One question which have been bugging me ; Why didn't PF visit his country since he became a pope? It's a political decision not a catholic nor a religious decision re China. It's a huge betrayal to catholics in China as its more like an excommunication. Vatican is a political organisation and also a state as well. Nothing will stop the Vatican when it comes to political instead of catholic decision. Heard that a lot of anglican married priests are joining the catholic church in UK due to severe shortage of priests.
Here is a link to sign to show support for Bishop Tobin in Rhode Island: https://lifepetitions.com/petition/...il&utm_term=0_12387f0e3e-caf0a021c4-402206493
Alex Trebek credits his recent miraculous recovery process to prayer and NBC edits the mention of prayer out: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/n...out-alex-trebek-crediting-prayers-helping-his
I think this has been posted before but it´s so bad, so insulting maybe it deserves reposting. I can´t find any positive comments on this sad show. Is this how they want to attract young people? jum hitty 4 years ago I'm a youth (17) and I definitely would NOT attend this show. I say show because this is not a Mass!! Ugh...why do they feel the need to dumb down the Holy Sacrifice and make it "kewl"????? I don't want kewl and catchy music or priests who crack jokes. I just want a reverent, quiet, solemn, sacrifice to be offered to God the Father in atonement for our sins. If I ever get my own car I'm definitely driving to the nearest traditional parish.... Miloslav Šimek 4 years ago WTF maybe this is youth mass, but not catholic mass No wonder this man enthusiastically supported the election of the current pope: Cardinal Christoph Schönborn believes he received two signs from the Holy Spirit One prominent cardinal has said he experienced “signs” from the Holy Spirit before the election of Pope Francis in 2013. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, said he felt two “strong signs” that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina was “the chosen one” in the wake of Pope Benedict’s abdication. https://www.irishcentral.com/news/signs-before-pope-francis-election-cardinal Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do
Blizzard, clearly you simply do not understand the fruits of VII. You are viewing all of this in the light of the ashes of tradition rather than remaining in motion! In all seriousness that comment about the "signs" before his election reminds me of what I have heard people say before about all worship of God being pleasing to Him. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...in-flight-press-conference-from-romania-53358 Eva Fernandez (COPE): Holy Father, yesterday in the meeting with young people and families you insisted again on the importance of the relationship between grandparents and young people so that young people have roots to move forward and so that grandparents can dream. Holy Father, you do not have a family nearby, but you have said that Benedict XVI is like having a grandfather at home. Do you continue to see him as a grandfather? Pope Francis: More. Every time I go to visit him I feel like that, I take his hand and get him to talk. He speaks little, slowly, but with the same depth as always, because Benedict’s problem is his knees, not his head. He has a great lucidity, as always. When I hear him speak, I become strong. I hear this history of the Church, which is not something like a museum, tradition. No, tradition is like a root which gives us the juice to grow and so you would become like roots, no! You flower, you grow, you give fruit, and you are the seeds that are the roots of the other. The tradition of the Church is always in motion. In an interview made by Andrea Monda in L’Osservatore Romano a few days ago (do you read L’Osservatore Romano?) there was a situation of the musician Gustav Mahler that I liked so much. Speaking of tradition, he said that tradition is the guarantee of the future and not the keeper of ashes. It is not a museum. Tradition does not preserve ashes; the nostalgia of fundamentalists [is] to return to the ashes. No, tradition is the roots that guarantee the tree grows, flowers and gives fruit. I repeat with that piece by the Argentine poet I like so much: “All that the tree has in bloom comes from that which it has underground.”
Why is everything a show now? The focus of the Mass is Jesus and the Holy Sacrifice. I want young people to feel a sense of belonging. I want kewl too! I like being entertained. I like to feel warm fuzzies and cool music to dance and rock to. But not at Mass. At Mass my focus is God. I want everything focused on God. Watching those videos all I can see is the focus off of God. No one is looking at God. They are looking at the spectacle that was arranged for them and not God. Very sad. Jesus, I trust in you!!
IMO because emotionalism lulls many into believing the notion that the Holy Ghost is present in some way in all the false alters and heretical sects around the world. It is the message of ecumenicism writ large. Ever wonder where are the great Doctor's of the Church in our day? Or great theologians? Or even solidly good bishops and cardinals who write essays, letters and books that speak clearly in ways that do not contradict prior Church teaching and end up leaving one more confused than before they started reading. It's all about the feels. From the earliest age our children are being taught to think not as to whether something is objectively pleasing to God. It only matters how they feel about things. Today's truth is that our thoughts and feelings are the only objective measure of truth. It is why so many like to think in terms of "their" truth or "your" truth. Not THE Truth. If they feel uncomfortable they are coddled and soothed and a new and comforting idol that does not threaten their "ideas or feelings" is put before them to worship. It all leads to sin, vice, and enslavement rather than the sweet yoke of Christ.
One of the worst changes to the Mass, when they brought in the Novus Ordo, was in my opinion, the removing of any quiet meditative time during the Mass. Especially right after Holy Communion. Now there always has to be some sort of distraction going on as if we're attending a show. Clapping, loud "modern" music, etc.
“The Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.” I remember the low Masses in Latin when the priest spoke softly to God. At one point in the Mass , he would turn and face the people and raise his voice a little. He would say the prayer “orate fratres” Pray brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the Father Almighty. So holy
Wow! If it were announced a letter written by the Bishop was about to be read, that would definitely automatically cause a complete hush in my diocese. It would also be included in ALL bulletins diocesan-wide. Perhaps we have more respect for our Bishop overall??
Guess it's a done deal. Pope Francis Approves Big Change to The Lord's Prayer Pope Francis officially approved changes to the most famous prayer in Christianity so that it can better reflect the original intent of the widely-read bible verse. The phrase "lead us not into temptation" in The Lord's Prayer will officially change to "do not let us fall into temptation" as cited in the gospel of Matthew 6:13, Fox News reported. https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/catholic-lords-prayer-pope-francis/2019/06/05/id/919114/
This was the first thing I noticed when I went to my very first Latin rite Mass. Silence. Time for prayer. Reverence.
Remember; “Inside the Holy Trinity they’re all arguing behind closed doors but on the outside they give the picture of unity.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/p...for-stepping-in-to-lead-worship-for-lutherans Pope Francis praises Catholic archbishop for stepping in to ‘lead worship’ for Lutherans ROME, June 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis today praised a Catholic archbishop for stepping in to “lead worship” at a Lutheran cathedral, saying it’s a sign of how far ecumenical relations have come. On his return flight from a three-day apostolic visit to Romania, the Pope was asked what “relationship” should exist between different religious confessions, and particularly between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. “Ecumenism is not about reaching the end of the match, the discussion” the Pope responded. “Ecumenism is accomplished by walking together, walking together, praying together – the ecumenism of prayer.” “Walking together, this is already Christian unity,” he said, “but not waiting around until theologians agree so that we arrive at the Eucharist. The Eucharist is performed every day through prayer, through the remembrance of the blood of our martyrs, through works of charity, and also by loving one another.” Pope Francis offered what he considers a true example of the “ecumenism of prayer,” telling journalists: In one European city, there is a good relationship between the Catholic archbishop and the Lutheran archbishop. The Catholic archbishop was scheduled to come to the Vatican on Sunday evening, and he called me to say that he would arrive on Monday morning. When he arrived, he told me: “Excuse me, but yesterday the Lutheran archbishop had to go to one of their meetings, and he asked me: ‘Please, come to my cathedral and lead the worship.’” Eh, there’s fraternity. Coming this far is a lot. And the Catholic bishop preached. He did not do the Eucharist, but he preached. This is fraternity. He then explained that, as cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires, he too was in the habit of preaching in Protestant churches. “I was invited to the Scottish church to preach a number of times,” he said. “I went there, I preached. You can do it. You can walk together. Unity, fraternity, extending a hand, looking after each other, not speaking ill of others.” “We all have defects,” he added, “but if we walk together let’s leave our defects to the side. Let the spinsters criticize us.” In his inflight comments, Pope Francis then turned more specifically to Catholic-Orthodox relations. Responding to a follow-up question from a French reporter, who asked the pontiff what was going through his mind while he stood silent as Orthodox clergy and faithful prayed the ‘Our Father’ separately from Catholics, he said: “I’ll tell you a secret. I did not remain silent. I prayed the ‘Our Father’ in Italian.” He said the “majority” of faithful who were present prayed the ‘Our Father’ with both Orthodox and Catholics. “The people go beyond us leaders,” who “have to balance things diplomatically” and keep to “diplomatic customs and rules” so that “things don’t fall apart.” The Pope added, however, that he and other religious leaders do pray together “when we are alone.” “I have the experience of prayer with many, many pastors: Lutherans, Evangelicals, and even Orthodox. The patriarchs are open,” he said. The Pope then told journalists: We Catholics also have closed people who do not want [to pray together] and say that the Orthodox are schismatics. That’s old business. The Orthodox are Christians. But there are some Catholic groups that are a bit fundamentalist. We have to tolerate them, and pray for them, that the Lord by the Holy Spirit softens their hearts. But I prayed during both [Our Fathers]. I did not watch [Romanian Orthodox Patriarch] Daniel, but I believe that he did the same. The traditional position of both Orthodox and Catholics is that public prayer with those in schism from the Church should not be attempted. This position has often softened in recent years partly due to ambiguity as to the existence of the schism between Rome and Constantinople. Stricter voices among Orthodox and Catholics would still maintain that all communicatio in sacris is forbidden with those outside the visible church. Pope Francis may be referring to the apparently changed situation of Catholic and Orthodox Churches relative to one another, brought about by the mutual withdrawal of excommunication between Rome and Constantinople issued at the end of the Second Vatican Council by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras. However, whatever the significance of this event (and it should be said that the excommunication Paul VI withdrew was never validly served in the first place), Catholics do not pray for the Orthodox patriarchs in their liturgy nor do the Orthodox pray for the Pope. Nor is there sacramental intercommunion between the Churches. Therefore, if the traditional Catholic prohibition against prayer with those outside the Church is still in force, then Catholics are not free to pray with the Orthodox nor (if they sincerely believe they are the true Church) are Orthodox free to pray with Catholics. This is the more hardline position of a significant portion of the Orthodox Communion.
