Comments on: Spiritual Starvation http://www.hieropraxis.com/2008/08/spiritual-starvation/ Literature and faith, truth and beauty Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pwgilbert http://www.hieropraxis.com/2008/08/spiritual-starvation/#comment-57 pwgilbert Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:44:39 +0000 http://www.hieropraxis.com/?p=93#comment-57 Fr. Mitch Pacwa, speaking on EWTN's daily mass Feb. 11 (the memorial of the first apparition at Lourdes in the 19th C)said that the context for Bernadette's experience was a culture speeding toward secularization. No one believed this poor, uneducated girl's report that she'd seen a lady at a place where pigs were fed and watered. The community's response was to board up the spot where the vision occurred. Fr. Mitch's comment: "The secular society made the ugly uglier." How true then; how true now. Can anyone say that our TV programs in 2010 are anything but ugly when the F word is said frequently in prime time? When sex and deception are the subjects of most jokes and plots? When a soul's nourishment is thought to be a song played by violins? Holly's headline that our culture is starving itself shows just how poor our diet is. God save us from ourselves. Fr. Mitch Pacwa, speaking on EWTN’s daily mass Feb. 11 (the memorial of the first apparition at Lourdes in the 19th C)said that the context for Bernadette’s experience was a culture speeding toward secularization. No one believed this poor, uneducated girl’s report that she’d seen a lady at a place where pigs were fed and watered. The community’s response was to board up the spot where the vision occurred. Fr. Mitch’s comment: “The secular society made the ugly uglier.” How true then; how true now. Can anyone say that our TV programs in 2010 are anything but ugly when the F word is said frequently in prime time? When sex and deception are the subjects of most jokes and plots? When a soul’s nourishment is thought to be a song played by violins? Holly’s headline that our culture is starving itself shows just how poor our diet is. God save us from ourselves.

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