Dystopia

 

Dystopia

Develop a pill that can prevent fertilisation

And another that can seek out and destroy

The embryo

Drop them like a megaton A-bomb

All across the sheer face of the Western world

Stand back and watch like J. Robert Oppenheimer           

Declare “I am become Death, the destroyer of Worlds”

Make it easy, make it free to all nations

Do it all in the name of women’s liberation

Sit back and laugh as the birth rate suddenly plummets

Pour your cash into Planned Parenthood and into Marie Stopes

Watch the hounds tearing children to pieces

Call it “safe, legal, rare reproductive health”

Spread at home and abroad State sex education

Get them starting nice and early

Then watch their inhibitions go!

Divorce marriage from all previous notions

That held families together

Generations ago

It’s a dysto-oh-oh-oh pia!

Dystopia

Oh-oh-oh-oh pia

It’s a dysto-oh-oh-oh pia!

Dystopia

Oh-oh-oh-oh pia

Raise the standard and the cost of everyday living

Make it harder to have children than it was all those years ago

Ensure motherhood’s a temporary measure

A brief interruption in her economic cycle

Erase the Cross, Resurrection and your civilisation

Your conscience and crown a new dawn of atheism

Hold the Church up to public scorn

Declare your faith in reason infallible

‘Why are we here?’

We’re not sure but science must have the answer!

Let the new priests experiment on human embryos

Call it progress ‘medical advancement’

(of Dr Josef Mengele’s warped imagination)

Now you’ve made a lonely aging population

And the State can’t afford to prop up all the care homes

Sell the public euthanasia

‘Kill your grandma and you can take the inheritance!’

Manipulate markets and exploit global finance

Watch livelihoods crumble and watch as democracy falls

Like dominos amid a currency collapse

Just like they did before in the last World Wars

The people think you’re just a regular rocker, a‘fella

Associate your name with the humanitarian cause

While your politicians use threats of Terror

To take human liberty and show it the door

Convince the countries we're a cancer, over-population
Use your wealth to 'save the planet' it's oh so Malthusian
The West gets so drunk that it wakes up one morning

In bed with some godless 'Chinese model'

Help perpetuate and spread the ‘errors of Russia’

The Euphrates to the Gulf of Mexico and Norfolk Broads

You didn’t ‘bank’ on coming forth round the corner

Fair as the morn and bright as the sun…

Quae est ista quae progreditur

Quasi aurora consurgens

Pulchra ut luna,

Electa ut sol

Terribilis

Ut

Castrorum acies ordinata

Oh, Oh, oh pia

Oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh pia

Virgo-oh-oh-oh

Mar-aria-aria-oh-oh-oh-oh

Virgo-oh-oh

Maria

O pia Maria

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Bye bye to, bye bye to, bye bye to your

Dystopia

The Cruelty of New Steine Mews: Update

I've just heard from Mr Evans that New Steine Mews refused Jason his clothes from his room two days ago because of what I wrote on my blog.

I believe Jason because Jason didn't know I'd written anything on my blog therefore I don't require the 'other side to the story'.

New Steine Mews, however, did know because I sent them links to both of my blogs.

So, they make a man homeless, evict him with none of his possessions. Then, after he's been out in the rain for a few days and he needs his clothes, he goes back to see them to get them and he's told that he cannot have them because someone has written something unpleasant about the near total lack of compassion or empathy the staff there have with the homeless.

If you would like to make known your views on this, feel free to contact the staff at New Steine Mews at:

hostel@nsmhostel.org.uk

...and let your views be known.

Look, I know that Jason can be 'hard work' but talk about kicking a man when he's down. But hey, that's my fault for exercising free speech, isn't it? I guess that's why Our Lord told His disciples to clothe the naked. He knew the State wouldn't think to do it. They can consider it war, then. There must be a way for all of Brighton to know of their wicked treatment of the poor. I'll have a think. Still, its heartening to know that its not just the homeless that the State has it in for, but the disabled as well. Oh, and the elderly. And the unborn.

As someone has kindly commented, out in the world for those to whom law applies, what has taken place is theft. For those consider themselves above the law of both God and man, what has taken place is just revenge because if you're poor, or homeless or without power or status in this World, your rights mean nothing.

Mouthwatering LMS Conference 2012

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Essential Equipment for the Chastisement

If you live in Brighton, it may be worth investing in one of these...

Last week the Holy Father canonised St Hilderberg of Bingen. In fact, it is being reported that Pope Benedict XVI officially recognised what the Church had already considered of the 12th century mystic and that the Church had now "inscribed her in the catalogue of Saints".

It is worth noting His Holiness's words on this Saint, as reported by The Catholic Herald...

"In St Hildegard’s time, there were calls for radical reform of the Church to fight the problem of abuses made by the clergy, the Pope had said. But she “reproached demands to subvert the very nature of the Church” and reminded people that “a true renewal of the ecclesial community is not achieved so much with a change in the structures as much as with a sincere spirit of penitence”.

12th century, 21st century. You wouldn't have thought they would be similar and yet a desire for 'renewal' is expressed in the Church by many - including the Holy Father himself, among supporters which number Bishops, Cardinals, Clergy, Religous and Laity.

St Hildegard, as Le Fleur de Lys too has noted, was a great mystic as well as a composer of timeless music of the Church and received visions from God which met with a degree of opposition in her time. Her writings, poetry and music express an ardent love for God to which few will attain. She was also a prophetess and many see her writings concerning 'things to come' in the line of prophecy which culminates with Our Lady of Fatima's apparitions in Portugal in 1917 - prophecies which concern the future of the Church and the World. The Catholic Knight has a good piece for those interested in such prophecies, but the bit that has personal resonance for me is this excerpt:

"Before the Comet comes, many nations, the good excepted, will be scoured with want and famine. The great nation in the ocean that is inhabited by people of different tribes and descent by an earthquake, storm and tidal waves will be devastated. It will be divided, and in great part submerged. That nation will also have many misfortunes at sea, and lose its colonies in the east through a Tiger and a Lion. The Comet by its tremendous pressure, will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries, causing much want and many plagues. [After the] great Comet, the great nation will be devastated by earthquakes, storms, and great waves of water, causing much want and plagues. The ocean will also flood many other countries, so that all coastal cities will live in fear, with many destroyed. All sea coast cities will be fearful and many of them will be destroyed by tidal waves, and most living creatures will be killed and even those who escape will die from a horrible disease."

I really don't know what to make of Catholic prophecies. We do not have to believe in them. What with living in Brighton, though, I have to say that it is not entirely implausible that the 'city by the sea' is on Our Lady's hit list because not only is sodomy and abortion rife but the poor are treated with indifference or worse though Eastbourne may just survive. And, unfortunately, what with living on the ground floor of a tower block, my chances of surviving the wave of terror are slim. All I can do is pray, do penance, pray the Rosary, hope and pray that I'm in a State of Grace if or when it happens and invest in one of those rubber dinghy things. I believe they're about £17.50 at the moment for sale on the seafront...

Poverty, Chastity and Obedience

At last week's Catechism discussion group at St Mary Magdalen's Church we discussed the consecrated life in the Church.

In particular, we were discussing the three vows of religious life - poverty, chastity and obedience. It was a very thought provoking discussion.

Strangely, though, it got me thinking about non-Catholics that I know living in hostels around Brighton.  One friend lives at St Patrick's hostel in Hove. Aside from the fact that many of those living in the hostels of Brighton have 'issues' like we all have 'issues' - ranging from mental health to alcohol and drug abuse - the life of a hostel dweller is quite monastic in its basic format.

First, you really only get into these hostels if you are on benefits - so you live on a minimum allocated amount each week with which to buy your food, top up your rent, buy your necessaries. Of course, if you find it hard to budget, or have a particular addiction or habit that causes you to lose a great deal of your money quickly then you are dependent on the charity of others. Unitentionally, you have fulfilled one of the chief criteria of religious life - Poverty.

Of course, if you live in St Patrick's hostel, you aren't actually allowed visitors to stay overnight. So, you can forget about taking home a lady or having any sexual relationships if you live there. Unwittingly, you have fulfilled or are fulfilling another vow of religous life - Chastity.

Then, because you live under the roof of the hostel owners, you have to live under those ground rules mentioned above. You don't actually have anything to do during the day so you just walk around town all day begging. However, if you overstep some 'marker' or are found to be guilty of some form of 'anti-social behaviour' then you know that you will be evicted with no notice whatsoever. Therefore, you have to be obedient and on good behaviour towards your superiors - the staff of the hostel. Unwittingly, you have fulfilled the third aspect of the religious life - Obedience.

Of course, the great difference between this person and the religious is that one has been placed in this situation by the Council. The other has chosen it as his vocation. One involves having no choice at all - save for the street - the person in question has actually slept in bushes for a prolongued period of time - the other has chosen freely to live under these conditions in order to dedicate himself more solely to following Christ and loving the Lord. And, of course, while the hostel dweller has not chosen to live in community with others who have not chosen to be there either, the religous has chosen to live in community with others who have chosen to be there.

The issue of choice, of prayer, of expressed human will are central to those who go into consecrated life. The two situations are, of course, entirely different for those reasons - yet those who choose it discover that it is liberating. Those who do not choose it, but are coerced into a similar setting do not find it liberating but imprisoning. I was struck by how even though these two situations are entirely disimilar, they are strangely the same. There is one similarity however. A lot of people in hostels detest each other. Sadly, the same is true of some religious houses.

Finally, of course, unemployment and begging brings to hostel dwellers the derision of the World - those who are marked by addictions - even former addictions - are considered to be 'scum' by many. Therefore they are humbled and take the lowest place in society - and humility is, of course, what all religious are seeking.

Tears with Mears

Mears: Brighton company in charge of council housing repairs on stock exchange

 I found the following comment on The Eye of a Needle blog. I don't get many comments on that blog so its an interesting 'lead'.

'Teresa has left a new comment on your post "Brighton and Hove City Council and Mears Group: A ...":
what a disgusting waste of taxpayers money, want to see some more of mears work come to Burwash Road Hove BN3 8GP and view a flat that has 2 bedrooms and a bathroom with black mold on the ceilings and walls its an eye opener to see this be outside Burwash pharmacy at 12noon on monday 12th may 2012 at 12noon and you can see it for yourself and Brighton Council expect a family with 4 children to move into this health hazard.'

Interesting, eh?  I can't make that appointment as it happens, but it sounds like someone else in Brighton wants the truth about the Mears Group and their care of Brighton's social housing to be exposed.