A Knight's Blog

  Adam Sandler is an actor with quite a range of talent. He can do zany comedy like The Wedding Singer, or a deep melancholy film like Stand By Me. In his latest masterpiece, Space Man, he is an Czech Astronaut going to space in a station to investigate this nebula like cloud of purple that has appeared near Jupiter for the last four years. On the way, Jakub (Sandler) discovers as stowaway aboard, an extraterrestrial giant Spider who has the power to prob his mind and seeks to help save his marriage with is collapsing. This film is a deep one with major Biblical undertones. Before I unravel those I want to focus first on the simple things.  Jakub grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia, his father was a informant for the Secret Police and died. Jakub believes his exploring this new phenomenon for betterment of mankind is to atone for the sins of his father. This is one of strong Christian messages in the film, the nature of good people wanting to make amends for great evils. We know that o

   I keep hearing from advocates for abortion about the rights of the woman, that she should have autonomy over her body and be able to abort her baby. I find it appalling that the rights of the unborn is sidelined, that a soul that could come into this world is ignored. The Constiution of the United States of America claims these as our rights under God, "the right to life, liberty, and the prusuit of happiness." The babies being exterminated in the womb are deprived of life, and the most certainly have no liberty, because the Mother gets all the freedom to destroy the unborn life, and how can they prusue happiness when they are never born?!  I agree with our Catholic Cousins, this is the Holocaust. Children are being wiped out in a new kind of concentration camp, those within women themselves at Planned Parenthood. In essence entire generations are being eliminated. The person who could have cured cancers may never live to see the day, the person who invents the ability to

  In Turkey, a country that is predominately Muslim, there is a Church of Wishes where women qho are Christian, Muslim, and Secular line up to get the rite the Church does and are given a key to wear that they return when their wish comes true. Well most people have their wish come true, even those not of the Christian faith. Muslim women even said in interviews on BBC that they like the church because they accept them. I feel that this is an amazing way Christ is effecting a nation that is lead by a President, Recep Endogen, who has been declaring he wants the blood of Christians to flow in a holy war. That God The Trinity is calling enemies of His church because we all were all enemies of Him at one point, “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son Jesus Christ, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.” (Romans 5:10). I mean the guy who killed Christians, Saul, became Christ’s most ardent apostle and wrote two thirds

  I have become rather concerned by what I see happening in this world. When we become known only for what we hate, have we ceased being Christians to an extent? For Jesus said, “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:35) “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first!   Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches,” (Revelation 2:4-5), and “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.   The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31). In all these words of Jesus we are told to love our neighbor, to love one another, and that people will know we are disciples of Christ by out love (see the song at the end of this blog post). Ther

  The Jewish People were looking for a messiah, a liberator who would help them overthrow the Romans. They were looking for a Son of David to conquer and Make Israel Great Again. Jesus confronted them with the reality that David’s Son in prophecy was not going to be just a Man, but The Lord God Himself Incarnate, “Now while the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think of the Messiah?* Whose son is he?” They answered, “[He is the son] of David.”  Jesus said to them, “How, then, does David, in the Spirit, call him ‘Lord,’ saying: ‘The Lord* said to my Lord, * sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’* If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”  No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on, no one dared to ask him any more questions.” (Matthew 22:41-46). When Christ confronted them with the Scriptures it says they dares not ask him anymore questions. The Jews did not like the answers, they like

  Fr. Schnabel in Jerusalem was told that he and his brothers should leave. He decided to stay amidst the War in Gaza, and the result is that he said persecution has ramped up, that on a daily basis people spit at his feet or on his pectoral cross, or say derogatory things about Jesus in the very streets of Jerusalem (EWTN News, 09/18/2024,  https://www.ncregister.com/cna/christian-community-comes-closer-together-amid-attacks-in-the-holy-land?amp ). I would encourage the Father by saying he is sharing in Christ’s sufferings, “Then they began to spit in Jesus’ face and beat him with their fists. And some slapped him.” (Matthew 26:67).  Fr. Schnabel shared that while there are no pilgrims, a major source of income, the Christian communities of all churches and denominations have been gathering together top support one another, causing them to grow closer (EWTN News, 09/18/2024). This often happens in persecution, the Church becomes stronger and more closely knot together, even perhaps mi