What would you do?

In all honesty, I think I would have smacked this priest if he did this to my kid. 😠

"A family were forced to wrestle their baby away from a French priest who was baptising him, after the clergyman lost his temper and violently smacked the boy across the face.
In a video of the incident, the Catholic priest can be seen blessing the boy while making the sign of the cross with his hand over the child’s body. The baby then begins to cry loudly, disrupting the ceremony.
The priest, speaking in French, can be heard saying the boy is having a “tantrum” and he needs water poured on his head to become a “little Christian.” He then mutters “calm down, calm down, you must calm down” while visibly bristling with frustration. Suddenly, he snaps and strikes the child across the face.
The person who was filming the baptism can be heard gasping. The priest, reluctant to let go, can then be seen grabbing the baby’s neck and body before putting his face and hand over the boy's face to muffle his cries."

I missed this story when it came out in June of this year. Just stumbled across it tonight and was shocked and sickened by it. 


In Christ, 

Julie 


Link:
https://www.newsweek.com/video-catholic-priest-caught-violently-slapping-baby-during-baptism-stop-it-989009

Death and funerals

Sorry to have been away from my blog for so long. 

After suffering the sudden tragic death of my 20 year old nephew in late September things have been very difficult. 

While the rest of my family and friends cling to "he's with the angels and our Lord now and at peace"...I know what the Catholic Church has always taught about those who die unbaptized and outside the Church. There is little comfort for me in those words. 

While I have Masses said for him and pray for his soul, I can't help but feel my failure. I took time for granted with him, I thought I would have more time to reach him with the Faith. I did not have that time. I have to live with that. It's a horrid lesson to learn, but one now written deeply within my own soul that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. 

This morning I attended another funeral and will be attending yet another funeral Mass this evening. Two in one day. 

Death seems to have a foothold around here lately and all I am doing is going from one funeral to another. 

What doesn't seem to change is that people want so desperately to believe that when a person dies, they are suddenly perfect and worthy of Heaven merely because they died. Didn't matter how they lived their lives, death in its self seems to make a person worthy of Heaven is the theology too many people cling to. 

Who started this nonsensical idea? Must have been the devil himself. 



In Christ and still in mourning, 


Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 



image: https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/Article/TabId/535/ArtMID/13567/ArticleID/22189/Planning-and-Understanding-the-Catholic-Funeral.aspx

Baptism like you've never seen it...

I've got no words...

Woman threatens to sue Church to be godFATHER to nephew

A confused Catholic woman in Spain, who thinks and is pretending to be a man, has been denied the possibility of being a godparent [make that 'godfather' to be precise] to her nephew. 

Alex Salinas is a 21 year old female (DNA don't lie) who is going through life pretending to be a man. 

Salinas is planning on suing the Catholic Church for "discriminating" against her because she says she's a man and believes the Church is not allowing her to be a godFATHER based on her documents [that were changed a few months ago] that say she's a man even when her DNA and genitalia says she's a woman.  

Got that?  

A woman, pretending to be a man, wants to force Christ's Holy Catholic Church to deny a truth [her DNA is female] and accept a lie [that she is a he] as a truth and then allow her errr...him to be a godfather.  

Insanity.  Pure insanity. 

The Church hasn't said it turned her down as godFATHER because of her declarations she is a man.  

The priest reminded Salinas that to be a godparent a person must "be Catholic, be confirmed, have received the holy sacrament of the Eucharist and, at the same time, live a life congruent with faith and the mission they are assuming."

I think its pretty clear that Salinas is not living a life "congruent" with the Catholic faith.  Salinas isn't even living a life "congruent" with her own DNA and body parts!  

Don't you just love "assigned female at birth, but is now living as his authentic self as a man"?  

The ridiculousness of the statement "assigned female at birth" is only out-done by the hordes of delusional people who actually believe this tripe.  She wasn't "assigned female at birth", she was determined by her DNA at her conception to be female.  She will always be female.  No drugs, no surgeries, no wearing men's clothes, no government documents...NOTHING will change her DNA from female to male.  She is female.

There is nothing "authentic" about denying DNA [scientific proven fact] in order to live a fantasy you've made up in your head and then attempt to force everyone else in the world to believe.  

Instead of getting mental help to accept who SHE really is...she [like other transgenders and their supporters] demands that the world reject scientific fact of her DNA and instead believe whatever fantasy she's cooked up.  And if we don't accept her fantasy, she will sue us. 

I want to ask "How ridiculous can we get?" but I'm terrified of what the answer might be.

If Salinas is so confused as to what she actually is, how in the world could she be a good godparent [even godmother at this point] teaching and living the Catholic faith to a child? 

Quote: "Salinas predicts filing a complaint before the courts because he does not consider it "just" for the Church to treat him "like someone different."

How ironic.  Her DNA is female, the Church accepts that she is female and she "predicts" suing the Church because she is being treated "like something different".  If the Church said to a man...say President Obama, 'We refuse to accept you are a man, we are going to call you a woman', the world would be rightly outraged because the Church would be denying a truth - a scientific fact proven by DNA.  

Yet when a mentally disordered person denies the scientific fact of their DNA for a lie, the world is supposed to accept the lie as truth and pretend we don't all know the woman is a woman no matter what her "documents" say. 

Insanity.  

When will the world come back to reality and stop living in a fantasy realm where everyone makes up their own 'truth' and then attempts to force the rest of us to believe it?

God help us.


In Christ,


Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 



Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/29/catholic-godparent-transgender_n_7889800.html

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P2Y.HTM

Are the Seven Catholic Sacraments Biblical?

A Baptist once asked me "Are the seven Catholic Sacraments biblical?". My response is "Absolutely!". First let's look at what those seven sacraments are. They are Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing the Sick (Extreme Unction), Holy Orders and Matrimony. Now let's discuss what a "sacrament" is.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church #1084 (in part) "...The sacraments are perceptible signs (words and actions) accessible to our human nature. By the action of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit they make present efficaciously the grace that they signify." And #1116 "Sacraments are "powers that comes forth" from the Body of Christ, which is ever-living and life-giving. They are actions of the Holy Spirit at work in his Body, the Church. They are "the masterworks of God" in the new and everlasting covenant."
The sacraments are gifts from God and all were instituted by Jesus Christ. No man on earth, not even a Pope can change a sacrament because he has no authority to do so. Christ instituted them and so they stand until He comes again exactly how he founded them. To alter them would make it invalid. For example, a valid baptism is done with water. If the water element was changed to orange juice it would invalidate the Sacrament of Baptism. Christ instituted the element of water for Baptism and man cannot change that. Time to get back to the original question from the Baptist "Are the seven Catholic Sacraments biblical?". Yes, they are and while there are many scriptures for the sacraments I will give a few for each but these are by no means the only scriptures available for each of the sacraments.
Baptism
-Matt.3:16 "As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him."
-Matt. 28:19 "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,"
-Mk 1:8 "I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
-John 3:5 "Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit."
Confirmation-John 14:16 "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—"
-Acts 2:4 "All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them."
-Heb.6:2 "instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment."
Eucharist
-Matt.26-29 "26While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body." 27Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. 28This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom."
-Luke 24:35 "Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread."
-John 6: 51 "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
-John 6 "53Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him."
Penance-Matt. 16:19 "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
-John 20:21-23 "Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." 22And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."
Anointing the Sick (Extreme Unction)
-John 5:14:15 "Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." 15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well."
-James 5:14 "Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord."
Matrimony-Matt.19:10-11 The disciples said to him, "If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry." 11Jesus replied, "Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given."
-Eph. 5:31-32 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church."
Holy Orders
-Acts 13:2-3 "While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." 3So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off."
-1 Tim. 4:14 "Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you."
-1 Tim. 4:16 "Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers."
There is my answer to the Baptist about the Seven Biblical Sacraments of the Catholic Church. All found in Holy Sacred Scripture, all instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.