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He only sits in choir & gives the sermon - regular priest does everything else.

Get up and run for the door as if the building was on fire (genuflecting 1st of course).
2 (8%)
Freeze in a mindless stupor and remain immobilized by fear.
0 (0%)
Jump up and denounce him as a heretic and apostate and storm out.
6 (24%)
Remain calm, pray, and carry on as if nothing happened.
3 (12%)
After getting over the shock, offer a quick prayer for his conversion and quietly make your exit.
8 (32%)
Other (please explain)
6 (24%)

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Author Topic: Francis Shows Up for Mass Tomorrow What Do You Do?  (Read 21078 times)

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Offline 2Vermont

Re: Francis Shows Up for Mass Tomorrow What Do You Do?
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2024, 10:29:27 AM »
Quote from: Johannes on November 16, 2024, 10:15:30 AM
Come on now, you can't get out of it that easy. The scenario doesn't say that it is una cuм or non-una-cuм - I added that qualifier for myself. You may be at SSPV, Sanborn, CMRI, Independant, Resistance, etc. Francis just shows up out of the blue, and your priest seems to be to be allowing it, you don't know why he is there, or what he is going to say. What do you do?
:popcorn:
I think it depends on why he is there.  Hopefully, it's because he's come to confess his sins to our priest and converted to the Catholic Faith.
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Offline Meg

Re: Francis Shows Up for Mass Tomorrow What Do You Do?
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2024, 10:30:00 AM »
Pope Francis would never show up at a Mass that any of us attend, so it's irrelevant.

You might as well ask what we would do if little green men from mars showed up at mass. What would the point of such a question be? 
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Offline SimpleMan

Re: Francis Shows Up for Mass Tomorrow What Do You Do?
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2024, 10:31:23 AM »
There is always the exorcism prayer of Pope Leo XIII, the long version that laymen are admonished not to say, but rather to leave it to a priest.  The Apostolate for Christian Action (Stephen Oraze of Fresno, CA, publisher of Divine Love) offered these back in the 1980s, but I've long since lost my copy and haven't been able to find another one.

I once offered this prayer at home (I am not a priest), when the diocesan bishop came to visit, at the moment that he was scheduled to appear, and just as he began to speak, fire alarms went off in the church.   One of the worst bishops that the US Church has ever had, pure evil.
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Offline SimpleMan

Re: Francis Shows Up for Mass Tomorrow What Do You Do?
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2024, 10:35:06 AM »
Whoa, I found it!  Here it is:

https://pblosser.blogspot.com/2009/02/giving-devil-his-due-part-ii.html

The admonition to leave it to a priest only applied to solemn exorcisms, which of course I did not perform, so it's all good.
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Offline Meg

Re: Francis Shows Up for Mass Tomorrow What Do You Do?
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2024, 10:54:58 AM »
Quote from: Johannes on November 16, 2024, 10:47:37 AM
To see how you view him as a human being, the possibility of his repentance, what you think your obligations are, what level you hold yourself in communion with him, stuff like that.

One could question how much of anything on this forum is relevant depending how you want to frame relevancy.

Funny that Francis thinks "little green men" might actually show up, is it not?
Pope Francis Says He Would Definitely Baptize Aliens If They Asked Him To - The Atlantic

Okay....so what do you think that our obligations would be? 
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