Posted on 11/05/2005 3:05:58 PM PST by solitas
THOUGH the story is today's headliner in 72pt type, the story isn't even on the first page of the website; it's in tiny-tiny type two links deep. Go figure.
And go to Church; but be ready to "deal with" anything/anyone that gets in your way.
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It's only a BUILDING.
Was the church still consecrated when the jack booted thugs kicked kicked the parishioners out. The diocese paid for this sacrilege?
A good reminder: Always bring your gun to church.
Is that really the case? So it means they can meet in, say, St. John building as a different conggregation (not attending the same service as the Slavic-based St. John)?
It's actually unbelievable that armed guards made people leave.
WWJD? - a shootout of course... Trying to pull money out of the collection plate is what brought out the armed guards.
...got up to retrieve his offering and return those of others. "Two armed guards appeared and escorted us out of the church."
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world
1 Corinthians 6:4
To use armed guards,
on consecrated ground,
against the blameless faithful,
of that local body of Christ?
I have no words for this
It seems that good Christian people who congregate peaceably for mass could be counted on to leave after the bad news without an armed show of force.
Armed guards?
There must be more to this story.
My church is an orthodox Episcopal church that does not support the ECUSA decisions about the gay bishop and there is a lot of talk about joining an Anglican diocese. However, the diocese owns the title to the building. It is very likely that the portion of the congregation that does not support ECUSA will have to move.
No. Its only the BEGINNING!
Would the Catholic Church have have hired armed guards shoot obviously good Catholics for the pieces of silver in the collection plate? What were armed guards even doing on consecrated ground?
Perhaps it would be better not to allow anyone to ever have this kind of control again!
I'm with you. There is a lot more here that we are not hearing.
I'm a member of a Latin Mass community that holds our Masses in a church that has regular vernacular Masses at other times.
When I was teaching in Turkey, I attended Mass at a French church, which was used by Syrians to hold their Masses earlier on Sunday morning.
It can be done, and makes sense if the congregation, the Bishop, and the host church can get together on it.
It seems malitz is two-timing and so the ecclesiastical gangsters probably figured they'd close one of the two parishes and to hell with what the congregants thought.
The People from Holy Trinity _could_ go about a mile away to St.Emery's - again, historically Hungarian and almost in the same neighborhood (formerly aka 'Hunktown' and the neighborhood of my forebears) but they'd be in even worse shape since St.E's is _totally_ RC: fully in league with Big-Business Rome.
St.J-the-B's Byzantine is more than 10 miles away on the highway and is newer and in a suburban residential area - and unfortunately run by the same gun-toters they met in Fairfield.
Not to change the subject, but what is the value of this land ??? EMINENT DOMAIN ???
I don't think it's "eminent domain" if the property is owned by Big Business Rome. I think it's "selling the property to pay the lawyers to fight having to pay the families after diddling their kids".
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