THE CULTURE OF DEATH IS NOT…
THE CULTURE OF DEATH IS NOT…
Entrusting My Words to the Holy Spirit
Prayers of
Linda Mary Liotino
Ash Wednesday 2009
The Culture of Death is not some abstract coined phrase it is a living and breathing concept with a heart and soul. The Culture of Death is been with us since the fall of man. It gathers strength and momentum with every passing generation. We find ourselves moving more and more into this culture, which is gripping society and polluting the minds of its citizens in particular our children. Unless stop the Culture of Death will consume this world mislead its citizens and leave in its path destruction that will cause immense suffering. We are on this road now however, nothing evil can win if we ourselves are willing to take up the cross of the Culture of Death and slay it in its tracks.
What is this living and breathing concept surviving on? It survives and breathes on the blood of the innocent, the discarded deemed by society, the weak and vulnerable, hate and anger, war, poverty, and in the laws that appeases the appetite of the Culture of Death. Blood it needs the Culture of Death and blood it receives as society is complacent and lazy about taking up the spiritual arms given to us by God to fight this looming destruction.
Why is society complacent and lazy because the modern world with all its technology makes it possible for society to put blinders on to truth and reality. Modern technology for example makes it possible to download news we want to know. The decline of the printed news, which by sheer force of the front page made us painfully aware of the suffering and injustices of society is becoming obsolete. Then too we have given power to lawmakers, courts and secular news to dictate what course the world should take and what society should be made to accept. We choose not to exercise the means afforded us to make the ones dictating this direction to shake in their boots. The actions of the citizens of this world have rolled over and accept this change with little or no resistance. The end result is the power of the Culture of Death, which verifies this truth.
Society travails in the suffering from the many injustices in the wake of the Culture of Death and yet except for some society chooses to do nothing. The power society hold is in its numbers and convictions seemingly neither is being used. Society chooses to put the power in the hands of those who live and breath the Culture of Death wondering how did this happen? The Culture of Death is here because too many “good” men did nothing. Society complains, moans, groans, and is great at casting blame for the injustices perpetrated by those in power. Reality of the matter is those who are to blame is the one you see when you look into a mirror. The rise to power…comes when compliancy and laziness rules the heart of man and evil walks through the unguarded door.
C’est la vie
Copyright 2009 Linda Mary Liotino