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Time To Take A Hint time

02 Sunday Aug 2015

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As you would have heard , because St Mark’s Gospel is the shortest, it will be supplemented on Sundays during the Church’s cycle this ecclesiastical year  by the Eucharistic passages from St John.

The new cycle of the Church’s year is going to supplement the rather short Gospel of St Mark with extended commentary on the Eucharistic passages of St John.                 Although mind you it’s going to highlight the importance of the Eucharist even more than the prayer life of the Church does normally .

We’ve got to have some sympathy for our fellow Catholics here. Some ordinary Catholics don’t seem to think thousands of their fellow-Catholics, at present deprived of the Eucharist through the failure of the present method of providing it, really deserve It , otherwise they would be joining in the appeals to change things. Some priests – or actually about 150 round about this country-seem to feel the same . Well, they don’t say anything either. And we’ve asked them .

The lengthy emphasis we are promised on the Eucharistic passages from St John, however, must hit our bishops hardest of all.  They’ll have to concentrate really hard all week on the important things that they really have to worry about, despite this constant Sunday harping on the Eucharist and what Our Lord says about It  being such  a distraction .

If you think about it, it’s going to be really burdensome for them. Some of them might actually feel they should  listen to what the Pope has said about the extension of ordination. No, let’s be reasonable !

As has been said, anyway,  it’s tough at the top.

Dumb Bishops

11 Sunday Jan 2015

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I’d like to bring to your attention Father Gay and Father Day.

Fr. Philip Gay, fiftyish, parish priest of St Thomas More’s Church, Coventry,
fell in love with a lady parishioner, and had to leave the priesthood.
After all, we can have only secular celibate clergy providing the Eucharist.

Fr Stephen Day, a 53 year old former Anglican priest ,
the new parish priest of St Thomas More’s Church, Coventry, fell in love
and married a lady some time ago , and has three children.
So we actually can have non-celibate clergy providing the Eucharist.

You might want to read all that again.
The information is from the “Tablet” of 13th December last.

As on another occasion in this blog, I have to assure you that this is not the plot
of some secularist pantomime. It is yet another scene in the Catholic pantomime
in which the bishops of Britain are apparently prepared to take the part of the villains.
The audience is baffled and far from entertained, and may well respond
as one does to pantomime villains. Pantomime audiences tend to be mostly children.
This audience is not , and would appreciate being treated as adults
– while there are still enough of us for it to matter.

There is still no sign of any concerted action by the bishops of Britain to extend
ordination, despite Pope Francis’s invitation. (see previous issues of this blog.)
In other words, they SOMETIMES believe that, where the secular clergy is concerned,
the Eucharist can only be provided by a theologically educated parish-supported celibate.
The number of priests is shrinking, in many places abroad to none . Fewer and fewer
of the Flock therefore can receive the Eucharist . But the bishops of Britain still cannot
bring themselves to ask for the extension of ordination.

In November 2014,it was announced that the Pope would allow the Eucharist to be provided by
ordained married menin Eastern Catholic churches in the USA,Canada and Australia
for the first time.Yet the bishops of Britain pay no attention to this.
The dedication of the recent Extraordinary Synod to doctrine was exemplary,and no doubt
welcomed by our bishops. Extending ordination, however, does not involve doctrine.
The insistence on celibacy for the secular clergy is simply a church rule.
Why can’t it be changed to allow hundreds of thousands to follow
Christ’s Eucharistic imperative?

What is the problem? Do the bishops dispute such valid ordination
and therefore the Apostolic Succession?
Are the bishops waiting for the Pope to die? A new and even more dynamic Pope
might make a retiral age of 50 compulsory, and there are still enough younger priests
more in touch with life in 2015 and the world situation of the Church ,
who could take their places practically overnight.

It is time for the dumb to speak while there are still listeners.

Extending Ordination? Here’s to 2015 !

02 Friday Jan 2015

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The Headmaster of a local school is once reputed to have said :
“As Our Lord said- and I must say I think He was correct……”
Well, we on this blog are not prepared to argue with being asked
to eat His flesh and drink His blood, and do so in commemoration
of Him.
And we take exception to being told that we cannot do this because
there are not enough celibate students of medieval theology supported
by a parish to enable us to do so, call us unreasonable if you like.
(We can read the Gospels too, and can find no mention of celibate students
of medieval theology supported by a parish. We’re just saying,that’s all.
All we found was a way of transforming the world.)
Anyway, we look forward to 2015 and continuing to join the many others
all over the world who agree with us that ordination should be extended to help
us to obey Christ’s Eucharistic imperative.
We shall continue to do so while we have the strength to press a computer key,
and we look forward to moving our protest into the public domain more
effectively in the spring.
We wish a Happy New Year to our readers, and, not entirely ironically, also
to the Archbishops and Bishops of Britain.