The Holy Spirit, who hovered over the waters at the moment of creation, graciously continues to have florae for the Immaculate Conception spring into bloom on Holy Souls Mountain.
Meanwhile, there is an update on the Holy Spirit Baldacchino being painted by an ever increasing number of people, as directed by L.T., baldacchino artiste extraordinaire. Let’s take a look at more progress. Here are three painters working away. Three, I say. The Lord blesses the sleep of the just (1 Sam 2,8).
I count nine in the following picture.
With the little girl dancing away, I am reminded of the story of the little boy who figured that since he had nothing else to give to the Lord, he would demonstrate for Him the few acrobatics tricks that he knew, that is, in Church, right before the tabernacle, something akin to the little shepherd boy, you know, the little drummer boy, who played for the Lord on that cold but glorious night really not all that long ago.
The Holy Spirit loves it all. All of it.
I’m told that the rickety table of paints that you see was not knocked over during this dance.
L.T., famous baldacchino painter, has sent in this progress report. She says:
These may be the strokes of the youngest baldacchino painter ever. My three year old has been begging to paint too. He was very happy with making just these marks.
One of the songs L.T. has been listening to while painting away is Francesca Battistelli’s You’re Here. Have a listen. It’s from the perspective of the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Mother of God, just after Jesus is born to us as our Savior. Hardly was a Christmas song more theological than this, and super joyful.
The lyrics:
Hold on now, gotta take a deep breath
I don’t know what to say when I look in your eyes
You made the world before I was born
But here I am holding You in my arms tonight
Noel, noel, Jesus our Emmanuel
You’re here, I’m holding you so near
I’m staring into the face of my Savior,
King and Creator
You could’ve left us on our own, but You’re here
I don’t know how long I’m gonna have you for
But I’ll be watching when You change the world
Look at your hands, they’re still so small
Someday You’re going to stretch them out and save us all
Noel, noel, God with us Emmanuel
You’re here, I’m holding you so near
I’m staring into the face of my Savior,
King and Creator
You could’ve left us on our own, but You’re here You’re here
Someday I’m gonna look back on this
The night that God became my baby boy
Someday You’re gonna go home again,
But You’ll leave your Spirit
and flood the world with joy
You’ll be here, I’m holding you so near
I’m staring into the face of my Savior,
King and Creator
You could’ve left me on my own, but You’re here You’re here
Hallelujah You’re here
L.T. says:
NB: My husband and I are RCIA Catholics – so some aspects of the faith I just didn’t “get” – including the whole “Mary thing” as I used to say…So three years ago when my youngest son was 5 months old, I was trying to sing him to sleep and was singing You’re Here having just listened to it – and not even paying attention to the words so much – and then boom!
Look at your hands, they’re still so small
Someday You’re going to stretch them out and save us all
That was the exact moment I started “got” the whole “Mary thing” because I was holding my little boy’s chubby soft hands in mine when I was singing – and I felt with a mother’s pain the realization of her seeing her little baby boy’s hands being nailed on the Cross.
This song always makes me smile now because of that connection - and now the last lines make me smile -
Someday You’re gonna go home again, But You’ll leave your Spirit and flood the world with joy
What if? asks L.T.:
“The Question: Have you ever looked at the artwork in a church and thought to yourself, “Wow, how incredibly neat would it be paint one blade of grass in that painting, or set one tile in that mosaic?” How much of a blessing would it be to have had part in something that you know is hung over where the Holy Sacrifice of Mass is offered? When I had thoughts like that, they were always followed by the realization that um, well, I’m not exactly a professional artist so I’m not going to hold my breath!”
Pictured here is M.J., friend of our artist. L.T. says:
Our conversation started with wonderful ideas and input on the painting to our children, grace filled times in our lives and sharing our conversion stories. She is vibrant in her faith – Master Catechist – someone who is very much a mentor to me.
L.T. shared an email with me that she had sent out to her local friends:
With God, anything is possible. Even the most unlikely things. About two years ago I started following Fr. Z’s blog, WDTPRS, and though his blog about a year ago, I found Fr. Byers blog, Holy Souls Hermitage. (start from the bottom of the posts and read up – I’ve got it linked to baldacchino). Fr. Byers is a hermit priest (really!). He built the hermitage himself (with help from seminarians and some friends), he writes scriptural treatises so complex it makes my head explode, and also posts pictures about his chickens and the day to day of life in a very austere hermitage.
In one of his posts, he asked his readers if anyone had a large format picture of Bernini’s Holy Spirit alabaster window above the cathedral of Saint Peter in Saint Peter’s Basilica – his intention was to blow it up 4ftx8ft and staple the picture onto some plywood and thus make a baldacchino (picture over the altar).
I volunteered to paint it. My little “yes” to the Holy Spirit – because I tell you, had I thought about it for a nanosecond, I assure you I could list 1,576 reasons why this would be a disastrous idea on my part and would never never never NEVER work. But here we are.
The Offer: Come, my friends, and share this grace, this gift that was given unbidden to me – come be a part of this if you are moved to. I want to assure you that you can’t “mess it up” – your part would be the a section of the alabaster – you will paint the undercoating of light yellow – I will mix the paint up for you – you just paint the little square – and its even okay if you go outside the line a bit!
I will be home all week. Let me know if you can come by. I am so excited to be able to share this with you – I KNEW from the very first that when the painting got to a certain point, I absolutely needed to open it up to everyone – please don’t be afraid to do this if you even a little bit called to it!
While she’s waiting for people to pick up this offer, L.T. continues painting. She explains the next picture:
“I’m testing level of detail – I have tape on the carpet 9ft away – I am discovering that what looks super close up is lost at 9ft or what looks overdone close up is just right at 9ft. And just for fun I look at it from the bathroom doorway at 30ish feet. If nothing else, Father, my admiration for the great masters is growing by leaps and bounds. To craft a masterpiece is amazing enough – but to also know how to have it “work” in situ – wow.
And then…
And then, in answer to her invitation to help paint…
And…
Slowly but surely…
Stern looking Sacred Heart of Jesus statue. What I call the 1968 style.
An all too saccharine Sacred Heart
My comment: L.T. is very good to let us witness the progress of the baldacchino. It’s one in a million artists who will let you know how it’s done. And this is just what we need in the U.S.A. and right around the world: artists who are in love with the Most Holy Trinity, and who want to share this greatest love in their lives with others. So much of the “art” of the past fifty years or so has been extremely sterile and stern.
Of course, there are those who have taken the sappy saccharine nicey-nice style to an extreme, which is worse, a total escape from reality, which will only let you down, hard, into a rather ferocious depression if not despair. We need reality! Gagghhh!
What I find so refreshing about L.T.’s style is that it is so apt in its depiction that people are taken off guard and don’t know quite what to say, as it doesn’t fit their categories. L.T. is a teacher. Here’s an email exchange we had about the detail above:
Me: He’s rather intent!
L.T.: Yes, and it’s both sobering and reassuring that He is one of the last things I see when I go to bed and among the first things when I wake up. My husband and I have talked about how empty the room is going to be when we bring it to you! It’s been interesting to me too, to hear the impressions my friends have had when they have come in person to paint or even just seen pictures I’ve shown. Some see very intent – even severe. Several others have used the words soft and gentle.
Me: Of course, intent is not severe, just deadly enthusiastic, as was Jesus on the Cross for us. Yikes! He loves us so much!
Father Z at WDTPRS linked on the sidebar of HSH blog, kindly put up some pictures of first vespers for the Octave of Christmas. Present were seminarians of the Pontifical North American College. One of them in the above picture was one of my students at the Pontifical College Josephinum just before I became a hermit. Good to see he is doing well and is still on his way to the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
In the picture below, you’ll notice the bit of orange to the upper right of the Pope Benedict XVI, who is presiding at Vespers.
Just to get some perspective of that, here’s the view from the back balcony of the basilica:
A close-up of that alabaster Holy Spirit window, depicting why the Holy Father, the Bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter (a depiction of whose cathedra, or teaching chair, is below that window), is infallible when he speaks on faith and moral to the universal Church as the Vicar of Christ: The Holy Spirit!
Closer up yet:
The colors are hard to get right…
Just take note of the utterly intense and determined ferocity of love by which the Holy Spirit is swooping like any bird of prey into our hearts and souls so as to take them captive in love. He’s already slightly turned, on edge, readying Himself for the tightest grip on us, not willing to let us go, instead forming us into the image of Him who sends Him to us, Jesus, the Word of the Father. The Holy Spirit will not stop at anything, including our deaths as witnesses to His love for all of us. We need only look to Him in humble thanksgiving. This is not quietism, for this friendship is most alive!
Now then, here is some progress on the painting that will become the baldacchino for Holy Souls Hermitage. Thanks go to L.T. and her entire family for their endeavors. I only include some pictures here. More to come in future posts. This is no longer the test canvas. We’re starting the real thing:
And then…
A detail:
All the intensity of love. The eyes tell the story, of course. The talons tell the story! Yikes!
We might think that we’re just so expert at avoiding the Lord. And we are. But He knows all about it. He’s prepared. He will grab us. I love that.
Whatever the circumstances are that we will face this coming year, know that the Lord knows, and provides or permits these things for the benefit of our growth in love in view of all eternity. Have your eyes fixed on heaven, which means both love of God and ferocious love of neighbor here and now. It’s the Holy Spirit working for us, in us. He is untiring, always in zillion ways arranging this and that for us, that we might be simple children of His.
L.T. has sent in a picture of a small test canvas. You’ll note the deadly serious, militant insistence of the expression of the Holy Spirit, whose work of sanctification among us is to forgive our sins and have us formed into being members of the Body of Christ, who, as we read in Genesis 3,15, is The Soldier in this Church Militant.
That Holy Spirit, the inspiration of the martyrs, is about to swoop with lightning speed into the soul of L.T.’s eldest son, who is holding that test canvas above, and who is in his preparatory time preceding the reception of the Sacrament of Confirmation. What a fright! What a joy!
When I was teaching “upper-level” catechists for the Archdiocese of New York, the idea many had was that the Sacrament of Confirmation is a mere psychological affirmation of the Holy Spirit on the part of the candidate, a statement to the world, if you will, that he now chooses the Catholic Church over against atheism or whatever. Rubbish.
The Sacrament of Confirmation is that sanctifying grace lifting the soul in its own particular manner into the life of the Church. Confirmation doesn’t merely make the grace of Baptism flourish. Baptism is well able to have the candidate live in the life of the Holy Trinity. Confirmation doesn’t merely make the grace of Holy Communion flourish. Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is well able to bring us heart to Heart with Himself.
Confirmation, like Baptism and Holy Orders, provides the soul with an eternal character: once baptized, always baptized; once a priest, always a priest (even if “laicized”); once confirmed, always confirmed.
With Confirmation, one is marked out eternally as a soldier of Christ in this Church Militant, the merits of which, the love of which, one will bring into heaven, just as Christ Jesus bears the wounds on His risen body, in His hands and feet, in His side… His Sacred Heart.
With Confirmation one is invited by Christ Jesus to be on the Cross, to lay down one’s life for others, to embrace the entire Mystical Body of Christ, all those souls of whatever time or place, who, by the intercession of our very lives, will be encouraged to be on the way to heaven that much more.
The ferocity of this love! A seven-fold Yikes!
Now, here’s a detail of that detail of the test canvas. Note that has been “edited” just a bit, regarding the thickness of the lines.
Thinner or thicker, that is the question!
I opt for thinner, sharper, more ferociously clear, intensely fiery!
I think that if Bernini’s window didn’t have to have such a heavy supporting framework for the alabaster, he would have opted for something a bit more on the lines of a painting. However, I’m leaving this to the inspiration of L.T., the extraordinary artist of the Holy Spirit.
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There are plenty of series on the sidebar of http://holysoulshermitage.com and I think I just might add one or two more, on the ferocious gifts of the Holy Spirit, and on the ferocious fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Right now, this is what the situation above the altar looks like:
This doesn’t quite match what is happening below, with the altar itself:
I thought that a baldacchino was in order. Really, a 4′x8′ painting that would run the length of the window and then angle up to the decline of the roof at what will probably end up being a 30 degree slope. This was the design I proposed, it being that this image of the Holy Spirit in Bernini’s alabaster window above the cathedra of Saint Peter in Saint Peter’s Basilica over at the Vatican says much about the purpose of Holy Souls Hermitage.
In situ:
Readers will remember that L.T., wife, mom, SAR agent and talented artist, volunteered with enthusiasm. She writes in with some notes on progress on the baldacchino:
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Hello Father!
Blessed Feast of Christ the King to you!
As you know, we have been waiting on a projector to borrow from school to help transfer the image to the canvas. The sweet teacher who was trying to coordinate it for me works as a Spanish teacher and is the de facto IT specialist. She was hoping to replace and recalibrate a couple of the spare projectors that are used with the computer and quickly loan one to me for a couple of days (she was apologetic that I couldn’t keep it very long) – but between hurricane Sandy and the normal duties she covered, she just couldn’t get to it. She told me she was beginning to worry that she would not be able to help me after all – and right at that point, someone came to the school and donated several old school overhead projectors. She immediately thought of me and called to see if one of those would work. Absolutely! As we were wheeling it out to my truck, I was chatting with her about the project and she just beamed, “God provides!” How good is our Lord, who knows of our every need. Now, since these are not in high demand and she has many extras, I do not have to worry about a quick return and will have access to it if needed down the line in the project.
Armed with a transparency and projector, we moved furniture and stretched out the cord, backing it up until the picture filled the canvas. I stood very still for a very long time, just absorbing it. I’ve been looking at the VERY. LARGE. blank white canvas on my wall for this past week and I had almost forgotten what it will look like. I stood so still for so long my husband finally broke the silence. “What are you thinking? Are you going to be able to do this?”
The sillohettes of the angels in the original “framing” of Bernini won’t be in the final painting for the Baldacchino. The angels won’t mind at all, since, in the hermitage, there are two stained glass angels to either side of the tabernacle.
My heart leaped and I blurted out, “Yes! This will work!” And that is exactly what I was feeling, looking at the picture – joy and gratitude for the blessing to be able to be an instrument in this way.
We turned off the light and my meticulous husband went to work one last time with help from my oldest son – finding the center of the canvas top, bottom and sides and exact center. He is the reason that the picture is aligned so perfectly – he is CDO (its like OCD but with the letters in alphabetical order, as they should be…).
Night fell – our little boy was in bed and asleep – it was time. Prayers, deep breath – and I started to trace the lines for the image.
It was a wonderfully soothing process – I was either praying or listening to “Be Still My Soul” – a song that has been speaking to my heart for several weeks now.
I was joined in this part by my oldest son who has an artistic bent himself.
The picture is hung mid-wall and as large as it is, there are several places that to draw we had to be on our knees – and it was absolutely the “right” position for the work. It really lent an air of this being one big prayer. In fact, at one point in the drawing, when I was tracing a very short, straight line for a section of the alabaster, my husband came in and shared a headline from the news – and (as you might imagine these days) I immediately lost my peace – and the line showed it – my worst, most crooked line of the night!
We shared a good laugh over that and have agreed that the painting is a “no news” zone – must keep our peace when working on it.
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I’m speechless, L.T. Thank you. Thank you all.
May the Lord Jesus, King of kings, Lord of Lords, the Prince of the Most Profound Peace, send powerfully the Holy Spirit in the hearts of you and yours, according to the perfect intercession of the spouse of the Holy Spirit, Jesus’ Immaculate Mother.
L.T., who is generously going to paint the baldacchino (which will be the painting, as it’s 4 by 8 feet!) is making some good progress, well actually not her at this point. It’s her husband and young son who took charge of the stretcher bars and the attachment of the canvas. quite the project in order to relax after SAR (Search and Rescue) activities for hurricane sandy. The stretcher bars are above, and their young son is helping measure below.
Everything squared away…
O.K. So, you get the idea of how big the baldacchino will be!
Ready to stretch the canvas…
The first nerve racking staples…
The image will a representation of the alabaster window of the Holy Spirit above the Cathedra of Saint Peter in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. You can see that the smaller painting of a chickadee (also her work!) is dwarfed by the larger canvas…
From the progress email:
Hello, Father!
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks here. Sandy’s timing made us miss my husband’s 4th Degree Knight installation. The evening before we were supposed to go, he got called in to work the hurricane prep. Sigh. All in God’s time, right?
Needless to say that between the storm and his working hours, nothing happened for a while with the baldacchino. We are grateful beyond belief that we weathered the storm as well as we did – where we live we often lose power even in summer squalls so we were quite amazed that ours remained on throughout the storm. Having lived through Katrina in New Orleans, our hearts especially ache for all those in the NE who are now dazed and hurting.
The very first thing that my husband did with his first day off yesterday was to assemble the stretcher bars and mount the canvas. A lot of (to me) tedious measurements went into it’s construction. It is as square as it comes. We laugh because this is the part of the project I wanted nothing to do with – and this was the part he was eager to do. He is the meticulous, detail oriented one, and me….not so much! Apparently as you can see from the photos, my younger son is cut from the same cloth as his father – he happily helped by measuring and remeasuring throughout the entire process, cheerily exclaiming, “That looks just fine, Dada!”
The next part is attaching the canvas to the frame. Happily, my artist friend (who had the gall to move across country right before I volunteered for this – what was she thinking?!) was back in town recently and gave us a quick run down on how to pull the canvas – you start in the middle and work your way out, pulling and tugging almost in a spiral motion from the centers of the four bars to the corners – outwards and opposites, if that makes sense. Slowly, surely, the wrinkles pull out and you are left with a nice smooth surface.
The canvas is so large that we are going to mount it on the wall in our bedroom instead of trying to cobble together an easel. It has the bonus of having the best lighting in the house, a door that keeps my little “helper” at bay (until/unless he CAN be helpful), and…well…it will provide some…ah…motivation I suppose – not like I can “forget” that I need to work on the painting! The hanging has to wait until my husband comes back from the second part of his SAR training.
Once its in position, I am going to be borrowing a projector from my church’s school to enlarge the image onto the canvas. Although I have painted murals on my son’s walls before in freehand, I’m going to “cheat” and try to get the dove of the Holy Spirit as exact as possible. Alas, the projector may also entail some wait time because I was supposed to get it early next week, however, that was before Sandy came roaring in. The projector needs a bulb replaced and calibrated and the generous teacher who is lending me the projector first must tend to report cards and who knows what else that cropped up because of the storm. Understandably, a burned out bulb isn’t going to be high on her list!
So I leave you with some photos to let you see the process before the process….
God Bless!
Wow! Thanks so much, L.T., for the illustrated progress report. Not only will this make for the best baldacchino that any hermitage ever had, but it will make the baldacchino’s of the great cathedrals and basilicas around the world rather envious. Hah! We’ll show them how to do it right!
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.
All told, Masses offered for Benedict XVI came to 918.
י ב ר כ ך י ה ו ה ב ה ת א ם ל ת פ י ל ת מ ר י ם ה ק ד ו ש ה May the Lord continue to bless you according to the intercession of Mary Most Holy
Proud to be a 4th degree K of C
N.B. As far as I understand, if you a non-practicing Catholic Knight, vid., a pro-abort politician, your membership remains because of laws about any purchased insurance. It seems that if such pro-aborts could be thrown out, they would be thrown out.
Stained glass windows at the Fathers of Mercy Shrine of the Divine Mercy
Dear seminarians, fellow priests and bishops... don't say you can’t be bothered to join in this novena for the healing of autistic children and adults and for help for their families, carers and the professionals who work with them. Send in the first names of those with autism.
When I was a chaplain in Lourdes I also used to bring the names of these kids to the prayer box in the grotto at Lourdes.
Here is a recently updated list of names of those who have joined the novena so far. Remember: Each name here carries a hugely awesome story of joy, anguish, pain, exhilaration, confusion, prayer – and lots and lots and lots of worry. Say a prayer for them now. Don’t forget: their souls are sustaining yours. Really, don’t forget that, not even for an instant. You will be happy you didn’t forget when they welcome you into heaven, and you are astonished at how they, by their prayers, got you into the pearly gates, even if just barely! It is the souls of just such as these which sustain seminarians, priests and bishops. Am I not right? Say a prayer for them now.
Andy
Doug
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Stephanie
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The novena is in honor of Saint Philomena the Wonder Worker.
Taking in the view during my Confession run -- This includes my brothers all time favorite picture on the blog (and with a gazillion pictures, that's saying a lot). Great advice about how to go to Confession.
A hermit does not "FIND HIMSELF" ever! -- This is one of personal favorites. Brief but to the point about being found by our Heavenly Father instead of pretending to find Him.
JESUS GOES TO CONFESSION -- Another of my favorites! If you want to know how much Jesus loves us, this post will give you an indication. A seven-fold Yikes!
Dangers on the Road to Confession -- Ever get the impression that there's always something which stops you from getting to Confession? Here's the post for you (some great pictures!)
The Biblical Foundation of Priestly Celibacy by Father Ignace de la Potterie, S.J. This is one of the more visited posts of the blog. Father Ignace was a good friend. A confidant. I used this in a course on priestly celibacy that I gave at the Pontifical College Josephinum. I was very pleased that so many of the seminarians were extremely well read, and were, indeed, on the cutting edge of research involving Scripture, Canon Law, Patristics, Church History, Ecumenical Relations, particularly with the Orthodox, the prudence in regard to Anglicanorum Coetibus, the for the moment the ignoring of matters regarding the permanent diaconate, etc. Some were planning on doing doctoral theses on the subject. All were 1000% in favor of strict priestly (and diaconal!) celibacy. My heart rejoiced each class. People, you have to know that we have very, very excellent priests coming up. Some of those I'm talking about were just ordained in the last couple of weeks. (Spring of 2012). Also know -- Yikes! -- that is is because of this very article (among some others), that Father de la Potterie was so very bitterly hated by some few, who could not provide an answer to what he said, so well did he say it.
Continence -- C.W. fanatics will not like the reference to JPII in this very short post. Oh well. The definition of continence might surprise quite a few readers. The definition of terms is important! and enthralling! I wrote these notes up for a course given to the seminarians of the Good Shephard Seminary of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The Rector at the time wanted me to innoculate the seminarians from the heresy that they would be getting in their classes at a certain Catholic institute where they were attending lectures at the time. Yikes!
Chastity -- Another brief, important article with an in your face, perhaps rather unexpected definition. Knowing the definitions introduces us also to the spiritual life, as to why chastity is a gift of grace, bringing us into friendship with the Lord.
Celibacy -- Another in your face, perhaps unexpected definition that we need to know. This and other terms are bandied about with few knowing what they are saying. Bonus: a video of the great Irish singer, John McCormack, in reference to the priest who addressed Pope JPII during, I think it was, his first trip to the U.S.A. Hah!
Virginity -- Another in your face, perhaps unespected definition that we need to know. I've added a rant on the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Mother of God, and also commented on topics such as consecrated virgins, rape, "spiritual virginity", etc.
Eunuch - Part I -- This is, in my opinion super important commentary. I always get the remark from seminarians and priests that they've never seen anything like this before. Indeed, I haven't seen this anywhere else. This is all about the depth of Christ's love for His Immaculate Bride, the Church. That charity, in which we participate, is awesome indeed. You are dead wrong if you think you already know what a eunuch is. Dead. Wrong. Behold, something truly awesome about the love of God for us.
Eunuch - Part II -- A necessary follow-up and continuation of Part I, with lots of scriptural references in both Old and New Testaments. You'll never think of these passages in the same way. This is so important for priests to understand what they are doing as priests, especially when they offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and absolve sin and such. Priests are married to the Church by the Sacrifice they offer! Priests must know this or they will find themselves in touble. In knowing just how they are married to the Church, they will rejoice. It is just this which will bring much healing to the priesthood.
LUST & angels -- This is a refreshing anecdote from the life of Saint Jerome when he went further off into the desert to be a hermit. Instructive and bringing us right before Jesus. Totally cool.
Repression idiocy -- This is a rather severe critique of the hell of repression and doubled over concealed and especially for that reason very dangerous repression that was foisted upon seminarians for decades and is, I fear, still foisted upon them in some places. The kind of repression idiocy which I critique has been hailed as "Catholic" and "orthodox" by "conservative" Catholic seminaries and universities and colleges. It's anything but that. If you want to risk going straight to hell, do up some of this kind of oppression. If you want to be on your way to heaven, be at ease with weakness, in all chasity, in all honesty, before Jesus, and He will show you the way to rejoicing in holy purity. It's not about mind games. It's about knowing the wholeness and holiness of our Lord and Savior.
Wounded Healer idiocy -- The Wounded Healer idiocy is perhaps one of the most evil dynamics there is. Ever hear of it? Know who wrote popularized it? This is the method of "nice" and "caring" psychology, but is really just a horrific projection of the "Wounded Healer." This is a necessary read just because you will surely run across this kind of thing. Blech!
Impure, lustful thoughts -- This is very much a favorite post on HSH blog. I have very often also directed people to it. It seems it is very useful indeed.
My experience with porn -- This post generated by far the most heartfelt emails and comments on the blog. Porn is a huge problem in the USA and increasing around the world. This post speaks to that catastrophy. Yikes!
AD CINGULUM! -- This is from the series on the Vesting Prayers for priests for Holy Mass. However, I think all will be able to rejoice in what they read here, and will know more about the priesthood of Jesus among us, and what priestly celibacy is all about. Awesome!
There are many other posts I would like to add to this series. If you readers have any ideas, drop a comment in the comments box or send an email to holysoulshermitage using gmail dot com. Thanks!
♬ “Kíll the priest! ♬ Kíll the priest! ♬ Kíll the chí-ld ráp-ing priest!” ♬ (Meet the cheerleader) A HSH Special - In this article you will meet Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, one time president and director of the Saint Luke Institute (shudder) and – how to say it? — a one time paper-giver at the 2012 Pontifical Gregorian University Abuse Symposium (in preparation for the preparation of guidelines of the Holy See on how to treat abuse cases right around the world, coming up in another year or two). You will also see a never before published in full exchange of emails between Rossetti and Mr. Ryan MacDonald.
Abuse terminology that favors The Judas Crisis - This covers the specious terminology, which, however defined in this or that document, means something different in every case: substantiated / non-substantiated -- credible / non-credible. For some, non-substantiated and non-credible means unfounded, which means false, which calumny. But not all are in agreement about that usage. Thus, something can be deemed credible (though not in court of law), though non-substantiated, thus effectively destroying the priesthood of a priest with no proof.
The Judas Crisis $$$ — settlements vs litigation - This brief post is very important to understand the monetary motivation for not providing due process to priests. This should be an eye-opener, and make you sick. This is how bad things can get. If bishops and chancery toadies can do this to their priests, how will they treat real abuse victims in the future?
Prisons are for free! Didn’t you know? - Part of the collateral damage of NCRRG policies is that innocent priests will end up in prison. The prisons babysit these innocent priests "for free." Not giving innocent priests due process saves money. Using prisons saves more money. And tax-payers don't care? Really?
The Judas Crisis: NCRRG (Arch)Dioceses complicit in encouraging murder of priests? - This is a rather hard-hitting article. It is commentary on an article written by the NCRRG. This is of utmost importance to understanding The Judas Crisis. This is ground-zero of The Judas Crisis. The cold-blooded, callous indifference of The Judas Crisis is most evident here.
NOTA BENE: There are many more articles which are linked in those articles, and they are also important, such as the article critiquing the homosexualized VIRTUS® program: Msgr Stephen Rossetti, Msgr Edward Arsenault, VIRTUS ®, Saint Luke Institute, militant homosexualism The VIRTUS Child Protection Program Team: We must be militant homosexualists! That particular article is important to read in regard to the Judas Crisis in that VIRTUS® is one and the same with the NCRRG.
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. 
