tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post5654457308517395501..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: If the Church is a Field Hospital. . .Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-14085328750062248002014-10-26T14:35:37.412-05:002014-10-26T14:35:37.412-05:00This is an aside, but the Field Hospital metaphor ...This is an aside, but the Field Hospital metaphor justified it to me. I just had the stomach-churning experience of listening to the Official Hymn of the OP 800th anniversary. http://www.op.org/en/content/laudare-benedicere-praedicare-official-hymn-jubilee-order. Awful EuroPop dreck, making the old Fr Faber hymns of my pre-VatII childhood sound chaste and martial by comparison. Pathetic. (I don't expect you to publish this; I just wanted to vent.)OreamnosAmericanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602268350813211243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-40106854551399761722014-10-23T19:20:56.505-05:002014-10-23T19:20:56.505-05:00Why do those soldiers even want to come to this fi...Why do those soldiers even want to come to this field hospital? Why don't they just go to that other field hospital, where they'll feel right at home?Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09534284662785499386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-82281203811903386272014-10-22T15:54:07.472-05:002014-10-22T15:54:07.472-05:00#1 represents that sort of Catholic who refuses to...#1 represents that sort of Catholic who refuses to offer God's mercy thru the Church b/c sins are self-inflicted. This sort demands that we be healed completely of sin before we can be fully members of the Body.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-66276133723589197182014-10-22T05:36:26.191-05:002014-10-22T05:36:26.191-05:00Fr, can you explain number 1 a little more? Most...Fr, can you explain number 1 a little more? Most of our wounds are self inflicted (sin) and the remedy is the dr (confession). I would hope not to be sent away from self inflicted wound but healed. BUT, if I refused the medicine and advice, stop shooting myself in the foot, then I guess I could understand being sent away.<br />Like the others btw. I think of number 2 as arriving dead with a DNR tattooed on the chest! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-42962020807648534842014-10-21T09:22:02.600-05:002014-10-21T09:22:02.600-05:00And when the soldier is well enough to go home, he...And when the soldier is well enough to go home, he finds no wife, no children, and that which he swore to protect, already stolen from him. Those in the hospital keep encouraging him to pretend that this is okay, perhaps even appropriate, for it is ever so easy to convince him it is his own fault.Augusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08758314961163692341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-15043939135017831972014-10-21T07:33:00.532-05:002014-10-21T07:33:00.532-05:00Simple and brilliant in its simplicity. Thanks so...Simple and brilliant in its simplicity. Thanks so much for posting ... this can be used as a form of self-examination, individual as well as in the collective, as in parish ministry attitudes that are reflected in their policies.pmlnoreply@blogger.com