I've been posting to FB with some commentary - on the war of course, and Putin and his Patriarch. It's a convenient format, to link, post an excerpt and a short commentary, as opposed to composing a blog post here.
Daily I watch the sufferings of the courageous people of Ukraine - I cry and I pray. I'll update the blog tomorrow, with links to some articles I've found in my research. In the meantime, I cry and I pray for the people who have been made to suffer.
It is dreadful, isn't it? I thought I was becoming hardened to it all, when a reporter mentioned the despair and grief of those who had to leave their beloved pet dogs and cats in order to save their own lives.
ReplyDeleteOne of my husband's sisters and her family participate in Civil War reenactments. I have never understood the attraction of it. All I can think of is the young men killed who die in excruciating pain, alone and frightened. And women and children who are raped and tortured and starved. The reality of war is an indescribable horror.
There is nothing gallant about war. There is such a thing as a just war, but there is no joy in it.
Terry and all - please pray a Hail Mary and a St. Michael prayer for the people Ukraine, and all innocent souls who are forced to endure war and terror. God bless and protect all of us, and give us peace.
One man is responsible for all this. He will not stop here.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right, Mr. H. We have only to remember the appeasement efforts of Neville Chamberlain on behalf of Adolph Hitler to see where this is going. He will push and force war on his neighboring countries until the horror of another - perhaps final - world war is on us. This may be what our Mother warned us would happen. Our only hope is in Jesus and His Mother to save us all from further catastrophe.
DeleteThe bodies of Tatiana Perebeinis, 43, along with her daughter Alise, 9, and son Nikita, 18, attended to by Ukrainian servicemen. The family was shot at by Russian forces as they tried to flee the town of Irpin, a suburb about 15 minutes from Kyiv. Perebeinis was an employee of the Palo Alto company SE Ranking.
ReplyDeleteHorrible. I vacillate between fear & anger at the genocide the world stands by watching.
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