Pre-Easter Propaganda
I love the smell of triumphalism in the morning!
“Spring was the perfect time for the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. When Jesus made his advent, the world lay in a state of spiritual darkness and was held in the cold and deadly grip of sin. Hope was as dead as winter in its most dormant state, and mankind as a whole was steeped in superstition, idolatry and paganism. For more than 400 years, the prophets of God were silent. The world lay in utter darkness.“ – Alyce Faye Bragg, Saturday Gazette-Mail
“how a Christianity which has grown weary of faith has abandoned the Lord: the great ideologies, and the banal existence of those who no longer believing in anything, who simply drift through life, have built a new and worse paganism, which in its attempt to do away with God once and for all, have ended up doing away with man” – Card. Joseph Ratzinger, from this years meditation on the Way of the Cross
Not bad, not bad. But I was wondering if a commentator could bring up Paganism, Jesus, Easter and the Terri Shiavo case.
“Believe me when I remind you that the same Easter God on behalf of Jesus is very much involved on the deepest levels in Terri?s surrendered Christian commitment. Let it be so. Believe it to be so. Thank God that she [Terri Shiavo] is not pagan but Christian. Give praise to Jesus that she is His daughter of grace and mercy and not sold out to the unbelieving clot of this planet. Let your heart then rise heavenward in gratitude that the woman we pray for has already been embraced by the Lord who owns her battle ? from start to finish.” – J. Grant Swank, Magic City Morning Star
We have a winner! So for those of you who don’t feel like the time before Christ’s death and ressurection was as “dead as winter”, or that a “new and worse paganism” is threatening to destroy us all, or that the Terri Shiavo case is somehow really a battle between Pagan and Christian forces I wish you a happy holiday tomorrow.
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