The time for happy-clappy, lighthearted engagement of our culture may be nearing an end. Sometimes it takes a while to understand that what used to work no longer works. Let me get more specific.Posted on 09/04/2014 1:39:19 AM PDT by markomalley
The time for happy-clappy, lighthearted engagement of our culture may be nearing an end. Sometimes it takes a while to understand that what used to work no longer works. Let me get more specific.
Decades ago the “Al Smith Dinner” was a time for Republicans and Democrats to bury the hatchet (even if only temporarily) and come together to raise money for the poor and to emphasize what unites us rather than what divides us. But in the old days the death of 50 million infants was not what divided us. We were divided about lesser things such as how much of the budget should go to defense and how much to social spending. Reasonable men might differ over that.
But now we are being asked to raise toasts and to enjoy a night of frivolity with those who think it is acceptable to abort children by the millions each year, with those who think anal sex is to be celebrated as an expression of love and that LGBTQIA… (I=intersexual, A= Asexual) is actually a form of sanity to which we should tip our hat, and with those who stand four-square against us over religious liberty.
Now the St. Patrick’s Parade is becoming of parade of disorder, chaos, and fake unity. Let’s be honest: St. Patrick’s Day nationally has become a disgraceful display of drunkenness and foolishness in the middle of Lent that more often embarrasses the memory of Patrick than honors it.
In New York City in particular, the “parade” is devolving into a farcical and hateful ridicule of the faith that St. Patrick preached.
It’s time to cancel the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the Al Smith Dinner and all the other “Catholic” traditions that have been hijacked by the world. Better for Catholics to enter their churches and get down on their knees on St. Patrick’s Day to pray in reparation for the foolishness, and to pray for this confused world to return to its senses. Let’s do adoration and pray the rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet unceasingly for this poor old world.
But don’t go to the parade; stay away from the Al Smith Dinner and all that “old school” stuff that hangs on in a darkened world. And as for St Patrick’s Day, it’s time to stop wearin’ the green and instead take up the purple of Lent and mean it. Enough of the celebration of stupidity, frivolity, and drunkenness that St Paddy’s day has become. We need penance now, not foolishness. We don’t need parades and dinner with people who scoff at our teachings, insist we compromise, use us for publicity, and make money off of us. We’re being played for (and are?) fools.
End the St Patrick’s parade. End the Al Smith Dinner and all other such compromised events. Enough now, back to Church! Wear the purple of Lent and if there is going to be a procession, let it be Eucharistic and penitential for the sins of this age.
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
How say you?
Maybe these headlines had something to do with it:
1ST GAY GROUP TO MARCH IN NEW YORK CITY ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE
Or maybe it was Dolan's reaction to this news:
Cardinal Dolan Statement on St. Patrick's Day Parade 2015
September 3, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 3, 2014
CARDINAL DOLAN STATEMENT ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE 2015
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, released the following comment today on the 2015 Saint Patrick’s Day Parade:“The Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Committee continues to have my confidence and support. Neither my predecessors as Archbishop of New York nor I have ever determined who would or would not march in this parade (or any of the other parades that march along Fifth Avenue, for that matter), but have always appreciated the cooperation of parade organizers in keeping the parade close to its Catholic heritage. My predecessors and I have always left decisions on who would march to the organizers of the individual parades. As I do each year, I look forward to celebrating Mass in honor of Saint Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland, and the Patron Saint of this Archdiocese, to begin the feast, and pray that the parade would continue to be a source of unity for all of us.”
Msgr Pope ping
Preach it, Monsignor!
I like this Pope.
That’s a Pope that deserves the title not just in name only.
No. Full stop.
While my patron saint is not St. Patrick (It’s St. Michael, the dude with the sword and the permission from Him to use it), anything that does good in the world should be encouraged by the Church. Isn’t it a petty enough place already without actively making life worse?
Absolutely. Boy, I wish we had bishops like Msgr Pope.
St. Patrick would not want his name good name disgraced by homosexual debauchery. Shame on ungodly officials in NY for giving another victory to Satan.
Msgr. Pope is right on.
At these Masses, at which Catholics will be praying in reparation for the killing of 58 million babies, will Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, and the other practitioners of Surreal Catholicism, be marching up for their sacrilegious, scandalous Communions? And will they be GIVEN Communion?
Since Dolan has fully and utterly caved to the sodomites, I fully anticipate him communicating Rainbow Sash perverts. And that picture, of course, will be on the front page of all the world's newspapers and will be the lead story on worldwide news broadcasts.
Small wonder that he intends to shut down Holy Innocents.
“Isn’t it a petty enough place already without actively making life worse?”
Standing against those who teach that sodomy is wonderful is petty?
This is not a small thing, nor a minor issue. We will either return to sanity, or fall.
I am looking forward to seeing Cardinal Dolan riding as Grand Marshal of a parade that includes naked men and women. It would serve him so, so right.
Erin Go Bra-less!
Happy, clappy ping!
I’ve got too much to atone for to worry about other people’s sins just yet. Get back to me in 2050 :P
Yet - are we not commanded to forgive? He is the judge. He gave us a rather long users manual, which most people never read. Not saying you haven’t - I know full well you have, and your (and others) commentary is strong and smart and I ponder it often.
My main problem - I guess - is one of my oldest friends (we met while he was trying to kill me, long story) recently settled down happily with his partner - who is a man in every sense of the word. I know it’s a personal thing. Just happen to be incredibly protective of the people I love. And yes, I love him - in the Agape sense, not the Eros.
Makes it hard for me to be fair. I’m going to consign a very good friend to hell?
I’d like your opinion.
That is a very charitable way of looking at things.
I find myself a little more cynical: i.e., perhaps he does, in fact, understand it.
Heck -- when the controversy about the Al Smith Dinner first came up in 2012, I was surprised to hear that the event was still being held. I thought it had been discontinued years ago.
The Archbishop of New York is now a tool of a leftist, radically secular Caesar. This photo sums the dude up perfectly:
Ask him a simple question. If God told you in no uncertain terms you had to abandon your lifestyle...would you? That will tell you which he values more—God or himself. And if it’s the latter, I can guarantee you that he will wind up in hell.
And let’s not kid ourselves about the “long users manual”. People have an innate sense of right and wrong called a conscience, and most normal people who are being tempted toward sexual sin have to repeatedly convince themselves that what they are about to do is ok.
Better late than never. I'm just glad that, in the past few months, he appears to have opened his eyes to what the left is really about.
No.
Looks like your friend and his partner in sodomy are trying their damnedest to consign themselves to Hell.
You're protective of the people you love? Good!!!
Call on them to repent. The Scriptures tell us that sodomites are among those who have no place in the Kingdom.
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