Marcelino
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| Traditional Guy 20 said: | | Marcelino said: | My favorite movie from that time period (1920s) is "Beyond the rocks," with rudolph valentino and gloria swanson.
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Yeah that was a strange movie. Why in the world would a husband kill himself (in the end) so that his ex-wife and her lover could be together? (Yeah like that would ever happen...  ) |
It's that self-sacrifice. Think about it, we are supposed to have that kind of devotion to the desires of Christ. Well, hollywood found a substitute for us, in the desires of a beautiful young girl.
In "mata hari" (early 30s) it's men's slavish obedience to a beautiful young woman, betraying the men who depend on them for their very lives and betraying their own god (extremely clear scene of that in mata hari). The young officer blows out the candle in his room, because mata hari demands it, before she'll "surrender" to him, but the candle is supposed to be kept perpetually burning for The Blessed Virgin Mary. In other words, it's a literary symbol of his burning passion in his heart for God and he extinguishes it, in order to indulge his burning and illicit passion for a beautiful girl. But, the point should not be lost, that she puts him up to it. She intentionally makes him choose between his god and her. She wins!
There's different ways of looking at that scene. Surely it's a tale about the gentle mastery of God and the cruel mastery of sin. But how can it not have something to do with the modern phrase, "women's empowerment!" She has what he wants and he will sacrifice anything, including his eternal soul, to get it! Oh wow, that's power!
Ultimately, that kind of power destroys you. Look at elizabeth taylor. What a wreck! But still, the temptation is compelling.
So women become tyrants and men become slaves. It's matriarchy! And it is extremely perverse!
If we had a national church, it wouldn't be devoted to Christ and virtue, it would be devoted to some sort of voluptuous young goddess and our passions.
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It is easier to stir up vice, than virtue.
I like to say acts of contrition for people, when i think they need them and might not be saying them for themselves :-)
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Telesphorus
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| MrsZ said: | My conclusion is that unfortunately, there was no perfect time to live .. and that Christians have always had to fight the good fight, to swim against the tide of immorality and licentious living.
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MrsZ, while it's true every time has its own troubles, there are definitely big variations between various times and places. We aren't Quietists, we believe in the Social Reign of Christ the King. My mother grew up in a time and place, in the 1950s, very far removed from today's society. And it shows over and over again.
Sometimes I'm simply aghast at the contrast.
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"I realized the desire of Rome to impose their ideas and their way of seeing. Cardinal Ratzinger always told me "But Monsignor, there is only one Church, it is not necessary to make a parallel church."
Which is this Church for him? The Conciliar Church, this is clear."
-Archbishop Lefebvre
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