Boardering On Offensive

[Chucho]

[quote name='dUSt' date='Aug 9 2004, 12:34 PM']There's always going to be a confederacy of dunces out there.[/quote]


That was great.

[Mary's Knight, La]

i can sorta see what ironmonk is saying but it struck me as similar to Chesterton's Fr. Brown almost the perfect paradox of in the world but not of the world. it does provide an interesting idea of going to where the sinners are too.

Warning What follows is OVERANALYSIS:
While such an idea would be open to abuse of the sacrament, it does provide a wonderful picture of what the church's mission is. Not to call us to neglect our lives but to sanctify our lives. Take out the $2.00 for confession and find priests willling to try it and i think it'd be a novel attempt that may be capable of doing some good. make it less obvious from the outside that it is also a confessional, and you take away even more fake reasons to not go to confession. I'm all for respect and reverence but i'd rather someone make their confession in a cab on the way to somewhere rather than decide they're too busy.

[kateri05]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' date='Aug 10 2004, 01:23 AM']
Then "forgive me" or "bless me" is fine either way?
So I've gotten my bloomers in a bunchie over something that was fine all along?

[/quote]
for what it's worth, i was taught "Bless me Father, for I have sinned"

[MichaelFilo]

The priest is in his boxers. The no eating except the Body and Blood sign. The simony. The abuse of the sacrament. These are things that are wrong. There is nothing cute about taking the sacraments out of context. Also, as ironmonk said, people who watch this stuff are contempt to accept that all confessions are like it, if they know no better.

A priest in his boxer is not funny. Joking about the Eucharist will NEVER be funny or right. Simony was banned, and no one will ever care to find out if they are protestant.

Even from a non-religious stand point this wasn't funny.

is this offenseive? Yes.

God bless,

Mikey

[picchick]

The movie was border line. It made me a little uncomfortable to watch. It was like it was making fun of the confession. However, the "priest" had some wisdom that I think the world needs to see.

[MichaelFilo]

And no pants on. While I don't know the full intentions of the movie, disrespect for the Eucharist, or any sacrament, but esp. the most sacrament of Life, should never be "funny". I regret everyday I joked about the Eucharist. There is NOTHING funny about Jesus's sacrafice.

The "good" priest in the movie wasn't so good. Simony, the no pants, the messy van. He was so worldly, and it made me feel more than uncomfortable.

I still think all these things are wrong and give a bad impression upon a world that enjoys to take the first thing it knows about something and cherish it as truth. O.o, maybe I'm being too harsh, but I don't think so.

God bless,

Mikey

[picchick]

No I get your point completly. The world takes anything that makes fun of the Church and say "See? It is all really true."

I still say that what the priest said was something that much of the world needed to hear even if the movie was offensive.

[MichaelFilo]

Agreed. The priest did convey a nice message. I just wish the director could of went about it differently. It still wasn't very funny. Oh well,

God bless,

Mikey