November 23, 2012 & November 26, 2012: Say “NO to Black Friday & NO to Cyber Monday”
After such a
beautiful national holiday - “Thanksgiving Day”, a day dedicated to being
grateful to God for all the blessings He has so generously bestowed upon us . .
. .
it is unfortunate that what should follow are two (2) days “Black Friday”
and “Cyber Monday” . . . . . . .
devoted to selling and shopping for things . . . .
not
necessarily because we need those things . . . . .
but solely because those
things are on sale . . . .
and we are made to feel that we need to have those
things . . . .
because those things are at such bargain prices that we cannot
possibly pass up such great deals . . . .
What’s with
“Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” . . . . .
“Black Friday” being the day after
“Thanksgiving Day” and “Cyber Monday” being the day after the Thanksgiving
Weekend. . . . .
these days have been hijacked
. . . . .
taken over and become totally commercialized . . . .
consumerism gone
wild . . . .
consumerism immortalized . . . .
Christmas secularized . . .
We should
boycott shopping frantically and frenzied on those days and instead spend that
time . . . . .
going to Mass . . . .
making a Holy Hour . . . .
all in reparation for our
sins of consumerism and secularism . . . .
Let us have
a change of heart, mind and soul and make it a “Faith-filled Friday” and a “Christ-filled
Monday” . . . . .
Let us pray
for conversion and sanctification . . . .
Say “NO to
Black Friday & NO to Cyber Monday”
Say “YES to FAITH-FILLED
FRIDAY & YES to CHRIST-FILLED MONDAY”