Catholic and Loving it!

There are two kinds of blogs, blogs by important people and blogs by nobodies. We are definitely in the latter category.

People certainly don't read this blog because we are important people, the overwhelming majority of our readers are only here to make sure we aren't talking about them because they labour under the impression that somebody important might be reading. Ha! The rest of you are only here because they enjoy it when I say hurtful things. You beasts!

Anyways, today we got a link from Damian Thompson, it doesn't make us important people, but it's nice to be noticed by somebody who edits a newspaper.

I definitely agree with Damian's suggestion for the offertory: How about an extra gift of sick bags for the congregation? I have to say, I think the comments over there are excellent, here's some of my favourites...

Damian Thompson

As a personal gesture of non-soldarity with this stunt. I have just made a cup of coffee, filling the kettle TO THE VERY BRIM and then pouring the remainder down the sink. May I suggest that Holy Smokers follow my example?

Mystic Mug

I think we should recycle the Bishops.

Shepherds Pie anyone?

joseph

Apart from the horror, for a moment this was hilarious:

"For over-filling our kettles"

I genuinely thought this was a youthfully trendy euphemism for social or sexual excess. I fact I thought it rather good, even if completely out of place in Mass. I was trying to think of all the besetting ways I overfill mine regularly.

Then reading the NYS notes you link to, I see it LITERALLY means for over-filling our kettles.

BEYOND PATHETIC. Bishops, you make me weep. You wouldn't even get a job in a primary school.

Will Touch

Do the Church think their youth don't understand the mass? This is about as in touch with what young Catholics believe, as an aged, pervy, drunk uncle would be, trying to dance with his niece at a family Christmas party.

Full Laudian Frontal

Joseph: I laughed out loud at your wonderful misinterpretation. I can just imagine, in my university days, staggering into lectures in the morning saying "Boy, did I overfill my kettle last night!"

Benedict Carter

This really is the kind of stuff that in healthier times would have induced a planet-saving, resource-saving, marvellously emotion-cleansing bout of violence, the end result would have been no damn lefties, no damn planet-savers and no damn Catholics from the anti-Christ wing of the Church.

Now that's what I call recycling waste.

Richard

I know young folk going through angry far left (and far right) wing phases but none who are taken in by this creepy faux niceness. Who chooses to go to these Youth Sunday jamborees? Why don't they organise Latin Masses for young fogeys like Marcel?! That would be in the spirit of fairness, choice and inclusivity.

Borzoi

Wow. I would really love to know what they were smoking. It must be some pretty amazing stuff.

Raynardine

"As a personal gesture of non-soldarity with this stunt. I have just made a cup of coffee, filling the kettle TO THE VERY BRIM and then pouring the remainder down the sink. May I suggest that Holy Smokers follow my example?"

Well, I over-filled the kettle, made myself some coffee and then poured the remainder down the front of my trousers.

I realise I may have taken this a bit too far.

first things first

Does anyone else think that the Youth Sunday Liturgies advocated by our Bishops appear to be heavily influenced by Cafod?

Mark

The real way to separate this out would be to see whether this LiveSimply campaign also tells the teens to not have premarital sex and to stay away from contraception and homosexuality. All of those things are part of life in the flesh and are not part of life in the spirit.

What's odd about the left is that they preach asceticism when it comes to property and work, but not to personal holiness. It's as if they say that you can be holy if you refuse to drink anything except fair-trade coffee, but that if you're sleeping with whoever you want that's OK.

G. K. Chesterton talked about how people will prize a minor virtue but will ignore a major vice.

Newminster

Do our bishops not understand the extent to which they are being made fools of?

Damian Thompson

The problem is that the Bishops' Conference is trying to force this nonsense on parishes all over the country, so it could happen anywhere there's a trendy, weak or ambitious priest.

I reckon there are several bishops who won't approve of this - they won't have bothered to check it out, and if it's drawn to their attention they'll be unhappy. But will ANY of them speak out? POD, perhaps. The others will keep their heads down, as usual. That's something our bishops excel at.

bernadette

I will never be able to fill my kettle again without sniggering.

There's no way anyone normal will be following any of this advice for the feast of Christ the King. Seriously. With a few million more people on the dole by then, Green Politics will be over. Out of touch yet again.

Live Simply? Most people don`t have a choice actually, you middle-class Chianti-drinking twerps.

Michael Australis

Well, it is breath-taking in its utter banality, let alone its sad & patronising "with it" attitude to "the kids". And for the Feast of Christ the King? Who wants to bet they are going to try and rename it "Christ the Eco-Warrior".

Again, Sociologist rodney Stark's observation that "Religions that ask nothing get nothing" comes to mind. This sort of platitudinous claptrap asks nothing spiritual, intellectual or emotional from its supposed target group. Instead of cahllenging it patronises them, it talks down. It is rubbish.

Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.

For me, the money quote is this... Do our bishops not understand the extent to which they are being made fools of?

Oh, and I agree with this... I reckon there are several bishops who won't approve of this - they won't have bothered to check it out, and if it's drawn to their attention they'll be unhappy. But will ANY of them speak out? POD, perhaps. The others will keep their heads down, as usual.

Just down the road from here, lived St John Fisher. A Bishop who stood for what was right even when all the Bishops of England stood against him.

We should pray to St John Fisher, because we need a Bishop like him right now.

In the meantime, I'm off to over-fill my kettle...

* snigger *