[Siobhan]

The public image of a couple and the reality can be very different. There must be cooperation with grace. But this sounds as if there was cooperation with something demonic playing on very human fallen broken emotions.

That this makes no sense and stinks of the spirit of confusion should tell us all of how much the demon is enjoying this. I am raining on the Enemy's parade, by interceding for Bai and Bud -- for a miraculous reconciliation through the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I will be making this a big part of my prayer time before Jesus in Adoration, and I will ask St. Joseph and the Blessed Mother for their intercessions.

Sometimes these kinds of things happen -- to call the Bride of Christ to PRAYER with a shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit. After Johnette's Simon died in the car accident, I began to see a pattern of assault and attack on leadership lay leadership across the Church. Not like the scandals we've seen with the priests and the media that isn't merely random sorrowful events, sad failures of the human spirit. But there is something dark and sinister afoot.

In prayer it feels as if we need a St. Joan of Arc to rally us and to call us to arms spiritually. To PRAYER. To PRAYER. Perhaps you are hearing this call now to pray for divine protection and for the banishment of the spirit of confusion. It is a good time to turn again to devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. For me it is a time to pray the Litany of the Holy Angels.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

In prayer it feels as if we need a St. Joan of Arc to rally us and to call us to arms spiritually. To PRAYER.

Absolutely! She is one of my favorites. May God grant us some very powerful saints for the dark times ahead.

[tiki]

Oh my goodness! I read the article and thought "Surely it isn't that Bud!" I will pray.

[nina0113]

Two letters from Bai Macfarlane's sister are posted here:

http://fonticulusfides.blogspot.com/

Scroll down to March 23. It also explains the name issue - she has never used her first name, and used it in this instance to try to preserve her family's privacy.

Steve and I are both shocked and sorry to read about this. When we first met, and he learned that I was signing up for RCIA that fall, he lent me Pierced by a Sword. I've read both the other books too, and have many of the Catholicity tapes. I've been signed up for the Catholicity e-mail message for years, and looked at some old ones last night - as of MAY, his son was making First Communion, and he wrote very movingly of telling him to offer it for his future wife. How could he have abandoned his own wife only three months later? I think he must need either an exorcist or a neurosurgeon (or Jimbo's Right Hook, for those who've read PBAS). All we can do is offer our prayers for the family.

[Askel5]

Thank you, Siobhan.