Daniel’s Prayer
Our sins it is that cause us all our woes.
Let us repent, or else the problem grows.
Our sins it is that cause us all our woes.
Let us repent, or else the problem grows.
By little groups the Church, entombed, can live,
And rising again all kinds of life will give.
Our Lord’s Church, friends, runs on the lines of God
And not on ours, howe’er that may seem odd.
Were earthly leaders angels, we would miss
What God meant for us, which is heavenly bliss.
In the beginning was my towering mind.
It leaves God’s poor reality far behind!
Before God, humbleness alone suits man.
Before God, pride destroys a man, if it can.
Catholic leaders, when will you ever grasp
The plague that holds your Church in its firm clasp?
Fierce opposition, such as the Poem knows,
Can be from the Devil. Its readership just grows.
Authority comes from above, not from below.
Cut off above, beneath it cannot flow.
Catholic priests, cut to each other slack.
Catholics, pray they have one another’s back.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.