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I don't get it but like Walter, I am canadian and we mourn and remember together with the Americans who mourn and remember . I also wished those jumpers had a parachute or a big sheet layed out at the bottom , you know like they have for stuntmen in the making of a movie , damn that would have been awesome.
With the souls of the Just brought to perfection, give rest, O Savior, to the souls of your servants, keeping them for the blessed life with you, for you love mankind. In the place of rest which is yours, O Lord, where all the saints repose, give rest to the souls of your servants for you alone love mankind.
It is amazing and unfortunate the harm that a small number of bad people can bring to a large number of good people. I would remember also that Muslims died that day, as well. Atheists, too. Probably Hindus. It was not just Christians and Jews. It is also very sad and traumatic. May God bring healing to all of us and to the relations among His children.
The events of 9-11-01 are imprinted upon my memory...my first week of seminary; we came up from our first class of the morning and heard that NYC was being attacked; watched with unbelief and horror on the tv; fellow seminarians in my CT seminary had relatives/friends in both towers; for several days we were paranoid as planes flew overhead. A nightmare. God give rest to those who died on that day; God give comfort to their survivors, friends, loved ones. God grant mercy to us all; we need it.
I can't even watch the video; it is still so absolutely horrendous (and I'm no prude). After all these years. And, I fear, we're in for more terror, torture, and abomination. Because of our sins...our materialism, our selfishness, our impurity, our lack of love...it just frightens me to death. But somehow God will give us strength. As our Holy Father prepares to visit the UK I think of the horrid tortures of the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish martyrs...hung, drawn and quartered...their innards literally being cut out from them as most of them were alive...many of them crying, "Jesu, Jesu, Jesu...!" and then being hacked into four pieces to be displayed before everyone for who knows how long (I'm of English descent...I cannot for the life of me understand this absolute barbaric practice...at least the French used a guillotine and it was somewhat humane, even if the streets flowed with blood for weeks). I don't know what is in store for those of us who will not submit to the modernistic, secularist, apostasy that is, I'm afraid, down the pike... we just must pray, "Jesu, Jesu, Jesu...give us strength".
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When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least:
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,--and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings'. - Sonnet 29
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you and for those who do not, especially the enemies of the Church and those recommended to you.
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We should all fly our American flags Sept 11.
ReplyDeleteGod Bless America.
Sara
Here's a post of very moving British documentary on those who fell: Remember Those Who Fell.
ReplyDeleteWe continue to mourn and remember with those in the USA who also remember and mourn. (Canadian)
ReplyDeleteWe have a President who employs taqqiya, me thinks.
ReplyDeleteMay God have mercy on those who perished on 9/11, and may He lift up those who mourn.
Service to whom?
ReplyDeleteI don't get it but like Walter, I am canadian and we mourn and remember together with the Americans who mourn and remember . I also wished those jumpers had a parachute or a big sheet layed out at the bottom , you know like they have for stuntmen in the making of a movie , damn that would have been awesome.
ReplyDeleteWith the souls of the Just brought to perfection, give rest, O Savior, to the souls of your servants, keeping them for the blessed life with you, for you love mankind. In the place of rest which is yours, O Lord, where all the saints repose, give rest to the souls of your servants for you alone love mankind.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing and unfortunate the harm that a small number of bad people can bring to a large number of good people. I would remember also that Muslims died that day, as well. Atheists, too. Probably Hindus. It was not just Christians and Jews. It is also very sad and traumatic. May God bring healing to all of us and to the relations among His children.
ReplyDeleteThe events of 9-11-01 are imprinted upon my memory...my first week of seminary; we came up from our first class of the morning and heard that NYC was being attacked; watched with unbelief and horror on the tv; fellow seminarians in my CT seminary had relatives/friends in both towers; for several days we were paranoid as planes flew overhead.
ReplyDeleteA nightmare.
God give rest to those who died on that day; God give comfort to their survivors, friends, loved ones.
God grant mercy to us all; we need it.
I can't even watch the video;
ReplyDeleteit is still so absolutely horrendous (and I'm no prude).
After all these years.
And, I fear, we're in for more terror, torture, and abomination.
Because of our sins...our materialism, our selfishness, our impurity, our lack of love...it just frightens me to death.
But somehow God will give us strength.
As our Holy Father prepares to visit the UK I think of the horrid tortures of the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish martyrs...hung, drawn and quartered...their innards literally being cut out from them as most of them were alive...many of them crying, "Jesu, Jesu, Jesu...!" and then being hacked into four pieces to be displayed before everyone for who knows how long (I'm of English descent...I cannot for the life of me understand this absolute barbaric practice...at least the French used a guillotine and it was somewhat humane, even if the streets flowed with blood for weeks).
I don't know what is in store for those of us who will not submit to the modernistic, secularist, apostasy that is, I'm afraid, down the pike...
we just must pray,
"Jesu, Jesu, Jesu...give us strength".