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To: Piers-the-Ploughman
Would that all the Catholics adopt the Holy Father's attitide toward the SSPX instead making cheap shots.

Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen. The snide comments are kind of funny given the subject matter of Bishop Fellay's sermon was the necessity of priests to have the charity of the Sacred Heart...

This Heart will remain open, despite the attacks – because it dies (as on the Cross) in its sacrifice. So must be your charity. So must be the charity of the priest. He must not only show charity, exercise it, but it must supercede any types of attacks.

Humanly speaking, when we give charity, we expect something back. That is normal, that is human. When we don’t, we call it ingratitude – and consider it terrible – and today we are reminded of our ingratitude towards His heart, which has given so much love and receives so much ingratitude.

Yet this heart does not close. It remains open. It is very hard...it is very hard to overcome the ingratitude in returning charity for ingratitude. That is the great lesson that the priest has to exercise everyday. God’s charity is infinitely higher than any evil. And so the heart of the priest has to go so far as to forget if possible all the sufferings and all the contradictions and give again and again and again.

48 posted on 06/25/2006 8:39:38 PM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: murphE; BlackElk; sitetest; sandyeggo
Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen. The snide comments are kind of funny given the subject matter of Bishop Fellay's sermon was the necessity of priests to have the charity of the Sacred Heart...

Fellay.... If you want to understand more completely what will happen in Rome, I don’t know, but you must be patient (laughter) and work on perseverance. When we look at this, I don’t see much in the coming future, and when I say “future” I mean it may be years – we say little by little Tradition is making progress against Modernism – how long will it take to bring the head back to this Tradition? God knows. It will be a long process.

Don’t throw yourself into illusions. We have the idea that in Rome – they don’t want to understand the cause of this sickness which is shaping the church. We recognize that we have made some progress – that there is a recognition of the sickness. But they don’t want to blame the Council and the spirit of the Council and the getting closer to the world – the worldly spirit which has entered into the Church and is killing everything. They want to stick with it because it is so much easier – but it is not the spirit of Christ – and as long as the Cross has not come back into their hearts, we cannot expect much.

*My comment was not "snide." It was wry and derisive.

Fellay is a barking moonbat heretic and the fact he used the occasion of this illicit ordination to claim God is on the side of his schism (he and lefevbre were, perhaps, textbook examples of folie a deux)is just what one expects of such perfidous priests. As soon as they were ordained they were supsended a divinis.

Fellay used the occasion to publicly engage in politics against Rome. He used the occasion to attack an Ecumenical Council. Any sensible Christian knows an attack against the Holy See and an Ecuemnical Council, ESPECIALLLY during an ordination, is just cause to declare the nitwit speaking those words a schismatic,heretical, barking moonbat who ought be laughed-off the face of the Earth - after he has been horse-whipped

Sister, the tragic thing is you seem to think his speech an example of the charity of the Sacred Heart. It is Charity to attack the Holy See and an Ecumenical Council?

70 posted on 06/26/2006 8:11:25 AM PDT by bornacatholic
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