God is good, but never try setting up a blog!
If God sends you down a stony path,
May He give you strong shoes.
May you get all your wishes but one
So you always have something to strive for.
Has Israel lost the war against Hamas?
In the early hours of Oct. 7 th , 2023, Hamas launched a barrage of 3,000 missiles from the Gaza Strip against the State of Israel, combined with ground attacks upon civilians and soldiers. The resulting one-day death toll of 1,200 people in Israel represented the largest Jewish loss of life since the Holocaust. In addition to murdering civilians and raping women, Hamas seized 253 hostages, Global reaction was swift and widespread, with leaders of democratic nations simultaneously condemning Hamas while asserting Israel’s right to defend itself. Today, seven months later, the Palestinian death toll stands at 34,500 as Israel continues its offensive on Gaza. A crippling blockade is leaving its population on the verge of starvation and plague. Vast swathes of Gaza lie in ruin, pushing 85% of the enclave’s population into internal displacement with a lack of shelter, food, clean water, and medicine. At least 153 hostages remain in the hands of Hamas. That narrative has now shifte
Thanks be to God for the life and work of his servant Joseph Ratzinger.
ReplyDeleteTeach us all, O Lord, to be "das Salz der Erde".
Apres lui le deluge. Pope Junior has nothing holding him back now. Could be interesting.
DeleteYes, he can be perfectly Frank now.
DeleteSad news indeed. May Pope Benedict gaze this day upon God, and may his memory be eternal.
ReplyDeleteO God of spirits and of all flesh, Who hast trampled down death and overthrown the Devil, and given life to Thy world, do Thou, the same Lord, give rest to the souls of Thy departed servants in a place of brightness, a place of refreshment, a place of repose, where all sickness, sighing, and sorrow have fled away. Pardon every transgression which they have committed, whether by word or deed or thought. For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind; because there is no man who lives yet does not sin, for Thou only art without sin, Thy righteousness is to all eternity, and Thy word is truth.
For Thou are the Resurrection, the Life, and the Repose of Thy servants who have fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, together with Thy Father, who is from everlasting, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever unto ages of ages. Amen.
A happy and blessed new year to you all x
ReplyDeleteAnd to you Lain and all who visit this site!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year ye miserable sinners. And to Carl in about six hours' time. Always that little bit behind the rest of us.
DeleteAnd congratulations to Brian May, knighted in the New Year's Honours for services to big perms.
I'm worried about Happy Jack (again). He's been silent all day, today of all days. I sent him an email this afternoon but he hasn't replied yet.
ReplyDeleteProbably contemplating setting up a new blog. 'Pope Ratzinger' to replace Archbishop Cranmer.
DeleteJack wouldn't be so vain!
DeleteJack was under instructions from Mrs Jack ("she who must be obeyed") to concentrate on the grandchildren in the afternoon and he went to Mass in the evening.
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