{"id":6955,"date":"2004-06-23T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/06\/23\/accepting-god-as-father\/"},"modified":"2004-06-23T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:37:26","slug":"accepting-god-as-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/06\/accepting-god-as-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting God as Father"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is from today’s readings in "A
\nConversation with God<\/a>" from Scepter publishing.<\/p>\n

Just as the man who excludes God from his life becomes a
\ndiseased tree that will yield bad fruit, so a society that wants to exclude
\nGod from its customs and
\nlaws causes countess evils and inflicts the most serious harm on its citizens. A
\nstate from which religion is banished can never be well regulated.<\/em> 1<\/u> In
\nit the phenomenon of lacism appears with the desire of supplanting the honor
\ndue to God. A system of morality based on transcendent principles is replaced
\nby a merely human ideals and norms of conduct. These inevitably end up as less
\nthan human. God and Church become purely internal matters of conscience
\n, and the Church and the Pore are subjected to aggressive attacks either directly
\nor
\nindirectly
\nthrough persons or institutions unfaithful to the Magisterium.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not infrequently as a result of laicism the individual
\ncitizen, the life of the family, and the of the commonwealth as a whole are
\nall removed from
\nthe
\nbeneficent and wholesome symbols and symptoms of those errors which corrupted
\nthe heathens of old, declared themselves more plainly and more lamentably.
\nAnd all this in parts of the world where the light of Christian civilization
\nhas shone for centuries. 2<\/u><\/em> The signs of this secularization can
\nbe seen in many countries. Even those of long-standing Christian tradition
\nthis process of secularization is making inroads: the decline is apparently
\ninvariable, the symptoms all too plain — divorce, abortion, an alarming increase
\nin the used of drugs even by children and young people, violence, contempt
\nfor public morality … If God is not accepted as a loving Father, man and
\nsociety inevitably become dehumanized.<\/p>\n

1<\/u> Leo XIII Immortale Dei, 1 November 1885
\n2<\/u> Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus, 20 October 1939\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Often we come to think of the modern culture as just something
\nthat deteriorated starting in the tumultuously sixties. Obviously the quotes
\nfrom these the encyclicals
\nshow that the modern rot that has set into our culture has long roots extended
\nback a century or two.<\/p>\n

On as side note I find In
\nConversations with God<\/a> to be and excellent resource
\nfor inspiring the contemplative life. After reading Morning Prayers from
\nthe Liturgy of the Hours I read from this book before praying. In
\nConversation with God<\/a> is not to be confused with the crap under a similar
\ntitle by Neale Donald Walsch. In
\nConversation with God<\/a> is a multi-volume set which covers the whole liturgical
\nyear. Another great book for meditation is Divine
\nIntimacy<\/a> by Fr. Gabriel of
\nSt. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. and is undoubtedly a classic Carmelite work
\non meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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