The Thrill is Gone...

Besides the possibility of being adopted as an apt recessional song (oops, I mean as the "sending forth" song), one might wonder what else the dwindling numbers portend. I mean, it wasn't exactly standing room only:

August 20, 2006 - A Philadelphia woman presided over mass again Sunday in defiance of the Catholic Church. She is facing excommunication by the Catholic Church, and Cardinal Rigali has released a statement in regards to DiFranco's actions.
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About 35 people attended Sunday's service held at the Old Catholic Church of the Beatitudes in Lansdowne. They came for a variety of reasons from a variety of places, but all said they support Eileen DiFranco and the ordination of women priests.

Perhaps the novelty is wearing off - yet not even one month has gone by since her "ordination" to the "priestesshood" and it appears there is very little interest in following the call of her voice...

Remaining defiant, DiFranco, who expects to be formally excommunicated, says "that word is man made".

She believes it never would have come from the mouth of Jesus.

I wonder what she thinks Jesus means when he says, "Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels." (see Matt 25:41)? Didn't Jesus go beyond "excommunication" here? At least, with excommunication, there is a possibility of conversion and repentance.

What we witness is another example in a long string of failed catechesis, hardened hearts, or plain ignorance of what it means to be Catholic...



A video link is here.