tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14171858.post112060693344313929..comments2023-06-24T07:16:56.324-07:00Comments on The Lady in the Pew: Saint Albert the Great Parish: a case for excommunication?Kelly Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208387893330590397noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14171858.post-1120758955405098182005-07-07T10:55:00.000-07:002005-07-07T10:55:00.000-07:00RC,I think he meant the organizers and participant...RC,<BR/><BR/>I think he meant the organizers <I>and participants</I> in the "communion services."<BR/><BR/>Marjorie,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the note -- I'm blogging it.Kelly Thatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05208387893330590397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14171858.post-1120740823504022872005-07-07T05:53:00.000-07:002005-07-07T05:53:00.000-07:00"Perhaps St. A's staying open was the Lord's plan,..."Perhaps St. A's staying open was the Lord's plan, and it took a few crazies to give the AB and the gang time to realize."<BR/><BR/>The last I knew, the Holy Spirit encourages us to use patience, justice, kindness, obedience, humility, and prayer to accomplish His will among the Faithful. I don't recall that revenge, hostility, calumny, vituperation, vitriol, and the encouraging of disobedience, dissent, and the public humiliation of the Church are His methods. I cannot imagine the Holy Spirit humiliating His apostle in public, calling him a "liar" and accusing him of deliberate deceipt and fraud in the public press. These are not "crazies", these are people indoctrinated and manipulated by a well-organzied dissident group. <BR/> I asked them whether they were going to institute Eucharistic Adoration now that they have all spent so many regular hours in vigil. The answer? Oh no. They didn't have time for that. Too busy with hockey teams, color guards, the knitting circle, dancing lessons, VOTF, and the reading club (which was reading one of the Joshua books (other recommended authors were Garry Wills and James Carrol)). In their self-congratulatory remarks, they promised an "appropriate role" for the new pastor in their new faith community. <BR/> Holy Spirit? I don't think so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14171858.post-1120709487294749942005-07-06T21:11:00.000-07:002005-07-06T21:11:00.000-07:00Excommunicate the lay people for sitting in a chur...<I>Excommunicate the lay people for sitting in a church without permission? Seems a bit much.</I><BR/><BR/>I agree!<BR/><BR/><I>Conducting illicit "communion services" is a more serious matter, and I hope the pastor doesn't just gloss over it in the course of working for reconciliation. The point isn't to impose a penalty, but somehow to help the people involved understand that they committed a sin and should repent of it.</I><BR/><BR/>Also agreed. I think that's why my Benedictine friend was in favor of excommunication.Kelly Thatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05208387893330590397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14171858.post-1120701979783373022005-07-06T19:06:00.000-07:002005-07-06T19:06:00.000-07:00P.S. Nice, easy to use blog here.And you can't bea...<I>P.S. Nice, easy to use blog here.</I><BR/><BR/>And you can't beat the price! ;-<BR/><BR/>Although it'd be cool to have e-mail notification like Dom's...the only thing is, for that you have to (gulp) <I>pay</I> for it! Sheesh.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I hate to be a dog with a bone on this -- heck, I don't even have a real position on it -- but I can't stop thinking about the fact that the parishioners don't think they did anything wrong in receiving the Blessed Sacrament without feeling it necessary to fulfill the Sunday obligation.<BR/><BR/>This might be something the "real" (read: long-winded) pew lady should take up.Kelly Thatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05208387893330590397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14171858.post-1120692654027139702005-07-06T16:30:00.000-07:002005-07-06T16:30:00.000-07:00Dearest Darhlin' Kell: Perhaps St. A's staying op...Dearest Darhlin' Kell: Perhaps St. A's staying open was the Lord's plan, and it took a few crazies to give the AB and the gang time to realize. <BR/><BR/>I me-self admit, I thought them to be a surly bunch at first, but my position has softened.<BR/><BR/>So my position stands... Tough on the priest... Not so tough on the people.<BR/><BR/>P.S. Nice, easy to use blog here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14171858.post-1120691315534513322005-07-06T16:08:00.000-07:002005-07-06T16:08:00.000-07:00I'm not sure I get your point, Joe o' Mine. For on...I'm not sure I get your point, Joe o' Mine. For one thing, I'm not (necessarily) advocating excommunication. The Benedictine priest is the one who put the notion into my head.<BR/><BR/>In the second (and more important) place, what the parishioners at Saint Albert's did with the Blessed Sacrament is hardly comparable to lay people fighting heretical bishops!Kelly Thatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05208387893330590397noreply@blogger.com