Quotes to Contemplate -- Add your own in the comments section.

What the so-called "Age of
Reason" ushered into the world!

"From 1789 onward the left has ushered a great and devouring hatred into the world, drawing from a bottomless well of implacable resentment and anger that produced the Terror in the final decade of the 18th century (the "Age of Reason," they call it), the many murderous totalitarian regimes in the 20th that killed hundreds of millons, and now in the early 21st century a mass mania supported by lies, unreason, hysteria, and the denial of objective human and metaphysical reality -- oddly, by people who idolize science and technology." [They are] "driven by metaphysical hatred",,,and have "created a wasteland and called it Paradise." 

            Chilton Williamson in Chronicles, November 2018

"To borrow from St. Augustine, God made us to make the times, not the times to make us. We're the subjects of history, not its objects. And unless we make the times better with the light of Jesus Christ, then the times will make us worse with their darkness."   

                                   Archbishop Charles Chaput 

                                   Pio Laghi Lecture March 27, 2019

Never Waste Your Suffering!

Do you see the eye of Sauron searching for the
ring of power to control the world ?

I found this short perspective from Fr. Tom Collins on target and an invitation for further reflection. In fact, after reading the scripture passage about the time of lawlessness and the coming "son of perdition" I want to reflect on how our time is like that described by St. Paul. It is a sobering message, a warning, in fact, for those who like having their ears tickled and prefer perverse ideas to the truth. Here is a portion of the scripture mentioned by Fr. Tom:

"This lawless one will appear as part of the workings of Satan, accompanied by all the power and signs and wonders at the disposal of falsehood --- by every seduction the wicked can devise for those destined to ruin because they have not opened their hearts to the truth in order to be saved. Therefore God is sending upon them a perverse spirit which leads them to give credence to falsehood, so that all who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evildoing will be condemned."

Here is Fr. Collins commentary: