All this should teach us to see fierce glory in this infant, and tender love in our redeemer, conqueror, king and judge.
(LifeSiteNews) – In three previous articles, we considered Advent’s liturgical texts, in which the Church calls again and again for her Lord to come to us – and in which she promises her children that He will arrive without delay. The excitement and restlessness only increases as Advent progresses, especially on Christmas Eve.
We considered how approaching this season with a focus on the “Parousia” – the second coming of Christ in glory – “trains” us (in the words of Father H.J. Coleridge) in a fearless longing for this triumph.[1]
This, I argued, can in turn help us to face the encroaching secular tyranny and ecclesiastical chaos of our time.
It inculcates into us a real hope for a host of things that have not yet happened, but will: the final, triumphant glory of Christ; the vindication of his claims against his enemies in this world, and the exaltation of our Holy Mother, the Church. So much for Advent – how does Christmas fit into this apocalyptic paradigm? MORE
That is why the elites want to control the internet. It gives people a voice that reaches far and wide. Even if the elite do take control of it, though, there is still radio that can be mobile and far reaching. Technology will allow us to fight the tyrants.
There is something we need to do. Related to this are two things I experienced yesterday. I was talking with my neighbor yesterday afternoon. He observed the Immortality of today. I replied that one reason is that people have lost sight of the fact that morals, for the most part, came from experience of things that were detrimental to society. Wild sexual abandon, for example, leads to disease and empty lives. With rampant drug use you get death and loss of active thought (I think this is explains why there is a push to normalize marijuana — it makes for brain-dead sheep.)
Last night Mrs. RMM and I saw a guy who has an etiquette podcast. He said that most rules of etiquette were developed for practical reasons.
We need to teach the reasons behind such things. If all we do is say “This is done because….” then resistance to them develops. If we teach the reasons then people understand that acting morally and with etiquette is actually in their best interests.