Over a Fr. Hunwicke’s place I read a line that made me chuckle:
Now, look here, Father, if you can’t be more pastorally sensitive and inclusive, I shall have to forbid you to say the Novus Ordo … so you’d better get your act together … or else start brushing up your Latin …
To my mind, it is supremely pastoral to remind people that Hell exists, to say “No” about a range of things, and to make sure they know the Extraordinary Form.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on ASK FATHER: Kissing the priest’s hand in the Latin Mass v. the liturgical spirit of Judas. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Thank you Fr Z. Then there’s the scene of Pope Francis violently ripping his hand away from the faithful attempting…”
on ASK FATHER: Kissing the priest’s hand in the Latin Mass v. the liturgical spirit of Judas. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: ““That’s just a remanent of an imperial court…” Sold! I’ll take a double order, please!”
on ASK FATHER: Kissing the priest’s hand in the Latin Mass v. the liturgical spirit of Judas. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Beautiful post Fr.The poem is wonderful.I am 71 yrs of age and i thank God for the Latin Mass.You write…”
on ASK FATHER: Kissing the priest’s hand in the Latin Mass v. the liturgical spirit of Judas. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: ““Liberals accuse traditionalists of clinging to the useless bowing and scraping of ancient court practices. They won’t kneel! No! They’ve…”
on ASK FATHER: Kissing the priest’s hand in the Latin Mass v. the liturgical spirit of Judas. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “When you got to “Sounds like a ritual to me,” it reminded me of the wonderful book by Thomas Edward…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “I agree with the above sentiments, given that our government seems hell-bent (literally) on starting a war with Russia over…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “Fr Z I agree with MaternalView above. The world situation is shaky and a trip to Poland… next to Ukraine…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “I‘ll assume black goes „upward“ and down left is h8. 1. f5+ forcing gf6 (xf5 e. p.) 2. h5+ forcing…”
on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “Lori announced massive parish closings, along with the suppression of the Latin Mass in diocese. Sure suicide by cutting off…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “I think people have lost confidence in all manner of things, airplane manufacturers, airlines, FAA, government agencies who are supposed…”
on Wednesday after the 2nd Sunday after Easter – traditional Solemnity of ST. JOSEPH! – Terror of demons, Protector of Holy Church!: “Aw, dear St. Joseph. I love him so much. I was blessed to go to a mass of this feast…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “1. . . . . .. . . . . . . h7-h5+ 2. g5-h6(×h5) . f7-f5+ 3. K-g5 .…”
on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “Dear Masked Chicken, thank you for pointing me to your post of 22 March, which which I largely agree. My…”
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Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
Your labeled Not Pastorally Sensitive,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Withholding the Holy Mass as a punishment? Who’d have thunk it?
There’s no word in the English vocabulary that has suffered as much at the hands of Catholics (real and soi-disant) as “pastoral.” Pastoral means “in the character of a pastor or shepherd.” A shepherd, naturally, doesn’t simply follow his flock wherever it goes and bless its discretion in walking off a cliff to its doom below, and yet the word “pastoral” has been used in the last fifty years, to the detriment of both the language and the faith, to mean “don’t tell anyone something they don’t want to hear, and don’t use a tone of voice that suggests that they’re doing something wrong, no matter how justified.”
Our Priest is a convert, he grew up Lutheran. He has never been shy about telling us that there is a devil, that there is evil in the world. A few have left the parish because he told them he would not allow them to receive communion unless they got married. Parents have pulled children from CCD because he told them there is a devil and he is actively working here on earth. But he is an awesome Priest and I would say he is pastoral. Just this week he is defending his Doctoral Thesis in Theology at the Seminary in Chicago. We are very proud of him.
Love love Fr Hunwicke.
On the feast of the Annunciation the new bishop of our diocese on the other side of England visited our parish to celebrate Mass. He spent an hour before Mass hearing confessions. When I confessed to him, he mentioned the wiles of the devil and how to avoid them (regular prayer before the exposed Blessed Sacrament was one). Then he went on to celebrate a beautiful solemn Mass. At the end of his homily, he gestured to the group of Dominican friars sitting on one side of the sanctuary and said he felt a bit of trepidation preaching in front of them, and that he invited correction from them after Mass for anything he said that might have been heretical! ;-)
Thank God we have an actually *pastoral* bishop.
People forget that when Jesus flipped over the money tables in the Temple, he was being pastoral there too. My wife and I were discussing last night just how much we wished that some of our Priests had been a little more pastoral in this manner. I have serious doubts that either of us would have been welcomed at the pearly gates.
Simon D: No, no. The active definition of pastoral when it comes to, say, bishops is: (adj) marked by a preference for vacationing in bucolic settings.
Sonshine: I hadn’t actually ever heard of scattering money and overturning tables being a sheep herding technique before. Whips either.
I hope and trust they’ll be playing Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony at the Synod.
There’s a nice noisy storm near before the peaceful ending.