Different faiths, same witness: How Vatican explains prayers for peace

cns ^ | June 5, 2014 | Cindy Wooden

[piusv]

The distinction between praying together and praying at the same time is one Vatican officials have found increasingly necessary to emphasize as popes have led more and more interfaith gatherings for peace.

More Modernist double-speak. They perfected that in the Vatican II documents. It's Clintonianism at its best: it depends what the definition of "is" is.

I am so sick at this point at what the Vatican II Church has become.

[BlatherNaut]

A priest who submits to this type of “blessing” is exhibiting the fruits of Diabolical Disorientation. The positions of the participants are inverse to their proper orientation.

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The Beautiful Hands of a Priest.

We need them in life’s early morning,
We need them again at its close;
We feel their warm clasp of true friendship,
We seek it while tasting life’s woes.

When we come to this world we are sinful,
The greatest as well as the least.
And the hands that make us pure as angels
Are the beautiful hands of a priest.

At the altar each day we behold them,
And the hands of a king on his throne
Are not equal to them in their greatness
Their dignity stands alone.

For there in the stillness of morning
Ere the sun has emerged from the east,
There God rests between the pure fingers
Of the beautiful hands of a priest.

When we are tempted and wander
To pathways of shame and sin
‘Tis the hand of a priest that absolve us.
Not once but again and again.

And when we are taking life’s partner
Other hands may prepare us a feast
But the hands that will bless and unite us,
Are the beautiful hands of a priest.

God bless them and keep them all holy,
For the Host which their fingers caress,
What can a poor sinner do better
Than to ask Him who chose them to bless

When the death dews on our lids are falling,
May our courage and strength be increased
By seeing raised o’er us in blessing
The beautiful hands of a priest.

[BlatherNaut]

Did you see this version? Goofy, frenetic, aerobic “dancing” and kindergarten style music. Pope Francis sitting there looking on approvingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfRvVk-5CL4

[ELS]

The photo was taken when he was still Archbishop Bergoglio.

[ebb tide]

Does that make a difference?

>>If any bishop or priest or deacon shall join in prayer with heretics, let him be suspended from communion. II Council of Constantinople<<

[ebb tide]

Nobody really talks about the Holy Ghost, and the sins that offend Him, anymore.
Rather they seem focused on some imaginary Spirit of VCII.

[BlatherNaut]

“I am so sick at this point at what the Vatican II Church has become.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOAfGKcLJUY

[ELS]

Does that make a difference?

I was just clarifying that the photo was taken before he became Pope.

[ebb tide]

Did you read Post 16? No clarification was necessary.

[piusv]

All we need is a lavender colored one to make it complete.