This Is Really Sad

[M.SIGGA]

It looks like members of Christ the King Parish in Pleasant Hill, CA will be trick-or-treating a little bit early...like during mass this weekend!!! All ages are invited and everyone gets to put on their favorite costume too. Check out the bottom of their parish webpage:

Christ the King

I wonder what Fr. Bryan will be dressed as?

[Aloysius]

hmmmm

he should go as the Pope!!!!

lol, if he got a good costume, and i went to that Parish, i'd like faint at the processional, seein Pope John Paul the second the GREAT goin down the aisle... yeah... thad be amesome

if i were Pope, i'd make random sneak visits to random parishes like that! :D B)

anyway, they better not have candy, NO FOOD AT MASS... these kids should learn that young...

other than that, it's a bit strange but doesn't really seem WRONG.

[foundsheep]

I think its a novel approach although they should of maybe limited it to saints and popes costumes. watch some kid show up as Micheal Myers getting communion with a play knife in one hand.

[PedroX]

talk about destroying the dignity of the Mass... I would be really upset if this was my parish.

[Paladin D]

The Church I used to go to back in Wilmington, DE. They held a halloween/Christian like tour in the large basement. Your mission was to help two marines find a missing soldier, and you used Blessed Crosses to fight off evil forces (zombies, ghosts, vampires and such).

It was fun, but not sure if it was against the rules of the Church. The Priests knew and even attended it.

[BLAZEr]

As Pope John Paul II marks 25 years as Bishop of Rome, the Catholic world is both celebrating and taking stock of his pontificate: how he has helped shape political events while urging clergy to stay out of politics; how he has set firm new directions for a Catholic Church that is currently being described as “a people adrift”; how he has preached the unique gospel of Jesus Christ and offered spiritual inspiration to people around the globe, both Christian and non-Christian alike.

umm . . . what the heck does that mean? We're a "people adrift" who is currently describing us that way?

This Priest writes like a schizophrenic . . .

There are also some interesting "liturgical" roles

PROJECTIONISTS

Members of the Parish serve as Slide Projectionists at all the Masses. Instructions for each Mass are provided in a binder in the pew where the Projectionist sits. Parishioners who volunteer for this ministry serve approximately once a month at the Mass they usually attend. Everyone is welcome to participate!

Fr. Joyce, ahhh, let us pray fro him . . .

Fr. Joyce's - Top three for personal reading:

"All Saints" by Robert Ellsberg

"Is Jesus God?" by Michael Morewood

"The Holy Longing" by Ronald Rolheiser

Fr. Joyce's - Top two for current discussion:

"The Changing Face of the Priesthood: by Donald Cozzens

"Tomorrow's Catholic" by Michael Morewood

[PedroX]

The Holy Longing isn't to bad. A little to mushy for my tastes, but...

The rest of his reading list scares me. Why read a book called "Is Jesus God"?

[BLAZEr]

The worst part of that "Is Jesus God?" book . . . is that it never ends up saying Yes . . .

[Aloysius]

The Holy Longing isn't to bad. A little to mushy for my tastes, but...

The rest of his reading list scares me. Why read a book called "Is Jesus God"?

hopefully it goes through and answers "YES"

never read it though, so i donno

[littleflower+JMJ]

should i be worried?........because i am....very worried..... about the parish.....

anyone you have to call named "Bunny" and "Bill" for one of the church functions is kinda weird

+JMJ

[M.SIGGA]

anyone you have to call named "Bunny" and "Bill" for one of the church functions is kinda weird

:D :D :lol:

[littleflower+JMJ]

Parish delegates will also visit our own sister parish at Asuchillo. Call Bunny and Bill at 229-3284.

[Spiritual_Arsonist]

Has anyone ever heard of a clown Mass?

[BLAZEr]

Has anyone ever heard of a clown Mass?

A clown mass? Hmmm . . . Yes I think I have heard of it . . .

Isn't that the Liturgy they perform in the 5TH CIRCLE OF HELL???

Click At Your Own Risk!!

[Norseman82]

There are also some interesting "liturgical" roles

Projection TVs are big in the yuppie evangelical churches like Willow Creek in the NW suburbs of Chicago - kinda like a big college lecture hall. I would like to officially adopt the term Powerpoint Mass to describe the use of projection TVs at Mass.

[Norseman82]

Did you see the online homilies? Check out the one on marriage:

http://www.ctkph.org/homilies/homilies2003...omily100503.htm

Some snippets:

- Well, Jesus replied, I consistently challenged such a liberal understanding of divorce and asserted the lifelong commitment of marriage.

- Yes, but you say in Mark's gospel, and I quote you: "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery." Now isn't that a little harsh, Jesus? I mean, are you saying that a couple who are in a bad marriage must either stay married for the rest of their lives or remain single if they choose to get a divorce?

- No, I'm not saying that at all, Jesus replied. That is to take my teaching in a very literal sense. I simply mean that couples should take the lifelong communion of marriage seriously, and not abandon this sacred covenant quite so easily as some of them do. I fully accept that many marriages, in spite of the couple's honest efforts, do not attain the ideal your church has of marriage. And if that is that case, so be it. Such couples should be free to move on with their lives.

"Free to move on with their lives" - an implied challenge to the Church's stand on divorce/remarriage?

- Well, it's just that there's all this talk these days about same sex unions and arguments over legalizing gay marriages etc. Where do you stand on all of this?

Jesus paused for the longest time. I waited and waited, and then he spoke to me in a clear and deliberate tone:

- My friend, God ordained that marriage should be between a man and a woman who clearly complement each other sexually, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. Therefore a same sex union can never be a true marriage. That said, I do not judge or condemn anyone who loves another, and seeks another's love in the only way they know how.

"seeks another's love in the only way they know how"???

Edited October 24, 2003 by Norseman82

[PedroX]

Does the Pope know that this is what Jesus "meant to say" about marriage? Or better yet, does this guy's Bishop know that this is what he's preaching?

My prayers are with him. Christ was quite clear about the dangers of being a false teacher.

peace...

[BLAZEr]

I think someone should print up these homilies, high light the juicy phrases and mail them all to the Bishop of this diocese . . . give me a second, I'll have an address in a jiffy . . .

[BLAZEr]

Oh my gosh!!! This parish is going to hell! The youth group website has a picture of the kids with Sr. Joan Chittister, the former president of the Women's Ordination Conference!!

Anyway . . . this parish is in the Oakland Diocese. They have a new (and holy and orthodox) Bishop who is probably not aware of what is going on here. I think a good Phatmasser should help him to be the guardian of Fidelity in his diocese . . .

Most Reverened Allen H. Vigneron (Bpvigneron@oakdiocese.org)

2900 Lake Shore Avenue

Oakland, CA 94610-3697

I'm sure he would appreciate knowing what wacky things they're teaching out in his parishes. And since the priests of this parish have been so arrogant as to post their homilies, well, we can just offer him their own words!!!

[Lil Red]

the ideal your church has of marriage

Your Church? Shouldn't that be MY church? This priest has seriously gone awry. :blink: