Kennedy Priest: He Wanted To Go

WCVBTV ^ | August 26, 2009 | M.R.F. Buckley,

[LeoWindhorse]

the best friend the North Vietnamese , the Pathet Lao and the Khmer Rouge ever had .....rest in perdition

[outinyellowdogcountry]

Here’s to Teddy! I apologize if my irreverence offends but this song by Kevin Fowler is just too appropriate. I will rejoice if Teddy’s faith is real but I am sad that he didn’t live it out better on earth.

Chorus)
The Lord loves the drinkin’ manSends honkey tonk angels to the promise land
I hear that he can turn water to wineAny man that can do that is a good friend of mineI’ve been baptized in beer, I’m here to testifyI was speaking in tongues when I came home last nightSome folks say I’m livin’ in sin, but I know
(chorus)
The Lord loves the drinkin’ man
The Preacher man he told me boy you ain’t no good
The devils gonna getcha, better start actin’ like you
should
All the cold beers and bright lights, stayin’ out all
nightThe good book it tells me boy your soul’s gonna burn
My mamma said son you’re headin’ down the wrong roadThey don’t let honkey tonkers up in heaven I’ve been
told Don’t you worry mamma I’ll see you up in heaven

I’ve been thinking ‘bout it and I’ve come to this
conclusion now,

(chorus)

My daddy says son you’re living your life all wrong
Lighting’s gonna strike you down before too long
That man upstairs he don’t like what you do
When you reach those pearly gates you ain’t getting
throughWell I’ve been thinkin’, I’ve got a brand new plan
I’m gonna start a little church down at the Stumble
Inn
Yea that’s right I’m gonna start my own religion
We’ll be drinkin’ and dancin’ at the church of Hank
Williams yea,

(repeat chorus)

Oh, yea I know
The Lord loves, I hope he does, the Lord loves the
drinkin’ man

[howlinhound]

At least now he will face a judge he can’t buy off and one whom he can’t send thugs to intimidate.

He will finally face pure judgement and justice.

[old and tired]

Of course you’re correct, but if I were a betting man...

[Sig Sauer P220]

Whatever.

[Ikemeister]

Well, I won’t judge the man’s salvation, but, in life, he was a skunk of the lowest order.

[uncbob]

I could care less what he did with his final breath

I know damn well what he did with his entire life

[Nathan Zachary]

" Many, many people don’t know when their hour of reckoning is approaching. He knew. He was given that chance at repentence and forgiveness. Did he take it? Who knows."

The day he found out, he knew there wasn't enough time for all the repenting and penance he had to do. He should have started years ago.

[HighlyOpinionated]

As a Catholic, I’ll pray for the repose of his soul.

I think a lot of people are going to meet Mr Teddy Kennedy in their dreams, just like my father met Frank Sinatra in his dream. During Armed Forces Radio days in early 40’s, my Dad controlled the electronics and Frank kept missing his cue. My Dad just turned on the sound, it was Frank who kept messing up, but Frank got madder and madder at my Dad. Frank finally got so angry that he threw his cigarette lighter at my Dad (he missed). Then Frank got his cues right. Well, my Dad forgot all about it, because my Dad just isn’t one to hold a grudge against ANYone (sometimes even when I think he should). A few years ago, Dad had a dream and told me the story I just told you about Frank Sinatra and that Frank had appeared in a dream (a very vivid dream) and had apologized to my Dad for the incident. My Dad said that Frank’s apology was the first time he’d thought of the occasion since it’d happened. I told my Dad: You don’t necessarily believe in a place of Purging, but I do and old Frank will not be able to enter Heaven until he’s purged himself of all the unChrist-like actions during his life.

Now, some will play God and damn both Frank and Teddy to Hell. We can’t make that call. And I think it is a presumptuous sin for anyone to try to assign someone other than Satan and his fallen angels to the place God created solely for Satan and his angelic host.

New American Standard Bible (©1995) For my Catholic family
Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; Let them not rule over me; Then I will be blameless, And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

King James Bible for my Protestant family members
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

[HighlyOpinionated]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123086375678148323.html

Jan 2, 2009 WSJ article entitled How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma

PS that was Psalm 19:13 I quoted above.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Now, some will play God and damn both Frank and Teddy to Hell. We can’t make that call. And I think it is a presumptuous sin for anyone to try to assign someone other than Satan and his fallen angels to the place God created solely for Satan and his angelic host.

New American Standard Bible (©1995) For my Catholic family Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; Let them not rule over me; Then I will be blameless, And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

King James Bible for my Protestant family members Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

THIS BEARS REPEATING.

AND I ADD: DO NOT JUDGE LEST YOU BE JUDGED BY THE SAME JUDGMENT AS YOU MEET OUT FOR OTHERS.

[Gerish]

Wonderful post - I agree completely.

I believe Mr. Kennedy suffered from tepidity; that is, and by all appearances, he procrastinated loving God and living a faithful life until the very end. It was easier for him to develop a hardness of heart toward God for many years rather than to serve Him well.

Having said that, I will not pass judgment on him. If there is one guarantee in this life, it is that all of us will see the Face of God. More than any other single factor, God requires repentance to enter the kingdom of Heaven. Whether he achieved this is unknown, but we should all hope for Mercy, even for Ted Kennedy.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

All the barf-inducing praise doesn’t convince me at all.

[the invisib1e hand]

"The truth is, he had expressed to is family that he did want to go.

The last words I heard my mother speak were, "I want to go." I knew then she'd seen something irresistable.

Our Lady of Victory, pray for the Kennedy's, living and deceased.

[the invisib1e hand]

All the barf-inducing praise doesn’t convince me at all.

Nor should it. Anyway, it's out everybody's hands now.

[smokingfrog]

Teddy took a serious turn for the worse in 1969.

[tob2]

“Well, I’m not Catholic, so I can get away with passing judgment on that fat creep.” Don’t be so sure of that. If you truly believe the words in the Bible, which applies to all Christians, then you would not be passing judgements on anyone. Judgement is best left to God. I do not approve of Kennedy’s many transgressions but feel sorrow for the family’s loss of two members of the family in 2 weeks. And I feel empathy for anyone who suffers from such deadly illnesses,

[majormaturity]

I left the Catholic Church decades ago, and this article shows one of the reasons why. TK was a big abortion supporter, a Catholic, and an alcoholic. The Catholic Church opposes abortion, but here we have a Catholic priest gushing with wonderful diddys about Teddy. I fully understand “Love the sinner, but hate the sin.” However, I think the Church would have a lot more credibility - and members - if it took the position that if you support abortion, worship elsewhere until such time as you agree with the sanctity of life. I know all of the biblical parables of how Jesus was so forgiving - but do you remember the story of the fig tree? He cursed it and it never bore fruit again. Wow, Jesus in pissed-off mode! If the Catholic Church had 1) told old Teddy decades ago that he was not welcome until he repented and changed his position on abortion and 2) didn't come out with this bedside puff-piece, I think a lot of people would be better off. Just my ex-Catholic opinion.

[afraidfortherepublic]

"It was a total surprise to me to see another world he was involved in -- the spiritual world," said Rev. Patrick Tarrant of Our Lady of Victory Church.

Tarrant, who was called to Kennedy's bedside late Tuesday as the senator was dying, said it was clear that Kennedy was ready for the journey that awaited him. He described the senator as "a man of quiet prayer" in his last hours.

"The truth is, he had expressed to is family that he did want to go. He did want to go to heaven. He did want to die and he did want to go. He was ready to go. There was a certain amount peace -- a lot of peace, actually -- in the family get-together last night. I couldn't help but think that the world doesn't know that part of the senator at all," Tarrant said in a lilting Irish brogue.

And what about his pro-abortion views and activism? Any regret for that?

[livius]

I think I’ll vomit. Fat Teddy may have had a deathbed conversion, but I doubt it. This “priest” needs to go out and discover what his own religion is. Hint: It’s not the Democratic Party.