I just now received this email from Father Gordon MacRae:
I did not mean to leave you in the dark about yesterday’s hearing, but I was in the dark myself until a few minutes ago. Without going into too much detail just yet, i can say the following and so can you:
1. We survived the hearing intact. The state prosecutor’s motion to dismiss was not successful YET.
2. The judge is inclined to allow the appeal to go forward for a full hearing, at least in some aspects of it. The tentative date for the next hearing is May 1. This is all I know.
This is one small step for Father Gordon, one HUGE step for due process for all priests.
This is a major, major victory.
There are many who are trembling about this.
Prayers are the order of the day. This may just put on hold some policy decisions all the way to the Holy See.
Keep praying!
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
Am PRAYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, dear Jesus! Prayers will continue. I am delighted for Fr Gordon. I am also very pleased that there are many trembling about this. They deserve far worse – those false wittnesses.
Thank God for answering our prayers.
Thanks be to God!
Will offer special prayers…
Praised the Lord for he is good!
We continue to pray for Fr MacRae. We want justice for him and all who are falsely accused.
I pray every day for Father MacRae and all the other priests abused by the Dallas Protocol. I also pray for the Bishops who failed the children decades ago and now are failing our priests. May the Holy Spirit remind them to emulate Sts. Peter and Paul, and not Pontius Pilate. Thank you for all you do for Father MacRae. God bless and keep you.
Prayers for Father MacRae, his lawyers, the judge and all involved with this appeal.
Prayer for Priests
by St. Therese of Lisieux
O Jesus, eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart, where none may touch them. Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch Your Sacred Body. Keep unsullied their lips, daily purpled with your Precious Blood. Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood. Let Your holy love surround them and shield them from the world’s contagion. Bless their labors with abundant fruit and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown.
Amen.
Thank Heanen Father,Prayers are being answered. I and many are benifited from your suffering through These Stone Walls Posts.They inspired me. Thanh you and God Bless, Yo too Ponrchi
“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for justice.”
I’m sure I don’t know the meaning of those words, but the good Father MacRae is teaching me by his witness. Who knows? It may get through!
I promise a Rosary today for the special intention that he will receive the justice he hungers and thirsts after, and all those suffering injustice for Christ’s sake.
So sorry! I am praying here.