Priest says moral decay is call to action

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June 12, 2009   

(John 12:40) "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and turn for me to heal them."

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COMMENTARY: Priest says moral decay is call to action

The Rev. Joseph Brennan is a retired priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette. He is also an authority on satanism and an author on topics related to his faith. He recently marked his 50th year in the priesthood.

I offer some reflections as a priest of 50 happy years in the service to the people of Acadiana. At 78, I am proud to be an American citizen, proud of my Irish ancestry and, most of all, proud of my Catholic faith.

We have been warned for several years of the intrusion of foreign and domestic terrorists. This alert would demand a constant vigilance. Yet, there is another intrusion of a moral nature. It centers on the decay of our land.

Perhaps it is time for us to ask, "Who am I, and where am I going?" Are we God's people and are we here to spread his message of life and of the dignity of the person?

We are departing from our Christian culture by federally based support for abortions and stem-cell usage in the name of science.

There was an account of a Catholic priest in Berlin during the time of Adolf Hitler. As the Nazis rounded up Jews, the priest chose to say nothing. After all of the Jewish people were removed, the Nazis' next target became the Catholic priests.

When the Freedom of Choice proposal was offered, the rate of abortions reached the same percentage as the persecution of the Jewish people in Germany.

The Bible tells us "at times we have eyes and do not see ... we have ears and cannot hear." Do we see what is going on, and do we hear the drumbeat of the intruder?

I offer these thoughts as an old Catholic priest to the people that I have known and loved.

It is time to see and to listen! 

Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 19- "On sleep, prayer and psalmody"

2. Just as over-drinking is a matter of habit, so too from habit comes over-sleeping. Therefore we must struggle with the question of sleep, especially in the early days of obedience, because a long-standing habit is difficult to cure.   

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