Day: December 16, 2005

Everything Else

More survey results…

More results from another interestinmg survey. The results of the other bloggers I read can be seen at Pontifications or at Bonfire of the Vanities.

And now…

  You scored as Traditional Catholic. You look at the great piety and holiness of the Church before the Second Vatican Council and the decay of belief and practice since then, and see that much of the decline is due to failed reforms based on the “Spirit of the Council”. You regret the loss of vast numbers of Religious and Ordained clergy and the widely diverging celebrations of the Mass of Pope Paul VI, which often don’t even seem to be Catholic anymore. You are helping to rebuild this past culture in one of the many new Traditional Latin Mass communities or attend Eastern Catholic Divine Liturgy. You seek refuge from the world of pornography, recreational drugs, violence, and materialism. You are an articulate, confident, committed, and intelligent Catholic. 

But do you support legitimate reform of the Church, and are you willing to submit to the directives of the Second Vatican Council? Will you cooperate responsibly with others who are not part of the Traditional community?

Traditional Catholic
 
93%
Radical Catholic
 
67%
Neo-Conservative Catholic
 
40%
Evangelical Catholic
 
38%
New Catholic
 
38%
Liberal Catholic
 
31%
Lukewarm Catholic
 
0%

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Holy Liturgies on the Death of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Casimir J. Grotnik

I am home again after spending two days at our Diocesan Seat in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

On Wednesday evening a solemn vespers service was held. The Most Rev. Robert M. Nemkovich, our Prime Bishop, presided, assisted by the Senior Priest, priests, and deacons of the church. The Senior Priest of my seniorate, the Very Rev. Walter Madej, gave the homily.

It was a wonderful message that put before us the great gifts of the Holy Spirit offered to those called to the service of the Church. These gifts do not preclude suffering or sacrifice, but take that effective sacrifice as an offering for our people.

BG1.jpgBishop Grotnik had both great joys and great suffering. The greatness of his heart, his generosity, his love for his people and his clergy, the welcoming reality he lived and practiced were the reality that came from his joys and sufferings.

On Thursday morning the clergy of the church sung Mattins which was then followed the Holy Funeral Mass. Bishop Grotnik had and Prime Bishop Nemkovich has a wonderful talent and gift for music. The solemnity of the traditional liturgy of the Church coupled with the love and warmth of our time together before God, remembering and praying for our dear Bishop, was everything Bishop Grotnik struggled to preserve and engender within our Church.

Needless to say, the choir of St. Stanislaus Cathedral and the planning and preparations that were overseen by Fr. Anthony Mikovsky were true expressions of love for our dear Bishop.

I shall miss my spiritual father greatly and I have already seen and experienced the power of his intercession before the Lord. With the confidence the Catholic/Christian faith offers I know he is with our Father in heaven.

As an aside, as I was in thought after Holy Communion I looked over at the portrait of our first Bishop, Francis Hodur. Bishop Hodur was watching over the body of Bishop Grotnik, and could not help but think that Bishop Grotnik is now with Bishop Hodur, whom he spent many years researching and writing about.

Eternal rest grant onto him O Lord! Also, please pray for his wife Krystyna, his children, and grandchildren.