tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post8410592409765566406..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: ARE THERE PARISHES OUT THERE THAT DO NOT HAVE PRIESTS WHO ARE ON CALL FOR EMERGENCIES?Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-74823825155772606702015-08-17T08:18:28.051-04:002015-08-17T08:18:28.051-04:00In our Diocese apparently it is very difficult to ...In our Diocese apparently it is very difficult to get the phone answered on a Sunday or Monday in many parishes. One priest is hospital chaplain and largely carries the entire burden for the diocese, although I believe he welcomes it and he's a young priest too.<br /><br />JanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-28117440787504338682015-08-16T00:45:28.920-04:002015-08-16T00:45:28.920-04:00Yes, George, that is what today is.
God, Jesus, M...Yes, George, that is what today is.<br /><br />God, Jesus, Mary all the angels and saints are available 24 hours per day.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-22764486991490342952015-08-15T14:36:57.657-04:002015-08-15T14:36:57.657-04:00The Assumption
The Divine Artist would not leave ...The Assumption<br /><br />The Divine Artist would not leave behind His Masterpiece<br /><br />God, Who created all and is above all, would according to His Divine plan, need one of His creatures to provide what was necessary to secure our salvation. The Blessed Virgin would supply the canvas, woven from her human nature, and upon that canvas would be the painted the Divine nature forming an inseparable unity, the God-man. Just as canvas and paint constitute two separate realities of a different nature forming one work of art, so Christ is He who is constituted of two different natures, human and Divine, forming one Eternal being. He, who we are made in the image and likeness of, had, at the Incarnation, became one with the image and likeness of one of His creatures. Before an artist paints, does he not prepare the canvas? And so it was with the Divine Artist, who prepared the canvas of the Blessed Virgin's human nature so as to be worthy to receive Him. Just as any work of art increases the value and worth of the canvas or medium which it is joined to, the Divine Being through the Incarnation increased the value and worth of our human nature. <br />Now Christ, being God and having all Power, and being the One through whom all things were created, could in His Divine nature exist in any part of His creation and even outside of it, but not so His human nature. After His Passion and Death, having come through the crucible of the Crucifixion, at the Resurrection, His human nature was then glorified and could then ascend with His Divine nature into Heaven. In the glorified state, His human body would no longer be subject to death,decay, and corruption and so could then reside in the Eternal Heaven.<br />With the Assumption of her body and soul into Heaven, it was the Blessed Virgin who was the first beneficiary of this Divine gift.<br />The Blessed Virgin was God's greatest masterpiece. What artist or creator would abandon his greatest work to corruption? By her unsurpassing love for God was she attracted to Him and by His ineffable love for her was she drawn up to Him. So it will be for us if we follow her example of holiness and become transformed into the image of Christ. In Christ's human and Divine nature is the mold and model which will shape us for our Eternal destiny if we, by our cooperation with the Holy Spirit, accept and put into practice His Holy Teachings. In the Blessed Virgin is the template of the Divine image given us to imitate so that if we but follow her Holy example, we will one day follow her, in our own glorified body and soul, into the Celestial Paradise.<br />Georgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-61906313868985183982015-08-15T10:52:20.911-04:002015-08-15T10:52:20.911-04:00Dialogue pretty much nails it. I wonder if there ...Dialogue pretty much nails it. I wonder if there would be enough clergymen to call at all hours if we went to confession when our legs worked well enough and during the hours posted? Or took our children to confession and Mass more often? rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-56199935945373955982015-08-15T08:09:47.692-04:002015-08-15T08:09:47.692-04:00First of all, 24 hour businesses use shift staffin...First of all, 24 hour businesses use shift staffing, and no one expects the same pharmacist to be on duty 24 hours a day at the local 24 hour drug store. Priests certainly do answer nighttime calls for the last sacraments, but it is intellectually dishonest to compare this service with nighttime businesses. <br /> <br />Secondly, I've been hearing for years about all these priests who supposedly won't hear confessions of sinners, attend to the dying, or administer Holy Communion to the divorced. Our culture of immorality enjoys calumniating and judging clergymen, just as our culture of criminality enjoys calumniating and judging policemen, and our culture of racism enjoys calumniating and judging blackmen. Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.com