tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post2315363989879096218..comments2023-10-05T10:29:39.439+01:00Comments on Catholic Collar And Tie: Voices In The Wilderness of Dissent & DisorderAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09049074568745678686noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-14454520393231377532014-08-31T23:19:45.085+01:002014-08-31T23:19:45.085+01:00Thank you, Lepanto.
Yes, I have seen the clip of F...Thank you, Lepanto.<br />Yes, I have seen the clip of Fr Scheier. It is a rather terrifying experience to watch never mind undergo.<br />Thank God for our Holy Mother.<br />God bless.Fr Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702725497183621855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-31759697916521051242014-08-31T19:05:43.262+01:002014-08-31T19:05:43.262+01:00I don't know if you know of Fr. Steven Scheier...I don't know if you know of Fr. Steven Scheier, Father but his is a story that priests should know about (well the 'laid back' ones anyway). Fr Steven 'died' following a road accident in the US and found himself being condemned to hell for wasting his priesthood but Our Lady intervened asking for 'another season' so that he might 'bear fruit'. He says that popularity with people and fellow priests, and full collection plates were his priorities, the truth took a second place but no longer, he now proclaims the hard truths of religion and tries to persuade other priests to do so. It's a pity Our Lord doesn't do this a bit more often and include a few Cardinals! <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VFE8ToVatILepantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487748842744745860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-32309662714930161022014-08-31T15:28:58.495+01:002014-08-31T15:28:58.495+01:00Thank you, Linda.
it remains surprising to hear th...Thank you, Linda.<br />it remains surprising to hear the kind of things that are said today, and to see the reaction to simple Catholic teaching. While I pray to be holy, I at least know the flock who hear me don't get harmful foods or liturgy which leads them to praise God for who they are rather than who He is, all the while petitioning for graces to advance in likeness to Him.<br />God BlessFr Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702725497183621855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-66458296701059110642014-08-31T14:10:30.821+01:002014-08-31T14:10:30.821+01:00Thank you Father, for doing and speaking as a prie...Thank you Father, for doing and speaking as a priest is ordained to do and speak! How few of us get the truth from our pastors - the truth that enables us to become holy, with the graces of God through sacraments, prayer, penance. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-63136241982825501962014-08-30T23:36:58.313+01:002014-08-30T23:36:58.313+01:00Thank you Gentry.
The truth is that we are redeeme...Thank you Gentry.<br />The truth is that we are redeemed, but we are not yet saved; we may still lose our salvation by imitating Adam in turning from God's rule to self-rule. It is clerics who fail to point this out who lead the Lord's flock astray; from God to self. God forbid that should be the final state for any soul.<br />God Bless.Fr Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702725497183621855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-73568646166704720102014-08-30T23:33:29.375+01:002014-08-30T23:33:29.375+01:00Thank you, Joseph.
To be honest, I don't see t...Thank you, Joseph.<br />To be honest, I don't see these words as brave but common sense: if we aren't upholding what was taught by the Apostolic Fathers right through to the the Church of the 1950's we have gone astray. The Church was not wrong for 2000 years, surely?<br />God Bless.Fr Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702725497183621855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-74387187968599734692014-08-30T19:07:30.181+01:002014-08-30T19:07:30.181+01:00Brave words Father thank you.Brave words Father thank you.Joseph.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-26252962473126130782014-08-30T18:11:31.308+01:002014-08-30T18:11:31.308+01:00Father, I hear far too many homilies assuring us w...Father, I hear far too many homilies assuring us we are all redeemed because Christ loved us enough to die for us; the only injunction being to love one another. It doesn't take a great leap for people to assume it's fine to carry on as they are with their place booked in Heaven - as long as they are not nasty enough to judge anyone's "lifestyle". How I mourn the ditching of the straight-from-the-shoulder Penny Catechism.<br />I am sure that many bishops would love to empower the laity; so much more malleable than uppity priests. But the same hierarchy mightn't be quite so enthusiastic were they sharp enough to draw the logical conclusion: their own extinction.Gentyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05569143943867323153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-71272320006200647112014-08-30T13:06:02.656+01:002014-08-30T13:06:02.656+01:00Thank you, Jacobi.
I have to laugh -yes! we may g...Thank you, Jacobi.<br /><br />I have to laugh -yes! we may get the sack since lay leadership is the buzz idea today!<br />And we do hear it preached..by voices in the wilderness.<br />God Bless.Fr Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702725497183621855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-73405975826243846802014-08-29T21:32:31.346+01:002014-08-29T21:32:31.346+01:00Father,
I am going to stick my neck out a little ...Father,<br /><br />I am going to stick my neck out a little bit, if I may, but in no sense critical of you.<br />Yes, I agree with effectively everything you have said here. But are we blog readers, commentators and indeed bloggers, not just grumbling away amongst ourselves?<br /><br />Priest bloggers, however, are in a somewhat different situation. You priests can get up into the pulpit and say, during Mass and before Communion that, for example, only those who are in a state of Grace, have fasted, and are properly disposed may, not should, but may receive Holy Communion, under pain of Mortal Sin.<br /><br />I as a layman can express that opinion in conversation, since I am simply repeating the teaching of the Church. You can say it with authority!<br /><br />Is it not time that like minded priests banded together, because you need mutual support in such matters, to give such sermons regardless of what your silent bishops think.<br /><br />After all such is the shortage of priests, that you are unlikely to get the sack? <br />Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743062941733814176noreply@blogger.com