Real Idolatry in the Catholic Church

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The photo shows him standing in the pulpit

The article misrepresented what was taking place in the headline.

We can’t count on what they said actually took place.

Jim
 
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Some people say that if you go too far with money, power, food, gambling or any other thing can lead to idolatry. CCC 2113 on idolatry says " man commits adultery when he honors and Revere’s a creature in the place of God, weather this be god or demons ( for example, satanism) power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc. Jesus says, you cannot serve God and mammon.

Now if you’re clergy in church giving a homily and you or psyched up about the NFL while giving a homily. Who is really coming first? I don’t know the heart of that deacon but it can lead to a slippery slope if we have things like this in the church. Next thing Halloween and everybody will dress up in their favorite costumes and attend Mass.

We need to remember that this is God’s house!
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I know a lot of people don’t agree with me and that’s okay like I said God is the one to judge. But we are all called to be His desiples and speak up when something is wrong especially in the Church.
 
The OP article doesn’t provide details, merely judgment of what they say the Deacon did during the Eucharist.

But they say in the headline, that he did it “During the Eucharist.”

What does during the Eucharist mean ?

The deacon is show standing in the pulpit, so obviously not during the Consecration or during Holy Communion.

Most likely, at the beginning of his homily and the mask looks too uncomfortable to be worn throughout the homily. It doesn’t say, but I doubt that was the case.

Jim
 
We always like to give the benefit of the doubt to the church but the Church does make wrong decisions. I love the Catholic Church that’s why I don’t like to see this happening. Latin Mass’ are so pretty and reverent there is no clapping in worship announcements. Just you are focused in the front and center the Tabernacle on where the body and blood of the Risen Lord is.

And I understand that’s not for some people they believe differently I respect that. But what I can’t respect is someone use football are any other thing to get the message across. I like my priest his homilies are about what the Gospel meant in jesus’ day.
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My Deacon does at my church and I know that he’s not supposed to. That’s what I mean by the clergy needs to be taught better
 
Actually the Deacon holds the chalice as the Priest holds the Consecrated Host.

Deacons are taught to do this and are allowed to.

They have received the sacrament of Holy Orders and are ordinary ministers in the Liturgy.

Jim
 
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So I guess Paul was a judge too.in Gal. 2:14 Paul stood up to Kephas ( Peter ) in front of ALL, do you, though I need you, or living like a gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

This is what happened when Paul caught Peter being a hypocrite by drawing back from the Gentiles.
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Amen JimR-OCDS. When people do anything out of the ordinary for 1 minute in the pulpit I know they are going to get the wrath of all the people who like to write mile-long posts hollering about irreverence on their case.

I tend to think, as I believe Fr. David posted in the other thread, maybe the picture being snapped and then going viral on social media was perhaps not a great judgment call on the part of the deacon. But when we have a world in serious sin, the fact that a deacon popped a mask on for a minute for a humorous quip or an attention-getter is not even on my radar screen of stuff to get wound up over.

It’s one thing to say, as many people on here did, “I don’t like this” or “Mass is not the place for this” and then move on, but there’s no need to carry on like this guy just committed the 7 Capital Sins and is angling to be the next Martin Luther.
 
Why don’t you think he’s not supposed to? That’s his proper role at that point in the Mass.
 
There was already a thread on this, but you started another. A lapse in judgment perhaps?
 
But you yourself said “God is the one to judge.”

Now you’re grasping at straws trying to use this verse from Scripture to justify yourself.

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Wow indeed. I guess since Pope Francis enjoys soccer, he didn’t get the memo on this.

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http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/the-deacon-at-mass.cfm

This link was on my first link. It says on what a Deacon’s job is during a Mass. It is not to put on a dogs mask for a second. It is how to be reverent during Mass and to kneel when the Liturgy of the Eucharist is being done not to lift the Chalice only the sacred hands of a priest can do that.

http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-x...ments/hf_p-xii_enc_20111947_mediator-dei.html

It says in paragraph six:
Sacred rites should be performed with due external dignity!
This is not just and altar we come to. It is a cross on a hill.
 
A little unusual. Never saw a celebrant wearing a dog’s mass during the homily. Not sure though whether it is a sacrilege.

Obviously, it is quite creative of the celebrant.

We can pray for our team and game. Why, we can also say mass also for them.

Wish we have a deacon in our football team. At least the boys are wholsesomely still being spiritual. They can do much worse.
 
From the USCCB site you linked;
At the final doxology of the Eucharistic Prayer, the deacon stands next to the priest, and after the priest (or Bishop) hands him the chalice, he elevates the chalice as the priest raises the paten with the Eucharistic bread, until the people have responded with the acclamation Amen (no. 180).
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