Rogation days

One man believed that Germany’s crime of the Holocaust in World War II was the greatest in the world not on a scale of history but on a scale of evolution. The Nazis hoped to turn back the clock to a pure Aryan world. Their envisioned eugenics was planned out on both a human and an animal scale. To borrow some appropriate phrases from writer, Diane Ackerman, Nazis envisioned a "transmigration of sensibility" of which their advanced civilization could be proud. Their Holocaust required "slippages of self" of thousands of German soldiers, politicians and citizens from Hitler on down. It’s still appropriate then, April, 2008, to employ prayers on the three upcoming Rogation days - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday - before Ascension Thursday. Traditionally, rogation is a solemn entreaty and rogation days are a time of supplication by litanies and processions preceding Christ’s Ascension, the fortieth day after the Resurrection, the end of the Christian Easter Season. Petitions for God’s mercy are still needed today to counter- punch atheistic evils of the past. Belief in God’s love like a frail thing with feathers was the only sustenance available to victims of Germany’s racist genocide; hope is the sole survivor of that temporary Hell visited upon earth.