Hey friends - I apologize for the lack of posts on Thursday and Monday. I'm not going to go into detail, but I had a bit of a family health situation, but nothing to worry about. Everyone is fine, the baby is fine. And now I'm back to my regularly scheduled programming. Just wanted to say thank you for your patience with my absence.
This Easter was probably one of the most meaningful, powerful Easters I have ever experienced. I don't know if it's the fact that it's Steven and my first Easter together as a married couple, or if it's the fact the I'm pregnant with our daughter right now. Or just the fact that our church is so reverend and beautiful in its celebration of Holy Week.
But this Easter, my husband and I were so incredibly moved. From Wednesday going to the Office of Tenebrae, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the the Easter Vigil on Saturday night. It was a week where we truly felt the weight of Jesus' sacrifice for us personally.
Anyway - it was such a profoundly faithful, beautiful weekend. So you can imagine how big of a gut punch it was to hear the news on Monday about Joe Biden's declaration that Easter Sunday was International Transgender Day of Visibility -- it made me absolutely sick.
How DARE he call himself a "Catholic" when he is literally spitting in Jesus' face with that public declaration.
The Day of Jesus' Resurrection -- the holiest day on the Christian calendar. The day when we recognize the immense sacrifice Jesus made on the Cross out of love for you and I. Jesus: blameless, yet bearing the price of OUR SINS in the nails in His hands and feet, DYING so that we could live eternally with Him in Heaven.
Biden completely disregards that, and "celebrates" the new "religion" of transgenderism and its wicked ideology that completely contradicts what Jesus stood for. Transgender ideology advocates for the mutilation of children. It claims that God's magnificent handiwork -- creating us in the womb as male or female -- is wrong. Transgenderism is the sin of pride personified. And Joe Biden glorified that instead of the day when Jesus beat death, rose from the dead, and saved us from eternal damnation.
It makes me so angry, I can't see straight.
And just to really put the icing on the cake, children were prohibited from decorating Easter eggs with religious symbols at the White House Easter Egg Roll.
Let me remind you of Matthew 18, where Jesus makes absolutely crystal clear his stance on the protection of children: "'If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.'"
Puberty blockers and genital mutilation for children, drag queen story hours, filthy children's books being put in school libraries that celebrate the queer agenda, children's television programming that glorifies the queer agenda....that is what Biden was extolling through that declaration.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is calling for his excommunication from the Church.
People argue that Trans Day of Visibility has always fallen on March 31.
They argue that Jesus would have advocated for the marginalized, including transgender individuals.
They argue that Biden did, in fact, give a statement about Easter, albeit later.
And for that last one, I'll just say that Biden pays lip service to a lot of things that serve him. And touting his so called, "Catholic faith" is one of them, even though he actively fights for things that the Church vehemently denounces.
The truth of the matter is this: Jesus would have loved transgender individuals. Just as I do, and just as all people should. BUT, He would have, in love, told them to turn from their lifestyle and go and sin no more. Just like Jesus told the woman caught in adultery in John 8: "'Then neither do I condemn you,'"Jesus declared. "'Go now and leave your life of sin.'"
Look, I don't know Joe Biden's heart. I want to believe that his mental faculties are in such decline that he's not even really aware of what he's saying or doing anymore. And that he's some puppet being controlled by his radical, godless cabinet.
But the truth of the matter is that one day he -- as well as me, and you, and all of us -- will have to stand before the throne of God and account for our actions -- and inactions. And I just pray for him, when that day comes.
All that to say, my heart deeply hurts for Jesus today. Thinking today about the weight of the Cross He carried to Calvary; thinking about the lashings and whips He received when He was scourged; thinking about the nails that pierced His hands and feet; thinking about the public humiliation and mockery He endured during His Passion; thinking about Him breathing His last breath and handing over His Spirit....my heart aches, thinking about how He must feel, watching down from Heaven: being pushed aside to glorify transgender ideology that has yet again made a mockery of the Father.
That is what hurts my heart the most. It is so incredibly devastating.
And it's a wake up call that this is the reality of the world we live in. And it's a wake up call that silence is complacency. Which is exactly why I needed to make this post tonight. Because I will not stand by as my Savior is mocked and discarded for the glorification of wickedness.
I will not. And neither should you.
I'm curious: what are your thoughts on this? Is it not a big deal in your eyes? Do you feel similarly? And if so, what - if anything - can we do about it?
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