We’ve spent a lot of time on this site making references to the Last Supper. We saw it as the foundation of the Church, laugh at us if you like. We saw it as a command from the Man who was to die an appalling death a few hours later. This was to provide the Eucharist for the world.
Looking back from 2019, obviously some kind of organisation was necessary. History and geography and common sense demanded it should start in Rome to be effective. It did, although there were other places , almost all in the Middle East, where the Word took root, obviously around walking distance from the Upper Room. In 2019, there are 23 of them. We’ll come to them in a minute.
The biggest did things its way. This was called the Roman Rite. The others did things their way and are called the Eastern Rites. Fair enough, you will say.
If you can bear it, look back to 2018, the year of ‘Come to bed with Uncle Ted’ this being Cardinal McCarrick of the Roman Rite, or the Roman Catholic Church.
In Britain, we have to bear the burden of Cardinal O’Brien having been the man who in modern times brought the long, disgusting , hypocritical and terrifying history of seminary education out into the open at cardinal level.
Our Church was based on the Moving of the Stone . Say what you like about Cardinal O’Brien and his like- and we do, and we will- the Church in 2019 must be based on the Lifting of the Stone. It was a big stone- and we all know what a mass of wriggling ,disgusting lower levels of life live under stones. We hope here that we do not give offence to those who marked the Incarnation by holding wakes outside turkey farms.
50,000 parishes are without priests because the Church has rejected the basis of the Roman Catholic Church in 2019, that the Eucharist can only apparently be provided by celibate men who have survived the seminary experience.
But there are 23 parts of the Church which have avoided this sex-obsessed cul de sac. Let us think of them at this New Year tide, and how humiliated they must feel by being lumbered by association with the power-crazy, sex-obsessed leaders of the Roman Rite.
Your radar may say here ‘Ah ! Crank talk !’ . It’s not, you know. And you do know .
While this site has breath to continue during 2019, inhibited though it may be by small cigars, it hopes to continue examining what caused the demise of the Roman Rite, or the Roman Catholic Church as opposed to the Catholic Church in 2018. It will involve St Pope John Paul II, Emeritus Pope Benedict XIV, and many others. , not to mention the Curia.
Do please keep watching. Like many other such sites all over the world, we have a lot to say and at the moment nowhere else to say it.
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