{"id":8692,"date":"2002-09-16T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2002-09-16T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/09\/16\/somewhere-over-the-rainbow-stole\/"},"modified":"2002-09-16T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2002-09-16T23:22:47","slug":"somewhere-over-the-rainbow-stole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/09\/somewhere-over-the-rainbow-stole\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere over the rainbow stole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A headline about the St. Francis DeSales Catholic Church a Mass for gays,<br \/>\nlesbians, bisexual and transgendered people it states &#8220;Mass displays unity&#8221;. I<br \/>\nhave a feeling that this is not the unity that Jesus talked about in the Gospel<br \/>\nof John &#8220;<font color=#000099>Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast<br \/>\ngiven me, that they may be one, even as we are one.<\/font><font color=#3333ff>&#8221;<br \/>\n<font color=#000000>and<\/font> &#8220;<font color=#000099>The glory which thou hast<br \/>\ngiven me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are<br \/>\none<\/font>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The main message at the Mass revolved around acceptance,<br \/>\nlove, forgiveness, peace and unity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;He wore a rainbow stole over his<br \/>\nwhite robes. <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/archive\/2002\/09\/16\/news\/8248.html\">Full<br \/>\narticle<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p>What about repentance? Tolerance has become the highest virtue that you can<br \/>\nobtain to, which is really sad. Can you imagine the following discourse:<\/p>\n<p><font color=#000099>When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon<br \/>\nPeter, &#8220;Simon, son of John, do you <b>tolerate<\/b> me more than these?&#8221; He said<br \/>\nto him, &#8220;Yes, Lord; you know that I <b>tolerate<\/b> you.&#8221; He said to him, &#8220;Feed<br \/>\nmy lambs.&#8221; A second time he said to him, &#8220;Simon, son of John, do you<br \/>\n<b>tolerate<\/b> me?&#8221; He said to him, &#8220;Yes, Lord; you know that I <b>tolerate<\/b><br \/>\nyou.&#8221; He said to him, &#8220;Tend my sheep.&#8221; He said to him the third time, &#8220;Simon,<br \/>\nson of John, do you <b>love<\/b> me?&#8221; Peter was grieved because he said to him<br \/>\nthe third time, &#8220;Do you <b>tolerate<\/b> me?&#8221; And he said to him, &#8220;Lord, you know<br \/>\neverything; you know that I <b>tolerate<\/b> you.&#8221; Jesus said to him, &#8220;Feed my<br \/>\nsheep.<\/font> &#8212; RSV (Revised Stupid Version)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A headline about the St. Francis DeSales Catholic Church a Mass for gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered people it states &#8220;Mass displays unity&#8221;. I have a feeling that this is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}