Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Well when can I start to pushing back at my local parish of sheep? New Bishops starting in Italy sounds good to me.
Tickling the ears of the faithful leads only to ruin.
This exercise in culture adaptation is not pastoral.
A good Sheppard would never lead it’s flock to poison water. Wolves however…..
A stacked deck indeed.
Sodomites, who are unwilling to repent, will and deserve an endless hell. Endless.
Those in cassocks who teach a new doctrine will join them
And both Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary weep over this outcome.
We pray for these diabolical souls.
For their conversion.
“Grifters in cassocks”. I really think the majority of these Bishops did not start off their clerical vocations with the intention to become grifters (although a few may have seen it as a an easy life- who knows). So it makes one wonder whether too little was expected of them and they lost sense of reality as a consequence. There is an overwhelming sense of mediocrity amongst them that dominates. Or else, the faithful ones do outnumber the mediocre ones and just aren’t speaking up…now is the time to speak up!
Too often it seems the primary virtue demanded of clergy is obedience, not to Christ, but to the hierarchy.
So if the command is to reassure and promote the synod, these men are largely going to do that.
Obedience is a good so long as the fallible person being obeyed is giving an order that is 1) just and 2) within his power to give.
The wayward and micromanaging Vatican all too often fails to fulfill both of these conditions to obedience, thus the confusion and conflict in which we live.
I was watching the news today. The reporter mentioned an IDF leader referencing Ezekiel 34 to explain their duty to Israel. So I looked it up. And thought of the Synod. Rather pertinent, I thought.