BREAKING An anti Catholic TERRORIST has just DESECRATED St. Peter's Basilica in Rome https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/1887954398250418545 Make reparation tonight - First Friday
Worth memorizing and praying from the heart! I assume the word, "hell", in the above prayer has the same meaning of the corresponding words in the Apostle's Creed: "He descended into hell. "
I was thinking the same thing. There are just no words for this. Ppl are becoming more & more possessed, how else could we explain such a thing...
The Golden Arrow prayer is linked to devotion to the Holy Face, which I’ve just discovered. This devotion is in reparation for blasphemy and the breaking of the first three commandments which concern what is due to God. It is becoming very popular as many people believe it is for our time. Fr Alar has a YouTube video on it but for more clarity, watch the TAN Books round table show with Fr Lawrence Carney on YouTube. There is a medal associated with the devotion. I do exhort everyone to check this out. Under blasphemy, atheism and communism are included, so this could be crucial in appeasing God’s anger in our time.
I don't want to say something to be misinterpreted, but maybe we Catholics, especially those who lead the Catholic Church, sometimes need things like this to get out of the rosy view of the world and to be caught a little by the anger of Jesus when he entered the temple and threw tables at the merchants who turned the house of God into a house of commerce. Although this is blasphemy, I think that far greater insults to God are those when we trade and trample on God's commandments, principles and regulations on which the Catholic faith rests. When we are lukewarm, when we allow ourselves to adapt our faith to politics and today's modern world instead of building our modern world on God's laws. God surely hurts more empty churches and those that are turned into mosques, gyms and bars in the west... Perhaps the increasingly frequent attacks on Catholics, from Jews, Muslims, the radical left and atheists, will get to the heads of many Catholics that we will all start to defend our faith more actively, not only through charity but also through active advocacy and defense of Christian values.
The original French has ‘hells’ and Sister Mary of St Peter, who received the prayer from Jesus understood it to refer to purgatory. Some versions of the prayer have ‘and under the Earth’ instead of ‘hells’. In any case the prayer is that God’s holy Name be honoured at all times and in every place, including the darkest ones.
Was Jesus angry when he overturned the tables and drove the sellers from the temple? My bible doesn't mention anger at all.
So it should be written in order to recognize his emotions from this scene? Why can't God be angry ? Emotions are not sinful in themselves, but in the context of God's law. Not all love is holy and desirable, it is often sinful if it violates God's law. Likewise, anger is desirable if it is just and guided by God's law. I can't interpret the scene where Jesus overturns the tables and takes the whip and drives out the merchants in any other way than that he was overcome with anger. If man is made in the image of God, Jesus himself as God took a human body and was equal to man in everything except sin. Doesn't that mean that Jesus felt joy, love, happiness, but also disappointment, anger, worry, abandonment? Anger is very desirable when it is righteous...
I came across a church approved piece written by a mystic in which they said (if my memory serves me right) that Jesus was filled with love and authority in that scene. If one has Authority, one doesn't need anger. I'll post the piece if I can find it.
I understand what you mean, but anger is just an emotion whose ultimate step is defined by the intention of the heart. When parents want their children to do well, they are sometimes angry at their actions precisely because they love them and discipline them to get them back on the right path. It is not anger to harm someone, but to direct them towards good. Today, upbringing has changed compared to the past when parents were much stricter and life was more difficult. The natural order of parent-child relationships and respect for the elderly have been lost. In fact, today what we call love in that relationship is often an insult to God because children are placed on the altar of "worship" and everything is allowed to them. Of course, parents do it out of love, but love without laws usually leads to sin because it glorifies the human ego. God acts as a parent who directs people to the right path. Of course, God is pure love, but that true love is often found much more in suffering than in some joy. God's fullness of love is seen more under the cross than in some other moments. Jesus defends his Father's house (the temple) and the meeting place of God and man from the distorted image and sin imposed by the merchants. In my opinion, it is a great display of love both for his Father and for the man to whom he gives the message that God should be worshiped in a completely different way. Here, I give you an example from the book of St. Padre Pio... A man came to Padre Pio claiming to be in a “spiritual crisis.” This man was known to be a good Catholic and was well-liked and respected by all. He had, however, overlooked his wife, and was having an affair with another woman. The man had felt lonely after ignoring his own wife, and was trying to feel loved by a mistress. He went to confession to Padre Pio, and justifying himself, he said that he was having a “spiritual crisis”. Padre Pio asserted himself and said, “What spiritual crisis? You are a litterbug! And God is angry with you. Go away!” The man had not banked on meeting Padre Pio’s ire for wandering husbands! He had fooled his wife by having a liaison with another woman, but he wasn’t going to pull the wool over Padre Pio’s all-seeing eyes.
Great story to round off a wonderful post. Given the profundity of the seal of confessional, it seems reasonable to assume that the source was the adulterous husband and that he wised up.
Regarding the Lord being angry or not, is it not true that He is True God and True Man? Being as human in body as the rest of us, He could not have avoided having the emotions that are natural to any man. His Divine Personhood would have shown through in His perfect handling of the anger He felt over the abuse of His Father's House, would it not? What lessons can be learned? It is natural for a human being to feel emotion, I think. If we learn to think right, I would suggest that our anger will then tend only to erupt for just causes. The next step for us would then be to control this anger in order to be used in proper ways for the Good. Our Lord's example shows us that we are not to be necessarily passive, in the face of evil, but need to do something about it. I'm a long way off the required standards.
