Posted on 08/26/2021 6:42:03 PM PDT by ebb tide
One reason Father James Goins, pastor of St Thomas More University Parish in Norman, Oklahoma, prefers saying Mass towards God is not to be distracted by the bad behaviour of adults during Mass, he wrote on Twitter.com (August 23).
Goins as seen many things during Mass: a man vaping, women in beach dresses, men with hats who “almost always push back when asked to remove it.”
His highlight was a woman who wanted to share Communion with one of her dogs. When Goins rebuked her, she became so angry that she called the Oklahoma City Archdiocese’s Sexual Abuse Hotline saying that Goins was "mean." The priest had - no joke - to write an “Incident Report” and provide witnesses.
Goins insists, "Children are not the problem.”
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Goins insists, "Children are not the problem.”
Too bad excommunication is mostly a vestige of the past. She should at least be told to find another parish.
“Your IQ has to be this high to belong to this Church”.
Father Goins is a wonderful, dedicated priest and the St. Thomas More parish in Norman, OK is, too. First hand experience. Why not send a donation to the building fund to celebrate this “mean” dude? Check out the website: www.stm-ou.org.
I know that dogs and cats are not eligible to receive the Sacraments,
but when we were kids, we “baptized” all our pets because we wanted them to go to Heaven.
Dogs don’t have souls, and Holy Communion is soul food for humans.
And also for the angels: Panis angelicus
:)
Dogs have souls, they just have dog souls, not human souls. Most theologians think that animal souls are not immortal.
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