Clown Masses Are Outdated, You Say??
Tancred
8/20/12
eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2012/08/clown-masses-are-outdated-you-say.html
Edit: someone was just saying the other day that the clown Mass was an outdated thing which is no longer in use. These things happen all the time in various locales. This one is taking place in Germany and was reported by the German District’s official website.
This story comes hard on the Sicilian Bishop who wears ugly Armani vestments, and the Dominican who wears a Steelers stole [see below]. Heresy Hunter wonders if the company that made the ugly stole is an official church goods supplier?
We must also timidly ask if Herr Pfarrer Eulenspiegel will also have to sign a Doctrinal Preamble?
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[piusinfo] The picture of the week shows the pastor of Hopfen am See (Ostallgäu)at the ambo dressed as a Merry Trickster (Eulenspiegel).
At evening Liturgy on Saturday, so reported the newspaper, and at the Mass on Sunday, the Catholic clergyman preaches in this clothing at the Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul.
One really doesn’t have to be a traditionalist to recognize the the cheap attempt to curry favor which is taking place here in the house of the most Holy.
In the commentary of Mr. Guratzsch on welt.online (pius.info reports)it reads: “Where communities give up their buildings, the altar becomes a cooking table, the Liturgy is replaced by breakfast, the retreat to self by degrees is a cumulative process.” It’s exactly as one could say: where the pastor believes he can make the pulpit into a carnival stage then the holiness is lost. Because the people know exactly that at the actual carnival something else completely takes place, and that the pastor is only trying obsessively to cut the carpet, at the cost of his real mission.
Poor Catholic Church. How much longer?
Dominican Bad Vestments for Football Season
Tancred
8/19/12
eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2012/08/dominican-bad-vestments-for-football.html
Edit: here’s Father Dismas Sayre, who is the Parochial Vicar of the Hispanic Ministry for the Dominicans in California. He’s attired for football season in a stole with a professional football team on them.
Chris Gillibrand showed us a link where this man shows a penchant for Lifeteen Liturgy too,which is famous for Arizona’s own sexual predator and Modernist Msgr Dale Fuschek.
What’s the big deal, you ask?
If you don’t know what’s wrong with this, a dictionary definition probably won’t help, but perhaps you might object if he showed up wearing this for a relative’s funeral. Part of the definition of Sacrilege from New Advant’s Catholic Encyclopedia as follows:
Sacrilege is in general the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object. In a less proper sense any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege.
Theologians are substantially agreed in regarding as sacred that and that only which by a public rite and by Divine orecclesiastical institution has been dedicated to the worship of God. The point is that the public authority must intervene; private initiative, no matter how ardent in devotion or praiseworthy in motive, does not suffice. Attributing a sacred characterto a thing is a juridical act, and as such is a function of the governing power of the Church.
It is customary to enumerate three kinds of sacrilege: personal, local, and real. St. Thomas teaches (Summa, II-II, Q., xcix) that a different sort of holiness attaches to persons, places, and things. Hence the irreverence offered to any one of them is specifically distinct from that which is exhibited to the others. Suarez (De Religione, tr. iii, 1-3) does not seem to think the division very logical, but accepts it as being in accord with the canons.