I was over for mass and confession this morning for this the Feast of the Immaculate Heart. There was a bit of a mix up at mass with the priest doing his sermon for the Feast of the Visitation {which also falls today} ..whilst the readers choose the reading for the Immaculate Heart. So I suppose I got the best of both worlds really. I was struck with how Our Lady went 'as quick;y as she could', to help her cousin Saint Elizabeth, it cheered me up to think that Our Lady would hurry'....''''as quick as she could ' also to answer our own prayers too. Wonderful thought. I noticed on the reading for the Feast of the Immaculate Heart the reading chosen is Jesus being lost in the Temple. I wonder why they choose this one?? I'll have to pray and think about this, the Church must have had a reason, they always do. One think I notice with modern liberals in the Church they hate traditional Catholic devotions and spirituality, to say the saints, using statues, The Sacred Heart. But most especially too Our Lady and most particularly the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is not surprising since many Catholics, including priests and Bishops are spiritually Protestants and only stay in the Church to undermine it. At least Martin Luther was honest and left. Every year at Clonard they have a huge novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour to which tens of thousands come. every year too they invite Protestant ministers to speak. Especially a female minister Ruth Patterson of very liberal views. This is against the laws of the Church which specifically prohibits any but priest or Bishop to give the sermon during mass. Not even Catholic lay folks such as ourselves are allowed to speak. So, anyway I was thinking of what Terry had said about the need to stand up and be counted. So this year I am going to study the schedule and if any Protestant Minister is down to speak I am going to write to the Redemptorist Superior, the Superior General in Rome, the Apostolic Nuncio, our Bishop, our Cardinal and Cardinal Arinze in Rome to complain ,as well as to the press. Of course no one will probably take a blind bit of notice of me, but I'll do my best, God loves a trier. I saw the most wonderful film today about a lady called Mary Whitehouse. I'll give a link to the film so folks on this side of the ocean can see it. Mary was an ordinary school teacher with three teen aged sons back in the sixties. But she noticed the BBC was starting to pour a stream of filth on air so she wrote complaining. She ended up leading a whole movement in Britain which eventually ended up in the resignation of the Director General of the BBC and a whlch led to big policy change. But they really tortured that poor woman. They paid girls to get her sons involved in drugs, drink and sex, but her sons walked out of the planned, 'party'. Her husband was involved in an auto accident in which a man commited suicide by throwing himself in front of Mr Whitehouse's car. She got threatening and foul phone calls, she was slandered and took them to court on several occasions, winning a lot of money from them.They even put on a TV programme every week to ridicule her, in one case calling her a ,'Prostitute'. Mary was about to give in at one stage, things got so bad. But her husband told her that he had no doubt that God had chosen her for this task because she was so wonderfully strong and capable. All through her struggle you had the sense that this Church going lady was guided by God. Here's the link to this wonderful film, it reminds me of the saying, 'All it needs for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing': http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/ ... d=b00bwrzl
