Wednesday, April 25, 2012

How to Suffer

This little boy -- shown here a couple of months before his death at the age of 12 -- was never well a day in his life. 




This is an illustration of the profits that can be reaped by means of suffering united to the Cross.  It is far from the picture of squalid, abject meaninglessness the culture of death paints in order to justify murder.  It is just such lives as this that the culture of death, mired in atheism and materialism, says are not worth living.  It is the Garvan Byrnes, who light the way to the world to come, that are targeted for extermination.  


If we go on snuffing out these lights, how can we imagine we will escape retribution?

4 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for this, Anita. I believe I know have a new saint to pray to.

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  2. Your worldview asserts that life is so meaningless and death is so welcome that a life as profoundly unfair as this boy's is nothing to feel profound sympathy for.
    whose culture is really the one of death here?

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  3. Your worldview asserts that life is so meaningless and death is so welcome that a life as profoundly unfair as this boy's is nothing to feel profound sympathy for.
    whose culture is really the one of death here?

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  4. Yours, if you think the solution to this boy's profoundly unfair life would have been to kill him. And as for my alleged worldview, is it possible you're projecting yours onto me?

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