The Biden
regime’s declaration
of Easter Sunday as the Transgender Day of Visibility has outraged a multitude
of people. It is rather long and florid
in contrast to the short and perfunctory edict
written in honor of Easter. In the
former, the regime encourages the perpetuation of the trans epidemic in the
States:
Transgender Americans are part of the
fabric of our Nation. Whether serving their communities or in the
military, raising families or running businesses, they help America thrive.
They deserve, and are entitled to, the same rights and freedoms as every
other American, including the most fundamental freedom to be their true
selves. . . . Today, we send a message to all transgender
Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood.
You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I
have your back.
If the
people in the Biden regime really cared about trans-inclined people, they would
not be telling them to embrace this disordered passion of theirs, but to quell
it, to overcome it, to conquer it. There
is a wonderful saint of the Orthodox Church to whom they (the LGBT folks) can
turn for inspiration and help in that effort:
St.
Mary of Egypt (+6th century, celebrated 1 April and on the Fifth
Sunday of Lent).
The story
begins when a monk advanced in the spiritual life, Elder Zosimas, because of
his prideful thoughts over his progress, was told by an angel to go to the
Jordan River in order to learn humility:
Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared to
him and said, “Zosimas, you have struggled valiantly, as far as this is in the
power of man. However, there is no one who is righteous (Rom 3:10). So that you
may know how many other ways lead to salvation, leave your native land, like
Abraham from the house of his father (Gen 12:1), and go to the monastery by the
Jordan.”
One year, as
he went into the Jordanian wilderness along with the rest of the monks for
their Lenten endeavors, he encountered St. Mary:
He walked into the wilderness for twenty
days and then, when he sang the Psalms of the Sixth Hour and made the usual
prayers. Suddenly, to the right of the hill where he stood, he saw a human
form. He was afraid, thinking that it might be a demonic apparition. Then he
guarded himself with the Sign of the Cross, which removed his fear. He turned
to the right and saw a form walking southward. The body was black from the
blazing sunlight, and the faded short hair was white like a sheep’s fleece.
Her
clairvoyance revealed to St. Zosimas that she was greatly blessed by God: ‘“O Mother! It is clear that you live with
God and are dead to this world. You have called me by name and recognized me as
a priest, though you have never seen me before.
. . .”’
Likewise,
her miraculous manner of praying:
“ . . . fulfill
my unworthy request, Mother, and pray for the whole world and for me a sinner,
that my wanderings in the desert may not be useless.”
The holy ascetic
replied, “You, Abba Zosimas, as a priest, ought to pray for me and for all, for
you are called to do this. However, since we must be obedient, I will do as you
ask.”
The saint turned
toward the East, and raising her eyes to heaven and stretching out her hands,
she began to pray in a whisper. She prayed so softly that Abba Zosimas could
not hear her words. After a long time, the Elder looked up and saw her standing
in the air more than a foot above the ground. Seeing this, Zosimas threw
himself down on the ground, weeping and repeating, “Lord, have mercy!”
He begged
her to tell him about her life. Despite
her hesitation, St. Mary obeyed his request.
It is here that LGBT people should pay special heed, for St. Mary
reveals how those with passions that mercilessly control them can be conquered,
how their lives can be transformed into something entirely beautiful and
pleasing to God:
She replied, “It
distresses me, Father, to speak to you about my shameless life. When you hear
my story, you might flee from me, as if from a poisonous snake. But I shall
tell you everything, Father, concealing nothing. However, I exhort you, cease
not to pray for me a sinner, that I may find mercy on the Day of Judgment.
“I was born in
Egypt and when I was twelve years old, I left my parents and went to
Alexandria. There I lost my chastity and gave myself to unrestrained and
insatiable sensuality. For more than seventeen years I lived like that and I
did it all for free. Do not think that I refused the money because I was rich.
I lived in poverty and worked at spinning flax. To me, life consisted in the
satisfaction of my fleshly lust.
“One summer I saw
a crowd of people from Libya and Egypt heading toward the sea. They were on
their way to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. I
also wanted to sail with them. Since I had no food or money, I offered my body
in payment for my passage. And so I embarked on the ship.
“Now, Father,
believe me, I am very amazed, that the sea tolerated my wantonness and
fornication, that the earth did not open up its mouth and take me down alive
into hell, because I had ensnared so many souls. I think that God was seeking
my repentance. He did not desire the death of a sinner, but awaited my
conversion.
“So I arrived in
Jerusalem and spent all the days before the Feast living the same sort of life,
and maybe even worse.
There in
Jerusalem St. Mary’s life made a dramatic turn, thanks to another Holy Saint
Whose life has been getting attention from The
Spectacle podcast lately – the Ever-Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.
. . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2024/04/garlington-escaping-the-lgbt-briar-patch-an-orthodox-view/.
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Thanks to the folks at the Reckonin’ site for posting the essay
about St Alfred the Great and his role as Dixie’s patron saint:
https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/patron-saints-in-christendom-and-at-the-south
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
