The time for happy-clappy, lighthearted
engagement of our culture may be nearing an end. Sometimes it takes a
while to understand that what used to work no longer works. Let me get
more specific.
Decades ago the “Al Smith Dinner” was
a time for Republicans and Democrats to bury the hatchet (even if only
temporarily) and come together to raise money for the poor and to
emphasize what unites us rather than what divides us. But in the old
days the death of 50 million infants was not what divided us. We were
divided about lesser things such as how much of the budget should go to
defense and how much to social spending. Reasonable men might differ
over that.
But now we are being
asked to raise toasts and to enjoy a night of frivolity with those who
think it is acceptable to abort children by the millions each year, with
those who think anal sex is to be celebrated as an expression of love
and that LGBTQIA… (I=intersexual, A= Asexual) is actually a form of
sanity to which we should tip our hat, and with those who stand
four-square against us over religious liberty.
Now the St. Patrick’s Parade is becoming of parade of disorder,
chaos, and fake unity. Let’s be honest: St. Patrick’s Day nationally
has become a disgraceful display of drunkenness and foolishness in the
middle of Lent that more often embarrasses the memory of Patrick than
honors it.
In New York City in particular, the “parade” is devolving into a farcical and hateful ridicule of the faith that St. Patrick preached.
It’s time to cancel the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the Al Smith Dinner
and all the other “Catholic” traditions that have been hijacked by the
world. Better for Catholics to enter their churches and get down on
their knees on St. Patrick’s Day to pray in reparation for the
foolishness, and to pray for this confused world to return to its
senses. Let’s do adoration and pray the rosary and the Divine Mercy
Chaplet unceasingly for this poor old world.
But don’t go to the parade; stay away from the Al Smith Dinner
and all that “old school” stuff that hangs on in a darkened world. And
as for St Patrick’s Day, it’s time to stop wearin’ the green and instead
take up the purple of Lent and mean it. Enough of the celebration
of stupidity, frivolity, and drunkenness that St Paddy’s day has become.
We need penance now, not foolishness. We don’t need parades and dinner
with people who scoff at our teachings, insist we compromise, use us for
publicity, and make money off of us. We’re being played for (and are?)
fools.
End the St Patrick’s parade. End the Al Smith Dinner
and all other such compromised events. Enough now, back to Church! Wear
the purple of Lent and if there is going to be a procession, let it be
Eucharistic and penitential for the sins of this age.
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
How say you?
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