The Synodal Catholic Church is grateful to Planet Fitness for modeling what the Catholic Church should follow—the Synodal Judgement Free Zone Church”…
Today is the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. As is normal for me, I work out each morning at Planet Fitness, which the Church now is trying to emulate as both are “judgment free zones”, thanks be to God.
As is also normal for me, I pray the Holy Rosary for the last 15 minutes of my 45 minute elliptical workout. Normally, I am a by-the-book person with the various mysteries of the Rosary prayed on the proper day.
But on occasion, I will make up mysteries to fit the feast day the Church is celebrating. Thus, I did so this Immaculate Conception Morning. Here are the mysteries I prayed:
1. The Immaculate Conception
2. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
3. The Purification (Presentation) of the Blessed Virgin Mary
4. The Seven Sorrows of our Sorrowful Mother
5. The Assumption
Kosher or not Kosher, that is the question!
And the Church of the Planet Fitness, “no judgement zone” Kosher or not Kosher—that is the second question!
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"Judgement Free Zone" registered trade-mark, corporate woke virtue signalling at its finest....and "it's all about YOU", modern society at its finest.
And, they will continue to do so, because folk who disagree continue to give them money for membership. It may be only 30%-40% of people today disagree with such statements, but, were those percentages of revenues to suddenly cease to flow, they would stop such idiocy.
This country is filled with folk who disagree with much that is going on, but they do not care enough to inconvenience themselves or do without products and services of corporate sponsors of such idiocy, while the same folk expect politicians to actually do something. They only inconvenience themselves enough to cast a vote, and then it is somebody else's problem.
Meanwhile, I bet if I paid membership for 500 of the fattest people I could find, and had them show up daily in the tightest and most revealing work-out clothes available, that company would soon find a way to stop them from entering.
Well, I wonder how the Synods would respond to Democrats behaving badly, in Chicago, where at the exclusive Francis Parker School actual perversion is being pushed on kids. Father K, sorry they are not Trump supporters but your soulmates!!!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-school-center-project-veritas-hit-offers-affinity-groups-prek-says-white-kids-cant-attend?yptr=y
Seems reasonable to me. The mysteries and their orders are lessons and convention, but I am unaware that they are required on a given day of the week. I do the same on my daily hike. Our men’s prayer group shares requests and I initiate the Rosary remembering them. Some seem to match some mysteries better than others.
Meant to add that the exact same situation exists in the Church, except that more and more ARE leaving with their wallets when offered only corporate platitudes, and offered otherwise even less than what gymns or social media offer.
The Immaculate Conception
Just as the waters of the Nile were parted to the allow the Israelites to pass through untouched, so was the temporal flow of Original sin through the power of God parted at the Blessed Virgins conception. By a singular grace of God, she was untouched by that Sin of Adam which is our unfortunate inheritance.This is important to consider.
When one contracts a serious disease or illness, even if one recovers from the affliction, lingering, even permanent and debilitating effects can remain in the body. So for us who have inherited and were subjected to Original sin, lasting effects, such as concupiscence, remain even though baptism cleanses the sin from our souls while also conferring sanctifying grace. The Blessed Virgin, never having been subjected to Original sin and subjected to its effects, the conferral of grace into her soul by God was not only greater in its fullness, but more efficacious, more fruitful in its effect, but also in her response and and her co-operation with it, and this in preparation for her Divinely-ordained role to be the Mother of Jesus Christ. Would not a perfect plant,such as a flower, if such a perfect one could be found, most effectively utilize the sunlight and rain which falls upon it? So it was and is with the Blessed Virgin from the very beginning of her life with what God had gifted her with.
Yes,the Blessed Virgin was without sin from the beginning and likewise bestowed with a superabundance of grace. God gave the Virgin Mary this special privilege and this plenitude of grace because she was to be the Mother of Christ, the Second Person of the Divine Trinity.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, in being conceived without Original Sin, was the beneficiary of a singular, unique privilege by God granted to no other human being. She was indeed both "highly favored" and "full of grace", both terms being fitting descriptions of her special status in the plan of God, and her spiritual relationship to the Divine Trinity. To be favored can signify to be both exempt from something, and also in being bestowed with some kind of gift. The Mother of our Savior was truly highly favored in being exempted from contracting Original Sin and it effects, but also in being gifted as well with the fullness of grace beyond that conferred on any other human being.
As for a kosher Rosary, I imagine most rabbis would not find modified rosaries any more objectionable than a by-the-book rosary. Being a private devotion, the Church likewise has not much to say if you desire to do the hokey pokey every decade or when starting a new mystery.
Thou Shall Not Kill - yet Father K votes for the Party devoted to killing the innocent unborn! Facts are stubborn things!
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