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Entry: The Gospel of Hope Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_gospel_of_hope#10945 Post contents: “Christianity did not bring a message of social revolution like that of the ill-fated Spartacus, whose struggle led to so much bloodshed. Jesus was not Spartacus, he was not engaged in a fight for political liberation like Barabbas or Bar- Kochba.” And yet so much bloodshed witnessed these last 100 years at the hands of the modern democratic experiment started a rebellion against the manifest will of Jesus Christ on June 28th 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand All the world rebelled against the Divinely Ordained Holy Roman Empire with this horrible act. All the world forgetting that the Holy Family were citizens of the Roman Empire. All the world “engaged in a fight for political liberation” from the Holy Roman Empire and as Dante said: “ Wherefore let all who in mad presumption have risen up against this most manifest will of God, now grow pale at the thought of the judgement of the stern Judge, which is nigh at hand, if so be the sword of Him who saith, 'Vengeance is mine', be not fallen out of heaven.” But you, who transgress every law of God and man, and whom the insatiable greed of avarice has urged all too willing into every crime, does the dread of the second death not haunt you, seeing that you first and you alone, shrinking from the yoke of liberty, have murmured against the glory of the Roman Emperor, the king of the earth, and minister of God; and under cover of prescriptive right, refusing the duty of submission due to him, have chosen rather to rise up in the madness of rebellion?” 'O outcasts of Heaven, race despised,' comes this insolence you harbor in your souls? 'Why do you kick against that will which never can be severed from its purpose, and has so many times increased your pain? 'What profits it to fight against the fates? Remember your own Cerberus still bears the wounds of that around his chin and neck.' Inf. ix During this season of Advent something to reflect on is the obedience of the Holy Family to the Roman Empire, and our disobedience and rebellion to this same temporal authority. This Roman temporal authority was established by Blessed Trinity so that the whole world could receive the Word made Flesh in a period of peace. Sent at: 2008 07 09