First Friday: US Catholics asked to fast, reflect on climate change

ummm,forgive me,but i both appreciate CatholicCulture's reporting this,as I certainly didn't hear about it at Mass,nor do I have any other way of knowing what the Bishops are wanting me to pray for other than signing on their website regularly? And I appreciate their reminding anyone to fast on Fridays,albeit the suggested . . . rationale.Thanks CC, as regularly signing on their website for other than daily readings is out of my pattern. I'll trust you to keep me informed!!!

Have the bishops learned nothing in the past week? Supporting Democrats,their fantasies,their pet projects is what got them in the "contraception and sterilization hot soup" where they now find themselves. And there they go again! Back to supporting more fantasies and lies, allowing the liberal agenda to continue to infuse the Church, as we fast and pray in sorrow and repentance for fake issues instead of fasting/repenting of what the present politicians have made the law and mores of the land.

I am starting to think before one becomes a priest they should work in the real world for ten years or more before they start their formation for the priesthood, sending immature young men off to liberal colleges doesn’t help to mature the mind of those that too soon become middle-aged adolescents that think more like 15 year olds then the mature leaders we need to lead the Church. One of the biggest problems with the Church, as well as many of our political leaders, is the fact they are from the generation of Jerry Garcia and Bob Marley, or the children of that generation, and apparently have either smoked too much of the wrong stuff or spend too many lonely nights sitting around the parsonage drinking mushroom tea and listening to the Grateful Dead…. Without God’s grace soon the American Church will be, maybe not too grateful, but dead as many of our Bishop’s brains…

February 1 is the traditional feast day of St. Ignatius of Antioch in the Extraordinary Form of the liturgy. The Gradual comes from the Book of Ecclesiases 44:16-20- "Behold, a great priest, who in his days pleased God. There was not any found like to him, who kept the law of the Most High."

Call me naive, but in fairness to the bishops these sort of things are programmed months, if not years, in advance. So while the timing of this may be rather bad, this could have been thought up months ago. Now, the premise that it should be done with regard to "food insecurity...intensified by climate change" does leave me scratching my head.

Oh boy ... Not again! I think I am getting sick ...

You have to be kidding, right? No wonder the USCCB gets no respect. My newfound charitable impulse begs the question I will not ask.

Our bishops are the successors of the Apostles. Under Can. 386 §1 "[t]he diocesan Bishop is bound to teach and illustrate to the faithful the truths of faith which are to be believed and applied to behaviour." We are obliged in conscience to hear and follow the teachings of our bishops. But, man, they sure don't make it easy, do they?

Perhaps the USCCB didn't know that Friday is the Feast Day of St. Blaise...as in less talk?

With stroke the USCCB has vitiated their opposition to the violence being done to the consciences of Catholics by the present administration. How is it possible to take these people seriously?

The first allegiance of the American Catholic bishops is to the democratic party..........so there!......Git it? Get it, I got it .

Fast on First Friday . . . while thinking about the recently rediscovered 116,000 square miles of polar ice cap that wasn't lost to "climate change."

Where do they get this non-sense from? Notice how global warming (which it isn't) has now changed to climate change which is a natural phenomenon. Representatives of the Church should stay out of areas they know nothing about.