I came upon this quote from a secular Psychiatrist's post concerning the current unrest in the USA:
"According to psychiatrist Joshua Morganstein, the country is now dealing with "three disasters superimposed on top of one another": the pandemic, the economic fallout and civil unrest. "Certainly, one way of responding, and a common way of responding, is anger," said Morganstein, who chairs the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on the Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster."
What immediately struck me was the unholy "trinity" of disasters clearly pointed out by this Psychiatric, knowingly or unknowingly. We, as Christians, and more so as Catholics, are called to renounce "the devil, the world, and the flesh."
Council of Trent
And here it is, even recognized by a Psychiatrist, an unholy triple disaster. This current age is suffering from a pandemic, which effects the flesh, an economic fallout, which hits us in our worldly objectives, and civil unrest which is largely displayed in anger and unrest. But anger and unrest from what. Well as the above article states:
"anger about police violence and the country's legacy of racism is still running high. At the same time, we're dealing with anger provoked by the coronavirus pandemic: anger at public officials because they've shut down parts of society, or anger because they aren't doing enough to curb the virus. Anger about being required to wear a mask, or anger toward people who refuse to wear a mask. Anger with anyone who doesn't see things the "right" way."Americans are living in a big 'anger incubator.' Experts have tips for regulating our rage.
Basically angry over things not going the way we think they should be going. Anger about not being in control. Anger about others not treating us the way we think they should treat us. And all of that boils down into Pride, aka the devil's calling card.
So we are being hit by a triple whammy in the bread basket, so to speak of disasters which clearly are related to the devil, the world and the flesh.
Looks like a chastisement, smells like a chastisement, must be a chastisement.
The question is how are we going to respond as a nation, as individuals, and as the world. Whether we return to God in conversion or become more deeply rooted in our ways will effect what comes next. It is the correspondence with God that effects whether we receive his graces or not.
He added: “See how many graces I was supposed to pour over the creatures, but since I find no correspondence, I am forced to hold them back within Myself; even more, they make Me change them into chastisement. Be careful, you, o my daughter, to correspond to Me in the so many graces I am pouring into you, because correspondence is the open door to let Me enter into the heart and form my residence in it. Correspondence is like that good welcome, that esteem, which is used with people when they come to visit us, in such a way that, drawn by that respect, by those affable manners used with them, they are forced to come again, and reach the point of not being able to detach themselves. Everything is in corresponding to Me, and according to how souls correspond to Me and treat Me on earth, so will I behave with them in Heaven. Making them find the doors open, I will invite the whole celestial court to welcome them, and I will place them on the most sublime throne; but it will be all the opposite for those who do not correspond to Me.”
Vol. 2, August 2, 1899
But how should we correspond? Jesus tells us and Mary, again shows us the way with her example.
accompany Me with your sighs and with your sufferings, praying that the very chastisements may turn out for the conversion of the peoples.”
Vol. 2, October 21, 1899
Jesus: “Even though I suffer, love pushes Me to send heavier scourges, and this, because in order to make man enter himself and recognize what his being is, there is no means more powerful than making him see himself undone. It seems that the other means make him grow bolder; therefore, conform to my Justice. I see well that the love you have for Me pushes you very much not to conform to Me, and you don’t have the heart to see Me suffer, but my Mother too loved Me more than all creatures - no one can equal Her; and yet, in order to save these souls She conformed to Justice and She resigned Herself to see Me suffer so much. If my Mother did this, could you not do it yourself?”
Vol. 2, October 24, 1899
