of the culture of death is joined to the hip at the left and the right with some other ‘related’ element of the culture of death
Pope Francis appointed Madrid archbishop, Cardinal Carlos Osoro, had expressed his support for the “feminist strike” in the run-up to the event, saying that he understood their actions and even added that the Virgin Mary would join the strikers.
From a homily on Leviticus by Origen, priest Christ the high priest makes atonement for our sins
Once a year the high priest, leaving the people outside, entered that place where no one except the high priest might enter. In it was the mercy-seat, and above the mercy-seat the cherubim, as well as the ark of the covenant and the altar of incense.
Let me turn to my true high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. In our human nature he spent the whole year in the company of the people, the year that he spoke of when he said: He sent me to bring good news to the poor, to announce the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of forgiveness. Notice how once in that year, on the day of atonement, he enters into the holy of holies. Having fulfilled God’s plan, he passes through the heavens and enters into the presence of the Father to make him turn in mercy to the human race and to pray for all who believe in him.
John the apostle, knowing of the atonement that Christ makes to the Father for all men, says this: Little children, I say these things so that you may not sin. But if we have sinned we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the just one. He is the atonement for our sins. In the same way Paul refers to this atonement when he says of Christ: God appointed him to be the atonement for our sins in his blood, through faith. We have then a day of atonement that remains until the world comes to an end.
God’s word tells us: The high priest shall put incense on the fire in the sight of the Lord. The smoke of the incense shall cover the mercy-seat above the tokens of the covenant, so that he may not die. He shall take some of the blood of the bull-calf and sprinkle it with his finger over the mercy-seat toward the east.
God taught the people of the old covenant how to celebrate the ritual offered to him in atonement for the sins of men. But you have come to Christ, the true high priest. Through his blood he has made God turn to you in mercy and has reconciled you with the Father. You must not think simply of ordinary blood but you must learn to recognize instead the blood of the Word. Listen to him as he tells you: This is my blood, which will be shed for you for the forgiveness of sins.
There is a deeper meaning in the fact that the high priest sprinkles the blood toward the east. Atonement comes to you from the east. From the east comes the one whose name is Dayspring, he who is mediator between God and men. You are invited then to look always to the east: it is there that the sun of righteousness rises for you, it is there that the light is always being born for you. You are never to walk in darkness; the great and final day is not to enfold you in darkness. Do not let the night and mist of ignorance steal upon you. So that you may always enjoy the light of knowledge, keep always in the daylight of faith, hold fast always to the light of love and peace.
A Franciscan Bl. Agnellus of Pisa– Though not a learned man, he established a school known today as Oxford – On Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites
New HHS department created to protect religious freedom so that Catholics will not be forced to pay for their neighbors contraception of their children
Anglican Episcopal Methodist Protestant Churches Propose Creating A Syncretistic New Untied Religion Whose Agreement All Began On The Basis Of A New Version Of Immorality And Contraception
As Far Back As 2015 And Even Further Evidence Can Be Seen Within The Catholic University (Georgetown’s) Campus Paper Of their radical views fighting for contraception on a Catholic Campus
Despite pressure from some students, President DeGioia maintains that the University will not dispense birth control to its
students through the Student Health Center, at least through the year 2013.259 However, one student’s anecdotal account suggests
that it is not difficult to circumvent the intent of the policy and obtain a birth control prescription ostensibly for medical, non-contraceptive reasons:257 “New Students Find ESCAPE,”
The Hoya(Oct. 16, 2012); at http://www.thehoya.com/news/new-students-find-escape-1.2928203#.UIQMYGnuVVT[at http://www.thehoya.com/new-students-find-escape/]258Pope Benedict XVI, “Address to Catholic Educators”.259
“Georgetown Rejects Sandra Fluke, No Birth Control Policy Change,” LifeNews.com (April 26, 2012); http://www.lifenews.com/ 2012/04/26/georgetown-rejects-sandra-fluke-no-birth-control-policy-change/-82-
When I entered the Student Health Center last fall, I did not ask for a birth control prescription. I already had a birth control prescription. I needed a check up, but after inquiring about my medical history, the nurse practitioner volunteered to give me one.“You get cramps, right?” she inquired.“No, I don’t.”“Yes, you do.”“No, I really don’t,” I responded again, confused.She sighed, “I have to write something down”
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The Georgetown Student Health Education Services provides an Internet resource called “Be Well,” with a tagline of “be happy.”
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Its student health advice ignores moral concerns and treats all sexual behavior, except coercive or abusive behavior, as within the norm.
Redefining When Life Begins Is Intrinsically Related To The Redefinition Of When Life Ends.
Organ Harvesting Is A Multi-Billion Dollar Industry That Does Not Care If It Is A Pre-born Baby or A Forced Suicide And It Now Has Lobbyists Within The Vatican
Vatican Conference Invites Promoters of Euthanasia – OnePeterFive
Begin Planning Your Trip Now Less Than Nine Weeks To Go And It Falls On A Friday –Stay Over The Weekend And Site See Washington DC Or Arrive Earlier In The Week And Attend Many DC Area Pro-Life Events And If You Have Not Signed Up With A Parish Bus Trip Yet – Holy Innocents NYC Will Be Again Running Two Buses – With Traditional High Sung Mass At St Mary’s DC As Part Of It’s Concluding Pilgrimage
The Betrayal Of Doctors Against Their Hippocratic Oath
Pharmaceutical Euthanasia Death – Doctors Killing For Money And Being Subsidized By The Government Picks Up The Pace. Doctors ! that facilitated at least 504 lethal prescriptions in one state in one year alone
111 People Killed Themselves in Assisted Suicides in California Last Year | LifeNews.com
One OF The Major Drivers —> The Truth About The Billion Dollar Organ Donation Industry And The Relationship To Euthanasia By Brain Death Declaration Agreements With Hospitals And Doctors
Union bosses betray their oaths to protect their rank and file over that views of the Corporations in favor of the new socialism movement
Southwest Airlines allegedly fires employee for sharing ‘offensive’ pro-life messages on Facebook | News | LifeSite
Employees , even union represents employees can be fired now for pro-life views on Facebook even while off the job – freedom of speech only applies to those who are unemployed.
The Coming Of Sacraments, Funerals, and Catholic Cemeteries For People Who Commit Suicide According To A Canadian Bishop’s Conference- A harbinger to the evolving U.S. new rite Catholicism –
Some Canadian Bishops Pull Punches on Euthanasia – Crisis Magazine
This Former Nazi Neighborhood on Long Island with Adolf Hitler Street Still Exists | Untapped Cities
The pinnacle of a more entrenched pro-Hitler community in the United States in the 1930s would latter survive to this day in Eugenics and Margret Sangers of the world
A Student Of Nazi Philosophies On The Active Pursuit Of The Perfect Race and The Elimination Of Black Minorities , & The Psychical And Mentally Handicapped Through Abortion and Contraception Is = Margret Sanger
Sanger’s Racist Legacy And Eugenics Mission Lives on in New York City Schools – Crisis Magazine
The Lord God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself. “Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? You have eaten, then, from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!” The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me–she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it.”
The Lord God then asked the woman, “Why did you do such a thing?” The woman answered, “The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it.” Then the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you shall be banned from all the animals and from all the wild creatures; On your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel.” To the woman he said: “I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing; in pain shall you bring forth children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall be your master.”
To the man he said: “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat, “Cursed be the ground because of you! In toil shall you eat its yield all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, as you eat of the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dirt, and to dirt you shall return.” The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living.
The fulfillment of the law is Christ himself, who does not so much lead us away from the letter as lift us up to its spirit. For the law’s consummation was this, that the very lawgiver accomplished his work and changed letter into spirit, summing everything up in himself and, though subject to the law, living by grace. He subordinated the law, yet harmoniously united grace with it, not confusing the distinctive characteristics of the one with the other, but effecting the transition in a way most fitting for God. He changed whatever was burdensome, servile and oppressive into what is light and liberating, so that we should be enslaved no longer under the elemental spirits of the world, as the Apostle says, nor held fast as bondservants under the letter of the law.
This is the highest, all-embracing benefit that Christ has bestowed on us. This is the revelation of the mystery, this is the emptying out of the divine nature, the union of God and man, and the deification of the manhood that was assumed. This radiant and manifest coming of God to men most certainly needed a joyful prelude to introduce the great gift of salvation to us. The present festival, the birth of the Mother of God, is the prelude, while the final act is the fore-ordained union of the Word with flesh. Today the Virgin is born, tended and formed and prepared for her role as Mother of God, who is the universal King of the ages.
Justly, then, do we celebrate this mystery since it signifies for us a double grace. We are led toward the truth, and we are led away from our condition of slavery to the letter of the law. How can this be? Darkness yields before the coming of the light, and grace exchanges legalism for freedom. But midway between the two stands today’s mystery, at the frontier where types and symbols give way to reality, and the old is replaced by the new.
Therefore, let all creation sing and dance and unite to make worthy contribution to the celebration of this day. Let there be one common festival for saints in heaven and men on earth. Let everything, mundane things and those above, join in festive celebration. Today this created world is raised to the dignity of a holy place for him who made all things. The creature is newly prepared to be a divine dwelling place for the Creator.
