Misunderstood Saint

Most Catholics, and most non-Catholics, misunderstand our saint for the day.  They often times equate him with discipline and sternness.

Far from these limiting adjctives, Saint Josemaria Escriva is more than just that.

Like all other saints, he calls us all to holiness.

And with holiness comes discipline:

You say the Mass is long, he says, because your love is short.

Strong words for some who rush to the parking lot before the final blessing just so they do not get stuck in the mad rush after Mass.

Strong words for those who say the Tridentine Mass is long and boring. This Mass, by the way, has always been the Mass St. Escriva prayed.

Holiness has a price. And it is cheaper than the a one-way ticket to hell.

The miracle brought by Ven. Alvaro del Portillo

The venerable raised the boy to life!!!

We'll anyone from the atheists and agnostics care to explain with science what just happened?

Any takers?

New Venerable Servants of God!

Two great bishops are moving closer to their elevation to the honors of the Altar!

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Vatican City, (VIS) - Today, during a private audience with Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Pope authorised the Congregation to promulgate the following decrees:....

- Servant of God Fulton Sheen, American archbishop, and former bishop of Rochester (1895-1979).

- Servant of God Alvaro del Portillo y Diez de Sollano, Spanish prelate of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (1914-1994).


Read more about this great news here.

Someone is in BIG trouble

This is a true account and I got this info from a friend who is a member of the Opus Dei.

The Opus Dei is celebrating the feast of their founder, St. Josemaria Escriva today in at least one church in each diocese.

So they approached this very well known church in Quezon City dedicated to a well-known image of our Lady.

On the eleventh hour, a day before the Mass, the new parish priest is asking the group to pay P10,000.00 for the use of the massive church.  And he has other conditions...

The Mass for St. Josemaria today cannot be said on a regular scheduled Mass of the day.  So it may be on the dead hours of the afternoon where most of the numerary and supernumerary of Opus Dei are working.

P10,000.00?!?

On any other hour except the regular Mass hours?!?

Why not just say no to the group and get done with it?

Ooops.  I forgot.  He cannot outright say that or he'll be reported straight to Rome where the Prelature's "headquarters" are located.

Such a pity for a member of a MENDICANT ORDER to ask for money and be coyly hostile against a group who has done nothing but good things for the Church, let alone stand against the heresies of our time.  Wasn't the founder of this order the HAMMER of those heretics?

Go figure out.

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UPDATE:  The last I heard is that the name of this NEW parish priest is being sent to Rome.  Guess someone has a LOT of explaining to do.

BREAKING NEWS: Opus Dei Archbishop to replace Baloney ehrm... Mahoney in LA!

The American Papist is reporting that Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio, Texas will be appointed coadjutor-archbishop to the forgettable Roger "why he became a" Cardinal Mahony as archbishop of Los Angeles.


Knowing the legacy Cardinal Mahony leaves in LA like the once a year liturgical and theological dissent woodstock called Religous Education Congress, the sexual abuse cases (where he knows first hand of the case of Oliver O'Grady, isn't it time that a conservative bishop from Opus Dei, (hey Dan Brown, something for you to write again!) would lead in the massive house cleaning?

Pray for both men.

Pray for Cardinal Mahoney that he repents his sins...

Pray for Archbishop Gomez that he be steadfast in following faithfully the Vicar of Christ and that he be strengthened and never waver in the enormous task ahead.

Guess we hope not to see a dancing deacon and bishop in next years Religious Ed Congress, eh?

And maybe the Taj Mahoney needs a little redecoration and reconsecration?

Too much? Maybe.

Time to sing Na, na, na, na, hey, hey, GOODBYE!