A vandal appears to be targeting Catholic churches in Pomona Valley, with the most recent attack on a beloved statue at a Chino church.
“This is a place we come to feel safe, to feel God’s presence, to worship with our community,” said Marianne Hacker, pastoral administrator at Saint Margaret Mary’s Church.
She’s guarded the chapel for more than 50 years, the entire time the church has been in existence on Central Avenue in Chino.
“It brings people comfort,” Hacker said.
But on March 30, a vandal trespassed onto the property and delivered a blow that severed the statue in two.
“It’s like a clean cut,” Hacker said.
The damage made the church recall a strikingly similar crime at another local Catholic church.
“That’s why I’m thinking it was a sledgehammer like they used at Our Lady Lourdes,” Hacker said.
Just a month ago and three miles away in Montclair, a person was caught on camera hopping onto a planter at Our Lady Lourdes Catholic Church and using what appeared to be a sledgehammer to hack the heads off two of their statues.
“Definitely trying to make a statement,” Hacker said.
Saint Margaret Mary’s Church thinks the same person is responsible for both crimes, and now they wonder if the same person destroyed their double pane stained glass window last month.
“It’s a picture also of Mary that was just shattered by a huge, huge stone,” Hacker said.
Both churches say they don’t know why they were targeted, but they’re praying for the person who’s trying to hurt them.
“We’re always willing to forgive, and we’re always willing to help if there’s anger,” Hacker said.
The church says it will be using part of its renovation budget to purchase a new security camera.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on December 14, 2017
An iconic cross in Ventura County, California survived the Thomas fire that ravaged the area over the past week and was left standing in what many people are calling a miracle.
Everything surrounding the cross, which was located on top of a hill overlooking the Mission San Buenaventura church, was destroyed.
Selected Comments:
The magnificent Ventura Cross has survived California’s wild fires, but can it survive the idiot children of California’ Left?
God is omniscient. His timing is His own. As impatient as I am, His wisdom is where I plight my troth ALL THE WHILE FIGHTING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE.
God has left signs for the faithful throughout time. This is yet one.
Psalm 103
As for man, his days are like the grass;
he blossoms like a flower in the field.
A wind sweeps over it and it is gone;
its place knows it no more.
The Cross stands.
Meanwhile Christians are being raped and murdered throughout the Muslim world. Muslims do not serve God. Muslims serve satan. Islam makes a sacrament of murdering Christians and Jews (“people of the book”). It makes sacraments of lying, stealing, pillaging, raping and so on.
Martyrs receive special honor in Heaven, and a special crown for dying for their faith in Jesus. The Bible says they are calling out for God to avenge their martyrs death. Their blood cries out, actually. God says “a little longer”.
Evil can only triumph when good men do nothing. America could stop the slaughter of Christians any time they wanted to. It isn’t God’s fault that America
in general has become a Hedonistic and amoral country at best and will no longer respond to a cry for be it from Kurd or Christian.
The real question, irrespective of the Ventura Cross, should be, “Can the idiot children of California’ Left survive the sins of their own “Free Will”? ..
I wouldn’t say never… once they stand before him it’s going to be pretty hard to deny him.