Almost three years ago, 2007, I wrote an article for the June/July issue of the Mancipia on “Mildness,” one of the twelve fruits of the Holy Ghost. Strangely enough, I managed to finish that article by tying into it the serious plight of the honeybee. I drew an analogy noting that as honey is the fruit of the industrious bee so is mildness the fruit of the temperate man. I ended by summarizing the growing crisis of “colony collapse disorder,” which is decimating the honeybee population. The honeybee is nature’s most effective pollinator of vegetables and fruit. 70% of such produce depends on the work of this particular bee. If you wish to read that article again, it is on our website here. Scroll to Kelly Forum, Page 4. My reason for referring you to that article is to augment the current one I just read here on the same crisis. Apparently, the plight of the honeybee is getting worse, and, unless a cause and a remedy can be discovered the consequences could lead to famine. If it is God’s will to bring on such a chastisement, then we can only pray that it will be less than what we deserve. These are alarming times on every front. When the spiritual fruits are dry, and the poisons of vice proliferate, and charity grows cold, so, too, it seems, do the fruits of the earth itself. Let us beg Our Lady’s mercy. She is our last hope.
