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Updated: Tabernacle stolen from Lourdes (Canada) church found ruined
Western Star ^ | February 27, 2016 | Frank Gale

Posted on 02/27/2016 5:01:38 AM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 02/27/2016 5:01:38 AM PST by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...

The thieves chose the most valuable item in the church, ping!


2 posted on 02/27/2016 5:02:48 AM PST by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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To: NYer

Evil does exist. Praise the Lord, He does prevail.


3 posted on 02/27/2016 5:03:38 AM PST by tioga
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Correction, the thieves stole the most valuable thing in the Universe.

I hope this parish quickly restores it tabernacle and then has a huge Euchatistic procession and enthrones the Lord with due solemnity.

As for the barbarians: they know not what they do.

4 posted on 02/27/2016 5:08:16 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Tell the truth and shame the Devil.)
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To: NYer

Some hedonist who felt that sometime or another, the majesty of the Roman Catholic Church was just too much, and this was their idea of a very evil prank.

Of course, the pranksters could have simply set fire to the church, too.

Nothing is really beyond repair or replacement. This was just malicious mischief. The mission of the church is unchanged in any way.


5 posted on 02/27/2016 5:09:08 AM PST by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: NYer

Stealing from a church is just unthinkable to me.

Years ago, the previous owner of this house had a big, drug addled, brain dead and probably mostly harmless son. Nothing violent but more of a nuisance that would show up and wander through the neighborhood every few months at 3 or so knocking on doors then wander off into the night.

By the time anyone could get to the door or call the cops he’d be gone. He knew enough not to get in real trouble. The guy was well known to the local law. He was a routine visitor.

Anyway he did small time robbery and he boosted a church.

He later got killed in a drug deal gone bad.

Somehow a lot of people still think he was some kind of saint.


6 posted on 02/27/2016 5:10:59 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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They took the contents of the Tabernacle, but ditched the Tabernacle. Satanists.


7 posted on 02/27/2016 5:24:04 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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Okay, the hosts were scattered nearby. (I didn’t read the whole article before commenting.) Not necessarily explicit Satanists.


8 posted on 02/27/2016 5:26:00 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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they took (in their eyes) a “locked box” and a tv and wall mount. My assumption is, being ignorant, they thought the tabernacle had money in it.


9 posted on 02/27/2016 5:29:38 AM PST by visualops (Why yes, I am on the #TrumpTrain. I'd like to win for a change.)
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Do you reallllly think they did not know???????????


10 posted on 02/27/2016 5:32:07 AM PST by Flintlock (-Our ballot box STOLEN, our soap box GONE, we're left with our bullet box, now.---)
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Criminals by nature a lot of times are not very smart.

I am betting they thought the locked box had money in it.


11 posted on 02/27/2016 5:35:43 AM PST by riverrunner
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Henry Gaudon, project manager for the parish, was at a loss to understand why someone would steal something considered sacred in the Catholic church.


12 posted on 02/27/2016 5:52:17 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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I think you are correct.


13 posted on 02/27/2016 6:14:06 AM PST by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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Henry Gaudon, project manager for the parish, was at a loss to understand why someone would steal something considered sacred in the Catholic church.

Henry sounds like your typical modern parish functionary; entirely detached from the spiritual, totally engrossed in the material and firmly believing that the world loves us, or at least ought to, since we love it.

14 posted on 02/27/2016 6:21:26 AM PST by marshmallow
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Prayers.


15 posted on 02/27/2016 7:11:48 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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For a long time, I have suggested that under Vatican diplomatic auspices, an organization be created of Catholic former military volunteers, funded by contributions, whose purpose would be to travel the world to advise oppressed Catholic communities how best to *protect* themselves from external threats.

Protection, the avoidance of aggressive threats, is far different from defense, which meets force with force. But protection significantly increases the degree of difficulty of aggression.

And if the threat is too great or acute for protection, this organization could provide emergency evacuation, to take these oppressed people out of harms’ way.

Each group of advisers, again traveling as representatives of the Vatican, would first discover both the level of threat and the means used by the aggressors. For example, in some places, Muslims try to kidnap young girls to force them to convert and become wives. So it would be good advice that girls do not stray to places or circumstances where they could easily be kidnapped. Of course it seems a common sense thing, but it surprising how often these kidnap victims thought they had Muslim “friends” who became kidnappers.

For this situation in Canada, the threat is mostly from hate filled atheists, who seek to steal, vandalize and defile. A different threat that needs different measures to confront, as taught by an expert, not haphazardly guessed, perhaps under or overreacting.


16 posted on 02/27/2016 7:13:55 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: visualops
Not really. They use Catholic Hosts in their ceremonies because they know full well what they have in their hands as they do unspeakable, revengeful things to the Host.

That knowledge is the only thing they have in common with Catholics.

17 posted on 02/27/2016 7:33:41 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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I thought the Tabernacle was supposed to be bolted down and practically immovable without heavy equipment.


18 posted on 02/27/2016 7:45:55 AM PST by PJBankard (I wouldn't let Obama or Hillary run my Dairy Queen - Wayne Allen Root)
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Do you reallllly think they did not know???????????

Not every criminal is a devout Catholic.

19 posted on 02/27/2016 8:14:59 AM PST by sportutegrl
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Hopefully it can be repaired and put back in the center of the Church.


20 posted on 02/27/2016 8:26:23 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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