Just when I was starting to think that "Eucharistic Ministers" were useless...

-- jake (jake1REMOVE@pngusa.net), June 26, 2003

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What do you mean worthless? You mean because they are human too just like the rest of us? This article goes to prove that pediphilia is not caused by celibacy. But unfortunitly this problem goes on and people continue to publish article about how the Catholic Church has this problem. But so do many other churches. I pray that it ends.

-- Scott (papasquat10@hotmail.com), June 26, 2003.

Mentioning that this sexual offender was a Eucharistic Minister serves no purpose whatsoever except to identify him as a Catholic. This is a favorite tactic of the amoral, liberal secular media. In my local paper, an article about a man who shot two other men outside a bar described the offender as "a former altar boy". I'm sure that fact was somehow tremendously relevant to a murder he committed twenty years later. I wonder why they didn't identify him as "a former Cub Scout", or "a former Little League player".

-- Paul (PaulCyp@cox.net), June 26, 2003.

Our critic Jake is a former faithful Catholic. Now he's a self-absorbed, bitter elitist. He ought to realise what saintly men and women serve God daily as extraordinary Eucharistic ministers. He isn't worthy of coming under the same roof with my brother-in-law, for instance; who serves God this way.

Jose, my Brother-in- law takes Holy Communion to the aged, infirm and bed- ridden, in hospices & hospitals. He himself is a daily communicant and prays the Rosary with fervor. I'm sure Jake has never even aspired to that level of Catholic faith. Why am I sure?

Because Jake is just a DIVIDER. His pride is the cause of all his anger. Some Catholic!

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), June 29, 2003.

Well, then help him out Eugene. Make some small sacrifice for him today, dedicate your Rosary for his salvation; anything. Keep his salvation in your heart, and remember that you are no safer than he is.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), June 29, 2003.

Certainly, Emmerald. I have never forgotten this. And you can easily see I pray for him, and for others who fall under his elitist influence. I prayed on another thread just this morning. The one where I defended the Eucharistic Ministers. Traditions are they a lie?

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), June 29, 2003.

"I prayed on another thread just this morning."

Behind closed doors, where nobody can see you but your Father who is Heaven, you will hear you accordingly. Keep it secret; keep it safe. Don't tell anyone; don't ring the bell.

That's all I'm saying.

"I'm sure Jake has never even aspired to that level of Catholic faith."

We simply cannot do this.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), June 29, 2003.

oouch

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), June 29, 2003.

Did you let the other virtues escape you? Are you sure I haven't failed in some other way, too? Today it's my prayer. Tomorrow you'll see something even better. Something I really didn't know! Thanks, Emerald. I shall listen well to your admonitions from now on.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), June 29, 2003.

"Did you let the other virtues escape you?"

Yep.

"Are you sure I haven't failed in some other way, too?"

No.

"Today it's my prayer. Tomorrow you'll see something even better."

Maybe, maybe not.

"Something I really didn't know!"

Told you so, that it isn't in the knowledge but instead in the will.

"Thanks, Emerald."

You're welcome.

"I shall listen well to your admonitions from now on."

Only if the admonitions ring a bell. Doh! "Ring a bell"... dangit, I just contradicted myself.

The admonition is indestructibly sound, immovable and impenetrable, unlike my spelling.

While you're at it, say a prayer for my salvation too, and that I can live up to my own admonitions, because I'm not sure I can or do.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), June 29, 2003.

Roger, will do--

I would rather you grow, than stamp you out, Brother. I have growing to finish too. I want us to go into the same place. Up. All it is is grace.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), June 29, 2003.