tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post5904539437785143610..comments2024-03-28T02:22:35.857-07:00Comments on The Eponymous Flower: Pope Francis Replaces Cardinal Piacenza as Prefect for the Congregation of ClergyTancredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-8689070304581108182013-09-27T11:01:25.621-07:002013-09-27T11:01:25.621-07:00My dear friend, I am going to accept your comment...My dear friend, I am going to accept your comment as sincere and that the decision you came to was one that was made with much preliminary thought.<br /><br />Surely others have offered to you numerous reasons why this may not have been the right move for you to have made so I will not repeat arguments you have most likely already heard. I will merely say to you that it it never a good idea to throw out the baby with the bathwater.<br /><br />The Catholic Church is now in dire straits, going through what is possibly the worst crisis in its entire 20 centuries of existence. If it isn't the wirst it is definitely in the Top Ten. Maybe the Top Two. Regardless of that She has weathered all the storms and has always come back stronger than before. I have no idea how long this horrible situation will be allowed to go on but I do know that one day it will end and that silly aberrations like those we have been going through will disappear as wisps of smoke. In future people will read about a Schillebeeckx and think they are reading about some prehistoric bird, so forgotten will be this man and his rotten works. In other words these evils will pass, and for some strange reason God has chosen to plop us right into a period of time where evil seems to be all-pervasive. I don't question God's decision (even though I wish he had placed me in the 13th century instead!).<br /><br />But I ask you to reconsider leaving the One Church established by Christ, who placed Peter - flawed, vacillating, cowardly Peter - at the head of His Church. Jumping off the Ark just now is not in the best interests of our eternal salvation. But Christ founded only one Church, under Peter, and no others. It really is that simple.<br /><br />I admire and enormously respect much in Orthodoxy, and I long for the day when the terrible schism between the Orthodox and the Catholics will end. It will end, not in my lifetime, but it will end. I agree that their liturgies are exquisite, and that they bring us back centuries to our moorings in the Faith. And I agree totally that the New Mass is, as currently practiced, disgusting. But would it be too difficult in your area to find a quiet and reverent Ancient Rite Mass to attend? They do seem to be popping up everywhere so it should be possible for you to hopefully one somewhat nearby to you. If so, please try to find that Mass and attend it.<br /><br />I am hardly a theologian or expert in Canon Law so I cannot say that you are necessarily doing right or wrong by attending a beautiful but, alas, schismatic church. I have heard that as long as you don't accept the schism it would be lawful, under certain very strict conditions, to fulfill your obligation by attending such an Orthodox service but PLEASE investigate that with a competent priest before acting on it.<br /><br />Again, my friend, this time will pass. As awful as the time is please hang on to the One, True Church outside of which there is no salvation. And I wish you and yours God's choicest blessings.<br /><br />aged parent Aged parenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217229048176272954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-12244442888915907432013-09-23T06:30:05.237-07:002013-09-23T06:30:05.237-07:00Patriarch Bart is far worse than Francis. Hey, don...Patriarch Bart is far worse than Francis. Hey, don't say I didn't warn you.Tancredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-46973825798120200802013-09-23T03:33:36.648-07:002013-09-23T03:33:36.648-07:00I went to the Greek Orthodox Church yesterday for ...I went to the Greek Orthodox Church yesterday for their Divine Liturgy. It was the first time I ever did that. I had contemplated doing that during the term of the late, ungreat John Paul II, but Benedict XVI ny word and deed and action (restoring Papal vesture like the fanon last year), gave me much hope and pride in being Catholic.<br />Pope Francis I destroyed that in six months. His actions, agenda, appoitments and way of presenting himself as Pope is appaling, and his recent gestures about the possibility of married priests, and his calling a gay man on the phone and saying there is nothing worng with being gay etc. is such a departure from traditional Roman Catholicism that I really want nothing to do with him, or the kind of Roman Catholic Church he represents....the radical progressive/liberal wing. I hate everything they stand for.<br />I must admit that at the Greek Orthodox Church, I felt the presence of God, like I did at the Tridentine Latin Mass. Yesterday I felt that I was transported back to a time of the very first centuries of the Christian Faith, when the liturgy and the Gospels etc. were all in Greek..<br />The progressive liturgists claim that the Vatican II Novus Ordo represents what the first centuries of Christianity was like....LOL. More like the first decades of Lutheranism !!!<br />I closed my eyes during the Greek Orthodox liturgy, heard the chanting and the swinging of the incense censors with their little bells on them and could imagine being back in Jerusalem, or Ephesus, etc. about the year 375, and hearing what the liturgy (East and West....because in those centuries the Mass in the West was very similar to the Orthodox) was like.<br /><br />After the Greek Orthodox liturgy, which is much longer than the usuall 40 minute ad lib Protestant style and music Catholic parish Mass, I visited a Catholic parish to pray for a second and walked in during Mass...feeling alittle guilty that I had gone to the Greek Orthodox liturgy.<br />But that was wiped away in a second, when I heard the same, banal, music to the accompaniment not of organ but of violin. Sounded like something the Episcopalians (ugh), would do.<br />Then I knew I made the right choice!<br /><br />Thank you, Pope Francis, for helping to drive me out of my own Church....a Church I loved and excepted despite disliking the Vatican II Mass.....until you came along. You're 100x more liberal than any other Pope. And I can't accept that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-32124163283458763932013-09-22T22:39:48.965-07:002013-09-22T22:39:48.965-07:00And Abp. Di Noia has been transferred from Ecclesi...<a href="http://attualita.vatican.va/sala-stampa/bollettino/2013/09/21/news/31719.html" rel="nofollow">And Abp. Di Noia has been transferred from Ecclesia Dei to adjunct secretary of the ex-Holy Office.</a> If you read into that, you'd get the impression Francis is promoting Tradition. I wonder who's filling his shoes in Ecclesia Dei? Or is Ecclesia Dei being dismantled?Geremiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11812810552682098086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-18511072180972799062013-09-22T09:25:18.188-07:002013-09-22T09:25:18.188-07:00Don't read too much into the replacement of Ca...Don't read too much into the replacement of Cardinal Piacenza, unless the replacement is a radical liberal.<br /><br />But perhaps Piacenza was replaced because he had a massive heart attack in the Spring, and a transfer of duties to something less strenuous perhaps was in order.<br /><br />But regardless, I don't expect the Pope to replace current people with anything but liberals, and maybe a few radicals too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com