Fr. Anthony died yesterday, peacefully, who was a young man when I entered, only 42 or 43. He was not always easy to get along with, but underneath his gruff exterior was a very kind and gentle soul. He was a poet and a writer and he had a powerful influence on many people.
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Life does have a way of bringing us to a point of revelation where from that point on our understanding of life, our reason for being here, and the importance of developing a trusting and loving relationship with God becomes more central. We discover something that was lacking.
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We train our children and ourselves how to seek God. It matters what toy the toddler plays with— it actually matters what it’s made out of and what it looks like! It matters what music the toddler listens to. It matters what plates we eat off of. It matters whether or not our children learn to appreciate beauty.
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We also ought to celebrate the spookiness. I don’t mean that we ought to even slightly engage in anything that borders on evil. Those haunted houses aged 18 and up are out of the question, as are horror movies meant to horrify, scenes of torture, occult practices, etc. But there is a playfulness to the dancing skeleton that I believe is healthy and good and Christian.
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In the end, we can have all the homilies and articles and pamphlets explaining the benefits of chastity, but we are failing the flock if we don’t have better explanations regarding the process of reconciliation and returning to chastity. People need to know the uncomfortable details. They need to be told, “if you commit a sexual sin, here’s how you confess it.”
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Most people would be appalled if Christmas was suddenly shifted to the nearest Sunday instead of having a whole day to itself. Either these Holy Days matter or they don’t. If they matter we have to start acting like it and if they don’t matter then we should stop calling them an obligation.
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When my husband and I had a miscarriage last year, we were blessed to have a family priest say a funeral Mass and hold a burial for the little baby. But if our priest hadn’t approached us about it, we would never have known it was an option.
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In general, most conservative-patriotic people seem to believe that the flag is something at least semi-sacred. At least, they don’t believe it ought to be burned or trampled. So why wear it on a string bikini? So what does it say about a culture when the flag is used as a tool of cheap sexualization by those who still do believe in it?
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The modernist woman isn’t supposed to answer to anyone or to need anyone but herself. I would go so far as to say she isn’t really supposed to truly love anyone but herself. At the least, her self love is supposed to come first. And when the self comes first there is no room for real romance.
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I think the lack of confidence and timidity that is often seen among traditional Christian homeschooling families has much less to do with Christianity and much more to do with fear.
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