Author Topic: SSPX going to mainstream recreation parks! (Read 26586 times)

Telesphorus · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2013, 06:57:14 PM »

I wouldn't say it's wrong per se to go to an amusement park.

However, it does seem like they are trying to send a message here. I wonder whose idea it was to publicize this, and what is it that they want SSPX parishioners to take away from it?

It's a bit reminiscent of the Novus Ordo.

Ekim · « **Reply #6 on:** March 08, 2013, 07:20:32 PM »

I was recently reading my boys a book about St. John Bosco. A boy asked him what is it that we are allowed to do in this world. He replied "Anything but sin". I'm not so sure I see anything sinful here. Some could say that St. John Bosco was acting beyond the dignity of a priest by his circus acts and high wire performances.

bernadette · « **Reply #7 on:** March 08, 2013, 07:20:51 PM »

I thought when a man became a priest he gave up worldly pursuits...one doesn't need much more in the way of evidence that the sspx has changed its course.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #8 on:** March 08, 2013, 07:23:19 PM »

Quote from: bernadette

I thought when a man became a priest he gave up worldly pursuits...one doesn't need much more in the way of evidence that the sspx has changed its course.

It makes people think:

Priests are just like the rest of us, interested in banal entertainment.

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #9 on:** March 08, 2013, 07:30:48 PM »

These were words of advice of Pope St. Pius X to Priests on the need for priestly dignity and propriety at the beginning of the last century:

“In order never to be guilty of any unedifying act, the priest must regulate his actions, his movements and his habits in harmony with the sublimity of his vocation. He who on the altar almost ceases to be mortal and takes on a divine form, remains always the same, even when he comes down from the holy hill and leaves the temple of the Lord. Wherever he is, wherever he goes, he never ceases to be a priest, and the serious reasons that compel him always to be grave and appropriate accompany him with his dignity everywhere.

“Hence he must have that gravity that will ensure that his words, his bearing, and his way of working arouse love, win authority and excite reverence. For, the very reasons that oblige him to be holy make it a duty for him to show it by his outward acts in order to edify all those with whom he is obliged to come into contact. A composed and dignified exterior is a powerful eloquence which wins souls in a much more efficacious manner than persuasive sermons. Nothing inspires greater confidence than an ecclesiastic who, never forgetting the dignity of his state, demonstrates in every situation that gravity which attracts and wins universal homage.

“If, on the contrary, he forgets the holiness of the sacred character which he bears indelibly impressed and engraved on his souls, and if he fails to show in his outward conduct a gravity superior to that of certain men of the world, then he causes his ministry and religion itself to be despised. For when gravity is wanting in its leaders, the people lose respect and veneration for them.” (1)