Posted on 08/29/2009 1:05:45 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
| Edward Kennedy Funeral Mass - Prayers Of The Faithful (YouTube) |
One would expect nothing more of the Kennedys / Democrat Party.
But, until today, many of us expected a little more of Cardinal O’Malley.
Does Cardinal O'Malley support/promote/accept abortion & homosexuality?
how many catholics will be upset that JFK’s grandson read a prayer about homosexuals?
Wow - what a disappointment for the church. So very sad.....
That was very disturbing and sad.
Wouldn’t it have been wonderful to have a prayer of the faithful intercession that read something like this?
“That the scourge of abortion and euthanasia will end in the United States, we pray to the Lord.
Guess I missed that.
Beginning Catholic: The Anointing of the Sick: Comfort and Healing [Ecumenical]
If he tried a deathbed ritual as fire insurance then I have no comfort to offer Ted. He needed to be confronted with God’s holiness and he needed to be left feeling helpless with his own sin. He needed to accept Christ’s sacrifice for his sslvation to be saved. I hope that was the case because a simple rendering of a rote prayer would avail nothing.
“Deathbed ritual as fire insurance” - “simple rendering of a rote prayer”
How about growing up beyond these same old tired morsels of Catholic bashing?
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Our sacramental life begins and ends in the salvific power of Christ’s sacrifice for our salvation.
And anyhow, why would Ted or anyone else want your comfort?
Who the hell are you anyhow?
ONCE AND FOR ALL:
My comments had NOTHING TO DO with whether or not a funeral Mass was celebrated. Ted Kennedy was a baptized Catholic: whether he had or had not received the Anointing of the Sick and had or had not made his confession, who cares? Celebrate Mass for the forgiveness of his sins and his eternal repose.
AND THAT IS MY POINT:
If you’re going to celebrate a funeral Mass: FOR GOD’S SAKE - and the sake of the deceased and those attending and/or watching - CELEBRATE THE FUNERAL MASS . . . old Rite, new Rite, who cares: BUT CELEBRATE THE MASS - not a vaudeville show with made up inserts, interpolations, editorial comments and ENDLESS ENDLESS ENDLESS PROCLAMATIONS OF THE HOLINESS AND HEROISM OF THE DECEASED.
THAT IS MY POINT, OK?
As for Cardinal O’Malley: his responsibility as the bishop of the diocese is to see to it that the rites are celebrated AS THE CHURCH HAS HANDED THEM DOWN . . . not as the Kennedy Family and the Democrat Party would like them to be rewritten to proclaim the singular significance of the sainted senator and to get their agenda of universal health care and gay rights passed.
And in that regard, by any fair and objective evaluation of the nonsense we watched this morning, HE FAILED THAT RESPONSIBILITY.
Which, again, has NOTHING TO DO with what he knew or didn’t know about Ted’s sacramental life.
PLEASE!
This was a previous response I gave on the same topic on another swimmer thread:
“On my Catholic education:
8 years Catholic grade school
4 years Catholic high school
weekly CCD classes by quite conservative Novus Ordo RCC priest
parents subscribed to National Catholic Register, the Wanderer, Fidelity and The Remnant, and I read them while growing up
my parents fought the Novus Ordo modernism tooth and nail and are now in the SSPX - I would politiely challenge you to ask them if they considered me to be inadequately catechized
I subscribed to Fidelity and Remnant in undergrad college and never stopped contending against modernism in the Catholic Church
the applause was very telling, no class in church....
I was surprized at the turn out along the road....they might call it big, but it was small.....
Well, if after all that, you can parody the sacrament of the anointing of the sick as “deathbed fire insurance” or “a rote prayer,” then, sorry, politely, you may not have been inadequately catechized, but you’ve lost your faith.
That’s even sadder.
You have to actually repent of all your mortal sins (attrition) before the Anointing can take effect. Otherwise you must refuse the Sacrament.
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