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Annie
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Posted: Thu Mar 13th, 2008 04:10 pm |
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from AsiaNews, via a blog I read:
The archbishop of Mosul is dead
Bishop of Arbil: "A heavy Cross for our Church, ahead of Easter".
Mosul (AsiaNews) – The Chaldean archbishop of Mosul is dead. Archbishop Faraj Rahho was kidnapped last February 29 after the Stations of the Cross. His kidnappers have given word of his death, indicating to the mediators where they could recover the body of the 67-year-old prelate. "It is a heavy Cross for our Church, ahead of Easter", Rabban al Qas, bishop of Arbil, tells AsiaNews in response to the news.
"And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And unto every one of them were given white robes; and it was said to them, that they should rest still for a short time, until the number of their fellow-servants, and of their brethren, should be fulfilled, and they who shall afterwards be slain, after their example."
Last edited on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 04:11 pm by Annie
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EMarshallBuckles
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Posted: Thu Mar 13th, 2008 07:33 pm |
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| Back during the 1980s, while I was still working for the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, I used to go to noon Holy Communion at historic old St. Paul's Episcopal Church (just across the street from St. Peter's Catholic Church which was the orginial diocese cathedral before Cathedral of the Sacred Heart was built) next to Virginia's Capitol Square as often as I could. I still remember one day when one of the Priests in residence there, who tended to be a bit on the liberal side, said that he had read that passage, quoted by Annie above, as well as some passages dealing with God's wrath and vengence. He said that he had preferred to not think about it, however, it had sort of "hit him in the face", earlier that day, that someday God WILL unleash his wrath on evil. He acknowledged that it will be a terrible, terrible thing, beyond anything that we can imagine now. Thankfully, praise the Lord, those of us who know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior will not have to face God's wrath. Those who opposed God and did evil, WILL have to face God's wrath and they will likely wish that they never had been born. If the good Archbishop is truly dead, I pray for God's eternal peace for his soul and that his killers will turn from their sins and turn to Jesus Christ before, someday, they face God's terrible wrath assuming God does not visit His vengence upon them sooner rather than later.
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Annie
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Posted: Fri Mar 14th, 2008 03:04 pm |
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To me one of the most beautiful parts of the Tridentine Mass is when the priest kisses the altar in honor of those martyrs who lie beneath it. That is from the same part of Revelation, it is those martyrs who are speaking in that passage.
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Posted: Fri Mar 14th, 2008 03:36 pm |
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Annie wrote: from AsiaNews, via a blog I read:
The archbishop of Mosul is dead
Bishop of Arbil: "A heavy Cross for our Church, ahead of Easter".
Father, Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Sun Mar 16th, 2008 03:40 am |
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And this Blessed man had just become Iraq's first Prince of the Church, which traces its roots all the way back to the land he came from, served the Lord tirelessly in and was martyred in.
In a spiritual sense, this really gives a different and certainly more sobering perspective on that old saying the "acorn doesn't fall far from the tree."
Nor, when we think of God, Abraham, Jesus and Mosul's Cardinal Archbishop. He's at peace now with the angels.
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