Go here to read the story. Priests in my experience usually view saying the Mass as a great privilege and will usually do so up to their deaths. Francis obviously thinks otherwise. Why?
PopeWatch: Hmmm
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Aversion? Don’t want to attempt to read minds here. The actions though are not good.
Perhaps his true feelings about the Catholic faith are coming to the surface?
The host and chalice probably burn his fingers. (And I probably shouldn’t have said that, but I spent half my life in a laboratory and have no internal filters.)
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Is he still calling the shots? if not then that is a problem.
One should not receive Holy Communion if he is in mortal sin. The Bishop of Rome knows this.
If he/she refuses to go to confession it is best for that person, religious or otherwise, not to participate in the reception of the blessed sacrament. The celebrant always receives our Lord first.
Obviously no one on this site knows for certain why, if what Philip Lawler observations are true, he has not celebrated Mass. We may never know.
Just maybe our prayers and fasting are having an effect on the pontiff. (?)
We love Francis because God’s will is to love our neighbor. Praying for those whom you find difficult to pray for is an art. Practice this often and you’ll be loving your enemies with a supernatural love The best there is.
Joe Biden
Hillary Clinton
Yes. For them as well. We are called to Aim Higher. St. Maximilian Kolbe… pray for us.
Amen, Philip. He never said it would be easy, did He?
No Frank. On the contrary.
We have so many heroic examples of men and women who have mastered the fine art of personal sanctification, via Our Lady, to choose from. As some already know, my favorite is St. Maximilian Kolbe. He was a brilliant reflection of the Christ, molded by the pure hands and heart of the Immaculate.
When he received the carbolic acid shot into his veins, August 14th 1941, I would of imagined God Our Father seeing a tremendous resemblance of His only begotten Son in Saint Kolbe’s life… and death.
An excerpt from The Catholic Stand recalled eye witness accounts of the Polish Priests unending sacrifice in that prison block before being sent to the starvation bunker;
A prisoner later recalled how he and several others often crawled across the floor at night to be near the bed of Father Kolbe, to make their confessions and ask for consolation. Father Kolbe pleaded with his fellow prisoners to forgive their persecutors and to overcome evil with good. When he was beaten by the guards, he never cried out. Instead, he prayed for his tormentors.
One of the meditation books on St. Kolbe is entitled Aim Higher.
He did just that.
He completely gave Our Lady everything. He was her property. He once was quoted as saying that if the Immaculata wished for him to be ground to dust for her sake he would be ready.
He was ready.
That dust, mingled with his ashes, floated out of the chimney and settled over that death camp on the very early hours of the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary back in 1941.
I believe some microscopic elements of his are still circumventing the globe… still efficacious in their total offering to Christ via Our Lady of Victory. Benefitting countless souls who will open the doors of their hearts just enough for their conversion to The Prince of Peace and His Holy Catholic Church. Just enough for the True Light of Faith to dispell the darkness of indifference and sin.
Pope Francis renounced the title of Vicar of Christ. Transubstantiation requires the priest to act in persona Christi.