Friends!
I just received some counsel from a visiting confessor that it might be best for me to take a time out from following His Holiness. Mind you, he did not tell me to stop blogging, but then again it is hard to blog without examining headlines and those headlines are likely to have something to do with His Holiness.
Please pray for me! These times, where we are almost daily bombarded with some rumor about the Church shifting its stances and creeds and practices, have certainly knocked the wind out of me! Sometimes I feel my personal faith hangs by a thread and the Holy Father need only load it down with one more revolutionary pronouncement and it will snap! Where do I go then? I raised my children in this Faith. I taught them that the Church cannot mislead. If the Church is simply another denomination and apparently one that has much to learn from her 'separated brethren' and indeed to catchup with them--- Now! do you see my sadness? I'm beginning to feel like one of John the Baptist's disciples asking our Lord if they should look for another. It will be a welcome vacation to pretend for a while that....
1) the Pope is far away and his future plans have little to do with me
2) the Pope stands in harmony with his 260+ predecessors and any noise to the contrary has to be wrong
3) the Pope has good will towards Catholic traditionalists
signing off for now.....
kc
I just received some counsel from a visiting confessor that it might be best for me to take a time out from following His Holiness. Mind you, he did not tell me to stop blogging, but then again it is hard to blog without examining headlines and those headlines are likely to have something to do with His Holiness.
Please pray for me! These times, where we are almost daily bombarded with some rumor about the Church shifting its stances and creeds and practices, have certainly knocked the wind out of me! Sometimes I feel my personal faith hangs by a thread and the Holy Father need only load it down with one more revolutionary pronouncement and it will snap! Where do I go then? I raised my children in this Faith. I taught them that the Church cannot mislead. If the Church is simply another denomination and apparently one that has much to learn from her 'separated brethren' and indeed to catchup with them--- Now! do you see my sadness? I'm beginning to feel like one of John the Baptist's disciples asking our Lord if they should look for another. It will be a welcome vacation to pretend for a while that....
1) the Pope is far away and his future plans have little to do with me
2) the Pope stands in harmony with his 260+ predecessors and any noise to the contrary has to be wrong
3) the Pope has good will towards Catholic traditionalists
signing off for now.....
kc
I hope you're not gone for long. We need sane voices who continue to adhere to unchanging objective truths. The whole world is gone mad, the diabolic disorientation is everywhere especially among our Church leaders. Blessed Michael the Archangel defend us in battle . . .
ReplyDeleteAmen,je suis d'accord.Même nos prêtres nous laissent tomber et nous sommes seuls à nous battre sans les armes des prêtres.
DeleteThe Bear sympathizes. It can help to write about things not connected with the Pope in any way (other than, well, he's the Pope, and you're a Catholic blogger). It is tempting to check out Vatican News for the latest off-the-cuff homily, but one or two times a week there is going to be something weird somewhere (if not more often). Try writing about the Faith for a week, how to set up a home shrine, how to consecrate yourself to Mary, a saint bio, something.
ReplyDeleteThe Bear will say a prayer for you.
Thanks so much!
DeleteI will try to post on some non-papal topics soon. I've an apologetics piece I've been working for many months....aimed at agnostics. Also I have reading Tom Holland's book on the origins of Islam. I'll post up some of my thoughts soon. Keep praying for me!
Hope you come back soon....your sanity is missed.
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