HOW PART OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS JUDAS AND BETRAYS JESUS WHILE KISSING HIM
(Why The Mandatory Celibacy Rule is Evil)
Never was I more impressed with how institutionally off the tracks from the heart of God the Catholic Church is than when I went to the Mass of the Last Supper last night. It may just be my Parish-but I don’t think so.
First, There was no feet washing- symbolic or otherwise- what a waste of a good pedicure. No feet washing of any Priest or Parishioner. In Protestant services not only does the Minister wash the feet of other ministers, but the ministers wash the feet of the congregants and the congregants take turn washing the feet of other fellow congregants-and the feet of the Ministers--Just to underscore the point that we are all called to be disciples.
Instead a group of only men Priests sat on a raised flooring around the altar and lectured the group, men, women, children and one persistently crying baby, who then processed with the eucharistic food to a statue of a woman to "venerate." It may be the closest they get to really appreciating a woman not their birth mother.
The service was a Metaphor for how far from the Heart of Christ, how far from the Heart of Love the church has traveled and the egoistic hubris that has it stuck there in its perverse misery.
The Dominican Friar brother used the occasion to call the Priesthood to a rededication to this idolotry of worshiping Food- heavenly manna, eucharistic bread and blood, and redefined "holiness" in a totally unbiblical way -meaning enforced celibacy-another idolotry. "Radical holiness"- he meant to signify the denial of any priest the ability to bond in love with a woman.
This is not God's view of holiness in any respect. This is a perversion. It is a sickening perversion because it destroys women and their unborn potential progeny. It insults women by calling intimate association with them intrinsically unholy. What God calls clean how dare you call unclean.
Throughout the consecration in the service a baby appropriately loudly cried and whimpered.
It was as if Christ the baby child himself were crying and whimpering. Priests were using his
Food for Journey as the Journey itself-the end of the Journey, when it was only meant to be food-sustenance for the Journey.
The Journey of Easter for Easter People is a Journey toward Love in all its fullness.
That is the promised land. It is not a "settling" for any state of unhappiness wrapped in false humility bound in self sacrifice. It’s not a camping out staring at the Manna.
Love. Do you have a clue what it means? When God gave the Israelites the manna in the desert, and told them to eat of it daily as a prefigurement of the daily bread eucharist, he didn't tell them to worship it- He provided it to help them get where they were supposed to go. He is a jealous God and he demands Worship of Himself-his Whole Self. His Spirit is Love. He is Truth, he is Life in all its fullness. He wants worship in Spirit and Truth- in Love. The worship of the Food parading around in gold capes and ridiculous self aggrandizing finery is a reduction of his Being to that which can be consummed by humans. It is a ridiculous trivialization.
God is so much more than anything that could be consumed by humans.
God is bigger than a bread box. God is a Fire that cannot be extinguished, like the burning Bush. God is LOVE. To camp out in front of the manna and worship the heavenly manna to the exclusion of Love stunts the journey and insults the Creater of all Creation, the giver of all life, the essence of the Creative Power in the world. To use the food as any justification to deny Love is just an evil perversion. There is NOTHING Holy About it. It is obscenity to use his name, and his food, as cover to crucify his Love- to indeed Crucify him again. and Again. and Again.
A baby cried during the whole consecration. It was trying to tell the Priest something. Christ himself was crying, and is crying, for the destruction of the hope of all his unborn children by the perverse idol worship of his food to the exclusion of Love for any woman by any Priest.
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Jesus picked Jewish men of honor, integrity, character and heart as the 12 disciples -some rich, some poor, -because that was in marked contrast to the hedonistic polygamistic pagan Roman culture surrounding them at the time where men could emotionally and physically engangle themselves with many wives and had King Herod as a model of honor. In Hebrew culture the betrayal of a spouse in adultery was a capital offense. You could be put to death for it-male or female. Such was the supreme importance of honoring someone of the opposite sex with covenantal commitment which reflects the Trinity itself. This is why Jesus came in the context of a Holy Family, through a virtuous woman-as opposed to on a cloud of Glory or just crossing the veil. He could have popped out of Mount Vesuvius if he wanted. He came as a baby.
The Son of God didn't have to come as a Jew, he didn't have to come as a baby to become a human, he didn't have to come at all- he came to save us. He came as a Jewish man, first as a Jewish baby to a Jewish virtuous woman in a holy betrothed state to a holy Jewish man. Jewish culture was and is such that it abhored male whores- men who slept with many women or emotionally entangled themselves with many women or seduced emotionally or physically many women. Because of the understanding of soul ties and preeminence of the heart, it was and is just as evil to emotionally entangle as physically entangle with multiple women. Jewish culture rejected the view of idol worshipping pagans that setting up male temple prostitutes was any way to heaven. Men who emotionally or physically entangle themselves with multiple women are male whores. Under cover of priestly garments this is worse than an abomination. Plain and simple- male whores.
It is against the backdrop of this that God COMMANDS that a Bishop, Elder or Deacon in the church MUST be the husband of ONE WIFE. It is a pre-requisite of character that is essential to holiness. It is a matter of reflecting God's Covenant, God's Honor and God's profound tenderness toward his bride the church.
There is nothing Holy about Male religious whores. Mandating celibacy for people not gifted with celibacy creates a class of male whores who express their bonding in sexuality in totally unholy ways.
God/Jesus is stunned and sickened at the thought that providing his food, his bread, body and blood, would create a class of men who turned it into such an idol that it justifies their egoistic destruction of women. Jesus never instituted this as the model for priesthood when he gave it to Peter-a married man.
There is no other word for that than obscene. There is nothing whatsoever radically "holy" about destroying women and their potential for progeny/offspring but that it is in fact a serious and great evil. Pure evil. There is no love in it. Where there is an absence of Love, there is an absence of Christ because God is Love.
In this, the Protestant world is much much holier than the Catholic world and view of the priesthood as instituted by Jesus given first to Peter, a married man.
The acknowledgment that some are made "eunichs for the kingdom" is not a license to be an emotional philanderer, manipulator or religious jigalo. It is not a license for the church to pimp "celibate" priests for the maintenance of church properties. Jesus didn't institute the distribution of his body and blood so that people would idol worship it as an excuse to Love Less or dishonor any woman.
God is Love. More Love is More God.
His body and blood is food. Body and blood is corporeal flesh. His Spirit is Love. The holiest Spirit is Love. To reduce him to his food of flesh is to deny the fullness of who he is and to crucify his Love. To Crucify Love is to Betray him at the core of his Sacred Heart.
It is pure idolotry. To use this idolotry to justify or excuse emotional or physical entanglements with many women under the false cover of "eunich-hood" is an obscenity and perversion. It lives a lie. It dishonors Christ profoundly.
For that reason part of the Catholic Church has become Judas to Christ. It has betrayed his heart. It has called evil what is good and good what is evil. It has destroyed women in the wake of its pride. It has denied Christ because to deny Love is to deny Christ. --Way more than three times.
Celibacy is a gift of the Spirit for a specific purpose. The Priesthood, those consecrating and distributing the food, is a distinctly different calling. Celibacy is no more holy than married Life.
Technical Celibacy while de facto engaging in multiple spiritual marriages -with either gender-is Priestly Whoredom.
And God is so Angry that he could entirely wipe out an entire City called Sodom. Did you forget that the people in Sodom were also Jewish? They were just off-the-rails un-righteous lost Jews, but still Jewish. Lot and his wife were Jewish. Being Catholic or a Catholic Priest is not a definition of righteousness unless one is actually righteous.
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