More Presidential Praise for Jesus Christ: Trump Doubles Down

Veritas optima est • 23 days ago

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  Rory Donnellan • 23 days ago

  Wow! This certainly trumps the "happy holidays" used by politically-correct Australian government officials - including all the fake-Catholics in public office! Our corrupt politicians are notorious for making false promises, but our "devout Catholic" prime minister Malcolm Turnbull made good on his word to introduce legal sodomite mockeries of marriage across Australia in time for Christmas!

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    Gwynn Ap Nudd Rory Donnellan • 22 days ago

    I think the Elite are backing down on the Happy Holiday thing, at least here in the States. Too much backlash, both fierce and sentimental, as well as even boycotts on occasion. Merry Christmas will do for now as long as the corruption of Christianity continues apace.

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    Rory Donnellan Gwynn Ap Nudd • 21 days ago

    There seems to be a glimmer of hope in the US whereas Australia is rushing headlong down the slippery slope. I could give more examples but I have to help tack up the children's horses for the morning ride to Mass. The way they race their mounts like low flying jets makes me tighten their girths an extra notch.

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  Convert • 23 days ago

  I'm not a big fan of Pre. Trump but he certainly was a better person for the job ten Madam Hilary.
  The First Lady was all for killing children in the womb by abortion. She and her husband were also for partial birth.
  And so was Pre. Obama.
  I'm not from America. But I can ask her citizen's one question. And that question was in this morn's paper (Irish Times).
  The letter to the EDITOR was written many year ago.
  it still applies today. Written by Mr. Dean Ruxton, Irish Times, Dec.26, 2017
  What women want in a man, according to 1892 letter to ‘The Irish Times’

  ‘They like honesty of purpose and consideration; they like men who believe in women’
  On the front page of The Weekly Irish Times on December 10th, 1892, a letter writer using the name Flora set about defining exactly what it is women want in a man.
  Dear sir - Having been greatly interested by the various letters which from time to time appear in the dear old Letter Box, please allow me once more to occupy a short space in it by writing upon this subject: “What women like in men”. Women, I think, like manly, not lady-like, men.
  They like honesty of purpose and consideration; they like men who believe in women; they like a man who can be as strong as a lion when troubles come, and yet if one is nervous and tired can button up a shoe, and do it with an amount of consideration that is a mental and a physical brace up.
  They like a man who is interested in their new dresses; who can give an opinion on the fit, and who is properly indignant at any article written against women.
  They like a man who is the master of the situation - that is, who has brain enough to help a woman to decide what is the best thing to do under the circumstances, and who has wit enough to realise when one of the fair sex is slightly stubborn, that persuasion is better than all the arguments in the world.
  They like a man who knows their innocent weaknesses, and one who will bring home a box of candy, the last new magazine or the latest puzzle sold in the street.
  And lastly, they like a man who likes them; who doesn’t scorn their opinions; who believes in their good taste; who has confidence in their truth and who, best of all, knows that the love promised is given him.

  That is the sort of a man a woman likes, and her very sigh of satisfaction as his virtues are mentioned, is a little prayer that says - “God bless him”. Hoping you are not tired of this lengthy epistle,
  Yours etc,
  FLORA

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    Convert Convert • 23 days ago

    The president of the USA shouldn't be ashamed of the word Christmas. It's not a curse word.
    Origin of Silent Night song
    "It was December 24th 1818, when Joseph Mohr of the newly established parish of St. Nicola in Oberndorf (he was the assisting priest then) came up to the organist Franz Xaver Gruber (who was also the teacher of Arnsdorf, a village close by) with a poem. Joseph Mohr asked, if Gruber could compose a song for two solo voices and choir accompanied by a guitar". With these words Gruber (composer) described the beginning of today's worldfamous Christmas song.
    Lyrics of Silent Night in form of a poem
    The lyrics were already written in 1816 by Mohr, who worked in Mariapfarr then, in form of a poem. Why this poem became a Christmas song two years later is subject to speculation. The legend goes, that St. Nicola's organ was broken that Christmas eve in 1818. Out of that reason both creators composesd this carol for soprano, tenor and choir to be perfomed for the first time this special night in the church of St. Nicola in Oberndorf, Germany.
    From Salzburg to Tyrol, Leipzig and New York
    This carol was later on primarily performed in the area where both creators worked, without their names being mentioned. In 1866 the carol was first published in a songbook for churches in the area of Salzburg. Before that, the Rainer and Strasser families took the song to the Zillertal of Tyrol (1819), to Leipzig (1832) and finally to New York (1839).
    Christian missionaries spread the carol at the turn of the century to all continents. Today, over 300 translations into different languages and dialects are known.
    Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
    Alles schläft; einsam wacht
    Nur das traute hochheilige Paar.
    Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar,
    Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
    Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!

    Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
    Hirten erst kundgemacht
    Durch der Engel Halleluja,
    Tönt es laut von fern und nah:
    Christ, der Retter ist da!
    Christ, der Retter ist da!

    Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
    Gottes Sohn, o wie lacht
    Lieb' aus deinem göttlichen Mund,
    Da uns schlägt die rettende Stund'.
    Christ, in deiner Geburt!
    Christ, in deiner Geburt!
    Silent night, holy night,
    All is calm, all is bright
    Round yon virgin mother and child.
    Holy infant, so tender and mild,
    Sleep in heavenly peace,
    Sleep in heavenly peace.

    Silent night, holy night,
    Shepherds quake at the sight;
    Glories stream from heaven afar,
    Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
    Christ the Savior is born,
    Christ the Savior is born!

    Silent night, holy night,
    Son of God, love's pure light;
    Radiant beams from thy holy face
    With the dawn of redeeming grace,
    Jesus, Lord, at thy birth,
    Jesus, Lord, at thy birth.

    the U.S. president should be proud of Silent Night. I believe his ancestors were German

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Mary Dalton • 22 days ago

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Marcus Aurelius Tarkus • 22 days ago

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1d2a3v4id5 • 22 days ago

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  Marcus Aurelius Tarkus • 21 days ago

  I will add these thoughts, given the general tenor of comments in this thread.

  Because our political system has become so thoroughly corrupt, we tend to hunger for table scraps of goodness from our "leaders." When we are fortunate enough to pick some off the floor, we tend to celebrate as though we were just treated to a five-course meal at a five-star restaurant.

  When read in its entirety, my earlier comment--called cynical by 1d2a3v4id5--called for perspective. Perspective is what we need here, in order not to be manipulated and exploited by those who know which buttons to push on us, and what the effects might be. It is all well and good to appreciate table scraps for exactly how much they amount to. To fixate on them and minimize their often-tainted source is surely problematic.

  So indeed, be approving--not grateful--when Trump or any elected gets something right. But only if that approval is used to pressure them to get more things right.

  Finally, I have a big problem with the notion that we, as citizens, must "support" anything or anyone for which or for whom we pay taxes. Of course we support these things and people; we have no choice. Approval, on the other hand, must be earned. Until it is, our involuntary support must be inextricable from our voluntary protest, whenever the latter is called for.

  Just sayin', 1-5 david et al.

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    John P. Morris Marcus Aurelius Tarkus • 20 days ago

    It is imperative we understand why the President feels compelled to utter such pronouncements: he is a counteractive to the previous President who happily announced that we are no longer a Christian nation. Trump must make more overt than previously called for such statements and send forth the message that we are reclaiming our Judeo-Christian heritage, ever at risk among secular humanism and the spirit of rebellion.

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    Marcus Aurelius Tarkus John P. Morris • 20 days ago

    Given the convolution of your reply--and despite your "imperative"--I just don't feel "compelled" to agree with you, John.

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    John Hladky • 19 days ago

    I could choose to be skeptical. I could choose to believe such references to Our Lord are as empty and meaningless as those uttered by Obama or any past-tense Masonic President. I could choose to believe quite incorrectly that men are always bad, that such bad men are irredeemable, that the world is ruled by Satan rather than God. I could choose not to accept Ecclesiasticus 11:14, that good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches are from God. I could choose to think such things, and consider President Trump's message as just another ploy.

    But would it matter? And what would it accomplish? Are we not all instruments of one sort or another in the Hand of God, one way or another, for good, or for evil? Consider 2 Sam:12:11, Isaias 13:5 or 4 Kings 13:3 to name just a few. Did not God use Caesar Augustus to decree the census that the prophecy of Micah 5:2 might be fulfilled?

    Whether President Trump is a believer, or not, is not the issue. What matters, all that matters, is that God's holy will is accomplished, whether He accomplish that will by raising up unbelievers to glorify His Holy Name to the shame of those who ought know better, or by planting seeds of conversion. I am glad for President Trump's words, because regardless of the state of soul of President Trump, the world hears the glorification of God. The instrument does not exist for its own sake.

    And so I choose to believe the words of Ecclesiasticus, that the world is very much in the hand of God and governed fully according to His purpose, His holy Will, and is this not echoed in Wisdom 1:14, that He created all things that they might be, that He made the nations of the earth for health, that there is no poison of destruction in them nor kingdom of hell upon the earth? More cogently, I believe in the words of Isaias 53, for which purpose are those surrounding the Nativity of Our Lord, the manifestation of the Charity of God, Jesus, Our Life and Our hope.

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    Margaret John Hladky • 18 days ago

    John, it's good to see you back. I've missed you!

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    John Hladky Margaret • 17 days ago

    Thank you, that is thoughtful of you to say. But I made this detour because of Trump's message, which a friend told me about. I respect the Remnant and it's long mission and have found so much of its content very helpful as regards the Faith, but some things (as regards reaction) I do not agree with, and I will let it go at that.