http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/17/21938739-after-latest-shooting-murder-manual-author-calls-for-book-to-be-taken-immediately-out-of-print?lite
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/poll-americans-belief-god-miracles-and-heaven-strong-declining
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/edward-snowden-brazil-spying-asylum
and denial
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/snowden-not-currently-applying-for-asylum-in-brazil-greenwal
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2013/12/1386296-an-open-letter-to-the-people-of-brazil.shtml
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/nsa-phone-surveillance-likely-unconstitutional-judge
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/nsa-surveillance-60-minutes-cbs-facts
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Personal and Historical: Never To Be Forgotten
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| Wannsee Conference location-thanks to wiki |
I grew up knowing about Lidice and Kristallnacht. These were my people-many of my ancestors disappeared in the war. People planned these horrific events, and the Holocaust.
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| Lidice |
If you have not read my little novelette of the past weekend, do so.
I highly suggest you look at Michael's video from the 16th and then take time to watch the movie.
This will all happen again, but with Catholics.
Do not kid yourself....
Here are some related posts of mine.
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2012/02/kristallnacht-and-lukewarm-war.html
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2013/02/on-persecutionand-lost-posts.html
That one has more links on it as well.
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2013/02/trying-to-be-patientthe-missing.html
Are there people in hell?
From wiki:
Historians regard Heydrich as the most fearsome member of the Nazi elite.[78][79][80] Hitler called him "the man with the iron heart".[5] He was one of the main architects of theHolocaust during the early war years, answering only to, and taking orders from, Hitler, Göring, and Himmler in all matters pertaining to the deportation, imprisonment, and extermination of Jews.
Heydrich was one of the organisers of Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany on the night of 9–10 November 1938. Heydrich sent a telegram that night to various SD and Gestapo offices, helping to coordinate the program with the SS, SD, Gestapo, uniformed police (Orpo), SA, Nazi party officials, and even the fire departments. It talks about permitting arson and destroying Jewish businesses and synagogues, and orders the confiscation of all "archival material" out of Jewish community centres and synagogues. The telegram ordered that "as many Jews – particularly affluent Jews – are to be arrested in all districts as can be accommodated in existing detention facilities ... Immediately after the arrests have been carried out, the appropriate concentration camps should be contacted to place the Jews into camps as quickly as possible."[81][82] Twenty-thousand Jews were sent to concentration camps in the days immediately following; [83]historians consider Kristallnacht the beginning of the Holocaust.[84]
When Hitler asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller masterminded a false flag plan code-named Operation Himmler. It involved a fake attack on the German radio station at Gleiwitz on 31 August 1939. Heydrich masterminded the plan and toured the site, which was about four miles from the Polish border. Wearing Polish uniforms, 150 German troops carried out several attacks along the border. Hitler used the ruse as an excuse to launch his invasion.[85][86]
On Himmler's instructions, Heydrich formed the Einsatzgruppen (task forces) to travel in the wake of the German armies at the start of World War II.[87] On 21 September 1939, Heydrich sent out a teleprinter message on the "Jewish question in the occupied territory" to the chiefs of all Einsatzgruppen with instructions to round up Jewish people for placement into ghettos, called for the formation of Judenräte (Jewish councils), ordered a census, contained Aryanization plans for Jewish-owned businesses and farms, among other measures.[b] The Einsatzgruppen followed the army into Poland to implement the plans. Later, in the Soviet Union, they were charged with rounding up and killing Jews via firing squad and gas vans. By the end of the war, the Einsatzgruppen had murdered over one million people, including over 700,000 in Russia alone.[88]
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| Invitation to the Conference,-thanks to wiki |
On 10 October 1941, Heydrich was the senior officer at a meeting in Prague that discussed deporting 50,000 Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to ghettos in Minsk and Riga. The officers also discussed taking 5,000 Jews from Prague "in the next few weeks" and handing them over to the Einsatzgruppen commanders Arthur Nebe and Otto Rasch. Establishing ghettos in the Protectorate was also planned, resulting in the construction of Theresienstadt,[91] where 33,000 people would eventually die. Tens of thousands more passed through the camp on their way to their deaths in the East.[92] In 1941 Himmler named Heydrich as "responsible for implementing" the forced movement of 60,000 Jews from Germany and Czechoslovakia to the Lodz (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in Poland.[93]On 29 November 1939, Heydrich issued a cable about the "Evacuation of New Eastern Provinces", detailing the deportation of people by railway to concentration camps, and giving guidance surrounding the December 1939 census, which would be the basis on which those deportations were performed.[89] In May 1941 Heydrich drew up regulations with Quartermaster general Eduard Wagner for the upcominginvasion of the Soviet Union, which ensured that the Einsatzgruppen and army would cooperate in murdering Soviet Jews.[90]
On 20 January 1942, Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which he presented his plan to deport and transport 11 million Jews from every country in Europe, to be worked to death or killed outright in extermination camps:[94][95]
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| Lidice Memorial-thanks to wiki |
Under suitable direction, the Jews should be brought to the East in the course of the Final Solution, for use as labour. In large labour gangs, with the sexes separated, the Jews capable of work will be transported to those areas and set to road-building, in the course of which, without doubt, a large part of them ("ein Großteil") will fall away through natural losses. The surviving remnant, surely those with the greatest powers of resistance, will be given special treatment, since, if freed, they would constitute the germinal cell for the re-creation of Jewry.— from Heydrich's speech at the Wannsee Conference, January 1942[96]
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| Mother and Children Going to the Gas Chamber-thanks to wiki |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIctGbAZEQ
Monday, 16 December 2013
Do You Believe This?
“If you are what you should be, you would set the whole world on fire.”
from St. Catherine of Siena
from St. Catherine of Siena
Do You Know About the Chaplet of St.Therese?
This Chaplet commemorates each of the 24 years of St. Therese's life on Earth.
Opening Prayer:
St Therese, the Little Flower, please pick me a rose from the heavenly garden and send it to me with a message of love. Ask God to grant me the favor I thee implore and tell Him I will love Him each day more and more.
On the first bead, say:
Saint Therese of the Infant Jesus, Patroness of Missions, pray for us.
On each of the other 24 beads, say one Glory Be:
Glory be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
A Prayer to Saint Therese:
O little St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, who during your short life on earth became a mirror of angelic purity, of love strong as death, and of wholehearted abandonment to God, now that you rejoice in the reward of your virtues, cast a glance of pity on me as I leave all things in your hands. Make my troubles your own - speak a word for me to our Lady Immaculate, whose flower of special love you were - to that Queen of heaven "who smiled on you at the dawn of life." Beg her as the Queen of the heart of Jesus to obtain for me by her powerful intercession, the grace I yearn for so ardently at this moment, and that she join with it a blessing that may strengthen me during life. Defend me at the hour of death, and lead me straight on to a happy eternity.
Amen
Thanks to....
http://patroncatholicsaints.blogspot.com/2010/02/saint-therese-of-lisieux-chaplet.html
Hello, Wake Up, America
Sibelius said this, folks....
"As you know, we're facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market-based strategy. We are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people can pick and choose."
Dr. Ben Carson made clear Friday at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. The former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon called the Affordable Care Act the "worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery."
Dr. Ben Carson made clear Friday at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. The former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon called the Affordable Care Act the "worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery."
He wasn't exaggerating.
ObamaCare puts the U.S. government in charge of fully one-sixth of America's economy, unconstitutionally seeks to force Americans to buy a service, often against their will, and places each individual's health at the eventual mercy of government bureaucracy.
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Put This on Your Christmas List
http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Flesh-Raymond-Cardinal-Burke/dp/0981631428
Hint, would someone like to get it for me, please?
Hint, would someone like to get it for me, please?
A Return to The Perfection Series
This week, unless I move, I shall start the perfection series up again.
A Happy Christmas present for you and for me.
A Happy Christmas present for you and for me.
On compromising and purification.....
“A bridegroom of blood by circumcision."
One of the most mysterious passages in the Old Testament is Exodus 4:24–26. Moses, on his way to Egypt to free the Hebrews, has been told by God in the verses before these, that the son of Pharaoh would be killed.
The firstborn of Egypt would be killed in order to free the Chosen People of God. Now, according to Jewish commentaries, Moses had made a compact with the pagan priest, Jethro, his father-in-law, to raise one of the boys as a pagan and one as an Israelite. But, God was not happy with this compromise.
In the night, the passage states that God came to destroy the first born of Moses. Zipporah, ever a strong and good woman, quickly circumcised the son who had not been, Gershom. Zipporah, in righteous anger, take the foreskin of the boy and lays it on his feet, to show the Angel of Destruction, that the boy is now circumscribed. But, in her anger, she says to Moses, that he is "a bridegroom of blood by circumcision."
Moses had compromised and the fact that God was willing to kill Moses' firstborn is a lesson in being orthodox. Zipporah calls Moses a bridegroom as he willingly married the daughter of a pagan priest, but did not keep his promise, his covenant to God to pass on the circumcision, the sign of the covenant.
Moses was being warned that he should have taken God seriously about fulfilling the law of the covenant. Moses was going into Egypt to do God's work. Moses had to be purified before doing the great thing of causing and leading the Exodus.
Many Jewish commentators disagree on the interpretation, but this one makes the most sense to me. I have added the bit about purification, but blood was a sign of life and the sacrifice to God; blood was life-giving.
The Jewish comments go back centuries.
I have studying Zipporah since last summer, as she "speaks" to me somehow. I wrote a poem about her a while ago. I share it again below. But, the point of this post is that we can not have any sin or tendencies to sin in order to do God's work. We must not compromise. We must allow God to purify us.
This is why we seek purification-to gain heaven and to do the work of God.
The results of compromise ruins families. In fact, the grandson of Moses, Jonathan, the son of Gershom, became the head priest of idolatry in the land of Canaan. And, notice that it was to Joshua and Caleb that the line of leaders was given, not to the sons of Moses.
Being someone's son or daughter does not guarantee holiness. But, being obedient, not falling into idolatry, not compromising does....See Judges 17.13 for the sad defection of Jonathan. Parents, do not compromise. The salvation of your children is at stake.
Exodus 18 and 19
Zipporah, wandering bird
waiting in the tents of Yitro
Faithful to the wandering Jew
now crossing the Sea of Red.
She and her two sons, the
second, one of promise
Like Isaac, Jacob, second
but chosen-Eliezer-while
Zipporah weeps for Gershom,
passes the springs, not sharing
In the four cups of seder.
How long will this bird wander?
Moses no longer mere shepherd
but king, steps forward, taking
Yitro into his tent, the
mirror-image of times past.
The wandering bird is left
outside, the Kushite beauty
Separated, not loved, like
Sarah, Rebecca, or Rachel
Sisters in the Lord, sans gold
since the new Revelation.
Moses becomes God's eunuch.
The bird fades into the desert.
Why Jesus Came As A Baby
There is a fear in this land and in Europe. It is the fear of Love. This may sound strange, as most people think they are seeking Love. They desire sex, attention, status, money, things all in the name of desiring Love.
But, Love is none of those things. Love is an encounter, a meeting, an event. Love is both Life and the openness to Life.
The fear I see in those who run away from this encounter may be divided into four parts.
The first is the fear of being known. To be known for who one is in the truest aspect of one's being, to be really known is the key to Love. Love seeks to be known and to know.
But, many people do not want to be known. They think that if someone really knew them, they would not be loved. The opposite is true. If these people could be open to Love, they would learn to love themselves as well.
Some hurt, some curse, some huge need for healing keeps these people from wanting to be known.
The second aspect of this fear of Love is the fear of disappointment. Perhaps, a person has loved and been loved by another person. But, then, something went wrong. Perhaps, a person betrayed, or manipulated the person who now is afraid of Love, and runs away.
The third part of the fear of Love is the suspicion one may have that one cannot love back, that one is incapable of loving enough. Again, one may think that one could never return love and this causes pain, the pain of pride.
A possible fourth aspect of the fear of Love is the knowledge that to love is to sacrifice something of one's self, to endure pain, to reach out even when one is at the edge of energy and feeling.
I challenge those who are afraid of Love to look at the One Person Who can change all these parts of fear into courage and even lead one into an adventure of real life. Who can be afraid of a Baby?
Jesus Christ is Love. And, when we are open to Him, He leads us to Love, His Love, to share with others.
Let me answer all the aspects of fear.
One, to be known and to desire to know another is of the essence of Love. But, God loves us "just as we are". He has no false ideas of our sins, our failing, our huge mistakes.
Pride along stands between us and being known by God and by others. To become humble is to be open to being known.
Two, there will be disappointments in relationships with people, but not with a relationship with Christ. He never stops loving us, never, never, never. Again, this fear is based on a pride which denies the Love of God.
Three, I answer that of course, one cannot love back as much as one should. Who do we think we are? Only God loves perfectly, but He can help us towards a perfect love. He can change us to that we can love with His Love, not our own.
Lastly, Love is worth the sacrifice. The joy of Love outweighs the pain.
I hope some can lay aside the fear of Love this Advent and be open.
To me, this is one reason why Christ came as a Baby. How can one reject the innocent Love of the Christ Child, so vulnerable, so poor, so weak? God calls us to become like a little child-trusting, open, unafraid.
Choose Love. Choose Life, this Advent.
Sunday, 15 December 2013
The Quad-City Latin Mass
For those who are looking for a Tridentine Mass in the Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island area, there is one at St. Alphonsus at 2:00 on Sunday. On Christmas Day, the Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. That Mass will be a High Mass. I found out today that someone learned about the Latin Mass from my blog years ago. So I shall try and keep up with any changes. The three priests who celebrate the TLM are Father Apple, the pastor of St. Alphonsus, Fr. Thom Hennen, the Vocations Director, and Fr. Scott Lemaster, pastor of several parishes, including Charlotte, Iowa.
Peter O'Toole RIP
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/177701/Becket-Movie-Clip-Archbishop.html
Watch the clip on Peter O'Toole telling Richard Burton he will be Archbishop of Canterbury.
Good stuff
Peter O'Toole died today. Please pray for his soul. He was a great actor. He was also a fallen away Catholic. My old house in Sherborne, Dorset was in one of his movies-from the air-Goodbye Mr. Chips. Pray for Peter O'Toole
BTW, Lawrence of Arabia is my favorite movie. It is, in my mind, the best anti-war film ever made. I have seen it at least 20 times.
My second favorite is Ben-Hur. I like desert flicks.
Watch the clip on Peter O'Toole telling Richard Burton he will be Archbishop of Canterbury.
Good stuff
Peter O'Toole died today. Please pray for his soul. He was a great actor. He was also a fallen away Catholic. My old house in Sherborne, Dorset was in one of his movies-from the air-Goodbye Mr. Chips. Pray for Peter O'Toole
BTW, Lawrence of Arabia is my favorite movie. It is, in my mind, the best anti-war film ever made. I have seen it at least 20 times.
My second favorite is Ben-Hur. I like desert flicks.
Thoughts for The Third Sunday in Advent
A few thoughts connected to one of the readings of the day:
1) patience is humility and impatience is pride; impatience insists on its own way;
2) complaining is a lack of faith; it is not depending totally on Divine Providence;
3) judging is pride
from James in today's second reading.
Be patient, brothers and sisters,
until the coming of the Lord.
See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth,
being patient with it
until it receives the early and the late rains.
You too must be patient.
Make your hearts firm,
because the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Do not complain, brothers and sisters, about one another,
that you may not be judged.
Behold, the Judge is standing before the gates.
Take as an example of hardship and patience, brothers and sisters,
the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
A New Gnosticism
Well, after several months of thought, and being a bit dense, I figured out that Christian Scientism was a new Gnosticism. I suppose other people have known this, but I have been in discussion with a friend who is a Christian Scientist and it finally dawned on me. She thinks that all reason is empiricism, so that is a confusion immediately seen.
To the Catholic, reason and faith are two pillars of our spiritual life.
For the Gnostic, the material world is evil. God is not part of the material. What the CS does with Genesis, in which we read that God created the world and everything in it and saw that it was good.
For the Catholic, creation was created good by a good God. For the Catholic, Christ was Incarnated, became Man, became material. The CS does not accept this. To them, God is a principle not a person.
CS emphasizes God as there to heal us, but says nothing about us loving God with all our hearts, minds, souls. Christ is not the Center, but the individual is.
All things material for the CS are not real, but fantasy. As I wrote earlier on this blog, all pain and all discomfort for the CS is not "real".
That is because such things are of the material. CS does not believe that suffering is real or that it is a result of Original Sin.
CS does not believe that suffering is God's Will. This is a denial of the Crucifixion.
The CS would not understand Blessed Mother Teresa, whose call was not to heal but to help people die with dignity.
The CS do not accept the Salvific Death of Christ on the Cross.
All spiritual ways either accept or reject the reality of Who Christ Is.
Christ is both True God and True Man.
Christ's Body is not a fantasy or a phantasm. This is the great Gift of God to us.
The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, Whose Birth we await with penance and mortification in Advent, is the great sign of God the Father's love for us.
Pray for my CS friend, please. So many people who are CS are good, generous, kind people.
But, like the Greeks, their stumbling block is Christ Himself.
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and unto the Gentiles foolishness 1 Corinthians 1:23 DR
Love in the Darkness
Well, the Dark Night of the senses is brutal. Do not shy away from it. Sometimes, one is confused. That is fine.
The key is to keep the faith and working in faith, even in the darkness. The Dark Night of the Senses means we have no consolations and that we should not seek these.
Simple? No, our whole being cries out for love. But, the Love Who Is a Person wants to meet us in a new way.
It does not matter if we are completely alone, like St. John of the Cross in his cell.
It does not matter if we are known or understood. There is One Who Does know and understand us.
The purification of the senses means nada, nada, nada.
Do not run away from this trial.
The Light comes eventually, when one is ready and when God is ready.
Also, realize two things in the Dark Night.
One, if we are punished, like all sinners, we deserve it.
Two, God allows satan to sift us, through other people and circumstances.
Rest in His Plan.
How happy are the poor in spirit:
The key is to keep the faith and working in faith, even in the darkness. The Dark Night of the Senses means we have no consolations and that we should not seek these.
Simple? No, our whole being cries out for love. But, the Love Who Is a Person wants to meet us in a new way.
It does not matter if we are completely alone, like St. John of the Cross in his cell.
It does not matter if we are known or understood. There is One Who Does know and understand us.
The purification of the senses means nada, nada, nada.
Do not run away from this trial.
The Light comes eventually, when one is ready and when God is ready.
Also, realize two things in the Dark Night.
One, if we are punished, like all sinners, we deserve it.
Two, God allows satan to sift us, through other people and circumstances.
Rest in His Plan.
How happy are the poor in spirit:
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Story, Part 20
It would be nice to end a story with a wedding, especially one which started with a wedding. But, this is not a Jane Austen novel, and the last two characters did not fall in love.
Mark Levi's fabulous Holocaust Museum not only was a great success, an architectural masterpiece, but earned him enough money to finish, neatly, his mass kit project. Carole and her great staff took a little over a year to finish the sewing of the linens and bags. The effort was nothing less than miraculous. 40,000 mass kits flew about the clerical world in North America (including Canada). The faithful could be nourished with the Body and Blood of Christ. Mark rewarded Carole generously. She was not sure what to do when it was all finished, and she did not want to go back to a DaisyChain revisited. Her little factory closed, and all the workers dispersed. James had left her the condo, which she sold for a nice profit, even in a depressed real estate market. Finally, after sitting about and petting Tomas for a few days before the sale of the condo went through, Carole decided what to do.
In February of 2017, Carole drove up to the large wooden doors of the Josephinum. She had two old embroidered bags, her favorites. Tomas was asleep in one. The other held a few embroidery things, her statue of Our Lady of Fatima, and a few clothes. She was let in and a priest came to meet her.
"May I help you, my dear?" Carole asked if Mrs. Collins was in. "Of course, let me find her for you."
The priest walked away and within minutes, Carole saw him returning with Anabelle and her little boy.
"Anabelle, would you and David like a roommate?"
The End.....
Mark Levi's fabulous Holocaust Museum not only was a great success, an architectural masterpiece, but earned him enough money to finish, neatly, his mass kit project. Carole and her great staff took a little over a year to finish the sewing of the linens and bags. The effort was nothing less than miraculous. 40,000 mass kits flew about the clerical world in North America (including Canada). The faithful could be nourished with the Body and Blood of Christ. Mark rewarded Carole generously. She was not sure what to do when it was all finished, and she did not want to go back to a DaisyChain revisited. Her little factory closed, and all the workers dispersed. James had left her the condo, which she sold for a nice profit, even in a depressed real estate market. Finally, after sitting about and petting Tomas for a few days before the sale of the condo went through, Carole decided what to do.
In February of 2017, Carole drove up to the large wooden doors of the Josephinum. She had two old embroidered bags, her favorites. Tomas was asleep in one. The other held a few embroidery things, her statue of Our Lady of Fatima, and a few clothes. She was let in and a priest came to meet her.
"May I help you, my dear?" Carole asked if Mrs. Collins was in. "Of course, let me find her for you."
The priest walked away and within minutes, Carole saw him returning with Anabelle and her little boy.
"Anabelle, would you and David like a roommate?"
The End.....
The Story, Part 19
Underground excavations began in the ruins of the Curia Pompey under the Largo di Torre Argentina, under the streets nearby. The opening of these ruins occurred back in 2013. The excitement of seeing, after so many long years, the actual site of the murder of Julius Caesar rushed through Rome like the sirocco. In a city which is cynical and not prone to excitement, this news was greeted with joy.
However, problems with the area forced the exact spot to shut down. It was not until July of 2016 that the real spot of the murder was opened up again. It was soon shut down because a startling discovery.
A body with a note, with a gun, and in a cassock shocked the archaelogists. The priest was finally identified as one who had been missing for a while. The Pope had been aware of the mystery of this missing priest and had, rightly so, assumed him to be kidnapped and possibly dead.
In fact, within days after the identification of the body, the Pope declared him one of the martyrs of the Church, hearkening back to his decree in his first encyclical, Consilium Dei coniugium, and in an action which was considered highly controversial, because of the connection between the two deaths, Pope Francis II declared both John Killiney, formerly Bishop of the Seaview Diocese, and Father Andrew Longley, his Vicar-General, martyrs of the Church.
The note found with the body of Father Andrew indicated the reason for his death. This note was not published. But, archivists would be allowed to see it in seven years.
The famous brother of the priest responded quickly to the finding of his lost brother. He had earlier resigned from the Senate, just before the news of the kidnapping hit the media. He had moved to Rome, and now, after a long time of looking and praying, was called upon to identify the corpse. By the end of the year, James Longely was installed in the Latroun Monastery near Jerusalem. He has finally made his promise a solemn vow.
The schism of the Ecumenical Catholic Church of America became a reality about the same time as Father Andrew's disappearance. Anabelle and David could no longer stay in their parish, which was one where the parish priest and those members who supported the new church were all excommunicated. More than 262 parishes, mostly in the eastern part of the States, followed the many bishops and priests, who led their sheep astray, into the darkness of separation from Holy Mother Church.
After many discussions, in those hot summer days, David took Anabelle to the Catholic Bruderhof at the Josephinum. There, in October, little Andrew James Collins was born. He looked just like his dad. David was put in charge of all the computers and electricity, and slowly but surely, he made the entire site off-grid. The storm clouds swirled above the heads of this little community, but there, Anabelle, David and little Andrew could get to daily Mass and weekly confession. The little family felt privileged and grateful. Anabelle, one day told David a story. It was her old dream.
"The man behind the Bishop was Andrew. I knew, I knew he would die soon," she said quietly, looking at the sleeping baby in her lap. David put his arm around his wife and child. "May both of them intercede for us now, and at the hour of our death. Amen."
"Amen," replied Anabelle.
To be continued....
However, problems with the area forced the exact spot to shut down. It was not until July of 2016 that the real spot of the murder was opened up again. It was soon shut down because a startling discovery.
A body with a note, with a gun, and in a cassock shocked the archaelogists. The priest was finally identified as one who had been missing for a while. The Pope had been aware of the mystery of this missing priest and had, rightly so, assumed him to be kidnapped and possibly dead.
In fact, within days after the identification of the body, the Pope declared him one of the martyrs of the Church, hearkening back to his decree in his first encyclical, Consilium Dei coniugium, and in an action which was considered highly controversial, because of the connection between the two deaths, Pope Francis II declared both John Killiney, formerly Bishop of the Seaview Diocese, and Father Andrew Longley, his Vicar-General, martyrs of the Church.
The note found with the body of Father Andrew indicated the reason for his death. This note was not published. But, archivists would be allowed to see it in seven years.
The famous brother of the priest responded quickly to the finding of his lost brother. He had earlier resigned from the Senate, just before the news of the kidnapping hit the media. He had moved to Rome, and now, after a long time of looking and praying, was called upon to identify the corpse. By the end of the year, James Longely was installed in the Latroun Monastery near Jerusalem. He has finally made his promise a solemn vow.
The schism of the Ecumenical Catholic Church of America became a reality about the same time as Father Andrew's disappearance. Anabelle and David could no longer stay in their parish, which was one where the parish priest and those members who supported the new church were all excommunicated. More than 262 parishes, mostly in the eastern part of the States, followed the many bishops and priests, who led their sheep astray, into the darkness of separation from Holy Mother Church.
After many discussions, in those hot summer days, David took Anabelle to the Catholic Bruderhof at the Josephinum. There, in October, little Andrew James Collins was born. He looked just like his dad. David was put in charge of all the computers and electricity, and slowly but surely, he made the entire site off-grid. The storm clouds swirled above the heads of this little community, but there, Anabelle, David and little Andrew could get to daily Mass and weekly confession. The little family felt privileged and grateful. Anabelle, one day told David a story. It was her old dream.
"The man behind the Bishop was Andrew. I knew, I knew he would die soon," she said quietly, looking at the sleeping baby in her lap. David put his arm around his wife and child. "May both of them intercede for us now, and at the hour of our death. Amen."
"Amen," replied Anabelle.
To be continued....
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