QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality”

Alighieri Dante


Also....a true story from the early 70s

In the aftermath of Vatican II, it was customary for parish priests to call their flock together in order to explain the new Mass in the vernacular and other elements such as the role of the parish presidium council and lay readers.
After such a gathering in a Somerset parish hall, the organisers collected up the briefing papers that had been left behind.
On the chair previously occupied by an elderly woman who had sat apart from the rest of the flock was found her programme with the following words written across it:

      "CHRIST SAID 'FEED MY SHEEP,' NOT AMUSE MY GOATS!" 

Quote of the week...

St Robert Southwell SJ

“We are generally accounted men whom it is a credit to pursue, a disgrace to protect, a commodity to spoil, a gain to torture, a glory to kill”….

St Robert Southwell SJ

Father Tigar SJ on 'lapsed' Catholics

This week's extract from Papist Pie...

"If the Catholic Church makes a person truly happy, how do you account for lapsed Catholics?"

Falling away from the practice of religion is due to free-will. Free-will means that the will is free to choose a lower good in preference to a higher one. A man can choose the lower pleasure of getting drunk in preference to the happiness of being sober; he can choose the immediate pleasure of being lazy and neglecting his job, in preference to the sustained pleasure of keeping his job, by working conscientiously.
The Catholic faith does make a man truly happy, because it satisfies his intellect and his higher will, but it demands the sacrifice of his lower appetites, eg., the happiness of assisting at Mass on Sunday demands the sacrifice of the desire to stay in bed. Lapsed Catholics begin by indulging their lower appetites, and doing violence to their higher aspirations.
No one has been known to give up the Catholic faith for a high, or noble or self-sacrificing motive.
The usual motive is a slackness of will, which refuses to face up to the sacrifices involved in the practice of the Catholic faith. Sometimes it is because a Catholic wants to marry someone else's wife or husband. He chooses the lower kind of happiness that comes from the love of a woman in preference to the higher kind of happiness that comes from the love of God.

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