“Where do you want us to go
From Today’s Gospel, Mark 14:12
and prepare for you to eat the Passover❓”
Growing up Catholic the decision of where I would go to worship was prepared for me from birth. That wasn’t so for Dad who grew up Baptist, but when he converted to marry Mom it was with full conviction. To him to not “heed and do”, “All that the LORD has said,” through the Catholic Church would be a grave insult to his former house of worship which he gave up only after much struggles, heartaches and tears;…
… consequently, it was only a few years after my birth that my parents chose St. Mary’s as the parish where “I would take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord”;…
…hence, sixty years later, that is why I now find myself preparing this same place as a place where my grandchildren can eat the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ by cleansing my conscience from the “dead works” of Bishop Zurek’s clericalism;…
… for, “Lo! the angel’s food is given. To the pilgrim who has striven”;…
…yet, at St. Mary’s Cathedral this Food is cancelled by way of Bishop Zurek’s Clericalism because Fr. Tony:…
… doesn’t want to become a victim of burnout by celebrating both a daily and funeral Mass in a day;…
…needs to sleep in after the exhaustion of renewing his priestly vows at the Chrism Mass the night before;…
…thinks that an ordinary 7am Mass is not grandiose enough of a celebration for honoring his 20 years of “humble” service to the people of God;…
…therefore, since Jesus is “the living bread that came down from heaven”, and partaking of the clericalism of Bishop Zurek can only keep me from living forever…
…why would I want to go anywhere that hasn’t been prepared for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ by rejecting, as Pope Francis has called me to do, Bishop Zurek’s Clericalism;…
PARAGRAPH 55 of Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity
55. The Church wishes, first of all, “to reaffirm that every person, regardless of sexual orientation, ought to be respected in his or her dignity and treated with consideration, while ‘every sign of unjust discrimination’ is to be carefully avoided, particularly any form of aggression and violence.”[101] For this reason, it should be denounced as contrary to human dignity the fact that, in some places, not a few people are imprisoned, tortured, and even deprived of the good of life solely because of their sexual orientation.
… besides, shouldn’t clericalism be denounced as contrary to human dignity due to the fact that, in some places like St. Mary’s Cathedral, not a “few” people are deprived of the good of life solely because of their orientation to Bishop Zurek;…
With paternal concern, Benedict urged us to realize that creation is harmed “where we ourselves have the final word, where everything is simply our property and we use it for ourselves alone.
From Paragraph 6 of ENCYCLICAL LETTER
LAUDATO SI’
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
… for, isn’t St. Mary’s Cathedral, indeed all of creation harmed where one person uses clericalism to show he has the final word, everything is simply his property, and he uses it for himself alone❓