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Offline Ambrose

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Cardinal Sean OMalley receives Baptism Reaffirmation Rite
« on: January 23, 2014, 01:57:43 AM »
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  • I just saw this posted on another forum.  Keep in mind that "Cardinal" Sean O'Malley is in the inner circle of Francis and was directly picked by Francis as part of the "Pope's" new advisory synod.  

    This article demonstrates that Sean O'Malley does not believe the Catholic Faith, and it is complete with a picture of the heretical act, for any skeptics.  

    Take note also as mentioned in the article that "Cardinal" Cushing began this practice with the Protestants in 1964 by speaking in a Protestant church.

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    The Rev. Anne Robertson has baptized more infants and youngsters than she can count in her past years as a United Methodist minister in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Florida.

    But the Plymouth resident and Massachusetts Bible Society director never imagined that she’d get the chance to share a ritual drop of water for a baptism remembrance with a Roman Catholic cardinal.

    Until Sunday, when Cardinal Sean O’Malley asked her.

    “It was completely unexpected,” the Rev. Robertson said Tuesday, in her first media interview about the encounter. “I’m still blown away by it.”

    “What moved me was not so much that I was anointing him,” she said. “It was him being willing to accept that from my hand – to ask me, as a woman in ministry, to do that.”

    A Rhode Island native, the Rev. Robertson was the only female clergy member who assisted at a special 50th anniversary worship service at Sudbury United Methodist Church. Cardinal O’Malley delivered the homily at the ecuмenical gathering, which commemorated a groundbreaking appearance by Cardinal Richard Cushing at the church in 1964.

    At a time when Catholics and Protestants were still deeply wary of each other, Cardinal Cushing was the first cardinal to speak at a Protestant church.

    As part of Sunday’s anniversary service, the 500 who filled Sudbury United Methodist to overflowing were invited to receive a drop of consecrated water on their forehead and be told, “Remember your baptism and be thankful.” The ritual resembles the ceremonial receiving of ashes on Ash Wednesday, but isn’t a formal United Methodist sacrament.

    Cardinal O’Malley and New England United Methodist Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar led the ritual in the sanctuary. The Rev. Robertson and a Catholic priest were on their way with small bowls of water to a side room, for others watching the service on a large-screen TV.

    She paused with the priest at the cardinal’s pew, so they could receive the baptism water from Cardinal O’Malley. The next moment, the cardinal quietly asked the Rev. Robertson to administer the water for him.

    “My heart immediately went to my throat,” she said. “To be asked that by the man who might be pope someday – I was stunned. I was choking back tears for hours.”

    After the service, she told Cardinal O’Malley how much the gesture meant to her. “He was very gracious,” she said, though she doesn’t remember exactly what he said. She was still caught up in the surprise.
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    Cardinal Sean OMalley receives Baptism Reaffirmation Rite
    « Reply #1 on: January 23, 2014, 02:10:35 AM »
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  •  :dancing-banana:
    I, too, would be shocked if a bishop asked me to baptise him!
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    « Reply #2 on: January 23, 2014, 02:14:54 AM »
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  • More testimony of what occurred by the "Rev." Anne Robertson, of the Methodist church who performed the rite on "Cardinal" O'Malley:

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    Cardinal Sean O'Malley and Rev. Anne Robertson (George Martell/Pilot New Media)
    A divorced, Scottish Protestant Clergywoman anoints an Irish Catholic Cardinal.


    THE HISTORY

    Fifty years ago, as Vatican II was sending the ecuмenical spirit soaring, Cardinal Richard Cushing was invited to speak at the Sudbury United Methodist Church.  In that new spirit of Protestants and Catholics getting along, he accepted the invitation and gave the gathered congregation of Protestants and Catholics about 90 minutes of his best stuff.

    To honor the anniversary of that event, Sudbury's current pastor, the Rev. Joel Guillemette, invited Cardinal Sean O'Malley to follow in Cardinal Cushing's footsteps and preach at Sudbury.  There was exactly one date in all of 2014 that was open on the Cardinal's calendar, January 12, 2014, which happens to be the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on the Church calendar.  Like his predecessor, Cardinal O'Malley accepted the invitation and was encouraged to bring about 20 minutes of his best stuff.

    Joel is not only a colleague but a good friend of mine, and he has a great gift for sniffing out opportunities for solid Christian theology to meet the rubber of the Christian-worship road.  With that exquisite sniffer in high gear, Joel decided that if we were to have a worship service celebrating Christian unity on the day that the Church remembers the baptism of Jesus, it would be a fitting capstone to celebrate the Reaffirmation of the Baptismal Covenant, a liturgy that can be found in the United Methodist Hymnal.

    After some initial uncertainty, the liturgy was given the green light and, following the fine homily by Cardinal O'Malley, United Methodist Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar was assigned to lead us back to the moment when each of us first took the name of Christian. All of us together--Catholic, United Methodist, and the many other Protestant denominations that would be present--would reaffirm the vows that we took or that were taken for us at our baptism.

    THE PREPARATION

    Because Joel and I are friends, when I wrote to congratulate him on Cardinal O'Malley's acceptance of his invitation, he invited me to travel the hour and a half to attend the service, vested in my white robe and stole, and to be introduced in my role as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bible Society.  I was delighted to accept, not only because I wanted to support Joel, but because MBS is an ecuмenical organization.

    Bible Societies and Roman Catholics have not always had a congenial rapport, and although we have had Catholic Board presidents and currently have four Catholic Trustees, the distrust has been palpable when I have spoken in some Catholic gatherings.  This was a chance for me to be a symbol to the many Catholics who would attend that any historical animosities between us have been laid to rest. Indeed, our new Bible study materials are being used in quite a number of Roman Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese and are being used with Protestants and Catholics together in many settings.  So I happily told Joel that I would be there.

    As the time drew close and it became clear that there would be a large crowd, Joel prepared an overflow room in another part of the church with a live feed of the sanctuary on a large screen.  But this presented a problem for the liturgy.  The Reaffirmation calls for the people to come forward and to receive the sign of the cross on their foreheads from the blessed waters in the baptismal font.  Cardinal O'Malley and Bishop Devadhar would be doing the honors for those in the sanctuary, but the logistics of the overflow room were problematic.  To address that, Joel had me and a Catholic priest in attendance suit up as the B Team to take the water to the overflow room and anoint the folks in there.

    THE MOMENT

    Bishop Devadhar finished the spoken part of the liturgy and the blessing of the water.  Joel then took four little glass bowls and filled them with water from the font.  The first two went to the Cardinal and the Bishop who then took their places--Cardinal O'Malley in front of the pew where the honored Catholic clergy, including Bishop Walter Edyvean, were seated and Bishop Devadhar on the other side, in front of the similar pew reserved for myself and the other Protestant clergy.

    My new priest friend, Tom, and I were up next so we came forward and took our respective bowls.  I was lost in wondering if anyone in the overflow room was going to have an issue with accepting the water from a woman.  Ecuмenical gatherings are not always warm, fuzzy events for women of the cloth.  Most of us have experienced many types of exclusion, even within our own congregations, let alone when we try to join with Christian groups that don't believe women are fit for ordination.  And in this group there might well be those who wouldn't have wanted such a blessing from any Protestant, even a male one.  I was deep in thought as I received my bowl.

    Our exit toward the overflow room took us directly past Cardinal O'Malley.  Fortunately, Tom's brain was more engaged in the moment, and he was not about to lose out on the chance to have the man who might well be Pope someday anoint him.  Tom stopped in front of the Cardinal and asked for his blessing.  I stopped with him and Cardinal O'Malley was gracious enough to anoint me, too.

    And then, as the two of us stood there together, Cardinal O'Malley looked me in the eye and asked me to anoint him.  I did.  The divorced, Scottish Protestant clergywoman anointed the Irish Catholic Cardinal in front of a pew of Catholic clergy and a Catholic Bishop, any one of whom would probably have given their eye teeth to have the honor.
    I choked back sobs all the way to the overflow room.

    THE SIGNIFICANCE

    At the root of the word "significance" is the word "sign," and that is what occurred in that moment of anointing.  You don't get to be a Cardinal by being unaware of the significance of your public acts.  In a completely spontaneous moment, Cardinal O'Malley seized the opportunity of signifying the truth of Galatians 3:28, "There is no longer Jєω or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus."  Which is, of course, also the truth of baptism.

    In that moment of anointing--as he anointed me and I anointed him--we were not Protestant or Catholic, Scottish or Irish, male or female, cardinal or clergywoman.  We were Christians, babes in Christ, spiritually naked before the Lord who called us both to service.  Nothing could have better signified what everyone in that room had just reaffirmed.  In baptism, we are one.

    The things that came to divide us after our baptism exist still.  There was a reason beyond the accident of the day that we celebrated a reaffirmation of our baptism together and not Holy Communion.  There are uncomfortable realities even in the world of Protestants, even in the world of United Methodists, that resulted in me being the only vested clergywoman of any kind in that service.  And there were other symbols of unity that it was not even possible to signify because those exclusions run too deep still.

    It was imperfect.  In a perfect world this reflection would not exist because a a United Methodist clergywoman anointing a Roman Catholic Cardinal would be routine and unremarkable.  In a perfect world Cardinal O'Malley and I would preside together at the Lord's Table.  In a perfect world I might preside with a Cardinal Brighid O'Malley.

    But grace exists, even in our imperfections--perhaps especially because of our imperfections.  And yesterday afternoon, Jesus took the hands of his servants, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, and Rev. Anne Robertson, and had them anoint each other, thereby signifying to all of us what heaven will be like.

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    « Reply #3 on: January 23, 2014, 04:46:58 AM »
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  • I cannot recognize the novus ordo church as my superiors. I dont see how the SSPX can, when this is the apostasy that is contained in them. The church is reduced to a remnant. The pope is a heretic and an antipope. The time has come for the remnant to band together and elect a new pope and reclaim the name "Catholic".

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    « Reply #4 on: January 23, 2014, 08:01:26 AM »
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    I cannot recognize the novus ordo church as my superiors. I dont see how the SSPX can, when this is the apostasy that is contained in them. The church is reduced to a remnant. The pope is a heretic and an antipope. The time has come for the remnant to band together and elect a new pope and reclaim the name "Catholic".


    But you can recognize all the sacraments the Novus Ordo gives you.  Funny, that.
    "Be kind; do not seek the malicious satisfaction of having discovered an additional enemy to the Church... And, above all, be scrupulously truthful. To all, friends and foes alike, give that serious attention which does not misrepresent any opinion, does not distort any statement, does not mutilate any quotation. We need not fear to serve the cause of Christ less efficiently by putting on His spirit". (Vermeersch, 1913).


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    « Reply #5 on: January 23, 2014, 08:11:35 AM »
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    Cardinal O’Malley delivered the homily at the ecuмenical gathering, which commemorated a groundbreaking appearance by Cardinal Richard Cushing at the church in 1964.

    At a time when Catholics and Protestants were still deeply wary of each other, Cardinal Cushing was the first cardinal to speak at a Protestant church.


    You claim that O'Malley isn't Catholic but that Cushing was, eh?  These are the fruits of Cushing's BoD ecclesiology.


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    « Reply #6 on: January 23, 2014, 08:27:57 AM »
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    Cardinal O’Malley delivered the homily at the ecuмenical gathering, which commemorated a groundbreaking appearance by Cardinal Richard Cushing at the church in 1964.

    At a time when Catholics and Protestants were still deeply wary of each other, Cardinal Cushing was the first cardinal to speak at a Protestant church.


    You claim that O'Malley isn't Catholic but that Cushing was, eh?  These are the fruits of Cushing's BoD ecclesiology.



    Don't you argue against the sede position as a rule? So you believe Francis is a true pope but not Catholic?
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    « Reply #7 on: January 23, 2014, 11:05:40 AM »
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    Cardinal O’Malley delivered the homily at the ecuмenical gathering, which commemorated a groundbreaking appearance by Cardinal Richard Cushing at the church in 1964.

    At a time when Catholics and Protestants were still deeply wary of each other, Cardinal Cushing was the first cardinal to speak at a Protestant church.


    You claim that O'Malley isn't Catholic but that Cushing was, eh?  These are the fruits of Cushing's BoD ecclesiology.



    Ladislaus,

    Show me where I made the claim you that are saying I made.
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