{"id":2499,"date":"2008-08-06T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/08\/06\/masses-of-reparation\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T18:37:05","slug":"masses-of-reparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/08\/masses-of-reparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Masses of reparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">Priests at the London Oratory have<br \/>\ncalled for prayers of reparation after a consecrated Host was allegedly<br \/>\nstolen during High Mass and desecrated by an atheist professor in<br \/>\nAmerica.<\/p>\n<p>Several priests have celebrated Masses of reparation this week<br \/>\nresponding to a video posted on the internet of a young man taking the<br \/>\nHost and later placing it next to a condom, claiming he was holding it<br \/>\n&#8220;hostage&#8221; inside the prophylactic until the Pope changed his policy on<br \/>\ncontraception in light of Africa&#8217;s Aids epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>An evening of reparation with Mass and Adoration with prayers, litanies<br \/>\nand silent meditation is planned for next Wednesday. Oratorians have<br \/>\nalso called on the faithful to make personal acts of reparation this<br \/>\nweek and next &#8220;for all the outrages against the Blessed Sacrament<br \/>\naround the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Close observation of the film and of the facts seems to suggest that<br \/>\nthis is not an elaborate hoax, but depicts something that really<br \/>\noccurred,&#8221; said the e-mail asking people to make acts of reparation. It<br \/>\nalso asked people to pray for &#8220;the conversion of the culprits, that<br \/>\nthey will answer God&#8217;s call to repentance and open their hearts to<br \/>\nreceive His forgiveness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place during the Oratory&#8217;s High Mass on July 13 and<br \/>\nwas posted on the internet soon after. It said: &#8220;The Catholic Church<br \/>\nforfeits all rights to respect for its ludicrous beliefs, including<br \/>\n&#8216;transubstantiation&#8217;, while its anti-condom campaign in Africa results<br \/>\nin tens of thousands of deaths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/articles\/a0000341.shtml\"\ntarget=\"_blank\"><img\nstyle=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 76px; height: 26px;\"\nalt=\"Article\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">What only tens of thousands of deaths?<br \/>\n&nbsp;The claim is usually &#8220;millions of deaths&#8221; so this guy needs<br \/>\nto get on the same page with the other raving lunatics. Now&nbsp;raving<br \/>\nlunatics might seem rather uncharitable, but I think it is a charitable<br \/>\ninterpretation of such an understanding that the Church&#8217;s opposition to<br \/>\ncondoms is what causes deaths from AIDS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">They have to believe that the Pope has the<br \/>\npower to stop people from using condoms while at the same time having<br \/>\nno power to deter people from having sex outside of marriage.<br \/>\n&nbsp;That people will be willing to commit the grave sin of<br \/>\nadultery\/fornication but then their conscience stops them from using a<br \/>\ncondom because they heard the Pope was against it. &nbsp;Yeah this<br \/>\nis impeccable logic. So I guess we need to write the pope and to tell<br \/>\nhim to use the same<br \/>\npowers he has concerning condoms and do it with other areas of Church<br \/>\nteaching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">By this logic safe driving is when a<br \/>\nreckless driver has an airbag. &nbsp;It is not behavior that<br \/>\nmatters, but having protection for bad behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">They also never explain how a couple<br \/>\nactually following Church teaching and only have relations in the<br \/>\ncontext of marriage would ever need a condom to protect them from STDs.<br \/>\n&nbsp; So I guess instead of getting upset by people not being<br \/>\nfaithful to Church teaching if they are really worried about deaths<br \/>\nfrom STDs they should be upset that people aren&#8217;t following Church<br \/>\nteaching if they are going to be consistent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">They also don&#8217;t feel responsible for<br \/>\npeople who used condoms and then received AIDS anyway. &nbsp;They<br \/>\nwould never drink some liquid that had a 80 to 90 percent of not<br \/>\nkilling you, yet somehow recommending a condom with failure rates like<br \/>\nthat is acceptable. &nbsp;Liberals will go crazy about .000001<br \/>\npercent of something in the water supply, but condom failures are<br \/>\nacceptable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">The putting together of the Eucharist and<br \/>\nthe condom is sign and anti-sign. &nbsp; Jesus is the way the truth<br \/>\nand the life, and the condom is the symbol against life. &nbsp;Life<br \/>\nto be prevented and a symbol to the cult of pleasure without<br \/>\nconsequences. &nbsp;The condom is a separation and a barrier, while<br \/>\nJesus became man to remove all separation and barriers between God and<br \/>\nus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">At least we now know who supplied the host<br \/>\nto P.Z. Myers so that we can also add our prayers for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priests at the London Oratory have called for prayers of reparation after a consecrated Host was allegedly stolen during High Mass and desecrated by an atheist professor in America. 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