Spirituality
Dr dear Dr: Well I declare to God - Am I the only person in the room with the blue elephant who is sick and tired of the Dodos of sacramental Das machines going around these Midlands dioceses with their hands stuffed in their pockets and pumping out ineffectual disparaged Novus Functionalism in the holy Roman Mass, surely to God there is some Spirituality Faculty that can help these Externalist “Les Idiots et Bigots” to celebrate properly, as we say in Parisien guided churches like St Nicholas de Chardonnay thereover?
Well a very fine sharp point, sharp as a needle, even if made with some exasperation in this Forum, but yes, as my dear friend from our beloved Christian Wales where I have so many relatives used to say, Mgr Geraldo, “It is just too late to save the older generations of Novus clergy from Functionalism but it is time for change, too many young celebrants are not covering the bases and too many have bought into Deliturgicalised Functionalism and see themselves as sacramental Das machines rather than spiritual leaders presiding over and leading Spirituality in their parishes- Parisien Precision guided bomblets now needed.” Even then so exasperated did Mgr G become with the problem of Externalist superficials actually marauding into the holy sanctuaries of the jealous God, celebrants of the Holy Mass that should have known better, that he actually sent one promising young priest to Rome to study Spirituality at the Angelicum University, living at the Venerabile, where all the paynes go from time to time, those that were on the run from the uncivil State of the Statalisms of Europe in those days of the sneaky peakies of the Eurozone.
But anyway, the fact is that when the priests of the parishes are told unremittingly from day to day to go here and go there, take a holiday this week, go on retreat the next week, and end up not doing a tap in the parishes and especially not visiting the families therein because their parishes like BSTA are dominated by the well-meaning but bossy upper-classes, as they see themselves, by the insufferable Toryboy laity, then what happens is that in the absence of a proper ordained and spiritual leadership, actually promoting Spirituality, those celebrants accept a reduced depleted uranium style ministry where they are just wheeled on and wheeled off the sanctuary of the Lord once a week, usually in poor carmat style crapologia vestments too plus the ogresome and onerous gray shorts and shirts. No wonder why the learned Welsh Mgr above eventually in his parish that looked like a nice mosque in our beloved Indiana Cairo then instituted the “Statement of Intention of Aquinas” in his vestry, just to remind the confused and distraught and bemused people seeking spiritual guidance above all as the real bread and butter Sacramentum Principale around him plus the visiting lacklustre seminarians confused by years of old style Anglican Victorian Gray Liberalism in their seminaries, that “It is my intention to celebrate the holy sacrifice of the Holy Roman Church and to confect the sacred body and blood of the Lord Jesus” and so on, in a tribute to the genius of Aquinas who liked to clarify to his celebrants and his monks just what precisely he was doing every weekend. No doubts there in the mind of the mystic, but yes, more mystics and spiritual leaders needed, like your Fr John of Marlow, our young apostle of dearest Therese, like some young Aquinas.
So come back all is forgiven you Gautamas and you temple bells and chimes monkies at the call to prayer, some spiritual leaders needed who are spiritual right throughout the weekdays. Spiritual presiders presiding holily and in nice vestments like the lovely young Indian and Mexican nuns make them down there to the South near Heathrow Spaceport. Welcome to such as these.
