Modern Man’s Bloody Hells

Pow, Pow, Pow, Pow, Pow……..and more Pow, Pow, Pow, Pow, echoed the gunshots in the classroom and the hallway! Teachers, students, and administrators dived under desks and tables or scrambled toward exit doors, hoping to escape the chaotic rampage occurring all around them. The figures of slain and wounded colleagues and classmates were strewn everywhere. After what seemed to be an eternity the shooter was finally subdued….but not until many individuals were dead or seriously injured. What was not supposed to happen again did happen again.

Even before the shooting had ceased, pundits, politicians, and an assortment of alleged experts began to pontificate about the reasons for the catastrophe. It was the fault of guns….gun control legislation was  required. All echoed the same dogma of previous similar catastrophes. Blame was assigned to gun possession, school and police officials, and the President. Why had officialdom not been able to prevent this murderous onslaught? Did they fail to do their due diligence? It was difficult to find someone who was not to blame. Just name someone or something; it was their fault.

For decades the same pundits, politicians, and a variety of “experts” have labored quite successfully to drive God out of the public schools. God, not willing to deny man of his free will, said “OK, if you do not want me in your schools. I will leave.” Modern man has got his wish, but has created his own earthly, bloody Hells! There is an old saying, “Man reaps what he sows”.

Unfortunately modern man will continue to ignore God and more bloody hells will occur. And blame anyone or anything, but will ignore himself.

Food for Thought 3

“There is nothing to be dreaded in human ills except sin—not poverty, or disease, or insult, or ill treatment, or dishonor, or death, which people call the worst of evils. To those who love spiritual wisdom, these things are only the names of disasters, names that have no substance. No, the true disaster is to offend God, to do anything that displeases him.”

— St. John Chrysostom, p. 334  “A Year with the Church Fathers”

Try to laugh a lot, because life is funny, and everybody today is too serious. The Only tragedy in the world, my friend, is sin.”
– Mother Angelica

The greatest scandal of all is the all-to-common Presumption that we can indeed get away with Mortal Sin.”

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, “The Last Judgement Network”, The Catholic Thing 11/11/18

“Be one of the small number who find the way to life, and enter by the narrow gate into Heaven. Take care not to follow the majority and the common herd, so many of whom are lost. Do not be deceived; there are only two roads: one that leads to life and is narrow; the other that leads to death and is wide. There is no middle way.”

— St. Louis de Montfort

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confession. In confession there is a chance for mercy. Believe it firmly, do not doubt, do not hesitate, never despair of the mercy of God.”

— St. Isidore of Seville