Posted on 08/14/2005 9:17:15 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
I'll apologize in advance for this vanity post but I need to get this off my chest:
At our 10:30 a.m. mass this morning, our pastor was the celebrant. Today's Gospel was the story of Christ's meeting with the Canaanite woman and the eventual healing of her daughter. Our pastor then followed with his homily where he first related the plight of the Canaanite woman with a woman he knew who called him requesting prayers for an illness in her family which we could relate to since my wife and I are both contending with (minor, we hope) health issues.
The nest thing we know, the pastor is relating this to the "lady camped out in Texas asking for healing AND ACCOUNTABILITY" (the emphasis is my own). We sat there and listened through the sermon as he returned to the Sheehan story a few more times asking us to imagine an Iraqi woman who lost children in the same position.
Thankfully, it was pretty short and we stood for the Creed but then, immediately before the intercessions, the pastor returned to the topic.
This was too much for us so we turned and left, commenting to those around that we don't come to church to hear politics. I handed the usher my offering as we exited.
This is the first time something like this has happened in this church we have attended for the past twenty years or so and I feel pretty horrible about the whole thing.
I disagree with staying & listening to a homily that he/she knew was basically a lie. The church is NOT the place to spout political nonsense, but to hear God's Word preached & to take the Eucharist. How could one worship where lies were be told?
With charity and forebearance? :-)
Partisan politics has no place in Church.
If the good Pastor had taken the time to do little research, he would have known that President Bush already met with this woman. He would have known that she is hooked up with hate America, far Left groups and has her own political agenda and is using the death of her son as a facade for her true agenda.
Everyone feels sympathy for a mother who has lost her son. She certainly has a right to her opinion, but this is getting out of hand.
Don't feel bad...I walked out at a lesbian baptism.
Two lesbians baptising their baby. No child should be denied baptism, but the public spectacle of upholding procreation by artificial means for political purposes is a slippery slope.
Sounds like our friend IrishGOP needs to know about this one. Im new on this board and dont know how to ping her to this thread. Do you?
You just ping her/him the same way you pinged us. LOL.
Thanks, Im still in the learning curve.
No problem. Welcome to FR.
Points well taken - believe me, I'm not anywhere near the best Christian in the world; more like the "bad Catholic" in Walker Percy's 'Love in the Ruins." But the introduction of Ms. Sheehan's brand of anger and hatred at any point in the Mass and, particularly, at the intercessions is a little much for me.
Trajan88
I would have left sooner...and loudly.
I hate to say this but as I've talked to a few people about this today, they know very little about the Sheehan story and are thus in the dark about why I walked out.
I would have walked out during the homily. And I would have made glaring eye contact with the priest as I turned to leave.
That comparison is preposterous.
I pass St. Gerald's "faith community" on the way to St. Thomas More Catholic Church {81st and California} for the noon Traditional Latin Mass. I invite you to do the same.
When was the last time you had any evidence I wasn't playing nice?
Sorry, I do not have your file on hand. Just an impression that you are often found bashing Catholics. If I am in error, please fogive me.
I certainly forgive you.
And, I believe you are in error.
I have virtually never intended to bash anyone.
I have very rarely noted Roman belief/tradition distinctives which I've found very less than Biblical or perhaps less than understandable from my perspective.
But I've persistently held Roman bros and sis in actually rather high esteem hereon.
There are others I couldn't say that about, however. I think most of them have been banned.
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