Do any of you read the site 1 PETER 5? Not only that…. Archdiocese for Military Services.

Do any you read 1 Peter 5?  It is a tradition leaning site that had an original founder, who went off the rails, and was taken over by a sensible fellow who right away got a good editorial board together to keep things on track.

For a couple of years now, I have written a weekly column on the TLM readings for Sundays.  My latest is HERE.

They are having a fund drive right now and it needs a boost.  HERE

A lot of people have their hands out or their guitar cases open to you and are rattling a cup.  I am one of them.  It is a humiliating, frankly. Given my situation, given the whole situation of the Church today, it can’t be helped.  We need you.

If you are looking for a way to follow the “precept of the Church” to provide for the Church’s material benefit, and you don’t know some good options … I think we know the bad or inadequate ones all too well by now… consider a donation.  They pay me to write, so you are also helping me.

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ALSO… I have intended to tag this onto posts for a few days…

The Archdiocese for the Military Services is fundraising as well.   This means military chaplains.  This is a worthy cause if ever there was one.  Tell them Fr. Z sent you.

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Also, you might stop now and ask Mary to extend her protecting mantle over both of these. Perhaps use the Memorare.

Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria,
a saeculo non esse auditum, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia,
tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia,
esse derelictum.
Ego tali animatus confidentia,
ad te, Virgo Virginum, Mater, curro,
ad te venio, coram te gemens peccator assisto.
Noli, Mater Verbi,
verba mea despicere;
sed audi propitia et exaudi.
Amen.

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help, or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence,
I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother.
To thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy mercy, hear and answer me.
Amen.

UPDATE:

It happened again. Just like when I tried to post about the Olympic blasphemy, my post window ground to a halt and wouldn’t let me save the draft. I had to copy and paste the html into a new post and try again. Coincidence?

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13 Comments

  1. a saeculo non esse auditum, ->non esse auditum a saeculo, is the usual word order, if I am not mistaken.

  2. NavyVet says:

    I rarely attended mass or practiced the faith while I was in the military. By a series of events that in hindsight couldn’t have been anything other than providence, it was a military chaplain who got me started on my path back to the church.

  3. jhogan says:

    No, Father, it is not a coincidence. The internet and computer technology are like guns. They are a tool that can be used for good or ill. However, the Devil loves them because he can turn them for ill so easily. He does not like seeing them used for good and messes with them if he can. I personally think he has it out for good priests, though, because he hates being frustrated by them.

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  5. NB says:

    I don’t pretend to have any insight into anything that has gone on behind the scenes, and I’m pleased to read your column over at 1P5, but from the view of the outsider looking in, I prefer to give the original founder a fairly wide berth in his journey. He appears to still write in a more Catholic way than many who call themselves Catholic. He indicates three things drove him away, if I am reading him correctly.

    1) Clericalism (the bad kind, or his perception thereof);

    2) Exhaustion from repeated moral injury (which you have also expressed great concern about, as an actual victim of cancellation, but in his case, a severe weariness from being persecuted by the institutional Church, which you yourself endured and pass through while in seminary); and

    3) Long-term, unhealed wounds from upbringing/past and time spent among the Legionaries of Christ. For whatever reason, perhaps due to additional stresses in his life, he wrote that he had “had it,” and did not want to attend Mass anymore. I’m not sure he has particularly apostatized, if you will.

    In a similar way I don’t hold any ill will for a well-known victim of homosexual predation and subsequent long-term participation in a related lifestyle, who has, for understandable reasons, after returning Home, run out of patience with the institutional Roman Church, but appears to be finding a spiritual home elsewhere, for better or for worse. Nor would I describe him as having “gone off the rails.”

    I know neither of these men personally, just am observing their public writings, and am trying to take the long view here. This doesn’t mean they (and I, and you) aren’t all called to Our Lord constantly through His Church — but it’s hats off to you and others who are able to summon their cold [Prussian] fury and stubbornness and stick things through, and encourage us to do the same. Maybe it will just take some more time or a slightly different route with these more well-known individuals. And maybe something else, bigger, needs to change.

  6. Rich Leonardi says:

    Whether or not any of the three “things” are true, 1Peter5 was simply unreadable prior to its transfer to steadier hands. I’ll put something in the tip jar.

  7. JesusFreak84 says:

    1P5 was also just suffering from being run by one guy with a family vs. a dedicated team now. It outgrew the resources that had been available to manage it. Had the founder been ill-intentioned to the core, he could’ve just shut down the whole thing, taken it all offline, etc., but he didn’t.

    My bigger issue with 1P5 now (and its sister publication Crisis) is that they went hard in the tank for a particular political candidate before any primaries had even occurred. (If nothing else, that should violate 501c3 status…) At any rate, even if I wasn’t between jobs right now, I wouldn’t be donating to a website that’s promoting a politician that is far, far, far too liberal to ever get my vote, darned near demeaning Catholics who don’t support xyz politician.

  8. JR says:

    We call it 1 Luther 5.

    [?!?!? Why? What are your reasons? And who is “we”?]

  9. Rich Leonardi says:

    My bigger issue with 1P5 now (and its sister publication Crisis) is that they went hard in the tank for a particular political candidate before any primaries had even occurred.

    That is not true.

    The Crisis editor has been critical of Trump many times and warns Christians not to put their trust in princes.

  10. Geoffrey says:

    My only issue with One Peter Five is their very pro-SSPX / Lefebvre turn. The overuse of the term “Trad” also rubs me the wrong way. Not that anyone cares…!

  11. Geoffrey: I am not sure why that should bother you. It seems to me that resolving their canonical situation is more likely through amicable contact than shunning or griping.

  12. JR says:

    ‘We’, just me & mine, Fr.

    ‘Why?’ well, like the criminal Luther, they have a problem with papal authority; or at least seemingly, given their incessant repining about the alleged ‘false spirit’ of Vatican Council I (which I understand to be deigned infallible).

    In fairness, I am a recent ‘debutant’ to the ranks Sede of ’58 – save the novelty that I regard the Sacraments, and thus ordinations, of the Conciliar Church as valid – and think ABp. Vigano’s description of the same Conciliar, false, Church and its relationship to the Catholic Church as remarkable in their insight and lucidity.

  13. TheCavalierHatherly says:

    @JR

    “incessant repining about the alleged ‘false spirit’ of Vatican Council I (which I understand to be deigned infallible).”

    I believe the “false spirit” is the very evidently held belief that, because someone possesses the plenitude of power, this means that they ought to always and everywhere exercise that plenitude of power.

    This is a concept that we moderns seem to struggle with greatly: we cannot conceive of power acting through restraint, and that the restraint may be shown in historical precedents and traditions, and that people may justly resent the violation of these things. But for us moderns, we demand constitutions, and assemblies, and “checks and balances,” and any interminable number of other devices.

    What Newman feared about the explicit promulgation of papal authority (which has been here the whole time, really) has come true: every facet of the modern day Church is loomed over by a centralized administration. The popes have come about a century and a half later (as happens in the Church) to the “enlightened despot” fad that swept Europe in the 18th century.

    Authority does not mean “always and everywhere in direct control.”

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