Not long ago at St Francis of Assisi Church in Midtown Manhattan, parishioners hosted an event titled “United in Love Pre-Pride Festive Mass and rooftop BBQ.”
Here are some photos of the event for your delection.
Sheer speculation and hypothetical to say the least, can you imagine this God-awful stuff taking place were the Tridentine Rite being celebrated? Novus Ordo, with its painful informality, invites this sort of junk that the old mass wouldn’t permit.
In the description of this event on the church’s website, is the following.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Catholics have recently been particularly singled out for vitriolic, uncharitable, and frankly, unchristian, attacks by some members of the Church. In one photo you will see a small protest which took place outside of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi before and during our Mass which underscores this point. This attitude is completely against the teaching of the Church and does not bear witness to Christ who said “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.
Here is the referenced photo.
Four “protestors,” observed by a single bystander wordlessly holding a banner urging the participants inside to consider expending their energies humbly devoting themselves to the Heart of Jesus, who suffered for us all, rather than to their own personal “pride.” This is, apparently, an example of “vitriolic, uncharitable, and frankly, unchristian, attacks by some members of the Church.”
The participants in this silliness ought to be reminded, even though a mass was celebrated by a priest sympathetic to heretical behavior, Church teachings are immutable and inviolable on same-sex matters, no matter how many “pride” flags are waved during the eucharist. Indeed, if those particular teachings were changed (along with any other Church teachings) it would mark the end of the Holy Catholic Church.
h/t JJU.
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