The linked headline “Black Mass in Kansas City” is misleading and inaccurate (but totally not your fault). The reporting in that linked, very brief, article was in error. The Kansas Statehouse, in fact, is not in Kansas City, it’s located an hour west of Kansas City, in the Capital City of Topeka, KS.
On March 28, there was an outdoor protest outside the Kansas Capitol building by Kansas Catholics, and there was also a Catholic Mass and prayer service, led by Archbishop Joseph Naumann, held directly across the street from the Capitol building, at Assumption Catholic Church, which is part of Mater Dei Parish in Topeka.
There is another article by osvnews.com, titled “As Kansas Catholics pray, a Satanic group’s ’black mass’ turns violent with arrests” that can provide more complete information on what happened.
It’s extremely unfortunate that an altercation broke out, but imagine how horrified Catholics must have been, to witness the desecration of what they were told was a consecrated host, and of course they would take action to retrieve and to conserve the sacred body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A Eucharistic Procession is a wonderful idea and would have been lovely to participate in, as you had the opportunity to do! Thank you for the podcast!
Oh, I think I was careless. I'll change the link. Thank you for that!
As I said in the podcast, I do admire those who took action! And all the prayer! What we said was not a criticism but a sharing of our experience in case anyone else is confronted by such things, as I think will happen more and more.
People wonder what to do, and we're so used to protesting, and so UNUSED to Eucharistic processions, that we wanted to share what happened in our area.
Oh no, you weren’t careless at all! It was the reporting that was wrong and it was the article title that was incorrect - they were careless, not you, dear! Also, I think what I wrote came across in a way I didn’t at all intend, so my apologies for that. I think it’s me - I feel horrified just reading that a host was desecrated that was said to be consecrated, and yes, I thought your description of the Eucharistic Procession was uplifting and delightful to hear you talk about. After hearing you talk about it, I hope that could happen in the future at the Kansas Statehouse. That would be a wonderful thing to see and to participate in. Thanks again for your podcast!
Leila, would you please add a link to the book of essays (or was it speeches?) Phil discussed by the person he described as a modern prophet? And maybe the BBC interview that caused such a backlash, too. I’m not sure I can guess a correct spelling for his last name to Google it on my own, and now I’m intrigued…
Yes, the link is there! We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series) (affiliate link)
I haven't actually watched The Chosen, but I have watched some clips of it because I heard it was problematic, and I wanted to analyze what people were so excited about. Don't worry- it IS problematic, and über cringe, to boot.
They are not well educated in beauty and are very susceptible to sentimentality. It's a matter of not knowing the classics and having all entertainment be contemporary. Everything is violence/sex and/or sentimentality.
"Everything is violence/sex and/or sentimentality." This sums up something I have been pondering about for a while now. Why can't our modern movies be like older ones? The pendulum always seems to swing between the mawkish sentimentality found in "family movies" or the crudeness of Hollywood. Why can't we stay in the middle, and why did things change so much in the course of a few decades? I would love to hear more of your thoughts on this issue, whether in a future podcast or in an article (or even here, LOL).
We can't have the stories if we have taken away the words! It's not about the middle but about something above each of the extremes.
To get there we must recover the old ways! Hence, the importance of the mother and father raising their children, educating them, keeping the world at bay!
I’m always sad when your podcast draws to a close. Thank you so much. This was excellent! What a beautiful example of how to respond to these outrages. Thank you and please continue your good work!
I left a reply to one of your comments elsewhere, Mrs. Lawler, so I hope you won't mind me commenting again in a different vein. In your podcast, you were speaking about how people were taught to become used to weak masculinity, and you used a TV show as an example of that. I have no doubt that the entertainment industry played a large part in getting people to become desensitized to bad things by passing it off as "entertainment," but I am wondering -- do you believe that every other character like the one you described in The Odd Couple that appeared in other movies and TV shows was aimed at the same goal? I mean, was it never just comedy? Because I have encountered characters like these in old movies and, to an extent, some of them can contribute to the comedic effect (I always prefer it when such a character is used as a sidekick, never as the leading role). I would just like to hear more of your thoughts on this.
I am from Kansas and was following the Black Mass closely. I was disappointed that there was no Eucharistic procession. I did want to point out that my priest spoke about the Black Mass after the end of every Sunday Mass in March. We held a Holy Hour at our parish during that time. We attend the traditional (novus ordo) parish in the area, but even the less traditional ones held rosaries and holy hours. Our Bishop held a Holy Hour in the church across the street from the capitol building and said Mass afterwards. He also asked all priests say a beautiful prayer of consecration the Sunday after the Black Mass took place. I just wanted to share that our clergy wasn’t silent about it!
The linked headline “Black Mass in Kansas City” is misleading and inaccurate (but totally not your fault). The reporting in that linked, very brief, article was in error. The Kansas Statehouse, in fact, is not in Kansas City, it’s located an hour west of Kansas City, in the Capital City of Topeka, KS.
On March 28, there was an outdoor protest outside the Kansas Capitol building by Kansas Catholics, and there was also a Catholic Mass and prayer service, led by Archbishop Joseph Naumann, held directly across the street from the Capitol building, at Assumption Catholic Church, which is part of Mater Dei Parish in Topeka.
There is another article by osvnews.com, titled “As Kansas Catholics pray, a Satanic group’s ’black mass’ turns violent with arrests” that can provide more complete information on what happened.
It’s extremely unfortunate that an altercation broke out, but imagine how horrified Catholics must have been, to witness the desecration of what they were told was a consecrated host, and of course they would take action to retrieve and to conserve the sacred body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A Eucharistic Procession is a wonderful idea and would have been lovely to participate in, as you had the opportunity to do! Thank you for the podcast!
You're welcome!
I just want to stress that the procession was planned by a few people with the help of a priest. It would not be at all difficult to organize one!
Oh, I think I was careless. I'll change the link. Thank you for that!
As I said in the podcast, I do admire those who took action! And all the prayer! What we said was not a criticism but a sharing of our experience in case anyone else is confronted by such things, as I think will happen more and more.
People wonder what to do, and we're so used to protesting, and so UNUSED to Eucharistic processions, that we wanted to share what happened in our area.
I changed it, thanks again!
Oh no, you weren’t careless at all! It was the reporting that was wrong and it was the article title that was incorrect - they were careless, not you, dear! Also, I think what I wrote came across in a way I didn’t at all intend, so my apologies for that. I think it’s me - I feel horrified just reading that a host was desecrated that was said to be consecrated, and yes, I thought your description of the Eucharistic Procession was uplifting and delightful to hear you talk about. After hearing you talk about it, I hope that could happen in the future at the Kansas Statehouse. That would be a wonderful thing to see and to participate in. Thanks again for your podcast!
You're welcome!
No, I try to be more careful to cross-check news reports. And your comment was fine! I was glad to update the info.
God bless!
Leila, would you please add a link to the book of essays (or was it speeches?) Phil discussed by the person he described as a modern prophet? And maybe the BBC interview that caused such a backlash, too. I’m not sure I can guess a correct spelling for his last name to Google it on my own, and now I’m intrigued…
Yes, the link is there! We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series) (affiliate link)
Go up to the post for the hyperlink!
I haven't actually watched The Chosen, but I have watched some clips of it because I heard it was problematic, and I wanted to analyze what people were so excited about. Don't worry- it IS problematic, and über cringe, to boot.
Oh, I know. The lameness is actually one of my biggest objections to it -- as well as the fact that people don't seem to recognize it as lame!
I would love to hear your thoughts on the latter—why don’t people recognize lameness when they see it?
They are not well educated in beauty and are very susceptible to sentimentality. It's a matter of not knowing the classics and having all entertainment be contemporary. Everything is violence/sex and/or sentimentality.
"Everything is violence/sex and/or sentimentality." This sums up something I have been pondering about for a while now. Why can't our modern movies be like older ones? The pendulum always seems to swing between the mawkish sentimentality found in "family movies" or the crudeness of Hollywood. Why can't we stay in the middle, and why did things change so much in the course of a few decades? I would love to hear more of your thoughts on this issue, whether in a future podcast or in an article (or even here, LOL).
We can't have the stories if we have taken away the words! It's not about the middle but about something above each of the extremes.
To get there we must recover the old ways! Hence, the importance of the mother and father raising their children, educating them, keeping the world at bay!
You are very right! I hope someday we can get there, but it will certainly take a lot of work!
I’m always sad when your podcast draws to a close. Thank you so much. This was excellent! What a beautiful example of how to respond to these outrages. Thank you and please continue your good work!
I left a reply to one of your comments elsewhere, Mrs. Lawler, so I hope you won't mind me commenting again in a different vein. In your podcast, you were speaking about how people were taught to become used to weak masculinity, and you used a TV show as an example of that. I have no doubt that the entertainment industry played a large part in getting people to become desensitized to bad things by passing it off as "entertainment," but I am wondering -- do you believe that every other character like the one you described in The Odd Couple that appeared in other movies and TV shows was aimed at the same goal? I mean, was it never just comedy? Because I have encountered characters like these in old movies and, to an extent, some of them can contribute to the comedic effect (I always prefer it when such a character is used as a sidekick, never as the leading role). I would just like to hear more of your thoughts on this.
Hello Phil and Leila!
I am from Kansas and was following the Black Mass closely. I was disappointed that there was no Eucharistic procession. I did want to point out that my priest spoke about the Black Mass after the end of every Sunday Mass in March. We held a Holy Hour at our parish during that time. We attend the traditional (novus ordo) parish in the area, but even the less traditional ones held rosaries and holy hours. Our Bishop held a Holy Hour in the church across the street from the capitol building and said Mass afterwards. He also asked all priests say a beautiful prayer of consecration the Sunday after the Black Mass took place. I just wanted to share that our clergy wasn’t silent about it!
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