Fr. Marchionda

[Mimi]

Fr. Jim Marchionda is coming to do a mission at our parish in a couple weeks, along with Sisiter Ann Willits. They are both Dominicans

I’m just wondering if anyone has experienced his missionary work, preaching style, and (hate to mention it) orthodoxy. His masters in theology is from Aquinas Institute, St. Louis, Mo, so I probably should not be suspect.

After what happened last year with the video of Sr Chittister, I’m afraid I feel obligated to check.

I hope and pray it will be a great success and light a fire in many lukewarm souls!


God bless,

Mimi

 

[Joannm]

Fr. Jim Marchionda is coming to do a mission at our parish in a couple weeks, along with Sisiter Ann Willits. They are both Dominicans

I’m just wondering if anyone has experienced his missionary work, preaching style, and (hate to mention it) orthodoxy. His masters in theology is from Aquinas Institute, St. Louis, Mo, so I probably should not be suspect.

After what happened last year with the video of Sr Chittister, I’m afraid I feel obligated to check.

I hope and pray it will be a great success and light a fire in many lukewarm souls!


God bless,

Mimi

I met Fr. Jim once, I sat next to him at a concert. I didn’t know he did retreat work. I only know him as a composer.

 

[Mimi]

Well, the mission is on; started yesterday and continues until tomorrow night.

A book is for sale by theologian Robert Ludwig. Here’s an article with his name in it which says he is on the speaking circuit to dissident groups such as Call to Action.
catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=4610

My spiritual “radar” seems to be on target.

excerpt:
While some bishops took a preemptive strike against the Call to Action clone
Voice of the Faithful setting up chapters in their dioceses and parishes,
Bishop Joseph Charron of Des Moines invited Dr. Robert A. Ludwig, a regular
on the Call to Action and Dignity circuits, to offer three days of “faith
formation,” October 18, 19, and 20, to all Catholic school teachers,
catechists, youth ministers, pastors, Catholic parents, pastoral staffs, and
grandparents.

Dr. Ludwig, director of university ministry and professor of Catholic
studies at De Paul University in Chicago, author of Reconstructing
Catholicism for a New Generation, is an expert at “deconstructing
Catholicism” - as his signature in support on the Voice of the Faithful
petition indicates. It appears there with some of the most notorious
Catholic dissenters in the United States, including Sr. Margaret Farley,
R.S.M., of Yale, a radical feminist.

I am saddened that this continues to be the direction our parish is heading and being led. I don't know how much longer I can stand it.

Blessed lent
Mimi