One more time on the CTA conference that Fr. Spilly promotes and attends:
It’s absolutely disgraceful that any Catholic priest would be associated with Call to Action.
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Tags: Fr. Spilly, Keeping the Spirit Alive, Liturgical Prancing with the Stars, Progressive Drivel, Protestant
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Thank God therre wre mostly older people in the audience.
If one were to sacrilegiously make a parody of the Holy Sacrifice, one would not be able to do much better than CTA. Thankfully it was just a bread and juice affair; with no ordained priest near the altar. That being said; this is a grave injustice to all who attended, a scandal and a disgrace.
WUT?
Not only is there simulating a sacrament, but the congregation is giving a Nazi salute.
Does Godwin’s Law get invalidated if it is self-inflicted?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Who is taking care of their hordes of cats while these ladies are prancing around?
Someone please tell me those barefoot ladies in the purple smock-like things aren’t liturgical dancers.
R. O. T. F. L. O. L.!!!
As Richard said, according to the photos this was almost entirely an older crowd, with quite a number of men too. That seems odd, but maybe their wives strongly “encouraged” them to attend….
They must be preparing the worship space. You can always spot a liturgical dancer by bare feet.
“Our Song of Gathering today will be number 421 in the red book: Send in the Clowns, number 421.”
Look who is in the sixth photo (back left), our own Carol Crossed, Feminist for Life, Consistent Life Ethic champion. How sad!
And if you are barefoot, come to the grape stomping workshop!
“Send in the Clowns”
Coffee on the keyboard alert. Seriously this made my day. LOL!
Monk – are you sure that’s Crossed? And has anyone notified Bishop Cunningham about Fr. Spilly?
Yeah, I guess she was there – representing an organization.
This Year’s Call to Action Conference
Consistent Life board members Carol Crossed and Lisa Stiller represented us at the “Call to Action” conference of progressive Catholics in Louisville, KY this past weekend. Because these are Catholics who take the teachings on standing with the poor and practicing compassion very seriously, but are often not as well educated on how this fits in with abortion opposition, this is a high-priority conference for us to visit every year.
Carol and Lisa had a good reception at the CL table, and had the opportunity to host a caucus and discussion about Consistent Life’s mission. The conference gave them a wonderful chance to practice listening and dialog skills.
Those first two photos look like a women’s clothing display at Macy’s
Please do not think this represents Catholic women..turns my stomach. How confusing this must be to young Catholics.
Pictures #6 and #7 look like they are doing one of those crazy blessing thingys. The Priest in my parish instructed our congregation hold out their hands like that for a blessing…I refuse to do that. Last time I checked my hands weren’t consecrated to do blessings like that.
Who is the guy on the stage with the Endor-ites?
Eeeeeeks!! That’s all I can say!
I believe that the 7th photo shows all of the assembled “concelebrating” the bogus consecration with the bogus priestesses. I’m no canon law expert, but I’m willing to bet that they’ve all excommunicated themselves by virtue of their simulating a sacramental act without valid orders or office.
Happily, as others have pointed out, there’s hardly a head in the house that isn’t covered in gray.
Father Spilly, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF.
Indeed they are. To the best of my knowledge, Spiritus Christi has been doing congregation concelebration for several years.
Priests in particular who think that toying around with the nature and authority of sacred orders and religious obedience should note this carefully –
http://ncronline.org/news/people/maryknoll-vatican-has-dismissed-roy-bourgeois-order
39 years ordained and 45 in a religious order – now GONE which is a great sadness for all. He was not ordained to be dismissed but his actions left no one an option. Even the Maryknoll Missionaries in their press release thank “Ray” signifying his absolute departure.
The fiasco that is “Call to Action” is pretty close to the actions of priest now known as simply “Ray”.
In the rest of life there is great joy when a cancer is successfully excised. Excommunication for such offense is a visible manifestation of the protection of the Body of Christ.
Hopefull, I have to disagree with you that there is great joy any time the Church takes the necessary action of excising anyone. Our Savior died and rose so that all might live, and I feel sadness whenever someone leaves or is made to leave the One Church He founded. Of course, such people are causing others to stray and such actions cannot be tolerated (do you hear this, Father Spilly?), but my emotion (once the anger abates) is only sadness for the wounded Body of Christ.
Excommunication is “medicinal” not punitive. It is the sure sign that the Church fears so gravely for your salvation – based on your public actions and likely a resistance to the collegial approach of reason, retreat and prayer; that the Church in her mercy places you in a religious “time out”, suspending all of your rights as a Catholic (or as a cleric or religious) until such time that you return to yours senses.
Discipline is an act of love and excommunication is the ultimate discipline. Rebellion is an act of pride and the result of pride is always dangerous for the proud.
Hopefully, prayerfully Roy will return to the Church and save his soul because nothing is impossible with God.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1204900.htm
Sadness or Happiness?
Far be it for anyone of us to tell anyone else
how to feel.
However, we can strive to be realistic about
the crisis of faith in the Catholic Church.
If Sacred Scripture gives witness to the reality
of false teachers and false brethren (and it does)
we should be ready and willing to accept Divine Providence
in the exposure and corrective discipline that the Lord
makes happen.
In the short time I have been part of the CF family,
It seems many of us actively participate in Providence’s
exposure of false teachers and false brethren.
Keep up the good work…. In charity of course, praying
for the salvation of souls and for the conversion of
sinners.
AMEN to DanielKane’s comment.
DanielKane – I heartily agree with your explanation of “medicinal” excommunication. That explanation, however, seems to me somewhat inconsistent with your choice of the word “excised” as in a cancer is excised.
But my point is that excommunication should never bring us “joy” but rather great sadness over the wounded Body of Christ. We can only hope and pray that they repent and return to the Church. These heretics in Louisville make me very very sad. Why can’t people follow the example of Our Blessed Mother and humbly accept the authority of Jesus Christ Our Lord and the Holy Church He founded?
@ annonymouse.
I did not use the expression “excised” the commentator “Hopefull” used it. I personally do not consider Ray (or anyone excommunicated) to be outside of the Church – they are not. I consider them outside of the Sacraments except Reconciliation.
There is little joy in discipline to me there is only hope – hope that this severe action will effect his reconciliation with the Church. That is the primary purpose. I do not consider Ray to be excised, quite the contrary – not only is he baptized and confirmed – he remains (albeit inactive here on earth) a priest forever. One might abandon Catholicism but one remains a baptized Catholic even in the excommunicated state.
At the risk of another pile-up, I would like to express my opinion that there are two reasons for excommunication. Certainly, there is concern for the individual soul, and that he/she repent and again return to the Body of Christ. (Clearly the cancer analogy would break down here.) But if the sinner is not repenting, then isn’t action such as removing them from a community a cause for joy that his/her repentance can begin? There is also the excision (there I go again) of the scandal to consider, and of the contamination of a community by the persistent or stubborn error of the unrepentant.
Consider 1Corinthians Chapter 5 and if celebrating the festival isn’t consistent with the cleansing or casting out the old leaven, and if removing a source of evil, scandal or sin from among the community isn’t cause for thanksgiving? When the Holy Spirit leads the Church to such action, it is the action of the Spirit that calls for joy (not the pain caused to either the individual or to the community.) I don’t see any conflict between being sad that such action was necessary but being joyful that the Spirit is present. If a millstone and drowning in the depths of the sea is preferable to scandalizing a little one, well….let God’s Will be done, and why wouldn’t we rejoice in all aspects of His Will being done?
His name is ROY, not RAY.
Happily, as others have pointed out, there’s hardly a head in the house that isn’t covered in gray.
I have gray hair!!! What are you implying????
One of the things we have to be careful about is the definition and imposition of the word “excommunication”. At one point Saint Mary Mc Killip was excommunicated by her bishop and was later exonerated by the Vatican.
I don’t remember the color of her hair but, given her age, she probably died wearing the noble gray.
I thought excommunication was self induced. When you are in direct conflict with church beliefs, you remove yourself from the Church. Only if someone is a public figure and is doing much harm, misleading others will formal excommunication be done by the higher authorities.
Why don’t they just go and join the Episcopal Church or one of the other 30,000 protestant sects out there? This is just sad.
Christ is in charge. No matter what, we must be concerned about our own spiritual welfare and then, that of our neighbor. It is sad that so many are doing this kind of stuff but, let’s let the “Big Boy” handle it.
“Only if someone is a public figure and is doing much harm, misleading others will formal excommunication be done by the higher authorities.”
Did you read my comment about St Mary McKillip???
Ray,
I did. What are U implying?
“What are U implying?”
Not all excommunications are valid and can be used punitively by some bishops. Not all things that are bound on earth are bound in heaven if they are wrong.
Ray,
The excommunication was revoked. And while the excommunication was in place, did she obey the rue of it, i.e no Eucharist.
Sure, excommunication can be used wrongly.
“On a recent service by Call to Action in which a woman led what the group called a Mass:
“They set themselves outside the church. They are deciding to go a different way.”
Taken from an interview Bishop Cunningham gave at the time of his installation.
All of these girl celebrants are chauvinists. There is only one token male there.