Dear readers, as you sit down to that nice meal with your loved ones, or sip at the cup of delicious coffee that you so richly deserve please just stop for a moment.... and think.... of those less fortunate than yourselves, those who suffer from a peculiar form of mental illness. Think of having a compunction so consuming that you will do anything to satisfy it, bend reality to serve it and give up your heritage to collaborate with it. The worst of this malady is that those poor souls don't realise their plight and resent the label that has been given to their condition, they are the ecu-maniacs.
Ecumenism, what is there to say. Many Catholics believe it is a noble cause, indeed it is THE cause, but they come at it from a faulty understanding of what it truly is.
I'm reminded of that scene from the film "The Deerhunter." You know the story with Robert DeNiro, set against the back drop of lives torn apart by the Vietnam War. Anyway in the film the characters decide to go up into the mountains to hunt deer. Picture the scene, a mountain road and a car appears, it slows down and stops and one of the men gets out to relieve himself, he finishes and goes to get back into the car. Just as he reaches the door of the car the car speeds up and leaves him. He shouts at the driver and the car stops a short distance up the road, he walks towards it and just as he reaches it the car speeds off again, this happens several times, the driver is playing a joke on him. I'm sure that some of us played that joke as well in our younger days!!
My point is this it reminds me of the Catholic church and its relationship with some of the other christian communities. It is one big joke! Think about it, the Church strives to come to some sort of agreed frame work with the anglican communion, works at it for years and then the anglicans allow women priests and ordain practicing homosexuals. Others communities allow contraception and abortion under certain circumstances. Yet the Catholics have to keep running to catch up, moving farther and farther away from the core of their faith simply to appease fellow travellers who succumbed to the modern world years ago.
Ah but what about the dialogue? Yes lets look at that this interminable dialogue that seems to have no beginning , no middle and no end. The definition of dialogue is simple, it is a conversation between two or more, not much help there. Well what about conversation what does it mean? The definition of to converse simply means to talk. But what I find interesting is that there is another meaning of converse, namely the opposite, turned round, reverse. That seems to be more apt when we think about the conversation that Catholics engage in with other christians.
True ecumenism is the process by which all those who profess to believe in Christ Jesus are gathered together in the One True Church, that which was founded by Christ, that which is lead by Peter and his successors.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Reordering Liturgical Space!
Just thought I better give a quick update on the parish priest and his nefarious plan for my old home church. (post 23rd October 2010) The reverend father seems to be progressing with his scheme quietly and efficiently. He posted up the new look for the sanctuary of the church and then took a straw poll of the views of the parishioners. A few Sundays ago he announced the result of this democratic consultation. 65% opposed to the alterations with 35% agreeing. He then gave the best bit of spin I have ever heard, politicians should take notes, he stated that the views of the 35% would have to be accommodated!!! Brilliant, this piece of verbal sidestepping showed the new church of the people for the lie that it is, oh sure it is the church of the people as long as the people think the same way as their leaders. LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF VATICAN II!! VIVA LA REVOLUTION!! LOL.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Plus ca change ......
"O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason!" - Julius Caesar. Act 3: II
The Irish media are intellectually and morally bankrupt! There I said it!
Gasp! "Servus," I hear you say, "What on earth could prompt you to make such a bold assertion?"
Well let me explain. With the election over, the press have called it a new dawn, a political seachange, the end of old Irish politics, a new national government. Little did I know that when I went to bed that night that when I rose the next day I would be in a new country!!! Have to buy a new sat nav LOL.
But to read and listen to the media that is apparently what has happened. Who are they trying to kid? This new government is going to continue with the same policies as the last. Which consists of doing whatever our European overlords tell us to do, and doff our caps to them (beggorah sir! to be sure at once and no mistake sir). These are the same politicos who forced us to vote for Lisbon again with lies about guarentees, for no other reason than to bind us to our fate with the French and German banks. Yes to jobs, yes to recovery!! LIES, more like yes to debt, yes to economic servitude.
This is the same media who peddled these falsehoods, who referred to any one who supported the no campaign as right wing reationaries with shadowy agendas. And note please that over the last few months that the bailout and the debt is now referred to as the IMF deal. This again is spin, it is an EU/IMF bailout and truth be told the IMF is only supplying a third of the money at a better interest rate than that of our EU "friends."
It is not a national government, it is merely a coalition of political expediency. Of course using the term national conjures images of crisis, Churchill led a national government during the war. This is no coming together of all political hues in an effort to save the country, far from it. Switch the party symbols around and you will find no difference in policies bewteen any of them. Of course no one in the media would even contemplate raising this issue. After all these are the same parasites who a few years back would have said "oh you have to get this, house, car, furniture, oh you have to go here for your holidays!!!" long gone are the days when news was informed by public opinion, now people are treated like sheep to be programmed to accept whatever the intelligentsia (term used loosely) think is best for them.
So what is new? Answer nothing, more of the same. New faces but not new ideas. Yet to read a paper all would appear to be change. Like I said intellectually and morally bankrupt.
Plus ca change plus c'est le meme chose.
And men have lost their reason!" - Julius Caesar. Act 3: II
The Irish media are intellectually and morally bankrupt! There I said it!
Gasp! "Servus," I hear you say, "What on earth could prompt you to make such a bold assertion?"
Well let me explain. With the election over, the press have called it a new dawn, a political seachange, the end of old Irish politics, a new national government. Little did I know that when I went to bed that night that when I rose the next day I would be in a new country!!! Have to buy a new sat nav LOL.
But to read and listen to the media that is apparently what has happened. Who are they trying to kid? This new government is going to continue with the same policies as the last. Which consists of doing whatever our European overlords tell us to do, and doff our caps to them (beggorah sir! to be sure at once and no mistake sir). These are the same politicos who forced us to vote for Lisbon again with lies about guarentees, for no other reason than to bind us to our fate with the French and German banks. Yes to jobs, yes to recovery!! LIES, more like yes to debt, yes to economic servitude.
This is the same media who peddled these falsehoods, who referred to any one who supported the no campaign as right wing reationaries with shadowy agendas. And note please that over the last few months that the bailout and the debt is now referred to as the IMF deal. This again is spin, it is an EU/IMF bailout and truth be told the IMF is only supplying a third of the money at a better interest rate than that of our EU "friends."
It is not a national government, it is merely a coalition of political expediency. Of course using the term national conjures images of crisis, Churchill led a national government during the war. This is no coming together of all political hues in an effort to save the country, far from it. Switch the party symbols around and you will find no difference in policies bewteen any of them. Of course no one in the media would even contemplate raising this issue. After all these are the same parasites who a few years back would have said "oh you have to get this, house, car, furniture, oh you have to go here for your holidays!!!" long gone are the days when news was informed by public opinion, now people are treated like sheep to be programmed to accept whatever the intelligentsia (term used loosely) think is best for them.
So what is new? Answer nothing, more of the same. New faces but not new ideas. Yet to read a paper all would appear to be change. Like I said intellectually and morally bankrupt.
Plus ca change plus c'est le meme chose.
Brass Tacks (rant#4 the revenge)
Without religious instruction, and proper religious instruction then all the efforts of the present will dissolve in the future. Fewer pro-lifers, those that do take up the cause will be unsure as to the actual church teaching, they will get bogged down in the secularist double-speak that is the quality of life, human rights etc.
Fewer young Catholics who think that waiting until they are married is the prudent and ultimately wisest decision, why? Because they have not been taught otherwise.
Recently released amidst much fanfare the new national directory for catechesis was launched, the blueprint for future religious education. Interestingly we have a section on the challenges that the Irish church faces in the new century. So concern for the environment, for immigrants, those who are socially marginalised etc. yes all noble and good causes. BUT not one mention of prolife issues, attack on the family or the hedonistic lifestyle that is being encouraged. So trees, eastern europeans, beggars all deserve our christian witness and charity and this is how it should be, but to shirk away from abortion or pre-marital sex in case it offends someone is downright reprehensible. Yet it is not surprising, during the election the labour party made it clear that if elected they would legislate for abortion (this is driven by the youth wing of the party who of course were educated in "catholic" schools), the response of the bishops?? Well the episcopal conference ( the herd) released a communique criticising the capitalist culture that got us into this mess, but of the labour election promise, not a word, no direction given to their flock, no censure , no condemnation and reassertion of catholic teaching. Truly the flock has been scattered and the shepherds have gone astray!!!!
If in this most basic and one might say simplest expression of Catholic teaching , on the sanctity of life, there is no guidance, what hope is there for any aspect of our faith. True Catholic teaching will be replaced by fuzzy quasi-Christian social consciousness, emotive, deviod of reason and at the whim of whatever fad is current in general society. Those who attempt to stand up for the faith, will increasingly be labelled, conservative, reactionary, denying lived christian experience, and dare we use the word !!! Traditional!!!
Fewer young Catholics who think that waiting until they are married is the prudent and ultimately wisest decision, why? Because they have not been taught otherwise.
Recently released amidst much fanfare the new national directory for catechesis was launched, the blueprint for future religious education. Interestingly we have a section on the challenges that the Irish church faces in the new century. So concern for the environment, for immigrants, those who are socially marginalised etc. yes all noble and good causes. BUT not one mention of prolife issues, attack on the family or the hedonistic lifestyle that is being encouraged. So trees, eastern europeans, beggars all deserve our christian witness and charity and this is how it should be, but to shirk away from abortion or pre-marital sex in case it offends someone is downright reprehensible. Yet it is not surprising, during the election the labour party made it clear that if elected they would legislate for abortion (this is driven by the youth wing of the party who of course were educated in "catholic" schools), the response of the bishops?? Well the episcopal conference ( the herd) released a communique criticising the capitalist culture that got us into this mess, but of the labour election promise, not a word, no direction given to their flock, no censure , no condemnation and reassertion of catholic teaching. Truly the flock has been scattered and the shepherds have gone astray!!!!
If in this most basic and one might say simplest expression of Catholic teaching , on the sanctity of life, there is no guidance, what hope is there for any aspect of our faith. True Catholic teaching will be replaced by fuzzy quasi-Christian social consciousness, emotive, deviod of reason and at the whim of whatever fad is current in general society. Those who attempt to stand up for the faith, will increasingly be labelled, conservative, reactionary, denying lived christian experience, and dare we use the word !!! Traditional!!!
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