- Widespread concubinage
- Statutory rape
- Child molestation
- Rampant divorce
- Abortion promotion
- Contraception praise
- Homosexualist sensationalism
- AIDS
- Further STD (sexually transmitted diseases [e.g. cold sores, "mono", herpes, etc.]) epidemic increase
- Sadomasochism
" I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live..." (Deut. 30: 19 From the first reading of today's Mass, Thursday after Ash Wednesday).
Read the whole chapter (Deut. 30) here. Cf. Deut. 11:26 ff.
It seems to me that I have heard very little preaching in the Catholic Church about the curses of God with which He repeatedly promises to visit evil-doers: i.e. those who reject and mock Him. We dwell almost exclusively on the blessings and forget about the curses which are every day more and more clearly pervasive. Cf. Romans 1:18-32.
Gives new meaning to the words "For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death." Gen. 2:17b, Cf. Proverbs 7:27; 5:5; going alive to Hell for rejecting right worship Numbers 16:29 ff; and Sirach 19:3.
It seems to me that I have heard very little preaching in the Catholic Church about the curses of God with which He repeatedly promises to visit evil-doers: i.e. those who reject and mock Him. We dwell almost exclusively on the blessings and forget about the curses which are every day more and more clearly pervasive. Cf. Romans 1:18-32.
Gives new meaning to the words "For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death." Gen. 2:17b, Cf. Proverbs 7:27; 5:5; going alive to Hell for rejecting right worship Numbers 16:29 ff; and Sirach 19:3.
N.B. A google search for "today's readings" results in Catholic sites sprinkled with a few Orthodox. #'s 1 and 2 are of the USCCB. Hurrah for our Bishops (the legitimate successors of the Apostles)!
Catholics love the daily word like no one else! Or, at least, we are united in our love thereof, with the Vicar of Christ and thereby with the Apostles themselves and with Christ our Blessed Lord!
All lovers of the Word of God should take notice and seriously ask what that means personally for you! Take a look, a serious look at the Catholic Church from the inside! You will be amazed!