Anima Christi

Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds, hide me. Suffer me not to be separated from Thee. From the malicious enemy, defend me. In the hour of my death call me and bid me come unto Thee, that I may praise Thee with Thy saints and with Thy angels forever and ever. Amen.

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

I Lied

I actually have some time today for an interesting link from back home. It's an article from the Scranton Times about the possible "conversion" of an Anglican priest and some of his congregation to the Catholic Church. He would be the first married Roman Rite Catholic priest in the Diocese of Scranton. http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13682396&BRD=2276&PAG=461&dept_id=465049&rfi=6

posted by Peter @ 10:50 AM

3 Comments:

At Wednesday, January 05, 2005 1:19:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just heard the story on the radio this morning when I was in the barn. I thought....hmmmmmm...what would pete think. Well?

Scott

 
At Wednesday, January 05, 2005 4:35:00 PM, Blogger Matt said...

We're all ears. How does a 'regular' priest differ from a 'rited' priest? I seem to remember having a discussion on priests and marriage a while back. I'm still confused on the whole marriage thing anyhow. Why is it that Peter had a wife and subsequent priests can't? So many questions and you're in Queen Mary's land.

 
At Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:25:00 PM, Blogger Peter said...

I just wrote a long post that got deleted. Read Matthew 19:12 and 1 Corinthains 7 for the Scriptural basis of the apostolic practice of priestly celibacy.

The Latin Rite (or Roman Rite) is the largest Rite in the Catholic Church and requires mandatory celibacy for all priests (with the exception as noted in the article made for some "converts", typically Anglicans).
The the Latin Rite Patriarch is is the Patriarch of Rome (who is also Patriarch of the Univeral Church as the Pope). The Patriarchs of the other Catholic Rites (primarily Eastern Rites) have there own discipline in regards to priestly celibacy. Typically they can marry as long as it is prior to ordination (as is the Eastern Orthodox practice). The Eastern Catholic Rites are those Churches who have remained or returned to communion with the See of Rome.

Celibacy is a discipline, not a dogma, and can be changed to suit the perceived needs of the Church during any given time. Mandatory celibacy has been the discipline of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church for about 1000 years. I don't have much time, so I'll just state that I think this would be a very poor time to change this discipline.

 

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