A REFLECTION FOR THE SUNDAY WITHIN THE FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART
“Why do the heathen so furiously rage together? and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed.” These somber words are taken from the 2nd Psalm, sung at Sunday Matins, and describe perfectly what has been going on since Friday’s ruling by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, that murderous decision that supposedly granted the federal government the right to kill unborn babies. Now that “right” has been taken away and returned to the individual states, and the heathens have certainly been furiously raging. They have concocted a fantasy world for themselves in which the imagined rights of women have been trampled and the tyrannical Christians have succeeded in imposing their laws on the poor and oppressed. They fail, of course, to acknowledge that the murder of the unborn is not a Christian law, but the natural law. They fail because they refuse to acknowledge that there is even such a thing as the “natural law”. The only law they do acknowledge is the law of Satan, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
And so, the heathen rage. On Friday night they had their so-called “Night of Rage.” The exasperated heathens, unable to control their emotions, had to express their rage by ransacking pro-life clinics, threatening churches, politicians, and Supreme Court justices, and at one point even holding lawmakers hostage in the Arizona state capitol. Of course, we should not expect to see any retribution or punishment for any of these violent acts, as our government is too busy prosecuting, or rather persecuting, the people who entered the US Capitol back in January 2021. With the Democrats in power, there will never be any true justice in this country.
“The kings of the earth rise up.” In today’s terms, the “president” and his cronies in government, education, the media and big business rise up, and “the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed.” Yes, even the self-proclaimed Catholics Nancy Pelosi and Joey Biden are already plotting ways to bypass the ruling of the Supreme Court and return to the unbridled killing of babies in the womb. As true Catholics, we must recognize evil for what it is, no matter who conspires to commit it. Popes and bishops, presidents, politicians—these are the kings of the earth, and they are busy taking counsel together. Evil is as evil does, and we must redouble our prayers against the persecutors of Holy Church and the enemies of God, no matter what title they might pretend to hold.
Above all,
let’s remember that seeking the destruction of the wicked is never an
achievable goal. We must rather replace
their wickedness with something better, something more desirable, more fine and
honorable. “Desire
of me,” continues the 2nd Psalm, “and I shall give thee the heathen
for thine inheritance.” The good
we seek will never come from hatred or vengeance, but from charity, compassion and
good example. It will, in short, come
from God, and from the desire to please God we ourselves display in the face of
the heathens’ persecution and their rage.
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