The man has not changed. He always was more of a thinking man than the press and opposition tried to portray him . I spoke to him at length a few years ago. He was very perceptive.
May was useless, never a leader, only an administrator. I too am glad she is gone.
The majority Boris now has is important to avoid dither.
Without it labours loony left would have extracted ridiculous concessions to get any package agreed. Like Nancy Pelosi, they would have tried to hijack the crisis for party political ends.
But as for suspending eucharist? I am not so sure.
The idea that God needs mans Help at a time like this? That is our supernatural food. (the common translation "daily bread" always was misleading!)
Thinking we must not take it for fear of the consequence is setting ourselves over God who is already "much offended by the indifferences, outrages and sacriliges". So we are told at Fatima.
Suspending the eucharist sounds arrogance to me. The idea that we have any control, and are better at it than God.
A catholic view of this.. As a student of history, the leaders of france were given 100 years to sort themselves out with the messages of Margaret Mary. They didnt. The revolution started. It is now 100 years since Fatima. At Akita the same messages from Fatima were reinforced 30 years ago. God very offended. Sister agnes of Akita came out of obscurity with another message just days before the coronavirus first case.
Since the "lady of fatima" was right about russia spreading errors round the world, even before the russian revolution had got going, was right about the "unknown light" that preceded a "worse war in the pontificate of Pius" (who had yet to become pope, and died shortly after the 1938 so called aurora which heralded WWII. Same lady was right when she came to Kibeho to predict the "rivers of blood" that would flow in Rwanda unless man changed his ways, there would she said "be so many bodies there would be none left to bury them". Then the genocide happened. Unthinkable at the time the prophecy was made. So when she said at Akita "the living will envy the dead".
It is scary what might now happen....
But in summary, shunning the eucharist because we think we know better than God what is needed, is arrogance in the extreme. A world which has recently made abortion on demand, and destroyed the normal form of marriage, has sideline the church, with even bishops questioning conventional dogma of faith.
Repent for the outrages against God, pray for sinners, make sacrifices, is what we are called to do. Mans response is further indifference.
No blasphemy intended here...
Thank God it's not Theresa residing at number 10. I know things are looking as depressing as a Ryvita right now, but BOY could it have been so much worse.
I'm backing Boris. That man has literally gone from a blithering idiot to a Churchill-esque hero within a matter of days.
He stepped up and ascended to a new level - at a point when I think most would have faulted by now.
