Clayton, from The Weight of Glory blog, formerly of the St Paul Seminary, now in Los Angeles, considers it to be Christmas Eve in St Paul - Minneapolis
Amy Welborn, in her Open Book, the most visited Catholic blog, agrees.
Father Z, in his What Does The Prayer Really Say, St Agnes' permanent ambassador to Rome, was perhaps the first to know: Here and Here
Terry from Abbey-Roads was the first to put ink to paper, or electron to monitor, if you will. [See it here]
Mitchell at Our Word, one of our partners, has a nice post on the tumult that's been occuring in the St Paul - Minneapolis Archdiocese these past few days.
Our Ambassador to Rome, +Veritas+, The Roamin' Roman, has heard things too. It looks like she will be bringing a wonderful present back with her later this month. Her thoughts on the matter and those of many, excited blog-readers are in the comments to Adoro Te Devote's (one of our partners) post.
But if you can't wait, think "Mile High" in your expectations and dreams! Even if for a couple of years only, it would be a blessing to the people of our Archdiocese. And please say the Memorare and the Prayer to St Michael the Archangel as has been suggested. Mother Theresa considered saying the Memorare nine times to be the equivalent of a novena.
If the Coadjutor rumor is true, he will take over virtually immediately and Archbishop Flynn will be leaving his residence for a remodelled retirement home outside the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (but still within the Archdiocese).
The people who might have the most to be concerned might be the priests and lay leaders at St Joan of Arc in Minneapolis. They were surprisingly contrite in their minutes of June 1. They might have been tipped off to the fact that Archbishop Flynn was quite livid when he returned from the memorial service they held for their former pastor, Father Harvey Egan who died a couple of weeks ago.
And those priests who signed the letter opposing Archbishop Flynn's stand in favor of having marriage defined in Minnesota as being between a man and a woman might want to run over to Leaflet Missal and purchase a fresh Roman Collar and get their black suits cleaned and pressed for a "Come to Charlie" meeting.
I wonder when the last Te Deum was celebrated in this Archdiocese?
2 comments:
Ray: My emails to you from my new email address are not getting thru. Can you check your safe list?
Sorry, readers, for this irrelevent post!
Rumor on the rumor - conflicting stories now, both from good sources. There must be some connection. If we assume that they both are "right" or at least in the ballpark, the only way they seem able to fit together is if somebody's going up north so that somebody else can come down south.
And if only one of them is right, either one sounds like a great deal to me. (of course - who knows, maybe they're both wrong!) Will they just tell us already?!?! :)
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