OOLW Priest serving in the Diocese of Nottingham parish of St Mary’s with St Paul’s and Chaplain to the University students of Nottingham. Opinions personal.
Yet again the CofE shows they don’t have the slightest concept as to what a Cathedral is for, or, for that matter, the slightest concept of the sacred.
@BellBeakerBloke
A foreign faith? Britain was Catholic for over 1000years, our Cathedrals and ancient Universities were built by Catholics, our ancient Kings were Catholic… St George was Catholic. King Alfred was Catholic, St Thomas Beckett was Catholic. St Augustine of Canterbury was Catholic.
An ill thought out document is imposed by the DDF (because the Synod on synodality failed to ask for it as was planned) and in a couple of days relations with the Orthodox have gone back a decade, Africa has rebelled and there is dismay everywhere. Austria is delighted though.
@Vhorwort
I don’t believe this at all. A priest would never deliberately break the seal of confession. Of course the unnamed “priest” (who I don’t believe exists) has no way of defending himself.
@holysmoke
@calvinrobinson
Amen! His orders are valid, and it’s great to have him as a brother Priest. (Still want him to come into full communion with Rome though… despite current trials).
@RootBranchSynod
This is quite literally the teaching of the Church, baptism also leads to an ontological change. I don’t understand why you view this as a problem.
I thought the country was in a mess… but thank God we have lit up 10 Downing Street in pink… it’s this sort of bold leadership that makes us all safe..
We stand in solidarity with Southport.
Tonight, Downing Street lights up pink as a mark of respect and solidarity with everyone affected by the tragic incidents which took place earlier this week.
#SouthportTogether
“The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman Liturgy:therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical service other kinds of sacred music, especially polyphony,are by no means excluded from liturgical celebrations,”
The various messages the Vatican is sending us by continuing to use Rupnik:
Sexual sins are minor
Desecration of religious objects is not important
The confessional is not a sacred space
"Art" > morality
In short: nothing is sacred, all is divine
@networkrail
Wishing someone “Happy Pancake day” is not the Christian equivalent of posting quotes from the “prophet” Muhammad. The equivalent would be, “Jesus, the son of God, said “I am the way the truth and the truth and the life”.
@holysmoke
I’ve heard some people say “well if you were in another job and you disagreed with your boss you’d be sacked”. But this is such nonsense. In another job you’d have a pension plan, and your own house.. which you would keep. You’d normally also have employment rights…
@calvinrobinson
I don’t think anyone denies that the C of E had Catholic roots… but they are roots that Henry VIII broke from, and the CofE has pretty consistently moved further away ever since. If you cut a branch off a tree it survives for a while.. but eventually runs out of sap and withers.
In light of recent disruption in England, as a Catholic, I think there are two guiding filters .
1) Christianity is true… so any ideology that draws people away from Catholicism is wrong.
2) All people are created in the image and likeness of God ..so racism is wrong
Pope Francis has now approved Catholic priests “blessing” same-sex couples. But none of us, including the Pope, has the right to “bless” what God calls sin. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” (Isaiah 5:20).
26 months in prison for “gesticulating and shouting” at police. That’s more than TWO YEARS..Welcome to Starmer’s Britain. Who voted for this? (Oh yes.. almost nobody)
This is shameful.
@ClevelandPolice
Steven Mailen is the first person to be sentenced in Teesside for his involvement in the violent disorder in Hartlepool on Wednesday 31st July. Judge Laird jailed him for 26 months. The 53-year-old was constantly in the face of officers gesticulating and shouting at them.
I want to see the violence stop.. it has no place in Britain. But once it does we need to have an honest conversation about what a disaster Labour’s response has been.
Dutch government policy that permits involuntary
#euthanasia
of terminally ill children up to 12 years of age started today. Policy is said to apply in exceptional cases of v serious terminal illness & expected to be used in 5 to 10 cases per year.
Barbara Butch, the woman in the center, posted this photo to her instagram, admitting that this photo had everything to do with them mocking the scriptures.
She then deleted it a few hours later and called it “the feast of the Gods”.
Nope. Caught.
Let’s be fair here… sacrilege took place at both (now Anglican but originally Catholic) Canterbury Cathedral and St Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral New York. St Patrick’s have apologised for, Canterbury has doubled down on, the sacrilege. One is lost, one still has hope!
NEW YORK—Fr Enrique Salvo has issued a statement condemning the “sacrilegious” and “scandalous behaviour” during the funeral of a man whose identity, he claims, was deceptively presented.
While
@CardinalDolan
ordered a “Mass of Reparation” to be said, questions remain.
Will His
On one level this is barely worth commenting on, it’s just too pathetic… on the other hand, which other religious or ethnic group could be spoken about in this way without causing outrage.
'We hate Catholics, everybody hates Roman Catholics'
Protestant football club Rangers FC openly chanting about hating Catholics in Seville before the Europa League Final that they lost against minnows Frankfurt
UEFA refused to punish them
@holysmoke
Apart from anything else the priesthood isn’t a job… it’s everything for a priest. I struggle to comprehend the sheer vindictiveness of this.
@Wodencore
@BellBeakerBloke
Ok Woden Cosplayer… because Anglo Saxon Bishops weren’t ordained in Rome… and weren’t in Communion with the Catholics of North Africa or the Middle East… Nice picture of that stunted meglomaniac Hitler on your Twitter profile btw…
@giles_fraser
For those of us who hold that marriage is inherently linked to procreative intent (which is what the world’s biggest Churches still hold… and all Churches used to hold) this statement makes no sense.
@canonlawyered
They knew exactly how this would be interpreted and promoted… it isn’t about the precise words (plausible deniability)… it’s about the nod… you know that Ed… the Pope certainly knows that… we ALL know that.
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord”
Just saying .. why can’t we have actual liturgical feasts rather than secular ones from
Lambeth Palace? I’m fed up with international zebra day, and global paperclip awareness week etc.
“Change your hearts, or you will lose your inns, and you will have deserved to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves – for you will have lost the last of England.”
Hillaire Belloc
@mfjlewis
@vlgn11
@virtusperfecti
@holysmoke
“As I wrote in …. Familiaris consortio, the divorced and remarried cannot be admitted to Eucharistic Communion since “their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist”
Why would Pope Francis blow up his own legacy? Answering that question isn’t tough; it is impossible.
In order to begin the work of answering it, one must be willing to psychologize. For Pope Francis, it’s personal.
If you think that western civilisation is worth defending you should be a Catholic… If you don’t get that you really just need to retreat to your Mum’s basement or the spare room.. or wherever you while away your hours whilst waiting to die playing your computer games!
Not sure I get the distinction here. Surely “Real Reverence” is based on the belief in the “Real Presence”? Otherwise it’s just bread worship… which would be idolatry.
(Does anyone know when the Pope last celebrated Mass btw?)
We have an odd electoral system, Labour win a mere 34% of the vote, yet get a massive “landslide” victory. More people vote Reform than LibDem, yet the LibDam get far more seats…
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who didst assume the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of thy Son, body and soul to the glory of heaven: grant us, we beseech thee; that being ever intent on things above, we may be worthy to be partakers of her glory hereafter; through Jesus Christ …
Some 80 bishops, theologians and Catholic leaders met last week for a two-day conference to reckon with what was described as the failure of the U.S. church to implement the pope's environmental teachings.
My
@NCRonline
report:
For those who are interested, The Ordinariate Office book (Divine Worship) can be found online here:
It doesn’t include all the optional bits (Hymns and antiphons, minor offices etc) but does contain the Morning and Evening Prayer for the Liturgical year.