The family is an intermediate institution between the individual and society and nothing can entirely replace it. It is itself founded above all on a profound interpersonal relationship between husband and wife, sustained by affection and mutual understanding. Therefore it receives abundant help from God in the sacrament of matrimony which carreis with it a true vocation to sanctity. May children experience moments of harmony and affecton between their parents more than those of discord or indifference, because the love between father and mother offers to children a great security, and teaches them the beauty of faithful and enduring love.and on the other hand, protesters were engaged in a naked bicycle ride past the train station to call for "sexual freedom". Yeah - like all these oppressed people round Spain want to engage in sexual freedom but just can't bring themselves to do it unless Pope Benedict changes the teaching of the Catholic Church!
Several people yesterday commented to me on the virtually non-existent television coverage of the Pope's visit to Valencia. Read my lips:
Throw away your television.
Television is yesterday's technology. You do not have to be limited by the news values determined by the BBC, Rupert Murdoch or any other dictator of relativism. The BBC does not care about what about the Catholic Church teaches or values. Do not, as a Catholic, bow down to what the BBC teaches or values. Get your "news" from elsewhere. That way, you get to hear, for example, how the Pope prayed for victims of a tragedy on the underground and met some of their relatives, and how a million Spaniards booed Zapatero when the TV screens showed him in some footage before the Papal Mass.
Just to help you along, here are a few photos culled from the Papa Ratzinger Forum to give you a taste of the emotions in Valencia over the past couple of days. (Click on them to get larger versions.)
5 comments:
Absolutely fantastic pictures! And the size of the crowds!!!! The joy and the outpouring of true love is just clear for all to see. Viva Papa Benedict!
What a contrast to the sick homosexual 'gay pride' antics a week or so ago in Madrid, where clear anti-Catholic and anti-Pope banners were flagrantly displayed by these depraved, morally deficient creeps.
The Culture of Life or the culture of death. God has given human beings the freedom to choose. Why do so many choose to follow the devil????
Watching the coverage of the events in Valencia, I was struck by the joy in the crowds of those families. If the "alternative lifestyles" are as wonderful as their advocates claim they are, why are those people always so bitter and miserable?
I've just gotten back from the World Meeting of Families with representatives from four families in the parish. It was fantastic! I had promised our group that if we carried the Union Jack we would get ourselves on TV. We were interviewed twice and to my knowledge we appeared six times. Why us? - because so few people go from England. I could guess why when I met the official English group and had to put up with listening to some very odd ideas.
I hope to put some pics up on the vocations blog soon.
What TV coverage would that be Fr Stephen?
Certainly not UK - judging by the complete blanket non-coverage of this monumental International Family occassion.
Did anyone catch anything about this fabulous event on UK TV - perhaps I simply missed it. It couldn't possibly be that the UK media are simply indifferent or dare I suggest even 'hostile' to our Pope, the Catholic Faith and Family Life!
Seems the most important story in the UK judging by the coverage in ALL the media (yawn yawn) was of Zidane's antics on pitch at the cup final (babalublog has a really funny take on this involving none other than Fidel Castro).
George
Do you still have a television? Don't you read Fr Tim's blog? We were on EWTN, Valencia TV, Antenna 3 & TV Nou. We didn't see any of them - but who cares 'cos we were there!
:o)
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