Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Good reading on Catholic Identity, the Novus Ordo and Latin Rite




Dr. Boyd makes some observations that I would think would be non-controversial. For example:

Comparisons of the new Mass with the old Mass show that some theological strengths of the former became crippled, or even non-existent, in the latter. For example, the centrality of the Holy Trinity in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which can be clearly seen in the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, is diluted in the new Mass where the prayers of the liturgy seem to have been systematically edited to omit or alter references to the Holy Trinity. The Preface of the Holy Trinity is seldom used in the liturgies most often experienced by the faithful today; the use of the sign of the Cross has been reduced; and the use of the “Gloria Patri” or the “Glory be” has been purged from the liturgy. Also, the rubrics for cleansing the vessels are much less detailed in the new Mass, reflecting (and perpetuating) a decline in reverence for the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharistic species.

There are other changes and omissions that have struck me as detracting from Catholic identity. We’ve lost the Asperges, for instance, which is a very apt preparation for Mass in that it reminds us of our sinfulness and of God’s mercy in cleansing us of that sin. In fact, throughout the prayers of the Mass of the extraordinary form, one can find this constant reminder of the tension between our sin and the mercy of the Father. Of course, in the liturgy celebrated in most parishes, there is an opportunity to examine and confess our sins in a meaningful way. But the problem is that the flagrant disregard for the norms, set forth in the GIRM, has so marred the new Mass that the differences between it, and the extraordinary form, are exacerbated.

There are other differences between the two forms which are not abuses, but which bring the current liturgy down to a more “human” level, whereas the older prayers raise our minds and hearts to Heaven. For instance, in the ordinary form of the Mass, we find this offertory prayer:

“Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. Through your goodness we have this bread to offer, which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the bread of life.”

But in the extraordinary form, the prayer is much richer:

“Accept, O Holy Father, Almighty and Everlasting God, this unspotted Host, which I, Thine unworthy servant, offer unto Thee, my living and true God, to atone for my countless sins, offenses, and negligences: on behalf of all here present and likewise for all faithful Christians, living and dead, that it may avail both me and them as a means of salvation, unto life everlasting.”

Yet, I was astounded to read the first few comments on her post.

The first gentleman wrote:

I am 75 years old, I experienced liturgy in Latin before Vatican II. I do not want to go back to praying the rosary while the priest said the Mass in Latin with his back to us. I do not want to go back to the 15 minute masses with one alter boy.



Why on earth would anyone have to pray the Rosary at Mass while the priest 'said' the Mass in Latin 'with his back to us'?

If he were deaf he would know what the priest is saying and doing and have the ability to follow along in prayer!

More importantly, the priest isn't 'saying' a Mass. The priest is PRAYING and offering himself in Sacrifice where we can be literally in Christ's presence at what took place over 2000 years ago.

The English translation of what the priest is praying and doing is available. We pray the Mass along with the priest. True, he may be a little ahead of us or behind us, but it is not off my much. Even if we are incapable of catching a word here and there to know where he is (which I find hard to believe) we know the Mass and gestures and we can slow down or speed up to the priest.


I love the Novus Ordo because Christ lays down His Life before me and I can draw the Sacred Properties of Divinity from the precious gift of His Sacrifice. But as I have repeated here many times before, when it comes to praying the Mass and drawing Sanctifying Grace, the Latin Rite is a much more powerful and intimate connection with Christ.

Mystically praying the Novus Ordo is so much harder. The prayers in the Novus Ordo have been watered down to pablum. We say them rote. I couldn’t count the number of times I mouthed the words and did I was supposed to do to ‘actively participate in the Mass” but in my head, I was thinking about work or family or something else going on. At a Novus Ordo, it is work to mystically connect with what is going down in the Sanctuary. I have been practicing so long it would take an atomic bomb going off to disconnect me once the Canon starts but truth be told, I still find myself wandering away from time to time outside of the Canon.

Most people in the NO community are present and going through the motions but their head are checked out to somewhere else. Most do not even know what is going on mystically. I bet 5% are placing themselves into the mystical prayer of being present from the Praetorium to the Resurrection. They are not in the upper room. They are not at Golgotha. They are not at the tomb after the resurrection.

Daily Mass is different - everyone there is connecting. But on Sunday, I suspect it is so rare that priests notice when someone is in the pew and connected to what's going on.

On more than one occasion when I've been a guest at a parish and spoken to the priest after Mass, they've said something that conveys "I saw you and you stuck out like a sore thumb and I wondered what planet you dropped in from". Not in a mean way, but conveying their curiosity. I was taken back the first few times they innocently said it. It's not like I do anything out of the ordinary. In fact, at the Canon, I try to sink out of sight by bending forward toward the pew in front of me and lowering my face into folded hands.

My point here is, there is a lot of mindless going through the motions and gestures at the Novus Ordo and there is no way for that to happen at the Latin Mass. The prayers knock your socks off as you read them as the priest is saying the Mass. There is no need or reason for anyone to have to 'pray the Rosary while the priest is praying the Sacred Liturgy.


The second comment was the old chestnut that Catholics who attend TLM are miserable.

Look, there is nobody more dour and miserable than the feminazis who take over every ministry in the Novus Ordo parish and put the squeezola on the testosterone of the assigned priests. They are the reason two generations of children have been deprived of Church teaching. Give us a break!



Perspectives on Synod



I've only listened to the first in this series of perspectives by Chris Ferrara, but he seems to do a masterful job explaining the history of the synod and the problems they foist upon Christ's Church.

The series is here.

There are many spiritual forces at play but at the end of the day, these people are not believers in Sanctifying Grace.

They don't understand why Christ Sacrificed Himself and what we gained by that Sacrifice.

They are clueless about what Sanctifying Grace is and what their role is in the Church in getting it to the immortal souls in front of their faces.

They don't have the faintest idea what happens to the intellect when a person uses free will to sin.

They have no idea what it is all about.

The mystical world does not exist to them.



Holy Father, our children are being demoralized inside and outside of the Church. They are confused and starving for the truth.

His fix is in. The Holy Father has maligned parents as holding onto antiquated morals and he's selected heretics to teach the children if you sleep around with one person for a long time, sex becomes the sacrament of absolution wherein they can then receive the Blessed Sacrament. He has starved them of truth. He is building his own institution that robs future generations of Sanctifying Grace.

That is it in a nutshell.

It's like being stricken with terminal cancer and having screwball physicians at the oncology center tell us the problem is, we are melancholy pickled pepper faces who are afraid to dance.

Come the synod, he's going to see pickled-pepper faces all right. And if he puts on another deceptive show of the slimy snakes he's surrounded himself with, he'll have a nice little ride on the end of our shoes!




Sunday, April 26, 2015

Respite

Broke a rib coughing, so will be sitting it out for a bit. Doing ok, but am still not on my feet yet. Good times.

Monday, April 20, 2015

NYT Wonders - Will Pope Francis Split the Church?



My emphasis below:



Yet now we have a Pope Francesco in the flesh, and elements of Murphy’s vision have come to pass, or so it seems: the attention-grabbing breaks with papal protocol, the interventions in global politics, the reopening of moral issues that his predecessors had deemed settled, and the blend of public humility and skillful exploitation—including the cashiering of opponents—of the papal office and its powers.


A pope who has earned his popularity by claiming 2000 years of teaching breaking commandments obstructs salvation was wrong, the Church is in error.

The exact details of that agenda can sometimes be difficult to discern. Phrases like master of ambiguity circulate among admirers and critics alike.

All agree that he is a master at taking truth and making it unidentifiable.

Many of Bergoglio’s fellow Jesuits believed they had a postconciliar mandate to make the pursuit of social justice the order’s organizing mission.

Changing the mission of Christs Church from the institution responsible for salvation to a social service agency is certainly an astute observation of the perverted agenda being executed.

Francis may indeed see his papacy as a kind of moderate corrective to the previous two. Rather than conceiving of himself primarily as a custodian of Catholic truth against relativizing trends,

True enough that his pontificate has abandoned custody of the Deposit of Faith and the mission of teaching truth but in my observation, the Holy Father has discredited Christ's Church as the arbiter of Truth - which is actually worse than his own personal circus in St. Peter's Square.

Take careful note of this paragraph:

If people who are living as adulterers can receive Communion, if the Church can recognize their state of life as nonideal but somehow tolerable, then either the Church’s sacramental theology or its definition of sin has been effectively rewritten. And the ramifications of such a change are potentially sweeping. If ongoing adultery is forgivable, then why not other forms of loving, long-standing sexual commitment? Not only same-sex couples but cohabiting straight couples and even polygamous families (a particular concern among African cardinals) could make a plausible case that they deserve the same pastoral exception, rendering the very idea of objective sexual sin anachronistic in one swift march.

Herein lies the beauty and fruit of Pope Francis 'ambiguity'.

We know that he knows the lethal definition he is attempting to impose upon Truth and Christ's Church as the Arbiter of It. We have watched what could only be described as deception - by omission and commission - around the agenda to impose theological and sacramental chaos. All the shady characters he has surrounded himself with haven not helped his image.

The magnitude of the deception rises to the level of sinister. He would have been better off taking ownership of the heresy he seeks to impose.

There is an outdated principle in this article that I suspect will be explosive to all who will have the sad duty to unravel.

But altering a teaching on sex and marriage that the Church has spent centuries insisting it simply cannot alter—a teaching on a question addressed directly (as, say, homosexuality is not) by Jesus himself—is a very different thing. It would suggest to the world, and to many Catholics, that Catholicism was formally capitulating to the sexual revolution. It would grant the Church’s progressives reasonable grounds for demanding room for further experiments. And it would make it impossible for many conservatives, lay and clerical, to avoid some kind of public opposition to the pope.

The media missed the revolution which has already taken place. Everyone can take this to the bank: Catholics absolutely will rise to publicly oppose Pope Francis should he dare to pull the trigger.

They are going to poop their drawers in Rome when it happens.

They built an empire where their corruption was swept under the rug for centuries by Catholic laity and they have no idea that it met its end.

Here is another error:


Such a development probably would not produce an immediate crisis or schism. But it would put the Church on the kind of trajectory that the Anglican Communion and other Protestant denominations have traced on these issues, and would make some eventual division much more likely.

The Catholic Church is tied to the Chair of Peter - not its occupant. Christ's descendants and heirs to his Church have never and will never leave the Chair of Peter in the hands of a man imposing heresy and leading Catholics into temptation and sin.

The opposition will rise against the occupant of the Chair of Peter wherein his administration will run into the plan of the God of Surprises.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

LCWR Nun Joan Chittister Explains a Soul



As if we need a reminder of the willful blindness of Pope Francis to empower dangerous people in his papacy -- here is a video of Joan Chittister explaining a 'soul'.


Have ever heard anything so insane?

That light of consciousness of the beauty of life that is given to you to keep.

The camera zooms in to capture Oprah's reaction. Even she looks skeptical.

We talk of people being soul full or full of soul or having more soul than others - and you know what I'm talking about.

She is full of something all right.

The more light you let in, the more life you will have and your own soul will grow.

Exupery says: To live is to be slowly born.

I don't have the same soul that I had at 6. I have a soul that is thicker, deeper, broader, warmer, brighter..

These women are not capable of teaching Catholicism. They are not Catholic. The truth is not in them.

I was thinking about Cardinal O'Malley statement that Vatican's initiative to correct this coven of pagan and heretical nuns was the disaster.

The souls these lunatic women continue to demoralize and mislead is not the disaster to Cardinal O'Malley.

Joan Chittister and Oprah Winfrey's criticism is the disaster to Cardinal O.

This is the same flaw that empowered pedophiles.

Not to worry folks, the fix is in Vatican City.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Rich Heretics Ask Pope to Remove Archbishop Cordileone for Mandating Teachers Teach Catholic Children Catholic Theology

Cronies of Pelosi and proabort politicians.

Why not?

They have been successfully bribing parish priests and bishops with their money to obstruct teaching for decades.

With a Pope who obstructs, discredits and silences teaching himself, they probably figure they stand a good chance.

Would the Pope be willing to remove an archbishop for implementing the Mandatum and Apostolic Constitution of Ex Corde Ecclesia?

The backlash from the actions he took against Cardinal Burke and the deceptive antics at the Synod, I'd say it makes it harder but I would not say it is out of the question.

In the Church where the Pope's public image is more important than the salvation of our children, they who sling the most mud wins'. It is important to let Pope Francis and his administration know the ramifications of such an act of corruption.

We need to shoot the flare across the Holy Father's bow to say, if he does it, faithful Catholics will write and publish details articulating it is a hostile act of an enemy of our children's salvation and we will pin it on him.

The reality of making enemies out of faithful Catholic parents hasn't really processed in Rome yet. They are starting to get the picture but they are going to test to see if they can recapture the glory days when they had free reign to rape and rob our children without and remain free of public criticism.

A dozen or more incidents will have to take place before it sinks in.

They still fear the uproar the heretical nuns more than they fear the parents of children they license them to destroy. That is a problem we intend to rectify.



Thursday, April 16, 2015

What Elephants?



What butchy nuns?

Not to worry folks, Pope Francis has mandated the nun's work be reviewed by 'competent theologians'.

This would have some credibility if the Holy Father hadn't called the long-standing heretic Cardinal Kasper a 'competent theologian'.

It's all on the up and up. The nuns are not going to say anything ambiguous to mislead or confuse Catholics from here on out.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Joan Chittister has turned a new leaf. lol

Yes, the pope is feeding his children to the serpent, grinning from ear to ear.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Lifesite's Blockbuster story on Laurent Stefanini



Just when you think things couldn't possibly get any stranger, our friends from Lifesite is reporting that Laurent Stefani a) never lobbied for gay marriage as previously claimed, b) has never been a cultural activist for the culture of death, c) has never disclosed to anyone that he has same-sex attraction and was never known as a homosexual prior to the story breaking d) is unmarried with no known companion and is in fact known to be a practicing Catholic e) may not be gay.

Very strange.

If this story ran in the National Catholic Register, I wouldn't believe it - but Lifesite has never been known to cover up internal corruption.

If true that he has not scandalized or led other Catholics into temptation and sin, one wonders why the Holy See has rejected the nomination.

After all, the Roman Curia isn't exactly known for stacking the decks with heterosexuals, especially in this administration.

Further, neither France nor Stefanini has defended himself against the allegations. I would think if a case could be made that no evidence of lobbying or heresy could be made against Stefanini, we'd be reading about it from the Stefanini bunker.

What do you make of it?




Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Marco Rubio - Nice guy, but a little too slick.



The campaign let loose a trial balloon saying Marco was a practicing Catholic who craved the Eucharist.

But he attends protestant services.

Give us a break.

If you know what the Eucharist is, you don't go to a protestant service. When a Catholic 'craves' the Eucharist, they go to Mass daily or several times a week. You can't get enough and consequently would never drive by the Catholic Church and pull your fanny into the protestant church parking lot.

Pope Francis: If you don't desire anarchy and weakness in structures, you're mentally imbalanced




All the people who know the human personality - may they be psychologists, spiritual fathers, spiritual mothers - tell us that young people who unconsciously feel they have something unbalanced or some problem of mental imbalance or deviation unconsciously seek strong structures that protect them, to protect themselves.


Because there's nothing like weakness, disorganization and dysfunction to demonstrate one's mental stability - that's what I always say.

I'm guessing this is something someone said that sounded good after a few bottles of Frascati?

More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: "Give them something to eat."

Like retired and sick priests whose pensions have disappeared?

Monday, April 13, 2015

Cardinal Müller:No Mercy Without Truth


Tit for tat baby, tit for tat.

"The Holy Year is to serve the people to remember that mercy can not be without the truth," said Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Congregation.

Cardinal Müller didn't name names, but went on to say some people around this place are tempted to separate one from the other.

The love of God is closely bound up with the truth. The same applies to the so-called broken families, those who are in an irregular situation. They need the attention of the Church, not in new pastoral ways, but by the truth.

Yes, with fifty years of non-existent catechesis and the secular world demoralizing the people we love, what the family needs is a pope who will teach the truth and mercy of absolution, the firm purpose of amendment and Sanctifying Grace.

In view of the Synod of Bishops in October, the German cardinal added that this also applies to the family. "We must accept all, especially sinners, because we are all sinners, but according to the instructions of God and not by human considerations. Because sometimes people see things a little differently as God sees them."

Doesn't get any better than that!

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Bishop Richard Lennon Mans Up


I'm really pumped about this development.   

Bishop Lennon has taken the ax to the poisonous tree.

“Actions and speech that are contrary to Catholic teaching shall be grounds for disciplinary action up to and including termination,” the contract language states, according to Cleveland.com.

Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon told faculty at the schools in a letter the effectiveness of a Catholic school does not depend only on the quality of religious curriculum, rather, a Catholic school succeeds in its mission only if every aspect of the of the school is inspired and guided by the Gospel.

“The Church has long recognized the uniquely important and true ministry of teachers and administrators in fulfilling this mission,” he said.

“Furthermore, the example set by teachers and administrators through their actions and their lives is considered by the Church to be even more important than what they say.”

In addition to participation in or public support for abortion, transgender issues, and homosexual “marriage,” the contract also specifies that euthanasia, surrogate parenthood, direct sterilization, sexual relations outside of marriage, and cohabiting outside of wedlock are prohibited.

Membership in anti-Catholic organizations is also forbidden, as is indecent or lewd behavior, such as illicit drug use or pornography consumption. The contract requires faculty to refrain from using electronics and social media to transmit lewd or indecent messages, and also from behavior or attitudes which could tempt others to commit acts considered by the Church to be evil or immoral.

Isn't that beautiful?

Holy See gives French the silent treatment on gay nomination

There is a Santa Claus.

Openly gay diplomat who supported gay marriage said to be "practicing Catholic"&nbsp


Catholics take great exception to the definition that one can work to mislead many souls into the loss of their salvation - and be a 'practicing Catholic'.

A 'practicing Catholic' takes great care not to lead people into temptation and sin.

Sitting in a pew once a week makes you no more of a 'practicing Catholic' than standing in your garage makes you a car.

Here are three signs one is NOT a 'practicing Catholic' - each one of them independently signal you are NOT a 'practicing Catholic':

1. You have stopped the daily practice of keeping your soul in a state of Sanctifying Grace.
2. You have stopped receiving the Sacrament of Penance but you continue to receive the Eucharist.
3. You reject Church teaching and teach others to reject it.

Number 3 is the most offensive 'practice' of Catholicism one could ever perform while claiming to be doing it in the service of Christ's Church.

The problem with this nomination is, here we have a man claiming to be a 'practicing Catholic', who has been working lure homosexuals into living in a constant state of mortal sin.

That's the practice of the devil.

With some noble exceptions, this is what gay priests have been doing inside of the Church and in the culture for decades.

When Pope Francis was asked for his input on the situation, he chose to pooh-pooh the documentation of whistleblowers with the asinine assertion that so long as a priest or bishop in his see is pursuing God when he lives with his lover or destroys the moral compasses of generations of children or is leading thousands to their spiritual deaths, who is he to render a judgment?

That stupid statement is a dog constantly chasing him and biting him on the butt.  He is blind to its meaning.

Articles covering the French fracus repeatedly point out that Pope Francis has portrayed himself as a cleverhole who is going to dismantle and neutralize Church teaching. An old man fighting for the time to unravel 2000 years of saints who hated gays and women.

This is an interesting development that bears watching. Judgments need to be made about our attractions to use sex outside of God's rules for the use of this incredible gift.

When a man shows up at a seminary seeking ordination, judgments need to be made about the prospective harm of putting a fat lady in the candy store. The vocation of priesthood requires healthy practices in the relationships around them that keeps intimacy directed to Christ but still satisfies the need for human friendship, support. Judgments also need to be made about whether a homosexual man seeking ordination thinks with the Church on moral theology and has a solid grip on celibacy.

When a bishop or pope receives a letter about a priest living with his lover for decades and/or teaching others it's ok to live with theirs, judgments need to be made.

Whether they think they are 'pursuing Christ' or carrying out this service in Christ's Holy Name, is actually, immaterial.

The muslims have been slaughtering Christians for thousands of years, believing their atrocities are acts of service on behalf of God.

Being a Pope is a job that has the responsibility of conveying right and wrong judgments.

I'd like to say this papacy has been a bust in that department but the situation is worse than a bust. He's gone out of his way to ridicule and undermine the practice of keeping one's soul in a state of Grace through the Sacraments.

They've tried everything in their bag of tricks including using Catholic media to claim pointing out the heresy in the theology the Pope asked his see to embrace was naughty, telling us to STFU and threatening to sue us. Entire Conferences of Bishops have issued the warning that they will do their job as ordained men and reject and resist a papal mandate to hoodwink Catholics with Kasper's heresy.

Yet, the stalling indicates the lavender mafia either does not have full control or they are reluctant to blow the roof off of the house.

I do believe the Pope when he says they (he, Kasper, Marx and friends) expect resistance and intend to carry out the agenda in spite of it.

I continue to hold the opinion that the resistance they've met has them backtracking and that it is very important to demonstrate that the age of laity who lets them rape and rob our children without castrating their power is over. They had a good run but it is over now.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Jill Stanek caricatures the Sacrament of Penance of the Catholic Church as 'blasphemy'.



There I was minding my own business when Jill Stanek posted a message to her 'friends' who are misguided into believing we have to earn salvation.   And then she quoted somebody who said such a belief places God in our debt.

After What the heck is this? ran through my head, I read the thread.    The post and comments were about as 'friendly' to Catholic theology as the friendly gay couples asking us to use our God-given gifts to participate in their wedding.

What's that all about?   Is that new?

I have witnessed a little of Jill's prolife work but haven't really paid close attention to the subterfuge.  A few weeks back, I did see a publicity stunt in front of Boehner's office tfor hat I thought was class clownish and unproductive to the prolife movement.   Later, she gave a minute-by-minute description of what happened to her when she was arrested, which again, came across as sophomoric and out of character with the professionalism in what little I've followed.

Anyhoo, what a lesson on the fruit of obstinance, bad theology, hysteria and urban legends. 

They kept asking for Scriptural references to explain our theology that Christ appointed Peter as Pope, ordained twelve apostles, instituted the Sacraments of Eucharist, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick, Penance, Matrimony. When given the resources, they of course, were unable to comprehend.

When citing Catholic theologians and teachings, they would not read the explanations.

Jill accused the Sacrament of Penance in the Catholic Church as "blasphemy".

""Carol, there is so much theologically wrong with your response to Bethany - which included mockery of her statement that only Jesus can cleanse her heart - when you wrote, "Christ... ordained the men to absolve you and left His Body and Blood to cleanse your soul..",,Of course, mere mortals cannot absolve us of our sins. That is blasphemy."

That is quite a bold statement to be willing to make in public as a professional person who works with Catholics. Is Fr. Pavone working with her?

I'd like a list of Catholics who have given her gig a boost. You can email me the link on my profile.

It's time to cut the cord.

n.b. I'm doing a little homework and found this link in which she takes issue for Voris for saying the Protestants are trying to prevent Catholics from evangelizing women on contraception and have consequently become a problem in the prolif movemeent.

She then goes on to say:

the issue of contraception can’t really be brought up because many Protestant pro-lifers either don’t see the connection to abortion or don’t want to, and some Catholics pro-lifers who do see the connection are reluctant to splinter support over the issue.

The problem with her big britches didn't materialize in her trip to the hoosegow, that is for sure.

I actually know thousands of Catholics in the prolife movement who believe and evangelize women about contraception. Productively. I should know because they helped to shed light on my own error on contraception.

Does she think she is running the show?

Good grief.

Skipping down to the comments section I noted a few things.

In her commenting rules, she states:

Do Not's

Blasphemy will not be tolerated.

Kind of an interesting coincidence.

And then this coincidence from a commenter:

truthseeker says:
March 15, 2015 at 10:42 am

What is this? I thought this site was for Catholic bashing…oh well then I’ll just have to start complaining about the Protestant bashing at this site instead.

and then this comment:

Do whatever you like, but there’s a profound difference between this post and the one that prompted allegations of Catholic-bashing. In the latter post, Jill
1) reposted a demonstrably false story hinting that someone in the Vatican might be behaving reprehensibly,
2) embellished the demonstrably false story by stating as if it were fact that “the Vatican” was behaving reprehensibly, and then
3) posted a weekend question asking why the Vatican was behaving reprehensibly.


Seems we have a little problem that requires more due diligence.


Friday, April 3, 2015

Blessed and Sacred Triduum



Ugh, that foot washing thing has become such an annoying reminder of the idiocy that is circling us when we show up to mystically pray our way through our Lord's Passion. There we stand trying to celebrate the divinity of the institution of two sacred sacraments and they are cluelessly being led from the company of angels, saints, 2000 years of Apostles at the presence of the first ordination and the first Eucharist in the upper room and they are led out to focus on the service of washing feet.

If they could only see themselves in the mystical moments.  I can't stand it!

All the Martha's are flitzing about in some other god forsaken place and they are washing stuff while Christ pours out His Divinity to perform miracles.

We should stop doing it.  Does the Latin Rite practice the Triduum?  I can't imagine them putting on the circus around the sacred institution of ordination and the Eucharist.  

I can't stand it!

In spite of this, I was moved by the beauty and reverence of the Liturgy I attended on the holiest nights of our year.  It was done by men deeply in love with Christ and Hiss Church and His Sacrament.   The love and belief was obvious.

I hope you are able to find a refuge and pray with Christ on this night in His life.  Don't rob yourself because of a few minutes of foolishness.  

I thought and prayed for many who are struggling though the crucible around us. The asinine antics, the fleeing and craven shepherds and lay people following them. The parish I was at sang Lift High the Cross.  A favorite I hadn't heard in a while.  As I was singing the lyrics, I thought "there it is in all its simplicity".

Lift High the Cross.

There are few who are willing to do it. But the witness brings great courage and it attracts better than free booze at a Knights of Columbus hall.

Good times are ahead. There is a reason why St John Paul kept repeating "be not afraid".

Where Thou goest, we will go. The maroons will follow.

Don't forget Divine Mercy Novena begins today.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

National Catholic Register fires....



I know what you're thinking!

They finally fired Shea or one of the other bullies whose theology is off of the reservation.

Nope - they fired Pat Archibold.

Ok, most of us who know or knew others who either quit or were let go over the past five years or so are not really surprised.

Like the St. Patrick's Day Parade story they spun for the Knights, Catholic writers have privately been complaining of sneakiness and dishonesty for quite some time.

It's a spin machine that covers up internal corruption.

The bishop's puppets.

The Catholic media Code Red against whistleblowers.

Pat's post is here. Another post here.

It tells a similar story that I've heard from more than 1/2 dozen Catholics who formerly wrote for them.

They first edit out content that told both sides of the story. Most times without telling the author. They then move on to control content by complaining. They eventually stop using the author.

Pentin is next. I am surprised he didn't precede Pat.

Who could trust a newspaper that:

1. only tells the side of the story of people who are committing wrongdoing.
2. deliberately deletes factual information that discredits lies being told to cover up wrongdoing
3. deliberately conducts a smear campain against people who speak the truth.

It's the Hillary Clinton of the Catholic press.