7 things I'd like to see happen

Mac tagged me on this:

"What are the seven things that we, as Catholics, want or would like to see happen?"

Here goes:

1) If someone like, oh, say a Kennedy should die, their entire horrid pro-abortion clan doesn't trot up to Communion. If they disagree with the church they should have the guts and integrity to admit they've lost the faith. If a priest knowingly gives Communion to someone like B. Hussein Obama or Nancy Pelosi or the entire horrid pro-abortion Kennedy clan, the bishop MUST suspend faculties of the priest. IF the bishop doesn't do HIS job, the pope retires the bishop to count the holes in the accoustical tile of the lowest catacomb. It's a scandal, and high time it stopped.

2) Just once, I'd like to see some priest who does the EF form of Mass give a girl or woman a shot at serving the Mass to prove to me that the EF isn't a museum piece locked into 1962. Minor orders are gone, and frankly, it was a silly term for the functions they performed. Holy Orders are actual sacraments, those 4 functions weren't -- and east/west couldn't make up their minds regards the sub-deacon, then playing "All boys club" for serving should stop. There's ONE set of canon law rules, and they should apply to the EF form too, frankly. If the server represents "the people" it's high time to realize that 50% of "the people" are women and a woman/or girl can represent the body of pew sitters as well as a guy can. Why should the boys be taught the latin with great care, when the girls get invited to iron the altar cloths? Feh. Who wants to do "holy housework" at 9? Ironing the cloths is important, and necessary, but not something you want to do at age 9.

3) Oh, and can we quit with the "silent canon." I want to hear what the priest says. Might be nice in preference to: barking dogs, lawn mowers, fog horns, crying children, and ice-cream trucks that go "ding-a-ling-a-ling." And the choir should SHADDUP too. These singing yahoos over the centuries were one of the reasons the priests became mute during the canon. Do your bit, and stop riding over every thing. I'm following what the priest is doing, not listening to a concert. And in a high mass: Face us for the epistle and gospel, Okay? Not to some mythical barbarian to the north. If you want to face barbarians, look at the people, or SOUTH for that matter, those Muslims hordes are out to overrun us all.

4) Re: Catholic education. Revamp the whole thing so students have a clue other than simple simon stuff. They have NO idea how to defend the faith.

5) Stop waiting so long to give confirmation. DO NOT MAKE THEM JUMP THROUGH HOOPS! NO SERVICE PROJECTS. It's a sacrament. Let the grace work. [Pet peeve. They WAIT until the kids are old enough to get "busy-busy." 16-18 is TOO LATE.]

6) In any parish church (I'm not speaking of places like St. Peter's those are special cases) if you can't find the tabernacle within 5 seconds of entering, the place should be razed or put to rights. Whichever liturgical "team" approved the hide-and-go-seek tabernacle placement shall be immediately be put in the stockades so people can throw rotten fruit at them. And after that they will be stripped naked, tarred and feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail.

7. NO TERRYCLOTH bathtowel "things" for the lavabo. Ever. I mean it. It's T*A*C*K*Y. And I want BELLS, dammit. I don't give a flying hoot what Todd Brown and his little sychophants say.


8. Remove almost all "options" from the NO Mass. EP 2 or 3 should NEVER be used on a Sunday. Any priest who tries to "improve" by adding things shall be shot. Immediately. No questions. Not necessarily shoot to kill. A kneecapping will be adequate on the first offense. EP I must be used at least 2 Sundays out of 4.

9. EMs and Lectors (and deacons and servers for that matter) SHALL.KNOW.WHAT.IN.HELL.THEY.ARE.DOING or they don't get the gig. Anyone leaving an unconsummed chalice on the credence table at the side until after Mass like an unfinished cocktail will be summarily executed. Deacons need to learn the right way to purify vessels because too many don't have a clue. I've seen it, it's nasty.

10. Any cantor who uses the phrase "gathering song" will get ONE "warning shot" over his/her head. If they do it again. Tarred and feathered and sent over to the unitarian church where they are all aging hippies and don't know any better. And I'm with Mac re: a lot of the newer songs from the hippy days. 86 them or at least get rid of the ones that are questionable or outright heretical. The guitars need to go too. As a nice gesture IF Silent night is sung ON Christmas a single acoustic guitar may be used, otherwise forget it. I've always hated that song anyway.

11. The USCCB should stop prattling about economics. They know next to nothing. Ditto re: illegal aliens. We are NOT obligated to give a free ride for life to every Tom, Dick and Harry who makes it over the border. (There are exceptions for people who would be religiously persecuted, etc. But I'm talking about 99% of them.) Bernardin's "seemless garment" is a crock of crap, it just gives pro-aborts license to vote for liberals.

12. Shut down any purple palace seminaries. You know what I mean.

13. Every parish should have weekly benediction available at least once a week.

14. Frisbee Hosts. Gone. For. Good. Immediately. Instantly if not sooner. This one might even be number one.

This is more than 7, but I was on a roll and I might think up more. Gotta run. Project Runway's on.

And if you want to do this meme, go for it. It's too much fun to tag only seven people. So if you see yourself on my blogroll consider yourself tagged if you think it will be fun to do. Besides, notifying everyone they've been tagged is a pain in the kazoo.

Congressman Moran('Rat-VA) asks for ID

Any bets this 'rat consistently votes against requiring anyone to show ID before voting?



Any bets he wouldn't have asked for a union thug's ID?

Ted is Dead

I can't wait NOT to watch the funeral and will probably be avoiding TV for the next 2 weeks. I don't think I can bear the media caterwauling over him like 15 year old girls over a rock star who died of an overdose.

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

I am delighted to note that Teddy's shuffling off the mortal coil puts a bigger roadblock in Zero's quest to foist on us a socialist health care system. Dear, Manipulative, Narcissistic Ted would not resign and let another fill his seat. He'd also finagled the Massachusetts state assembly to pass a law in 2004 that if a Mass. Senate seat becomes vacant, that it would NOT be the perogative of the governor (as is customary in most states) to appoint someone to fill the seat. In 2004 Teddykins thought Kerry had a hope in hell of beating Bush, and as Mitt Romney (Republican) was then governor, Teddykins was going to cry if Romney got to put a fellow republican in the senate seat (as would have been his right.)

Now a special election, 6 months from now, will have to be held. I'm delighted Teddykins put a knife in Zero's back by dying. Without Teddykins, Zero doesn't have a fillibuster proof senate for at least six months. By which time Zero's bill should be in hell too stoking the fires for Teddy.

Spot the Error in Today's Mass

....you don't even need to be conversant with the EF form of the Mass, particularly.

....win a kewpie doll.

[Hint: Aug 25 is the Feast of St. Louis]

Marine Vet serves up Mouth Full of Dirt to Congress Critter

Keep the heat up...

Benediction 08-22-09

I don't know why more people don't go to Benediction. The sound isn't the hotest, but this little ceremony gives such a feeling of peace.

The perfect cruise ship for someone who gets seasick

Right in here in "America's Finest."

Sign Sign Everywhere a Sign

Saw this at the gas station the other day. [Not the Shell Station with the "fountain."] What's amusing is not so much that someone defaced it, but that apparently, this particular pump was right outside the cashier and he/she didn't notice the person altering it? How stoned were THEY?

Also, think about the person pumping the gas. How does their mind work to thing "hey, if I can just take out THESE particular letters....." What did they scratch them out with, a car key? I can't imagine this being something that had long term planning.

Instant Water Fountain

What's this you say? A water fountain next to a Shell station?

Yeah. All it requires is for some dumb bunny to hit the fire hydrant.

Women can do things "manfully" according to Jerome and the Hebrews

I enjoy comparing the propers for the EF form of the Mass. My 1920s missal does not have the "optional Mass to be used in Religious houses of the Visitation [the order St. Jane founded.]" Neither does the '62 Baronius press missal.

BUT the 40s "St. Mary's Missal" does have those Mass propers. (In addition to the usual ones.]

Here's the Offertory prayer for that EF Mass:

"Quia fecisti viriliter et confortatum est cor tuum, eo quod castitatem amavertis, et post virum tuum alterum nescieris: Ideo et manus Domini comfortavit te, it ideo eris benedicta in aeternum."

[Thou hast done manfully and they heart has been strengthened: because thou hast loved chastity and after thy husband hast not known any other: therefore also the hand of the Lord hath strengthened thee, and therefore thous shalt be blessed forever."]

I expect it's likely Jerome more or less transliterated the word.

The passage is from Judith 15, 11.

Gee, "viriliter" referring to something a woman can do. I guess the concept of a woman being able to suck it up and go in for the kill was not around such that they didn't have a similar word to apply to women.

There was also somewhere during lent where St. Jerome's translation of scripture said something about God not bending to the will of a man "vir." [Thereby leaving open the possiblility that God might bend to the will of a woman? Don't think that's what he meant. But there's a case of "vir" meaning mankind and not just males. I was saving that bit for Sept 30th when I can find it again!]

Whatever. It pays to look at ALL my missals. I get tidbits in one that I don't get in another.

Off to Mass. But I was amused this morning when I read it.

JC Is Lord, not a Swear Word

Now this is what I call a commitment.

H/T to Fr. John. Saw his blog post tonight, and forgot I had this one on ice from the other day!

Exhibit "A" of why I believe in applying the Death Penalty

Bleeding heart liberals.

"The terminally-ill Libyan convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing was released on compassionate grounds from jail in Scotland Thursday, sparking joy in Tripoli but fury from the United States."

Full story here. Sure, sure, JPII, "the authorites" will keep these bastards under lock and key. Riiiight. NO ONE should believe those lying government pieces of crap.

I don't care how sick this guy is. He should DIE IN JAIL and not in the comfort of his bed. His victims did not have that option.

[BTW, this wouldn't have anything to do with a trade agreement between BP (British petroleum) and tapping natural gas in Libya would it? Nah.... Any takers that this POS will live longer than 3 months?]

Bob Hope KNEW all about democrats...

Best laugh I've had in the last week.

(From Ghost Breakers, 1940)

0ero thinks 1st amendment doesn't exist if you oppose him

From the New York Times: "BELGRADE, Mont. — President Obama on Friday accused some insurance companies of trying to undermine his plans for overhauling health care by “funding in opposition,” a comment that could inflame tensions at a time when Mr. Obama is hoping to keep insurers at the negotiating table."

Hey, Skippy, let's say what you are saying is 100% true. (And this time I hope it is.) You are not Hitler, or Stalin, or Fidel Castro. Yet. Pardon us all to hell and begone but people DO have right to spend their money however they want. And if health care insurers want to spend a boat load of money defending the health care industry, it's none of your damn business. So put away your brownshirt for now.

Keep your clown makeup, it suits you.