[AskStPhilomena]

Off the deep end

[murphE]

This has to be a parody site. What the heck is this?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, have mercy on us! That is reminscent and probably based on neopagan/new age/wiccan-style formula for consecrating a magic circle...And this comes out of an archdiocesan website?

Now that's getting mighty close to the abomination of desolation....

[Land of the Irish]

Well, I guess God, the Holy Trinity, is out of the picture now.

[sassbox]

WTF?

[Land of the Irish]

Off the deep end

But he's in full communion with Rome.

As an active member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Levada has served on more than 10 committees including the Committee on Doctrine. From 1987 until 1993, Archbishop Levada was the only American bishop on the Editorial Committee on the Holy See's Commission for a Catechism for the Universal Church. In 1997, Pope John Paul II appointed Archbishop Levada as a delegate to the Special Synod of Bishops for the Americas held in Rome.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Ping!

[Larry Lucido]

Oh, and Great Spirit of the Earth, try to give us a little warning next time your techtonic plates reach the breaking point mid-ocean. Thanks.

[saradippity]

Are you saying this was published in the diocesan newspaper of San Francisco,or it is in the brochure introducing the diocese to the world.or what or where was it distributed? This is horrible and I want to know exactly where it was found because I will write to Archbishop Levada about this,it's too nuts for even San Francisco.

[PFKEY]

I was raised Catholic but no longer am I a member of the Catholic church.

Having said that I really have to wonder about the authority of the church.

Who do these people (those who would utter such nonesense) take their orders from?

Does Rome have any say in this or any other thing that goes against the teaching of the church?

[Catholic54321]

Unbelievable. Something tells me that we'll be hearing more on this subject...

[Petronski]

Check their water for lead, their for carbon monoxide and their bread for psychedelic molds. This is whacked.

[livius]

I remember when Levada was appointed - he was actually considered a vast improvement over Quinn, the prior flaky archbishop of SF. From what I can see on my visits to SF, he's no improvement at all, just somewhat quieter about it.

But it really wouldn't surprise me to see this same piece of drivel turn up in my parish bulletin, and I live three thousand miles away from SF now. Sigh. It's inescapable.

[Petronski]

We greet you Spirit of the Brewery; quench our hot tempers with your icy freshness; soothe us with your bubbly malt goodness, cleanse our palates with your sharp finish of hops.

ALL: May the deep blessing of fine beers and ales be on us, stilling our minds in their modes of anxiety and stress, and may peace cover us all, especially the one who refills the pitcher.



Wow, once all pretense of devotion to God is set aside, these things are pretty ease to right.

[kittymyrib]

All that's missing from this "prayer" are the drums and the loin cloths. Truly pathetic, but more important, truly offensive to the Triune God.

[fortunecookie]

Off the deep end and leading people, even those who should know better, astray.

[Convert from ECUSA]

They not only ate bad mushrooms, they compounded it by smoking the cheap weed before topping it off with a batch of homemade crack that didn't turn out right!

I read somewhere years ago that sometimes the best way to counter the devil is to laugh at him, so to the "archdiocese" of San Frandamnsisco I can only reply to their "blessing our oneness" by saying:

PHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[siunevada]

Perhaps these folks would 'value your input':

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[rogator]

Do the druids pass the pipe of wacky weed when they are saying the prayer?
I suppose it could be covered under California's medical marihoochi law since these folks are obviously mentally sick.

[Pio]

Oh Come Holy Inquisition ...

[ArrogantBustard]

Outrageous, pagan, and (unfortunately) not particularly new ... the radical feminist nuns have been doing this crap since the early 1970s ... and they didn't just invent it then. Donna Steichen thoroughly documented this sort of idolatry going on at "retreats" quite a number of years ago. I wholeheartedly recommend her book.