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Kids "playing" Mass?

I am glad Fr. Z made a post about this after a reader asked a question if kids are committing a sin for simulating Mass.

In fact, that is a very valid question.  In Canon Law, it is very specific what will happen to a person who simulates doing the Mass.

Let us see the entry in the Canon.

Can. 1378 §1. A priest who acts against the prescript of ⇒ can. 977 incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.

§2. The following incur a latae sententiae penalty of interdict or, if a cleric, a latae sententiae penalty of suspension:

1/ a person who attempts the liturgical action of the Eucharistic sacrifice though not promoted to the sacerdotal order; 

A person under interdict forbids that person to celebrate or receive any of the sacraments, including the Eucharist, or to celebrate the sacramentals. One who is under interdict is also forbidden to take any ministerial part (e.g., as a Lector or Acolyte if a layperson or as a deacon or priest if a clergyman) in the celebration of the Eucharist or of any other ceremony of public worship.

These penalties apply to those person who have incurred, as mentioned by the canon, a laetae sententiae interdict or an automatic interdict committed at the time of the offense.

This type of interdict applies to ALL CATHOLICS WHO JOIN FORBIDDEN ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE MASONIC LODGE!

Catholics who are Masons are also forbidden to stand, as the Canon stipulates, as godfather to baptisms, confirmations and weddings!

But getting back...

Kids "playing" Mass, sinning?!

Fr. Z, was right!

They do not!

Why?

Simple!

Kids do not do that with MALICE!

Adults are in the age of reason, and they KNOW that it is wrong to do that, especially if it is not during a stage play!

Kids do it not for fun.  Kids do it because they EMULATE what they see.

See it as more like when we were kids we fool around doing what the Three Stooges do to each other.

Kids playing Mass?  A quick way to foster priestly vocation!

Let me share this video from a good friend of his only son, playing Mass.



PS: If my daughter would do this, she'd be grounded. No more TV! :)

I'd rather buy her a complete set of what Mother Angelica and her nuns are wearing. :)

UPDATE: Australian priest who married a Filipina

Well, he might actually fooled the poor Filipina.

He did not tell her that he is a priest in active ministry.

And he was not removed from the ministry.

He kicked his own behind, well....figuratively.

And here is the bishop of the diocese, Most. Rev. Anthony Fisher, OP of Parramatta, explaining the truth about the case of Fr. Kevin Lee case.  Well, we expect that he'll be removed from his laicized or defrocked as well.

Many thanks to Fr. Tom.

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An anti-Catholic rant on my comments page

And I couldn't help but post it here.  :)

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Tell me Queen of heaven defenders [Ooooo,  I like the title!  Thanks!]  how are you gonna pay your historical crimes, [the what now?] the bloody jihad/crusades, [Muslims attacked and what do you do?  Read history books laddie and you'll see what good the crusades did.]  the people you killed in the reformation era, [like who?  Reformation?  is it just the Catholics?  Protestants did it too.  Ever heard of St. Thomas More?]  is the 6.5 murdered Jews (Holocausts), [Dumb.  Nazi thing becoming a Catholic thing.  Duh!]  the Spanish inquisition, [Ever read that the Pope was asking the Spanish Crown to stop the Inquisition?  Guess you did not read that part also.] your priests who killed Rizal, [Who did? Did what?  Good grief!  Jesuit priests were present during his execution.  Rizal recanted Freemasonry because of Catholic priests!]  the altar boys/gals your perverted priests raped, [Yeah there were those.  But never heard of altar girls getting raped....Hmmm...Dan Brown wrote that or the tooth fairy told you so.  Well, ever heard of Born-again pastors raping his followers?  Guess you did not read that also, eh?]  the present spiritual prostitution-Universal Ecumenism with pagans, etc. [Do I smell someone from SSPX around here?]  If the Biblical Christ [What Bible are you using, dude?  66 books or all 73 of it?]  will come are you 100% assured He will recognize you? [Are you?]  Remember he said not everyone who said to me Lord lord will enter the kingdom of God but only those who do the will of my Father.

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Great thing he said those last lines..

Because 2,000 years of unbroken lineage from Jesus Christ to Peter to St. Pius V to Pope Benedict XVI is your assurance that the Catholic Church is the Church founded by Christ on earth.  Kingdoms and empires have fallen.  Emperors, monarchs, despots and dictators have risen and fallen but the Catholic Church still stands.

So go ahead, read the Bible.  It's a noble and righteous thing to do.

But do not use it against the Catholic Church and Her sons and daughters.  The very Church you are attacking is the same Church that gave you that Book you are holding.

If you could ever find a piece in history that tells you that it  was not the Catholic Church that gave you the Bible then I will CONVERT.  I will meet you in public and I will CONVERT.  If you cannot, then I invite you to attend a catechism class in a Catholic parish near you.

Being young, left along in your room by your parents, and reading conspiracy theories won't get you anywhere.

Study, earn a living through decent and honest work, and be a good citizen of this country.

And best of all:  REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOOD NEWS which only COMES from the CATHOLIC CHURCH.

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