MASSIMO BEANS/FAGGIOLI IS PRIVATE MASS PHOBIC; HE THINKS IT IS THE WORST THING IN THE WHOLE WIDE CHURCH! IT IS TO LAUGH IF NOT SO VERY SAD

 During the Pandemic Shutdown which hit my parish and diocese exactly a year ago, we never missed offering daily or Sunday Mass although no one was in attendance, except the Church Triumphant, The Church Militant and the Church Suffering. 

And the one Sacrifice of Christ was offered on our altars for the salvation of souls and the good of the laity of my parish and for the intentions of both the living and faithful departed. 

How in the Name of God and all that is Holy could the Vatican or anyone denigrate something as beautiful as this? 

WOW, PROFESSOR FAGGIOLI, BEANS IN ENGLISH, IS INTERVIEWED BY AMERICA MAGAZINE, A JESUIT PUBLICATION, AND SPILLS THE FAGGIOLI, I MEAN THE MEANS.

WOW, JUST WOW! Is progressive lay theologian, Dr. Massimo Faggioli, beans in English, OPENLY ADMITING that the Novus Ordo is incompatible with traditional Catholicism??? I post video, you decide. Of course, Massimo would more than likely endorse women priests or any variety of the LGBTQ descriptions of a person's sexuality. More than likely, he would endorse the bessing of LBGTQetc sexual unions. More than likely he would endorse the repeal of Humanae Vitae. Yet a small minority of Catholics who prefer the EF Mass is a threat to all of this. The absurity of it is palpable. What is Massimo and those who think like him afraid of? And he says Pope Benedict reevaluated his endorsement of Vatican II in an uncritical way, especially the liturgical reforms. I wonder why? Could it be because of the other chaos in the Church now on steroids? Could it be that only 10% of Catholics in progressive countries, states and cities, and sometimes much less, only attend Mass? Could it have been that Massimo, I mean, Beans???????

 

THE ENDEMIC RACISM OF THE ALL WHITE MEDIA GIANTS/ELITES

 

The city of Chicago recorded 774 murders in 2020, an increase of more than 50% from the 506 murders in 2019, according to a database maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. The uptick was felt across the city, as 20 of the CPD’s 22 police districts recorded more murders in 2020 than the year before. The number of overall shooting incidents skyrocketed, too, rising from 2,120 in 2019 to 3,237 as of Dec. 27, 2020.

That number of 774 murders in Chicago averages about 15 people/victims a week. Shooting incidents in 2020  were about 3,237. 

Most of these murders and random shootings were black on black crime. It is a phenomenal number in a city and state with very strict gun laws. 

On Monday, 10 people were murdered in a grocery store in Colorado. One was a policeman. I think the other 9 were white and the shooter was white with an automatic weapon. 

The news coverage by the white elite news establishment has far outpaced anything we see weekly covered in Chicago, nationally. 

CNN just did a heartbreaking story giving all the names of those killed, a bit of a background to them and tugged at our heartstrings that a man with an automatic weapon could cause such heartbreak and tragedy on people “who did not deserve it.”

Yes, the coverage of whites who are murdered, especially in mass shootings, while “minor” compared to what happens weekly in Chicago is racism on the part of the white networks. 

Keep in mind, 774 people, mostly African Americans, were murdered in Chicago in 2020. Do you know any of their names and family backgrounds? 

Racism is their name—the news media, that is. They need  to be CANCELED! 

WHAT IF CATHOLICS DON’T COME BACK, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG?

We have a Church in virtual schism as it concerns Scripture, Tradition, the Magisterium and the Deposit of Faith. We have chunks of bishops and theologians advocating for gnostic principles as it concerns sexual and sacramental theology. And then we have the Pandemic, the shut-down and the loss of the “obligation to attend Sunday Mass and Holy Days of Obligation.” What to do? What to do? Oh, what are we to do?

SCHISM IS COMING TO THE CHURCH UNDER THE GUISE OF HUMAN SEXUALITY; SHOULD WE SIMPLY LET THEM GO, OR SHOULD THEY BE EXCOMMUNICATED?

 As I mentioned, the majority of Catholics who disagree with what the Church teaches about human sexuality and the sacramental system Jesus instituted during His public ministry, are ready to form a new schism and a neo-Protestant Church over the Vatican's refusal to genuflect to their demands. 

Should the pope simply excommunicate them all and let them go? Wouldn't that purify the Church for Catholics who want to be faithful but since about 2013 think the sands are shifting so dramatically that they really have no roots to claim this or that can't change as the God of surprises allows it or motivates it or the development of doctrine allows for the bastardization of Catholic defined moral and doctrinal teachings?

I think it is time now to play hardball and cut them loose? What say you?

FATHER JAMES MARTIN, SJ CELEBRATES THE PATH TO SCHISM BY GERMAN THEOLOGIANS

 

Here you have it. The Church is well on the way to schism. A Jesuit priest thinks it is the cat's meow. 

America Magazine, Jesuit run, prints the AP story. They are ecstatic. 

I doubt that any of the 230 German theologians attend the EF Mass on a regular basis. I wonder if there is any connection.  

This Schism will make the Lefebrve movement look like Sunday School of attempted schisms. Keep in mind, the laity simply need theologians who will back their ideology and bishops who will lead  them and it appears Germany is ripe for bishops to go into not only the virtual schism they are fomenting but an actual one. Sounds so much like the Protestant Revolt of centuries ago, no?

More than 230 German theologians protest Vatican statement against blessings for same-sex unions

The Associated Press March 22, 2021

THE GENIUS OF AD ORIENTEM

 While I have consistently said that the EF Mass, more than likely, will not replace the Ordinary Form Mass and primarily due to Latin—most Catholics, I dare say, a majority of Catholics would prefer the EF Mass if only it was in the vernacular, but without that, the ordinary form will be the go to Mass for the vast majority of Catholics.

The biggest problem with the OF Mass is that it produces Catholics who are in a virtual schism in many parts of the world when it comes to the defined moral teachings of the Church, the latest being Ordinary Form bishops, priests and laity criticizing Pope Francis over his reiteration that same sex unions cannot be blessed or recognized as the Church would be in apostasy for blessing mortal sin, inimical to God. 

The worst influence on the Ordinary Form Mass and thus Ordinary Form Catholics is the cult of the personality of the bishop or priest foisted upon the congregation simply because the priest faces the congregation with the good, the bad and the ugly he brings to the Mass. The personality of the priest overwhelms the Mass especially his own personal antics during Mass not found in the rubrics. 

Not so with ad orientem or at least it is reduced considerably. Thus this photo tells the story:

The celebrant of this Mass in Augusta for Passion Sunday was a visiting priest. I don’t know who he is. But he appears to be as tall as our tall and lanky bishop, Bishop Stephen Parkes. He is 6”4”. 

Our bishop also has a very long reach with his very long arms and this is most evident at the elevation of the Host and Chalice at Mass. The celebrant of this EF Solemn High Mass also has very long arms as you can see in the photo above.

In fact, if you did not see Bishop Parks kneeling (as any lay person would do during Mass) to the left of the altar (Gospel side), you would think, or at least I would think, that the celebrant is Bishop Parkes.

Or it could be any pope, bishop or priest in the world. It doesn’t matter who, because you can’t see the face of the celebrant at this most important point of the Mass. 

That needs to be recovered, no?

EXTRAORDINARY FORM YOUTHFUL REVERENCE IS THY NAME AS THE ORDINARY FORM OLDSTERS SPIRAL INTO FORMAL SCHISM

 The Church of the Most Holy Trinity overwhelmed with young people and a smattering of oldsters for EF Solemn High Mass in Augusta! As Ordinary Form Catholics spiral into formal schism by criticizing the pope over not approving the blessing of mortal sin, gender ideology, female clergy and the like, the Extraordinary form is a bulwark of orthodoxy in this spiritual battle with the world, the devil and the flesh. 

ONE CAN ONLY SCRATCH ONE’S HEAD AND THINK OLD SCRATCH HAS WON THIS ONE AT LEAST TEMPORARILY

 Edward Pentin shows altars not being used this Monday morning, as private Masses are forbidden in St. Peter’s Basilica beginning today after about 1,500 years of having them.

It is beyond absurd and a scandal of immense proportions. And in a period of the pandemic hitting Italy once again, the high altar not being used since the pachamama debacle and so many other absurdities. 

And Catholics criticizing the pope because he happened to teach something Catholic, that the Church can bless persons but can never bless mortal sin. Duh!

MY FORMER PARISH, THE CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY IN AUGUSTA CELEBRATES THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT'S SOLEMN SUNG TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS

I know that the EF Mass in either a low or high form has been celebrated a handful of times since 2007. But this  is the first Solemn Sung Mass with the Bishop of Savannah present in choir dress. He offers the homily as well!

The altar that this Mass is celebrated upon is the same altar that was consecrated in April of 1863. In the late 90's we moved the entire altar by taking it a part and putting it back together. the altar is designed now for both the Mass facing the congregation or facing the liturgical east. 

I am thrilled to say the least!

DID YOUR PARISH COVER THE STATUES IN OBSERVANCE OF THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF LENT, PASSIONTIDE?

 Of course, for the covering of the statues and crucifix, one needs to hear or read the Gospel from the lectionary of the TLM for the 5th Sunday in Lent, for the rationale behind this quaint tradition. But alas, not even one of the A, B, C, cycles in the MVM includes it. 😢

CAN AN EVANGELICAL, H. RICHARD NIEBUHR HELP CATHOLICS WHO ARE GOING OFF THE CATHOLIC RAILS WHEN IT COMES TO RESPONDING TO CULTURE? I WOULD SAY SO, BUT WHO KNOWS?

 When I was in the seminary, 1976 to 1980, we studied Niebuhr’s five models for Christian cultural engagement. I found it very helpful. While he wrote all this in the early 1950’s it was especially pertinent in the 1970’s. Since Pope Francis has helped the religious world to return to the 1970’s theology, perhaps it can help us again, but now in the 2020’s. Will it help us respond to drag queens? Black face? And other impersonations of actors? Maybe not but we can try to fit this shoe on Cinderella’s step sisters, the drag queen Cinderella. 

This is a Protestant view and “sola Scriptura” approach. We as Catholics have a richer tradition which included Sacred Tradition. keep that in mind:

Scripture Above All

Niebuhr’s five models for Christian cultural engagement provide a good spectrum for how Christians have related to culture in the past and relate to culture today. These views shape our discussions and thoughts around cultural engagement and help point out areas that can be difficult for us to see in ourselves otherwise. However, these models alone do not provide a perfect answer.

Ultimately, scripture should be our primary and final authority on how we are to relate to the culture around us. We are to be salt and light unto the world, whether encouraging other believers, performing everyday tidying up chores with our family, or sharing Jesus with the attendees of Drag Queen Story Hour. As Jesus explicitly states in Matthew 28, we are to do this into all nations. Our engagement and relationship to the world, the culture around us, will vary between all of these views developed by Niebuhr, based on the situations we face. But through it all, taking Christ to the culture around us will bring glory to God!

DID THE NEW MOVIE “UNHOLY” USE THE MARTHA AND MARY CHAPEL TO FILM THIS HORROR MOVIE?

If you read my blog, you know that Saint Anne’s original church building, now our chapel, was built by Henry Ford in 1938 as a non denominational chapel. He named it after his mother and mother-in-law, Martha and Mary. The Diocese of Savannah purchased the chapel from the Ford Foundation in 1955 for Saint Anne Mission but kept the Martha/Mary name as a secondary name for historic purposes. 

Henry Ford build duplicates of this chapel in several locations.

I posted the trailer of this horror movie at the top. When I first saw it on Facebook, I thought, that’s St. Anne’s Martha and Mary Chapel. How did they use it without my permission (actually our dioceses’s)? 

They did not use ours but the Martha and Mary Chapel near Boston, a near duplicate of ours.

This is St. Anne’s Martha and Mary Chapel:

This is the Martha and Mary Chapel outside of Boston used in the movie (screenshots):

Please note that this ambo and St. Anne’s ambo are duplicates too:

SINCE I DON’T BELONG TO THE SECULAR PAGAN RELIGION OUR GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA IS SHOVING DOWN OUR THROATS, WHOSE SACRAMENTAL IS CANCEL CULTURE, WHY WOULD THIS PAGAN RELIGION EXCOMMUNICATE THOSE NON-BLACKS THAT PUT ON BLACK FACE BUT EXTOL THOSE MEN WHO ARE DRAG QUEENS? CAN YOU OFFER ME ANY LOGICAL EXPLANATION?

 

I am befuddled. For a non-black person to pretend to be black in the form of a caricature, that can get that person who did it fired from his job or political office. He or she must apologize. It is a mortal sin of the new pagan religion based upon each person’s personal “truth.”

Yet, those men who make a horrible, stereotypical caricature of women, dressing in drag, they are extolled and celebrated. One appeared on the Price is Right nighttime version, this past year.

And HGTV’s The Property Brothers, had several drag queens on their show and showcased them in the most positive way they could.

And of course, we have drag queens reading children’s books for small children and the media thinks it is just so cool.

Keep in mind, women are caricaturized in these expressions by men in drag and in a vulgar dehumanizing way. It is very similar to black face of generations ago in movies and television and stage. 

Why the “cancel culture” of one exaggerated impersonation as perceived as racist and the other extolled as entertainment but nonetheless a horrible sexism and actual denigration of all women, no matter the color?

Can anyone explain this Secular Pagan Religion’s morality to me and their logic?

THE NATIONAL CHISMATIC REPORTER (NCR) HAS PREDICTABLY GONE OFF THE RAILS IN THE 1960’S AND REMAINS THERE!

 

Rather than castigating President Biden for his anti-Catholic position on abortion and infanticide, the NCR promotes a petition to remove the head of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life, Archbishop Naumann. 

If the NCR were actually Catholic, not Chismatic, they would be promoting a petition to remove President Biden from the Catholic Church. 

Incredible:

Petition calls for Archbishop Naumann's removal as bishops' pro-life chair

BY CHRISTOPHER WHITE

MAR 18, 2021

More than 20,000 individuals are calling for Archbishop Joseph Naumann to be removed from his post as chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee after comments signaling hostility towards President Biden over his position on abortion.

YIKES! THE NATIONAL CHISMATIC REPORTER FOLLOWS PRESIDENT EMERITUS TRUMP BY RESORTING TO NAME CALLING TO DESCRIBE POPE FRANCIS

 

Editorial: Vatican's decree on gay unions risks making Francis into a hypocrite

BY NCR EDITORIAL STAFF

MAR 19, 2021

And from the right, a sober declaraTion of truth:

Clergy, Bishops “Ashamed” of The Church For Refusing to Bless Same-Sex Couples Highlights Church’s Tolerance of Open Schism

 Steve Skojec March 17, 2021

CONNECT THE DOTS INFIDELS.

 

Prior to Vatican II, the vast majority of Catholics attended Mass each Sunday and the vast majority of those Catholics believed it was not possible to change the Church although in areas of discipline adjustments could be made and dispensations could be had on this, that or the other that did not impinge of Divine Law or defined doctrine. 

But Vatican II was that Pandora’s Box flung open to change and the expectation of change among a great number (I don’t believe a majority) of clergy, religious and laity who thought if one thing could change, like changing the Mass almost overnight, other things could change, like the prohibition against artificial birth control.

Pope Paul VI grew this expectation among Catholics itching for change in the “new and improve” 1960’s where everything was changing and made new and improved. Paul VI organized a committee to assist him  in making a decision about easing the moral law prohibiting artificial contraception. And many on the committee advocated for it. And you know what, the very pope who opened the hopes for a modern sexual ethic in the Church slammed the door shut with Humanae Vitae. 

And Catholics began to drift away from the sacraments and the Church, many stopped coming to Mass. And those who hated all the changes, overwhelmed by misinformation handed to them that everything could and would changed, drifted away too.

And now we have a kind of clone of Paul VI who himself opens the door to change and then slams it shut. Pope Francis did that this week by saying the Church can’t bless mortal sin and thus can’t bless same sex unions simply because some good might be accomplished in a lifestyle dedicated to mortal sin, meaning sodomy. 

We’re not talking about two chaste men or two chaste women living in the same house, no matter their sexual orientation. We are speaking about two or more people of the same sex living together for the purpose of illicit sex. That’s what they want blessed, not them as persons, but their illicit sex. They don’t want the Church to call it for what it is, fornication and sodomy. That’s what the Church can’t bless. 

And there is no need to bless unions that are not true sacramental marriages as though these unions or partnerships are “like” marriage or are “marriages”. Individuals may be bless, no matter who they are, for examples those who attend Mass and remain for the Final Blessing. It is extended to all, even the non baptized who might be present. It is the blessing of persons, not their sins. 

But more people will leave the Church over this, because expectations are that change can and will happen to  just about anything that she (Holy Mother Church) wants to change because they think the Church is a social institution subject to the same laws as secular institutions that must change if they are to survive. 

And Pope Francis’ progressive ideologies encourage this kind of thinking. Rather than making clear what the moral law is and then leaving it up to others in pastoral ministry to sort through various pastoral concerns, he starts with the exceptions. He supports secular civil unions. Mixed messages does a mess make. 

But the Church is one Divine Instituion with two natures human and divine. It is no secular institution and thus will survive without major changes that infidels demand. That’s a grace from God.

WHEN A POLITICIAN CAN POLITICIZE A TRAGEDY, THEY WILL

 The Atlanta area experienced a Mass shooting that left many Asians killed and two non (white) Asians. 

Atlanta’s mayor seems to have wanted it to be a hate crime against Asians. However, it appears that the murderer has admitted to a sex addition and saw these places as places of prostitution that exacerbated his addiction. There are many of these establishments throughout Georgia. Macon had a major problem with these establishments years ago and often these institutions are a part of sex trafficking operations and those employed are exploited as most prostitutes are. 

Either way, it is a tragedy but it does not appear to be a hate crime against Asians, no matter how much politicians want to frame it as such. 

It does not appear to be a crime motivated by religion, as one reporter asked those holding the news conference.

It appears to be a crime motivated by the sexual disorders this man is experiencing. And yes, we must name the motivation for the sin and the crime for what it is, committed by a disordered man and disordered sexuality. Only then can healing occur but if our society says there are no sexual disorders and makes it a crime to treat sexual disorders, then what do we expect?

God rest the souls of those murdered and comfort their families. May justice also prevail. 

WOW! THIS IS A FIRST! THIS OBITUARY WAS IN THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS, A SIGN OF THE TIMES

 Comments are moderated. But I think we can say that this obituary is one for the newspapers! God rest “their” soul!

Obituary for William Murray aka Barbara Marie Davidson IV

William Murray Davidson IV LCDR/USN/RET also known as Barbara Marie Davidson, age 77, died Saturday March 13, 2021, at Memorial Health in Savannah. Born in Savannah, Georgia and a graduate from Savannah High School in 1961, Bill attended The Citadel in Charleston, SC and graduated from Warren A. Candler School of Nursing in Savannah in 1967. Bill was a Retired LCDR U.S. Navy with a total military time of 26 years, serving in the Vietnam War and Granada. Awards include National Defense, Vietnam Service, Combat Action, Philippine Presidential Citation Award as well as several others. A registered Nurse, Bill worked in a hospital setting for over 45 years, most recently at East Georgia Regional Medical Center in Statesboro for 19 years. He was also a Bagpiper for over 55 years and currently a receptionist at Luxury Nails and Spa in Statesboro. 
Barbara was a Life Member of the following organizations: Savannah Volunteer Guards, The Chatham Artillery, St. Andrews Society of Savannah, Veterans of Foreign Wars; disabled American Veterans Association, Scottish American Military Society, Vietnam Veterans Association; Savannah Association of Flying Air National Guardsmen and Bulloch County Historical Society. A member of the following organizations, Dexter Allen Post 90 American Legion, Statesboro Lion’s Club, Melvin Jones Fellow, Bulloch Lions Club, Coastal Scottish Heritage Society of Savannah and Scottish Heritage Society of S.E. Georgia, the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of Georgia, Pilot Club Statesboro, Georgia, Tri Ess, Sigma Epsilon, Sons of Confederate Veterans Association and the Navy Nurse Corps Association, Candler Nurses Alumni Association and Al-Anon. 
Preceded in death by W. Murray Davidson, III and Margaret Farmer Davidson and wife, LaGail H. Davidson. 
Surviving are three children and their families, William M. Davidson V “Bo” and Sydna of Statesboro, their family, Josiah and Sara Williams; Sarah D. Griffin and Thomas of Albany and their family Rebakah and Rachael Griffin of Albany and E. Bruce Davidson and Danielle of Pooler and their family Chaely and Chloe Fountain; a brother, Bruce M. Davidson of Atlanta; a sister, Margaret D. Rogers of Ocala, FL; a sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Helen and Tripp Foy of Statesboro; Tri Tran and Dao Ho of Statesboro; sister-in-law, Suzanne Ingram of Soperton; sister-in-law, Laurianne Pullen of Soperton. 
The family will receive visitors on Friday from 5:00pm until 7:00pm at Joiner-Anderson Funeral Home in Statesboro. 
Graveside services and burial will be Saturday March 20, 2021 at 3:00 pm at Laurel Grove Cemetery, 802 West Anderson Street in Savannah with Rev. Charles Todd officiating. Those desiring to view the service via livestream may do so by joining the group “Joiner-Anderson Live Stream” at: www.facebook.com/groups/jafhlive/. 
The family request that memorial contributions be made to Ogeechee Area Hospice, P.O. Box 531, Statesboro, Georgia 30459 or Trinity Episcopal Church, 4401 Country Club Road, Statesboro, Ga. 30458. 
Friends may sign the online register book at www.joineranderson.com. 
Joiner-Anderson Funeral Home & Crematory of Statesboro is in charge of the arrangements.