Author Topic: Our Lady of Sorrows, Phoenix AZ (Read 11477 times)

MaterDominici · « **Reply #10 on:** October 03, 2015, 09:05:53 PM »

Not all N.O. priests go by their first name. In fact, most of the ones I knew did not. But, it is certainly a stereotype associated with the Novus Ordo, hence why I thought it funny.

Matthew · « **Reply #11 on:** October 03, 2015, 09:23:35 PM »

Quote from: Henry101

Mr. Mathew,
Are you really criticizing the money handling of the OLS community after all the threads that have popped up in recent weeks regarding the embezzlement accusations of resistance chapels?

1. It's Matthew with 2 T's, like the Evangelist.
2. Embezzlement of resistance chapels? I don't know what the heck you're talking about.
3. Am I? You bet, sir. The only thing you can point to is a loan dispute between Fr. Voigt and Pablo. But even if there were some wrongdoing involved there, "Two wrongs don't make a right". And besides, I'm not a supporter of Fr. Pfeiffer or his group (Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or SSPX Marian Corps) anyhow, so I'm not even being hypocritical here. The Resistance is many times larger than Fr. Pfeiffer's small group of 2 priests.

A group as large and professional as the neo-SSPX (tm) doesn't do anything randomly or by accident.

Before this year, it was unheard of for the San Antonio chapel to be serviced by a priory outside of Texas, like we're some kind of backwoods Alaskan mission or something. The San Antonio chapel has about 200 - 250 parishioners. And we have a priory less than 4 hour drive from here, in Dickinson, TX (right outside Houston).

Just look on the map at how close Houston is (a few inches to the right), and how far away Phoenix is. Convenience has NOTHING to do with it. It's much more expensive (total) for them to fly a priest in every week, rather than drive a few hours. But for the Phoenix chapel, which is reimbursed, it is advantageous. The real losers in this deal are the parishioners at St. Joseph's Chapel in San Antonio. It's tough to save up money for the new chapel they need when they're forking out money for unnecessary plane tickets every week.

In my opinion, they should give up on the SSPX as I have, and place their destiny back in God's (and their own) hands.

Matthew · « **Reply #12 on:** October 03, 2015, 09:25:10 PM »

Quote from: MaterDominici

Not all N.O. priests go by their first name. In fact, most of the ones I knew did not. But, it is certainly a stereotype associated with the Novus Ordo, hence why I thought it funny.

There's also a stereotype that Germans make good engineers, and that black people like basketball.

Both stereotypes happen to be true.

It's not just a stereotype. I've heard it with my own ears plenty of times.

ChurchCat7 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 03, 2015, 09:35:27 PM »

my my my I find it so interesting that up until the new church (built with the Novus Ordo stamp of approval )in Phoenix was finished there was almost no mention of our parish(I went way back in the threads to see) and almost everyone with some thing negative to say including myself is a parishioner or former parishioner
........guess that sterile ,empty echo chamber has everyone in a bad mood

Henry101 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 03, 2015, 09:43:28 PM »

haha well, like everything else, that, too, has a story.

I started attending SSPX chapels after attending Maronite churches my entire life. In the maronite church, when a Bishop ordains a new priest, he renames the priest with a new name. It's traditional to call a priest by his first name in the Maronite church, like Father Jamil, etc.
It's a 50 year old habit that is taking me a while to break.

I'll wait a few days until someone starts another thread and comments on how, perhaps, the altar veil isn't the correct color. That is how narrowminded some people have become on this forum.

Fr. Frank RICCOMINI is an excellent, holy priest that, despite the large size of his flock, makes great effort to speak to every adult and child often. His days start at 6AM and end around 11PM. He has many many duties every day and he is forming souls to be Saints, nothing more, nothing less. He is a great role model for the boys in the chapel and is the reason why so many of our young men are attracted to the priesthood: they see a man as courageous and steadfast in the faith as Fr. Riccomini.