Covenant, Communion, & the Coming Storm

Looks like the covenant's still holding up. Snapped this in between showers yesterday. See the second bow? Does it look like the colors are reversed to you?

Today is the feast of St. Pope Pius X, who is perhaps most remembered in the Church today as the Pope who encouraged a lower age for First Holy Communion. As a consequence, the saraments of initiation in the Latin Church now fall somewhat out of order; at least compared to the vast weight of tradition. Although the order is restored for adults entering the Church at Easter Vigil, I think this remains unresolved for the moment for children & adolescents.

St. Pius also known for his waging of war againt Modernism, which was called the sum of all heresies. One need not look far to see the tragic consequences that result from this evil. It seems that the Church's 40-year period of flirting with Modernism are coming to a close. As long as the Church was somewhat neutralized & relatively ineffective in its living & spreading of the Gospel, the world tolerated Christianity & the Church (think Anglicanism). When it can no longer be reconciled, I have no doubt that the forces of the world will turn on the Church with an unimaginable fury.

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But not to worry, we know how the story ends.

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… I looked, & behold a door was opened in heaven… And behold, there was a throne set in heaven, & upon the throne one sitting. And he that sat was to the sight like the jasper & the sardine stone. And there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats, & upon the seats, four & twenty ancients sitting, clothed in white garments. And on their heads were crowns of gold… And in the sight of the throne was, as it were, a sea of glass like to crystal… & round about the throne, were four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind. And the first living creature was like a lion, & the second living creature like a calf, & the third living creature, having the face, as it were, of a man, & the fourth living creature was like an eagle flying. And the four living creatures had each of them six wings, & round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was & who is & who is to come. Rev 4:1-8