tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post1696448399218267034..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: ASHES (1)Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22002879517558530272023-02-23T16:12:23.134+00:002023-02-23T16:12:23.134+00:00"Ah, happy days, when the clergy told people ..."Ah, happy days, when the clergy told people not to come to Church!"<br /><br />Of course we recently had the not so happy days of COVID theatre when bishops eager to kowtow to the secular authorities rushed to close churches and shut down masses, while taverns, cannabis and liquor stores and various other "essential" businesses remained open.John Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352405449391514146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-44988435632865944772023-02-22T23:15:25.360+00:002023-02-22T23:15:25.360+00:00"Ah, happy days, when the clergy told people ..."Ah, happy days, when the clergy told people not to come to Church!"<br />And yet today we see those days - not so happily - returning, as the Prefect of the CDW bans the faithful from attending Holy Mass in the traditional Roman Rite in every parish church of the world. <br />I have seen it suggested that bishops will have to make so many applications for exceptions, the CDW may take John Vaschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00335331585265267754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68856600031542995772023-02-22T18:12:28.364+00:002023-02-22T18:12:28.364+00:00Exactly So!Exactly So!Albertushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18236817196746609901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-14990202193866974112023-02-22T18:11:32.469+00:002023-02-22T18:11:32.469+00:00The ancient public penitential rite was strict, in...The ancient public penitential rite was strict, indeed, however, it only regarded capital sins, i.e., those who had committed adultery, murder, apostasy/heresy had first to confess to the Bishop, then do the prescribed Lenten penance, and finally receive absolution from the Bishop on Holy Thursday. Thus it was quite unlike our presentday system of "confessions of devotion", introduced Albertushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18236817196746609901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-82616557122436968442023-02-22T16:18:02.370+00:002023-02-22T16:18:02.370+00:00The obsession of PF and his kind with imprisoning ...The obsession of PF and his kind with imprisoning the Latin Mass reminds me of the Maoist outbreak of self-hatred of what was most ancient and authentic in China, for the sake of some Brave New World, which rather quickly ran out of steam. But only after an ocean of blood and grief.<br /><br />And I see the same disease of soul throughout the West, where the elites hold their own nations' OreamnosAmericanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602268350813211243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35141426471010697672023-02-22T01:06:07.094+00:002023-02-22T01:06:07.094+00:00Datum sed non concessum that Our Lord never sent a...Datum sed non concessum that Our Lord never sent anyone away, the Gospels record several instances when his hearers chose to walk away because they found his teaching hard or even intolerable. As the late and much lamented Fr Ian Ker once pointed out in a homily, the same Gospels do NOT record that He went running after them saying 'Hang on, I didn't really mean it'.PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.com