I have
been away from my blog for awhile. Now I return. No better way to return than
to re-post one of Ann Barnhardt's most recent posts from her blog.
JESUS
WILL BREAK YOUR LEG IF HE HAS TO
OH, HOW FORTUITOUS. AFTER OUR
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HOW MARXIST-HOMOSEXUALISTS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DRAIN ALL OF THE MASCULINITY OUT OF THE
CHURCH, AND
ALSO OUT OF CHRIST HIMSELF, TODAY I FIND THE MOST WONDERFUL THING VIA FR. Z. AT
FR. RAY BLAKE'S BLOG.
THE CONTEXT OF FR. BLAKE'S ORIGINAL
PIECE IS ABOUT HERESY IN THE CHURCH, BUT IT APPLIES NOT ONLY TO FULL-BLOWN
HERETICS, BUT REALLY EVERYONE, BECAUSE EVERY SIN IS, IN A SENSE, A HERESY.
LONG STORY SHORT: WHEN A SHEPHERD WOULD GO OUT AND SEARCH FOR A LOST
SHEEP THAT HAD WANDERED OFF, WHEN HE FOUND THE LOST LAMB, HE WOULD BREAK OR
DISLOCATE ITS LEG, AND THEN CARRY IT BACK TO THE FLOCK ON HIS SHOULDERS. THIS
HUSBANDRY TECHNIQUE IS CALLED "HOBBLING." WE HAVE ALL SEEN THAT
IMAGE. YEAH. HE WASN'T CARRYING IT BECAUSE IT WAS FUN. HE WAS CARRYING THE LAMB
BECAUSE HE HAD INTENTIONALLY CRIPPLED IT.
WHY? WHY BREAK THE ANIMAL'S LEG? FIRST,
TO KEEP IT FROM
WANDERING OFF AGAIN. SECOND, IN ORDER
TO TRAIN IT TO STAY WITH THE FLOCK. WHILE THE LEG WAS MENDING, THE LAMB WOULD
NOT WANDER OFF AND LEARNED TO STAY WITH THE FOLD. THIS WAS DONE NOT JUST TO
PROTECT THE STRAYING LAMB, BUT ALSO TO PROTECT THE REST OF THE FLOCK. SHEEP ARE
VERY GREGARIOUS. IF ONE IS HEADY AND HEADS OFF ON SOME TANGENT, THE REST OF THE
FLOCK MIGHT GO AFTER IT INSTEAD OF STAYING WITH THE SHEPHERD.
YOU KNOW, KINDA LIKE PEOPLE.
IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL BREAKING OF THE
LEG, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING THAT A BROKEN LEG WOULD KILL AN ANIMAL OR BE
MASSIVELY CRUEL. YOU WOULD BE WRONG. THE FOLKS WHO TAUGHT ME THE CATTLE
BUSINESS USED TO HERD AND DRIVE WILD ANIMALS LIKE ELK AND REINDEER UP ON THE
TUNDRAS OF CANADA. ONE TIME THEY CAME ACROSS A LARGE HERD OF ELK AND ONE OF THE
ANIMALS HAD A TOTALLY FRACTURED HIND LEG. THE BONE WAS TOTALLY SEVERED AND THE
LEG WAS FLOPPING COMPLETELY FREE AS THE ANIMAL RAN WITH THE HERD ON THREE LEGS.
WHEN THEY CAME BACK TO THAT HERD A FEW WEEKS
LATER, THEY SPOTTED THE ANIMAL, AND ITS
LEG WAS ALMOST FULLY HEALED. IT HAD A SLIGHT DEFORMITY, BUT IT WAS RUNNING ON
THE BROKEN LEG. THE POINT IS THAT ANIMALS HAVE A MASSIVE PAIN TOLERANCE SUCH
THAT THEIR PERCEPTION OF PAIN IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT THAN THAT OF HUMAN
PAIN. ADDITIONALLY, THEY HAVE A CAPACITY FOR PHYSICAL HEALING THAT HUMANS LIKEWISE
DO NOT HAVE. A UNTREATED COMPOUND FRACTURE IN A HUMAN LEG WOULD KILL THE HUMAN.
BUT ANIMALS ARE DIFFERENT, SO THE SHEPHERDING TECHNIQUE OF BREAKING OR
DISLOCATING THE LEG OF A STRAYING LAMB WOULD HAVE BEEN STANDARD OPERATING
PROCEDURE.
I LOOKED THIS UP, AND SURE ENOUGH, UP
UNTIL JUST WITHIN THE LAST CENTURY, PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THE SYMBOLISM OF THE GOOD
SHEPHERD FAIRLY WIDELY, AS MANY PEOPLE WERE STILL INVOLVED IN ANIMAL
AGRICULTURE ON ROUGHLY THE SAME TECHNOLOGICAL LEVEL AS THAT OF 2000 YEARS AGO.
THE CHURCH, AND THUS THE PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT IF GOD GENTLY GUIDES YOU BACK TO THE FOLD, BUT YOU
KEEP PERSISTENTLY WANDERING OFF AND BEING DISOBEDIENT TO GOD'S PERFECT WILL,
ENDANGERING NOT ONLY YOURSELF BUT THE REST OF THE FLOCK AS WELL, JESUS WILL PROVERBIALLY BREAK YOUR LEG, HOIST YOU ON
HIS SHOULDERS AND HAUL YOU BACK TO THE FLOCK. THE ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE TO LET
YOU GET EATEN BY THE WOLVES, AND ENTICE THE WOLVES TO ATTACK THE REST OF THE
FLOCK.
WHEN JESUS SAYS, "I AM THE GOOD
SHEPHERD," HE MEANS IT. CRACK!
FINALLY, THIS ALSO ILLUMINATES THE
PROPHECY IN NUMBERS 9:12 THAT THE PASSOVER LAMB SHALL NOT HAVE ANY OF ITS BONES
BROKEN:
THEY SHALL NOT LEAVE ANYTHING THEREOF UNTIL MORNING,
A NOR BREAK A BONE THEREOF, THEY SHALL OBSERVE ALL THE CEREMONIES OF THE PHASE.
--NUMBERS 9:12
THIS WAS SPECIFICALLY EMPHASIZED BY
JOHN IN HIS GOSPEL:
FOR THESE THINGS WERE DONE, THAT THE SCRIPTURE MIGHT
BE FULFILLED: YOU SHALL NOT BREAK A BONE OF HIM. --JOHN 19:36
JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD (AGNUS DEI),
SLAIN FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD (QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI). HE WAS SLAIN WITHOUT ANY OF HIS BONES BEING BROKEN
BECAUSE HE IS THE PREFECT LAMB, IN PERFECT UNION WITH THE WILL OF THE FATHER,
WHO NEVER, EVER STRAYED, AND THUS HIS BONES, IN PARTICULAR HIS LEGS, WERE NOT
BROKEN. IF
YOU REMEMBER THE NARRATIVE FROM CALVARY, WHEN JESUS HAD DIED ON THE CROSS, THE
ROMANS, SPURRED BY AN EARTHQUAKE AND THE DESIRE TO GET THE THREE CRUCIFIED JEWS
OFF OF GOLGOTHA BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE PASSOVER (ALSO PROPHESIED IN
NUMBERS 9:12 - "THEY SHALL NOT LEAVE ANYTHING THEREOF UNTIL
MORNING"), WERE ORDERED TO BREAK THE LEGS OF THE THREE MEN IN ORDER TO
HASTEN DEATH.
IF THEIR LEGS WERE BROKEN, THEY
COULDN'T HOLD THEMSELVES UP ON THEIR CROSSES TO BREATHE, AND WOULD THUS
ASPHYXIATE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. THE TWO THIEVES HAD THEIR LEGS BROKEN WITH A
CUDGEL BY THE ROMANS. WHEN THE ROMAN CAME TO CHRIST, HE SAW THAT OUR LORD WAS
ALREADY DEAD. IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT JESUS WAS DEAD, THE ROMAN, LONGINUS,
TOOK A SPEAR AND STABBED JESUS IN HIS SIDE, THROUGH TO HIS HEART. THIS PIERCED
THE PERICARDIAL SAC OF WATER THAT HAD FORMED AROUND HIS HEART AS HE WENT INTO
SHOCK AND ASPHYXIATED. OUT OF JESUS' SIDE POURED FIRST WATER (BAPTISM) FOLLOWED
BY BLOOD (THE EUCHARIST). SO, WHILE THE GOOD THIEF AND THE BAD THIEF BOTH HAD
THEIR LEGS BROKEN, JESUS' LEGS WERE NOT
BROKEN AT THE LAST SECOND BECAUSE HE IS THE PERFECTLY SUBMISSIVE LAMB TO THE
WILL OF THE FATHER.
AGAIN, THIS SYMBOLISM WOULD HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS TO PREVIOUS
GENERATIONS. IT IS ONLY TODAY THAT IT HAS BEEN
LOST. BEWARE OF ANY CLERGY TODAY WHO TRY TO PAINT JESUS AS UTTERLY BENIGN,
EFFETE AND PASSIVE. HE IS ANYTHING BUT. JESUS
WILL BREAK OUR LEG IF THAT IS WHAT IS REQUIRED TO GET US SAFELY TO HEAVEN AND
SAVE US FROM THE WOLVES.
PRIESTS AND BISHOPS WOULD DO VERY, VERY
WELL TO HEED THIS EXAMPLE. THE
FACT THAT THERE HAVE BEEN NO EXCOMMUNICATIONS IN THE WAKE OF THE PRO-ABORT
CULTURE IN GOVERNMENT, ESPECIALLY NOW AMONG SUCH "C"ATHOLICS AS
KATHLEEN SEBILIUS, NANCY PELOSI, JOHN KERRY, JOE BIDEN AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE
KENNEDY CLAN IS A TESTIMONY TO THE UTTERLY PISS-POOR JOB OF SHEPHERDING THAT
TODAY'S EPISCOPACY IS DOING. UTTERLY. PISS. POOR.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, AND IN THE NAME OF
CHRIST THE GOOD SHEPHERD, BREAK SOME LEGS! CRACK!
(ISN'T THIS IMAGE INCREDIBLY MOVING NOW
THAT WE KNOW THE FULL STORY AND CONTEXT?)
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