tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560483615460834385.post1527505566389987609..comments2024-03-19T08:05:42.801-04:00Comments on On This Rock: Thoughts on My Retreat with Cardinal BurkeFather John Hollowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12850864104003705536noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560483615460834385.post-1558276239893489122012-12-14T17:30:58.218-05:002012-12-14T17:30:58.218-05:00Yes, you can get an "Amen!" Amen!Yes, you can get an "Amen!" Amen!Fr. Jason SIgnalnesshttp://jsignal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560483615460834385.post-84360461544608837582012-12-12T12:54:31.515-05:002012-12-12T12:54:31.515-05:00Your point about the law being the basis of happin...Your point about the law being the basis of happiness and charity is something that I'm also discovering in my own life too. I think that if we ignore Jesus' calls to devotion and chastity, we will also end up ignoring his call to radical self-sacrifice and service in love, which in fact is even harder in many ways.<br /><br />About point number 4, are priests not given spiritual training in the seminary? My very uninformed perspective and limited experience incline me to think that this is considered "optional," as I have seen very uneven levels of spirituality among priests I have had the chance to meet.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560483615460834385.post-63575836023731194072012-12-11T12:31:54.345-05:002012-12-11T12:31:54.345-05:00God bless Cardinal Burke and Fr. Hollowell. May G...God bless Cardinal Burke and Fr. Hollowell. May God protect them as they love our Lord Jesus Christ and His people through their works of teaching and sanctifying. Praise God for beautiful priests.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560483615460834385.post-27075515398091078712012-12-10T23:40:29.284-05:002012-12-10T23:40:29.284-05:00Oh my gosh! How blessed can you be to have gone o...Oh my gosh! How blessed can you be to have gone on a whole retreat with that saint of a man! Thanks for letting us in on what he had to say. All good and true! <br /><br />I'd love to go back to ad orientam. I want to pray to God, not look at the priest's face, yet we all stare at the priest all the time. <br /><br />Hope you got to talk to Cardinal Burke about your work on homosexuality. He's very good on that topic. He celebrated a Mass and gave a talk at the 2011 Courage convention. <br /><br />God help us to once again become a Church that shines like a light in the darkness. Monicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560483615460834385.post-40250202725444824272012-12-08T09:29:33.781-05:002012-12-08T09:29:33.781-05:008) The Church will likely get smaller before She b...<i>8) The Church will likely get smaller before She becomes more faithful again</i><br /><br />People get the vapors over this last one. They think us Taliban Catholics are out to boot people out the door. That's not true and that is not what Cdl. Ratzinger meant when he talked of a "smaller but purer" church. Rather, what it means is that the difference between the Church and society at large is going to become more stark and contentious and many nominal Catholics are going to end up choosing the latter. In other words, it is the parable of the sower: "And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful."Scott W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16864993877758217399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560483615460834385.post-20814879251861520352012-12-08T08:17:05.268-05:002012-12-08T08:17:05.268-05:00Thanks for the notes Fr. John. Thanks for the notes Fr. John. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17190205397855242550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560483615460834385.post-46398682345480557552012-12-08T08:03:58.233-05:002012-12-08T08:03:58.233-05:00Thanks for sharing. Very insightful!! 1 and 6 exp...Thanks for sharing. Very insightful!! 1 and 6 explain why I love the Latin Mass! Again thanks for sharing!Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03142210002439270760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560483615460834385.post-29173201270083326822012-12-07T21:56:02.579-05:002012-12-07T21:56:02.579-05:00all very true!all very true!Rachel M. Gohlmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13972993153075842439noreply@blogger.com