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The Tablet
Topic Started: Saturday, 6. October 2007, 01:42 (1,083 Views)
Rose of York
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Typical feminist twaddle of the sort one would expect from the Tablet, if you ask me.


It's the power tools in the shed that are worrying me.
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If I wear a green cardigan could I be mistaken for an old sixties Black and Decker drill?
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"Among the leading bankers that have brought the British economy to its knees there are no women."

This is because the women were too busy spending the men's money Rose.

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Bob Crowley

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Saturday, 7. March 2009, 00:05
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A recent study revealed that when men are shown pictures of scantily dressed women the same part of their brain is triggered into action as when they are preparing to use power tools.

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Gentlemen, your comments please.

Is the sight of this an occasion of sin?

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Dear Rose,

I notice that you persist in putting temptation in front of us males on this site. In my garden shed, I have an 18v cordless drill, which I call Elle, for it has the inevitable character of bringing to mind Elle MacPherson. My wife has cottoned onto this, and even if I am merely going to the shed to pull out the lawn mower, I am immediately mocked with an untimely "How's the girfriend going?" from the kitchen. I also have a power saw, hammer drill and jig saw, all purchased with immoral earnings from shady deals using taxpayers' money, which have a muliplier effect on my testosterone levels. If I attempt to hold a power saw in one hand, and the hammer drill in the other, I immediately break out in a sweat, due to the lascivious thoughts that go through my mind. Apart of course from the sheer effort of standing there holding two heavy power tools and wondering when my wife is going stick her head through the shed door to check what I'm up to.

You may well know that testosterone levels are one of the things which are reputed to send men bald, and it would be interesting to do a survey of bankers. Are they all bald? If not, then the theories you have of testerone levels being responsible for the world financial crisis fails a critical statistical test.

By the way I'm losing my hair. Rapidly. Which means I must have a high testerone level. Maybe I'll go and get a shot of oestrogen. Should do wonders for my bank account. Meanwhile would please not tempt us with more power tools? This is a respectable joint.
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Bob you have a great sense of humour. I think The Tablet could do some articles from you, to counterbalance their excessive feminist. I used to read it, but it started to go way over the top with its spouting about the equality of women. I am all for equality but not sameness, and I see no need to.

Bob I have an electric screwcriver, an early seventies electric drill, a modern battery operated drill, and a power washer. Good Christian men avoid my shed for the sake of their souls. Its an occasion of sin. :rofl:
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Sunday, 8. March 2009, 19:52
Bob you have a great sense of humour. I think The Tablet could do some articles from you, to counterbalance their excessive feminist. I used to read it, but it started to go way over the top with its spouting about the equality of women. I am all for equality but not sameness, and I see no need to.

Bob I have an electric screwcriver, an early seventies electric drill, a modern battery operated drill, and a power washer. Good Christian men avoid my shed for the sake of their souls. Its an occasion of sin. :rofl:
When I first read Power Washer, I thought of a washing machine, but later reflection revealed you meant a water blaster. A washing machine would have kept males out of your shed regardless of what else was in it. It would look too much like housework.

Incidentally I suppose you realise the real reason men die younger than women?

We don't want to get left with the housework.
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This week The Tablet offers the whole edition, for free, online.

The letters give plenty of food for thought.

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/
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The Tablet and many of its contributors -Pippy included- are metropolitan to a T.
It claims a universal readership but read and reread any references to lay and education; gearty an exception.
As for arts and crafts and festivals-even BBC radio and telly- all metrocentred.
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From The Laxative website:
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The old rite put in its place

One of Pope Benedict XVI’s most controversial initiatives has been his promotion of the Tridentine Rite of Mass as an alternative to the revised rite that reflects the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Archbishop Vincent Nichols, newly installed at Westminster, has lost little time in defusing some of the reasons for the controversy in a forthright message to priests taking part in a training conference on the Tridentine Rite later this month.

His message is unambiguous, and may not please some of those hoping to attend the conference. First, he has insisted that the training conference is officially sponsored by the Diocese of Westminster, “in conjunction with the Latin Mass Society”, thereby keeping it under his control. In church teaching and canon law, he states, bishops are responsible for the oversight of the liturgy. Many feel a bishop’s role in these matters has been undermined by Pope Benedict’s motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, which appears to allow priests to opt for the Tridentine Rite regardless of the attitude of local bishops.

Archbishop Nichol gives no shred of encouragement to those who want the Tridentine Rite to replace the newer version. Conference participants “will wholeheartedly celebrate the Mass in each of these forms”, he instructs them bluntly, adding: “The view that the ordinary form of the Mass, in itself, is in some way deficient finds no place here.” People who hold that view are “inexorably distancing themselves from the Church”, he says. There is no scope, in other words, for “Tridentine Rite” parishes that set themselves up in the spirit of being “more Catholic than thou”. Recognising the threat of such moves, Archbishop Nichols is seeking to nip a potential schism in the bud. His firm leadership in Westminster is one that other bishops in England and Wales – and elsewhere – will welcome. The Catholic Church does not need its own version of “culture wars”, and in his message the archbishop in effect declares a priest’s personal tastes or preferences to be irrelevant.

Furthermore the distinctive feature of the Tridentine Rite, and the single most pressing reason why the bishops at Vatican II wanted it reformed, was the absence of any role for the laity. They were little more than spectators of what the celebrant was doing at the altar; in practice this meant many of them concentrated on their own private devotions. Archbishop Nichols insists it is an “established principle of good liturgy” to encourage the active participation of all those taking part in the Mass, a principle needing “careful consideration and application by every celebrant”. Implicit in this directive is the rejection of any discrimination against girls and women among those who assist at Mass, such as altar servers, readers and extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist. That some Tridentinist priests have banished females from the sanctuary or lectern in the name of authenticity has more than a whiff of misogyny.

Thus has Archbishop Nichols neatly answered virtually every objection to the motu proprio, and the Tridentine Rite can henceforth take its proper – and necessarily marginal – place in the life of the Catholic Church. Indeed, he has made it accessible to those who are fully committed to Vatican II. This timely display of clear leadership from the new president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales bodes well.


http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/13471

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The old rite put in its place

Furthermore the distinctive feature of the Tridentine Rite, and the single most pressing reason why the bishops at Vatican II wanted it reformed, was the absence of any role for the laity. They were little more than spectators of what the celebrant was doing at the altar; in practice this meant many of them concentrated on their own private devotions.
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/13471

What an insult! When all we had was Tridentine Mass we were not spectators, we did have a role - we prayed. Was that sinful? I care not whether Mass is Novus Ordo or Tridentine, but when I want to be quiet, I WILL be quiet, and commune, one to one, with God.
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Quite, Rose. These Tablet folk would complain about having to be mere spectators on Calvary.

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Are not our sins the lashof the whip, the hammer and nails?

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Thursday, 13. August 2009, 13:14
Are not our sins the lashof the whip, the hammer and nails?
Point well missed, Derek.

I was simply wondering how those who absolutely must be doing something at Mass would cope with merely having to come and mourn with Our Lady for a while.
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Only three nails. The Gypsy nail maker refused to make the fourth when he learned what they were for.
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Tuesday, 11. August 2009, 22:07
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Furthermore the distinctive feature of the Tridentine Rite, and the single most pressing reason why the bishops at Vatican II wanted it reformed, was the absence of any role for the laity. They were little more than spectators of what the celebrant was doing at the altar; in practice this meant many of them concentrated on their own private devotions.
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/13471

What an insult! When all we had was Tridentine Mass we were not spectators, we did have a role - we prayed. Was that sinful? I care not whether Mass is Novus Ordo or Tridentine, but when I want to be quiet, I WILL be quiet, and commune, one to one, with God.
Obviously they've never heard of interior participation - I guess if you can't bang a bongo, crash a cymbal, strum a guitar or able to worm your way into the sanctuary I guess you can't join in.

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Friday, 21. August 2009, 09:14
Obviously they've never heard of interior participation - I guess if you can't bang a bongo, crash a cymbal, strum a guitar or able to worm your way into the sanctuary I guess you can't join in.

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Now now, Patrick, readers do not worm their way into the sanctuary, they are appointed. I used to read, do you think my motive was to worm my way in? Did I do it for myself, or was I using a God given gift, to proclaim the scriptures clearly.

Banging bongos, crashing cymbals, strummed guitars, no mention of wheezing organs. In the UK it is not usual for musicians to be in the sanctuary. For someone who has not attended Novus Ordo Mass for years you are in no position to comment. I know of a church that has a delightful string quartet. They play in an alcove and provide excellent accompaniment for the sung Mass.

Let those who complain about modern musical instruments in church, take lessons, learn to play the organ, and offer their services to their priest.

Let those men who object to female altar servers volunteer to undergo training as servers.

Let those men who complain there was no server at Mass, walk up the aisle, enter the sanctuary, assist the priest. How difficult is to to hand the priest the wine and water, lavabo bowl, jug of water and a towel, and to ring a bell?

Let those men who say "I only learned to serve Tridentine" learn how to serve at Novus Ordo Mass.
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