In response to the sexual abuse crisis engulfing the Catholic community at this time, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is calling for prayers and inviting everyone to join a prayer vigil on Friday, Sept. 14 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia.------------
I have invited everyone to pray, pray, pray during this time of Catholic humiliation. First we pray for the victims and thank God for victims who witness to their Catholic Faith and because of it demand justice. We must pray for those who leave the Church because the scandals have robbed them of their Faith.
But do the innocent need to make reparations for the guilty in this scandal? The most guilty are the pope and bishops and the priests. Why should the laity and those harmed make reparation for the guilty?
Anyone who asks that question is a coloring book Catholic, sees the Mass has a handholding, kumbya, convivial , fellowship meal to prepare them to be nice people helping the poor when they go from the Liturgy that focused on them.
Why should the innocent laity, the innocent priests and bishops make reparation for the guilty. Why should victims make reparation for the victimizer?
BECAUSE IT IS CHRISTLIKE! Jesus, completely innocent and completely sinless, made reparation for us on the Holy Cross! He is our model when it comes to reparation! Coloring book Catholics don't understand what they refer to as the "Eucharistic Liturgy" is in fact The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass which points to Divine Person of Jesus Christ who completely innocent makes reparation to the Father for our sin and guilt, the only reparation that frees us from hell!
The guilty, if they have faith, must do reparation as well, but most importantly they must be punished for their sins which are civil crimes as well.
At Mass, coloring book Catholics do not want the real Jesus of the Holy Sacrifice, they want the happy, clappy Jesus of the spirit of Vatican II! Which do you want? If you want the "right" Jesus, do reparation:
DISCUSS!
4 comments:
Bee here:
One of our priests in his homily mentioned Padre Pio, and a vision he had, where he saw a group of priests and Our Lord pointed to them, and in a furious voice said, "BUTCHERS!" and Padre Pio said to Our Lord, I will make reparation for them.
This priest encouraged us to make reparation, to show God our sorrow and heartbreak for the wounding of His bride, the Church.
I had never heard of this particular vision of Padre Pio, but I did reflect on his suffering throughout his life, both physical and mental, and can appreciate the task of making reparation for sins of fellow Catholics.
God bless.
Bee
I don't have a problem with reparations, from the perspective outlined by Bee, so long as it is not one way. To make reparations, and then have the Church behave as though "all is well, we prayed", "problem solved" and "nothing to see here" is delusional. The so called gay mafia would still be in place. No, this time must be different. We've been through it before and, apparently, not much has changed. If the Church wants our money, they need to stop wasting it reacting to what amounts to an almost accepted rape culture. If such behavior is to now be part of "Catholic Culture", I certainly do not want my money being used to pay for those who can/will not be responsible for themselves. That is not the mission of the Church as I understand it.
Our suffering is a spiritual currency which given value by God, is redeemed by its application. Accept your crosses. Offer them up. They have great value because God has given them this great value. Our suffering is like currency which is given value by the merits of Christ suffering and death. Suffering has great value because God, Who has the power to do so, has given it this great value.
Some saints were able to work great miracles and with that, God was glorified and His Holy Church blessed. I have thought about this and concluded that God is also glorified through our powerlessness and weakness. Like the Resurrection which followed the Cross, miracles will come, but for some of us, we must be like Jesus in His abandonment, His Agony, in His scourging, and in His being mocked. He willingly and patiently accepted all these and more, and with that, God was and is glorified and His Church blessed.
By the one Cross and one Death was mankind redeemed. It is by this one Cross and the one Death, and the merits which flow from this Sacrificial offering, that human society, so much in need of redemption, is ever preserved from its own destruction. By the one Cross does redemption come to man continuously down through the ages. It is by the one Sacrifice of the Holy Cross that God's Love and Mercy are made manifest in every time and place to the benefit of our salvation. It is through the merits of the Holy Cross that value is imparted to our own sufferings and death.
As Catholics, our hope is in the Resurrection, but it is in the Cross with Christ hanging on it that is our Faith. This is the indispensable Hermeneutic to be applied to arrive at true knowledge and understanding of our God.
The Mystical Body of Christ in its faithful members must at times endure scourgings, the crown of thorns, and the cross. Christ suffered all these and more for our benefit. He brought great profit out of great adversity so that we could bring profit out of our own adversity. God has given value to our own tribulations and sufferings so that we do not suffer in vain and without merit. Christ's Suffering and Death filled the Divine Treasury with inestimable value and wealth. The deposit in this Treasury of Grace is applied and paired with our own suffering to give it redemptive and salvific value. God, who in His Divine plan has given us a share in His Creative Power has likewise given us a share and role in His work of redemption. We are called to imitate Christ as members of His Mystical Body in part by uniting our sufferings with His, and in doing so, we participate in redemption solely by virtue of the merits of His own.
What human being can by his own efforts make any work that is performed something good and of useful spiritual purpose? Our good works are efficacious and of spiritual benefit only because God, through his goodness to us, sanctifies them and makes it so. Even our suffering is made useful and of spiritual benefit and this because of the goodness of God and the power of the Cross. God has transformed suffering, which is something we would consider unpleasant and burdensome, into something good and useful for our salvation.
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