Ping!
Posted on 12/08/2015 10:19:46 AM PST by ebb tide
I thought I could just let it pass...but I can't.
On 8 December (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) at 7 pm climate-change zealots will be allowed to project a light show entitled "Illuminating Our Common Home†onto the facade of St. Peter's Basilica in order to "educate and inspire change around the climate crisis across generations, cultures, languages, religions and class," a press release states.
On the opening of the Year of Mercy?
Why not rent out the Sistine chapel too, while they're at it?
The Vatican basilica is a consecrated building. This is a non-sacred use - in fact it is an irreverent use - of a consecrated building.
St. Peter's is, without question, a sacred place and object (a very large one, too!). It is, without question, dedicated by the Church to sacred purposes. The use of this sacred building and place (where St. Peter was martyred and buried, a pilgrimage place, etc. etc. etc.) as a projection screen for mere secular purposes is irreverent treatment.
From The Catholic Dictonary:
Sacrilege: "The irreverent treatment of sacred things, persons or places, i.e., those dedicated by God or the Church to sacred purposes. It is a sin against the virtue of religion, of its nature grave, but admitting smallness of matter. Sacrilege may be either personal, as when violence is done to a cleric or religious; local, as when certain crimes are committed or actions done in a church; real, as by the abuse of sacraments, the theft of sacred objects or their irreverent misuse and the sin of simony. These varieties of the sin differ specifically from one another."
And... on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception? Really?
What's next? A change to the Litany of Loreto? St. John Paul II inserted two titles of Mary into the Litany by which we invoke her intercession... Holy Mary... "Mother of the Church" and "Queen of the Family". What looms on our horizon now?
Holy Mary, innocent of carbon footprint... pray for us. Holy Mary, conceived without climate change... pray for us.
This has gone beyond ridiculous. The next thing you know, we'll be told that we have to give obsequium religiosum to observations about air-conditioning or off the cuff remarks about changes in the weather.
We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God; despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.
I love Fr Z, but he sounds like one of those bad fundamentalist Catholics the Pope admonishes. /s
It is a disgrace.
The Pope's words and actions have become increasingly, unapologetically and disgustingly Leftist (i.e. anti-Catholic) as his reign has progressed. The mask is now completely off. God's instructions for cases such as this:
"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema." Gal 1:8
"But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed." Gal 2:11
Francis' anti-Catholic babblings, green encyclical and light displays on St. Peter's have exposed him as a Modernist and a rabid Leftist ideologue. He deserves to be ignored, as his "teachings" and example conflict with the Deposit of Faith.
Ping!
Oh grog!
"A while ago I mentioned I expected a triple threat to be launched against this country under the guise of climate change.
Climate change is where the solution is always to cripple whats left this countrys manufacturing sector.
I figured Obama , the Pope , and the UN would gang up on this country.
Below is one of the many things to expect.
Then I attached the story.
Expect more of these attempts to cripple this country from Obama-the Pope-and the UN. -Tom
Here’s a link to a replay of the light show.
It projects such images as lizards and grasshoppers on the full facade of St. Peter’s Basilica while ignoring the Body of Christ inside, in the tabernacle.
God has used grasshoppers as plagues on mankind before. Bergoglio is trying to one up Him.
The “photo” you posted is just an artist’s rendition before the event.
At this moment, COP21 delegates in Paris are deliberating groundbreaking climate reform. How will you make a difference?
No reference made to Our Lady's Feast Day, is there?
Funded by the World Bank, with the goal of global wealth redistribution.
"And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves." Matthew 21:13
Especially when the "secular purpose" is a lie.
"And do thou, Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God cast into Hell Satan and all the wicked spirits, who prowl about about the world, seeking the ruin of souls."
Is that a pic of “Cecil”, the famous deceased lion on St Peter’s?
I recall seeing, billions and billions of years ago, an article authored by Carl Sagan which appeared in the Parade Magazine, a Sunday supplement to the newspaper. In it, Sagan preached that religions had the audience while science had the message and he urged religion to turn over their audience to the true message of science. Looks like his dream is coming true.
Did they project a pack of wolves? Because at least then there would be some truth disseminated.
Reference here (sharing space with a paean to Vatican II):
Oh, these are hysterical; one has to laugh sometimes to help ease the sorrow.
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