Condoms Cause Problems


Are people who think Condoms are a solution to HIV/AIDS really looking at the data?  Are they really concerned with the health and well being of the people or Africa or of the world for that matter.  Or do they prefer to turn a blind eye to the data so they can think they are “safe” while being sexually promiscuous?  Watch and behold the facts.  Lastly there is one thing a condom won’t protect for sure, and that is your ever lasting soul.

August 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Commentary, Video | Comments are closed

Right & Wrong


We should not focus on right verses left, we should focus on right verses wrong.  Here is a prime example of “conservative” talking heads missing the boat on Gay Marrage.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/aug/10081315.html

August 14th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Commentary, Homosexuality | Comments are closed

More on Alter Girls & Women Priests


For those who think that some day there will be women Priests obviously choose not to listen to what the Magisterium of the Church teaches and are not aware of what a “Priest” really is or does.

I would hope everyone would agree that Jesus Christ was a MAN. When a priest offers the Sacrifice of the Mass the priest stands in the person of Christ, or In persona Christi. A woman no matter how able of doing the actions of the priest is not a man. Again God created us for a specific purpose. A male who knows who he is does not want to be pregnant or give birth, and a woman who knows who she is does not want to be a priest.  A woman maybe able to be a priest but she is not capable of being a priest. There is a difference in definition.

Once the Catholic laity come to understand this again they will not want alter girls. Which is why many Catholics who know, study, and surrender to their faith see alter girls as a poor novelty of this current time period at best. Surrendering to the teachings of the Catholic Church is surrendering oneself to Christ.

With that said God’s greatest human creation was a woman.  The Ever Virgin Mary is our model.  As good, or bad, as Fr. So-And-So might be we are not to emulate him we are to emulate the Holy Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.  If we humble ourselves as Mary did the we will humble ourselves to Christ.

August 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Commentary, Mass | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Alter Girls


The other night I was reading through responses to a questions over at Catholic.com

“Will alter girls lead to women priests?” 

While I’m sure many in my own parish will disagree with my sentiment on whether or not we should have alter girls I hope they don’t think it will lead to women priests and that there is some eventual progression that will allow it.  Below is my response to the question.

Alter Girls won’t lead to Women Priests. The term Woman Priest is an oxymoron. Women can’t be priests no more than men can have babies. God didn’t set it up that way.  And sense Alter Girls won’t lead to Women Priests I don’t think we should have them.  Leave it to the boys please.

If we let boys wear nursing bra’s or maternity clothes we’d all say that’s ridiculous because boys can’t have babies, its not how they were made. Yet we let girls be alter servers when they can’t be priests and say there’s nothing wrong with that. Catholics have gone astray in our thinking. God put us here for a specific purpose and we are fooling ourselves if we allow our boys and girls to participate in roles they weren’t meant for, and we do them great disservice when we do.

August 13th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Commentary, Mass | Comments are closed

Benevolent Dictatorship


Listen to what the Votex has to say and give it some thought after you get past the initial shock of his comments because the concept is so “Un-American”. My question is how long will our country last under its current trajectory provided the second coming doesn’t happen first? Another 100 years? Another 200 years? I would be interested to hear how long folks think the good old USA can last on its current course. At some point we go bankrupt for sure as I think the cancer in this country is too ingrained into the fabric of the nation to truly remove it and change course. Democracy is a human experiment, Benevolent Dictatorship is God’s ever lasting model.

August 12th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Commentary, Politics, Video | Comments are closed

Masturbastion is Sinful


I think I’ll let this post go without a picture.  I know many men and women fall to this sin and you won’t hear a peep about it unless maybe your listening to Fr. Corapi, God Bless him.  A good way to combat this sin is frequent confession and the regular reading of sacred scripture.  Also unplug yourself from those things that lead you to this sin.  Give up the internet or have someone setup a filter on your computer, stop your subscription to cable tv, and throw out that romance novel.

CCC 2352  By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. “Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.”138 “The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.” For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of “the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.”139

To form an equitable judgment about the subjects’ moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety, or other psychological or social factors that can lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.

August 7th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Commentary | Comments are closed

Anne Rice Quits Christianity


Anne Rice, famous author of vampire stores and even a few on Jesus, evidently posted the following on her Facebook page

“In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian” saying that she regarded Christians as “quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous.” Rice also added she refuses to be “anti-gay, anti-feminist and anti-Democrat.”

It appears many in the Catholic faith that many in the not so distant future will also fall to this false notion that the Catholic Church is “anti-gay”.  The Church isn’t “anti-gay”, the Church is “anti-sin”  Something that is obviously weighing on Ms. Rice’s mind is that her son is homosexually disordered, yes I said disorder, because that is what homosexuality is, and it’s what the Catholic Church teaches, although you may not hear that in a Sunday homily anytime soon.  See you can’t change what the Bible says about homosexuality and you can’t change what Christ say’s about sin.  Love thy neighbor does not mean to affirm their sinfulness.

Homosexuality is a disordered, disordered-ness does not send you to Hell, actions do.  Participating in a homosexual act is what is sinful, not having the disorder.  I’m sure it’s difficult for Ms. Rice to imagine her son possibly ending up in Hell because of a disorder, but disorders don’t put you in Hell, sins do, and even then, if one is truly repentant of their sin Christ is there to forgive us in the sacrament of Reconciliation.  Truth is truth and affirming someone in their sin does not change the truth or cause a sinful action to be no longer sinful.  Just because you can’t understand something doesn’t change the truth of it.  Just because person can’t wrap their head around the law of gravity doesn’t make gravity go away.  We should pray for Ms. Rice and her son.  May we all repent of our sins love one another as Christ loves us.

July 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Commentary, Homosexuality | Comments are closed

He Says What I’m Thinking


I have posted few of my own words lately, as I’ve been working on a website for www.LifeFrontKC.org which should be complete here in the very near future.  But basically there really is no need for me to speak when I’ve found someone who basically says exactly what I’m thinking, and he does so with regularity.  I’ll gladly let him speak for me.

The currently plan the Bishops are using is not working and has not worked for the past 4 decades.  Things ”within” the church are getting worse not better, and if things in the church are getting worse then it probably explains why things outside the church are in completely chaos. It’s time for the rubber to start meeting the road.  Nothing is going to change, and America is not going to wake up until a few bad apples get smashed.  Bishops we are waiting, start using your authority.

July 28th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Commentary, Video | Comments are closed

Tiger Took the Lords Name in Vain on #13


For someone who proclaims the Buddhist faith I found it odd when Tiger Woods cried out “God! Tiger… Jesus…. Christ” after a bad tee shot on the 13th hole just a few moments ago at the Masters.  So who’s God? Tiger or Jesus Christ?

I think professed Christians should request an apology after his round and let Mr. Woods know just how offensive it was to hear him take the Lords name in vain.  Even Tiger referred to Jesus Christ as God.  Some might says it’s a prophetic slip of the tongue even if it was in vain.

April 11th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Commentary | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Jesus Washed the Apostles Male Feet


I’d be interested from those who read this blog how many parishes out there actually follow the rules put in place by Catholic Church. The following can be found on the USCCB’s website. My parish openly breaks this rule unfortunately. Although I hope to be surprised this coming Thursday evening. I’ve sent a letter in with the reminder but I probably should have sent it in a month ago before they start planning the feet washing and asking people.

If the church cares to change the rules to allow women they are well within their ability to bind and loose. But until they do shouldn’t we respect the rules that were put in place and come to understand why men are specified in the first place? I do not think Jesus was incapable of washing the feet of women but at Holy Thursday he didn’t and there is a reason why the Church specify’s men are to be selected. We do not select women for the Priesthood, which relates to why men should be selected for the Holy Thursday Mandatum.

Holy Thursday Mandatum

My parish liturgy committee has decided to allow both men and women to take part in the washing of the feet at the liturgy on Holy Thursday. I have always heard that only men may have their feet washed. Which does the Church allow?

The rubric for Holy Thursday, under the title WASHING OF FEET, reads:

“Depending on pastoral circumstance, the washing of feet follows the homily. The men who have been chosen (viri selecti) are led by the ministers to chairs prepared at a suitable place. Then the priest (removing his chasuble if necessary) goes to each man. With the help of the ministers he pours water over each one’s feet and dries them.”Regarding the phrase viri selecti, the Chairman of the Bishops Committee on the Liturgy, after a review of the matter by the committee, authorized the following response which appeared in the BCL Newsletter of February 1987:

Question: What is the significance of the Holy Thursday foot washing rite?

Response:

  1. The Lord Jesus washed the feet of his disciples at the Last Supper as a sign of the new commandment that Christians should love one another: “Such as my love has been for you, so must your love be for each other. This is how all will know you for my disciples: by your love for one another” (see John 13, 34-35). For centuries the Church has imitated the Lord through the ritual enactment of the new commandment of Jesus Christ in the washing of feet on Holy Thursday.
  2. Although the practice had fallen into disuse for a long time in parish celebrations, it was restored in 1955 by Pope Pius XII as a part of the general reform of Holy Week. At that time the traditional significance of the rite of foot washing was stated by the Sacred Congregation of Rites in the following words: “Where the washing of feet, to show the Lord’s commandment about fraternal charity, is performed in a Church according to the rubrics of the restored Ordo of Holy Week, the faithful should be instructed on the profound meaning of this sacred rite and should be taught that it is only proper that they should abound in works of Christian charity on this day.”1
  3. The principal and traditional meaning of the Holy Thursday mandatum, as underscored by the decree of the Congregation, is the biblical injunction of Christian charity: Christ’s disciples are to love one another. For this reason, the priest who presides at the Holy Thursday liturgy portrays the biblical scene of the gospel by washing the feet of some of the faithful.
  4. Because the gospel of the mandatum read on Holy Thursday also depicts Jesus as the “Teacher and Lord” who humbly serves his disciples by performing this extraordinary gesture which goes beyond the laws of hospitality,2 the element of humble service has accentuated the celebration of the foot washing rite in the United States over the last decade or more. In this regard, it has become customary in many places to invite both men and women to be participants in this rite in recognition of the service that should be given by all the faithful to the Church and to the world. Thus, in the United States, a variation in the rite developed in which not only charity is signified but also humble service.
  5. While this variation may differ from the rubric of the Sacramentary which mentions only men (“viri selecti”), it may nevertheless be said that the intention to emphasize service along with charity in the celebration of the rite is an understandable way of accentuating the evangelical command of the Lord, “who came to serve and not to be served,” that all members of the Church must serve one another in love.
  6. The liturgy is always an act of ecclesial unity and Christian charity, of which the Holy Thursday foot washing rite is an eminent sign. All should obey the Lord’s new commandment to love one another with an abundance of love, especially at this most sacred time of the liturgical year when the Lord’s passion, death, and resurrection are remembered and celebrated in the powerful rites of the Triduum.3

Notes

  1. Sacred Congregation of Rites, Instruction on the Correct Use of the Restored Ordo of Holy Week, November 16, 1955 (Washington, DC: National Catholic Welfare Conference Publications Office, 1955), page 6.
  2. In biblical times it was prescribed that the host of a banquet was to provide water (and a basin) so that his guests could wash their hands before sitting down to table. Although a host might also provide water for travelers to wash their own feet before entering the house, the host himself would not wash the feet of his guests. According to the Talmud the washing of feet was forbidden to any Jew except those in slavery.In the controversies between Hillel and Shammai (cf. Shabbat 14a-b) Shammai ruled that guests were to wash their hands to correct “tumat yadayim” or “impurity of hands” (cf. Ex 30, 17 and Lv 15, 11). Priests were always to wash their hands before eating consecrated meals. The Pharisees held that all meals were in a certain sense “consecrated” because of table fellowship.Jesus’ action of washing the feet of his disciples was unusual for his gesture went beyond the required laws of hospitality (washing of hands) to what was, in appearance, a menial task. The Lord’s action was probably unrelated to matters of ritual purity according to the Law.
  3. For a brief overview of the restoration of the foot washing rite in 1955, see W. J. O’Shea, “Mandatum,” New Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX, 146, and W. J. O’Shea, “Holy Thursday,” New Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VII, 105-107; Walter D. Miller, Revised Ceremonial of Holy Week (New York: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 1971), p. 43. See also Prosper Gueranger, OSB, The Liturgical Year, Volume VI, Passiontide and Holy Week (Westminster, Maryland: Newman Press, 1949), pp. 395-401. For the historical background of the many forms of this rite, see the following studies: Pier Franco Beatrice, La lavanda dei piedi: Contributo alla storia delle antiche liturgie cristiane (Rome: C.L.V. Edizioni Liturgiche, 1983); “Lotio pedum” in Hermann Schmidt, Hebdomada Sancta, Volume II (Rome: Herder, 1956-1957); Annibale Bugnini, CM, and C. Braga, CM, Ordo Hebdomadae Sanctae Instauratus in Biblioteca “Ephemerides Liturgicae” Sectio Historica 25 (Rome: Edizioni Liturgiche, 1956), pp. 73-75; Theodor Klauser, A Short History of the Western Liturgy: An Account and Some Reflections, second edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 81.

This is the latest statement of this Secretariat on the question. No subsequent legislation or instructions have necessitated a modification in the statement. Holy Thursday Mandatum

April 1st, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Commentary, Mass | Comments are closed
 
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