The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!
Open Thread
- 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.
The feminists climb into the pulpit cannot erase the fact that every word the woman reads is written by St. Paul, St. Peter, St. James, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and/or Moses, Isaiah, or another man.
How do I hear these holy men through a woman? I cannot. The shock of hearing a woman read the holy words as her right and duty does not ring true.
As a citizen of the state the murderer brings himself to Justice and is executed through his own power of attorney.
The Supreme Court told the atheist that “She can go her own way.” Comedian Red Skelton said: “She is not going to take me with her.”
The main stream media bannered: “PRAYER BAN” and every First Amendment civil right for all citizens: the freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly was destroyed.
During war the charge of treason may be prosecuted But only during a war declared by Congress. The charge of treason without war is tyranny, pure and simple. Homicide to silence an opponent is homicide in the first degree.
The main stream media during the Civil War was undermining the truth about the Union. Therefore Lincoln silenced the msm during the Civil War.
Article 4, section 3 of the U. S. Constitution states that a state may secede with the approval of their Legislature and the approval of Congress. After the Southern States joined the Union it is civil to get approval of the Congress to secede.
Therefore the Civil War was uncivil and unconstitutional of the Southern States. Let us hope that when the South shall rise again it will have learned something.
God created every soul in original innocence. The implicit Baptism of Jesus Christ maintains the soul’s original innocence until Sacramental Baptism. The devil has no hold on the person until the person embraces the devil’s evil. Then only Jesus can free him in the Sacrament of Penance for the penitent.
Jesus is the Truth, the Light and the Way.
and the cats play music, but only for God.
I like cats, wish I could limit this to cats..
It’s as if the people at the top are working to undermine the sacraments of holy matrimony, holy orders and holy Eucharist.
There’s no need to attack directly, all that’s necessary is: bless homosexual couples, communion for remarried without annulment, recognize women bishops, put women in charge, you-better-not-kneel, no Altar rail for you to complete your sacrifice with Christ….
One thought that immediately struck me with this image of the nun cats was how important the external symbols which surround a deeper reality are. This image would be incomprehensible or at least take some explaining if it tried to depict the cats as post-conciliar nuns who had thrown off the habit and left the cloister, simply because the external symbols would be missing, and thus the transfer of meaning that is able to occur would be far more difficult to communicate.
This is something that I think the liturgical reforms badly butchered by removing or downplaying much of the symbolic superstructure that undergirded the Mass (as one example among many). Pope Paul VI justified it by modern man’s supposed penchant for plain language, but I think that was a mistaken read on how humans, modern or otherwise, apprehend things symbolically.