Posted on 11/24/2019 5:46:58 PM PST by ebb tide
November 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In sending out a tweet about the Gospel reading from Friday’s Mass, Fr. James Martin, SJ chose to share a painting drawn from a series of blasphemous homoerotic works depicting the life of Jesus as if he were a gay man.
“Gospel: Today Jesus drives the money-changers from the Temple (Lk 19). NT scholars say this was one of the main events that precipitated his execution,” tweeted the Jesuit. “Yet Jesus is not cowed by opponents. Another Gospel says ‘zeal’ for his Father's house ‘consumes him.’”
Gospel: Today Jesus drives the money-changers from the Temple (Lk 19). NT scholars say this was one of the main events that precipitated his execution. Yet Jesus is not cowed by opponents. Another Gospel says "zeal" for his Father's house "consumes him." Also notice that Jesus... pic.twitter.com/MRGpHLBcle
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) November 22, 2019
And Fr. Martin knew exactly what he was doing, because in a later tweet he credited the artist: “Image, Douglas Blanchard.”
While this painting is jarring because an effeminate Jesus is depicted turning over the money changers’ tables in a contemporary setting, other paintings in the series show an overtly sexualized version of Jesus in various Gospel stories.
The painting is one of a set of 24 by homosexual artist Douglas Blanchard, used to illustrate a book titled, “The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision.”
While the Amazon description of the book is appallingly offensive not just to all Christians, but to the Person of Jesus Christ and God the Father, Fr. Martin nonetheless chose to use one of the Blanchard paintings to illustrate the Gospel.
Amazon describes the book by author Kittredge Cherry and illustrated by Blanchard:
Meet Jesus as a gay man of today in a contemporary city with The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision. In stunning new images, the modern Christ figure is jeered by fundamentalists, tortured by Marine look-alikes, and rises again to enjoy homoerotic moments with God.
The “fundamentalists” who jeer Christ are no doubt meant to be those who abide by Church teaching and reject the normalization of homosexuality within the Church.
But far more appalling is the suggestion that Jesus rose again “to enjoy homoerotic moments with God,” a notion to which Fr. Martin lends tacit approval by drawing from the Blanchard series of paintings. The homoeroticizing of the passion of the Christ is blasphemous.
The Amazon description continues:
The 24 paintings in the gay Passion cover Jesus' final days, including his arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection. A queer Passion is important now because Christianity is being used to justify hate and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Each image is accompanied by insightful commentary, plus a short prayer and scripture. If Jesus came back today, would he be crucified all over again? Would we even recognize him? See for yourself in the gay vision of the Passion.
The tweet is perhaps an admission by Fr. Martin of his ultimate intent as well as an admission of the anti-Christian and anti-Christ intent underlying the LGBT cultural movement: To co-opt the message of the Gospel, to dethrone Jesus Christ in the hearts and minds of Christians, and to install homosexuality and transgenderism in His place.
Many challenged Fr. Martin’s tweet.
“What would St. Faustina say about this when her own artist couldn’t do justice to the image of Jesus? What would our MOTHER say to this depiction of Her precious Son who was beaten mocked starved of water & crucified the most painful death by our sins?” asked Lizzy. “What does she think of this?”
“Father, please, you're breaking my heart,” pleaded Lizzy in a separate Tweet. “Jesus did NOT want to have sex with men. He was ALL GOOD ALL HOLY ALL GOD. He would NEVER approve of this.”
“Which figure represents Jesus in this picture? The one with oh so cute haircut?” asked Eugenio. “Have you no sense of reverence for our Precious Lord?”
“You would be the first one that Our Lord would drive out of His house,” asserted T Mac. “Promoting immorality isn’t exactly pleasing to the Lord.”
While all of Blanchard’s illustrations are disturbing, portraying the main theme of the Gospel message as homoerotic, perhaps the final three paintings in the series are the most troubling.
The Ascension, by Douglas Blanchard passionofchristbook.com
Pentecost, by Douglas Blanchard passionofchristbook.com
In “the Ascension,” Jesus is shown as a shirtless male in the embrace of a male angel who grasps Jesus’ buttocks. Same-sex attraction and homosexual sex acts are shown to be the primary purpose of the incarnation, passion, resurrection, and ascension of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.
In Blanchard’s depiction of the Day of Pentecost, The Holy Spirit descends on an urban group in the form of a woman.
Author Kittredge Cherry explains the dark meaning of the final painting, which depicts the Trinity. Cherry’s explanation veers far from the immutable Truth about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is a “Holy gay wedding.”
The Trinity, by Douglas Blanchard passionofchristbook.com
An angelic figure blesses a gay couple in “The Trinity,” the final, climactic image in Blanchard’s Passion of Christ. The painting can stand alone to affirm the holiness of gay couples, but it also serves as a meditation on the Christian Trinity.
She continues:
The couple holds hands before a table set with milk, honey, and fruit — references to the Promised Land. The man draped in red reaches toward out, coaxing the viewer to join them in the sunny garden. The winged woman in the golden robe is the same Holy Spirit who arrived in the previous painting. An arch in the background hints at the gate of heaven. Indeed viewers are welcome to imagine themselves seated in paradise with Christ as their bridegroom.
“The Trinity” shows how Jesus has been transformed by his experience of the Passion. He moved from the dark prison of the first painting to a bright land of promise, out of the closet, into the streets, and on to holy bliss. He completed the mythic hero’s journey: martyred and reborn with power to redeem the world.
Kittredge said the final painting depicts the “holy gay wedding.”
What is the gay vision of heaven? The Holy Spirit inspires each person to see visions of God in his or her own way. Look, the Holy Spirit celebrates two men who love each other! She looks like an angel as She protects the male couple. Are the men Jesus and God? No names can fully express the omnigendered Trinity of Love, Lover, and Beloved… or Mind, Body, and Spirit. God is madly in love with everybody. God promises to lead people out of injustice and into a good land flowing with milk and honey. We can travel in the same paths where Jesus journeyed. Opening to the joy and pain of the world, we can experience all of creation as our body — the body of Christ. As queer as it sounds, we can create our own land of milk and honey. As Jesus often said, heaven is among us and within us. Now that we have seen a gay vision of Christ’s Passion, we are free to move forward with passion.
The LGBT movement is not benign. It is now brazenly revealing itself to be the most grave satanic threat to the Church today, and Fr. James Martin, SJ is leading the coup attempt within the Roman Catholic Church.
Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia was right to publicly correct Fr. Martin a few weeks ago, and Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas has called attention to Martin’s troubling “ministry.” Only a few of their brother bishops have rushed to support these brave prelates who sense the danger that Martin’s actions present to the Church, while the majority remain silent, allowing the Jesuit to carry on with his advocacy unchecked.
You are partially correct. Many apostate Protestant Churches have embraced homosexuality, removing their lamp stand as a church. That is why most true Christians today are non-denominational or Baptist. Question: if the Roman Church rejects homosexuality, why is there a homosexual lobby in the church with the Pope supporting it?
“I am not Catholic, but I was wondering how this guy still functions as a priest. “
I was wondering about that also.
This is from their web site.
The Jesuits
“We are the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests and brothers founded half a millennium ago by the soldier-turned-mystic Ignatius Loyola.”
“I n the vision of our founder, we seek to “find God in all things.” We dedicate ourselves to the “greater glory of God” and the good of all humanity.”
” With our friends and partners, we also reach out to a broadly diverse world because that’s where God is. From experience and reflection, we know that meaning, value, and divine purpose can be discovered “in all things.””
This is, I think, the endgame for the homosexualization of the RCC.
They are going to “reveal” that Jesus and the disciples were gay.
Been that way for a long time, based on its history.
~54% of those Cardinals who are qualified to vote for the next Pope (i.e. Cardinals less than 80 years old) were appointed by Francis. The control of the Church has been taken over by those who likely share the views of Francis. The Church will go through some major changes before righting itself, and it may take a century or more.
In my opinion, the laity need to take control of the Church.
I don’t judge people for their sexual preferences. There are probably many reasons beyond the control of any individual for why people have same sex attraction. I’m sure for most it’s a very difficult discovery and a very difficult life. That said, to glorify it, and try to portray it as the ‘holy norm’ is ridiculous. We should forgive all, and be good to all, but that doesn’t mean we should rewrite what we perceive as normal is. None of us are entirely ‘normal’, just as none of us are without sin. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t aspire to be ‘normal’ - in it’s best sense, just as we should aspire to avoid sin.
One of the most sacred and fundamental duties of the Church is the preservation of innocence. When Francis chastises those who want to rid the Church of pedophiles, when he chastises those who feel that homosexual sex is no different than heterosexual sex when it comes to vows of chastity, when he fails to make protection of children his absolute number one responsibility under God, he is failing to be truly Christian. In my humble opinion.
There are those who feel that everything can be intellectualized. It’s not much different than those who tried to reach heaven with the Tower of Babel (whether apocryphal or not - the concept of human endeavor over faith, and human intellect over God is very, very relevant). To them I would say that to think that their ~3 pound brain can explain all, is beyond ridiculous and beyond hubris.
This concept of intellectualization has gone way too far in the Jesuit wing of the Catholic Church. Francis epitomizes this.
Why did Jesus chose Judas Iscariot as one of His apostles?
Why did St. Peter deny Christ three times in one night?
Homosexual lobby is... because....uhhh... because they are apostates?
and they are the head of the catholic church and one of its priests in good standing. The Roman sect is apostate
Is Fr. Martin still a practicing Roman Catholic cleric???
So priests who have a Mass in Latin are frowned upon by the establishment but this blasphemous “priest” can do whatever he wants.
The apostates are the Church. They run it, starting with the apostate Vicar of Christ (Pope Francis)
Yes, that last line can open Pandora’s Box. There are things that can be learned from the world. There is a case to be made that the Church is open to all who are seeking forgiveness through Jesus Christ. All. That doesn’t mean that you embrace and celebrate sin, undermine Christian moral teachings, and blaspheme God along with that. Knowing what homosexuals do and then claiming the Trinity indulges in that is one of the more revolting things I’ve come across.
The Church is the Body of Christ, not the Body of Bergoglio.
It's not that I don't see the present problem. And it's a huge one. It may be the hugest problem in the Church in the lat 1,000 years.I was at a small prayer group tonight with a small group of my neophytes, and all we could come up was this saying by Jesus about possession by a demon: "This kind does not depart except with prayer and fasting."
a. excommunication--the action of officially excluding someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
b. lost privileges of the priesthood
c. landed in jail if he raped a boy
d. all of the above.
I'm no expert, though. There may be more punishments.
Nowadays men who want to become priests have to undergo some kind of mental/psychiatric evaluation.
The same goes for those who want to be police officers in a large city. This I know from my own experience.
Joe Biden was DENIED Holy Communion in his church in South Carolina...because of his stance on abortion. THAT was huge.
Jesus Christ is the head of the Catholic Church, His only Church. And Judas Iscariot was in good standing at the Last Supper.
Now if you prefer Martin Luther's church, or Henry VIII's church or John Calvin's church or John Knox's church, or John Smyth's or John Wesley's churches, go for it, Mom.
I choose to belong the One Church founded by the Son of God.
I’m a Catholic.
How about you?
There has always been a part of Christianity that portrays Jesus ad a friend of the poor, imprisoned, down trodden etc. Partially that is fair as they seemed to be the ones that most welcomed his message. When people though take on their own ideas of victimhood and reimagine themselves in that image they are not siding with Christ and welcoming him in. They are using him as a tool to reimagine sin as righteousness
The blasphemy is epic.
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