April 12th, 2023
Dear Diary,
Why is it that right after Easter, when we’re all supposed to be enjoying a little relaxation, all the complaints come in?
Sid over at Light of the World Parish (which Tommy is always referring to as “Lucifer Mundi” for some reason) got the kooky idea to mix things up in the Eucharistic prayer. Instead of reciting that long list of saints, which I always abbreviate – who needs to know all those people? – Sid inserted what he called “local saints” including that Buddhist kid that died a few months ago, and that gay community organizer. Oh boy! But that’s Sid! He’s always been pushing the envelope, even back in sem. He wrote a paper on women’s ordination when the rest of us were just copying stuff down from those Skeezlebeeks books. I’ll have to call Sid in for dinner one of these days and beg him not to disturb the folks like that. Maybe he’ll bring me some of that limoncello his housekeeper makes. Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, that young kid I ordained couple years ago, Gregory something-or-other, did something at his parish called Tenebrae. A woman called my office and said it was scary. And it was in Latin. These kids! I wrote him a stern letter right away, telling him that if he wants to stay on as parish administrator, he better stop doing crap like that. The Chancellor of Vice want’s to send him off for an “evaluation”. That’s what all the bishops are doing now when a priest get’s a little too trad. Well, not Jude, of course. How is it that people are so happy over there, anyway?
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I’m gonna go out on a limb here: +McButterpants doesn’t grant delegation to the SSPX for marriages.
Shocked that the bishop even knows about let alone kinda sorta uses the Roman Canon. my first two pastors after i was received into the Church 22 years ago flatly refused when i asked them to use it for a special occasion.
My only complaint after going to a bilingual (Half Spanish, Half English) Easter Vigil: “If we’re going to do this, why not do the whole thing in Latin?”
Well, one other complaint: they skipped so much of it that, along with doing half of it in Spanish, I spent a fair amount of time scrambling frantically through my missal to find out where the heck we were supposed to be at.
So much for my “full and conscious participation in the Mass.”
Thanks for the reminder to go to Confession!
Of course, I am sure +Atticus or the cathedral rector or his deacon gave a long list of credits, with applause from the congregation, at the end of the Easter Liturgy. After all, lets give people a chance to show their happiness with the “performance”. Quaeritur: since when did the celebration of the Liturgy become a stage show?
redneck, I’ll add to that. I bet the good bishop never:
– got a callus on his hands or his feet.
– experienced a bruise, cut, or broken bone.
– disappointed his mother.
– made his father proud.
– signed the front of a check.
– said “I’m sorry”.
We used to have a pastor who illicitly changed Gospel texts at Mass to make them “inclusive,” e.g. he would change “The man who…” to “The one who….” He did this “on the fly” as he read them and this often made the readings into gibberish. He had an All Saints Day Mass at which he cited in the litany the well-known Saint Martin Luther King, Jr. and similar liberal icons. I used to think that such an unreliable Priest would have been an associate Pastor at a very small parish in the past when there was no Priest shortage, but I came to realize that he was in the mainstream of our Diocesan clergy. He later became Rector of the Cathedral, and guess who is our new Vicar General!
“if he wants to stay on as parish administrator”
The cherry one top!
Loved the comment by JMody. Unfortunately we all know a Bishop McButterpants.