The M+G+R Foundation
Points to Ponder About
September - October - November 2007
PURPOSE
The purpose of Points to
Ponder
About is to stimulate thinking that would draw the disoriented
Faithful back to God and
away from the hypocritical duplicity of some religious
institutions which are destroying the little faith left on earth.
The instructions are simple: Just invoke the illumination of
the
Holy Spirit of God while you ponder upon any of these Points to Ponder and let God guide
you to Light. We know that some make-believe religious leaders will
say: "What about satan interfering
and leading the soul astray?" To those... we invoke Our Lord's
Words again:
"...Get
the behind me, Satan: the art an offense unto me: for the severest
not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." [Matthew 16:23]
and further
"And
I
say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and yea shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that sketch
receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it
shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a
father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a
fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer
him a scorpion? If ye
then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how
much more shall
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
[Luke 11:9-13]
and finally
"But
woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the
kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither
suffer ye them that are entering to go in." [Matthew 23:13]
Published
on November 29th, 2007
It is His Will that we bring the following
to the world's attention again....
Do you
ever wonder... why will man attempt to build a "new
and improved"
society, a modern day Tower of Babel, when we know from the
beginning
that it was not acceptable to God? Thus:
And
they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the
top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before
we be scattered abroad into all lands. And the Lord came down to
see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were
building. And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one
tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off
from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. Come ye,
therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they
may not understand one another's speech. And so the Lord
scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build
the city.
9 And therefore the name
thereof was called Babel,
because there the language of the whole
earth was confounded: and from
thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
[Genesis
11: 4-9]
For the
same reason man wants to play God (genetic manipulation, reproductive
manipulation, etc.) considering that from the very, very beginning God
showed immense displeasure at such tendency. Thus:
Of
the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat: But of the fruit of the
tree which is
in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat;
and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die. And the serpent said to the woman:
No, you shall not die the death. For God doth know that in what
day soever you shall eat
thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing
good and evil. [Genesis 3: 2-5]
Because
man, without God, is basically very stupid and when
man wants to
upstage God, God is certainly not with him.
Published
on November 25th, 2007 [Feast of Christ The King]
Do you wonder...
Published
on November 21st, 2007 [Mary's Presentation]
Do you wonder.... why the
fallen claimant to the Chair of Peter pontificates thus?
"Vatican, Nov. 19, 2007
(CWNews.com) - Christians should not be
caught up on apocalyptic prophecies and worries about the end of the
world, Pope Benedict XVI
told an audience in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, November 18.
.....'Rather than attempting to predict future events, the Church
adheres faithfully to her mission: evangelizing and sanctifying the
world, living in God's time rather than attempting to find ultimate
meaning in earthly events.'"
It is done so that the
damages upon
humanity be multiplied as it happened when they ignored La Salette,
Fatima, Rosa
Mystica,
Kibeho, Akita and many others.
If you also wonder what was meant by:
I saw
another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns, like a
lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. [Revelations 12:13]
The above example shows
exactly what it means... soothe the disoriented masses with "sweet and
half baked theological talk" while they are being set up for the kill.
Regarding the Church Administration adhering faithfully to her
mission.... Should we presume he was speaking about "Evangelizing
by the sword, and the rack and enforcing the Faith with burning
human
being alive at the stake like, Jan
Hus." ?
We must thank God that even satan must serve Him, otherwise, the
pristine Catholic Faith would not have reached us when we will need
it more than ever.
Let them
babble
for, their due
is just
around the corner;
in the
meantime, the Elect will
continue to pray.
Published
on November 17th, 2007 [Mary, Mother of Divine Providence]
Do you wonder.... on whose
authority we often state: What
makes it even worse is that we keep making the same
mistakes over and over again - that is how stupid man, without God, is ?
On the authority of God.
For details we refer the reader to the Book of Wisdom, chapter 13:
1 But
all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of
God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand
him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who
was the workman:
2 But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift
air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and
moon, to be the gods that rule the world.
3 With whose beauty, if they, being
delighted, took them to be
gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than
they: for the first author of beauty made all those things.
4 Or if they admired their power and their effects, let them understand
by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:
5 For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator
of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.
and the consequences
9 For if they were able to know so much as
to make a judgment of
the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?
10 But unhappy are they, and their hope is
among the dead, who
have called gods the works of the hands of men, gold and silver, the
inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable
stone the work of an ancient hand.
Published
on November 13th, 2007
Do you wonder... how could
the Roman Catholic Church have a key prayer, the Paschal Proclamation -
The Exultet (Praeconium) - which partially reads:
O wondrous
condescension of Thy mercy towards us!
O
inestimable
affection of love: that Thou mightest redeem a slave, Thou didst
deliver up Thy Son!
O truly
needful
sin of Adam, which was blotted out by the death of Christ!
O happy
fault,
that merited to possess such and so great a Redeemer!
When it should read:
O wondrous
condescension of Thy mercy towards us!
O
inestimable
affection of love: that Thou mightest redeem a slave, Thou didst
deliver up Thy Son!
O truly tragic sin of Adam, which was
blotted by the death of Christ!
O shameful blame from which we were
delivered by so great a Redeemer!
Exalting sin and blame?
We will address this issue - not a "pretty one" - at a later time in
the form of a document.
Published
on November 8th, 2007
Are you wondering... why
there was a recovery of the stock market and the DOW remains between
13,000 and 14,000 while the gold price has relentlessly climbed to real record highs?
You will find the answer in the following letter that we sent yesterday
at about noon time GMT to key media outlets worldwide:
Look
at the gold price trends. Those "in the know" place their
money in it because they "know" that the market will crash.
You may then ask, why is
the market still going up or holding at the
abnormally high level of 13,500 +/- ?
Because those "in the do
not know" think that "it is business as usual"
and those "in the know" are "milking them", through the market, for all
they are worth, as those "in the know" place their gains in the
absolute (worldly speaking, of course) security of gold.
It IS that simple.
Stay tuned.
The M+G+R Foundation
Published
on November 5th, 2007
Do you ever wonder... why if
Opus Dei is "only a victim" of bad press, first person books like we
read about in the news report we quote below keep surfacing?
Defector tells of
threats and humiliation she
suffered during 13 years in secret sect
A
mother of nine has lifted the lid on Opus Dei, the controversial
Catholic organisation featured in Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da
Vinci Code, which portrayed it as a mysterious and cult-like
-institution.
Véronique
Duborgel re-counts in a new book, Inside the Hell of Opus Dei, the 13
years she spent as a member of the group, which she describes as rigid,
insensitive, sectarian and misogynistic
Full news report at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/04/nopusdei104.xml
Published
on November 2nd, 2007 [All Souls
Day and [First
Friday
of Reparation]
Do you ever wonder... why
there is massive traffic in cemeteries on November 1st - All Saints Day
instead of on both
November 1st and 2nd, All Saints Day and All Souls (who are in
Purgatory) Day, respectively?
Just as most Catholics go to communion and skip the confessional [they
think of themselves as Immaculate and worthy to receive Jesus Christ
without cleansing themselves first at the confessional] they like to
think that their relatives are all in Heaven (All Saints Day) and none
in Purgatory (All Souls Day).
That mentality is just another fruit of a failed Evangelization by
those about whom Jesus spoke thus: Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites; because you
go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte; and when he
is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves. [Matthew 23:15]
And they speak of "not in communion with" and "excommunication from".
We should view that as we would a worldwide announcement made by the
"Ebola virus Public Relations Department" excluding
the Elect form their infectious action. [Remember - we are speaking
about the Adminsitration and not about the
Faith
which we, with the
Grace of God, will uphold unto death.]
Published
on October 30th, 2007
Do you ever wonder.... why
satan sow's seeds of visions of the future, such as the famous
Nostradamus quatrains, and why God allows them?
satan sows them because it keeps mankind busy trying to figure out a
future which should be entrusted to faith. (1)
God allows it because He has shown man that when He has a message about
the future (2), He makes sure that is crystal clear - that is,
before the Vatican gets a hold of it (3). Therefore, if man wants divination- God respects
his free will and allows him to plow into the proverbial concrete wall
in the hopes (4) that he/she may wake up in time.
All is really quite simple once the "spins" are peeled off the facts.
NOTES
(1) About
divination and
its
pitfalls
(2) The many Marian
Messages
(3) The consequences of
embargoing and spinning Heavenly Messages
(4) Divine "Alarm clock"
Published
on October 27th, 2007
Do you wonder.... why the
Roman Catholic Catechism insists that one cannot be "in communion" with
the Roman Church, their claimed requirement for Salvation -
sidelining the Only Way : Jesus
Christ - if one does not accept (1) an individual,
Joseph Ratzinger,
who claims to be the Bishop of Rome,
the Successor of Peter, even though one lives the basic tenets of
the Faith - not mechanically like most, but from the heart?
Quite simple.... If you were satan and were planning to
present yourself as the Savior (2) - which would be the most credible "launching pad"
you would use? The Vatican (3), of course. Who would be the agent preparing his way - the anti
John the Baptizer (4)? An
individual who claims to be the Bishop of Rome, the Successor of Peter,
but who is not.
Then, logically, the Faithful must be brainwashed (5) to believe that without accepting a particular
individual who claims to be the Successor of Peter, he/she is
doomed to eternal damnation which is the equivalent of not being in
communion with the allegedly only route to Salvation.
Brethren - it is that simple. That is why hundreds of millions will be
deceived and their suffering (6) will be of apocalyptic magnitude.
What to do then when threatened with the "non in communion" veiled
threat? What would Jesus do? Exactly what He did when He
walked amongst men!
Did He not say: Do
not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not
come to destroy, but to fulfill. [Matthew 5: 17]
He was referring, of course, to the basic tenets of the faith as had
been manifested so far - which included the teachings of the true
prophets God sent before Him.
Even though He called the Temple Masters - the equivalent of The "Pope"
of the Temple and
his Curia - every name in the book (7) and accused
them of all sorts of deviations (7) from the teachings of God, He continued to practice
His (true) Faith as had been
manifested so far until His
crucifixion - ignoring the threats of the
Spiritual deviants of the time.
You go forth and do likewise for to you it is given to
know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but them, now like then, seeing
they cannot see, and hearing they cannot understand.!
NOTES______________________________________________________________
(1)
From the Roman Catholic Church Catechism :
837 "Fully incorporated into
the society of the Church are those who, possessing the Spirit of
Christ, accept all the means of salvation given to the Church
together with her entire
organization, and who - by the bonds constituted by the profession of
faith, the sacraments, ecclesiastical government, and communion -
are joined in the visible
structure of the Church of Christ, who rules her through the Supreme
Pontiff and the bishops. Even though incorporated into the Church,
one who does not however
persevere in charity is not saved. He remains indeed in the bosom of
the Church, but 'in body' not 'in heart.'"321
(2) As it is
announced in the Holy Word of God - which supersedes any human teaching - The False
Christ
(3) The FalseChrist
Launching Pad
(4) The AntiChrist
(5) There IS
Salvation outside
Rome
(6) Divine
Mercy In
Action
(7) Jesus
Speaks Plainly
i.e. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites; because you
tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things
of
the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have
done, and not to leave those undone. [Matthew 23:23]
Published
on October 22nd, 2007
Do you wonder.... why if
Catholic Doctrine teaches that Jesus is present in the Blessed
Sacrament [Body, Blood and Divinity] - something that we know for a
fact that is true - in the famous prayer of the Angelus, in the third
part the prayer, it reads: "And
the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us."
"Dwelt"? No, brethren, that prayer should read: "And the Word was made
flesh and dwelt and still dwells amongst us."
Oh, yes, the answer to the question we posed is: For the same reason
the Tabernacles in churches and chapels are seldom kept accompanied by
thankful and loving children of God: Lack of faith in the Real Presence
(1)
by those who serve as examples and evangelizers. No one can
effectively transmit a spiritual reality without a living and, thus, a
credible example.
___________________________________
(1) About
the Real Presence
Published
on October 18th, 2007 [Feast of
St. Luke ]
Do you wonder....
(1) Why when Lucifer and his angels
fell there was no recourse for them, yet, when Adam and Eve fell there
was recourse for them and for all humanity to the extent of God
lowering Himself to the human level to give us another opportunity to
Eternal Life?
(2) How
those who do not know Jesus, the only route to Salvation - have not
even heard of Him - will be saved?
Wonder about it for a bit longer.... God Willing we will soon post the
reason as revealed to us.
Note added on October 19th:
The explanation of the above will not be published here. It will be
mailed to those who are on our Mailing List as of this date.
Published
on October 16th, 2007 [Feast of
Mary's Purity ]
Do you wonder why....
organized religion is needed? The answer lies in what is its
purpose. The only
purpose of organized religion is to provide man with a coherent and
organized manner to establish a working and interactive relationship
with God. That is, its objective is to lead man to God. When "the
means", that is, the institution, de facto becomes "the end", the
system has degenerated into idolatry since the only "end" or objective
is God and His Will.
Published
on October 13th, 2007 [90th
Anniversary of the Miracle
of the Sun in Fatima]
Do you wonder why.... the
Roman Catholic Church Administration has made such a fuss over the 90th
Anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima if, even with such
spectacular display from the Divinity, they were
not moved to
act on a
timely basis to avoid the carnage of World War II?
The new $100 + million dollar Basilica of the Holy Trinity will not
induce God to forget such monumental transgression - a transgression
which has not be acknowledged nor
atoned by them.
Published
on October 11th, 2007 - [Feast
of The
Motherhood of Mary]
Do you wonder why... the Faithful always remembers the
saving of Ninive - as we read in Jonas 4: 11:
11 And shall not I spare Ninive, that
great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand
persons that know not how to
distinguish between their right hand and
their left, and many beasts?
and forgets why God acted thus - as we read in Jonas 3:
6 And the word came to the king of Ninive;
and he rose up out of
his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed with
sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and
published in Ninive
from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men
nor beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor
drink water.
8 And let men and beasts be covered with
sackcloth, and cry to
the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his
evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.....
10 And God saw their works, that they were
turned from their
evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said
that he would do to them, and he did it not.
For the same reason man likes
to lose weight without dieting and have a good figure without
exercising. Haven't we heard, when trying to diet, those around us
encouraging us thus: No Pain, No
Gain!
Well, that is the
same encouragement that we are trying to give
those who read our pages.
Published
on October 7th, 2007 - [Our Lady of the
Rosary]
Do you wonder why... if Solomon's Temple was destroyed and the
Second Temple was also destroyed due to the transgressions of the Jews
of the time, how can anyone expect the Vatican not to follow suit when
their transgressions have been "head and shoulders" above those of the
two temples of Jerusalem?
To deny this would be to deny the historical teachings of the world and
the theological teachings of the Sacred Scriptures.
Published
on October 4th, 2007
Do you wonder why... so many people are so quick to quote/resort
to 1 Corinthians 13: 1-10....
1 If I speak with the
tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries,
and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could
remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and
if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it
profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not
perversely; is not puffed up;
5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger,
thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth
with the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never falleth away: whether
prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge
shall be destroyed.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in
part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come,
that which is in part shall be done away.
In the face of what we have written on our newest document: Jesus Speaks
Plainly : Politically Incorrect
But
DIVINELY
Correct
Meditate about it and let the Holy Spirit of God answer you.
Published
on September 30th, 2007
Do you wonder why... if Burma has over 400,000 Buddhist Monks
who are so highly revered by the populace; who are understood to live a
life of prayer and meditation; and who are even looked upon to have an
edge over Christianity [to the point that many individuals claim that
the hidden life of Jesus was spent amongst Buddhist monks
learning what He taught the world later on] .... Burma is in the
socio-political condition it is?
Published
on September 29th, 2007 [Feast
of Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael]
Do you wonder why... the apparently innocuous phrase: "One can catch more flies with honey than
with vinegar." goes against the teachings of Jesus Christ?
Because honey attracts "all types of flies" including those who are not
to be saved. Didn't He say - in no uncertain terms:
11 And he said to them: To you it is given
to know the mystery
of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are
done in parables:
12 That seeing they may see, and not
perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand: lest at any time they should be
converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. [Mark 4:11-12]
Those who can See and Hear will "cut through the vinegar" and
get to the heart of the delivery. The rest, well, you know....
Then
the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him
into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth. [Matthew 22:13]
Therefore, we must be ready with an ample supply of oil of consolation
and the wine of renewed hope for those who "cut through the vinegar".
Published
on September 27th, 2007
In the introduction of Karl Marx's work Contribution to Critique of Hegel's
Philosophy of Right one can read what is probably his most
quoted phrase: "Religion is the opium
of the people" .
Since communism was intrinsically atheist, do you ever wonder what was
used to replace religion so that the people would remain under the
influence of some other "opium"?
Sports! and it spread far and wide. [Can't you hear satan cackling? he
did it again and men fell for it!]
Note:
In reference to the above, the reader may want to review the related
September 28th posting in the Public Forum.
Published
on September 24th, 2007
Do you
ever wonder... why the transmission routes most used by the AIDS
causing virus are: (a) Sexual
promiscuity (1); and (b)
Illegal drug use/abuse?
The answer is coherently simple: Those are the two flesh associated
dysfunction (2)
which can damage a soul the most. Considering how Divine Mercy
functions (3) (4),
it certainly is a most coherent scenario.
___________________________________
(1) Sodomy and
the
destruction of the soul
(2) Spiritual
Dysfunction - Its Identification,
Treatment and Cure
(3) Divine
Mercy In
Action -
Part II
(4) Divine
Mercy InAction
- Part III
Published
on September 21st, 2007
Do you
ever wonder... from whence will the enemy spring that will take the
mighty USA down?
Wonder no more,
Abraham Lincoln (1)
had the answer:
At
what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall
we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military
giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!
All the
armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of
the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte
for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or
make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what
point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it
ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.(2) It cannot come from
abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and
finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die
by suicide.
(1) Abraham
Lincoln's Lyceum Address
(2)
A few glaring
examples to
pick from
Published
on September 19th, 2007
Do you
ever wonder... why such the uproar over such a tiny fraction of priests
who sexually abused children? Because roughly two-thirds
of top U.S. Catholic leaders
have allowed priests accused of sexual abuse to keep working, a
systematic practice that spans decades and continues today, a
three-month Dallas Morning News review shows.
Published
on September 14th, 2007 [Feast
of the Exaltation of the Cross]
Do you
ever wonder... what was, and
continues to be, the core source for the sexual abuse and other
scandals within the Roman Catholic Church and other religious
institutions? The answer is as simple as it is elusive to those steeped
in denial (1) :
The Demise of the Faith (2).
Without a doubt - when man ceases to believe in a Just and
Loving Creator out goes the desire to please Him and the fear of His
justice. Then, as a psychiatrist who taught at major U.S.
Medical School used to instruct: "Do
everything and deny everything." Such mentality, which seems to
rule society today, does so to the detriment of
the soul.
___________________________
(1) Denial - The sign
of
the times
(2) The Demise of the Faith -
Part I
and Part
II
Published
on September 8th, 2007 [Feast
of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary]
Do you
ever wonder... how many of the Faithful pray in earnest to spiritually
assist the few priests and members of the Hierarchy who, as Don Bosco
had to do, are fighting the good fight against the evils of the
right and the
left to serve God as He truly deserves? Very few! Therefore, let us join in
prayer for those dedicated men of God and offer that as our
Birthday
Present to Mary - our
true Mother.
Published
on September 3rd, 2007
[Mary,
Mother
of the Good Shepherd]
Do you
ever wonder... if the Roman Catholic clergy at large will ever come to
terms with reality (unless God steps in and does it for them, of
course!)? No, they will not.
Following is an exchange of
correspondence between a Select List Member and one of the priests of
his parish:
Dear [priest's name edited out],
I hesitate to write this (since I am
not sure it will do any good), but my conscience forces me to comment.
You
gave a nice homily on the reading today about taking a low place at a
banquet to show humility. You aptly pointed out that Jesus
attended
many functions to watch people and to be watched.
You rightly stated that Jesus knew He
was being watched and set an example for the rest of us.
All of this was good.
Then
at the end, you spent several minutes lecturing us on the closing of
churches in the Boston area. You went on to state that the high
command must learn to accept married priests and that the laity must
become involved.
But worst of all, you trivialized all
your comments by saying that if we reported these comments to the
bishop, you would deny it all.
Respectfully, please appreciate
the following,
1. people have lost the faith because
the RCC does not seem to believe in God;
2. the problem is not homosexual
priests, but pedophile priests;
3. the issue is not sex between adults,
but the use of power by the priest to overwhelm the young and innocent;
4. marriage is not going to fix the
problem;
5. those who dedicate their lives to
God have no need of sex from anyone;
6. a chaste life is possible for those
who truly serve God;
7. the Vatican could easily loosen up
the cash to keep churches open worldwide;
8. the Vatican sees the only role for
the laity as a source of income;
9. the Vatican serves mammon, not God;
10. it is tragic that you do not have
faith in your convictions so that you are frightened of the bishop's
reprimand.
Earlier
this year, the pastor, [name edited out], commented to those of us at a
weekday 7:15 am Mass that he had to decline 2/3rds of the applications
to
the parish school. Rather than patiently explain to the families
the
reasons for said decision, or better, rather than finding the resources
to expand the school, instead he elected to leave town until "things
cooled off."
Is this the way that Jesus handled
things? Is this what you would have seen Jesus doing?
You
just gave a sermon on Jesus as an example and you have dedicated your
life to imitating Jesus, and yet at age (over 65), you don't want the
bishop
to know your ideas?
When, exactly will you get the courage
to stand up for what you believe?
May The Holy Spirit Guide you.
You are in my prayers
Following
is the priest's response:
Dear [name edited out]
Thanks for your note and
happy to know you were at
the 7:15 AM Mass. I appreciate your kind words on the homily. I do want
to apologize though, because I don't think I was as well prepared as I
should have been. One of those days.
Meanwhile, lighten up. The
congregations obviously
got the gist of my joke about- "if you report me, I'll deny it".
That's
an old line that I thought was appropriate for the occasion because
first of all I've never denied anything I've said and secondly the
bishop, knowing me, would know that I probably said it.... and said
more over the years.
We are not dealing here
with anything that's at the
heart of Christianity and certainly not by extension at the heart of
the Catholic Tradition. But it does threaten "traditionalists" whose
sense of history is the last 100 years.
Finally, the sexual abuse
problem in the Catholic
Church has been one involving not of pedophiles (though there are
a
few) but of ephebophiles.
I'd enjoy having lunch
with you some day. Please tell me when and where.
Best
Fr. [name edited out]
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