Saturday, September 03, 2005
Don’t Forget the Remedy
Amidst the historic devastation in New Orleans and its surrounding regions, we are rightfully shocked with the gravity of the suffering presently being experienced by the victims of Katrina, particularly the children and babies without food and water, the elderly and infirm without medication and care, and all the rest who are deprived from basic necessities for human existence.
We pray and plea that Heaven will assist them. We pray that, rather than giving in to any possible temptation to shake their fists in anger at God for this tragedy, they will open their hearts to Abba Father with new or renewed faith and hope in the God whose mercy is infinite. The Heart of God, the Father of all mankind, will pour forth extraordinary spiritual graces to his children/refugees at this perilous hour, graces that can last for all eternity, regardless of the limitations of human modes of material assistance. The Father has not forsaken them. He has never been closer to them.
For some, it is intolerable at a time of such human suffering to speak of any possible connection between the devastation of Katrina and the specific moral evils for which New Orleans and its surrounding regions of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi were nationally infamous: voodoo centers and haunted graveyard tours, homosexual bars and transvestite clubs, striptease and porno houses, gambling casinos and prostitution establishments, and the like. In fact, the hurricane has prevented the annual Big Easy festival previously scheduled to take place this Labor Day weekend entitled, "Southern Decadence," which is advertised as being "gayer than Mardi Gras" and a unique exhibition of "naked flesh."
Wouldn’t such a connection be judgmental and lacking in compassion for the victims at such a time of tragedy? Yet the reason why many Christians (and also non-Christians) are examining the possible connection between concentrated sin in a particular geographic area like New Orleans and God at least permitting that area to experience the brunt of a natural calamity is precisely for the purpose of mercy: to encourage the prevention of the potential repetition, or even escalation, of the human misery as tragic as that experienced by our beloved brothers and sisters in the southern Gulf coast right now.
If we do miss what is intended as a providential message about the immediate need for conversion, repentance, and a return to God beyond any securities that money and the material of this life can offer, then we set the stage for a repeat of this providential message—and each repeat would demand still greater volume, since the message was not properly heard the previous time.
It is in any case a time for spiritual examination of conscience for the entire country, and the world at large. What is the remedy for a nation and world that to a significant degree have lost sight of their absolute need for God, who no longer follow his commands of love and life, who no longer respect his authority for the termination of human life, and presently seek to be free of his authority for its beginning through the abomination of cloning?
The remedy, at once simple and profoundly mysterious, is the Mother. How could the mother of Jesus be posed as the remedy to the ubiquity of problems facing our nation and our world, as well as the immediate needs of the Katrina victims?
Because the Mother is the Mediatrix of all graces, and the answer to every single difficulty facing the human family today is remedied through the redemptive graces of Jesus Christ, Savior of the universe and solution to all its woes. As Co-redemptrix, she suffered alongside the Redeemer to merit these graces; as Mediatrix she distributes these graces to every open heart; as Advocate she brings the petitions for his graces to the throne of Christ the King.
The Mother is the remedy because the Son is the remedy, and it is the will of the Son that only through beholding the Mother given to us by him (cf. Jn. 19:25-27), that grace, redemption, and peace will be granted to our world. Mary is an essential part of Heaven’s peace plan, as the message of Fatima makes clear: "Only she can help you…God wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart…in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph…and a period of peace will be granted to the world" (July 13, 1917).
Ultimately, because God wishes the world to recognize and acknowledge that it is only through the intercession of Mary, spiritual mother of all peoples and nations, that peace and grace will transform our present world into an era of peace, the pre-requisite for this historic Triumph of her Immaculate Heart and its consequent fruit of global peace is the official and solemn recognition of this saving action of Our Lady by the highest authority of the Church. A solemn papal declaration that we, the human family, acknowledge and accept God’s plan for peace as coming specifically through the profound intercession of Mary Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix of all graces and Advocate is what God awaits, and the Mother herself awaits, to bring the world the coveted graces of spiritual peace and global peace.
In short, Mary is the remedy, and the papal proclamation of her roles is a necessity for the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart and the prophesied era of peace. We must pray daily for the Dogma and the Triumph, if our hearts’ desire is an end to that degeneration, disaster, and war which is presently faced.
For some who may perceive the conclusion of Mary as the remedy for our times to be simplistic, pietistic and naïve, we close with the insight of the former Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger-- now Pope Benedict XVI, as articulated by interviewer Vittorio Messori in The Ratzinger Report: "To the crisis in the understanding of the Church, to the crisis of morality, to the crisis of woman, the Prefect has a remedy… ‘a remedy whose reputation seems to be clouded today with some Catholics but one that is more than ever relevant.’ It is the remedy that he designates with a short name: Mary." Written by Mark Miravalle, Mother of all Peoples
We pray and plea that Heaven will assist them. We pray that, rather than giving in to any possible temptation to shake their fists in anger at God for this tragedy, they will open their hearts to Abba Father with new or renewed faith and hope in the God whose mercy is infinite. The Heart of God, the Father of all mankind, will pour forth extraordinary spiritual graces to his children/refugees at this perilous hour, graces that can last for all eternity, regardless of the limitations of human modes of material assistance. The Father has not forsaken them. He has never been closer to them.
For some, it is intolerable at a time of such human suffering to speak of any possible connection between the devastation of Katrina and the specific moral evils for which New Orleans and its surrounding regions of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi were nationally infamous: voodoo centers and haunted graveyard tours, homosexual bars and transvestite clubs, striptease and porno houses, gambling casinos and prostitution establishments, and the like. In fact, the hurricane has prevented the annual Big Easy festival previously scheduled to take place this Labor Day weekend entitled, "Southern Decadence," which is advertised as being "gayer than Mardi Gras" and a unique exhibition of "naked flesh."
Wouldn’t such a connection be judgmental and lacking in compassion for the victims at such a time of tragedy? Yet the reason why many Christians (and also non-Christians) are examining the possible connection between concentrated sin in a particular geographic area like New Orleans and God at least permitting that area to experience the brunt of a natural calamity is precisely for the purpose of mercy: to encourage the prevention of the potential repetition, or even escalation, of the human misery as tragic as that experienced by our beloved brothers and sisters in the southern Gulf coast right now.
If we do miss what is intended as a providential message about the immediate need for conversion, repentance, and a return to God beyond any securities that money and the material of this life can offer, then we set the stage for a repeat of this providential message—and each repeat would demand still greater volume, since the message was not properly heard the previous time.
It is in any case a time for spiritual examination of conscience for the entire country, and the world at large. What is the remedy for a nation and world that to a significant degree have lost sight of their absolute need for God, who no longer follow his commands of love and life, who no longer respect his authority for the termination of human life, and presently seek to be free of his authority for its beginning through the abomination of cloning?
The remedy, at once simple and profoundly mysterious, is the Mother. How could the mother of Jesus be posed as the remedy to the ubiquity of problems facing our nation and our world, as well as the immediate needs of the Katrina victims?
Because the Mother is the Mediatrix of all graces, and the answer to every single difficulty facing the human family today is remedied through the redemptive graces of Jesus Christ, Savior of the universe and solution to all its woes. As Co-redemptrix, she suffered alongside the Redeemer to merit these graces; as Mediatrix she distributes these graces to every open heart; as Advocate she brings the petitions for his graces to the throne of Christ the King.
The Mother is the remedy because the Son is the remedy, and it is the will of the Son that only through beholding the Mother given to us by him (cf. Jn. 19:25-27), that grace, redemption, and peace will be granted to our world. Mary is an essential part of Heaven’s peace plan, as the message of Fatima makes clear: "Only she can help you…God wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart…in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph…and a period of peace will be granted to the world" (July 13, 1917).
Ultimately, because God wishes the world to recognize and acknowledge that it is only through the intercession of Mary, spiritual mother of all peoples and nations, that peace and grace will transform our present world into an era of peace, the pre-requisite for this historic Triumph of her Immaculate Heart and its consequent fruit of global peace is the official and solemn recognition of this saving action of Our Lady by the highest authority of the Church. A solemn papal declaration that we, the human family, acknowledge and accept God’s plan for peace as coming specifically through the profound intercession of Mary Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix of all graces and Advocate is what God awaits, and the Mother herself awaits, to bring the world the coveted graces of spiritual peace and global peace.
In short, Mary is the remedy, and the papal proclamation of her roles is a necessity for the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart and the prophesied era of peace. We must pray daily for the Dogma and the Triumph, if our hearts’ desire is an end to that degeneration, disaster, and war which is presently faced.
For some who may perceive the conclusion of Mary as the remedy for our times to be simplistic, pietistic and naïve, we close with the insight of the former Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger-- now Pope Benedict XVI, as articulated by interviewer Vittorio Messori in The Ratzinger Report: "To the crisis in the understanding of the Church, to the crisis of morality, to the crisis of woman, the Prefect has a remedy… ‘a remedy whose reputation seems to be clouded today with some Catholics but one that is more than ever relevant.’ It is the remedy that he designates with a short name: Mary." Written by Mark Miravalle, Mother of all Peoples
