I can’t get the embedded code to actuality post this Facebook video of a Nuptial Mass in England or Ireland. This wreckavated church with priest enthroned dead center celebrates a wrekavated Nuptial Mass with heart strings tugged hard by a smaltzy secular ditty well rehearsed which passes as prayer and liturgical spirituality.
With this kind of gushy VAPID, superficial faux Catholicism and it’s version of prayer, liturgy and spirituality, is it any wonder Ireland will ordain more bishops than priests this year?
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Is that picture a example of clericism, priest central to everything. knew a priest like that, used to slump in his throne like Caesar waiting for the serving wenches with a cluster of grapes during the offertory and after communion. His throne was up 7 steps from the floor on the platform that used to hold the marble high altar, tabernacle was off to the side under St Joseph, we knew who was the most important now didn't we?
Betting that was a nice traditional church at one time, wreckovated.
As I wrote to a friend yesterday....
This year, the entire country will ordain exactly one new priest....they are ordaining more Bishops this year....
The Irish Independent interviewed whom they termed a well known priest....the Independent, I believe, was pro-abortion in the recent change to their Constitution.....so, the interview results were no suprise....they had featured an opinion piece stating Ireland had exchanged tyranny of the Church for a new tyranny.
The interviewed priest gave a few facts such as priests are now fully running parishes into their 80s, this interviewed priest was 46 and second youngest in his diocese, he is working three parishes which formerly would have needed 7 priests, and the average age is now 70 in many diocese....
Then, he showed through his talking points exactly why things are the way they are today.....he stated in rural Ireland, first they lost the pubs, and then the post office, and that soon there would be no priests....that priests had always been "good community activists and meant something to people", called for a radical appraisal and dialog as to what had gone wrong with vocations, make courageous moves, name new realities, and to start ordaining women or end up being foot soldiers at a graveyard......
Not once did he mention God or Jesus or the Church, or anything of a religious or spiritual nature whatsoever....it was all about becoming Anglican...and the Anglican churches are in far worse shape than Catholic, as they started the grande awokening years before the Catholics who generally had it shoved down their throats starting in 1970.
Father “it’s All About Me!”
Ridiculous looking faux sanctuary. That wooden structure is completely out of place in that particular church building given its style.
Secular song masquerading as "liturgy".
Why this couldn't have waited till the reception giving the liturgy pride of place is anyone's guess. The song isn't the problem, it's when it was sung that's the problem. This could easily have been a fun thing to add to the reception before desert etc. The liturgy always seems to be the third wheel - it always comes in last relative to whim and pop culture. Certainly with priest/celebrant sitting in the middle like Pontius Pilate, how could anything but last place result? The line between the divine and the celebration of humankind is, in my opinion, mistakenly blurred. But, what do I know as I'm part the "Side Show of grumpiness, uninformed piety, and anger" as declared by Anonymous.
If you look closely that insipid wood thing that the presider is seated on is built on the old high altar, you can see it through the slats, anyone up for a road trip, bring your own saws all.
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