Posted on 06/22/2004 9:34:10 AM PDT by Land of the Irish
We are happy to announce that the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., will speak at the 10am mass this Sunday, June 20th. Rev. Jesse Jackson will speak at the 10am mass this Sunday (June 20th) at St. Gertrude. He will reflect on the day's lessons for about 1/2 hour after communion, around 10:45am. Since the 10am mass will run a little longer than usual, we hope this reminder will help ease the flow between the end of the one mass and beginning of the other.
Mark Loveless, who participates at the gym mass and also at Operation Push, has been negotiating this event for a number of months. We are grateful for your effort, Mark.
Ping
What do you expect the bishops to do? They've had only thirty-one years since Roe v. Wade to figure out how to handle this kind of thing!
Looks like Shakedown Jesse wants to add some RCs to his rainbow. LOL
A Protestant, adulterer, con-man speaking at a "Catholic" Mass. How ecumenical. Wonder what a thorough GIRM audit of these CINOs would uncover.
Looks like there's at least two radical left-run parishes in Chicago.
But at least it's not the worst parish in the archdiocese:
About a month ago I got a call from a young woman from Kansas who was coordinating a bus to come here for our Mission. She had heard about the mission and was so excited that she called one of Chicago's Archdiocesan Offices asking if the Archdiocese would mention the Mission on their website. She told me that the Archdiocese responded by saying that a "Fr. Corapi Mission" was not the sort of thing this particular agency of the Archdiocese would ever want to promote; and besides, St. Thomas More Parish, of all the more traditional parishes, was actually the worst!
The hallmark of 10:30 a.m. Mass is the communal homily, whereby people share from their own experiences of living the Gospel. Art, drama, music, and liturgical dance also engage participants in a fresh look at the central symbols of our faith. Plan for a longer Mass (about 1 hour).Oh my, liturgical dance and a communal homily. And with all this fun they have managed to schedule a whopping 30 minutes of time for confession once a week. Jessie Jackson was once pro-life and like so many others has arranged a Faustian deal for political power in the Democratic Party. I always wondered how someone, especially a Reverend, could go from pro-life to pro-abortion. Do you wake up one day and realize that God did not ensoul that child at conception? That one day it was a human being in need of protection and the next a tissue blog to be excised when inconvenient. Regardless this Church offering Jackson a change to speak during Mass is beyond inappropriate. It would be bad enough allowing him to speak in an non-liturgical event, but as part of the Mass and after the Eucharist sacrifice is just plainly a scandal. I guess the pastor did not read the letter issued by the Bishops two days previous to this event.
It is the teaching of the Catholic Church from the very beginning, founded on her understanding of her Lord’s own witness to the sacredness of human life, that the killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil and can never be justified. If those who perform an abortion and those who cooperate willingly in the action are fully aware of the objective evil of what they do, they are guilty of grave sin and thereby separate themselves from God’s grace. This is the constant and received teaching of the Church. It is, as well, the conviction of many other people of good will. To make such intrinsically evil actions legal is itself wrong. This is the point most recently highlighted in official Catholic teaching. The legal system as such can be said to cooperate in evil when it fails to protect the lives of those who have no protection except the law. In the United States of America, abortion on demand has been made a constitutional right by a decision of the Supreme Court. Failing to protect the lives of innocent and defenseless members of the human race is to sin against justice. Those who formulate law therefore have an obligation in conscience to work toward correcting morally defective laws, lest they be guilty of cooperating in evil and in sinning against the common good. ... The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions./The pastor's wish that Jessie Jackson would be running for president is pathetic. What isn't John Kerry pro-abortion enough? Exactly where does Mr. Kerry and Mr. Jackson depart on issues.
Chances are it's isn't even a Mass.
Communal homily flies in the face of the G.I.R.M. Homilies can ONLY be given by a priest or deacon.
Who needs to get Freeped by a host of disgruntled Catholics? I need an email address.
Hey that was very clever I wish I would have said it but you said it first. This is a sorry state of affairs but its been that way for 40 years in the Conciliar post Vatican II desert which hasn’t been any dessert. Some say we have been deserted but it’s the churchmen who haven’t been much of a support not the Church.
>> Plan for a longer mass (about 1 hr.)<<
Sunday mass NORMALLY takes about an hour. What do they leave out? The consecration?
It coast NASCAR between 200,000 and 300,000 to buy him off. I wonder how much he is getting this time.
I bet Allan Keyes is never invited
And pro-abortion. Jackson is a hack for the culture-of-death Democrats. This does not seem to be in sync with the USCCB's stated policy on pro-abortion politicians. They are not supposed to be "honored" or dignified in any way by Catholic institutions.
Chances are it's isn't even a Mass.
Quick look at their website. Looks like it might be Mass held in the gymnasium.
Follow that link to their website. Open up a discussion topic on their Forum Boards. (How long will the webmaster stand for that???)
I just started one in the General Section of the message board- anyone can post- just make up a username!
It will be interesting to see how long it lasts.
"Oh my, liturgical dance and a communal homily"
Out here in the Mahony Wasteland (aka the Archdiocese of Los Angeles), there's a parish near me where the children give the "homily" during the school Mass. They sit around the altar and tell stories while Father looks on approvingly.
There's also the obligatory annual Halloween Mass, where everyone comes in costume. It's supposed to be loads of fun. At least that's what I've heard.
I figure it would be a waste of time and paper to write a letter to the chancery.
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