Dear Sisters in Christ,
I just returned from my nieces wedding in Chicago. I came back with some pictures, an extra pound or two and a very heavy heart. My dear niece who I babysat, chased around the yard, watched in her First Communion, and Confirmation, had a pagan wedding ceremony.
You see this child of God has many friends who are gay and she simply can not accept the church's stand on Gay Marriage (A misnomer if there ever was one!!). So, she went looking for a 'faith' that would explain same sex attractions as normal. The first reading for her ceremony, came from an essay on how the human souls were all united at one time, but those that followed one god, separated into souls that had male to male attractions, another god, female to female and yet a third male-female. All perfectly normal and ordained by the gods.
I laid my head on my daughter's shoulder as I witnessed this and prayed fervently for the soul of my niece and new nephew-in-law. My older brother who has devoted his entire being to God from the time he was a teenager told me that he has never prayed so hard in his life. My younger brother needed to get up and leave the room for a time, so distressed was he by this ceremony. My faithful sister, whose daughter this is, just asked as all to keep praying for her. She implored me again to keep praying as I left her today.
One of the things that I prayed for was protection for all the Christians in room from the demons attached to this ceremony. After reading Ransomed From Darkness by Moira Noonan, it has become very clear that we must do all we can to keep ourselves holy and not give the demons a foothold into our souls. The malevolence of the first reading was like a dark cloud hanging over the wedding party and spreading its dark tentacles into the pews (the room was set up as a quasi-church).
Most of us have spent some time in the darkness of the world living as we wanted and not as God would have us live. We understand the allure of finding a 'worldview' or religious philosophy that corresponds with our own desires. Why follow an ancient Church that has all these..'Thous Shalt Nots' when all we want is what we want?
It wasn't until each of us had the Holy Spirit awaken His gifts within us that we started to see the Truth and the Wisdom of our Mother the Church. From there, one can't help to fall in LOVE with the God that loved us first to the last drop of His blood. Intellect and reason as we read faith texts may have sparked our interest, but the burning love we have for the Trinity is what keeps us faithful.
Long ago, 'The People in Darkness had see a great Light...' , but it appears that we are again living in very dark times indeed.
So, I will pray for my beautiful niece, made in the image and likeness of God. I will ask the Lord to put a person in her life that will lead her back to the Light. I asked Our Lady in particular to take her under her maternal protection and lead her back to the source of all goodness, her divine son.
Dear sisters, as you pray, please pray for my niece and for all our family members who live in darkness. May our prayers fly up to heaven where the source of all good will hear them. The darkness in the whole of the world will be dispelled with but one ray of His divine light.
Despair is of the devil. I remain hopeful in Our Lord.
"I have spoken these things to you so that you shall have peace in me.
You shall have suffering in the world, but take heart, I have overcome
the world." John 16:33
Of course your neice is in my prayers along with all those who are entrapped within the lies of the 'New Age'. So sad that they do not recognize that it holds all the old trapping of the devil. Remember that we MUST be willingto allow the light shine into our souls. Yes, we are to pray for conversions and another to lead the New Ager out of the darness; however, that can only be done with the soul's cooperation.
ReplyDeleteWe have such a gracious God who will not trample our free will. He is also a Just God who's wrath scares me. Thank you Jesus for covering me in your blood! Thank you for your Holy Body that strengthens my convictions on my way back to the Father! Thank you Holy Spirit to turn my conscienous back to God's ways. For His ways are not my ways and I will not rely upon my own understanding until I am safely back in my Father's house.
A friend of mine wrote on facebook, that she's been thinking about Jesus' second coming a lot lately. He will be coming to JUDGE. I know his mercy is fathomless, but as you put so well, you must cooperate with God's grace in order to receive its benefits. It hurts to think of this dear, beloved woman who I have seen grow from a gorgeous baby to this caricature of society's model of woman. I know that God is capable of all things and I will keep praying and praying, hoping that even if it is at the last possible moment of her life, that she will be converted.
DeleteI will be praying for your niece! The" worldly ways" really have a way of gripping a person & pulling a person into the darkness, especially our young men & women of today! I totally empathize with your experience with your niece & her wedding, as I have nephews who have also bought into the lies/ liars of darkness.
ReplyDeleteAs most of us have experienced this stronghold of worldly lies at various times in our lives, we know that it only creates despair, emptiness & restlessness. So let us suit up & put on our armor of prayer, calling on Mother Mary & the Communion of Saints intersession & The Holy Spirit to fill up all hearts with the Truth. After all, " Our hearts are restless, until we rest in Jesus!