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Post by guillaume on May 22, 2011 20:03:43 GMT
Are normally prohibited. Because the Church on Sunday celebrates the Resurrection of Christ. "The Liturgical Calendar for Ireland 2011" published by Veritas mention that no funeral mass shall be celebrated today, Sunday, like every Sunday. So WHY this funeral of a former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald is happening today ? Can they not wait tomorrow ?
Oh, i forgot Obama is coming tomorrow ! Yet, more important for the President of Ireland, paid 250 k a year to welcome the Queen of England in a deserted Dublin.
But once again, and this no surprise, the Church agreed for such celebration and so against her own rule in order to please the secular world.
This is this church who's mission is to conduct souls to God.
This church who is incapable to attract anyone, and the Devil is laughing...
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Post by losleandros on May 23, 2011 13:29:31 GMT
All of the grovelling/sychophantic media eulogies tell us that Garret ( RIP ) was a great warrior against the oppressive Catholic Church. Bringing us such progressive contributions to humanity as no fault divorce, contraception etc. Indeed on a repeated RTE/Miriam O'Callaghan interview with his daughter he was at best luke-warm towards Catholicism ; his daughter was positively hostile. Yet they avail of a Catholic Requiem Mass. Hypocricy in the extreme. Say's it all about liberal Ireland.
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 4, 2011 16:40:40 GMT
In relation to Guillaume, I would have thought that a major state occasion would be a legitimate reason to dispense from the usual rule - rigorism shouldn't be overdone. Garret certainly had many flaws and the eulogies are particularly sick-making (I believe there is a stringent editorial on his media canonisation in the next BRANDSMA, which is due soon) but he did I think consider himself a Catholic albeit of a rather dodgy variety to the end, so I would say he was entitled to a Catholic funeral. He didn't fall into the same category as John McGahern or Nuala O Faolain, who publicly proclaimed themselves atheists within days of their deaths and still received Catholic funerals - that really was scandalous IMHO. He has answered to a higher judge as we all shall. Pray for him and for all poor sinners, myself included.
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