Chaplains erect billboard supporting phrase “So help me God”—UPDATED
This press release was posted by the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Freedom:
The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Freedom has joined with other members of the Restore Military Religious Freedom coalition to provide a message via billboard to Air Force Academy cadets regarding their freedom to use the phrase “So help me God.”
The billboard went up this week not far from one of the entrances to the academy.
“The message is clear, our Founding Fathers said ‘So help me God’ on taking their oath of office; Air Force cadets have that same freedom,” said Chaplain (COL) Ron Crews, USAR Retired, executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty. “Our billboard is a reminder that cadets can say the phrase, which is deeply rooted in American tradition.”
Last fall cadets received new handbooks that had removed the phrase “So help me God” from the cadet oath of office. After members of Congress intervened, the superintendent of the academy said that the omission was a printing error [Uh huh… printing error…. right…] and that cadets have the option to say the words.
“‘So help me God’ is a solemn reminder that cadets are pledging their fidelity both to their country and to someone higher than themselves,” said Crews. “The presidents Americans admire all solemnly uttered these words when they took their oaths of office. Our Air Force cadets should be encouraged to follow their example.”
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There is an update stating that some presidents didn’t use the phrase “So help me God” in their oaths of office. I respond, saying: So what? The principle is crystal clear.
Once we detach our duties from objective truth and the root of objective truth, Truth Itself, God, then we also erode our rights. Without “So Help Me God” the one swearing is merely standing before The State. Our rights and duties are not rooted in what the State determines we can or should have or do. Ultimately, the grounding of anything that is good and right and beautiful is God. Without God, nothing is reliable and each individual is reduced to himself, alone, in competition with all other selves. The results of that are not good.
As I prepare to leave my native place, I ramped up with a big breakfast. Hard to beat this.
Bacon = Crispy
Eggs = Easy
Bread = Wheat
The diner where I broke my fast has a counter, near the workspace. The first cooking job I had was mostly short order. I learned a lot from doing that.
Yesterday evening, at my home parish, St. Agnes in St. Paul, we had the closing of their 40 Hours Devotion, which has always been held on this Sunday.
The Church has never had other than its main altar, through for a short period there was a table that could be brought in… and was, a couple times, I think.
The great, and I mean great, Fr. George Welzbacher preached for the closing, which also involved the singing of Vespers in Gregorian Chant and a procession followed by Benediction.
It was nice to be “home”, even if for a couple hours.
With a biretta tip to TAM, I bring to your attention something that was in the Charlotte Observer.
This is we are going to experience for a long-time, friends. If we Catholics (read: faithful to the teachings of the Church concerning faith and morals) actually dare to speak in public about the Church’s doctrine favorably or attempt to govern our lives by it, the blow-back will be instantaneous, relentless, savage.
My emphases and comments:
Sister Jane Tells It Like It Is
In a testament to just how bad so much of what passes for Catholic education is today, [And not just today…. for decades!] note this reaction to Sister Jane Dominic Laurel preaching basic Catholic doctrine:
Charlotte Catholic High School has invited parents to a meeting Wednesday night to air concerns many of them – and their kids – had about a recent speaker’s comments about homosexuality, divorce and single parents.
Sister Jane Dominic Laurel, a Dominican nun based in Nashville, Tenn., addressed a student assembly on March 21. Days later, some students launched an online petition that called her comments “offensive and unnecessarily derogatory.” [Students have learned their lessons well, haven’t they. Be whiners.]
A record of the comments was not available. But students attending told their parents she criticized gays and lesbians and made inflammatory remarks about single and divorced parents. [Given the state of education, which year by year churn out kids who couldn’t think their way out of a room through an open door, I don’t doubt that they thought what sister said was “bad”. They’ve been conditioned through the tens of thousand of hours of watching TV’s exaltation of deviation as “cool” and listening to virtually nothing in schools except self-affirmation and repression of reason.]
The petition, which has drawn more than 2,000 supporters, listed 10 objections to her remarks, including this: “We resent the fact that a schoolwide assembly became a stage to blast the issue of homosexuality [Here we go again…] after Pope Francis said in an interview this past fall that ‘we can not insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.’ We are angry that someone decided they knew better than our Holy Father and invited (this) speaker.” [That is one of the stupidest statements I have read in a long time. And it is manipulative.]
Some students told their parents that a few teachers left the assembly in tears. [My first reaction is to say: GOOD! Perhaps this is the first time they have ever received an inoculation of any kind against the evils that we are facing right now. Inoculations don’t feel good.]
In addition, parents called for a letter-writing campaign, sending out emails that listed the addresses of the Diocese of Charlotte, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, even the pope in the Vatican. [Yah… go ahead and write to the Pope … in the Vatican!]
Shelley Earnhardt, who is divorced [here’s a surprise] and who sent one of the emails, wrote that “in my home, there was outrage, embarrassment, sadness, disbelief, and further reason for my 16-year-old to move as far away from her religion as possible and as soon as she can.” [Oh… right. It’s all about her child. That’s just dirty fighting.]
Other parents faulted the school for not notifying them about the sensitive nature of Laurel’s planned remarks. “It’s too big of a topic for parents to be surprised,” said Casey Corser.
Diocese spokesman David Hains acknowledged parents were not told ahead of time that Laurel would speak. [And? A woman religious speaking at a Catholic school … and that’s special in some way…. how?] But he said she has spoken frequently in the diocese and has a doctoral degree in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. [No, wait! That doctorate means nothing! You made little Suzy uncomfortable by your judgmental words. Therefore Suzy is right, and you, Sister, have no credentials here.]
“We have seen the petitions, and we have gotten the emails,” Hains said. “And we really hope to be able to answer their questions and address their concerns” at the meeting, which he said will be closed to the media.
The Rev. Tim Reid, pastor of St. Ann Catholic Church, sent an email lauding the nun, [Kudos to Fr. Reid.] saying “she represented well the Catholic positions on marriage, sex, same-sex attraction and proper gender roles … The Church has already lost too many generations of Catholic schools students to … a very muddled and watered-down faith.” [As I said.]
Go HERE to read the rest. (The comments illustrate the de facto schism that exists within the Church.) Quite a few people who call themselves Catholic in this country really aren’t in any meaningful way. [That’s for sure.]
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Are you ready for what is coming?
As I write, I am in my native place. I came to town for a 40 Hours closing and the traditional clerical supper afterwards. There were lots of stories and inside information about what is going on there, in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, with the vicious attacks on the local church, clergy and Archbishop. Of course the deviant Left hate the Archbishop with the furious heat of a blue dwarf star because he promoted the marriage amendment to this state’s constitution. It’s payback time.
We are going to be seeing a lot of this in the future.
I’ve been talking about it with some people in the know, but this review from Breitbart clinched it. Too bad. I have enjoyed some movies with Russell Crowe (for example Cinderella Man, Master and Commander.)
Noah is a homicidal maniac. God is an angry tree-hunger who avenges himself on people for harming the environment.
“Noah” is a brilliant, compelling, beautifully-mounted, beautifully-acted piece of storytelling conceived for the sinister purpose of leading people to believe that Christianity and Judaism are something they are not.
Here is some cheery news. It is cheery in that the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith is doing its job diligently and that justice has been done and that the Faith has been defended. It is sad news, however, that any Catholic priest would be so wicked as to do such a thing.
We are pleased that the proper thing has been done, and sad about the sin committed which required such intervention.
From Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter), in mourning, with my emphases and comments:
Longtime peace activist removed from ministry after concelebrating Mass with woman priest [How many errors are there in that headline?]
A longtime peace and human rights activist arrested countless times, Franciscan Fr. Jerry Zawada [Never heard of him.] has been removed from public ministry for concelebrating [No!] Mass [No!] with a woman priest [No!] in 2011. [You see what Fishwrap is doing here, right? They want you to glide serenely through their heretical premises.]
The letter removing the 76-year-old’s public priestly faculties — a copy of which NCR obtained March 21 [“Obtained”? LOL! Gosh! I wonder how that happened!] — came from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, [aka LIDLESS EYE OF SAURON!] which reviewed documentation related to the Nov. 22, 2011, liturgy Zawada concelebrated with Roman Catholic Womanpriest Janice Sevre-Duszynska. [Hey! It’s the “Lady Tambourine Priest”! Remember her ordination tambourine? HERE]
“Having carefully examined the acts of the case, and the vota of the former Minister General and the Rev. Zawada’s Provincial Superior, this Dicastery has decided to impose on Rev. Jerome Zawada, OFM, a life of prayer and penance to be lived within the Queen of Peace Friary in Burlington, Wisconsin,” the letter states. [I wonder what Roy Bourgeois is up to these days.]
In addition, Zawada cannot present himself in public as a priest or celebrate the sacraments publicly; however, he can concelebrate Mass with other friars at the friary and in private. [Which would, probably, be valid, at least.]
“I don’t mind the prayer part,” Zawada told NCR Monday, “but when they called, when they say that I need to be spending time in penance, well, I’m not going to do penance for my convictions and the convictions of so many others, too.” [That’s the spirit, Father!]
Fr. John Puodziunas, provincial minister of the Franciscan Friars of the Assumption BVM Province, said he has not yet discussed the letter with Zawada but plans to in the coming weeks. He confirmed the letter removes him from his public priestly ministry but said it hasn’t been decided how it will restrict his movement outside the friary. At the same time, he said, “Friaries are not jails.” [HA! That’s for damn sure, based on the friaries I’ve seen!]
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Read the rest there.
I am gratified that the CDF is exercising due diligence in carrying out its brief for the Holy Father, who would have had to sign off on this decision.
Women cannot be ordained. Period.
If you choose to stray over that line during the pontificate of Pope Francis, the first Pope who has ever smiled or kissed a baby, you will be removed from ministry.
Finally, Australian former-priest Greg Reynolds is still excommunicated.
Today I watched the video of the Pope who made his own confession before hearing the confessions of others. HERE
That juxtaposition brought forcefully into my mind both the prayers I usually say before and after making my own confession, and those which I usually say before and after hearing the confessions of others, either immediately or shortly after.
So, because it is Lent, and because it is Friday, and because I know that many priests have confessions scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, here are the texts of the prayers for before and after hearing confessions.
They are taken from a small, old prayer book for priests from 1935. How I wish Baronius or someone else would make beautiful new editions of these old prayer books for priests!
I have used these prayers during my whole priesthood now, and they say it all. You could do a lot worse, Fathers, than to adopt them as your own. They provide a realistic view of the gravity of the office and work of the confessor, as well as hold up some ideals… and a mirror in which we can scrutinize ourselves as confessors. They are both sobering and consoling.
In the following, I added some typographical characters and I put in the accents to help your pronunciation, if you decide to do them in Latin. Over time, they become old friends and, frankly, they are richer in content then the translations, below. Also, I have a recording of the prayers in Latin, at the end.
ORATIO SACERDOTIS ANTEQUAM CONFESSIONES EXCIPIAT
Da mihi, Dómine, sédium tuárum assistrícem sapiéntiam, ut sciam iudicáre pópulum tuum in iustítia, et páuperes tuos in iudício. Fac me ita tractáre claves regni cælórum, ut nulli apériam, cui claudéndum sit, nulli claudam, cui aperiéndum. Sit inténtio mea pura, zelus meus sincérus, cáritas mea pátiens, labor meus fructuósus. Sit in me lénitas non remíssa, aspéritas non sevéra; páuperem ne despíciam, díviti ne adúler. Fac me ad alliciéndos peccatóres suávem, ad interrogándos prudéntem, ad instruéndos perítum. Tríbue, quæso, ad retrahéndos a malo sollértiam, ad con?rmándos in bono sedulitátem, ad promovéndos ad melióra indústriam: in respónsis maturitátem, in consíliis rectitúdinem, in obscúris lumen, in impléxis sagacitátem, in árduis victóriam: inutílibus collóquiis ne detínear, pravis ne contáminer; álios salvem, me ipsum non perdam. Amen.
PRIEST’S PRAYER BEFORE HEARING CONFESSIONS
Grant to me, O Lord, that wisdom seated beside Thy throne, that I may know how to judge Thy people with justice, and Thy poor ones with discernment. Make me so to use the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, that I may open them to no one upon whom they should be closed, nor close them upon any to whom they should be opened. May my intention be pure, my zeal sincere, my charity patient, my labor fruitful. Let there be in me a gentleness which is not negligent, a severity which is not harsh; let me not look down on the poor; let me not fawn upon rich. Make me pleasant for attracting sinners, prudent in questioning them, resourceful in directing them. Grant, I beseech Thee, ingenuity for drawing them back from sin, earnestness in con?rming them in good, diligence in urging them to better things: grant me good judgment in responses, rectitude in advice, light in obscure matters, wisdom in complications, victory in adversities: Let me not be detained in useless conversations, let me not be stained by perversities; let me save others, and let me not lose myself. Amen.
ORATIONES SACERDOTIS POSTQUAM CONFESSIONES EXCEPERIT
Dómine Iesu Christe, dulcis amátor et sancti?cátor animárum, purí?ca, óbsecro, per infusiónem Sancti Spíritus cor meum ab omni a?ectióne et cogitatióne vitiósa, et quidquid a me in meo múnere sive per neglegéntiam, sive per ignorántiam peccátum est, tua in?níta pietáte et misericórdia supplére dignéris. Comméndo in tuis amabilíssimis vulnéribus omnes ánimas, quas ad pæniténtiam traxísti, et tuo pretiosíssimo Sánguine sancti?cásti, ut eas a peccátis ómnibus custódias et in tuo timóre et amóre consérves, in virtútibus in dies magis promóveas, atque ad vitam perdúcas ætérnam: Qui cum Patre et Spíritu Sancto vivis et regnas in s?cula sæculórum. Amen.
Dómine Iesu Christe, ?li Dei vivi, súscipe hoc obséquii mei ministérium in amóre illo superdigníssimo, quo beátam Maríam Magdalénam omnésque ad te confugiéntes peccatóres absolvísti, et quidquid in sacraménti huius administratione neglegénter minúsque digne perféci, tu per te supplére et satisfácere dignéris. Omnes et síngulos, qui mihi modo conféssi sunt, comméndo dulcíssimo Cordi tuo rogans, ut eósdem custódias et a recidíva præsérves atque post huius vitæ misériam mecum ad gáudia perdúcas ætérna. Amen.
PRIEST’S PRAYERS AFTER HEARING CONFESSIONS
Lord Jesus Christ, sweet lover and sancti?er of souls, I pray Thee, through the infusion of the Holy Spirit, purify my heart from every corrupt feeling or thought and, through Thy in?nite compassion and mercy, deign to make good any transgression whatsoever made by me in my service due to my negligence or my ignorance. I commend to Thy most lovable wounds all the souls whom Thou hast drawn to repentance, and whom Thou hast sancti?ed by Thy Precious Blood, so that Thou mayest guard them from every sin and keep them in Thy love and in Thy fear, promote in them each day more virtues, and lead them to eternal life. You who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, accept this ministry of my obedience with that surpassing love with which Thou didst absolve St. Mary Magdalene and all sinners ?ying to Thee for refuge, and whatever in the administration of this Sacrament I performed negligently and less than worthily, deign to supply and satisfy. I commend to Thy most sweet Heart each and every person who has just now confessed to me, asking that Thou mayest guard them and keep them from backsliding and, after the misery of this life, that thou mayest lead them with me to the joys everlasting. Amen.
I used good ol’ “Thou” and retained something of the flowery style of yesteryear because, after all, there’s really nothing wrong with that at all.
I have turned on the combox moderation. I will accept comments from priests or bishops, which I receive in the combox or in email, and I will even anonymize them on request. I will more than likely not – not – post any comment made by a lay person or a permanent deacon. I am not really talking to you. Go ahead and call it clericalism: you are merely being permitted to listen in because, given that this is a blog, I can’t stop you. Read HERE if you want my defense. I might… might… post something of a transitional deacon or a seminarian (still laity)… might. Make it really good. Impress me.
Finally, lay people, please pray for your priests. Pray that they with soften and hear confessions if they don’t or won’t. Pray that they will be good and faithful confessors who will use good judgment, will not not use false charity, will not fudge in order to be liked, will always do his best with the help of God’s grace.
I was just on air with Drew Mariani (Relevant Radio) and we spoke for a while about death and confession. He mentioned one of my blog posts from 2011. Since he said that he is going to link here, I figured I would re-post the piece he mentioned.
Here it is:
Dissent into Hell – Fr. Z rants
Lately there has been a sharp uptick in the media – even “Catholic” media – in open and cavalier dissent from the Church’s teaching and the authority of her duly ordained pastors. Much of it seems to revolve around the two poles of personal claims of self-determination and autonomy from anything outside one’s own skull or one’s groin.
Many who dissent from the Church’s teachings and authority simply don’t know any better. They were, perhaps, never taught or they were taught error. I tremble for those who are responsible for their ignorance.
Some dissenters know full well what they are refusing to accept. I worry that they are in peril of going to Hell. Tragically, they are dragging people into confusion with them and putting their souls in peril as well. Tragically, some of the Church’s pastors are watching it happen.
In so doing we make ourselves slaves of the world, the flesh and the devil and we could wind up in hell as a result.
It is a terrible thing even to think, much less say, but I suspect that in our O-so-sophisticated-age, this time of picking and choosing, not many people are actually going to their judgment in the friendship of God.
St. Teresa of Avila was granted a vision in which she saw souls falling into hell “like snowflakes”. If memory serves, the three children of Fatima were given the same vision with the same sight of falling souls so numerous that they were like a snowfall.
Many saints have said this in the past. Is the situation worse now? I don’t know. It might be, because the prevailing attitude today, at least in wealthy regions, seems to be autonomy and self-determination without regard for anything transcendent, even while what is truly transcendent is being replaced by concern for the environment, or chimeric personal “rights”, blah blah blah.
Give the way the dissolution of mores is accelerating and given the weakening of the bonds of society ad intra and ad extra regarding even the Church, I don’t know if we can reverse the trend anymore. Nevertheless, the one important challenge that has never changed for everyone through all ages remains. In accord with our state in life we must do our best to get to heaven. We have to do what small things we can for ourselves and loved ones and those immediately in our sphere. We simply must persevere.
The terrible alternative should be a point for daily reflection.
Christ, God, gave us the Catholic Church. It is the Church He founded. He gave us the sacraments as the ordinary means of salvation. He gave His own authority to the Church to teach about faith and morals. He gave us a visible point of reference for unity and security of knowledge for our membership in His Church: Peter and his successors and the apostles and their successors with Peter.
Knowingly reject the Church – and Peter – and the Church’s teaching and her discipline of Christ’s sacraments, and you place yourself on a path that might just land you in hell for eternity.
If nothing else from this rant gets through to readers, and this is especially my plea to priests and bishops, I beg you on my knees, I implore you: make it a habit to think about the Four Last Things at least once a day. We are all going to die. We must all go before our Judge to give an account of the gift of life and the graces we have been offered.
Nothing will change this vector we are on within the Church and throughout the world until Catholics engage in a serious renewal of our liturgical worship of Almighty God. And that might not work either, frankly. It may, however, save some souls who would otherwise be lost. That’s not nothing and it is worth our effort.
This evening in Rome the Holy Father held a big communal penance service (“Form 2”) in St. Peter’s Basilica, with many confessors to help people make a good confession. That in itself is a marvelous example for the whole Church.
However, Francis – seemingly on the spur of the moment – before getting into a confessional himself – walked across the nave, knelt down at a confessional and made his own confession. I don’t think this is something every witnessed, in modern history at least: a Pope going to confession.
Minor side note: Francis donned a surplice. This is, I think, the closest we have seen him to wearing proper choir dress. Vestment by vestment!
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
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The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
Almighty and eternal God, who created us in Thine image and bade us to seek after all that is good, true and beautiful, especially in the divine person of Thine Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant, we beseech Thee, that, through the intercession of Saint Isidore, Bishop and Doctor, during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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