tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post4298954521745885399..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Between Communion and SchismFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-21893654020179078632015-04-17T09:33:41.616+01:002015-04-17T09:33:41.616+01:00On the subject of Bishops I have been surprised to...On the subject of Bishops I have been surprised to learn today from 'Riposte Catholique' that the number of Bishops has more than doubled since Vatican II.<br /><br />There were 2,450 then, compared with 5,173 today. Does this not seem like a case of top-heavy 'management' and the more Bishops there are the less likely they will all be singing from the same hymn sheet?Pelerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243859145007696053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-87755530159969294602015-04-13T10:11:20.626+01:002015-04-13T10:11:20.626+01:00After this recent "bull" on mercy - wher...After this recent "bull" on mercy - where there's no mention of repent - where sin is called 'making a mistake' - where we suddenly become the discretionary arbiters of that which is justice and mercy rather than God - where there is no mention of God never commanding the impossible & always providing sufficient grace not to sin - and where there are still pelagian overtones and intimations that keeping God's commands is donatism & cruel legalism? Not indicating our love of God? I fear Gradualism remains on the cards & schism inevitable when the progs don't get their way On the side of the angelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05558623489507006790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-1277161549828531512015-04-12T13:15:02.966+01:002015-04-12T13:15:02.966+01:00Gregakanga. People like Judas, Arius, Pelagian, th...Gregakanga. People like Judas, Arius, Pelagian, through the iconoclasts and Bereganians and Albigensians, on to Wycliffe and to Luther and Calvin and Henry 8 and Jansen and on and on, chose 'to which degree'. I would reckon we have to choose as well. If Truth really is only 6 degrees of salvific separation then hand me the JB and who cares about any of it?Our Lady of Good Success-pray for us.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14746510579669229511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-88274945210396537992015-04-12T12:24:59.471+01:002015-04-12T12:24:59.471+01:00As Pastor and principle of communion, each bishop ...As Pastor and principle of communion, each bishop must seek to promote communion through his ministry, which is a participation and sharing in the pastoral, prophetic and priestly office of Christ. The sign and effect of this communion was described in today's first reading in the Acts of the Apostles: "The whole group of those who believed were of one heart and one soul" (4: 32 ) A spirituality of communion pervaded the early Church and every office then and continues today.Gregkangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11701337405994375544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-53206225464111179672015-04-12T10:14:57.991+01:002015-04-12T10:14:57.991+01:00A great post Rev. Father.
I write from Canada in t...A great post Rev. Father.<br />I write from Canada in the province of Ontario. I am in state of resentment towards my diocesan ordinary and auxiliary and most of the bishops of our province for two reasons; 1) in 2014 I wrote all of them to protest the decision by the "catholic" teachers union to participate in the world "pride" festival, not one wrote be back to offer support even after mentioning in my letter that I had spoken to president of the union 2) in my diocese we have a women's prison which currently houses 2 brave souls whose "crime" is one to protest to close to an infamous abortion clinic and the other to enter an abortion clinic and given an expectant mother a rose - this actually occurred last Christmas Eve and that's when the arrest took place. I wrote our Ordinary and Auxiliary to ask them to publicly denounce the arrests and start a petition throughout the diocese to demand their freedom. No response was ever received and these brave women are in jail still without even benefit of the sacraments as no Catholic priest is available to visit them.<br />Do I have a right to feel disheartened, dismayed and resentful?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-73659764968627489122015-04-11T09:07:48.765+01:002015-04-11T09:07:48.765+01:00The core of the Church's mission is to proclai...The core of the Church's mission is to proclaim Jesus Christ as the living Truth, a truth revealed, a truth explained, understood and welcomed in faith, a truth passed on to new generations. This living Truth is always and everywhere greater than ourselves, our hearts, consciences and episcopal 'wisdom'. Why? Because it flows from the depths of the Blessed Trinity. The Church's entire mission is rooted in the mystery of Communion. This mystery essentially constitutes what the Church is, and why it exists, and is realized in the Holy Mass. It not only defines every office in the Church but is the source and inspiration of all her relationships. Given this reality and Jesus' words of either being for or against him, how can a successor of the Apostles choose a manner or degree to which he prefers to be in Communion with Christ, the Head and his Body, the Church? There aren't degrees of truth.Gregkangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11701337405994375544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-41208050542395345392015-04-11T00:22:10.478+01:002015-04-11T00:22:10.478+01:00“normally sensible journalists”.
Yes, Father, I h...“normally sensible journalists”.<br /><br />Yes, Father, I have been reading the “Spectator “ too. I very much agreed with his article. Very apposite, I think is the word.<br /><br />Sadly, Schism has always been with the Church and always will. We ordinary Catholics have a problem these days when so many of our bishops, the Successors of the Apostles show such poor example. <br /><br />And when do we have Schism? It was fifty or even a hundred years before the Protestant Reformation was accepted as such and not just another of the many on-going schismatic squabbles in the Church.<br /><br />At the risk of repeating myself the doctrinal position of the SSPX is exactly pre-Vatican II as is that of Benedict XVI and of course myself, so a few unapproved bishops apart, why should they, the SSPX,be considered in any way schismatic. Sound Catholics I would say, compared with some of the effective proposed and threatened heresy coming from many - but not all, thank God, - of the German bishops.<br /><br />The wandering sheep these days are within the Church particularly the Western Church, both in the Germanic areas and in the Americas.Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743062941733814176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-9561534212229809302015-04-10T22:21:02.330+01:002015-04-10T22:21:02.330+01:00I like your post Father. Thank you for this.I like your post Father. Thank you for this.JARayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138004129894177863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-7170863722119548062015-04-10T14:12:10.756+01:002015-04-10T14:12:10.756+01:00Seems to me that what is 'universal' in th...Seems to me that what is 'universal' in the majority of the Catholic parishes is something run by lay politicos. Men and women whose first love is the (old as eden) contemporary idea of liberty which they now have the 'permission' to spread all over the altar and every aspect of Catholicism unless there is a priest (or a bishop?) who accepts and applies Christ's Grace, which has, surely, to be his own God given sacerdotal nature. But in the majority of parishes, who could guess that there is such a thing or such a necessity? given the incessant clamour of social antichristisms that are applauded at the average lay parish councils, the members of which, lets face it, don't care who the next passing Christ/alter Christus is, cause they, not God, run things.Our Lady of Good Success-pray for us.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14746510579669229511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-68865552283161753742015-04-10T13:37:55.412+01:002015-04-10T13:37:55.412+01:00Communion, partiality. If there is paritiality is ...Communion, partiality. If there is paritiality is it communion? But, in times of partial bishops - from which direction does complete commuion come? The Church has one main purpose, to convert us to Christ that we receive His saving Grace (?!?). Perhaps we need more surveys. Honestly, these days, it's my impression, in the wider reach of the thing called the 'Catholic Parish', that 'conversion/true communion' belongs to a (from the 'bishopric' down and then up again) maligned even dead territory.Our Lady of Good Success-pray for us.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14746510579669229511noreply@blogger.com