Posted on 05/31/2016 10:37:22 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
The Sacramento Bee carried a misleading article Franciscan priests leaving St. Francis church in midtown Sacramento written according to McClatchy's bent standard of "truth". St. Francis has been and is likely to remain the center of anti-Catholic, homosexualist fury in Sacramento, provincial equivalent of Most Holy Redeemer in the very City of St. Francis, regardless of anything Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto can do. Mere authority can do very little to appeal to the benevolent Christian commonweal when the underground corps of a spiritual fifth column is ruthlessly dedicated to infiltrating its death-loving, anti-life animus into the Church.
In the mid-1970s, my late Mother attempted to attend a noon-time Mass at St. Francis. She was stopped from entering by a blazer-clad woman with a stark, masculine haircut. "You don't belong here," my Mother was told, as she was denied entry to a Church facility that, even through it was part of a private "religious" order, was still proposing to perform a public liturgy of the Universal Church. WRONG. There is no funeral, wedding, baptism, quinceanera or other private-intentioned, personal ceremonial event can remotely affect the universal character of Christ's Eternal Sacrifice of His Life to ransom us from sin, death and the enemy of souls.
Architecturally St. Francis is extremely beautiful, relic of a time when the bauhaus of architectural minimality had not yet been used to attack the Church's ancient cultural patrimony. It symbolizes and subtly communicates the Incarnation of Christ's Divine Nature into human flesh, God's generous attempt to share His Very Divinity as much as possible with mere creatures. Bells, smells and music the common people used for worship for thousands of years, have all been stripped away in a utilitarian cultural revolution that has very effectively served to alienate many of the people of God from their own history. While the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is larger and in some ways more architecturally imposing, St. Francis' extremely ornate decorations are well worthy of recommendation to capital visitors interested in Sacramento's once-Catholic cultural past, from a time when poor but faithful believers were willing to sacrifice from their scarcity to give appropriate beauty to the best thing in the world, Christ's sacraments which He uses to save the world.
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