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To: schmootman
You seem to display a dismissive attitude toward prayer. I hope I am not misreading you when you say that we must pray but also seek Truth. Are you saying that prayer and Truth are exclusive? How so when at its heart, prayer is participation in the interior life of the Author of Truth.

Yes, the Mass is perfect prayer because of its self-sacrificial nature in the Body and Blood of Christ, but can only be so if people are predisposed to its sanctifying nature.

I'm not lecturing you about prayer, only reminding you that that is our true weapon. Invoking the saints to pray with us is more efficacious than going about in bitterness. Only in humility and sanctity will this Church be reformed from within. The condition upon which the Holy Spirit can work with amazing results is for the faithful to have humble hearts, not bitter hearts.

There are a few weeks left in this Year for Priests and so the exhortation to pray for our priests is most needful. They are our alter Christus. They need prayers for their sanctification. My spiritual director tells me all the time that when the faithful are mired in anger and bitterness toward a priest or bishop and refuse to pray for them the enemy rejoices. There is nothing that he likes more than a weak priest.

You can focus on the betrayal, or you can unite your suffering with that of Christ's for the sanctification of his holy priests. Which do you think has more salvific power?

23 posted on 05/25/2010 2:15:13 PM PDT by Carolina (Adoro te devote latens Deitas)
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To: Carolina

My point is that nearly every bishop in America allows the perfect prayer to be desecrated, with Bishop George leading the way.

Anyone who really believes in prayer (and the Mass) should be righteously outraged. You don’t seem to care.


24 posted on 05/25/2010 2:38:04 PM PDT by schmootman
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To: Carolina

Question: During the Protestant Revolt in England, when every bishop save one betrayed the Church, would you have called people who pointed out the betrayal “bitter”.

You don’t know anything about me, other than the fact that I am trying to awaken Catholics to the betrayal of the Church by their shepherds. If you don’t think that betrayal is real, please account for the fact that over half of the bishops covered up priestly sex abuse in some way, and when Bishop Bruskewitz made a motion to investigate the causes of the sex abuse problem at the Bishop’s Conference in 2002, not one bishop seconded it.


25 posted on 05/25/2010 3:33:31 PM PDT by schmootman
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