Posted on 05/21/2003 5:36:35 PM PDT by NYer
A parody of the Mass was held in the newly renovated San Fernando Cathedral - the oldest cathedral in the US - on April 29, 2003 when a ceremony honoring the pagan goddess Sophia was celebrated as part of an ecumenical event for Catholics and representatives of varius Protestant groups sponsored by the Pastoral Summit.
Though the chief “celebrant” of this pagan liturgy was a nun, Sr. Martha Ann Kirk, the liturgy was “created” by Fr. Jake Emperereur, S.J., vicar and liturgist at the cathedral.
The pagan liturgy, officially called a “community worship service,” opened with the congregation turning to the baptismal font at the entrance to the cathedral.
After the water in the baptismal font was “sanctified” in the name of Sophia and Wisdom, participants in the entrance procession danced toward and into the sanctuary, sprinkling the audience with this water.
Next an offertory meal of bread and wine and fruits was brought in, and a select group of three women ritualistically set the meal on the altar. Sr. Kirk then appeared to “consecrate” the bread, fruit and wine, and a communion-like sharing was held in which the overwhelming majority of the audience participatd by breaking a piece of bread from the large loaves and consuming it.
After a short skit about Kind David and Sophia, the troupe held an exit procession.
The Pastoral Summit, led by noted Catholic author Paul Wilkes, a leader in the movement to establish a lay-run church, will hold similar three-day events in Indianapolis, and Boston in coming months.
The featured speakers at the San Antonio event, held April 28, 29 and 30, were Notre Dame professor Scott Appleby and Ruby Bridges, who, as a little girl, symbolized the integration of New Orleans public schools.
In Indianapolis, June 17-19, featured speakers will be Ken Fong and Fr. David Cozzens, while in Boston, October 6-8, the featured speakers will be Alice McDermott and Huston Smith.
The sponsor of the Pastoral Summit was the Lilly Endowment, and attendees for the summit came from across the US to learn and share information on what makes successful worship and parishes.
Oh yeah! Sure! Then you'll recognize the Chair of Peter!
interesting given Mormons take pride in considering themselves distinctly separate from the body "catholic"
You may use my .30-06, which requires TWO hands...
STOP! YOU'RE MAKING MY SIDE HURT....
By 1991, St. Anthony's had one 5:00 PM Mass on Sunday afternoon (I had arrived at Logan at noontime) said by a fellow who seemed to look more like a lumberjack (and to dress like one) than a priest. Hi, I'm Father Bob and I will be your presider today! Environmentalist hymns whose lyrics rolled on a screen next to the new hot dog stand in the round. "Communion" in the form of consecrated loaves of French bread, handed out by counterculture ministrettes who looked like aging refugees from the Woodstock weekend in 1968, to be broken into pieces by the parishioners in the pews with the crumbs falling everywhere. The good news from Father Bob that there was a Chistmas Bazaar downstairs which we should all take advantage of since all goods were hand-made by actual Nicaraguan Sandanista Communists and that all proceeds would go to them as well. The book shop was filled with an infinite variety of heresies.
I haven't been there lately and, even if I were still in New England, I would not go there again. God is, after all, just and will probably arrange for lightning or earthquake or whatever unless St. Anthony's has cleaned up its act. Meanwhile, get a band of Catholic guerrillas together. Bring Holy Water and Holy Oils. Douse the place. Sit in praying perpetual rosaries and have someone at the chancery pleading your right to do this with the temporary prelate. God bless!
This is the bishop who ordained several homosexual deviants who were rejected by other seminaries. He also had a priest who was a bit of a playboy womanizer. Under oath, this priest testified that he had never been instructed that priests were not supposed to go to bars and pick up women.
When Flores was deposed, the idea that he was supposed to oversee the priests in his diocese was foreign to him.
SD
I used to attend Mass and confession at the Shrine of St. Anthony on Arch St. (my patron saint, btw) semi-weekly when I worked in Boston until 1989 (birth of first child). It was a great place with candles and incense and a quick but good lunch-time Mass and as you say, many other Masses throughout the day.
I've noticed that they have replaced the real candles with those excretable click on ones and the inside of the church doesn't quite look the same. And sadly, it doesn't look like they do confession 7/24 anymore either. Which was a great blessing for us Catholics so inclined.
Anyhow, when I am in Boston I pop into the Prudential Center and stop in at the little St. Francis chapel there. A WONDERFUL (but small) bookstore, real candles (searched far and wide for those so I could take my kids and teach them what candles are for) and Eucharistic Adoration frequently. The cool thing is about this little chapel is that it is on the first floor and thousands pass it by and can see in because the entire front wall is all glass.
Anyone know anything about Bishop Wuerl from Pittsburgh? He is the rumoured new archbishop of Boston, so I hear.
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