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I HAVE\u00a0<\/b>resisted writing this article for months now. So many of you are going through such intense trials that what is needed most is encouragement and consolation, hope and assurance. I promise you, this article contains that\u2014though perhaps not in the way you will expect. Whatever you and I are going through now is a preparation for what is coming: the birth of an era of peace on the other side of the hard labour pains the earth is beginning to undergo…<\/p>\n

It is not my place to edit God. What follows are the words being given to us at this time from Heaven. Our role, rather, is to discern them with the Church:<\/p>\n

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Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophetic utterances. Test everything; retain what is good. (1 Thess 5:19-21)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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WHEN SIN CALLS FOR JUSTICE<\/p>\n

What pushed me over the edge today was an article I reread from the CBC, Canada’s taxpayer-funded television network. It’s called \u00a0“7 Tips for Having a Happy Pride with Your Kids” who attend gay “Pride” parades. The article stated:<\/p>\n

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Your kids will probably see boobs and penises. There will bodies of all shapes, sizes and in all states of undress. For parents like Ian Duncan, dad to 3-year-old Carson, this is all part of the appeal. \u201cWe\u2019re not body shamers,\u201d he says. \u201cIt all feeds into my son\u2019s emotional intelligence and sexual development. And it\u2019s never too early to think about that.\u201d Consider the experience as a great opportunity for some interesting discussion.<\/b> \u2014June 30th, 2016, <\/span>cbc.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"Since I first published that quote here<\/a>, the CBC has edited out the first sentence (see original CBC post here<\/a>). It doesn’t matter. To take children to a parade to see naked adults is child abuse. For an adult to expose himself to a child is, so we thought, a criminal offence. But once again, the month of June marked Pride parades all over the world in which innocent children were exposed in many places to sexual perversity. One reader noted on Facebook a sad and true reality, one that we are painfully experiencing in the Church:<\/p>\n

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I have heard many people express sadness about the first time they were exposed to too much information about something sexual as a child (including me.) It became the unfortunate end to the era of innocence and carefree childhood. Something burdensome happens to a child’s mind and a dark cloud of worry enters when one can remember. Even if there is no physical abuse that accompanies that moment of increased knowledge, we wish we could go back for a longer period of time. What is happening now is wrong and abusive, not enlightening nor good at all! We are adding pressure and emotional struggles on children that they are not equipped to handle. The Bible has a definition for this and it is called being spiritually blind and deceived.<\/strong> \u2014Diane Kay Brossette<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And we wonder why this generation, exposed to every kind of depravity and violence in social media, music, and visual “entertainment” are now turning en masse<\/em> to drugs to manage their anxiety and depression whilst recording the highest rates of suicide ever? [1]<\/sup><\/a>\u201cUS suicide rate soars to 30-year high in growing epidemic across America\u201d, cf. theguardian.com<\/a>; huffingtonpost.com<\/a>; it’s a “global epidemic” forbes.com<\/a><\/span><\/span>