Did the dog have to say Amen before he received Holy Communion?

[Soldier_X]

I shudder to think what I am called in those there parts as a resident of Chicago.

We’re working on the name-calling. It’s not nearly as widespread as it once was. And my original hometown has the White Sox AA team, so Chicago’s not on the “Bad Guy” list anyway.

 

[StrawberryJam]

We’re working on the name-calling. It’s not nearly as widespread as it once was. And my original hometown has the White Sox AA team, so Chicago’s not on the “Bad Guy” list anyway.

Come back home!

 

[CMatt25]

My wife wasn’t happy with me. She said if it weren’t for her () that I’d have an SPCA at my house. She argued with me about the cat but I won out!

She really fell in love with the little girl. Only three weeks old and abandoned. It’s about 104 degrees here in the valley right now so the little girl would’ve died from heat stroke or starvation or carried off by an owl in 24 hours.

It’s a long story but I had to take her to the animal hospital because she had contusions to her lungs. They didn’t expect her to make it. $200 plus a steady dose of rosaries and prayer and they were shocked at the emergency animal hospital that she even lived through the night. She got stronger and stronger and now is a spitfire. She runs all over the place, eats like a pig, my son loves her (the other two are scared of her, they’re too young LOL), and my wife has grown to love her, too.

My wife’s from the Philippines and she’ll be the first to admit that animals don’t enter their thinking much. When I was in the Philippines a month ago, I was appauled and sickened to see how they treat animals. The fact that my wife loves our dog, two other cats, and this kitten as much as she does AND is always taking such great care of them is one piece of “Americanization” that I really appreciate! We live in the central valley of California. There is an overabundance of read neck hillbillies that hate cats. I’m in a minority here! I love all animals. As far as animals go, I’m a total liberal!

Alrighty Gurney! If you’re a total liberal in one aspect of your life, there’s hope yet! :yup:

 

[CMatt25]

Seriously though, I don’t understand the blessings of animals. My parents’ parish priest used to do this, but now they have a cassock and lace-wearing priest who uses dangerous war metaphors in his homilies (and he’s only 20-something!) so the pet blessings have ceased.

Perhaps not so unusual nowadays for the younger priests to go that path. A young priest at my local parish said in a homily his answer to the poor during the Greatest Recession since the Great Depression was to simply get a job. And I’m sitting there thinkin to myself, Father, do you realize even well educated non poor who have lost jobs are having trouble finding jobs? Saddens me to no end sometimes where the Church may be headed when the younger crowd takes the reigns more. :sad_yes:

 

[CMatt25]

I really don’t consider it all that many steps removed from a Catholic Church being full of animals to be blessed …which I see on a yearly basis. Both seem silly exercises.

my local Catholic, Episcopalian, and Presbyterian churches all do that.

 

[StrawberryJam]

Perhaps not so unusual nowadays for the younger priests to go that path. A young priest at my local parish said in a homily his answer to the poor during the Greatest Recession since the Great Depression was to simply get a job. And I’m sitting there thinkin to myself, Father, do you realize even well educated non poor who have lost jobs are having trouble finding jobs? Saddens me to no end sometimes where the Church may be headed when the younger crowd takes the reigns more. :sad_yes:

He is not having to worry about college tuition. Don’t get me started.

 

[Dale_M]

I really don’t consider it all that many steps removed from a Catholic Church being full of animals to be blessed …which I see on a yearly basis. Both seem silly exercises.

I think blessing of the animals on the feast of St. Francis is a fun custom, yet hardly important. But are you saying that a Catholic church in your area is actually allowing the animals to come inside the church?

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

I’ve said before that I’m a moderate guy. I have several areas where I’m very liberal, several where I’m a conservative

environment–total liberal
animals–total liberal
unions–total liberal
pensions–total liberal
education–liberal
social security-liberal
medicare–liberal
nutrition–liberal (Mr. Organic here)
abortion–conservative
homosexuality–conservative
marriage–conservative
priesthood—conservative
balancing budgets–conservative
military–moderate
trade–liberal (I hate NAFTA and outsourcing)
energy–moderate (both sides have a point)

Alrighty Gurney! If you’re a total liberal in one aspect of your life, there’s hope yet! :yup:

 

[IHeartAquinas]

Perhaps not so unusual nowadays for the younger priests to go that path. A young priest at my local parish said in a homily his answer to the poor during the Greatest Recession since the Great Depression was to simply get a job. And I’m sitting there thinkin to myself, Father, do you realize even well educated non poor who have lost jobs are having trouble finding jobs? Saddens me to no end sometimes where the Church may be headed when the younger crowd takes the reigns more.

I can understand where that priest is coming from, especially during my job search. When people say there are no jobs out there, I can load up about a half dozen websites that have literally THOUSANDS of job postings. I asked a friend of mine who hasn’t been able to find a job for about a year now how many applications he fills out per day and he said “maybe one or two,” yet quite often when I’ve asked him “how many did you fill out today?” his response is none. If you get one callback for every thirty that you submit, and only one callback actually hires you for every ten callbacks you receive, doesn’t it make sense to be filling out as many applications as you can per day?

That being said, those who had established careers, mortgages, etc. and then lost their jobs have a lot harder time of it because an entry-level, minimum wage job simply will not cover their expenses (My bills altogether total less than my parents’ mortgage payment). But at the same time, a job is a job. If you have to sell your house and your car and get an apartment and a cheaper used car so that your family doesn’t end up on the streets because the only job you could find is a minimum wage job, does it not make sense to do these things?

I think the priest in question was not very understanding of the reality of the world outside the church building, and I think you are right in being a bit upset with him, but as a 20-something year old myself who is discerning a vocation and preparing to enter seminary after finishing my undergrad, I don’t think the younger generation is going to be the downfall of the Church. There are as many wonderful, well-intentioned and understanding individuals entering the seminary that want to bring back the reverence of old and instill a greater sense of orthodoxy to the Church. It saddens me greatly when I hear older people discussing younger priests as though they are the source of everything wrong with the Church, when I see seminarians from the seventies and eighties at the helm of liturgical abuses and strange masses and younger seminarians urging greater adherence to the rubrics of the Mass and a stricter interpretation of the Catechism, Tradition, and Scripture.

 

[Soldier_X]

I’ve said before that I’m a moderate guy. I have several areas where I’m very liberal, several where I’m a conservative

environment–total liberal
animals–total liberal
unions–total liberal
pensions–total liberal
education–liberal
social security-liberal
medicare–liberal
nutrition–liberal (Mr. Organic here)
abortion–conservative
homosexuality–conservative
marriage–conservative
priesthood—conservative
balancing budgets–conservative
military–moderate
trade–liberal (I hate NAFTA and outsourcing)
energy–moderate (both sides have a point)

Total liberal: 4
Liberal: 5
Mr. Organic: 1
Moderate: 2
Conservative: 5
Watching Lincecum light up the Diamondbacks tonight: Priceless

 

[Love_Divine]

I got a chuckle out of the topic title. Despite how this issue has been discussed almost to the point that this is a beaten dead horse and people are clearly getting fed up with it, you have to appreciate a good joke. Lighten up, people!

Me too, and then I laughed when I read the article about the dog sticking its tongue out for communion after reading people go on and on about the lack the reverence people have and no one seems to take COTT anymore.

 

[Michael_Francis]

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