https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/maker-of-pro-gay-prayer-beads-donates-to-planned-parenthood
LGBT Rosary Endorsed by Fr. Martin Funds Pro-Abortion Groups
Funds Women for Women International and Southern Poverty Law Center
DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Father James Martin is trumpeting a pro-gay online store that happens donate to pro-abortion charities.
On Twitter Monday, the Jesuit celebrity priest recommended two products by a small online store that sells handmade jewelry.
https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1069762368824098816
One of the products the recommended is the "Rosary of Modern Sorrows." Each decade has a suggested intention, and the beads are color-coded to symbolize the intentions. Leftist social justice talking points are prominent among the intentions. For example, the second decade is made with blue and green beads to call to mind "Mother Earth" and "stewardship."
https://contemplativerebellion.com/collections/catholic-patron-saint-jewelry/products/rosary-of-modern-sorrow
But the theme of the fifth decade has caused a firestorm on social media. The beads for the last mystery are rainbow-colored, and the suggested prayer of intention makes the blasphemous claim that God created homosexuals as they are and that this orientation — which the Catholic Catechism calls "objectively disordered" — is "good":
Fire Storm https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sacrilege-jesuit-priest-promotes-rainbow-rosary-with-prayers-for-full-accep
We pray for a welcoming of LGBTQ people by all churches, temples, mosques and synagogues. We pray for LGBTQ couples, their children, and extended families. We pray that they may be supported and loved, with full acceptance as people truly created in the image of God, a creation that God saw as "good," and who deserve to live every aspect of life to the fullest.
The organization selling this set of Rosary beads is Contemplative Rebellion, a social justice-themed online store that sells Christmas cards depicting the Holy Family alongside Colin Kaepernick earrings (and bracelets).
Christmas Cards https://contemplativerebellion.com/collections/contemplative-rebellion/products/holy-family-christmas-card-set
Kaepernick Earrings https://contemplativerebellion.com/collections/contemplative-rebellion/products/colin-kaepernick-earrings
Contemplative Rebellion gives a percentage of proceeds to non-profits. Many of those listed on the site's "Charities We Support" page are notoriously left-wing. Some are pro-abortion.
Included on the list are Women for Women International, Polaris and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Women for Women International is a charity where women from more developed countries can give money and aid to women in need in other parts of the world. But the international non-profit also promotes contraception and abortion and has partnered with Planned Parenthood.
Polaris is a group that, among other things, claims to fight human trafficking. But Polaris is also pro-abortion, having denounced Republicans in the U.S. Senate for defending the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal Medicaid funding for abortion (with the typical exceptions for life of the mother, rape and incest).
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a radical leftist group that claims to fight racism, discrimination, hatred and extremism. In its early days, the SPLC indeed fought in the courts against the Ku Klux Klan. But in recent years, the SPLC has been accused of smearing conservative political opponents — including Christian pro-marriage organizations, and even Church Militant itself.
The SPLC is also pro-abortion. In 2009, it denounced the pro-life activists at Operation Rescue as "militant anti-abortionists."
While adding a pro-gay prayer intention to the Most Holy Rosary, Contemplative Rebellion is more true to the original with the Muslim prayer beads (known in Arabic as tesbih) and Tibetan Buddhist prayer beads (mala or japamala in Sanskrit) offered in its online store.
The small startup also sells a rainbow-themed wrap bracelet called "Love is Love is Love." The product description on the website states, "Dedicated to the beautiful, brave LGBTQIA parents who love each other and love their children, and decide to raise them in the love and light that every child deserves."
Wrap Bracelet https://contemplativerebellion.com/collections/peace-social-justice-jewelry/products/rainbow-wrap
LORD HELP US How Many More Letters Will Be Added? LGBTQIA?
Pizzagate Related because here we have a Roman Catholic priest spreading normalization of the gay life which is against the Church's Teachings, and he is clearly in favor of desecrating Our Blessed Virgin's Rosary, and the SACRILIGIOUS Art Work.
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4freedomsring ago
Father Martin is a fraud, Check out the Crucifix on the rosary. Depicts Jesus with his arms folded, not outstretched.
This is a satanic mockery of our Christ .
Christ was crucified with his hands outstretched, as an sacrifice for out sins. This fake cross denies the willing atonement that Jesus made for our sins.
carmencita ago
I just saw it! OOH, I wish I could upvoat you 100 times. I am going to check it out He is blasphemous and what he is doing is a Sacrilege. What do you suppose that means? Jesus with his arms crossed. To cross the arms means you are closed to discussion, is what I found on the internet. In other words, Christ is not inclusive? This priest is a heretic. Does anyone know what this signifies? @HennyPenny @Gilderoy @Vindicator @NOMOCHOMO @Factfinder2
NOMOCHOMO ago
Personally, I dont like any depictions of Christ, as I consider them idolatry. But I'm not a Catholic, so that's part of it ;)
Exodus 20:4-5
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
To me any visual representation of Christ is deification of a man's interpretation. And it causes divides in believers as we dont actually know what Jesus looked like. (The whole black Jesus vs white Jesus debate over "skin of bronze"). From what I can tell, the Catholic Crucifix clearly shows a European Dude.
Buuuut, looking at it from a Catholic perspective, I can understand what you are seeing. Symbols mean things. And changing the crucifix is a definite symbolic attempt at subverting the "traditional" Catholic Church
carmencita ago
Thank You for responding. Since you are not Catholic I think you also see the devastation the death of the Catholic Church would mean. Death of All Christianity is their goal. There was at one point a Black Christ statue in Mexico somewhere and it was confiscated. Sick. I don't care what color they made him but if THEY change it now I will be as suspicious as HE77. Note that it says the goat symbol is the devil. Good Grief. All of this scares me mainly because of as you say, the Traditional Catholic Church. It is the closest thing we had to the beginning. Not saying all of the bowing and adoring is good but it depends on what is in the heart of the person. For me it means a closeness to Jesus. Never really idolized him. Love is what comes to mind. This is all very frightening to me.
NOMOCHOMO ago
<3 :) the truth is written on all of our hearts
carmencita ago
Yep. It's not really a good idea to be too much of a holy roller because it usually drives others away. We know of the one in the family that has religious stuff on every wall and talks about it all the time, well usually the Children turn out the opposite. Better to live a life of love for yourself and others with minimal adoration <3
NOMOCHOMO ago
Yep, don't be a pharisee (holy for others to see)
carmencita ago
I think you hit on something. Many are surely doing it to please others of the same ilk. The worst kind of faith.
4freedomsring ago
@Carmencita. For you. Message from visionary about false crosses. https://veritas-vincit-international.org/2017/12/03/is-pope-francis-promoting-a-a-new-kind-of-cross-2/
carmencita ago
The first link made me cry. Tears of Sadness. The second one was frightening. So many that are not Catholic pay no attention to this. They don't seem to understand this will not only be the death of Catholicism but All Christianity. We must all band together and fight for our right to Worship God. Those that have Crosses and Bibles and Prayer Books hide the now and tell no one what you have. Treasure Them. I shall never abandon you