A reminder...

Please pray for our seminarians at Josephinum. I haven't posted in awhile regarding this but we have lost a significant number of young, holy men as of late. God be with them and guide them to your will for their life. They are so very important to so many of us here in Covington. I pray for them daily and hope the locals know how important this is to our diocese. As a tribute to these men, those who remain in the seminary and those who have left, I offer these words from Mother Teresa:

Be Anyway…
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
…Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
…Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
…Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
…Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
…Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
…Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
…Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
…Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

— Mother Teresa

Thank you for your sacrifice, your devotion and for not wavering.

Disappointing and sad

I have been catching up on news and visiting some blogs and came across this: About my post on the Josephinum and Summorum Pontificum
I pray constantly for those dear seminarians and worry that they have to stifle any shred of orthodoxy.(The priest from my "parish" left to become a spiritual director there....you remember, the one who was a fan of Commonweal and Liberation Theology....sigh). Please keep these men in your prayers. Fr. Z had to delete the original post it got so heated. I can say I believe some of the things going on and it is upsetting. I'm half glad he removed the post because I may have gone postal reading it.
One thing I have come to learn in the last year is that I was content going to my parish for a very orthodox Novus Ordo Mass until the new priest came in. Everything changed. I searched in vain for another parish offering a Mass that was not riddled in abuses nearby. We settled on the indult Mass because those worries of surprises and hokey songs were not an issue there. Seminarians shouldn't be labeled "traditional", "orthodox" or "liberal". None of us should. If the bishops were following the Holy Father and then the people and priests followed the bishops this would be a non-issue. If the liberals(see, now I have to use "titles") want to know WHY some of us have jumped the fence and consider ourselves traditional or orthodox, they can blame themselves. I was content where I was until the whole "community", "fellowship" and "we are all God because we are community/church" came into play. Heresy. That and knock-off Protestantism. I did not remain a Catholic to be a pseudo-Protestant. (You can chalk this entry up to pregnancy hormones, I don't care...I'm just saddened over it) See, you wonder why I haven't blogged on Catholic issues and news lately. I can't trust my fingers to not type my opinion. Just pray for these dear priests-to be from our diocese.