Peace of Mind
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Meeting in Mind
Bodily beads pass slowly between fingers as holier than thou statue stalkers gather to give grace. At the tender age of fifteen, Angel Gabriel's greeting of Hail Mary was an endearing ring to my young ears but nowadays the rush of the Hail Mary race hurts my head. If I weren’t in a state of calm these bead bearers and their decades of devotion would bore me to death. There has been a recent insurge of rosaries in a desperate bid for me to intervene as the numbers decline in church goers due to the filthy crimes by men of the cloth and the shameful hiding of their acts by hierarchy. I shouldn’t say: I told you so, but I told you so, on a celestial visit to Ireland in 1985, forty years to the date at a gathering in Mount Melleray Grotto, I did warn the devil would take over the Church if the World didn't improve and low and behold my prophecy has come to pass.
The pressure for me to have a word is not just coming from my children on the ground but also from my other half, my hubby, better known to you as God Almighty. He feels the game of life is teetering on the edge, close to John's Revelation of an apocalyptic ending. And again, I shouldn't say: I told you so, but I told you so, on the same visit but a different day on my ten days of messages in a glorious grotto nestled high in the mountains of Knockmealdown, Waterford. I did warn my Marian followers with a vision of Noah’s Ark in the grasp of the great flood, and low and behold, forty years on and hell hath no fury like Mother Nature scorned.
Our son Jesus believes he could subdue the fast-approaching end game storm by the miracle of John's dream of a second coming into reality by putting the parable of the bridegroom and the ten bridesmaids, five wise and five foolish into play. But I have my reservations as such a move would only further fuel the ego of misogyny which is the devil's deadliest weapon to date in the battle of good over evil. Man's spirit is low as greed is their NEW God and cash is KING in this golden age, they are killing woman's spirit with their coercive control, physical and sexual violations to the point of murder and their hatred is far reaching in this modern world of Internet and social media.
Our daughter is silent sitting at her kitchen table, so I seek out her thoughts on the subject matter in hand and I'm taken aback by her response as it is a perspective overlooked by all present in the room.
Here is her angle on the cause and effect:
The root of misogyny is in the Holy Bible, both old and new testaments, men have been given the keys to the Kingdom with no word of the women except as sexual objects with the extremes of the immaculate virgin verses the prostitute, no offense to the two Marys. The seed of misogyny was firmly planted by Our Father when in a fit of rage, he made a vow to put enmity between WOMAN and the devil.
Lucifer the light bearer goes rogue in his quest for a heavenly rebellion, he morphs into the Serpent Snake to deceive Eve in Eden with his words of trickery to fool her into taking a taste of the forbidden fruit and all hell breaks loose when Our Father returns from a day of rest and is quick to anger in making a vow of hostility between WOMAN and Lucifer. God Almighty's vow places the blame for Mankind's downfall firmly at Eve's feet, when Adam also ate the apple, sorry, ate the fig as the forbidden fruit was in fact a fig not an apple, a small detail lost in the translation of Moses's book of Genesis and as we all know the devil is in the detail.
As a woman I will put my hand up to the crime in Eden on day six of Creation and thanks to our punishment of animosity we found a strength no man shall ever know, mental strength and this strength has helped us overcome many obstacles on the road to equality. As the underdogs in life, we bring the fight every single day for change which will hopefully one day level the playing field. But you add insult to our injury with your claims that Jesus through his death on the cross has paid the debt incurred by Eve in Eden while women still hold a secondary role to our counterparts.
In fact, such acclamations of salvation only give further rise to misogyny as the male ego inflates in the belief it takes a man to fix a woman's mistake and this in turn gives the devil the upper hand as he smirks in triumph as he has the numbers and victory is imminent, one can almost feel his demonic pride as he relishes in the idea of making a fool of Our Father just as he did Eve in Eden except this juicy apple comes from a tree of inked parchment which binds into a book called the Word of God.
Our Mother did warn us through her messages during the phenomenon known as the moving statues, she said the devil would take over the Church, but we mock her and the masses of Irish people who came by the bus loads in the thousands from the four corners of the island of Ireland to hear her words of wisdom. A trick of the light is how we dismiss this woman of mystery and her messages of warning meanwhile the devil continues to manifest himself into our everyday lives under the guise of Holy men who deceive us from the pulpit and beyond with their words of trickery into believing our saviour was a man, no disrespect to Jesus and his suffering but God Almighty's vow clearly states she is to crush thy head. And WOMAN will not be robbed of her God-given right to seek revenge with a second coming, be it through the Parable of the Bridegroom except with a slight substitution as the groom shall sit on the side-lines while the Bride and her ten foolishly wise bridesmaids reign a war of misery on the vicious monster known as misogyny.