L.A. preaching: what do Jeffrey Dahmer, a garbage disposal and the Eucharist have in common?
The Church has some very good preachers.
New York City has Father George Rutler.
Chicago has Father Robert Barron.
The Twin Cities have Father Robert Altier.
And poor L.A. has Father Keven Kester. He is in a category all by himself.
I have posted Father Kester's homilies here before.
-- The "I have a (pipe) dream" sermon. Click.
-- The "I don't believe everything the Catholic Church teaches" homily. Click.
-- The "I would not have voted for Ratzinger" homily. Click.
-- The "Rodney King" homily ("People, can't we just get along?"). Click.
This most recent homily, preached on the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, is bizarre to say the least. Father Kester begins with an appalling anecdote about a young priest who is throwing consecrated hosts down the garbage disposal. Upon witnessing this sacrilege, the "old and crotchety" pastor, with a reputation for being mean to his people, screams at the young curate: "Stop that! What do you think you're doing? You can't grind up the Body of Christ!" The assistant brazenly retorts, "I will stop grinding up the Sacramental Body of Christ when you stop grinding up the Mystical Body of Christ."
And what is the point of this scandalous story? The answer comes in the form of the predictable interrogative: "How do we treat one another? Do we treat each and every person we meet with the same respect we give to Jesus present in the Eucharist?"
For Kester, true modernist that he is, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi is not about affirming the Church's faith in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. No, it's about treating others with respect.
What poor Father Kester doesn't seem to understand is that the power to love others as God loves them comes precisely from the Eucharist wherein Jesus Christ, true God and true Man, is really, truly and substantially present under the appearances of bread and wine (cf. Mane Nobiscum Domine, 24-28). It's not an "either, or" proposition: love the Eucharist, despise people. Although, many preachers who talk about loving one's neighbor see no contradiction in despising our Eucharistic Lord by treating him shabbily in their handling of the sacred species, in failing to genuflect at the times prescribed by the Church, in their use of tacky and unapproved "sacred" vessels, and in relegating the Blessed Sacrament to the equivalent of a closet.
So what do Jeffrey Dahmer, a garbage disposal and the Eucharist have in common? Click HERE, if you dare, and listen to "the rest of the story."
New York City has Father George Rutler.
Chicago has Father Robert Barron.
The Twin Cities have Father Robert Altier.
And poor L.A. has Father Keven Kester. He is in a category all by himself.
I have posted Father Kester's homilies here before.
-- The "I have a (pipe) dream" sermon. Click.
-- The "I don't believe everything the Catholic Church teaches" homily. Click.
-- The "I would not have voted for Ratzinger" homily. Click.
-- The "Rodney King" homily ("People, can't we just get along?"). Click.
This most recent homily, preached on the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, is bizarre to say the least. Father Kester begins with an appalling anecdote about a young priest who is throwing consecrated hosts down the garbage disposal. Upon witnessing this sacrilege, the "old and crotchety" pastor, with a reputation for being mean to his people, screams at the young curate: "Stop that! What do you think you're doing? You can't grind up the Body of Christ!" The assistant brazenly retorts, "I will stop grinding up the Sacramental Body of Christ when you stop grinding up the Mystical Body of Christ."
And what is the point of this scandalous story? The answer comes in the form of the predictable interrogative: "How do we treat one another? Do we treat each and every person we meet with the same respect we give to Jesus present in the Eucharist?"
For Kester, true modernist that he is, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi is not about affirming the Church's faith in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. No, it's about treating others with respect.
What poor Father Kester doesn't seem to understand is that the power to love others as God loves them comes precisely from the Eucharist wherein Jesus Christ, true God and true Man, is really, truly and substantially present under the appearances of bread and wine (cf. Mane Nobiscum Domine, 24-28). It's not an "either, or" proposition: love the Eucharist, despise people. Although, many preachers who talk about loving one's neighbor see no contradiction in despising our Eucharistic Lord by treating him shabbily in their handling of the sacred species, in failing to genuflect at the times prescribed by the Church, in their use of tacky and unapproved "sacred" vessels, and in relegating the Blessed Sacrament to the equivalent of a closet.
So what do Jeffrey Dahmer, a garbage disposal and the Eucharist have in common? Click HERE, if you dare, and listen to "the rest of the story."
posted by Quintero at 6:00 AM
6 Comments:
This guy has serious psychological issues.
Um...
I hope all of the stuff you catalogue here on your site is going onto a CD ROM and printed to paper, notarized, and is sent to the Vatican for a trial.
I have a couple other ones to add: On the Feast of Christ the King he said, "We don't have kings these days. We have Elvis Presley, people call him the king and we have Queen Latifa but we don't have kings anymore. This feast is left over from the Middle Ages when being a king meant something. So, it has no impact on us. It has no relevance to us today."
Another: "The bible, if you read the lists of names of the apostles from the different gospels you will notice that there are fourteen names, not twelve. There were probably, actually fourteen apostles. The Catholic Church needed there to be twelve apostles, not fourteen. Twelve is a more spiritual number. And, so the Church cut the number down to twelve and has alway taught us that."
Shocking!! I stopped attending Mass (I mean, liturgy) at St. Bede's in order not to run into Fr. Kevin anymore.
Anonymous 12:08-
Where are those homilies posted?
The homilies are not posted. I was in attendance at Mass when he spoke them. I remember them because they were so outrageous. He is out to destroy the faith of naive Catholics.
12:08
This guy is an absolute idiot.
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