An excerpt from my homliy for the Divine Mercy Sunday: This week…

An excerpt from my homliy for the Divine Mercy Sunday:

This week all over the media we hear about the sinking of the RMS Titanic which centenary occurs this weekend. Two years after the disaster Franciscan Herald an American Catholic journal, published a short article about the spiritual connections with the tragedy.

"The anniversary of the terrible Titanic disaster calls to mind a strange story which deserves more than a passing notice. While the new monster steamer was building in the shipyards of Belfast, Ireland, it was thought that it would pass through the greatest storms with absolute safety. Among the hundreds of workmen engaged in the construction of the ship, there were many devoid of all religion. Some of these men amused themselves by writing horrible blasphemies on the sides of the new ship. They went so far as to call upon God to sink it if he could, by writing: "Even Christ can not sink this ship." These blasphemies were covered indeed when the ship was painted, but they afterwards again became visible and legible. A Catholic officer of the Titanic who saw the blasphemous words, wrote to his parents, "I am convinced that this ship will never reach America on account of the shocking blasphemies which are written on its hull." His parents who live in Dublin, still preserve this letter as a remembrance of their son. We know how the foreboding of this officer was realized. The scoffers, indeed, believed that their blasphemies would cross the ocean year after year, a standing insult to the Almighty. But lo! as they were expecting to hear of its safe arrival on the other side of the Atlantic, there came the crushing news that the ocean colossus had sunk. A collision with an iceberg had sufficed to send the proud ship with the blasphemous inscriptions to the bottom of the sea. "

Of course I do not want to give a simple answer that this tragedy was simply Gods punishment. But we have to be aware of the spiritual climate at that time. All over the Western world was strongly rejecting God and his salvation as simply superstition of the past. The humanity was so proud because of the development in many areas of life and science. We know also that first half of twentieth century was the bloodiest in the whole history of human kind – that was also a fruit of the rejection of Christ.

For that reason Our Lady appeared in Fatima in 1917. And a few years later a young Polish nun started to experienced a supernatural revelations of Jesus who wanted her to bring to the world the message of His mercy.

One day Jesus said:

"Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy".

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