A Priest among men....

I have not met Fr. Nepil, but he is here in the Archdiocese of Denver, and, please God, I will meet him one day in this life or the next. However, I hope that his story will help to realize that no one who lives is unloved by God:

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I do.... I really do...

I consider myself a reasonable man. Perhaps I am not, but I think I am. However, how can anyone even joke about this:
Could someone have been so malformed and "brainwashed" by the prevalent culture to think that this is true. Well, the video seems to proves it. Some in America actually believe that this man who is President, and only a man, has some sort of cultural drive to make us reconfigure our lives on behalf of this very man. Sadly, this "performer" has now proven that either: a) he is completely ignorant of history and the significance of Jesus Christ, or b) he is such a "paid monkey" (and I don't mean that in a racist sense, only in a financially determined by the organ grinder [i.e. the government] sense) that he is willing to call someone a vastly offensive title that truly undermines the Christian Faith of millions of Americans.

Recently, my wife and I watched the Movie "Saint Barbara: Convert and Martyr of the Early Church." This was a profoundly beautiful movie. It laid out the understood life story of St. Barbara who has been venerated for centuries. Though she was a convert, she was willing to die for what she believed, as many Catholic Christians were documented in Ancient Rome, simply because she would not offer a pinch of incense to an idol of the ruling "monarch" of the day, the Emperor Diocletian. Barbara sought to be an integral person who would not offer even a pinch of incense to a false idol that would cause her to collaborate, at least according to the movie, in the death of her friends that were Christians - even though she was a ROMAN both by birth and RELIGION! What we do know is that, according to Sacred Tradition, her father was the one who killed her for her denial to worship the Emperor of Rome and thus deny her new found Christian Faith.

According to some websites, like here, Mr. Foxx is considered a Christian - at least on the
"intertoobs." Though apparently others deny this, like here. Neither of those are the most reliable websites, but the point here is that some will be confused by this "word" of Mr. Foxx. Yet the Word of the only Living and True God resounds: "And he said to his disciples, "Temptations to sin * are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. (Lk 17:1-2).* Many who heard this blasphemy will think of it as nothing more than the cute ramblings of a "performer" who is "honoring" his friend/president. Yet this is precisely how tyrants are exalted; not by mere and unabashedly proud exaltation, but jokes and "inside jokes." History shows that even Augustus Caesar took power from the Senate of Rome by agreeing to have his adoptive Father, Julius Caesar, proclaimed a "God." Almost immediately afterwards he took control of the Empire, as "the Son of a God." I am sure most people thought, "yeah, great joke there Augustus." - as many will think of Mr. Foxx's comments.

Yet some will take this seriously, and given the state of government directed education in America where the Only Living and True God has been removed and forcibly and, according to the thought of Friedrich Nietzche, ever so subtly shown that "God is dead." Now men determine to find someone who can fill that role of "god" as mankind once did in the time of Rome. Given the cultural ruins of the "Family" and the vastly plundered meaning of "Fatherhood" in our modern American society, one can not but watch as some will accept the "seed" of this blasphemy and let it take root in their hearts and souls. Not that anyone will notice now, but in years to come when we Christians are more openly persecuted these moments like Mr. Foxx's proclamation will be the "fertilizer" from which that impetus will be born.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we live in perilous times. Let your hearts be established firmly in the Lord, so that Christ may be proclaimed in your life and that he might be proclaimed in mine. We who are granted the glorious title of "Christian" can not lose sight of the fact of our blessing in being given to share in the very Life of Christ by our Baptism and to share the teaching which has been handed on to us in our Holy Catholic Faith. Our Blessed Life depends on it, and more importantly the life of mankind depends on it too!

Its SCIENCE!

Its funny how politics skews so much. And yet, leave it to the soberness of Irish to make clear the choice that a goverment makes in defending or attacking life: