The second of his powers, governing, is gradually varnishing, as democracy becomes arithmocracy, as numbers and polls decide what is right and wrong, and masses who are no longer self-determined personalities but groups moved by alien and extrinsic forces of propaganda. The third of his powers, dedication to the temporal and the material has become so perverted that the material, in the shape of an atom is used to annihilate the human and even to bring the world to a point where time itself may cease in the dissolution of the world as "an unsubstantial pageant faded:. His fourth attribute, that of being the giver, has in its forgetfulness of God made him the taker; assuming that this world is all, he feels he ought to get all he can out of it before he dies like an animal.
This does not mean that woman has kept her qualities of soul untarnished; she would be the first to admit that she, too, has failed to live up to her ideals. When the bow is broken, the violin cannot give forth its chords. Woman has been insisting on "equality" with man, not in the spiritual sense but only as the right to be a competitor with him in the economic field. Admitting then, only one difference, namely, the procreation of species which is often stifled for economic reasons she no longer receives either minor or major respect from her "equal" - man.
He no longer gives her a seat in the crowded train; since she is his equal in doing a man's work, there is no reason why she should not be an Amazon and fight with man in war and be bombed with man in Nagasaki. Totalitarian war which makes no distinction of combatant and civilian, of soldier and mother, is a direct consequence of a philosophy in which woman abdicated her peculiar superiority and even the right to protest against the demoralization. This is not to condemn women place in economic life but only to condemn the failure to live up to those creative and inspiring functions which are specifically feminine.
In this time of trouble there must be a hearkening back to a woman. In the Crisis of the Fall of man, it was to a Woman and her seed that God promised relief from the catastrophe; in the crisis of a world when many, blessed with Revelation, forgot it and the Gentiles abandoned Reason, it was to a Woman that an angel was sent to offer the fulfillment of the promise that the seed would be Word made flesh, Our Divine Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It is a historical fact that whenever the world has been in danger of collapse there has been re-emphasis of devotion to the Woman who is not Salvation but who renders it by bringing her children back again to Christ.
More important still, the modern world needs above all things else, the restoration of the image of man. Modern politics from Monopolistic Capitalism through Socialism to Communism is the destruction of the image of man. Capitalism made man a "hand" whose business it was to produce wealth for the employer; Communism made man a "tool" without a soul, without freedom, without right, whose task it was to make money for the State. Communism, from an economic point of view is rotted Capitalism, Freudianism reduced the Divine image of man to a sex organ which explained his mental processes, his taboos, his religion, his God, and his Super-Ego. Modern education denied, first, that he had soul then that he had a mind, finally that he had a consciousness.
The major problem of the world is the restoration of the image of man. Every time a child is born into the world there is a restoration of the human image but only from the physical point of view. The surcease from the tragedy can come only from the restoration of the spiritual image of man, as a creature made to the image and likeness of God and destined one day through the human will in cooperation with God's grace to become a child of God and an heir of the Kingdom of Heaven.
The image of man that was first ruined in the revolt against God in Eden was restored when the Woman brought forth a Man - a perfect man without sin but a man personally united with God. He is the pattern of the new race of men who would be called Christians. If the image of man was restored through a Woman, in the beginning, then shall not the Woman again be summoned by the Mercy of God to recall us once again to that original pattern?
This would seem to be the reason for the frequent revelations of the Blessed Mother in modern times at Salette, Lourdes and Fatima. The very emergence of woman into the political, economic and social life of the world suggests that the world needs a continuity which she alone can supply; for while man is more closely related to things, she is the protector and defender of life. She cannot look at a limping dog, a flower overhanging a vase without her heart and mind and soul going out to it, as if to bear witness that she has been appointed by God as the very guardian and custodian of life.
Although contemporary literature associates her with frivolity and allurement her instincts find repose only in the preservation of vitality. Her very body commits her to the drama of existence and links her in some way with the rhythm of the cosmos, In her arms, life takes its first breath and in her arms life wants to die. The word most often used by soldiers dying on the battlefields is "Mother". The woman with her children is "at home" and man is "at home" with her.
Woman restores the physical image but...................
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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