“God of Grace and God of Glory”
Grant Us Wisdom, Grant Us Courage,
for the Living of these Days

This was the processional hymn at the online Sunday Mass I watched (attended?) this Sunday the 18th.  Note also the other verses:

“Lo! the hosts of evil round us scorn Thy Christ, assail his ways…Cure Thy children’s warring madness, bend our pride to Thy control, shame our wanton selfish gladness, rich in things and poor in soul.”

The priest gave a homily that began with a short biography of St. Jeanne Jugan, foundress of the order, “The Little Sisters of the Poor.”  This is the order which the Obama administration and the Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, sued for not allowing contraceptives to be made available (under the Obama Care mandate).

The suit was overturned by the Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision but no mention was made of prohibiting future suits.  So Shapiro, in his zeal to deal with immoral Catholics, has instituted a suit again.  As a measure of his Catholic faith, Joe Biden has promised to renew legal action against the Little Sisters if he is elected.  As the priest said in his homily, this suit is about forcing a group which had always rendered unto Caesar that which IS Caesar’s, but now are being forced to render unto Caesar that which is God’s.

I’ll quote from the homily (as near as I can).  I would like to link to the homily itself, but given the possibility of retaliation by political or even (I hate to say) ecclesiastic authorities, I won’t give information about the priest or his parish.

“If we lived in a sane country,  if our government had its priorities straight this would never have happened…We [people supporting Democrats?] are so attached to lust that we must involve everyone in it .. if the government goes after people like the Little Sisters of the Poor they will have no difficulty whatever in going after people like us, that is to say any Catholic who takes his faith seriously..”

Then, this is what we have to look forward to if Biden and his band of immoral power-hungry politicians are elected.

Now, I firmly believe that God knows what He is doing, and I do not.  As a Celt in Fifth Century Britain would not know that even after the Romans left and the barbarians came to pillage, there would be some 14 or 15 centuries later a “Land of Hope and Glory.”

So I will pray that God’s will be done and even if there is suffering after November 3rd, it is part of God’s design and a consequence of his gift of Free Will to humanity.