Comments on: A time of great crisis /2019/11/13/a-time-of-great-crisis/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Sun, 24 May 2020 10:28:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Bryan Parry /2019/11/13/a-time-of-great-crisis/#comment-56838 Sun, 24 May 2020 10:28:20 +0000 /?p=20389#comment-56838 And Dan I have been very badly treated by a Catholic School the staffroom of which was run as a branch of the National Party. How much does this Diocese contribute to thecWaitemata Trust?

]]> By: Greg /2019/11/13/a-time-of-great-crisis/#comment-39550 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:59:15 +0000 /?p=20389#comment-39550 It’s probably time to park all the think-tanks, conferences, meetings, conferences, specially-composed prayers, glossy publications, powerpoints, facilitated discussions, and other corporate healing and relationship management approaches that are deployed so adroitly. We are not an NGO with funny hats.

We are in a super-natural battle. Remember all that stuff about God, Jesus, the devil, your soul, reparation, grace, sorrow, forgiveness, etc etc…
Supernatural issues require supernatural solutions, surely?
Prayer (rosaries and other devotions of the same socially unifying and combative nature)
Fasting (real fasting, not just reducing netflix from 4 hours to 3.5 hours)
Penance (private sacrifices and discomforts)
Public penance and mortification of Episcopal leaders to inspire the sheep.
Exorcism (do we still do that?)
Re-consecrations.

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