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and i let myself be duped and i let myself be duped the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you re uncool lester bangs tuesday june 24 2008 ok ok by popular request i m doing something a little different here but sorry no comments posted by mark mossa sj at 4 56 pm 3 comments monday june 16 2008 more ordination photos posted by mark mossa sj at 3 52 pm 4 comments saturday june 14 2008 the day has come i ll post some more photos of my ordination when i have some but in the meantime check out the mobile blogged version courtesy of my friend mike hayes at googling god who was there in person i should also have some photos to share soon on my flickr account posted by mark mossa sj at 5 19 pm 6 comments thursday april 17 2008 thanks no not a return just taking the opportunity to say thanks to you all for your kind comments and e mails this week a leaven to the thesis writer as some of you have expressed concern my plan for now is to keep the blog where it is in case we get nostalgic and if you re up for it come on down with gratitude to god the new orleans province of the society of jesus announces the ordination to the presbyterate of jose emilio fetzer s j and mark steven mossa s j to be conferred by most reverend joseph a fiorenza d d archbishop emeritus of galveston houston on saturday the fourteenth of june two thousand and eight at eleven o clock in the morning immaculate conception church 130 baronne street new orleans la posted by mark mossa sj at 1 18 am 10 comments wednesday april 09 2008 farewell i began blogging after finding myself victim to a certain amount of slander see when jesuits attack for writing a not wholly complimentary review of a book by george weigel in my subsequent dialogue with the author of the post who publicly apologized for making uncharitable presumptions about me merely based on that review i thought i saw an opportunity an opportunity to bridge a gap between people of different perspectives in the church so i threw my hat into the fray and it was fun for a while it even appeared that i might make some progress in this endeavor and perhaps even accomplish some goals that i had set for myself in becoming aware of the various dimensions of the catholic blogosphere trying to encourage some positive discourse and hoping to offer a counterweight to the negative and unfair caricature of the society of jesus which obtains in many a corner of that blogosphere and at first there seemed to be some hope of success at this and there are still a coterie of bloggers you know who you are that give me hope in this regard yet i ve grown tired of swimming against the tide the most negative of catholic blogs still continue to be the most popular and like myself the more positive bloggers seem to be posting with far less frequency the recent general congregation has only provide more fodder for negative speculation among those who hate the society of jesus and indeed some who claim to love it and finally coming full circle in a sense i recently again found myself the victim of slander falsely accused of being uncharitably slanderous myself and not by a stranger like in the first case but this time by a friend by someone who should have known better that almost no one it seems found this hard to believe just demonstrates what we have come to expect in the catholic blogosphere charity it seems is not among those things it has become and perhaps always has been a poisonous atmosphere which i no longer desire to be a part of nonetheless i have made some good friends as a result of my time here and for this i am most grateful some of those friends were able to be with me at my diaconate ordination and some will also be guests at my ordination to the priesthood in june it is this result of my time blogging which i can most celebrate i may not have succeeded in convincing anybody of anything the catholic blogosphere may be nastier than ever but i can celebrate a community of good friends with whom i have had the privilege of journeying in these years and whose friendship i hope to maintain but it will be in other ways recent months have been difficult for me and the episode i describe above was just the tip of the iceberg but the blessing and grace has been that it has forced me to examine what is most important in my life right now in a little over two months i will be ordained a priest and there are few things more important than that right now it is a fulfillment of god s will toward which i have been working for nearly 11 years it promises new challenges and new opportunities what a privilege it will be to invite both strangers and friends to worship and to be able to offer them reconciliation with god to focus on these most important things some other things i realize must go by the wayside at this point continuing this blog is more a temptation than a real contribution and i hope it has been a contribution at least to some in my prayer these months as i prepare for ordination i will also pray for you my friends who have in various ways been christ to me these three and a half years please also pray for me as i silence this blog i do so in the hope of enjoying the silence which alfred delp invokes when describing ordination in that great moment of our life when we go to be ordained we kneel before the bishop and he silently lays his hands upon us he is silent you feel the blessed and creative burden of this hand through your entire being and the congregation is silent and this silence will surround the priest this keeping silent the still hands of the silent bishop calls forth the priest from his former homeland it calls him forth from his previous refuges and sequesters him and encompasses him with this silence this stillness in which he will be consecrated so that it will accompany him all his life this silence must surround us we guard people s secrets in silence we call our heart to be silent so that it does not love where it should not love our will for power must be silent because we are sent forth to be the hands of the lord in blessing silent too must be our will for all the other things that otherwise could shelter and anchor and secure a life in this world the silence accompanies us because it is always the sign that the lord god has come especially near this silence does not and must not belong only to the priest it is shared with all may you also know the nearness of god in such silence thanks posted by mark mossa sj at 10 47 am 24 comments tuesday april 08 2008 insight from another imprisoned jesuit fr alfred delp s j was executed by the nazis since the charges against him were hard to substantiate in the end it became clear that he was basically killed for being a jesuit and a priest i ve been reading and reflecting on his writings from prison here s an observation which seemed especially prescient the church faces the same tasks that nations and states and the western world in general have to face the problem of human beings how they are to be housed and fed and how they can be employed in order to support themselves in other words we need social and economic regeneration and then humans also must be made aware of their true nature in other words we need intellectual and religious regeneration these are problems for the world for individual states and nations and they are also problems for the church far more so for instance than the question of liturgical forms if these problems are solved without us or to our disadvantage then the whole of europe will be lost to the church even if every altar faces the people and gregorian chant is the rule in every parish alfred delp is not well enough known you can find out more about him here posted by mark mossa sj at 12 17 pm 1 comments friday april 04 2008 return from russia even before becoming a jesuit one of the jesuits i had come to admire most was walter ciszek an american jesuit who spent 24 years imprisoned in russia and who was thought to be dead before his surprising return to the united states in exchange for two soviet agents as part of its centennial america is reprinting some of its classic articles this week s is walter ciszek s reflections upon his return from russia here s an excerpt the more i see here in america the stranger it seems in a way for the contrast between that hidden faith in russia fluttering as if it were always about to go out and yet somehow remaining alight and the open free and almost proud profession of faith in this country is simply staggering yet when i walked through st patrick s cathedral in new york do you know what impressed me most the few people out of all the crowds streaming by who came in through those open doors to make a visit i understand that my impression was not fair that at noontime on a working day the church is jammed with office workers who take time out from their lunch hour to go to mass and to communion at first glance religion here seems almost a formality an obligation that can be dispensed with if you have been out late the night before in siberia when i said mass people risked arrest to come here they risk nothing neither do they always come in krasnoyarsk and norilsk when people learned a priest was in town or was saying mass at such and such a place they came for miles bringing their children to be baptized going to confession before mass and then communion during mass asking to have their marriages blessed after mass begging me to come and bless their homes or sing the panikida a requiem service for members of the family who had died they came to huts to barracks rooms to private homes and they risked their jobs their union membership their chance for an apartment or an education for their children having ministered to such faith therefore it was incredible to me to think that people here could look on sunday mass as an obligation or the supporting of their parish and their school as a burden i should repeat again that these were my first reactions my impressions and are not meant in any way as criticisms i am only reporting what struck me when i first looked at america again as a priest who had worked very hard to help people who were so eager just to be able to go to mass i could not help being struck thunderstruck at this initial impression of indifference to religion in a country where there was nothing to restrain its open practice you can read the rest here posted by mark mossa sj at 1 22 pm 1 comments about me name mark mossa sj location bronx new york united states what s a hyphenated priest it s a priest who is also pursuing one or more other occupations i am a student priest professor priest and writer priest i am also a jesuit priest but that doesn t get a hyphen i am currently doing all these things at fordham university in new york city view my complete profile now blogging at godstalked links dotcommonweal first things america my amazon page companion of jesus jesuit review weston jesuit school of theology u s jesuits new orleans province jesuits my regular blogstops catholicism holiness spirituality maior autem his est caritas martha martha musings of a discerning woman r c mommy sofies verden suitable for mixed company transcendental musings my published writing available on the web students and teachers in a changing landscape where my call to priesthood has taken me page 12 the ministry of the word page 12 essential reading for the spiritual seeker defying devotional debasement benedict xvi bob dole bereavement i was dying and you rubbed my feet buffy vs joan nonviolence or just war weigel s catholic world of many things america 9 20 04 both gen y and catholic st peter s mistake a letter to ncr previous posts ok ok more ordination photos the day has come thanks farewell insight from another imprisoned jesuit return from russia george weigel the jesuit charism the strife is o er happy easter archives december 2004 february 2005 march 2005 april 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