{"id":8775,"date":"2002-10-16T20:21:52","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/16\/rosary-beady-eyes\/"},"modified":"2002-10-16T20:21:52","modified_gmt":"2002-10-17T01:21:52","slug":"rosary-beady-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/rosary-beady-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosary Beady Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First he adds a station to the Stations of<br \/>\nthe Cross, proclaimes 464 Saints &amp; 1297 Blessed, and now he is adding<br \/>\nanother set of mysteries to the rosary; who died and made him Pope? I think that<br \/>\nthe powerful bead and religious items merchandisers have lobbied him so as to be<br \/>\nable to increase sales of longer rosaries, statues, holy cards, and other items.<br \/>\nHe has gone to predominately Orthodox countries not to heal the schism but to<br \/>\nexpand religious article businesses into those areas. The Orthodox and Easter<br \/>\nCatholics use a knotted string for their prayers, where is the markup in that?<br \/>\nHe has been receiving kickbacks and placing them into his secret &#8220;Swiss Guard&#8221;<br \/>\naccount. <\/p>\n<p>This conspiracy theory doesn&#8217;t seem to be half as whacked as<br \/>\nsome of the criticisms I have read over the last couple of days since the first<br \/>\ninitial news. Soon I guess Oliver Stone will be making a movie called JPII where<br \/>\nhe disputes the lone ungrassy Vatican knoll gunman theory. Over at <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.amywelborn.blogspot.com\/2002_10_01_amywelborn_archive.html#82964672\">Amy<br \/>\nWelborn&#8217;s blog<\/a> because of the number of comments the comment counter is now<br \/>\nusing exponents. I don&#8217;t quite understand all the criticism, I personally like<br \/>\nthe idea of mysteries on the public life of Jesus, but if you don&#8217;t like them<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t pray them. There have been many versions of the rosary throughout the<br \/>\ncenturies as <a href=\"http:\/\/disputations.blogspot.com\/\">Disputations<\/a> has<br \/>\nshown, including Franciscan and Carmelite varieties. The critics probably glide<br \/>\nright past the Fatima prayer added to the rosary and complain about the St.<br \/>\nMichael the Archangel prayer being removed from the Mass even thought it was<br \/>\nadded only about seventy years before Vatican II. They must think there are two<br \/>\ndogmas &#8211; one where revelation was closed at the death of the last Apostle and<br \/>\nanother that church tradition was closed at the end of the Council of Trent. It<br \/>\nreminds me of the saying that &#8220;The best Bible version is &#8211; the one that you will<br \/>\nread&#8221; and the best set of mysteries are the ones that you will truly<br \/>\npray.<\/p>\n<p>I have written a set of mysteries that even those of the constant<br \/>\ncritical gaze set would like.<\/p>\n<p align=center><b>The Lidless Eye Mysteries<\/b><br \/>(With scriptural<br \/>\nmeditations)<\/p>\n<p align=left><b>Just say woe<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Woe to you, Chora&#8217;zin! woe to you,<br \/>\nBeth-sa&#8217;ida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and<br \/>\nSidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;woe to<br \/>\nthat man by whom the Son of man is betrayed&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But woe to you that are<br \/>\nrich, for you have received your consolation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=left>&#8220;Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Woe<br \/>\nto you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Woe to you, when<br \/>\nall men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=left><b>Us against them<\/b><\/p>\n<p><s>&#8220;For he that is not against us is<br \/>\nfor us.&#8221;<\/s><br \/>&#8220;He who is not with Me is against Me,&#8221; <\/p>\n<p align=left><b>Condemnation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will condemn you out of your own<br \/>\nmouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I<br \/>\ndid not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he who has doubts<br \/>\nis condemned, if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever does<br \/>\nnot proceed from faith is sin.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And making a whip of cords, he drove<br \/>\nthem all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the<br \/>\ncoins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who<br \/>\nsold the pigeons, &#8220;Take these things away; you shall not make my Father&#8217;s house<br \/>\na house of trade.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>You hypocrites<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why put me to the test,<br \/>\nyou hypocrites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;hypocrites; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, `This<br \/>\npeople honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You<br \/>\nhypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; but why<br \/>\ndo you not know how to interpret the present time?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Brood of<br \/>\nVipers<\/p>\n<p><\/b>&#8220;You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape<br \/>\nbeing sentenced to hell?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee<br \/>\nfrom the wrath to come?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You brood of vipers! how can you speak good,<br \/>\nwhen you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth<br \/>\nspeaks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=left>*All quotations from the RSV (Really Steady Vision)<br \/>\nversion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First he adds a station to the Stations of the Cross, proclaimes 464 Saints &amp; 1297 Blessed, and now he is adding another set of mysteries to the rosary; who&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-8775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775","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=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}