"Ten Years Tomorrow"

JMJ.  When I was a kid in high school I sat in my Latin class (back when they taught Latin in school) and heard the principal announce over the PA system that President John F. Kennedy had been shot.  All of us kids and our teacher were stunned.  I never would have thought that anything so momentous could ever happen again in my lifetime.  How wrong I was.

Ten years ago Muslim terrorists flew two jet-liners into the towers of the World Trade Center.  Once again America and the world were stunned.  Then we saw another hit the Pentagon.  And a plane that was to have hit the White House had it not been for a handful of heroes among her passengers plowed up the earth in a field in Pennsylvania.  I wonder how many of those Muslim souls were welcomed into the sweet embrace of the houris of paradise that day?  I do know that thousands of souls were confronted by their Maker most suddenly as a result of this violence. 

And still we welcome Muslim immigration into this country!  Christians are persecuted and murdered at Muslim hads in the Sudan, in Indonesion, and the Philippines.  In the Middle East and just recently in China.  Many areas of Europe are even under sharia law.  I know, I know.  This is just a small percentage of world Islam.  But just stop to think of the fact that just a small percentage of a billion people is one WHOLE lot of terrorists.  Wake up, Christendom.

"Praying"

JMJ.  I went to confession today.  Now, that's not that surprising but at the end, following Father's absolution of me, he said that he'd pray for me.  Well, of course I told him that I'd pray for him, too--and I do, daily.  What struck me just now, a couple hours later, is the big difference between the Christian Catholic and the secularist.  The latter would look at this anecdote and think, "Big deal, they cancel each other out."  The Christian would say, "Hallelujah!  The Lord will not only listen to them both but bless each of them for their charity."  I'm sure glad I'm Christian.  Amen.