Priest Calls out Vigilantes in bulletin

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DisorientingSneeze said:
To the degree that this is a gang of mostly women who give superstitious tips about using holy water in your washing machine and bad medical advice about onions turning black on your nightstand if the devil is in your house, it is a gang.
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That’s really something.
 
It never ceases to amaze me how often we have good intentions to “help” someone and are blind to how uncharitable some of our comments can be. We have seen that demonstrated over and over in some of the threads in here.

Yes, we are called to a high standard, but ya gotta get into the mindset of the person you’re trying to correct.

True story. My sister (well, half sister), is Jewish Christian. She, for her marriage, did go thru RCIA, but very poorly catecised (in my opinion). I convinced her to get herself to confession, and took her to Mass with me. It took perhaps a month before one of the (few) vigilantes “fraternally corrected” her on how she was taking communion, and undid 5 years of work with one sentence.

Some people are fragile. That was 2 years ago. I’m still undoing the anti-Catholic view, and, if I live long enough, may get her back on track.
 
DisorientingSneeze said:
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gang members or mobsters to be honest.
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To the degree that this is a gang of mostly women who give superstitious tips about using holy water in your washing machine and bad medical advice about onions turning black on your nightstand if the devil is in your house, it is a gang.
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What in the world?! 😱
 
StephieNorthCo said:
It took perhaps a month before one of the (few) vigilantes “fraternally corrected” her on how she was taking communion, and undid 5 years of work with one sentence.
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I’m so sorry. That’s one of my worst fears when it comes to any progress being made in the conversion of my inlaws. It’s such a let down when that happens, about something so important! Relationships matter when you are correcting people.
 
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Ok I’m going to be 100% honest here. If I hadn’t had a positive catholic school experience, and a solid faith experience growing up, I don’t know if I would be a catholic based on my adult experience and experience on these forums. I’ve met some just incredible people as an adult, but some real “personalities” as well. There is also the issue of peoples’ opinions superseding fact (when did this become fashionable ). To be clear I am as guilty as anyone, and quite frankly I give any credit to the nuns and people of good faith who taught us for any positive attributes I may have held onto. We have to try to keep this tradition going. Our kids and others are depending on this. If we are the lights in the world how are we shining?
And here is the unpleasant part. I’ve seen many times, and I’m as guilty as anyone, some of the more prolific posters on this forum presume intent, impune motive, judge souls, retaliate against those who simply disagree with them, and absolutely pummel other posters. What is this about? I’ve found it almost impossible to ask for advice, and seen it happen to soooooo many other posters, as the threads descend quickly into “oh your just an idiot” of some form of another. This isn’t what we are supposed to be doing. We can do better. Do speak your mind, and please do stand up for truth, even if it’s not popular, but do it with charity. On this note I’m taking some of my own advice and taking a couple weeks off these forums to reflect. I think this homily is a bit of advice for a lot of us.
 
11101 said:
parody of church ladies. another joke.
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I wish I were kidding. Those are actual examples from a discussion about night terrors that got out of control. One of the more influential ladies thinks they don’t exist. It is a very small parish with many level headed people, but there are some really odd and strongly held beliefs from the stronger personalities. They instinctively hide much of the strangest beliefs and behaviors from the parish priest because deep down they must suspect he would correct them.
 
Yes. The woman who frequently uses her having more kids than everyone as her credentials for being right, told this other mom who was scared of what happened with her kid at night(what she described was night terrors) that demons are tormenting her children and the sheets should be washed with holy water. I like holywater as much as the next person, but a sprinkling will do and night terrors are a real condition.
 
I’ve had a grocery incident; bought an onion and found it to be black on the inside! Ticked me off! Does that mean the devil was in the supermarket? lol

Did have an 11 year old granddaughter chastised by a busybody for her attire being sleeveless and somehow offensive. Needless to say, she was fraternally corrected and an apology was accepted.
 
grotto said:
I’ve had a grocery incident; bought an onion and found it to be black on the inside! Ticked me off! Does that mean the devil was in the supermarket? lol
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Would explain how my kids behave in the supermarket if he was! (JOKE. I’m pointing out jokes now because truth is stranger than fiction)

I accidentally bought my first black onion recently. My husband and I proceeded to ask eachother the same questions about what that is and if we can safely cut around it, each expecting the other person to have secret onion knowledge the other didn’t have.
 
Nigel7 said:
But if their daughter wasn’t dressed as a prostitute at mass every Sunday then nobody would have said anything to her parents about it.
Cuts both ways, Father.
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Unfortunately, some people think anything short of dressing like June Cleaver equals “dressing like a prostitute.”
 
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Nigel7:
But if their daughter wasn’t dressed as a prostitute at mass every Sunday then nobody would have said anything to her parents about it.
Cuts both ways, Father.
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Was this comment really necessary? 😒
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At the very least it demonstrated the attitude that priest is trying to combat!
 
Just curious – since the priest said that there is a time for addressing the problem, how will he address the issue? Or has he already? Because I think these fraternal corrections probably “never” happen.
 
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He has been addressing them individually where he can and will talk about things like this in homilies as needed.
 
DisorientingSneeze said:
He has been addressing them individually where he can and will talk about things like this in homilies as needed.
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Hmmm. So people think that young people would prefer to be personally approached by their priest about their inappropriate clothing / whatever, rather than a busybody old lady? Okay…😃
 
Loud-living-dogma said:
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DisorientingSneeze:
He has been addressing them individually where he can and will talk about things like this in homilies as needed.
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Hmmm. So people think that young people would prefer to be personally approached by their priest about their inappropriate clothing / whatever, rather than a busybody old lady? Okay…😃
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I misunderstood, I thought you meant the vigilante issue. No I don’t think he is doing that individually. I think he has bigger fish to fry than how people dress.
 
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