It is indeed odd, as Father Goering says, that we would find these two particular fragments of early Biblical texts, after a decades-long dry spell. There are no real coincidences in God’s providence, which is ‘concrete and immediate’ as the Catechism says. What is the Father of all saying to churches, to the Church, and to us all?

The cast of unsavory characters behind the movement known as BLM – its founders – evince its true mission – Marxist, Leninist, Nietzschean, and generally the inversion and subversion of all traditional values. ‘Whiteness’ is code for civilization, culture and Christianity in general, which they aim to eradicate. Ironic that all these people are who they are due to the benefits of that same civilization – the universities, the cities, the well-built homes, cars, infrastructure, an economy built on market capitalism rewarding discipline, know-how and hard work. And they want to bring it all crashing down, and you with it. We can say, for now, keep up the good fight of the Faith, and for truth, and freedom. The author of the aforelinked article ends off with the six lines from a poem that foundress Alicia Garza has tattooed on her chest:

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life

Hmm. It seems some lives matter more than others.

And, while on freedom, so it begins: The Boston archdiocese allows you to serve on the altar, but only if you’ve been vaccinated – and you still have to mask up. The same isolation and exclusion policies are already being enforced in Israel, in the U.S. Army – and we’re likely soon to see the vaxx-pass coming to a grocery store and a church near you. Hopefully, there are some hold-outs, vaxx-free zones, or places and businesses that at least allow those who suaviter et fortiter refuse the vaccine entrance to their premises. We must trust in God, Whose providence is not only ‘concrete and immediate’, but also all-powerful. Not a hair of our heads can be harmed without His permission, and He has so much more good in store for those who suffer for His name.

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