by Pauly Fongemie
The past few weeks have seen an increase in the profanation of holy images, both of Our Lord Jesus and Our Lady, in particular the Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Guadalupe.
I refuse to display these sacrileges on our web site, but I will briefly describe the two most offensive for the year ending December, 2006:
A traditional, popular image of the Sacred Heart, one that we use in the Two Hearts directory, was altered by one graphic designer who must think himself most clever: the precious Head of this beloved image was removed and the face of the deceased rock singer, Elvis Presley was superimposed, so that Elvis is now the Sacred Heart! More than one web site features this atrocity.
Our Lady of Guadalupe's image was ravaged in the following manner: the full center, from the neck to the bottom where the serpent would normally be was removed and a young woman in bikini had replaced the Maternal beauty of Our Queen and the Mother of God!
One of the most appalling aspects was that these affronts to Heaven were found by our search engine while doing research on other matters, that is, with our security on, which is supposed to be family-friendly----we only use search engines that have this feature, and moreover, the text we employed for our narrow field of research only included Catholic devotional terms! There were other desecrations, some along the same line, but you get the idea, I am sure.
So I guess even with the highest security promises and having some skill in internet search, one is not immune to the plague of sacrilege. I cannot begin to imagine what would have popped up if we were looking for such sites!!!!
Thus we offer the above image of the Miraculous Medal from South America, also altered by adding flowers and stars. If one wants to, one can "bring flowers" to sacred images, as to a shrine, it takes only moderate graphic experience. The devil has no imagination when he inspires poor benighted souls to use their God-given talents to dishonor the things that belong to God!
Pray for these people on the Holy Rosary, every single day!
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