Deep in History...Becoming Catholic

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

“Go deep!” is a term
in American Football.
It is the last second command,
the necessary precondition
for a grace-filled rainbow arch
to the end zone—
a joyful, hopeful, prayerful
 “Hail Mary.”
 
G.K. Chesterton knew
what it meant
to live life deeply.
He came to realize 
no other choice than
to enter the one, holy, catholic
and apostolic Church. 

TWO QUOTES
jump out today as we mourn
the horrific situation
in Sutherland Springs:

“We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.”

“...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.”

ORTHODOXY, 1908

The shooter's alleged atheism 
coupled with 
demonic criminal insanity...
a potent portent

 Saint John Henry Newman,
pray for us!



Sincerely yours in Jesus through Mary,
Mike Rizzio

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