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Catholic Joe Biden honors abortion Activist with Medal of Honor

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Self-proclaimed Catholic President Joe Biden honored longtime feminist and pro-abortion activist Eleanor Smeal by awarding her with the Presidential Citizens Medal.

The medal is given to U.S. citizens who “have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens,” according to a White House announcement on January 2. The award comes after Biden — the nation’s second Catholic president — awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, who reportedly oversaw nearly 4 million abortions while leading the organization for 12 years, between 2006 and 2018.

Smeal is president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported. She was one of 20 Presidential Citizens Medal recipients on Thursday.

According to the Feminist Majority Foundation, Smeal led the first national abortion rights march in Washington, DC, in 1986, which included more than 100,000 protesters. She has also campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment and is a critic of laws that protect unborn babies from abortion.

“Smeal, who was raised Catholic, has also been critical of the Vatican and the Catholic Church for its teachings about the sanctity of life, its opposition to birth control, and its teachings about human sexuality,” according to the report.

Smeal was arrested in 1987 during a protest at the Vatican’s embassy, the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, the Washington Post reported. Speakers at the protest spoke against the Church’s teachings on abortion, birth control, and homosexuality.

“Because of my sex, I am second-class forever in my church,” Smeal said at the time. “Because of my sex, I could have been condemned to death at an early age [if I did not disobey the Church ban on birth control].”

Left Behind Bible Verses

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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

The Coming of the Lord

13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, (A)that you may not grieve as others do (B)who have no hope. 14 For (C)since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him (D)those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you (E)by a word from the Lord,[a] that (F)we who are alive, who are left until (G)the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For (H)the Lord himself will descend (I)from heaven (J)with a cry of command, with the voice of (K)an archangel, and (L)with the sound of the trumpet of God. And (M)the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be (N)caught up together with them (O)in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so (P)we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 Or by the word of the Lord

Cross references

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 : [Lev. 19:28; Deut. 14:1; 2 Sam. 12:20-23; Mark 5:39]
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 : Eph. 2:12
  3. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 : 1 Cor. 15:13; [2 Cor. 4:14; Rev. 1:18]
  4. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 : 1 Cor. 15:18
  5. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 : See 1 Kgs. 13:17
  6. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 : 1 Cor. 15:51
  7. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 : See ch. 2:19
  8. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 : See Matt. 16:27
  9. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 : 2 Thess. 1:7
  10. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 : [Joel 2:11]
  11. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 : Jude 9
  12. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 : Matt. 24:31; 1 Cor. 15:52
  13. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 : 1 Cor. 15:23; [2 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 14:13]
  14. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 : See 2 Cor. 12:2
  15. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 : [Dan. 7:13; Acts 1:9; Rev. 11:12]
  16. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 : See John 12:26
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Woke Pastor Hates ‘Bull***’ ‘Christ The King Sunday’

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MCC Toronto is a “vibrant and progressive church rooted in the Christian tradition and the 2SLGBTQ+ community” that is “open and welcoming to everyone, and a Human Rights Centre that is fiercely committed to social justice,” at least according their website.

Led by “non-binary” impastor Rev. Deana Dudley, “transgendered woman” Rev. Junia Joplin, and a cadre of three-pronouned assistants, they run the joint with the full blessing of Satan, who has most assuredly taken up residence in the hearts in the minds of the congregation.

Here is a portion of the “sermon”…

“I do not like the concept of Christ the King Sunday, and I really don’t want to preach on it. And the reason is, that it has traditionally gotten preached as a kind of a victory over all our enemies, militaristic kind of thing.

And I think A), that has no relationship whatsoever with the notion of unconditional love that I believe is at the heart of the gospel. And B), Jesus would be utterly horrified to be worshiped in that kind of way. And C), that kind of militaristic bullshit has absolutely no place in church.

So it has no place, and I dislike it because it leads to all kinds of evil crap like Christian nationalism, which I declare to be a heresy, which also leads to all kinds of evil divisive crap like racism and colonialism, for which the church at large really needs to repent. Are you all awake now?

You know what happens sometimes? Sometimes a preacher looks at the liturgical texts and thinks, I am not going to go there. And then they keep on reflecting, and it keeps on bugging us. And eventually we go there.

So here I am, and here’s my thought on Christ the King Sunday. I can’t do it.”

Rev. Deana Dudley, Metropolitan Community church Toronto

In November of this last year, the same church during a sermon on ‘Kink Sunday,” preacher JJ Viviers, a Master of Divinity and Master of Pastoral Studies student at Emmanuel College whose pronouns encompass (they/them/he+she), “preached” a message on Luke 22:7-13 while wearing bondage ropes around his wrists.

For Context, here is the Episcopal Church USA definition of “Christ The King” Sunday..

Feast celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church on the last Sunday of the liturgical year. It celebrates Christ’s messianic kingship and sovereign rule over all creation. The feast is unofficially celebrated in some Episcopal parishes, but it is not mentioned in the Episcopal calendar of the church year. Marion Hatchett notes that the Prayer Book collect for Proper 29, the last Sunday of the church year, is a “somewhat free” translation of the collect of the Feast of Christ the King in the Roman Missal. This collect prays that God, “whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords,” will “Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule” (BCP, p. 236). The feast was originally instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 and celebrated on the last Sunday in Oct. It has been observed on the last Sunday before Advent since 1970.

Epiphany – Chalking the Door

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Here is my liturgy for Chalking the Door at the end of Christmastide. I have used custom scripts in the past but have found an official liturgy in The Book of Occasional Services published by the Episcopal Church. Feel Free to Download.

Our 2023 Chalking of the door, above the entrance to our home through the garage.
Blessing of a Home at Epiphany – BOS 2022Download