I plan to read the Declaration of Independence while I watch fireworks on my computer. Too hot to go see the real thing, especially after we did the honey harvest yesterday which is always a hot job. I'm sure we'll have some sparklers and Roman candles after sunset. Hope all my readers have a fun day planned and may God bless and protect you on this last 4th before we celebrate our 250th year as a nation next 4th of July. Let us pray with zeal for our country and her political leaders that they may be men and women after God's own heart.
Whoever thinks history ‘just happens’, needs to read ‘The Mystical City of God’ for proper perspective. At best it will be seen ‘in a glass, darkly,’ for good history must begin at the end, and the universal judgment is not yet.
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….In the brightness of God’s light will be seen clearly and in detail all crimes public and secret which were perpetrated in every place and at all times. The life of each human subject will be completely unfolded. No circumstance will be omitted; there will be not one action, one word, not one desire which will not be made known……The judgment will untangle and pull out all the twisting threads of those cleverly woven intrigues. It will show in their true light those base retractions and cowardly connivances which men invested with public power sought to justify, either by invoking the specious excuse of reasons of state or by covering them with the mask of piety or disinterest.”
Till then, only occasional glimpses of this other side of history can be caught…..hopefully, they will provide something to ponder until the real historian arrives…..
(The Star-Spangled Heresy: Americanism, Solange Hertz)
......when it came to the Declaration of Independence we find that one of the signers was actually a Catholic Charles Carroll, cousin of the famous (infamous to those who knew their history) Archbishop John Carroll, whose own brother Daniel "not only signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, but....received the degree of Master Mason in 1781, and then years later officiated as Commissioner at the Masonic ceremony laying the cornerstone of the new capital." (Solange "Americanism, the Star-Spangled Heresy).
ReplyDeleteThe weakness of Catholics in America showed absolutely no zeal to convert their fellow colonists to the true Faith which was their duty as Catholics.....
"It is His will that all men should be saved and led to recognize the truth" (1Tim. 2:4)
http://www.angelusonline.org/index.php?section=search&subsection=list_results&s_query=heresy+blossoms+like+a+rose
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Dr. Justin Walsh - AMERICANISM, 1890-1900 For this great progress [of the Church] we are indebted...to the civil...
Heresy Blossoms Like a Rose (Pt. 2)
AMERICANISM, 1890-1900 Continued from the April 2000 issue of The Angelus, the conclusion of...
http://www.angelusonline.org/index.php?section=articles&subsection=show_article&article_id=1978
The Knights of Columbus Part 1
http://www.angelusonline.org/index.php?section=articles&subsection=show_article&article_id=1984
The Knights of Columbus Part II
I have a handful of American history books by contemporary authors that I will be reading over the next year as part of my own participation in the year-long 250th celebration.
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