To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.
Saint John Henry Newman
Burn of 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.
Translation. I want to make up my own rules.
And of course, one of my favorite Saints put it best as Don notes.
#1: No unanimous agreement of scripture interpretation among the Church fathers.
These two statements seem to be in disagreement … Maybe a bible verse will help the ‘sola scriptura’ crowd get it:
Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
He replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.
~ Acts 30-31
Hmmmm … whudduyuhknow! 😀
All of these things could be said of Protestant writers and are reasons why I am not Protestant.
And this, good ladies and gentlemen, is the reason Anibale Bugnini and his conteporaries and cohorts hated the Tridentine Mass and sought to replace it with a worship service that would appeal to the mindset clearly shown by the supremely arrogant Baptist
Then again, our own Curia and Magisterium deep to cherry pick what they like and ignore what they don’t. This mentality has infected modern political thought and rhetoric as well.
Hey, there is stuff I don’t like being told, too. Our homily this morning was about suffering and carrying your cross. I didn’t want to hear it. I want to slam my crosses to the ground, walk away and go live in an RV in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale. My whole body hurts from moving furniture. I’m tired of driving two hours to and back from my mom’s house to clean it out and get it ready to sell. Same with my brat 18 year old dropout son and my wife who wants all of my mom’s things but cares not that we have no need or use for them. I don’t want to hear that, in so many words, that it’s okay to suffer on Earth and have things happen that make one sad or depressed or miserable because heaven is better and this has to be accepted entirely on faith.
Hell is real I KNOW it. I have heard the laugh of a fallen angel and it is terrifying. It’s just when you labor for ungrateful people, at a job you wish you could leave yesterday, belong to a Church whose hierarchy wants to stamp out all traditional worship, you get ticked off
One funny thing about this graphic is the title, for Catholics would agree that the Church Fathers are not our final authority.