Truly heartbreaking.  It reminds me of the Holy Innocents who were killed by the Roman official before Jesus was born.  What makes me sad the most was how violently this happened, as well as the fear and confusion the children felt.  I pray God’s angels were immediately there to carry them to heaven so not a second more was filled with fear and pain.  Christmas forever will be a time of mourning for the parents and families of the adults who were killed. A hope the school is taken down and a memorial put in its place. A new school needs to be built after this—far away from this horrible spot.

there is evil all around us. Our church teaching, traditions, saints, and sacraments and the ten commandments are the only things that stand between
us and chaos. we live in an increeasingly disordered society. we need to find ways to care for and help others. if africans can individually deliver DAILY medicines to AIDS victims in small villages, we can a way to be more involved with each other.

John, you are correct.  The priest said it was not in God’s plan.  Yes, I agree. But he also should had said it was in the devil’s plan.  The Catholic church never mention the devil anymore.  Take the d out of devil and you have evil.  The shooter was evil.  Say it.!! He sick with the devil inside of him.  Say it!!

You are correct, John Stack.  The priest said it was not in God’s plan.  I agree.  But he should have added that it was the devil’s plan, and the person who did it was evil.  Tell it like it is!!  You will never hear a homily in church where a priest mentions the devil or hell.  The Catholic church has become wimps since Vatican II.  We also lost our identity.

It is so difficult when events like this occur to make sense of the why. I agonize for the families who have lost their cherished children and also for the community, but as Monsignor said there can be a lot of good to come out of this horrific, senseless violence. My thoughts, prayers and tears are with the community, the victims and their families.

Amen to what John Stack wrote.

I too was reminded of the Jewish parents who lost their two year old and younger boys because of the madman King Herod in trying to kill the infant Messiah.  We celebrate those “Holy Innocents” on December 28th.  And we should also celebrate the “Holy Innocents” of those 20 boys and girls who are with God along with theil principal, teachers ans servants of these children.  Indeed, it is the parents, friends and neighbors in Newtown, CT who are wrencing in sorrow who need our prayerful support.  No one knows how much they feel as Mother Mary does who held her Son in her arms as they took Jesus down from the Cross.  She is Mother of Sorrows but she is also Mother of Joy for she knows that her Son’s Resurrection is our hope for all who live in the Grace of God.  Surely, this is our conviction for those who lost their lives this past Friday.  Deacon John

It’s not enough to say that the massacre was “not in God’s plan.”
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Original sin was “not in God’s plan” either but that’s not the end of the story - he brought more good out that evil than there would have been without it. The same can be true of this evil, if we let God act.

Since Roe v. Wade, our country can no longer claim that it values life—especially the lives of children. We continue to bear witness to the senseless murders of children in schools and wonder, why, how could such a thing happen? If these same innocent lives had been terminated in their mothers’ wombs by a so-called physician no one on the liberal left would have batted an eye. I am sick of the hypocrisy of those who are quick to call for a ban on firearms but not on abortion.

Guns don’t kill people. I grieve for these latest victims of evil, but what a more opportune time for the president to mount a full scale attack for gun control.  The first thing national socialists of Germany did was to disarm the people.  All that did was to allow tyranny to take control of their nation. Don’t let this tragedy lead us to a further erosion of morality.  American traitors have now made us a socialist nation far afield from the God our nation once trusted.  Was this a deliberate assault by evil to destroy the Second Amendment and disarm America? Caveat emptor.

“Was this a deliberate assault by evil to destroy the Second Amendment and disarm America? Caveat emptor.”

Uh, what about the previous DOZENS of similar incidents? Where those plots?

Please. Delusional thinking.

People kill people with guns - that is the POINT of AR-15 type weapons (1/4 US rifle sales) and things like Glocks.  They are specifically designed for that purpose.  Name one person who hunts with a Glock?  The children in that school DIED for your silly Second Amendment.  They DIED for your freedom to own a stupid useless gun.

I am fiercely angry at satan for the savage cruelty he imposed on these babies and people - innocent, beautiful people just living their life, just before Christmas.  (I do not capitalize its name, because that would be an act of respect).  I am also angry with our Church.  Since Vatican II, almost every priests’ and bishops’ teachings have been touchy-feely, pablum novels, without even a cursory mention of wickedness, sin, and the wrath of the devil on earth in their sermons.  This is a disservice to us all, who need to be informed of what can be imposed against us by the one who works in the total absence of God.  satan is VERY active in the world today, and we need the Church to toe the line against him.  No one else is going to do it for us or for Holy Church.  Do priests no longer try to save our souls from perdition?  In the face of the evil we have just seen, can they not even muster up the word “evil” and attach that name to what has happened?  God save us all! 

Bishop Bernard Fellay (of the Society of St. Pius X) describes what many of us are noticing right now regarding Catholics in the face of evil when he says: “The crisis that we are going through is probably the most horrible that the Church has ever endured.  A crisis in which we see bishops - cardinals even - who no longer lead souls to Heaven, who bless the roads to hell.  Who no longer warn souls about the dangers that they encounter here on earth.  Who no longer remember the goal of their existence… the goal is God, it is going to Heaven.  And who forget that there are not thirty-six ways of going there.  It is the path of repentance, the path of renunciation.  Not everything is allowed.  We have the Good Lord’s Commandments.  And if someone does not want to observe them, he is preparing for hell.  How many times do we hear these words from the lips of a bishop?  How many bishops probably have NEVER pronounced them?  We know modern seminarians who arrived at the end of their seminary training and told us: “We never heard anyone say that at the seminary”!  And yet this is the direct consequence of sin.”  November 11, 2012, homily at the Church of St. Nicholas du Chardonnet in Paris. 

This was HATE that prompted the killing. HATE is all we see around us today in the devil’s plan of   divide and conquer.  Where all the politicians are “clawing” each other to pieces to gain votes while the media is also taking sides and promoting their actions to divide black from white, women from men, rich from poor—-
In this case the parents were divorced -who know how much HATE went on in his home. When a person does not know how to handle HATE they KILL.
Guns don’t kill - people do and usually from HATE.
PLEASE GOD   HELP US!!!!

Joe DeCarlo’s point is well taken. It is so true that we rarely hear about the Devil anymore in the Catholic Church but the Devil was very present in Jesus life, in the scriptures, and Jesus was always fighting him. We need to recognize Gods work in our lives but also we need to recognize the Devils work in the world. His influence is very real and dangerous. Most people today don’t seem to believe in Satan. They believe that he is just superstition. But he is like the World Trade Center bombers, walking among us, planning to destroy us, but very few want to recognizing the danger.

Let us all recognize where evil like this comes from and be vigilant to watch for his attacks against us, whether through his encouragement of our sinful selfishness, or his outright attacks.

Where was parenting in this home?  This boy was 20 not 40.  Parents who bring a child into the world have an obligation to at least make every effort to fulfill.  The father and mother had the financial means to arrange outside, professional intervention, whether in the form of a school for special needs, etc.  Why was this not done?

Did they not attend a Church regularly or were they too focused on their own well-being. 

People that are well-off have a multitude of resources at their disposal if they care to use them.

Heavenly Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit of merciful love, we pray for those who died at the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday.  We ask you to take all the innocents to be with you in heaven, and to be forgiving and merciful to those who died in sin, Lord, for they did not know what they were doing.  We also pray for all those family members and friends who have been left behind, that you give them the peace and consolation of knowing that you are a loving an merciful God.  Amen!

It is with a heavy heart and deep prayer that we share our thoughts about the murder of adults and children in Newtown, Connecticut this past Friday.  “Heavy,” because it happened in the first place, and “heavy” because almost everyone has become blinded to the Truth of “why it happened.”  The following excerpts from the Associated Press’ coverage of the story speaks to this blindness.

“Schoolboard Chairwoman Debbie Leidlein spent Friday night meeting with parents who lost children, and shivered as she recalled those conversations.  ‘They were asking why.  They can’t wrap their minds around it.  Why?  What’s going on?’ she said.  And we just don’t have any answers for them.’  The tragedy brought soul searching and grief from around the globe.”

The Truth is that we are spiritual beings with a human dimension, and not human beings with a spiritual dimension.  We were known by God at the beginning of time, and will be known by God until the end of time.  Our humanity only lasts as long as we are here on this earth.  As such, the answer to the question of “Why” cannot be answered in a human dimension, but only in a spiritual dimension.

Simply put, then, we have turned away from the love of God, and when we reject the love of God, we allow the evil of Satan to reign supreme!  That’s what’s been happening, and that is the answer to the “Why” of this tragedy.  Immediately after the shooting, the Governor of Connecticut, Dannel Patrick Malloy, confirmed this when he said, “Evil visited this community today.”  In our heart of hearts (a.k.a. our souls), we know this to be true.  Do we really think that God will turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the things we are doing in this country?  What things?  What about the murder of over 50 million of HIS children in the womb since 1973, the countless more that have been deprived of life because of artificial contraception, the breakup of over half of our marriages, our acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, the greed, cheating, stealing, lying, and sloth that is running rampant in this country.  It is our view that the only thing that has stayed the Father’s wrath, thus far, is the sacrifice and intercession of his Son, Jesus.  God created us to be with him in heaven, and when we take the wrong road, he’s going to do whatever he can to get us to change direction.  To put it succinctly, it is not the “fiscal cliff” we should be concerned about; our nation is teetering precariously on the edge of a “spiritual cliff.”

Nothing happens without God’s permission.  One has only to recall the story of the King Herod’s murder of the Holy Innocents in the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 2:16-18) to see a prefiguring example.  And, for those who still are in doubt, we suggest reading Chapter 26 of the Book of Leviticus to see what great lengths God will go to in order to get us on the right road to heaven.  As you will see, many times those lengths are painful.  “But, that’s in the Old Testament,” you say?  Remember, the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are one and the same God. 

Now, what do we do about it?  We need to reject evil and turn back to God.  We need to humble ourselves with contrite hearts as individuals, as families, as communities, and as a nation and turn away from our disobedience of God (a.k.a. sin).  Each of us needs to put God first in our lives by being obedient to his commandment to “Love him with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as God loves you.”  Easier said than done?  Then, let us close with the following:

“Jesus spoke this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he came out looking for fruit on it but did not find any.  He said to the vinedresser, “Look here!  For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree and found none.  Cut it down!  Why should it clutter up the ground.”  In answer, the vinedresser said, “Sir, leave it another year while I hoe around it and manure it; then, perhaps, it will bear fruit.  If not, it shall be cut down.’” (Lk 13:6-9)  The “man” is God the Father, the vinedresser is God the Son, Jesus, and the fig tree is the United States of America.  The “fruit” is our obedience to God and the good works we do for his glory.  It’s all up to us!

Very well said. This country has turned away from God and has turned to whatever will give them selfish pleasure and the financial means by which that pleasure can be achieved. God gave us pleasure because he loves us, but satan twists that pleasure into something unnatural and sinful. When we follow Gods laws, we get full use of that pleasure as it was meant to be enjoyed. Marriage, children, family life, all build people with stable minds and spirituality. When these break down we get children that result with twisted minds and spirituality. This is the answer to WHY. satan continues to promote evil where ever he can. Sad to say, those children payed for it with their lives.