Month: May 2019
Improving the church
I recently came across this article from Daniel Dozier, a Deacon in the Byzantine Catholic Church, about his top ten ideas for Catholic Reform. I have to say, I’m kind of inclined to agree with him…
Step 1: Repent Publicly and Immediately and Announce a Plan of Reform.
Step 2: Investigate and Clean House.
Step 3: Create an Episcopal Accountability Board.
Step 4: Create Many More Bishops and Many More Dioceses.
Step 5: Build Fraternity Among the Remaining Clergy.
Step 6: Build an Organic Pipeline of Vocations for the Priesthood Through the Restored Use of Minor Orders, an Apprenticeship Model of Formation, an Extended Period in the Diaconate and with Required Professional Work Experience.
Step 7: Viri Probati.
Step 8: Begin a Preaching Campaign on Living an Evangelical Catholic Life.
Step 9: End the Liturgical Nonsense. End it. END IT.
Step 10: Restore the Election of Diocesan/Eparchial Bishops, Create a National Catholic Synod of Bishops with a Patriarch who Votes in the Election of the Pope of Rome.
Wise Words on Wednesday: Wake-Up Call
Jesus’ harsh words to the Pharisees and even his own disciples were not petty insults but serious wake-up calls. His judgement of sin is more like the diagnosis of a doctor who wants to give the patient a cure than the sentence of a judge who only wants to enforce the law
Trent Horn, Counterfeit Christs
PWJ: S2E19 – TGD 12 – “The Great Lady”
The focus of today’s chapter is not a ghost, but a Saint. According to MacDonald, she is “one of the great ones”, although you’ll have never heard of her before. This week we see even more clearly how fame on earth and fame in Heaven are two very different things. We also vividly see the danger of living behind masks as we meet her husband…
S2E19: “The Great Lady” (Download)
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Read moreMusic Monday: On Eagle’s Wings
Okay, I know a lot of people hate this song (personally, I don’t have that kind of animus), but here is probably my favourite rendition of it:
You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord
who abide in his shadow for life
say to the Lord, “my refuge my Rock in Whom I trust”
And He will raise you up on eagles wings
bare you on the breath of dawn
make you to shine like the sun
and hold you in the palm
of His hand
The snare of the fouler will never capture you
and famine will bring you no fear
under His wings your refuge
His faithfulness your shield
You need not fear the terror of the night
nor the arrow that flies by day
though thousands fall about you
near you it shall not come