Cletus
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Thanks for the kind thought and the word to the wise. I'll leave aside my heart attacks though, except to point out that by the same token a cause besides miracles of a kind tending to prove the validity of the Novus Ordo Mass could be found for the alleged strange behavior of all those poor mentally ill people.
I think that a little beyond the suggestion that the NO Host is truly the Lord is implied in the story. That's what I honed in on. "She converted to the Catholic Faith." I doubt that she really did if she made the mistake of thinking that the Catholic Faith is the Faith of the Novus Ordo church, however valid its Eucharistic consecrations and priestly ordinations might be. It is any manifestation of Catholic Faith in the Novus Ordo world which is treated as an "abuse" and rooted out. It's the general life and spirit and doctrine of that "faith-community" that is so terribly wrong and harmful.
Back on the subject of heart attacks, and not even getting into correct notions on the Holy Sacrifice and the Real Presence, I think that I'd have one now if I met a Novus Ordo priest who believed and preached that Christ Himself said the first Mass, or at least said and did at the Last Supper the things that the Gospels attribute to Him. The common teaching in the NO church is that the early christian faith-community developed that interesting ritual when Jesus was long gone and retrojected it back to Him.
A centrist conservative in the NO is one who grants the retrojection, but dares to suggest that Jesus Himself might have said and done SOMETHING to inspire the Bread/Body, Wine/Blood thing. If you say that Jesus MUST have said and done something along the lines of "taking bread in His sacred hands etc..." you're suspected of all kinds of heresies: fundamentalism, concordism... If you simply believe what the Gospels say and let that be known in no uncertain terms, you're sent off to the loony bin for psychological evaluation.
Which brings us full circle and makes me wonder about something vis-a-vis that story...
Let's grant that a NO Host is Christ. And that these mentally ill people with some sort of occult powers of perception (I would imagine that these are very rare) just happened to be congregated together in this one asylum so that this one priest with, perhaps, or probably, a NO apologist agenda could make hay of tendentious interpretations of their spooky reactions. That still would not prove that it would be right to worship or receive that Host or do anything but turn aside from it in horror, making the sign of the cross more for protection against the Conciliar church that wields it than out of reverence for the One Who is present but illicitly ill-used, so to speak.
Let's say that the NO Host is NOT Christ, but that the supernatural aspect is truly there and that what the priest relates is true as to what he sees and hears (aside from his interpretations) . Demoniacs spook easily, we're told. Maybe they get all nerved up by the presence of something that like Satan or the Antichrist PARODIES God and Christ. Such as a wafer in a little gold container. THOUGHT to be Christ.
We would remain on much firmer ground doubting that the NO Host is Christ for serious theological reasons than we would be if we were doubtful but accepted as any kind of proof or even suggestion that the NO Host IS Christ this kind of story about alleged supernatural goings-on in mental hospitals.
In any case, that priest ought to know better by now. All that cussing and profanity must be very upsetting for both the nurses and the poor patients. He should have the nurses close the doors of the offending parties. Or he should go in some back way. Or have the non-bedeviled communicants taken to a special private room.
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| Posted Apr 27, 2007, 4:53 am |
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