Readers tell me this program has made the rounds in the Archdiocese of Boston.
This," Byrnes asserted, "really reflects the genius of something like Alpha ... We're giving really just the essentials, and it's not Protestant essentials, it's not even Orthodox essentials, it's not Catholic essentials — it's the essentials of being a Christian."
In other words, Catholic essentials are not "the essentials of being a Christian."
I wonder if this is the program that defined the Blessed Trinity as "Two men with beards and a bird"?! When I heard about it, I remember calling the evangelization office to tell them what they should already know and they told me the program was 'meeting people where they're at'.
If people are signing up for catechetical programs, they're not doing to it remain 'where they're at' - they're trying to kick 'where they're at' up a few notches.
Nobody this side of the moon wants to hear that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is two men with beards and a bird.
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"I remember calling the evangelization office to tell them what they should already know and they told me the program was 'meeting people where they're at'."
Dumb and dumber.
Karl
Yes, this has been around at least back to 2006 when the Cardinal approved the laity run wine & cheese parties aka Alpha to help people figure out why they go to church. Good Grief!
Sounds a lot a like a Dale Carnegie program about getting along with one another. God would rather that we learned how to get along with Him.
I wonder if this Protestant program was first introduced to Catholics in the Detroit Archdiocese where Bishop Byrnes was from? While I lived there, and while Bishop Byrnes was growing up, Detroit was the most bizarrely Progressive "Catholic" diocese in the country. Some of that must of rubbed off on him. Note: The Bishop was recently appointed Bishop of the Guam territory by Mr. Progressive himself, Pope Francis.
I once asked a physician friend his view on hypnotism. His reply fits here relative to Alpha- "it works for dumb people." Optimistically, I guess it can't do any real harm...
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