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We all strive for and are committed to living life as a Roman Catholic Christian. Yet is there one person that you have known that could be called an “Uber” Catholic (Uber being the German word for Super)? Is there one person in your life who is more Roman Catholic than Roman Catholic, who could make the pope look like a flaming Protestant in comparison?
I once knew this one man, a fellow seminarian named O’Flynn. O’Flynn was not just Roman Catholic, he was Ultra IRISH Roman Catholic. He had an extreme devotion to the Blessed Virgin, firmly convinced that Our Lady of Cork was THE apparition, forget Fatima! He had a very deep distain for Protestants and barely tolerated Eastern-Rite Catholics, saying that he accepted them as Catholics, yet if they knew better they would embrace Roman Catholicism! Yes, I know many will be offended by this, but it was so funny when he said it. When a fellow seminarian was going over to study for the priesthood with the Ukrainian-Rite Catholics, O’Flynn actually begged him not to leave the Roman Catholic Church and study with “those people”!
He was uncompromising, hard as a rock, and green to the point of NEVER wearing orange. He may sound like a complete jerk, but he was just very, VERY Roman Catholic, from his devotion to Mary to his fluency in Latin and Gaelic, to his lighting of a candle next to his oversized portrait of Pope Pius XII. O’Flynn was THE Uber Catholic.
Anyone else know one?
I once knew this one man, a fellow seminarian named O’Flynn. O’Flynn was not just Roman Catholic, he was Ultra IRISH Roman Catholic. He had an extreme devotion to the Blessed Virgin, firmly convinced that Our Lady of Cork was THE apparition, forget Fatima! He had a very deep distain for Protestants and barely tolerated Eastern-Rite Catholics, saying that he accepted them as Catholics, yet if they knew better they would embrace Roman Catholicism! Yes, I know many will be offended by this, but it was so funny when he said it. When a fellow seminarian was going over to study for the priesthood with the Ukrainian-Rite Catholics, O’Flynn actually begged him not to leave the Roman Catholic Church and study with “those people”!
He was uncompromising, hard as a rock, and green to the point of NEVER wearing orange. He may sound like a complete jerk, but he was just very, VERY Roman Catholic, from his devotion to Mary to his fluency in Latin and Gaelic, to his lighting of a candle next to his oversized portrait of Pope Pius XII. O’Flynn was THE Uber Catholic.
Anyone else know one?