Santa Claus during the homily

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I certainly see a lot less discussion of those topics on here than on liturgical issues.
 
It is not a zero sum game. We can fight for human rights AND be saddened by liturgical abuse and chew gum, all at the same time.
 
I thing you should speak to father and educate him that this is a sacrifice where we return to Calvary in and unbloody sacrifice of the Christ. The homily should be on the readings of the Old Testament and New Testament, some priest apply it to today’s living. He should explain of what it meant with the tradition at the time so Catholics can have a better understanding of the readings and how they lived back then.

So for this priest to put on a play with Santa Claus instead of worship like the early Church Father’s and saints did is not worship at all. I would have walked out because that is not worship. But today in our Seminaries are full of Protestant professors and Catholics that teach that there is no hell that it was just a story so people would become righteous. Don’t believe me there are good priest that wittiness this. ( Listen to father John Corapi) I witnessed this myself when in confession with a priest I asked him if I could go to hell because of this sin he said" no, God is all loving". I know God is all loving but if you commit a mortal sin you send yourself to hell because of the thing God gave us called free will. He doesn’t send us to hell.

Hell is a real place the CCC tells us it is.
It is ashame that we are getting priest that have been tought the wrong theology about the Catholic Church. I hope it changes for you in your parish. If father doesn’t listen to you bring it to the bishop. God bless
 
Yes, St Nicholas is very real, and yes Santa Clause is a corruption of his Dutch name… but that doesn’t mean that reindeer or the North Pole have anything to do with the authentic cult of St Nicholas. These are secular corruptions.
 
FiveLinden said:
Yes. They are the costumes of 4th century Rome.
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Can you provide a source for this?

You know, all the first Christians were Jews, right? And their clothing was germaine to Palestine?

In any case, the Eastern Church did not follow Latin customs, so their vestments do not reflect “costumes of 4th Century Rome”. How do you fit those into “national”?
 
guanophore said:
Can you provide a source for this?

You know, all the first Christians were Jews, right? And their clothing was germaine to Palestine?

In any case, the Eastern Church did not follow Latin customs, so their vestments do not reflect “costumes of 4th Century Rome”. How do you fit those into “national”?
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Well, you could try reading the article on vestments in the Catholic Encyclopaedia:

It cannot be decided positively how far this development was consummated by means of mere custom, and how far by positive ecclesiastical legislation. However, it may be taken as certain that the growth of a priestly dress did not proceed everywhere at an equal pace, and it is very probable that this development was completed earlier and more rapidly in the East than in Western Europe, and that the Orient was the prototype for Western Europe, at least with regard to certain garments (stole and pallium). It was of much importance for the forming of a special priestly costume differing from the garments ordinarily worn, that the poenula (cloak or mantle) and the long tunic, which came into universal use in the third century and were also worn in the offices of the Church, were gradually replaced in daily life, from about the sixth century, by the shorter tunic and the more convenient open mantle. The Church did not join in this return to the former fashion, but retained the existing costume, which was more suitable to the dignity of the Divine offices; this fact in itself was the beginning of a rubrically distinct priestly dress. As regards the influence of Rome upon the development of a liturgical costume in other parts of Western Europe, such influence cannot have been of much importance outside of Italy before the eighth century. The case, however, was different in the eighth century, and as early as the ninth century Roman custom was authoritative nearly everywhere in the West. The great simplicity of the liturgical dress in the pre-Carlovingian era is very striking. The dignified shape with many folds that is constantly met in the sculpture and pictures of that era did not in fact require decoration, which at that time was limited almost exclusively to the clavi, the red ornamental trimming of the dalmatic.
 
That is so true, we want to show people the richness of the Catholic Church what the Church Father’s saw. They knew how special the Eucharist was St. Ignatius said where ever the bishop shall appear , let the multitude be also be even as wherever, Jesus Christ is so is the Catholic Church. Written in about,107 AD.

He said Catholic Church so the name was around it wasn’t the first time it was mentioned.
 
Another thought is that the Catholic Church has a VERY long history of taking the secular and using it to teach the faith. I doubt most people object to greenery or Christmas trees in the Church at Christmas, but they too were a secular thing.

An interesting take on things:

www.crisismagazine.com

In Defense of Santa Claus

When I was attending Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas—the precise year and semester, I have forgotten—I met the first opposition to Santa Claus. I had known that there were people who did not…
www.crisismagazine.com www.crisismagazine.com
 
ktmeyer said:
Another thought is that the Catholic Church has a VERY long history of taking the secular and using it to teach the faith.
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Indeed, Jesus set the standard for us, using stories about farming, shepherding, housecleaning, cooking, and many other “mundane” activies to teach the faith!
 
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