tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post6716190334875016387..comments2023-07-05T08:17:21.505-04:00Comments on Getting to the Point: The Gospel of the FamilyFr. Denis Lemieuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-5360502957751849112014-10-14T21:50:48.008-04:002014-10-14T21:50:48.008-04:00I agree with everything you say, especially re the...I agree with everything you say, especially re the damage wrought by ssm, etc. And the agenda of the LGBTQ movement is a matter of public record. Kyrie eleison.<br />That being said, I do think that many of these people entering same-sex marriages etc., while following a course that will do grievous harm to them and to the children and so forth (all you said, yes!), nonetheless are moving out of a desire for love and communion. Yes, totally mis-directed and disastrous, but I believe the Church needs to find a way to meet that desire for love and communion, and I do believe the Synod is trying to grapple with those very tough matters. Let's keep praying for the Church, its unity, peace, and above all wisdom at this time.<br />I will be grappling along with everyone else, so to speak, for the next few days on this, and am always grateful for the feedback, especially when it as thoughtful and courteous as yours is. Pax.Fr. Denis Lemieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-62474409690450797512014-10-14T21:46:14.576-04:002014-10-14T21:46:14.576-04:00When the words a-hit your mind like the author had...When the words a-hit your mind like the author had too much wine, that's Italian! When your brain starts to fry and you might start to cry, that's Italian!<br />In all seriousness, the sentence you instance (admittedly, one of many) too me is classic Italian-to-English translation done in a hurry. I totally acknowledge that this is not the best written document ever, and I hope over the next few days anyhow, to help translate it from 'bad English' to 'not-so-bad'. <br />Re: banal and vague - well, like I say, I think some of that reflects the kind of document it is--cautious, exploratory, laying foundations but not writing policy with any firmness or boldness. Too soon for that. I wouldnt' call the part I quote 'banal', but that's a judgment call. Thanks for the feedback - good to hear what people are thinking. Blessings.Fr. Denis Lemieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-11846403583614097942014-10-14T21:40:51.981-04:002014-10-14T21:40:51.981-04:00Thanks a lot, Colin. Means a lot coming from you. ...Thanks a lot, Colin. Means a lot coming from you. Not because you're so brilliant, of course, but because you're such a hardass. ;)Fr. Denis Lemieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-85505674473156900382014-10-14T17:20:43.701-04:002014-10-14T17:20:43.701-04:00Father, your charity is on display here, which is ...Father, your charity is on display here, which is a good example to those of us who do not see the Synod’s halfway report as a good document. There's a lot to say, but your comment that "people are not just being bloody-minded and doing these things to spit in God’s face" is a good point at which to register disagreement.<br /><br />In the wake of the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the violent birth of the same sex sexual rights movement, "Gay Liberation Fronts" sprang up whose rally cry was, "Two four six eight, smash the family, smash the state." Pride parades occur on the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, and so are a celebration of that cry. That is the pedigree of those who seek acceptance of same sex sexual behavior, an activism that does not so much spit as lunge with a knife; it has very much a bloody intent.<br /><br />While the push for same sex marriage may seem to contradict “smash the family”, it is actually a major means of accomplishing this goal. The revolution sought is from natural to unnatural, and results directly from the insistence that an intrinsic disorder is a normal human condition. And it is this disorder ( this “sexual orientation”, as the report terms it) that the midway report asks if we can accept and value.<br /><br />The only sexual orientation is male to female and vice versa. Anything else is disorientation. To ask whether disorientation should be accepted and valued, antithetical as it is to the gospel of the family revealed by Jesus Christ, is to question that revelation. That alone is grounds for considering the document defective.<br /><br />Someone may yearn for family, and may be lonely and in pain, but when he seeks to find resolution through acceptance of disorientation, he is complicit in the effort to smash the family. That effort is every bit a bloody-minded course: children robbed of opposite sex parents, parents encouraging children who have this temptation to submit to it, artificial conception methods that replace the conjugal act, and so on. Perhaps the final document will be clear that accepting and valuing disorientation is the diametric of what we should be doing: harnessing the beauty of the family to assist a proper orientation of these people in whom we see the image of Christ.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-60489422168134254292014-10-14T09:49:42.028-04:002014-10-14T09:49:42.028-04:00Okay, Father, I tried to take your judgment seriou...Okay, Father, I tried to take your judgment seriously, even though I don't see what is so "good" about the starting point you mention; I think it is banal and hopelessly vague. But maybe I just need to read on and get more context. So I tried, but I had to stop when I got to this: "Today’s world appears to promote limitless affectivity, seeking to explore all its aspects, including the most complex. Indeed, the question of emotional fragility is very current: a narcissistic, unstable or changeable affectivity do not always help greater maturity to be reached." - Seriously? This is awful!. It sounds like it was written by a clueless university student who is desperately trying to sound intelligent by making grand generalizations she could never hope to justify, using fancy terms which she clearly doesn't understand. It's embarrassing!David McPikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04997702078077124822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-12059343390703711822014-10-14T09:22:30.207-04:002014-10-14T09:22:30.207-04:00keep writing, Father. I trust your judgement. Mean...keep writing, Father. I trust your judgement. Meaning I don't trust a lot of other people's. ;-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08382202844125832748noreply@blogger.com