Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! Burney
As the summer vacation season begins, many traditional Catholics will be journeying far away from their home chapels. During their travels, they will assuredly look for a Latin-Mass center near their vacation destination. A number of the visits will pass uneventfully, some perhaps joyfully. However, on the basis of a recent account, Pistrina must warn travelers to avoid any chapel under the control of the Ohio and Florida cult masters, "One-Hand Dan" and "Big Don."
It seems that one visiting out-of-state family was asked which chapel they attended and then advised to leave it because, according the the cultists, their home clergy were poorly trained. Not only is this a stunning instance of the pot calling the kettle black, but it's an intolerable offense against decency, hospitality, and charity.
The cult-master riffraff have no business talking about poor priestly formation. Here are six facts travelers should bear in mind about the level of formation of the SW Ohio-Brooksville clergy:
1. No one can be certain that the 14 men "ordained" by Dubious Dan are valid priests. 2. One of the cult "priests" whom Deacon Dan ordained in 2012 never attended even the make-believe Florida "seminary" operated by "Big Don." This guy "studied" privately with a busy independent pastor, left him, and then "studied" privately with Erroneous Antonius. 3. At least one of the cult's "priests" never attended an accredited high school. 4. One of the completers of the Florida "seminary" omitted the consecration at Mass. 5. Another completer was so inept he couldn't bless holy water. 6. Another was unable to perform correctly a graveside service.First-hand reports inform us that one of these incompetents who worked in Europe was dismissed by his Italian superior owing to the laity's complaints.
Therefore, the cult masters' poisonous tales are without any foundation. Their goal is to rustle sheep for fleecing. In the particular case of the unlucky visitors mentioned above, we know that their clergy have an excellent secondary education as well as a solid background in theology and liturgy. (Some even know Greek.) Never once have any of them forgotten to consecrate the Host and Chalice!
If the only chapel in the area you will visit is affiliated with the discredited Ohio-Florida cult, you're better off staying at your hotel or RV, saying the Rosary, and making a act of perfect contrition.
On your hard-earned vacation, the last thing you need are weirdo, money-hungry creeps disturbing your family's Sunday peace.
list chapels?
ReplyDeleteFor starters, SGG in West Chester, OH; St. Hugh of Lincoln in Milwaukee; St. Clare in Chillicothe, OH; affiliate chapels/missions in Opelousas, LA, North Dakota and, we think, Illinois. The chapel in Brooksville, FL associated with MHT; O L Queen of Martyrs in Fraser, MI; and O L of the Sun in El Mirage, AZ. Also avoid St. Augustine's in Carrollton, VA; O L of the Snows in Gaylord, MI; St. Michael's in Glenmont, NY; and Holy Redeemer Chapel in Seattle.
DeleteWe'll try to get full names as well as other mission sites. The best thing to do is to check the website of any chapel you intend to visit or call the chapel/mission and ask if they are served wholly or in part by the rector's or Dubious Dan's "priests." "Latin Mass Times" is a good (but at times dated) starting place for chapel info: http://www.latinmasstimes.com/
I'm confused...why Holy Redeemer in Seattle? Is that not Fr. Ercoli? I thought you supported him for breaking away from the pack and becoming independent. Did I miss something?
DeleteEven the intelligensia who write this screed are prone to error. For their information, a "Perfect act of Contrition" will not save your soul absent Sacramental Confession. But an Act of Perfect Contrition will. The arrogance of the "readers" and their phony erudition is apparent again,
ReplyDeleteMuch obliged for catching the typo, which is an error of transcription, not of erudition. We're sure you noticed that our page has always had the correct nomenclature. We'll make the correction immediately.
DeleteAlthough the phrase “Perfect Act of Contrition” may be inaccurate, anyone with common sense knows what the article’s author meant. The only thing that is “apparent again,” Anonymous (of 12:35 P.M.) is your WILLFUL VINDICTIVENESS. By your venomous comments, you are EMULATING the SGG vipers’ behavior, and you are REINFORCING what the Pistrina article is pointing out. Way to go, Dummkopf!!
DeleteThe Watcher is quite right. It's obvious to anyone that the transposition of the word "perfect" was a (very) careless error -- yes, we own up to our mistakes, unlike the cultists -- and not a sign of absence of learning, especially in light of the fact that we have displayed the correct wording on one of our pages for several years.
DeleteIn our case, the error resulted from a proof-reading failure as our transcriber was adding last-minute phone edits from several Readers. We ignored such patent proofing goofs when we criticized Cekada's WHH, as, e.g., in footnote 6, p. 51, where he printed "liturgiegeschichtlighe" instead of "liturgiegeschichtliche." Such a bald-faced, proof-reading typo was unworthy of our ridicule, for even the Cheeseball knows the form of basic German suffixes.
If anyone's searching for a genuine example of "phony erudition," he or she need look no further than the rector's May 2014 "MHT Newsletter":
On p. 2, col. 1, para. 4, he takes pains to spell "naïveté" with dieresis (tréma) and acute accent, but then, in the very next paragraph, he spells "papier-mâché' as "paper-mache"!!! That's no proof-reading slip -- it's rock-solid ignorance of the correct form. (Probably the only reason "naïveté" is precisely spelled is that the word is in the spell-check program he uses.)
Watcher, who the devil ever you are, I am not enamored of the readers enemies. I seek only the truth. Can't you see that your sense of superiority is a put off for those like me who seek the truth.
ReplyDeleteWhen will you stop straining a gnat to prove your point. If your enemies are wrong in substantive things then expose their error. But this business of pointing out grammatical mistakes is a distraction and shows only vindictiveness.
Anonymous, you just don’t get it: YOU were the one who were “straining at gnats” (to use your phraseology) with your opening comment about the incorrectness of the author’s grammar. If one reads my comment, he will see that I NEVER said that you were “enamored” of the author’s enemies – and that I did NOT correct your grammatical mistakes (or anyone else’s). It was YOU who did that. Anonymous, are you a rational creature?
DeleteHang on a second while I grab some popcorn...
ReplyDeleteOk ... Craig, while we're nitpicking people's English usage, can you please explain to Jim the meaning and correct usage of the expression "shoot the messenger"? He seems to think saying "Don't shoot the messenger" means "Don't disagree with me," which is how he uses it. What it really means is don't blame someone for delivering a message *from someone else*. See, the "someone else" part of the expression is key, and unless someone is delivering a message from a third party, it makes no sense to say "Don't shoot the messenger" in one's own defense. Not to mention it comes across as rather infantile when someone says that every time anyone disagrees with him.
You seem to think you're a smart guy — can you please clarify that with Jim so we don't have to hear him misuse that expression anymore? Thanks, we all appreciate it!
Where do you find the phrase "don't shoot the messenger' in the above exchange? BTW, the discussion was never about a grammatical mistake. It had do do with the mispositioning of an adjective, which is usage.
DeleteWhy don't you take the popcorn out of your eyes?
What a weird question. I didn't say it was there. I just said that Jim makes that mistake all the time, and I was hoping you could correct him on it, since you seem to be a stickler for such things.
DeleteThe popcorn comment was a little weird, too.
I didn't mention grammar, either. I was speaking about usage as well, so the rest of your comment is pretty odd as well.
DeleteVery odd comments deserve like replies.
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