Posted on 05/24/2010 5:11:06 PM PDT by Salvation
Yes, the Mass is perfect prayer because of its self-sacrificial nature in the Body and Blood of Christ, but can only be so if people are predisposed to its sanctifying nature.
I'm not lecturing you about prayer, only reminding you that that is our true weapon. Invoking the saints to pray with us is more efficacious than going about in bitterness. Only in humility and sanctity will this Church be reformed from within. The condition upon which the Holy Spirit can work with amazing results is for the faithful to have humble hearts, not bitter hearts.
There are a few weeks left in this Year for Priests and so the exhortation to pray for our priests is most needful. They are our alter Christus. They need prayers for their sanctification. My spiritual director tells me all the time that when the faithful are mired in anger and bitterness toward a priest or bishop and refuse to pray for them the enemy rejoices. There is nothing that he likes more than a weak priest.
You can focus on the betrayal, or you can unite your suffering with that of Christ's for the sanctification of his holy priests. Which do you think has more salvific power?
My point is that nearly every bishop in America allows the perfect prayer to be desecrated, with Bishop George leading the way.
Anyone who really believes in prayer (and the Mass) should be righteously outraged. You don’t seem to care.
Question: During the Protestant Revolt in England, when every bishop save one betrayed the Church, would you have called people who pointed out the betrayal “bitter”.
You don’t know anything about me, other than the fact that I am trying to awaken Catholics to the betrayal of the Church by their shepherds. If you don’t think that betrayal is real, please account for the fact that over half of the bishops covered up priestly sex abuse in some way, and when Bishop Bruskewitz made a motion to investigate the causes of the sex abuse problem at the Bishop’s Conference in 2002, not one bishop seconded it.
How exciting! I believe more people are praying for the priests than before The Year Of The Priest. We have to continue.
If a thread “offends” you, DON”T FRIKKING CLICK on it!! GET over yourself, FRiend, and deal with your religious HATE elsewhere!
Read, discussion was what kind of thead this. Shame on you, I am Catholic too.
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