tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001212361881658125.post7183546184712596279..comments2024-03-09T08:49:51.461-05:00Comments on Downtown Monks: OUR UNRULY GODFr Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195307683109646666noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001212361881658125.post-28865523596242685642013-08-01T20:51:50.542-04:002013-08-01T20:51:50.542-04:00Dear anonymous,
I think maybe we're talking p...Dear anonymous, <br />I think maybe we're talking past one another. I've been writing about my and other people's individual experiences with the Lord, the Mysterious One who leads me (and all of us) through the wilderness in often unexpected and surprising ways. This unpredictable God, at least as I've experienced Him, is really hard to get a handle on and say "I know all about this God." <br />Meanwhile you've been responding to my experiences in terms of ecclesiology, in terms of the outward form that the Church has taken over the centuries. Of course Mother Church as the Mystical Body of Christ and through the guidance of the Spirit has those characteristics you've written about. And I count on the grace of her sacraments to bring me along the way to heaven. <br />But as an individual, imperfect monk struggling my way toward heaven, my relationship with the Lord sometimes involves struggles and ignorance of God's ways -- and it's pretty humbling. I hope you don't think my humble attitude before the mystery of God is misplaced. Am I being taken to task for being too humble before the Almighty and Infinite Lord? Fr. Albertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001212361881658125.post-8380476456035692102013-07-30T15:47:39.707-04:002013-07-30T15:47:39.707-04:00Perhaps you should (re-)visit the Oath Against Mod...Perhaps you should (re-)visit the Oath Against Modernism, or make it official and leave the Catholic Church and become protestant or buddhist or some other religion that will bend itself to your liking.<br /><br />"We must now break silence, in order to expose before the whole Church, in their true colors, those men who have assumed this bad disguise."<br />- Pope St. Puis X, Paxcendi Dominci Gregis on Modernism<br /><br />Padre Pio, ora pro nobis. <br />Pax Christi.<br />+JMJ+<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001212361881658125.post-41091721037627686102013-07-29T22:33:11.439-04:002013-07-29T22:33:11.439-04:00Dear Anonymous. Sorry that this post made you so a...Dear Anonymous. Sorry that this post made you so angry, but thanks for the candle. I notice that you don't directly criticize my ideas but just attack Cardinal Martini. I gather that you must think that as a Catholic your ideas about God are "complete, total, absolute, and definitive." Since my own ideas about God are none of those things, you might spare yourself some aggravation by reading only blogs by people who have that kind of absolute knowledge of God. Otherwise you'll be lighting a lot of candles!Fr. Albertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001212361881658125.post-3641615341749503452013-07-29T11:10:41.251-04:002013-07-29T11:10:41.251-04:00You are quoting ++Martini, a dissident Cardinal wh...You are quoting ++Martini, a dissident Cardinal who, as head of the diocese of Milan, took it from nearly 100% Catholic to 7% Catholic during his tenure. Doesn't this prolific drop in practicing Catholics, the fruits of his labor, provide evidence that his teachings are poisonous? Moreover, he supported homosexual unions, or is that one of those teachings that God changed his mind, or as modern man would say, God "evolved" from after Sodom & Gomorrah? <br /><br />St. Aquinas, St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Alphonsus, St. Paul, all the doctors of the Catholic Church were, as you label them, pagan catholics, while Martini's teachings are virtuous. This is a diabolical inversion.<br /><br />Most respectfully, I'll light a holy candle for you at Mass.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001212361881658125.post-4331333762530712222013-07-23T23:35:56.765-04:002013-07-23T23:35:56.765-04:00Exactly what we were talking about today! I really...Exactly what we were talking about today! I really appreciate your insight! Thank you!Maria Teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807151922479341654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001212361881658125.post-43027150010314311662013-07-15T00:24:31.057-04:002013-07-15T00:24:31.057-04:00Very well written!Very well written!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com