Has Europe Gone Crazy?

[misereremi]

[quote name='puellapaschalis' post='1048815' date='Aug 23 2006, 05:52 PM']
Have a wonderful and blessed time in Walsingham and please, if you can, tell us a little about your experiences when you get back. Is it a Youth 2000 thing? I got semi-involved with Y2k a few years ago, and looking back can see just how much it's needed.

Love and prayers,

PP
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Thank you! Had an amazing time in Walsingham, our national shrine to Our Lady. Yes it was a Youth 2000 prayer festival which went on for 5 days with all night adoration, confession, mass, healing, workshops, penance....There were talks from converts which blew me away. I was moved when I saw some of the Irish traveller kids praying the rosary barefoot on the Pilgrims Way.

It was great to see my friends in the Franciscan friars of the renewal, and the Community of St John the Beloved, the poor Clares, so many young priests, and hundreds of Catholic Church militants. We feel much hope when we all get together. I started going to Youth 2000 festivals after reading the life story of John Pridmore, an ex London gangster.

These are very, very exciting and hopeful times to be young and Catholic in England. In October we will have the biggest ever gathering of Catholic youth in 25 years. We may be a small minority in a secular country, but we are a very strong "army". And we know that even when we disperse back into our towns and walk these dark streets, that we are not alone, and we have angels joining us in our battle. I pray for the day when we will reclaim our churches and England will return to Catholicism.

"O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon England, your Dowry and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in you!" (from the Prayer for England)

[Aloysius]

[quote](Oh, and I've chatted with more than one Muslim - give me a Dutch Muslim over an atheist any day!)
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"It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship." -G.K. Chesterton

this, of course, is all well and good but I still don't want Europe to be ruled by Islam and secularism is not powerful enough to stop it... in fact secularism creates that God-sized hole and Allah seems to fill it for a some europeans... Christianity needs to gain more momentum and power if we don't want all of Europe to be under Islamodom within the next century. Only Christendom can withstand muslim attempts to take over Europe, seculardom has no hope.