Preach it sister!
The Shock of Recognition
- 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.
Honestly. I do not recognize myself in the mirror.
Haven’t changed much (looks wise) in 20 years.
Same weight and… there’s an advantage in going bald young.
I know the feeling. I can’t believe I was in college forty years ago and next year is fifty for my High School graduation.
I really do not understand most of what I see and hear, why people think the way they do, I see no rhyme or reason behind anything. I actually had to take logic and philosophy to get my degree. I’m thankful for being taught Scholasticism, but it also causing frustration hearing the illogic and plain stupidity of a lot of people nowadays.
I feel the same ways when I read my company’s Retiree Newsletter and note the passings of the previous month.
50 years ago, I was 11 going on 12. I lost my dear German Shepherd Lady due to old age. She was with me from the time I was six months old.
The Steelers won their first Super Bowl in January 1975. The winter was mild and over quickly. The summer was filled with visits to my grandparents in Pennsylvania and days spend in our backyard swimming pool. My best friend no longer went to the Catholic school with me in the fall – it was my last year in a school I have no fond memories of.
Much of it I can remember like it was last week.
75 is fifty years ago? I can’t wrap my mind around the reality that if “Back to the Future” were remade this year, Marty would go back to 1995.
I don’t feel old but the calendar does not lie.
Of course the best thing about that is:
‘The older we get, the better we were’. 😆
A different type of recognition.
From P M;
Pope Leo met with a prominent US priest on Monday who ministers to LGBTQ Catholics, with the priest telling Reuters that Pope Leo’s approach to LGBTQ Catholics is a “continuation of Pope Francis’ legacy.” This comes less than a week after a trans-identified male carried out a mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minnesota, resulting in the deaths of two children.
“It was very consoling and very encouraging,” Rev. James Martin told Reuters. “I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis about welcoming LGBTQ people.”
Monday’s meeting, held at the Vatican’s apostolic palace, was part of the pope’s official schedule that included other meetings with cardinals and bishops. The meeting lasted around half an hour, Martin said.
“He wants everyone in the church to feel welcome,” Martin, who leads an online news site for LGBTQ Catholics and was the author of a 2017 book on how Catholic leaders should engage with the community, said of Pope Leo. “His approach to LGBTQ Catholics is a continuation of Pope Francis’ legacy.”
Everyone is welcome to come into the Church.
Just leave your hatred, guns, bombs, knifes, car bombs and other incendairy devices at the door. You’ll make life easier for the old ushers who don’t wish to chase you down the aisle.
Off topic, I know. I would hope the Pope would mention the importance of proper mental health for souls who suffer disorders…but what year is it anyway?
Not 1975, that’s for certain.
https://thepostmillennial.com/pope-leo-meets-with-james-martin-calls-for-welcoming-lgbtq-catholics-days-after-radical-trans-attack-on-us-catholic-school
I would not accept the word of James Martin on anything. His audience with the Pope was 30 minutes.
Oh ..but wait. He wouldn’t lie would he?
[ sarcasm over. ] :^¢
Gun’s kill people. How I loathe the leftist golden calf. Those that wish to kill people will always find a gun. Those who wish to protect their families from tyrants who wish to take our freedoms will never give up their guns, nor should they.
Philip:
About welcoming Catholics:
How do the parishioners welcome LGBTQ+?
We, the people from Adam to the end of time and of the United States are in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, true God and True man. We, the People before all ages are in the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Jesus gave us all to His Sorrowful Mother from the cross. Bishop Saint John took all mankind in Mary’s Immaculate Heart into the Catholic Church.
There in the tabernacle on the altar is Jesus Christ waiting for us to visit, to love Him and acknowledge His love for all mankind.
In 1830 Our Lady appeared to Sister Catherine Laboure and gave to sister the Miraculous Medal of the Immaculate Conception, the Heart of the Perpetual Virgin.
Blessed Mary’s Sovereign Personhood is defined by the oval frame surrounding Her. Because We, the people are in Mary’s Immaculate Heart our broken sovereign personhood is perfected by Mary’s love for all mankind. Our broken sovereign personhood is perfected by and in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, risen from the dead.
Perfected sovereign personhood of all mankind from Adam until the end of time is waiting for us in the Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
We, the people must bring our LGBTQ+ brethren to surrender their hemorrhoidal sphincters, their worn out journey to perdition, their vacuous venture into nothingness and assume their true place in their perfected sovereign personhood found only in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Blessed be God.
I know. Sigh.
And a little more than 50 years before 1975 was World War I. And1995 was 30 years ago – just as the end of WWII in 1945 was 30 years before 1975.
A very wise man told me, when I first started working full-time after my high school graduation in 1979, that the days would sometimes be very long and pass slowly, but that the weeks, months, and years would fly by. And they have – especially after I retired.
What matters is what we accomplish for the Kingdom of God in that time! Peace to you. Mr. McC, and all here!
Philip:
Again. All people are in the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist. It is the LBGTQ+ who need to welcome Jesus into their hearts.
(Blaming the Catholics for being unfeeling and unwelcoming as Martin does is cruel.)
Mary DeVoe.
I agree with you Mary.
If they would just knock Our Lord would open the door wide to them.
Trying to help them is our mission #2.
Personal sanctification is mission #1.
What a world of opportunity, these days of ours.
1975 seems like ancient history to my son. To me, it seems like yesterday. Forgive me if I’ve already said this, but. . .
When I turned 30, I gave up all hope of playing major league baseball – not that there was any chance of that.
As I got older, I noticed that my doctors look like they just graduated from high school.
And now, well, now, I’m older than the pope!
God bless
This blows my mind. But everything going on in this world blows my mind. Come Lord Jesus, come.
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