Posted on 05/23/2024 6:27:32 AM PDT by Salman
(RNS) — Diocesan hermits by nature don’t get much attention. A small subset of religious persons, hermits mostly spend their lives engaged in quiet prayer.
Brother Christian Matson, a Catholic diocesan hermit in Kentucky, has spent years doing just that. His monk’s habit might catch his neighbor’s eye, but he is known in the town where he lives primarily through his work with the local theater.
But recently Matson decided that his faith compels him to make a little more noise than usual.
“This Sunday, Pentecost 2024, I’m planning to come out publicly as transgender,” Matson told Religion News Service on Friday (May 17), saying he was speaking out with the permission of his bishop, John Stowe of the Diocese of Lexington in Kentucky.
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aye and aye.
Ah! Makes sense!
Its not very common, as I know. I knew the terms, but had to wonder how it applied to this man. Here's a definition of an "oblate." It someone who, to the best of my understanding wants to live in the world, but still be "a monk."
https://beingbenedictine.com/about/
It mentions he is not in a community - so he is under no discipline or supervision of a monastery or its abbot. He's just some guy, out alone in the mountains, who asked the local Bishop if he could call himself an "oblate." He may simply call himself an "oblate" for his own narcissistic needs.
It mentioned he underwent a Cannon Law review, so at least the local Bishop told him clearly he couldn't be a priest. Otherwise, the Bishop isn't going to discourage (nor has any power over) anyone who claims they want to live a religious life of prayer, alone in the mountains. Seems to me he has no real connection with the Catholic Church.
What troubles me is the statement he's "with the Blessed Sacrament, which was installed in my oratory shortly before Christmas.”.
So he took a consecrated host from the Church and "installed it" in his cabin? Weird. Sounds like some sacrilege is going on there.
As with all AP stories, its goal is propaganda, and its probably missing many facts and other details.
Is he/she also a minority, obese or disabled ?
If so, we could be watching history in the making
An LGBTQ+ Queer trans minority body positive transableist Diocesan thespian hermit.
Folks, we have hit Peak Intersectionality!
Totally historic. Who would have thought that it's possible for hermit to consign Karine Jean-Pierre to the dust bin of Lefty history.
LGBTQ+ Queer trans minority body positive transableist Diocesan thespian hermit trumps Black Female Lesbian Dwarf Haitian (Illegal??) lAlien White House Press Secretary all day, every day-24/7.
Thespian Hermit beats out Black Lesbian Liar every time - we gotta give this hermit a White House podium and make us some history!
Damn. I didn’t have that one on my bingo card!
An LGBTQ+ Queer trans minority body positive transableist Diocesan LGBTQ+ Queer trans minority body positive Diocesan thesbian hermit.
I had An LGBTQ+ Queer trans minority body positive transableist Diocesan LGBTQ+ Queer trans minority body positive Diocesan thesbian midget.
so this is a woman.
I use your recipe however I had not heard of women as monks
And the profile seemed more of a trans woman than a trans man
Good good news
A friend’s family member is walking away from his 10 year odyssey in trans-land!
He is waking up and the delusion is ending!
He had no surgery, He wants to go back to being himself.
Praise God!
Who is paying for this guy’s groceries, rent or house payment, transportation costs, electric and heating bills?
What is the hermit’s name? Fah Goot?
The diocese perhaps? At least that was my first thought, but the answers so far lead me to be skeptical he really has any official status.
A denomination would have different theology or dogma - like the difference between the Southern Baptists and the National Baptist Convention, USA.
"Orders" are basically different groups of priests or nuns or monks or friars who follow a certain rule and discipline: for instance the Franciscans v/s the Norbertenes --> Franciscans are for guys who want to go out and preach, while Norbertenes are more contemplative.
I suppose the closest differentiation would be between different regiments in the military - different ways of doing the same thing, but with a common belief
A hermit is a person who is supposed to renounce regular life and live a life dedicated purely to prayer and contemplation of God.
A hermit normally must obey his abbot and a separate line to the Pope. A “diocesan hermit” is rare and they are to obey the local bishop.
Praise God.
he must regret the 10 wasted years
Protestant denominations have a core of common belief every bit as much as the different orders of Catholocism, so my depiction stands.
The next Pope?
Right now evidently he is trying to find his way back.
Protestant denominations do not have a core of common belief.
Do you believe the same as the Oneness pentecostals for example?
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