Posted on 01/12/2016 5:30:32 PM PST by DFG
Unless one is committed to the path of martyrdom.
Thanks for the heads up.
After the horrific massacre in Charleston, SC of nine innocent people at a “gun free” church, this nitwit goes on to declare all of his diocease’s churches to be “gun free”. Well, duh, what can possibly go wrong, “gun free” zones being the main places where such massacres are perpetrated. I pray for the souls of the innocent people who will be murdered by all the terrorists who have just been enabled and assisted by this evil man.
This is really a non-story, but attracts eyes and ads. Texas Catholics conceal carry all the time. This new open-carry law in Texas makes for quite the twitter, and is not compatible with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
Catholics pray against distractions during their prayers and during the Mass. Things that willfully cause a distraction, from a low cut neck line to a holstered gun or pistol, makes that person in fault.
To conceal your pistol and keep your mouth shut works for the benefit of all, both in an emergency and out of an emergency, for the sake of the Mass and for a secure and focused laity, participating.
Sunday in Dallas should be sunny and cool. Sounds like it might be a nice day to stand outside of your place of worship, refusing to enter. Perhaps with a Peacemaker strapped to your hip.
Can't be said often or loud enough.
Guns, in the hands of citizens, are SUPPOSED to make criminals and those who wish to bring harm to the innocent feel “threatened” and “ intimidated.” In a properly ordered society, it it the criminal who fears the citizen, not the other way around.
Is there something at Vatican level that should cover this situation?
We always feel sorry for Baptists and pray for them.
As in, sorry that they are familiar that Jesus directly grants the prayers you think need Mary, and so forth? That they have found out giving Jesus credit for that is actually REWARDED?
But at the least you can stop doing things like pretending Jesus did NOT say take a sword.
They are not allowed to impose other conditions, as long as the Catholics in question approach the sacraments in a dignified and respectful manner.
This is a legitimate complaint under canon law, I would think, but something the bishop would do his best to delay interminably.
Thank you, that actually makes even more sense out of it than just treating it as a generic worship service.
If a bishop or someone who reports to him is administering communion, then a believer should not be barred from receiving it on account of something that is not even in the bible, let alone the canon. The bible says it should be received in a worthy manner. I’d think that being willing to guard your fellow Christian would be a positive example of a worthy manner. And that wanting to prevent that guard would be a negative example of an unworthy manner. I can imagine the Catholic knights of yesteryear hooting if they envisioned this scene.
In reference to knights, swords were blessed and knights were created before the sanctuary as a matter of routine.
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