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Bishop Fellay is at the European Parliament because he has the courage to enter the Lion's Den.

I dare say that the bishop did not miss a meal on his visit to the EP.  In all likelihood, he enjoyed the best cuisine, luxurious hotel accomodations, and the finest wines.  If he was in the midst of the "Lion's Den," the lions had apparently been well fed before his arrival and made no attempt to eat His Excellency.  I could be wrong, of course.  The SG might have stayed at the Brussels equivalent of a Motel 6.  He might have dined at McDonalds.  He might have drunk Idaho Muscatel from a screw-top bottle.  But I doubt it.  I imagine that the lions were outwardly quite friendly, purring and rubbing up against his leg.  If any of you have been informed otherwise, please recount the details of what may have been for Bp. Fellay during his visit a virtual martyrdom.

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Bishop Fellay is at the European Parliament because he has the courage to enter the Lion's Den.

I dare say that the bishop did not miss a meal on his visit to the EP.  In all likelihood, he enjoyed the best cuisine, luxurious hotel accomodations, and the finest wines.  If he was in the midst of the "Lion's Den," the lions had apparently been well fed before his arrival and made no attempt to eat His Excellency.  I could be wrong, of course.  The SG might have stayed at the Brussels equivalent of a Motel 6.  He might have dined at McDonalds.  He might have drunk Idaho Muscatel from a screw-top bottle.  But I doubt it.  I imagine that the lions were outwardly quite friendly, purring and rubbing up against his leg.  If any of you have been informed otherwise, please recount the details of what may have been for Bp. Fellay during his visit a virtual martyrdom.

Mr. Hollingsworth,

We ought not make light of the kindnesses Our Lord may sometimes deign to grant us.  When He appears among lions, the voracious felines are always "outwardly quite friendly, purring and rubbing up against his leg."  If not, then they would not be emphatically responding to Our Lord in Person, but merely devouring whomever they may sink their claws and fangs into as usual.  Hence, for those with eyes to see, the success of Bishop Fellay at the European Parliament is more a sign of miraculous divine intervention than of an appointment at Motel 6 or McDonalds.

By every conceivable human measure Bishop Fellay would not only have missed a meal.  He would more likely have been promptly tarred, feathered and run out of town on a gibbet to be cast into the flames rather than be welcomed by (of all people!) the European Parliament.  And the political implications were more like a flash of lightning than not:  Hence another sure signature of the Divine Presence because when He acts the actual implications are usually profoundly shocking in nature.  As they assuredly are in this instance.

For Bishop Fellay to have been martyred at the European Parliament was something only to be expected.  That he was instead entirely victorious is what is amazing.  So we should not mock and cast stones against the Victories of Our Lord.  Instead we would be wise to feel a certain humble trembling.  Because if Our Lord is moving a virtual Jesuit like Bishop Fellay to act with such public virtue, what is He expecting from the likes of you and me?  

We dare not disappoint Him.

 

...... (We cannot also discount the possibility that he was a Swiss plant from his consecration). .....

We most certainly can discount the chronic, stupid attempts by various posters to suggest someone they don't like is a plant.