What a Week for Great Britain
What a week for Great Britain, eh? Blair left number 10 Downing Street and Brown moved in.
Madeliene McCann’s parents have been catapulted once more into the spotlight as two sicko’s attempted to extort £2.5m out of the family in exchange for information of Madeliene’s whereabouts.
Then there was yesterdays failed car bomb incidents, hundreds of people narrowly escaping with their lives after cars packed with gas cyclinders and nails, were discovered in heavily pedestrianised areas.
Today, a car was set alight after it was rammed into the entrance of Glasgow’s airport terminal. One of the two occupants of the car poured petrol over himself and set the car on fire while they were both still inside it. They then left the car and proceeded to attack nearby police officers. An observer managed to punch one man to the ground. Both men are reported to have been shouting ‘Allah’, ‘Allah’ as they exited the car . People nearby, unaware of the terrorist threat, then tried to put out the fire that engulfed one of the men, the man, unfazed, got up and started throwing punches again! The terrorist threat to Great Britain is now at ‘critical’ level. Please pray for us over here as it is feared that there may be a repeat of the Bombings of July 7th 2005, though this time, more widespread, perhaps attacking all of our major cities. Lord, have Mercy!
Smoke features heavily in other news this week as tomorrow, in 2 minutes exactly, the smoking ban comes in to force in England. As a former smoker myself, I can sympathise with those who are addicted to cigarette smoking, but I wholly support the ban. I say good riddance to cigarrette smoking in public places! Why should non smokers and people who work in public places be exposed to second hand smoke from passive smoking? According to this article, passive smoking kills one bar worker a week and 3600 non smokers in the UK alone….if a gunman gunned down one bar person a week those who govern and police our countries would do something about it pretty quickly, why should a slow, painful, but less immediate and dramatic death, be any less important?
Prayer for Great Britain
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down with mercy upon Great Britain, and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in you. By you it was that Jesus, our Saviour and hope, was given to the world; and he has given you to us that we may hope still more. Plead for us your children, whom you did receive and accept at the foot of the Cross, O sorrowful Mother. Intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the Chief Shepherd, the Vicar of your Son. Pray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith fruitful in good works we may all deserve to see and praise God, together with you in our heavenly home.
Amen
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Glasgow’s in Scotland, not England. :)
Lord have Mercy. May St. Aiden pray to God for his beloved land.
Amen. I’m praying for all G.B. All it takes is one on the lunatic fringe to get a stupid idea in his/her head, and then life as we knew it changes drastically. They must have their 15 minutes of fame, as Andy Warhol put it.. (their decades of infamy, as I’d put it, or as God would put it, their sin).
Tom, forgive me, of course it is, I shall amend those error’s in my post. Remind me never to post at midnight again, my brain doesn’t work at that time of night – not that it works that well during the day either, some would say !
Praying for England and Scotland… and wales etc.
I was in England last summer (I left one week exactly before last summer’s bomb plot fizzled) and I fell in love with England within 5 minutes. It was like walking into a story book. I will also pray for England especially as my young nieces live there as well as YOU Deb and your children!
Prayers for you all..prayers for all everywhere who Trust and Love the Lord Jesus and call for His aid! Amen
Goodness, I just found out that one of the suspected terrorists worked at our loacal hospital, and lived a 15 minute car journey away from me. Aparantly he is a neurologist! How can someone who works in a caring profession, be involved in terrorism which kills inidicriminately? News says that his wife was aslso involved in the bomb plots. And they have a new baby…
“He is believed to be linked to the two Mercedes packed with gas canisters, petrol and nails found in the West End on Friday.
After their arrest, by officers in unmarked cars who boxed them in on the northbound carriageway, police searched their home in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 12 miles away.
Dr Asha had recently started a job at the North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent. He appears on the British Medical register as Mohammed Jamil Abdelqader Asha. He qualified in Jordan in 2004. ”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23402548-details/‘Doctors+terror+gang’+trapped+by+mobile+phones/article.do
Doesn’t the doctor pointedly remind us that our western mindset is not capable of understanding the mentality, philosophy, or for that matter, the goal, of these people. We are in big trouble folks.
A question related to the McCann abduction. I seem to remember the initial reports of the child’s disappearance included the information that the parents had left the two children in the apartment while they had dinner nearby. Since that first report I’ve heard no mention of this fact. Did that turn out to be false? Were the children not alone? Does anyone know?
No, John, you are quite right. The children, all three of them, were left unattended in a hotel room while the parents dined with friends a short distance fomr the hotel. The patio doors of their room opened on to an outdoor staircase, that’s how the abductor got Maddie, it wasn’t locked.
For two professionals, doctors in fact, you’d think they would have had more sense. Of course, we’re not allowed to cast a gaze of irresponsibility upon the parents, and that should not be the focus of this terrible tragedy, but really, one can’t help but think that it was indeed such an irresponsibile thing to do.
Prayers continue to ascend for the family.