catholiccitizens.org
2023-06-07
There is something not only publicly offensive but positively demonic about the way the rainbow and the month of June--traditionally dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus--have been violently appropriated by one of the most socially and morally destructive forces in the world, the LGBTQ+ movement.
It hardly needs to be stated among Christians that the rainbow is, first and foremost, God's sign, and any legitimate use of it must be tied back to the signification He gave it:
I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between the earth. And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds: And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth. And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh upon the earth. (Gen 9:13-17)
Noah's Ark is a Scriptural image of the vessel of God's salvation. Being in the Ark is being in Christ, in His Body, the Church. The raging flood of sin and vice drowns and destroys those who are caught up in it, but those who pass through the waters of baptism--of the death and resurrection of Christ--have their sins washed away and receive the grace of divine sonship. As the human race was preserved for temporal life in Noah and his family, so is it saved for eternal life in the Church.