SABBATH: Serviam! Murder My Ego
[UPDATE] Homoactivists in South Africa poison desperately needed blood supply in the name of 'equal rights':
:: Backlash ::
What if, however, the flak is a test? I’m sure God doesn’t want limp-wristed, self-aggrandisers trumpeting their religious credentials. By sticking my head above the parapet I’ve become a target, not only for the devil’s mates, but also for the wrath of God. I can feel it, there beneath the vigour of opposition, the choice questions, the knowing replies: there is the taint of darkness but also the rich spur of righteousness. Could this be my self-mortification writ large across the internet?
:: Only Submit ::
What else can a Catholic do - in the face of personal calumny, darkly cast aspersions and rumours galore - but lie down? Turn the other cheek. Share my cloak and blog with those who wish me harm.
There might be, in all this noise, One Who wishes me great good, but Who will punish my pride with public scorn.
So be it.
:: The Wretched Truth ::
I am indeed a weak man, a proud fool, a liar and a sinner. I am not worthy of much of the attention that I receive here and elsewhere.
I am no model for other young men, certainly not for other Catholics. Most of the worst things that are written about me - while generally factually untrue - too often describe the failings of my heart and in my imagination.
:: Totus Tuus ::
Break me, I submit. I'm here to learn and obey. Like the Opus Dei supernumeraries who inspire such fascination in popular culture, I jump from my place of rest and press my face to the bare, cold floor. One word I breathe, one word is etched on my heart: SERVIAM.
:: The Upshot ::
There it is, the naked truth. Does this mean I'm going to stop blogging? What, with all that ego to defeat? You've got to be kidding.
:: Resources ::
- Someone else, this time a priest, who can't shut up about being a same sex attracted Catholic.
- Dr Philip Blosser comes to my defence:
Writing of a persistent DREADCRITIC:
"The more interesting question, however, is what he says about "inconsistency." "Is Dreadnought inconsistent?" he asks; and he goes on to point out a practical inconsistency he believes he finds between Dreadnought's publicly professed convictions and privately undertaken behaviors. In short, he is accusing Dreadnought of the inconsistency of hypocrisy."
"But let's examine this for a moment. People nearly invariably accuse Catholics and others involved in "organized religion" of hypocrisy. When you get beneath the surface and get to know faithful Catholics, however, you see that most of this imputed hypocrisy is simply nonsense: there are many godly souls whose lives I would willingly uphold as exemplars to my children in a heartbeat."
"But something else is intended here: the hypocrisy of discrepancy between Christian norm and Christian practice. But even the most devout Christian is conscious of sin in his life. In fact, the more he has advanced along the road of sanctity the more sensitive he becomes to his own sinfulness. "The only difference between a saint and a sinner," one confessor used to tell me, "is that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying" -- not perfect theologically, I grant you, but scoring a point well taken, nevertheless. Peter Kreeft puts the matter somewhat better when he says: "There are only two kinds of people in the world -- sinners who think they're saints, and saints who know they're sinners.""
"Let me come to the point: There are two kinds of inconsistency that need to be sharply distinguished here in reply to the heretical [...DREADCRITIC]:
First, there is the inconsistency of the Catholic life of obedient struggle against sin, which admittedly is not always a smooth and steady progress in sanctification but an advance in fits and starts and slips backward into sin that sometimes leaves one wondering whether it is an advance at all. The important thing, however, is that the faithful Catholic never compromises what he professes to be true. He never calls vice virtue. He never says that what the Church calls sinful or disordered is a "beautiful gift from God." He never says "F__k the Church." His is an inconsistency of sin and weakness, not an inconsistency of principle."
"Second, there is the inconsistency of professing to be Catholic while rejecting what the Catholic Church teaches. This is refusing to agree with the Church that sin is sin, that what is gravely disordered is so, and insisting that it's something else, something good, simply because one wishes it were so. This is not an inconsistency of sin or weakness, but an inconsistency of dishonesty, an inconsistency of conscious heresy concerning the moral teaching of the Church while still insisting that one is a bona fide Catholic."
" Where is the real hypocrisy?"
Where on earth do such talented, eloquent DREADNOUGHTERS come from? Actually, they generally come from the blessed United States of America!
"The group's members lied about their sexual status on an admission form and only after donating blood told the SANBS that 65 per cent of them had engaged in high-risk sexual behaviour and were unsure of their HIV status, while at least one member had full-blown AIDS."The blood goes to some of the poorest people in Africa, including women and children, in a nation crippled by miserably high HIV infection rates. A blood bank spokeswoman said:
""Blood donation is not a right, it's a privilege. Everybody has to meet the right criteria," she said."The same can be said for marriage, but try telling that to those seduced by the vapid 'equality' idol.
:: Backlash ::
There's been a bit of a bitch-fest since DREADNOUGHT appeared on television. I've been called out on many things, accused of being a hypocrite, a bloated chipmunk and worse. I've received many emails and comments from supportive DREADNOUGHTERS too, thank you for your generosity, but I don't think I'd prepared for the harsh glare of public attention.
Kiss It : New York Gutter, DD - 2006
Certainly I wasn't ready to have that steely gaze directed down into the deepest parts of my private life.
What if, however, the flak is a test? I’m sure God doesn’t want limp-wristed, self-aggrandisers trumpeting their religious credentials. By sticking my head above the parapet I’ve become a target, not only for the devil’s mates, but also for the wrath of God. I can feel it, there beneath the vigour of opposition, the choice questions, the knowing replies: there is the taint of darkness but also the rich spur of righteousness. Could this be my self-mortification writ large across the internet?
:: Only Submit ::
What else can a Catholic do - in the face of personal calumny, darkly cast aspersions and rumours galore - but lie down? Turn the other cheek. Share my cloak and blog with those who wish me harm.
There might be, in all this noise, One Who wishes me great good, but Who will punish my pride with public scorn.
So be it.
:: The Wretched Truth ::
I am indeed a weak man, a proud fool, a liar and a sinner. I am not worthy of much of the attention that I receive here and elsewhere.
I am no model for other young men, certainly not for other Catholics. Most of the worst things that are written about me - while generally factually untrue - too often describe the failings of my heart and in my imagination.
:: Totus Tuus ::
Break me, I submit. I'm here to learn and obey. Like the Opus Dei supernumeraries who inspire such fascination in popular culture, I jump from my place of rest and press my face to the bare, cold floor. One word I breathe, one word is etched on my heart: SERVIAM.
:: The Upshot ::
There it is, the naked truth. Does this mean I'm going to stop blogging? What, with all that ego to defeat? You've got to be kidding.
:: Resources ::
- Someone else, this time a priest, who can't shut up about being a same sex attracted Catholic.
- Dr Philip Blosser comes to my defence:
Writing of a persistent DREADCRITIC:
"The more interesting question, however, is what he says about "inconsistency." "Is Dreadnought inconsistent?" he asks; and he goes on to point out a practical inconsistency he believes he finds between Dreadnought's publicly professed convictions and privately undertaken behaviors. In short, he is accusing Dreadnought of the inconsistency of hypocrisy."
"But let's examine this for a moment. People nearly invariably accuse Catholics and others involved in "organized religion" of hypocrisy. When you get beneath the surface and get to know faithful Catholics, however, you see that most of this imputed hypocrisy is simply nonsense: there are many godly souls whose lives I would willingly uphold as exemplars to my children in a heartbeat."
"But something else is intended here: the hypocrisy of discrepancy between Christian norm and Christian practice. But even the most devout Christian is conscious of sin in his life. In fact, the more he has advanced along the road of sanctity the more sensitive he becomes to his own sinfulness. "The only difference between a saint and a sinner," one confessor used to tell me, "is that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying" -- not perfect theologically, I grant you, but scoring a point well taken, nevertheless. Peter Kreeft puts the matter somewhat better when he says: "There are only two kinds of people in the world -- sinners who think they're saints, and saints who know they're sinners.""
"Let me come to the point: There are two kinds of inconsistency that need to be sharply distinguished here in reply to the heretical [...DREADCRITIC]:
First, there is the inconsistency of the Catholic life of obedient struggle against sin, which admittedly is not always a smooth and steady progress in sanctification but an advance in fits and starts and slips backward into sin that sometimes leaves one wondering whether it is an advance at all. The important thing, however, is that the faithful Catholic never compromises what he professes to be true. He never calls vice virtue. He never says that what the Church calls sinful or disordered is a "beautiful gift from God." He never says "F__k the Church." His is an inconsistency of sin and weakness, not an inconsistency of principle."
"Second, there is the inconsistency of professing to be Catholic while rejecting what the Catholic Church teaches. This is refusing to agree with the Church that sin is sin, that what is gravely disordered is so, and insisting that it's something else, something good, simply because one wishes it were so. This is not an inconsistency of sin or weakness, but an inconsistency of dishonesty, an inconsistency of conscious heresy concerning the moral teaching of the Church while still insisting that one is a bona fide Catholic."
" Where is the real hypocrisy?"
Where on earth do such talented, eloquent DREADNOUGHTERS come from? Actually, they generally come from the blessed United States of America!
by DREADNOUGHT at 2:22:00 AM
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