Americans ‘in a Different Place Spiritually Than We Were’ on 9/11

[Michie]

The fall of Kabul marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, stirring shame, self-examination and calls for spiritual renewal back home.


PHILADELPHIA — Father Eric Banecker, parochial administrator of St. Francis de Sales Church in Philadelphia, was in seventh grade on Sept. 11, 2001, when al-Qaida militants hijacked three planes and attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — murdering more than 2,900 innocent people. A fourth plane commandeered by the terrorists, United Flight 93, crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, just hours from his home, killing all 44 people on board.

Now age 32, Father Banecker vividly remembers the events of that shocking day and the deep sense of national unity it provoked.


Sent home early from his parochial school, he watched the unfolding spectacle replayed on television: the planes attacking the towers, the first responders rushing to Ground Zero, clergy giving general absolution, and members of Congress singing God Bless America at the Capitol.

Today, two decades later, the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks and the fall of Kabul have stirred more complicated emotions.

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Americans ‘in a Different Place Spiritually Than We Were’ on 9/11

 

[chevyontheriver]

The fall of Kabul marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, stirring shame, self-examination and calls for spiritual renewal back home.


PHILADELPHIA — Father Eric Banecker, parochial administrator of St. Francis de Sales Church in Philadelphia, was in seventh grade on Sept. 11, 2001, when al-Qaida militants hijacked three planes and attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — murdering more than 2,900 innocent people. A fourth plane commandeered by the terrorists, United Flight 93, crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, just hours from his home, killing all 44 people on board.

Now age 32, Father Banecker vividly remembers the events of that shocking day and the deep sense of national unity it provoked.


Sent home early from his parochial school, he watched the unfolding spectacle replayed on television: the planes attacking the towers, the first responders rushing to Ground Zero, clergy giving general absolution, and members of Congress singing God Bless America at the Capitol.

Today, two decades later, the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks and the fall of Kabul have stirred more complicated emotions.

Continued below.
Americans ‘in a Different Place Spiritually Than We Were’ on 9/11

There was a different spirituality on September 12th, 2001 than the one that existed on September 10th, 2001 that's for sure. After September 11th the churches filled and mine was standing room only. But that was then. Things 'progress' and it's easy to get a whole row to myself now even arriving late.

“We are a demoralized society: Public morality is held up as a negative, and the idea that there is a common moral code either does not exist or exists in a warped way,” he said.

“People are just sick and tired of being sick and tired. They are beaten down by the Twitter wars and the real wars and the disintegration of our society. We see this in the deaths of despair, the rising suicide rate, people struggling with addiction, and the lack of trust in institutions, including the Church.”

“All this prevents people from moving forward to experience the abundance that God has offered us,” he said.

That's for sure. Despondency seems to be the order of the day for those who are not outright anarchist and nihilist. Seems like it's all downhill from here. The Gospel is still the same. Can we hear it among the political and social bickering though?

 

[BrAndreyu]

Spiritually, this country is going to hell.

We can all pretend that the repeal of "Roe v Wade" was some great victory, but it's not. Especially not when leftist parents are mutilating their children and leftist teachers in public schools are indoctrinating children with sodomite propaganda and hollyweird encourages confusion in these children for the sake of "likes" on social(ist) media that has been a net-negative for the human race.

We have parades and an entire month now to celebrate a deadly sin and the vice of sodomy and perversion in this country. Our supposedly "Catholic" politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden openly support this degeneracy and encourage it, racial animus is the worst it has ever been in my lifetime because of terrorist groups like Antifa and Black Lies Matter, churches are being openly attacked and defiled by leftists and our history & traditions are being erased so that communists can usher in their utopia where we will live in pods and eat bugs (which I will be killed for refusing to do, I already know that much). Oh, and they're going to take your accumulated wealth and assets and give them to their communist friends at gunpoint, that's totally going to happen in my lifetime and if I am not murdered by these deviants for refusing to "celebrate" sodomy, eat bugs, and live in a pod; I'm going to be killed for trying to keep these freaks from taking what you have worked hard to accumulate in your lives.

The war in Ukraine is going to decimate Europe this winter. Millions are going to die or be impoverished from Russia's actions and as a Ukrainian I am on the side of Ukraine, but I don't blame Russia because they have been pushed to this point by NATO and the sinful US Empire... we would do the exact same thing if the shoe was on the other foot. I pray for a peaceful resolution soon and a neutral Ukraine before all of my people are fed into NATO's meatgrinder of attrition. I have thought about going and fighting in the international brigades, specifically Azov battalion, but my family has talked me out of it and explained that my certain death would hurt them worse than anything in the world and that ultimately, although I believe in Ukrainian nationalism, that this is not my battle.

Biden is going to continue to deteriorate and be a figurehead puppet for the wicked, vile bureaucrats that are circling around him and the US is going to suffer steep decline as a result, which will then be used to institute something that goes by the name "socialism" that is anything but socialism. It's going to be an authoritarian, anti-Christian system and the nation will be flooded with third worlders who will refuse to assimilate and demand govt handouts at the expense of working people. The middle class will cease to exist and we will all be enslaved to this post-modern, neo-Marxist system of unimaginable horrors and millions will be deprived and ultimately die, which is what the elites of the WEF and corporate interests actually want because they are fundamentally ANTI-LIFE and believe that the world is "overpopulated" as it is, China will continue to rise and project it's power across the globe...

America is doomed and it's because this nation turned it's back and shook it's fist at Almighty God. America is going to get what America deserves and we will all be casualties of its institutionalized sin.

But our hope lies in the fact that this was never our home anyway. Ours is the kingdom of the Lord and we will suffer unimaginable tribulation until we are called up to meet the King face to face in a realm where there is no more hunger, no more death, no more sickness, no more tears... I just hope that I make it there, because the gate is narrow and I am not a good person and have lived a terrible life up until this point.