Father Gordon MacRae’s New Blog
I thought you’d like to know that Father Gordon MacRae launched his new blog this morning:
These Stone Walls
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- The Exile of Father F. Dominic Menna and Transparency at The Boston Globe. . . The sole accusation that just destroyed this 8O-year-old priest’s good name is that he abused someone fifty-one years ago when he was 29 years old. Kelly Lynch, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Boston, announced that Father Menna was placed on administrative leave, barred from offering the Sacraments, and ordered to pack up and leave the rectory […]
- New on These Stone Walls: Loose Ends and Dangling Participles
Dear Father Gordon MacRae,
Today is the Sunday of Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd. The Gospel is very short, yet for you I will skip its introductory and am sending you only the last three sentences, ” . Jesus said,”…No one can take them – the sheep that hear my voice – out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand. THE FATHER AND I ARE ONE.” Dear Father Gordon, as long as we, you and I, live as CATHOLIC PRIESTS radiating love and forgiveness, meantime fighting for social justice, and still better, being persecuted for speaking up the TRUTH, we are protected by the Good SHEPHERD who has been killed for telling the truth.
Yes God the Father and Jesus Christ are ONE. You and I are sinners as all human beings are, except Jesus and his Mother Mary, yet WE DID NOT MOLESTED MINORS. For telling the truth you have become a pariah for your own peers,, a jailbird for years, identified by Isaiah 53: 2-3 as a lamb going silent to its slow slaughter, or a sheep going also silent to be sheared naked! Did you ever watch a sheep divested of its wool? A pathetic sight! The same thing happens to every Catholic priests charged justly or wrongly with sexual molestation.
They are spurned and avoided by men, a group from whom men HIDE THEIR FACES.Yet they are not depraved characters. Some sinned decades ago as fragile young ministers, and since then have made amend by a long life of dedication to God’s service.
Yet no REMISSION of sins is available for them, as for any other publicans. But, dear Father Gordon, Jesus Christ himself was subjected to the same humiliation. As a ridicule sheep sheared of its wool (Is 53:7) , the Lord carried his cross and died on it naked. Sheep must follow the shepherd, who died voluntarily as a sacrificed lamb.
Dear friends of wrongly accused priests, I am an 88 years old Catholc priest. From Febr 2009 to August 15 2009 my life has been a nightmare, as my name and honor were smeared by a false accusation.
A few days ago, my priestly faculties have been restored to me by my bishop. You cannot imagine how much he suffers, a priest forbidden to wear his roman collar, to cite only the lightest punition imposed on priests accused wrongly. Oh my God, didn’t I become a priest to serve God and his Church, to wash the poor ’s feet with love, to announce the good news, to administer the sacraments to men and women who need God? Or did I become a priest to wear a Roman collar ???
Now that I have been exonerated, I lay dejected, mortally wounded, with shame still lingering on me like odors envelopping a person just rescued from a cesspool. And no rehabilitation physical, or mental., after having deprived of Miranda rights, Habeas Corpus rights, Statute of limitations rights, and rights to have a lawyer.
Oh my FATHERS in Christ, have mercy and revise the 2002 Dallas Conference It is unjust and un-American. It is helping scoundrels – I mean the zealots in the League so called Assistance to minors abused by priests. Their main and hidden ambition is to undermining the Church by desroying its clergy, waving a highly honorable banner Of course, a Church cleansed from predators is a better Church, but a church which delivers its own innocent priests to lions looking for helpless priests to devour, will collapse sooner or later by internal divisions and lack of personnel.
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
God Said, No
I asked God to take away my pride.
God said, No.
It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.
I asked God to make my handicapped child whole.
God said, No.
His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary.
I asked God to grant me patience.
God said, No.
Patience is a by product of tribulations; it isn’t granted, it is learned.
I asked God to give me happiness.
God said, No.
I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.
I asked God to spare me pain.
God said, No.
Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to Me.
I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life.
God said, No.
I will give you life, so that you may enjoy all things.
I ask God to help me Love others, as much as He loves me.
God said…Ahhhh, finally you have the idea. If you love God, share love!
This Day Is Yours Don’t Throw It Away
“To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just might be the world”
Godbless you Father Macrae
I pray for you daily Father Macrae. With love and blessings from England.
I pray for Father Gordon every day.
I read all of his essays and they are wonderful. Someday his writings will be studied by many.
God bless you,
Kathy