NY Giants’ Rashad Jennings: ‘The Moral Landscape of This World Is Quickly Declining’ [+video]
By Melanie Hunter. In a commencement speech at Liberty University, a private Christian university in Lynchburg, Va., New York Giants running back Rashad Jennings said Saturday that the “moral landscape of this world is quickly declining” and graduates will be “tested to have patience with Christ-like tolerance.”
Jennings said graduates are entering a different world than he did when he received his degree at Liberty.
“The moral landscape of this world is quickly declining. Throughout life, you will be tested to hold your biblical truth. You will be tested to have patience with Christ-like tolerance, and you will be tested to hold your spiritual fortitude and your convictions by the remembrance that it is by and for a Holy God that you stand or fall, and he can make you stand,” Jennings said.
The best is yet to come for Liberty graduates, but to experience the best days, “you must realize and remind yourself of the vital importance of walking by faith, for if you try to navigate this life by mere human sight, you will miss out on the many ways that God is seeking to lavish grace upon you,”
“Yet keep in mind that faith does not come without cost. In fact, the first three letters of the word faith are the exact same first three letters of another word that you will not be able to avoid. That word is failure,” Jennings said. (Read more from “NY Giants’ Rashad Jennings: ‘The Moral Landscape of This World Is Quickly Declining'” HERE)
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Vatican Cardinal Rebukes ‘Demonic’ Attacks on Family at Washington Breakfast
By Claire Chretien. Cardinal Robert Sarah slammed gender ideology, same-sex “marriage,” and transgender bathroom policies at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday, describing them all as demonic attacks on humanity.
Sarah, the prefect for the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Sacraments, was the keynote speaker at the annual prayer breakfast, where he joined Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Sister Constance Veit, the director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor. Numerous Catholic bishops and members of Congress, including Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, were in attendance.
“The battle to preserve the roots of mankind is perhaps the greatest challenge our world has faced since its origins,” Sarah told the crowd of nearly a thousand people. Catholics should follow the “courageous” example of St. John the Baptist, a martyr for the sanctity of marriage, Sarah said.
“Do not be afraid to proclaim the truth with love, especially about marriage according to God’s plans,” said Sarah. “In the words of St. Catherine of Siena, ‘proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.’”
Sarah blasted gender ideology as “ideological colonization” and lamented the “insidious” dismantling of religious freedom in the United States. (Read more from “Vatican Cardinal Rebukes ‘Demonic’ Attacks on Family at Washington Breakfast” HERE)
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