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ort it in fact posted by pastor in monte at 15 13 3 comments thursday 19 february 2015 conchita today i went to the requiem mass of a remarkable woman her name was maria jesusa gutierrez y rodriguez but i and everyone else always knew her as conchita born around 1926 in rural spain the civil war therefore was the dominant fact of her childhood and indeed of her life she came from a profoundly catholic family two aunts were carmelite nuns and two or three uncles belonged to a men s order which i forget it was told today at her requiem how the communists took her aunts with the rest of the community out of their convent raped them and shot them in front of the little girl her family and the village the memories of her aunts bare shaven heads stripped of their wimples and the look of horror on their faces after the rape stayed with conchita all her life shortly after that her uncles were hanged from the town bridge again in front of conchita her family and the other villagers their bodies were left to rot on the ropes until wild animals disposed of their remains the next to be executed was the parish priest who was merely shot the young conchita brave girl managed to get into the sacristy of the church where she found a box of unconsecrated hosts she also found the tabernacle key and went to the tabernacle she removed the sacred hosts pushed them up her sleeve and substituted unconsecrated breads closing and locking the tabernacle and leaving things as she found them rounding the corner she ran into a communist band coming to desecrate the church where are you going she was roughly asked off to play with my friends she calmly replied and they let her go she took the hosts to a young priest of her acquaintance one fr josé maria escriva de balaguer who gave them in communion to those with him though she was never a member of opus dei she and he continued to correspond for many years though in later years her mind failing she lost his letters in later life she made her way to england where she married and then when widowed relatively young and left very well off settled on the south coast of england there living simply herself she spent her fortune on others for instance she paid for the education of a priest she was very kind to me too and she loved to entertain there were six priests today at her funeral including the priest whose education she had supported and a representative from opus dei a testament to the strong power of her faith i think she would have been surprised for she never thought herself anything special rest in peace conchita i count it a privilege to have known you posted by pastor in monte at 18 37 8 comments friday 16 january 2015 oz anyone else notice this pope francis in the philippines the wizard of oz i m encouraged that like pope benedict he encouraged us to have devotion not of the pope but of christ posted by pastor in monte at 18 19 5 comments saturday 8 november 2014 cardinal kasper what it s all about yesterday a priest friend drew my attention to an interview given by cardinal kasper and printed in the july august 2014 edition of the periodical doctrine and life in this article kasper elaborates at length on his favourite subject of mercy it includes this passage concerning those living in irregular unions to live together as brother and sister of course i have high respect for those who are doing this but it s a heroic act and heroism is not for the average christian well there we have it heroism is not for the average christian here we have the explanation of the emptying churches in germany and in the west generally had this been the attitude of the early christian church one wonders what would ever have happened posted by pastor in monte at 13 40 4 comments friday 7 november 2014 galatians 2 11 so why did i go quiet then well simply because i found myself in disagreement with some of the prudential judgments of the holy father when i started this blog i was deeply excited by pope benedict and his project of reform and renewal i had wanted to add my weight to that those were wonderful heady days pope francis on the other hand has made me deeply uneasy the man is of course a catholic is the pope a catholic but he seems to have in a frighteningly magnified way the same instinct that john paul ii had that as pope however much he may dress it up as being humbly and simply the bishop of rome the church is his to govern as he sees fit it is a kind of charismatic leadership i know where i m going follow me chaps this is a frightening overconfidence that now seems to have implications for doctrinal orthodoxy and leading so far into uncharted waters smacks to me of a belief in a personal infallibility rather than a strictly circumscribed infallibility of office that would have made pope pius ix blush there is no way that i wanted to be seen to be out of communion of mind and heart with the holy father our very touchstone of communion so on the old principle that if you can t say anything nice say nothing at all i decided to say nothing at all it was a recent article by the very interesting ross douthat that made me think again if peter s job is to strengthen the brethren then perhaps we as a church have the duty to strengthen peter when his arms grow tired on the ship s tiller when interest groups try to force the church onto another course do not we who are loyal have a duty to state clearly and unambiguously what we understand the church s teaching to be that the holy father may truly have a sense of the sensus fidelium and not merely of the zeitgeist let us remember the words of st paul but when cephas came to antioch i opposed him to his face because he was wrong galatians 2 11 perhaps there are times even while reverencing the petrine office we need to strengthen his arms history provides us with many examples pope liberius and pope john xxii to name but two who needed to be encouraged to stand firm in the faith people have talked of the threat of schism recently mostly journalistic hyperbole of course but is the pope or cardinal kaspar really willing to force this serious division of opinion to the point where it might become a schism because schisms do precisely come when there are serious threats to doctrinal orthodoxy you need only read history posted by pastor in monte at 17 05 4 comments sunday 2 november 2014 i m back the pastor in valle has been into his tomb found it not entirely to his liking tried poking his nose out as pastor in valle emeritus it s all the rage this emeritus thing and now will stalk the world as pastor in monte though he doesn t know how much posting he will do now we are aspicientes in jesum because that seems appropriate i hope you agree the events of the last few months have focussed us all on the essentials and i can t think of anything more essential that this i ve changed my name to pastor in monte since that seems a good alternative as i am now living on a rather steep hill high on a hill lived a lonely pastor yodel o lo layee c posted by pastor in monte at 16 28 12 comments thursday 7 august 2014 transhumance well all good things come to an end a month from today 7th september i will be celebrating my last mass in the valle adurni for i have been reassigned to the church of the sacred heart caterham on the hill in surrey and so the pastor in valle will become the pastor in monte i m not sure what to do about the blog you ll have noticed that over the last couple of years my posts have become increasingly sporadic largely for reasons which fr ray cleverly analysed a few weeks ago following a conversation we had in a shoreham restaurant once i go i won t post any more to this particular blog i think since there will be a new pastor in valle but if i feel the muse a fluttering around i might start a new one i ll post up a link here if so thank you and god bless you for reading and for the comments and all that stuff above all oremus pro invicem let us pray for each other and for our holy mother the church posted by pastor in monte at 16 03 10 comments monday 26 may 2014 brothers i have just watched a recording of the meeting between pope francis and patriarch bartholomew in jerusalem you can watch it here there is no commentary or translation though a lot of it is in english and though the holy father spoke in italian there is a translation here you will need to skip over the first part for a long time there are security men scuttling around doing not a lot the holy father s homily was very good but i was very impressed by patriarch bartholomew in particular unlike the pope he always seemed to know what was going on and shepherded the pope around you could see pope francis looking out of the corner of his eye to see what he ought to be doing seeming rather awkward and unsure of himself but then liturgy isn t really the jesuits strong point i suppose bartholomew has an impressive command of languages his english appears to be completely fluent and he conversed with the holy father easily in italian even translating for him at one point there were two things i found rather touching the first was at the very beginning when the successors of the brothers st peter and st andrew were about to descend a short flight of steps the pope said i can t go quickly down stairs so the patriarch much spryer simply gave him a hand and perhaps most touchingly i noticed early on that the chain of the holy father s pectoral cross had somehow slipped up over his collar and was against his skin rather unsightly and certainly uncomfortable the patriarch had clearly noticed it too and decided to do something about it himself much better i was reminded of two elderly brothers the younger carefully looking after the older andrew and peter posted by pastor in monte at 11 35 2 comments thursday 22 may 2014 the church and the internet at last something sensible from a bishop on the subject of the internet blogs and all that in this case it is the coadjutor archbishop of armagh eamon martin who includes in his talk a sensible list of commandments for catholics engaging in the e apostolate h t the catholic herald 1 be positive and joyful offer digital smiles and have a sense of humour remember that it is the joy of the gospel that we are communicating so as pope francis says no funeral faces or sourpusses 2 strictly avoid aggression and preachiness online try not to be judgemental or polemical goodness knows there is enough of this online already instead try pope francis approach of tenderness and balm 3 never bear false witness on the internet 4 remember ubi caritas et amor fill the internet with charity and love always giving rather than taking continually seek to broaden and reframe discussions and seek to include a sense of charity and solidarity with the suffering in the world 5 have a broad back when criticisms and insults are made when possible gently correct 6 pray in the digital world establish sacred spaces opportunities for stillness reflection amd meditation online 7 establish connections relationships and build communion church has always been about gathering in this it is worth considering an ecumenical presence for the christian churches online the internet tends to be a place of ethical and intellectual relativism and often of aggressive secularism the scandal of disunity among christians can be easily exploited and exaggerated therefore we must seek to share resources so that we can have a powerful gospel witness wouldn t it be wonderful if people started noticing online see how these christians love one another 8 educate our young to keep themselves safe and to use the internet responsibly 9 witness to human dignity at all times online seek as pope benedict once said to give a soul to the internet we are well aware of the pervasive prevalence of pornography on the internet which can pollute the spirit destroy and degrade human sexuality and relationships reduce persons to objects for gratification draw millions into the commodification and commercialisation of sex feed the monster that is human trafficking 10 be missionary be aware that with the help of the internet a message has the potential to reach the ends of the earth in seconds in this regard let us foster and call forth charisms in younger committed people who understand the power and potential of the net to bear witness posted by pastor in monte at 12 26 1 comments tuesday 20 may 2014 adopt a priest the funny thing about this video is that in france the priest shown would be considered definitively conservative and well rather un french traddies in france wear the cassock soixante huitards wear a grey suit with a blue polo shirt and sometimes a cross on the jacket lapel but the clergyman dress so familiar in anglophone countries in france is a sort of code for someone who isn t exactly a traddie but definitely distances himself from most of his ageing confreres https www youtube com watch feature player_embedded v oyoi8s y3tc posted by pastor in monte at 16 03 2 comments wednesday 30 april 2014 lepanto i never realised that cervantes fought at lepanto it seems particularly appropriate on the feast of st pius v that the history blog should have drawn attention to a search for cervantes grave posted by pastor in monte at 16 48 1 comments saturday 26 april 2014 third class relic so popes john xxiii and pope john paul ii are now saints this doesn t worry me the way it worries some people i study history and i know very well that a decree of sanctity is not a declaration that absolutely everything an individual said or did was holy or good in the patristic period you need only look at st jerome or st cyril of alexandria to understand that many saints have had flaws perhaps serious flaws to my mind that is encouraging in butler s lives of the saints you can read that the infant st nicholas was accustomed to refusing his mother s milk on fast days that with all due reverence to st nicholas is no use to me if perfect behaviour from infancy is necessary for me to become a saint then it is all over with me because even now i remain deeply flawed as all my friends will cheerfully confirm the church is simply saying that these two men pope john and pope john paul are in heaven and can intercede for us i m fine with that i don t need to accept that everything they were did and said is now part of the extraordinary magisterium pope john was the pope when i was born i learnt a real reverence for him from his journal of a soul and i have no difficulty at all in recognising his sanctity i give no credence whatever to certain accusations of freemasonry and all that stuff as regarding his liturgical preferences well he reversed some of pope pius xii s changes and published on his own authority veterum sapientia confirming the study and use of latin in the western rites as mandatory i have a more nuanced reverence for pope john paul i m not going to go into it here you can read about it in abundance on the internet but i will ...