Posted on 02/26/2018 8:06:53 AM PST by Salvation
>>Sloth isn’t laziness. It is avoiding God in your life.<<
Ah — ecumenical sloth.
That makes sense.
Once again, a great article: “We must understand that spiritual progress grows in stages, ...”
Several weeks ago, my dh mentioned something about small miracles happening that some may neglect to see, busily praying for the larger miracle, or maybe not praying at all.
Then on Ash Wednesday, when everyone went up for their ashes, I heard the priest [when my turn came] say every single word crystal clear and I have not heard clarity in decades [profound hearing loss]. The same was repeated when I went up for Communion. It was the type of miracle my husband had just spoken of days earlier, and Father was very excited when I told him about this. Why did it happen? Could have something to do with Msgr. Pope’s message.
“Sunday, once the highlight of the week for many (due to the beauty of the liturgy...
I just cringe while waiting out whatever heretical mistranslation appears next.
“and the music”
Now destroyed by guitar plunking philistines playing music committed by no-talent sodomites.
“the hearing of the sermon”
It’s been so long since I heard a homily that seemed to be aimed at intelligent, educated adults, that I actually remember the occasion.
“the joy of fellowship”
Ain’t no fellowship for conservatives in this diocese.
“and the quiet of Holy Communion)”
Some quiet would be really nice.”
“...is now considered boring and about as appealing as going to the dentist.”
Which one is more likely to become the occasion of sin?
Second, Peace. if the shoe doesn't fit, don't have a fit. If he's not describing *your* particular situation, there's no reason for you to get defensive.
Third, unless you're an ex-seminarian or an ex-priest, this comments of yours seem a bit gratuitous: Schooling that is really, really HARD not puff courses and feelgood self-examinations like he did to earn his credentials.
Fr.Pope has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and worked with the Army Corp of Engineers as a Computer Systems Analyst before he made the decision to use his skills for the Church. He then got a Master of Divinity Degree as well as a Master of Arts Degree in Moral Theology.
All this is "puff" to you?
And then this: Ridiculous hours training for me but not for priests in training.
I don't know where you're from, but here in East Tennessee where priests are fairly few and Catholics are spread out all over, the priests and priests-in-training are basically on 24 hour call and work their tails off all over the county covering hospitals, veteran's center, prison/jail ministry, the juvenile center, hospice/nursing homes, plus the parish itself ---all this in two or three languages --- and yet were ready to sprint over to the ER to give me Last Rights when I was fading fast and on the verge of death from septicemia.
I'm not putting you down. I'm sure you'd have done the same if that were your vocation.
But don't put down the priests as a class. I'm sure there are some slackers, but the ones I know are stellar.
Msgr. Pope is one of the stellars.
“Mountain biking. There is no other activity sport hobby that is even close.”
Fencing is the most difficult and rewarding activity that a person can pursue. (Except, or course, for spiritual matters and the family.)
My DH says “an ‘abitual,” “an ‘istoric” and the like, happen when the word beginning the “h” is accented on the second syllable. Therefore the first syllable tends to drops the aitch. Or it did in the past, and still does in some regional accents including in the British Isles and all their former colonies and satrapies.
Satrapies. Beat that!
Vilayet!
Coises, foiled me fair and square.
My skull is full of mush and vocabulary.
I have resumed homeschooling with my 25-y-o Vanya who actually has a good vocabulary but has a hard time putting together a coherent sentence. I was told about 15 years ago by an ed. psych., that he has Central Auditory Processing Disorder (plus FAE, Russian Orphanage Syndrome and whatnot) --- and can probabaly understand sentence order better by seeing it than by saying it.
So there (adj) you (subj. n.) go (v.)
Your dh is correct about AN, but the H is also pronounced. “An historic landmark.”
Sadly, this and many other rules of speech are being changed as keypads become the main method of communication among so many illiterates. This H issue is very controversial. I think the major newspapers now use only “A” insread of AN, who knows what their point is!?
Fencing is very French
I love red wine and cheese so frenchies are ok in my book
**Msgr. Pope endorses it all. More illegals, more, more, more.**
Where did you read that?
Please stick with the subject of the thread.
“Fencing is very French”
That only seems so, and only in America, because of the popularity of some 19th century French novels, which were then made into movies. Tell a Russian or a Hungarian that fencing is French.
Every fairly advanced country likes fencing more than we do.
Even frigging Tonga has more fencers per capita than we do. (Of course, that’s only about two guys, but still...)
What we lose sight of is that it is actually a martial art.
Keen the AN!
Keep the AN!
Defend the articles
Like a MAN!
LOL!!!
Pat and James like diagramming.
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I, as a heavy taxpayer, who earns a lot and pays about half in taxes of all kinds, know that this Msgr., and all of his colleagues, support essentially free immigration.They preach it from the pulpit, they lobby the Government to increase it, and they get PAID to take immigrants and support them through their illegal phase.
Problem is, Msgr. Pope pays no taxes to speak of.
He counts on ex-altar-boys like me to pony up all the money, privately and voluntarily, as well as involuntarily and under pain of conviction and incarceration for nonpayment of taxes.
Flooding our country with lipservice Catholics like Mexican illegals does NOT enrich the Church Militant, here, in Mexico, or anywhere else.
When Msgr. Pope pipes up and writes an editorial about guys like me slaving away at a job to raise my family, PLUS another dozen or so illegal immigrant families, and that I am somehow lazy for not praying enough to perhaps ask for more illegals to be sent my way, well, you can be sure I am going to pipe up.
Have a nice day.
How could I have known that Msgr. Pope had a job as an engineer before becoming a priest?
I can not be expected to know that, but, given that he has these life experiences, I am now baffled that he would write an article about sloth, and bypass bashing the truly lazy in our society, and zero in on normals, accusing them of not praying enough even though they are pulling their weight as citizens and taxpayers.
He should be harshly criticizing the truly lazy in our society, the welfare queens, the coupon clippers, the druggies, the bogus disabled. BUT NOT the workers and taxpayers.
I don't think my comments have been that hard to decode.
I think that I speak from experience sitting in the pews listening to priests bash people like me, and encourage people to vote Democratic at election time, and shame us for wanting to enforce our just immigration laws (as Thomas Aquinas urged us to). They endorse free immigration, illegal immigration, and the probable reason is because the Catholic Church gets HUGE stipends to support, endorse, and embed illegal and hostile immigrants in to our American communities. I am piping up because they are bashing people like me for not wanting to pay half of my income to the government so that they can import Democrat voters and disenfranchise me permanently.
Note, please, that Msgr. Pope will NOT be disenfranchised by the sea of illegal immigrants invading the US. He is probably your classic Catholic Democrat who enjoys getting huge (and growing, each time) advantages each election cycle from all the illegal immigrant votes.
Have a nice day.
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