tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post1532858377009991898..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: FeetFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-87404971649977497172016-01-26T10:55:41.823+00:002016-01-26T10:55:41.823+00:00Fascinating post Fr. Blake. I have always suspect...Fascinating post Fr. Blake. I have always suspected Our Blessed Mother did NOT have dinner with the Finklesteins that evening, nor did other women close to the apostles. Call it a hunch that Jesus gave His own mother Communion.gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-42159404842040875312016-01-25T14:17:50.370+00:002016-01-25T14:17:50.370+00:00The hierarchy and the theologians have been overco...The hierarchy and the theologians have been overcome with despair by the indifference of the culture to the Faith, and they see no point in handing on the Tradition. Its seems silly in a world of nihilistic agnostics who simply don't care. In fact, it can actually be counter-productive, because people only half-interested in what the Church is doing often misunderstand its actions. <br /><br />So in a last ditch effort to attract people to the Faith, the Faith is recast. The question is whether they are actually handing on what Christ gave us? I have started to think the answer is no. I don't think Jesus or Paul would be welcome in many diocese.Cosmoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14199946824127025416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-44127480084407013132016-01-25T08:32:06.575+00:002016-01-25T08:32:06.575+00:00Mary and the other women Saints in Christianity, i...Mary and the other women Saints in Christianity, including St. Elena, the Empress, were clearly not egalitarians. Just read their lives, I feel many women should just read they lives. St. Elena did not demand to run the Church, the miracle making Mucenica did not demand to hold sermons and they haven't even preached to people and these were women who resurrected from death through Christ. <br />But mostly today there is this pressure from religious women to be acknowledged as men are to be priests. This is a deep misunderstanding of what the Church is and what the priests do, and also of the fact if you found Christ, that level of elevation and spiritual richness etc I doubt one would actually feel like they need any recognition from the world.<br />The idea that God does not see your Faith unless you get some medal for it is deeply unfaithful. <br />One who has found God will not demand anything from anyone because they found everything. <br />Oh and Mary bowed to her own son because He was God. She did not put her act of giving birth as justification for power. She is submissive all the way through NT. <br />Just saying, the political incorrect reality about Heaven and All. Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09224676979690855135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-18710497780214478202016-01-25T01:54:20.638+00:002016-01-25T01:54:20.638+00:00Fr. Blake said:
"I have always wondered whet...Fr. Blake said:<br /><br />"I have always wondered whether she or any other women were present at the last supper - though the pious may picture her receiving Holy Communion, scholars are divided."<br /><br />Ummmmmmmmm...didn't Our Lord mention "One of you will betray Me." I can't imagine Christ<br />saying that with His Mother there...ummmmmmmm...no. No!!!!Long-Skirtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00791967605782446951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-80641830206112547492016-01-23T17:48:06.820+00:002016-01-23T17:48:06.820+00:00@Woody,
"A smaller Church" indeed! Perh...@Woody,<br /><br />"A smaller Church" indeed! Perhaps small enough to stand under the same umbrella and not get wet in the storm.Liam Ronanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01376666519733160167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-35695510275224919792016-01-23T17:41:23.551+00:002016-01-23T17:41:23.551+00:00I wonder whether Pope Francis will allow a Baker&#...I wonder whether Pope Francis will allow a Baker's Dozen, and wash the feet of those 13 Cardinals?<br /><br />Maybe I can now get the dog washed - brilliant! Small dachshund no larger than a foot. Nice and clean for Easter. What a fantastic service!Deliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01383433319373651830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-70022098389541585852016-01-23T16:06:30.256+00:002016-01-23T16:06:30.256+00:00Tradition is the problem. We can look at history a...Tradition is the problem. We can look at history and read why certain actions were taken. As time has gone on, people, even priests (who become bishops, cardinals and popes), forsake Tradition as being old fashion, no longer needed, no longer relevant. When that happens, we have the problems we have today. If we forsake Tradition, we will lose the past and all it stood for. It is my belief you cannot have it both ways, even a little. You either accept all of Tradition or you don't. By whittling away of some of Tradition here and there, as has been done, you only delay the time when all of Tradition is gone. We need a courageous Pope who can stop the modernization of the Church and bring back Tradition. As Pope Benedict VI alluded to along time ago, it will be a smaller Church. But it will be a stronger Church, spiritually.Woodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02461037782982511931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-62604656782292429192016-01-23T01:04:52.393+00:002016-01-23T01:04:52.393+00:00I have missed the Maundy Thursday Mass of the Last...I have missed the Maundy Thursday Mass of the Last Supper on no more than three occasions in the last fifty years. I have no recollection of ever having seen women's feet washed. Patriciushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08906131174326742939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-52232117866236687462016-01-23T00:31:39.963+00:002016-01-23T00:31:39.963+00:00It's not traditional to have the foot-washing ...It's not traditional to have the foot-washing inserted into the Mass; since the time of Pope Gregory the Great the number of clerics or poor people has been thirteen and not twelve; and until recently it would have been unthinkable, for obvious reasons, for a bishop or priest to wash and kiss the feet of a woman.John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-12174870250034738282016-01-22T21:53:07.661+00:002016-01-22T21:53:07.661+00:00In present days Pula is in Croatia...In present days Pula is in Croatia...Alexius Parochushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16029950395669346287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-17471338708308889122016-01-22T20:51:08.855+00:002016-01-22T20:51:08.855+00:00I really wonder how far are we now from the Abomin...I really wonder how far are we now from the Abomination of Desolation of which the prophet Daniel (and Our Lord) spoke?<br /><br />Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote, commenting on the second temptation of Jesus in his 2004 book ‘On the Road toward Christ Jesus’ (referring directly to Vladimir Soloviev’s ‘A Short Tale of the Antichrist’),:<br /><br />“And a phrase of Soloviev’s is illuminating: The Antichrist believes in God, but in the depths of his heart he prefers himself.”<br /><br />May I toss into the mix a certain inference the late Malachi Martin made in 1999 in respect of a future pope and the unfolding of the Great Apostasy?<br /><br />Martin intimated that it had come to him through a reliable source that there would be a future pope either directly under the control of Satan or possibly possessed. He suggested the precise wording (I think he was alluding to the undisclosed portion of The Third Secret of Fatima) leaves room for one or the other reading.<br /><br />Martin suggested it would all play out within 20 years of his (Martin's) 1999 statement.<br /><br />On 13 May 2010 Pope Benedict said the following while visiting Fatima:<br /><br />"May the seven years which separate us from the centenary of the apparitions hasten the fulfilment of the prophecy of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to the glory of the Most Holy Trinity."<br /><br />Amen.Liam Ronanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01376666519733160167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-28331626444317685152016-01-22T19:33:26.484+00:002016-01-22T19:33:26.484+00:00I have a small correction: if we are thinking of t...I have a small correction: if we are thinking of the same Pula (where your mother is from), then it is in Croatia, not Slovenia.Ivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14280337791464054428noreply@blogger.com