Dispensations
On Wednesday, Cardinal Mahony issued an Archdiocesan-wide dispensation from the Lenten Friday abstention from meat, for this Friday, because it is March 17, St. Patrick's Day. The Cardinal is asking Catholics to substitute another day this Lent to abstain from meat, or to engage in some other penance.
St. Patrick is one of our Archdiocese's patron saints, noted Tod Tamberg, the Cardinal's spokesman.
This dispensation is a kindness to everyone who thinks they are acting Irish by having corned beef on March 17. I would still take fish and chips over corned beef any day. And fish and chips are far more prevalent in the Auld Sod, anyway.
But on the subject of dispensations: What if we each ask our Cardinal to stop giving pro-abortion politicians a "dispensation" from being pro-life as is their Catholic, American and human duty? After all, appearing with them in public, especially in the Cathedral, conveys the impression that being pro-abortion is no big deal.
And what if we ask our hierarchy, nationwide, to stop giving "dispensations" to Catholic schoolteachers from their Catholic obligations to observe Catholic parents' rights and to protect Catholic children in their innocent latency years from soul-molesting miseducation programs such as "Talking about Touching?"
St. Patrick, pray for us all!
St. Patrick is one of our Archdiocese's patron saints, noted Tod Tamberg, the Cardinal's spokesman.
This dispensation is a kindness to everyone who thinks they are acting Irish by having corned beef on March 17. I would still take fish and chips over corned beef any day. And fish and chips are far more prevalent in the Auld Sod, anyway.
But on the subject of dispensations: What if we each ask our Cardinal to stop giving pro-abortion politicians a "dispensation" from being pro-life as is their Catholic, American and human duty? After all, appearing with them in public, especially in the Cathedral, conveys the impression that being pro-abortion is no big deal.
And what if we ask our hierarchy, nationwide, to stop giving "dispensations" to Catholic schoolteachers from their Catholic obligations to observe Catholic parents' rights and to protect Catholic children in their innocent latency years from soul-molesting miseducation programs such as "Talking about Touching?"
St. Patrick, pray for us all!
posted by Quintero at 9:42 AM
10 Comments:
Hear! Hear!
I'll drink me a pint to that!
Oy!!
. . . Oh, you mean it's not Purim?
Seriously now, what a treasure it would be to have a pastor who, like Esther, trusted in the Lord and did His Holy Will for the salvation of her people.
"Oh, Lord that you would hear the plaintive cry of your loyal children and choose from among them a voice to bring us the hope of your Son, anew."
Blessed Mother intercede for us, the "poor, banished children of Eve."
Evil thrives when good men do nothing.
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Quintero, you are certainly doing something to bring change to your archdiocese. I commend you for your hard work on this blog.
Keep it up amigo!
God bless.
and still waiting for His Eminence's public response to the archdiocesan members of the "pro-abort 55."
It is apparent that there is some sort of "agreement" between the Cardinal and the pro-abort pols: they get a free pass as long as they support all of his "social justice" priorities, which of course they all do. Funny how that "seamless garment" never gets to clothe those murdered children. What's worse is that LA is the home of the culture-of-death propaganda machine (Hollywood), who also get a free pass.
February 2011 can't come fast enough.
hmmm, not trying to be anonymous in my previous comment.
Paul
Dear Conde,
Mil gracias, my friend, and may God guide us each and all in what we try to do, Amen.
Dear Anonymousn 10:16 Paul,
Thank you for writing, and are you right about how the Seamy Garment never clothes the babies about to be aborted. That is a memorable way to put things, and it could be said only by someone who clearly loves the little ones so much.
You are also so right about the free pass that the moviemakers get. Think how much good an Ordinary could do by fighting hard for decency in Hollywood.
Dear Ken,
I hope many visitors will contact you for info. ahead of time and then will drive to the REC on the morning of April 1 and join you in witnessing for Catholic truth.
God bless!
I used my "Irish dispensation" on a Shamrock shake at McDonald's. Which went well with my fish sandwich.
(Here in Orlando, where we kneel! But I haven't forgotten you.)
Hi, Karen,
Sure glad to hear you're kneeling in Orlando. Ol' Quintero here had "Irish" fish and chips on the 17th. Your shamrock shake at McDonald's was a good idea!
JOSEPH D'HIPPOLITO SAYS...
Such dispensations turn Lent into a joke. They are traditions of men that make God's revelation void.
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