Tuesday in Octave of Corpus
Christi
2
Chronicles, Chapter 26,
Verse 5
He
was prepared to seek God as long as Zechariah
lived, who taught him to fear God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
As long as you seek the Lord you will prosper. This
verse is about the reign of King Uzziah.
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King
Uzziah reigns for 52 years and does a whole bunch of awesome stuff. He wins
wars, he makes allies, he builds up cities, he develops agricultural systems,
and he creates a mighty army.
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But
pride comes before a fall. King Uzziah gets so powerful that he starts to get
over-confident.
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One
day, he decides that he'd like to step into the Temple to make some offerings.
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Only
the high priests can make offerings in the Temple and they warn him to get out.
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While
Uzziah's reading the riot act to the priests, he breaks out in a huge rash all
over his face right there in the Temple.
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After
that, he's considered "leprous" so he can't enter the Temple ever
again.
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He's
so sick that his son Jotham has to take over his kingly duties until he dies.
Humble yourselves
therefor under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time. (1
Peter 5:6)
St. Thomas Aquinas taught that the gift of knowledge
brings to perfection the supernatural virtue of faith, but it is also linked to
the perfection of the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, and temperance.
The way to cultivate the gift of knowledge is to continue to study our faith:
Take time to read sacred Scripture, perhaps one chapter of the New Testament
each day. In this manner, one would cover the whole New Testament in less than
a year. Read a section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, just a section.
Besides praying each day, 15 minutes devoted to such spiritual reading fuels
the soul so that the Holy Spirit can set afire the great gift of knowledge;
thereby, we can know the Lord and know His ways. Saint Paul well captured this
gift: “I have come to rate all as loss in the light of the surpassing knowledge
of my Lord Jesus Christ. For His sake, I have forfeited everything; I have
accounted all else rubbish so that Christ may be my wealth,” (Phil 3:8-9).
Here is some scary Knowledge[3]
Euthanasia
laws are currently being considered in many U.S. states. They’re being pushed
by liberals and progressives who are already on the record calling for the mass
killing of Christians, conservatives and Trump supporters.
In
exactly the same way the communist Chinese government targets political dissidents
— Falun Gong members — for arrests, executions and organ harvesting, left-wing
authoritarians in America will sooner or later call for the mass execution and
organ harvesting of Christians and political dissidents who do not kowtow to
the LGBT
agenda of child mass murder and taxpayer-funded mutilations (like what
has just
been made a matter of law in Vermont).
As
has been made abundantly obvious by the mass censorship and de-platforming of
conservatives, liberals do not see conservatives or Christians as human beings.
Thus, killing them and harvesting their organs is not in any way contradictory
to the “values” of Leftists who place literally no value on any human life
other than their own. Remember: These are people who murder their own babies after they’re
born. Do you really think they won’t murder their political enemies?
We’ve
already seen this happen in communist China, and it all started with the
collapse of Western values, reports
Breitbart News:
The “collapse of Western values,”
a “massive case of denial” in the free world, and “religious bigotry” towards
the Falun Gong spiritual movement have allowed China to potentially expand its
industrial-scale harvesting of live organs to Uighur Muslims imprisoned in
concentration camps, Ethan Gutmann, author of several seminal reports on the
topic, told Breitbart News.
In the update to their research
in 2016, Gutmann, Kilgour, and Matas revealed that China was conducting between
50,000 and 90,000 more transplant surgeries than the official government
estimates of organ donors, even including death row inmates, could account for.
Filling the gap between documented organ donations and actual transplants
completed were the bodies of prisoners of conscience, the report concluded.
Both Falun Gong survivors and doctors who have testified to engaging in live
organ harvesting have corroborated the report.
Does
any informed person honestly believe that Leftists in America — filled with
rage, hatred and the desire for total destruction of their political enemies —
won’t resort to mass murder and mass organ harvesting if no one stops them?
America’s
Leftists are rapidly shifting toward the twisted, dangerous political
philosophies of communism and authoritarianism. All voices of conservatives,
Christians and civil liberties are being crushed. Conservatives are even being
de-platformed from banks, jobs and universities just because they believe in
principles and ethics. Even the ACLU has become a legal front for Satanism,
arguing that Satanists have the right to erect statues in front of government
buildings across America.
The
abortion (infanticide) industry is rapidly accelerating in Leftist-held states,
and the rhetoric of Leftists increasingly demands the mass killing of
conservatives. It’s not difficult to see where this is headed if something
dramatic doesn’t change soon.
God
is watching. Which path will America choose?
Today is the Birthday of my Step Son Ryan Patrick Vance (King)(Noble) who is a disabled Airborn Paratrooper and who is still saving lives as civilian Nurse; please keep him in your prayers.
Daily Devotions
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Novena
to Sacred Heart Day 6
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Judas
betrayed Christ on this evening-Do the Novena to the Holy Face Day 2; in honor
of the 11 faithful apostles.
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Pray
the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
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