The title of this post references a quote I have heard attributed to Don Propser Gueranger but may have been uttered by another. I could not quickly find a source for it.
Preaching on Lent, Don Prosper urges more and heroic fasting from Catholics.
“How will it look for you at your judgment when Our Lord asks of you what fasting you offered Him in this life and you have very little or nothing at all to reply? The Mohammedans have their Ramadan and you couldn’t even give me two days…”
So first, don’t ever listen to anyone who discourages you from an heroic practice of fasting. I’m even hearing traditional priests preach recently about the many “exceptions” to fasting one should make use of and that mothers and fathers in the home aren’t called to be Carthusian monks or some such nonsense. Of course we aren’t called to the monastic life. But all are called to sanctity. And correct me if I’m wrong but I thought sanctity was the heroic practice of virtue.
Repeat after me.
Fasting. Will. Not. Kill. Me.
I’ve discovered this great joy (and suffering) too late in my 46 years on this earth as a Catholic. But praised be to God, I have begun to understand.
New York Catholics on the other hand?
Peep this.
I truly don’t like having to refer to a Prince of the Church as a buffoon but I don’t know what else to say when the emperor has no clothes (and apparently no self awareness).
Your Eminence, please, in your desire to be loved in the media capital of the world (I’m just assuming) you are making an ass of yourself and denigrating the Catholic faith. And all of this on the heels of that abomination last month with the “mother of all whores” tranny-fest in your cathedral.
Ramadan is not anything like “our Lenten journey”. For starters, your ilk have watered Lent down to be almost meaningless. Secondly, for those who try to take Lent seriously, it is leading us in bodily practice and prayer to the celebration of Christ’s Passion and Death and our salvation. Compare that with a system who thinks the Second Person of the Trinity, God Incarnate, is inferior to their false god.
Cardinal Dolan, there are three weeks left of Lent. Perhaps give up going on camera. Or speaking.
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