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Quotes Suitable For Framing: Father George Rutler

At the Last Judgment we will hear the giant thunderclap of bishops being reunited with their spines.

Father George Rutler

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Clinton
Clinton
Tuesday, February 27, AD 2018 8:26am

Sadly all too apt.

Lapidary prose like this is probably what got Father Rutler transferred
from his old parish of Our Savior’s to St. Michael’s in Hell’s kitchen.
The pastor assigned to Our Savior’s immediately set about undoing
Fr. Rutler’s work and in the process drove away many parishioners.
It is no surprise that the healthy Latin Mass community at Our
Savior’s was summarily suppressed. Adding insult to injury, artwork
commissioned to decorate the church was stripped, literally in the
dead of night:

https://onepeterfive.com/naked-in-new-york-the-unceremonious-stripping-of-our-saviour/

The faithful might call bishops out on their shortcomings, but we
should be mindful that more than a few will do all they can to make
their flock pay for their lese majeste.

GUY MCCLUNG
GUY MCCLUNG
Tuesday, February 27, AD 2018 11:11am

Athanasius, in exile: “They have the buildings, we have the faith.”

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Tuesday, February 27, AD 2018 11:38am

I meditate on how liberal bishops will stand up to the Last Judgment.

My revised Matthew 25 narrative has Jesus telling me to explain to each of 50 or 60 death penalty/executed murderers and rapists (on a ten minute pass out of Hell) why I did nothing for them. But, bishops are ordered to go to each of the 62 million and counting aborted souls and explain why they did nothing for them. Then, Christ asks the murdered unborn to advise Him as to who is to be thrown into Hell.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Wednesday, February 28, AD 2018 3:56am

In the last two paragraphs on his third homily on the Acts of the Apostles, St. John Chrysostom talks about the episcopate at length. One sentence stuck out:

“I mean, that even if you have sinned, but in your own person merely, you will have no such great punishment, nothing like it: but if you have sinned as bishop, you are lost.”

It’s important however to have that statement in context, so kindly go here:

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210103.htm

St. Chrysostom talks more about the weight and responsibility of the office than he does of bishops whose skulls have become lamp posts. In fact, I can’t find the phrase cited in the meme above among St. Chrysostom’s writings (which doesn’t mean that it isn’t there, but only that I cannot locate it).

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Wednesday, February 28, AD 2018 11:14am

My guess is you can’t find it because he never said it.

Kind of like how Lincoln never said many of the things attributed to him (but we wish he had!).

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