tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post3791725035722038097..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: More DeaconingFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-69189475965459404802010-07-15T10:26:01.136+01:002010-07-15T10:26:01.136+01:00Were your tactics not those of the Apostle seeking...Were your tactics not those of the Apostle seeking to proclaim the Gospel on the Areopagus; and was the difference between you not that you hooked your fish whereas his swam away to ponder another day?<br /><br />Seems to me that what was sauce for the Apostlic Goose might fairly have been thought to be sauce for the Diaconal Gander.Fr Tom Mendelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01883124464048531449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62362818256338328182010-07-05T23:36:53.128+01:002010-07-05T23:36:53.128+01:00As Fr Faber would have said, intending to please M...As Fr Faber would have said, intending to please Mamma - that is, the Blessed Virgin - was a very pious and meritorious intention.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12738932184278952572010-07-05T23:10:22.274+01:002010-07-05T23:10:22.274+01:00In any case, I think that you will not be satisfie...In any case, I think that you will not be satisfied until it is determined that you <i>did</i> sin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-18934479249798527742010-07-05T23:08:40.911+01:002010-07-05T23:08:40.911+01:00I am not sure that it was a sin, but I think it li...I am not sure that it was a sin, but I think it likely that it was not an occasion of merit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-33681313827900162432010-07-05T21:05:35.568+01:002010-07-05T21:05:35.568+01:00Sin or no, it made me laugh with some degree of sa...Sin or no, it made me laugh with some degree of satisfaction.<br /><br />I am interested by the custom of ordination immediately prior to the exercise of the ministry of the order to which one is ordained. The same happens in the Byzantine Rite, with deacons ordained just prior to communion so that they are able to assist, priest just before the transfer of the Gifts to the Holy Table and the Bbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10989307876421460920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21725188876569731832010-07-05T20:24:33.387+01:002010-07-05T20:24:33.387+01:00Deeply wicked, of course - what else should we exp...Deeply wicked, of course - what else should we expect?Little Black Sambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699227938165106710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-55725852330316757942010-07-05T14:04:33.036+01:002010-07-05T14:04:33.036+01:00Well Father, if that’s the worst peccadillo you ha...Well Father, if that’s the worst peccadillo you have on your conscience I would say that your experience of Purgatory would be of the ‘fly-over’ kind – if at all!<br /><br />That said, Our Lord commended the industry of the servant who looked to his future when dealing with his master’s debtors. And there was that something about being “wise as serpents” and knowing the ways of the world… And of GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-80139798523217860732010-07-05T11:59:04.778+01:002010-07-05T11:59:04.778+01:00+Bless you my son, this is a sin common to man: to...+Bless you my son, this is a sin common to man: to make advantage of another's vanity for one's own profit. Think of our Lord in Harod's presence, what if he had told that wicked earthly king what he had desired to hear; or if Christ had made any less of a confession than "Thou sayest it" to Pilot? The unraveling of our salvation would have been the price of such Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-90370535419444281972010-07-05T11:48:10.643+01:002010-07-05T11:48:10.643+01:00Despite hearing all my life of "Catholic Guil...Despite hearing all my life of "Catholic Guilt" (particularly the Irish Catholic variety) I seem to have escaped that particular species of scrupulosity. Were I in your shoes, then being able to say "without actually saying anything that I could not assert with a good conscience" as you did would clinch it for me. True, any reason other than writing the most excellent Steve Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.com