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Opinion: Harvest time for good seniors to go to heaven, says Ogdensburg resident

Posted 6/24/20

To the Editor: Pope Francis thinks: it is a tragic event & not a “divine punishment”. While he might be right I’m honestly inclined to think that this event is to add & not necessarily …

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Opinion: Harvest time for good seniors to go to heaven, says Ogdensburg resident

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To the Editor:

Pope Francis thinks: it is a tragic event & not a “divine punishment”. While he might be right I’m honestly inclined to think that this event is to add & not necessarily to argue a “chastisement”.

it appeared as a Chastisement during Moses time. it reminded me what Moses did to keep his chosen people, lockdown at home.

He painted its door with the blood of the lamb. So that when the Angels of death (CD-19) would not touch it).

Chastisement, to me is one step down to a more serious “punishment”.

As we are lockdown in our homes we become aware of our own strength & weaknesses.

Two ideas came to my mind:

First, the awareness of most of our young people that ironically to strengthen their own weaknesses the sales of alcohol & marijuana surge.

Second, the awareness of good seniors, (this virus is more addressed to them) is in fact a harvest time for them to go to Heaven to whom Christ refers as “good people”.

Jesus essentially said, “I did not come for good people because they are already saved; I come for sinners to save them from Hell that they might reign with me in Heaven”.

The idea that it is 19 is to me significant because when this virus was surfacing it was March 19, the feast of St. Joseph, a silent worker to perhaps join with St. Peter at the gate of Heaven.

The “19” could also mean that this virus has an ave. of 19 horns. To dispel my innocence, not necessarily my ignorance, correct me if I am wrong. My email: e_abear@hotmail.com

Therefore, this serious tragic event is harvest time for good seniors to go to Heaven. I think I would survive because at age 82 I fail short as a good senior. Ask my wife as my witness.

It is also good to remember what St. John Paul II said: that there are more saints going to Heaven in this century more than all the Saints in the past combined.

This event seems to suggest the truth; what St. John Paul II was saying all along.

Dr. Elmer M. Abear

Ogdensburg