Posted on 12/23/2014 8:09:34 AM PST by cleghornboy
I thank you Lord that I am not like these others..... I thank you Lord that I'm not like those members of the Curia who feel immortal, immune or indispensable and who do not criticize themselves. I thank you Lord that I'm not part of that sick body which has become spiritually and mentally hardened. I thank you that I don't have spiritual Alzheimer’s and that I haven't forgotten my encounter with the Lord. I thank you that I do not on the here and now and that I do not succumb to my passions, whims and manias. I thank you that I have not in become enslaved to idols built with my own hands like the rotten idolatrous Curia.
I thank you that I am not boastful and arrogant and that I do not make my vestments or title the primary objective of life.
I thank you that I don't live a double life and that I haven't succumbed to the rotten fruit of hypocrisy that is typical of mediocre and progressive spiritual emptiness that academic degrees cannot fill.
I thank you Lord that, unlike the filth around me, I haven't abandoned pastoral service while limiting myself to bureaucratic work, losing contact with reality and concrete people.
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For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. (Eph 2:8–9)
Thank you Father, for the many blessings that I have been so graciously given.
The writer certainly can’t thank God that he or she isn’t passive aggressive.
It looks like someone is protesting the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church...
The author is making a jab against the pope and his latest actions.
Luke:11 The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity—greedy, dishonest, adulterous—or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’
13 But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’
14 I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
I can’t stand passive aggressive technique.
Ah, understood.
It looks like the author’s intent was to put the pope’s comments in a form that would remind people of the parable of the Pharisee and the tax-collector, but I see how it comes off as passive aggressive.
Sorry, after a short nap I realize how snarky that was. I have three (six, three, and 15 months) that have passed bacterial pneumonia to each other over the last week and a half. I’m sleep deprived, and I was using FR to stay awake. My bad! God bless and merry Christmas!
I completely understand. I did not think you were being snarky with me, you just didn’t like the tone of the author.
God bless and Merry Christmas to you too, and may your family get well soon.
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