It sort of does away with simplicity of heart, doesn’t it? and makes everything into some sort of desperate game or even becoming some sort of self-anointed heralds or prophets.
It could even become—unwittingly-—a different form of idolatry, without the “graven image”, but one that is somewhere in the depths of the psyche.
We often forget certain passages in the Sacred Scriptures that are full of meaning for us; for example, when Jesus asked that Nathaniel come to Him. He knew something about Nathaniel—something that was good that no one else but God knew. And Jesus said of Nathaniel, “He is a true Israelite; he is a man without guile.”
Wow.
Yes.
It got right past me that for some non-Catholics self-ordination and self-promotion is the answer to the Catholic clergy who have to be ordained by somebody else.
This is getting silly.