Happy Birthday, Mama Mary

We almost missed the holy day: September 8, the birthday of the virgin Mary.

Here in the Philippines, the rejoicing that so few lives were lost in a superferry accident lightens the daily news report of disasters, scandals, and corruption.

And I rejoice because my husband's health is good.

So why worry?

One worries about the state of belief in the world.

Our family is pious, but our children are protestants (although my step daughter is taking instructions to convert to Catholicism...her mother was a rabid anti catholic).

Yet the laxness of the church in the US is worrisome. And here in the Philippines? I can't judge: I am not fluent. But most of the "pious" middle class are Protestant: hard working, honest, and snobs, whereas the poor are Catholic, easy going, and with a deep love of Mama Mary.

Yes the piety is there, despite all the problems and corruption.

A seer from Europe once predicted that the "reign of the Immaculate heart" (i.e. the revival of faith before the end times, after the present day apostasy) would start in the Philippines.

The diaspora of Pinoys since that prediction was made suggests there might be some truth to this.

In the US, Obama has surrounded himself with those who hate "white people" but what he really means is working class people of all races who object to the demagogary of "we'll take care of you" bossy elites whose agenda is to control how people live.

The left in the US is no longer the liberal that I once believed in. They hate, they do not build up. Reverend Write gave speeches of hate whitey (not on things like don't steal, don't commit adultary or honor your father and mother) and Obama's green czar who just resigned rejoiced at the LA riots as an uprising of the oppressed, not noticing the rioters were gang members burning down the stores of the hard working Korean immigrants who knew more about poverty than any of them.

Freedom to live one's own life is important in the US, and a dictatorship of do gooders is not what the working class want, but solidarity and family.

Here in the Philippines, however, those who defend the poor against the strong are often killed. The rich have the guns, and can do what they want.

If the meek will inherit the earth, it won't be the proud leftists of America who despise the poor and working class who want to live their own lives, but those here who actually know and love ordinary folks.

if this doesn't seem to have much to do with Mama Mary, well, she did say that when God chose her, it was an example of how God exalts the lowly...