Luke 22:19
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
19 Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
Luke 18:8
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
8 I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
http://lesalonbeige.blogs.com/my_weblog/2011/10/le-plan-dextermination-de-la-vendée-militaire-un-génocide.html
The term "memoricide" is used in this article above, a post which is a plea for the French to stop covering up the genocide of the Vendeans by ignoring this history. Memoricide can only be combated by the truth.
Many religions, including the Jewish and the Catholic use memory daily in liturgies. For example, we read the Doctors of the Church and the lives of the saints in the Office. We read the Psalms of David, which remind us to remember the Goodness of the Lord.
Memoricide has been part of the ideology of all governments, all tyrannies which hate the Catholic Church.
The Nazi regime wanted to erase the memory of the Jewish people from the nations over-run by Hitler.
Turkey denies the Armenian genocide and attempts to wash away all memory of that horrible time.
The Catholics is China and Japan not only were killed, martyred for the Faith, but their memories forgotten, except by the few.
This can and may happen to us. Our Catholic identity may become a mere memory.
The history of the Vendee reminds us the memoricide is alive and well in the world.
As long as there is the Mass and the Eucharist, we shall be a people of memory.
Let this love of God never disappear....
