tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10643191.post3249605530634464562..comments2023-06-15T04:25:15.738-05:00Comments on Reflections of the Spirit: Decan Alvin GerbermannUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10643191.post-1901067544944482942007-03-01T06:06:00.000-06:002007-03-01T06:06:00.000-06:00Retraining indeed! This incident is not the first ...Retraining indeed! This incident is not the first time our strong-arm deacon has spoken incorrectly on church matters. But then again, as we all now realize, Fr. Louie is not much better. Both need to take a few years off to go back to study church theology, church history and church procedures. It's the uninformed leading the misinformed! <BR/><BR/>Our bishop will say, “It is just so hard to find good priests these days.” All the good ones seem to have left the church, are now married or have just become disgusted and left. We once got America’s best talents. Now, we attract only the lowest on the scale. <BR/><BR/>Worry not though, as soon as we change those silly marital, celibacy and male dominated rules, our church will again be loaded with talent as it once was. Those rules were set up for no other reason than to limit church power. It's time to change that and give the church back to the people.<BR/><BR/>Who can dare state that God would object to having a woman praising Him and saying, "Do this in remembrance of me"?<BR/><BR/>As has been clearly proven at Holy Spirit, a women can run a parish every bit as good as a man. MUCH, MUCH BETTER in the case of Holy Spirit. Just look at Holy Spirit parish before and after! Even the bishop must now admit (even if only to himself) that he made a humongous mistake.<BR/><BR/>True, Ann Cass was an exceptional parish administrator who put together a team that had their hearts set on making Holy Spirit the kind of parish that was a model for Catholic parishes everywhere. They paid dearly for their efforts. SO DID WE!<BR/><BR/>Lets change those silly unsubstantiated rules and get our church back! But please, don’t just pray about it, or hope for it… LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN! Our boat is SINKING!<BR/>~KanickersKanickershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00088384274692597915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10643191.post-51791786277924439092007-02-28T23:45:00.000-06:002007-02-28T23:45:00.000-06:00Well, they ought to make the pastor get retraining...Well, they ought to make the pastor get retraining. I was in the adult education class that Ann Cass facilitated and Fr. Louis spoke to us about the Blessed Mother. Then he told us not to read the Old Testament because we were Christians. We just finished a whole year the year before studying the Hebrew scriptures, as Ann called them, and she told us that to better understand the New Testament and to better understand Jesus, we needed to know and read the Hebrew scriptures. Then he comes in and tells us not to read the Old Testament. Where does he think the first reading and psalm come from most every Sunday. He needs retraining too. Let them go study together!!!<BR/>Why didn't he correct Alvin at that Mass? Or did he put Alvin up to saying it? I wouldn't want to bet!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com