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June 23, 2006
Wuerlly-Gig
I want to thank Fr. Bill for letting Isabel and I tag a long on to the installation Mass for Archbishop Weurl, now of Washinston D.C..
I have to say that it is pretty hard to be pessimistic about the future of the Church when sitting through an installation Mass. With the basilica at maximum capacity, a sanctuary filled to the brim with cardinals, bishops, and priests, more inter-faith and civil dignitaries than you can shake a shepherd's staff at, and absolutely everything being done by the book, you can't help but be proud of your Catholic faith, tradition, and heritage.
And with people of every nationality, culture, age, and language, all amassed for a single purpose, you really do get a sense of the universality of the Church, maybe even a sense of what it will be like in the New Jerusalem. Heck, halfway through the thing I realized I was sitting in between the statue of Blessed Kateri and St. Thomas More...an American Indian convert and a martyred British government official (both with personal significance). You can't really diversify a religion much more than that.
Anyway, I'll miss Cardinal McCarrick's leadership in many ways. He was very generous in his time with the Catholic Terps (even if he did once throw away my bacon before I was finished eating it), but Wuerl certainly has the energy and charisma to keep things moving, and I suspect we'll see him eventually making a visit to see what's making the CSC churn out such a high rate of vocations.
Posted by Peter Terp on June 23, 2006 at 01:28 AM | Permalink
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It's Wuerlly-gig not Weurlly-gig. But Hugo and I still need a ride on Sunday.
Posted by: Raymundo | Jun 23, 2006 10:45:06 PM
I was cycling July 4th, 2006, in Topeka, KS, trying to find-out why they didn’t have a ‘Go Fourth’ at WU, and found a dead, baby doll with one arm on Mayberry Street, the other one was broken-off. I guess you could make TEN-thousand-one statements of what that symbolizes. I hung it up on a hook, which is how I wanna be martyred (hung, shot, guillotined, or pulled-apart by four-horses when a shotgun is fired. Guess you‘d call that ‘Quarter-Horsing-Around’ HawrHawr).
Nevertheless, my interpretation is this: America, in her infancy, with all of her idolatry, has no bloody idea of how much we owe the King of Kings, God Almighty, for our well-being in this Land-of-the-Free; That also makes me realize, by her lying broken in the street, how flagrantly callous we are toward the unborn, as the girls in short-shorts practically wanna. “Who the hell’s God? Do I even need Him?” they proclaim. There were monks, too, in the Middle Ages, even now, who have literal skulls on their desk to remind them they’re passing-away. If you don’t know, don’t even care, far too concerned with your car, clothes, cash, condoms, calumny… “SoBeIt,” saith the Trinity. “Let the Angel of Death descend.”
I'm very angry due to our happy, intoxicated society which replaces God with MSNBC.
IN HOC SIGNO + VINCES: Crux Sacre Sit Mihi Lux! Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam!!!
Posted by: Kold | Jul 7, 2006 12:20:46 PM
Well, I'm not exactly sure what that last comment has to do with our new Bishop...but it seems pretty angry and bitter.
I think it's easy to be pessimistic in our society, which is precisely why it is important that events like the installation be filled to the brim with joy and pomp.
One of the things that such a big celebration does is make you realize that there's more than "just a remnant" left of faithful in America. And it gives you hope that God's appointed shepherds will lead us towards his mercy, rather than his wrath. How many good people did God say were required to spare the wicked city?
Posted by: Peter Terp | Jul 7, 2006 3:22:30 PM
