After the Dawn (or West of Eden) The Co-opting of Catholic America

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

We must thank Dawn Eden with a "well done" for her exposure of President Obama's co-opting of Catholicity.  First Acorn co-opted the Catholic Campaign for Human Development; then the media co-opted the Catholic vote on November 8th; now President Obama is personally co-opting Catholic universities.  Pay attention Notre Dame.

The term co-opt is jargon in the legal profession.  Lawyers co-opt clients, judges and juries with regularity.

It reminds me of the cult movie, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  We are witnessing the socialist machine incubating pod versions of America's citizens.  After fully co-opting their natural being (will and intellect) an Obamaized clone is released back into the mainstream to do his bidding.

The problem is...this is real life.


From: http://dawneden.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Obama's messianic jargon hits 'rock' bottom ...
and G'town removes the Holy Name to accommodate The One

At Georgetown University today, while sitting in the press section at Gaston Hall awaiting the arrival of President Obama for a "major address" on economics, I overheard a reporter discussing the advance text of the speech.

The reporter said that senior presidential adviser David Axelrod had compared Obama during his European trip to one planting seeds for a harvest. Along the same lines, he noted, in today's speech, Obama was set to use another Gospel analogy: that of the "house built upon a rock."

And so it came to pass, beneath Gaston Hall's beautiful painting of Morality, Faith, and Patriotism, with gold letters on the wall behind him spelling the Jesuit motto "Ad majorem Dei gloriam"—"To the greater glory of God"—Obama shared his prosperity gospel at the nation's oldest Catholic university.

But there was one thing missing: Jesus' name.

I'm not just talking about Obama's failing to mention Jesus—though he did pointedly fail to mention the name of the One—that is, for him, the other "One"—who first told the "parable" he shared.

No, Jesus' very name, in the form of the ancient monogram IHS, which had been in gold lettering on the wooden archway above Gaston Hall's dais, was painted over (or otherwise expertly camouflaged) prior to Obama's arrival. Apparently, the Name that is above every other name is not permitted to be above Obama.  [emphasis mine]

(I became aware of the cover-up after the speech, when it was pointed out by pro-life advocate Larry Cirignano in an e-mail forwarded to me. Whether Georgetown University initiated it or did it at the request of the White House is unknown at this time.)

As for Obama's address, here is how the most pro-abortion, pro-infanticide elected official in history appropriated the words of Our Saviour:

There is a parable at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that tells the story of two men. The first built his house on a pile of sand, and it was destroyed as soon as the storm hit. But the second is known as the wise man, for when "…the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house…it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock."

We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand. We must build our house upon a rock. We must lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity – a foundation that will move us from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest; where we consume less at home and send more exports abroad.

No mention of Jesus. It's just a parable about a house built upon a rock.

In Obama's hands, the words of Our Lord become just another way to tell the story of the Three Little Pigs.

He resumed the analogy as he capped off his speech:

There is no doubt that times are still tough. By no means are we out of the woods just yet. But from where we stand, for the very first time, we are beginning to see glimmers of hope. And beyond that, way off in the distance, we can see a vision of an America’s future that is far different than our troubled economic past. It’s an America teeming with new industry and commerce; humming with new energy and discoveries that light the world once more. A place where anyone from anywhere with a good idea or the will to work can live the dream they’ve heard so much about.

It is that house upon the rock. Proud, sturdy, and unwavering in the face of the greatest storm. We will not finish it in one year or even many, but if we use this moment to lay that new foundation; if we come together and begin the hard work of rebuilding; if we persist and persevere against the disappointments and setbacks that will surely lie ahead, then I have no doubt that this house will stand and the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

When he had finished these words, the Georgetown crowd was astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

Kyrie eleison.

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Blessing of the Son/14 Nisan/Blessing of the Sun

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

"Father, into your hands I commend my Spirit."

Tuesday, April 8, 2009 was special,
but did you catch it?
    

Tuesday, April 8, 2009
coincided with the Hebrew, 14 Nisan

The Gospel of John (e.g., 19:14, 19:31, 19:42) implies that Nisan 14 was the day that Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem. A close read of the synoptics reveals the same, Chirst died during the 24 hour period of 14 Nisan.

This year, 14 Nisan was also
the Hebrew Hachama (Blessing on the Sun)

The event Birkat Hachama or Blessing on the Sun occurs once every 28 years. But it has only ever occured on this exact date on the Hebrew calendar, the 14th of Nisan, three times;

1) Prior to the Jews escaping slavery and being redeemed from Egypt

2) Prior to the miracle of Purim

3) And in the year 6759 (now! - 2009 in the Gregorian calendar)

Once every 28 years, the Sun returns to the position it occupied when it was created at the beginning of the fourth day of creation.

And Hashem made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night and the stars. And Hashem placed them in the sky of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from darkness; and Hashem saw that it was good. And it was evening and it was morning, a fourth day.

Why does Birkat Hachama take place only every 28 years?

The starting point is Tuesday at 6:00 pm. Now, since a year lasts 365 1/4 days - or 52 weeks plus a remainder of 1 1/4 days - it follows that after one year, the Sun will return to the spring equinox, but will fall 1 1/4 days later in the week: Wednesday at midnight. After two years, the Sun will return to the spring equinox, but it will now be 2 x 1 1/4 days later in the week: Thursday at 6:00 am. Only after 28 years, will the Sun return to the spring equinox on Tuesday at 6:00 pm.

http://www.threes.com/cms/index.php

Albert Einstein once wrote: 

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

To this let us reply:

"People like us, who believe in the Triune God, know that in eternity, there is no past, present or future---God is not bound by space nor time for He is the persistently real and now."

The Blessing of Brother Sun
by St. Francis of Assisi

Praised be You my Lord with all Your creatures,
especially Sir Brother Sun,

Who is the day through whom You give us light.

And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour,

Of You Most High, he bears the likeness.


Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Mystery of Light, Mystery of Life, Mystery of Love

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

Mystery of Light, Mystery of Life, Mystery of Love

Mystery of Light, Mystery of Life, Mystery of Love

Mystery of Light, Mystery of Life, Mystery of Love

On Holy Thursday we celebrate the Institution

of the Holy Eucharist that begins the Sacred Triduum.

Pondering the three days—Christ's Passion, Death and Resurrection,

we see numerous points of Mystery; we see His Light, Life and Love;
we see the corresponding negations (Darkness, Death, and Hate)
at every turn in the compelling narrative.

Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa
(the preacher of the Papal Household) 

offers this advice—Contemplate the Trinity...

The symbol that best sums up this vision of the sacrifice of Christ is that of the Lamb of God. The New Testament prefers it to “scapegoat” precisely because it expresses perfectly the meekness of the victim. A lamb can only receive evil, it can never inflict it.

The resurrection of Christ is for the spiritual universe what the Big Bang, according to a recent theory, was for the physical cosmos: a cataclysmic explosion of energy starting the whole movement of expansion of the universe that is still going on after billions of years. In fact, everything that exists and moves in the Church, the sacraments, doctrine, institutions draws its strength from Christ's resurrection. It is the new creation as the liturgy inculcates by choosing the story of creation, in Genesis 1, as the first reading for the Easter vigil. It is the new fiat lux!, Let there be light!, said by God.

There is a profound similarity between that which occurred in the resurrection and that which occurs in the Eucharist: there, the Father, through his Spirit, gave life to Christ’s body lying in the sepulchre; here, with the same Spirit, he gives life to the bread and transforms it into his Son’s body.

The cry “Behold the Lamb!”, which resounds at every Mass ... is therefore an invitation addressed to all believers in Christ not to let themselves be contaminated by the violence of our world, but to respond to it with the meekness and the strength of love. It is a constant reminder of the words of Jesus: “Look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves” (Mt 10,16).

http://www.cantalamessa.org/en/articoloView.php?id=66

Jesus Christ—the Lamp, Lamb and Lord
of the New and Everlasting Covenant

A prayer, stemming from the Gelasian Sacramentary of the 7th century is still in use in the Easter Vigil; it proclaims solemnly: "Let the whole world see and recognize that all that is destroyed is reconstructed, all that is old is renewed, and everything returns to its integrity, through Christ who is the principle of all things." http://www.cantalamessa.org/en/predicheView.php?id=276

1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael