tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post4881848212517064710..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: "Petered Out"?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-28980918135795023772015-09-03T00:26:39.042-04:002015-09-03T00:26:39.042-04:00For years I was extremely reluctant to think I mig...For years I was extremely reluctant to think I might sympathize with The Remnant, or The Wanderer, of the SSPX. Now I am suspicious on anyone who does not. LOL. <br /><br />Try reading almost anything by Francis, and then anything by LeFebvre. It is an immediately self-authenticating exercise in proving who is a holy mess and who is not. <br /><br />Unless you have already swallowed the blue pill. [Apologies to most people employed by the Church].JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684142528414196410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-66796701404545392132015-09-01T20:56:31.162-04:002015-09-01T20:56:31.162-04:00Dear Dr. Allen,
Thank you for sharing these wonde...Dear Dr. Allen,<br /><br />Thank you for sharing these wonderful details, both the agony and the ecstasy, as it were. You display an admirable courage as well as measured reserve in what you call your "rant." I come away from it encouraged and inspired. Kind regards, PPPertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-5497288869792864672015-09-01T17:03:27.297-04:002015-09-01T17:03:27.297-04:00I'm so glad that you posted this, PP, as I hav...I'm so glad that you posted this, PP, as I have been repressing the following rant for the last couple days. We made our annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, OH last weekend. (The Allen family has been going there since the 1920s.) It was a NO Mass and I was prepared for the worst (not to mention fuming because I was missing the TLM/coffee and donuts at St. Josaphat with my friends Brothers Michael and Steven, Gerard & Margaret, et. al..) and the 'celebrant' did not disappoint me (nor MC/organist and XX lectors and acolytes). The homily was all about 'making this world a better place,' as this is our 'purpose in life.' (A considerable amount of time was also spent telling us about an offer to prepare a Lebanese meal for a rabbi. Meanwhile, Fr. Ryan Adams was thrilling the aforementioned group of friends with his usual brilliant exegesis of the TLM's readings.) Now let me cut to the chase. Oh I'm sorry, 1st I should mention my poor wife's travails trying to receive HC on the tongue kneeling- as if she'd just descended from Mars. Anyway, I made a beeline for the celebrant on the way out: 'Our purpose in this life is to get into Heaven Father, not to leave this world a better place.' Him: 'But they are the same thing.' Me: 'No, they are not.' Oh well, the Rosary Procession was great. I was given the priceless honor, of which I am the least deserving person who ever lived, of carrying the BM's statue and then the Brothers were kind enough to put my radiation mask in the basement of the Basilica along with other testimonies to miracles (the braces worn by former Polio victims have gotten to me ever since I was a little boy). To top it all off, I discovered a relic of my intellectual hero St. Anselm on the other side the basement. RFGA, Ph.D.RFGA, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11981669525574676528noreply@blogger.com