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Maria Kolbe said...

Not spam, promise! :)

ROSARY TOMORROW, 5th February, 12 am GMT, FOR THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE

Tomorrow (5th of February), the first bill proposing same-sex marriage is going to be heard in British Parliament. I ask you to join me, and many others, in the praying of a rosary tomorrow to ask for Our Lady's intercession in this. We are aiming to pray together at 12 am, noon (GMT) tomorrow. Pray whatever you are able to do - a decade, a Mystery, the full Rosary, even a short prayer to Our Lady - to beg for her help. It is our hope that if Catholics pray together for this, we can gain Our Lady's intercession in this dark hour.

Please pass the message on any way you can! Email, blog, text, social media. 12 am tomorrow - a worldwide rosary for the defense of marriage.

God Bless.

Maria Kolbe

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Catherine said...

As you know many thousands of people venerated the great PIlgrim Icon www.fromoceantoocean.org.uk of Czestochowa during its British tour from Nov 5-16 2012. The National Association of Catholic Families is to be applauded for successfully organising the tour and raising almost £10,000 to be donated to Mary's Meals as a result of it. The Icon will be in Seville and Cordoba Spain today and tomorrow [5th Feb] and our Spanish brethren have agreed to recite the following prayer in solidarity withy our intentions to defeat this wicked and evil bill by God's power and grace. Let's join in the Rosary together and recite the prayer below in union with our friends in Spain before the Blessed Icon:
ORACIÓN

“Señor, está inscrito en la Ley Natural y en la conciencia de todo ser humano el conocimiento de que el matrimonio es entre un hombre y una mujer. El matrimonio es parte del plan de Dios para la felicidad y el futuro de la raza humana. Es una institución natural elevada a la dignidad de un Sacramento.

No obstante, el Gobierno, los miembros del parlamento, legisladores, medios de comunicación y otra multitud de personas en el Reino Unido, buscan redefinir la definición legal del matrimonio en el Derecho del país de forma que abarque las relaciones entre personas del mismo sexo. Señor, cómo es que hemos llegado a esto cuando, desde el principio de los tiempos, el Matrimonio siempre ha significado lo mismo en todas las principales naciones, culturas, sociedades y religiones? Señor, rezamos para que, este martes, 5 de febrero, Dios conceda al Parlamento Británico la sabiduría, el valor y el buen juicio necesarios para rechazar el Proyecto de Ley relativo a “matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo”.
Henos aquí, hoy, en Mairena del Alcor / Sevilla / Córdoba y en otros santuarios Marianos, para pediros, Señor, las gracias necesarias para mantenernos firmes y combatir este error, iluminados por el Evangelio de Cristo, las enseñanzas del Magisterio de la Iglesia y la Ley Natural.”

ORIGINAL en inglés:

« Lord, written into the Natural Law and the conscience of every human being is the knowledge that marriage is between one man and one woman. Marriage is part of God’s plan for the happiness and future of the human race. It is a natural institution raised to the dignity of a Sacrament.

Yet (our) the Government, members of parliament, legislators, media and hosts of others [in the United Kingdom] seek to redefine the legal definition of marriage in statute law to embrace same sex relationships. Lord, how is that it has come to this when since the beginning of time Marriage has always meant the same in every mainstream nation, culture, society and religion? Lord we pray that this Tuesday February 5th that God will grant the British Parliament wisdom, courage and right judgment to reject the Bill regarding ‘same sex marriage’.

We are here [ at Mairena del Alcaro/ Seville /Cordoba,] in Spain and at other Marian Shrines this day to beg you Lord for the graces needed to stand firm and fight this error enlightened by the Christian Gospel, Church magisterial teaching and the Natural Law. »

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VOAT said...

“We address Our special greetings to the Catholic parents. Their rights and duties as educators, conferred on them by God, are at present the stake of a campaign pregnant with consequences. The Church cannot wait to deplore the devastation of its altars, the destruction of its temples, if an education, hostile to Christ, is to profane the temple of the child's soul consecrated by baptism,.. Then the violation of temples is nigh, and it will be every one's duty to sever his responsibility from the opposite camp, and free his conscience from guilty cooperation with such corruption. The more the enemies attempt to disguise their designs, the more a distrustful vigilance will be needed, in the light of bitter experience... Yet do not forget this: none can free you from the responsibility God has placed on you over your children. None of your oppressors, who pretend to relieve you of your duties can answer for you to the eternal Judge, when he will ask: ‘Where are those I confided to you?" May every one of you be able to answer: ‘Of them whom thou hast given me, I have not lost any one’" .(Gospel according to St John v18 ch 9).
MIT BRENNENDER SORGE (With Burning Sorrow!) ENCYCLICAL, PIUS XI ON THE CHURCH AND THE GERMAN REICH March 1937

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S.Watson said...

*Break the fundamental connection between marriage and child-bearing

Don't mean to harp on about it as it's been mentioned before, what about couples who marry and cannot have children!

Letting same sex couples marry will not somehow undermine the institution of Marriage for same sex couples.

It it shocking in 2013 for people to still be denying rights to other people, shame on you! Christians have a lot of sway and power in the world and all I ever see is them bemoaning about how downtrodden and victimised they are!

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New Friend said...

Before you receive the tirade of very familiar arguments as to why you are wrong, may I congratulate and agree with you. You are right in all you say, and there is much which could be added.

I just wonder what will happen to all this repressive opposition once the proposed change takes effect, as seems almost certain. I suspect it will just melt away and the expanded concept of marriage will soon be accepted by almost everyone.

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Simon Platt said...

Nobody's "rights" are being "denied".

Marriage is rooted in the complementarity of the sexes. Those who promote homosexual partnerships do not promote marriage. Their campaign appears to be intended to undermine the nature of marriage, to the detriment of all of society.

Childlessness in marriage is a matter of great sadness, but does not affect the ontological nature of the relationship, even when this is not sacramental. Sadly, those who marry with the intention of avoiding children have the same effect as those who promote homosexual partnerships masquerading as marriage.

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Sean said...

There are plenty of rights being denied world wide every day, from acceptable minimum wage for Indian factory workers, to the disgraceful way women's' rights are abused and ignored around the globe, and yet I don't hear half as much of an uproar about these issues on this website as I do about who a person can and can't chose to enter a secular contract with.

Marriage was not invented by Christ, or any Catholic authority as I am aware, but is a concept accepted by all faiths about the world and can even be entered into by agnostics and atheists, yet again I don't hear any protest from Catholics saying that those who don't even believe in God, the most important concept to the Catholic way of life, should be banned from getting married as long as they have different genital sets.

Dressing up an argument with claims of how complimentary a man and woman are together is frankly disgusting, not only does it then raise the issue of why Catholicism would not allow women to be ordained into the church when they're apparently so important to the male way of life that they're the only option for marriage, but it also ignores any single sex endeavor in any activity since this is, by your own admission, not the most complimentary of configurations possible.

The Catholic Church has so much power to do good and promote, you know, tolerance, understanding and forgiveness (Jesus was VERY into those concepts I hear) but instead spends it's time on promoting segregation and hatred.

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Mike said...

The Catholic Church has so much power to do good and promote, you know, tolerance, understanding and forgiveness (Jesus was VERY into those concepts I hear)

Absolutely right, Sean, as far as forgiveness is concerned. However, Christ did not tolerate sin. So, people who commit the sins associated with homosexuality can gain Christ’s forgiveness just like anybody else. But the condition is the same (there is no discrimination): first, repent of what you have done and second, intend to avoid committing the sin in the future.

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Phil Atkinson said...

When Jesus blessed marriage at the wedding feast at Cana it was, one believes, at a wedding between a man and a woman. One can be fairly sure that, had it been between two men or two women, th eevangelist would have mentioned the fact.

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Sean said...

Sins are an interesting concept. I especially like this passage from the bible.

Isaiah 64:6 We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.

The reason I like it is not because it paints us as all the same, even though it
does, but because it is in it's self an arrogant statement. It's saying that everyone is consumed by sin, no matter who you are everyone is guilty of crimes in the eyes of a being there is no evidence for in an empirical sense. We as mortal men are not sustained by prayer but by the earthly things, food, water, sunlight, air, compassion from one's fellow man who we have so little time to spent the fragile earth with. So little time it would be better spent, in my opinion, trying to help each other in happiness and achievement for the future rather then shouting at each other about who we can and can't marry because of rules about banned activities set up thousands of years ago, the original meanings of which are now no longer definite and so open to interpretation as to be meaningless.

It used to be a sin to touch the skin of a pig; I'm assuming because of the diseases it's so easy to catch from uncooked or poorly cooked pork, and how easily these diseases can be spread between people, so it was best to leave it alone all together. Now however it's fine, because the Popes that have gone before have said that God, who has no voice of his own but conveniently speaks through others that have their own agendas, has now said it's fine because medicine and cooking has advanced to such a level that it's no longer a danger. God certainly does move in mysterious ways.

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Catholic Mother said...

When someone takes something from another, something which the original owner had great love for or felt was valuable, the person who takes it can never have the understanding of the importance to the owner. Thus thieves sell-on stolen goods, children discard the stolen item after a short initial attention.

Marriage belongs to men and women of all races and cultures. Once stolen one can easily imagine it abandoned and no longer of any real interest to those who stole it.

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New Friend said...

What right do you have to decide to whom marriage belongs? If it belongs to all of humanity (as I believe it does) then it cannot be stolen. It has been withheld from some and is now being restored to them.

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