The Harley Theologian (me) versus the Jesuit and Franciscan priest
In
the beginning was the word, and Zen; there was us? Or why the laity is so screwed up about what the
Eucharist is …
To continue in my sounds like teachings of other religions theme, being taught by Roman Catholic priests; I present to you “Zen Gifts to Christians” a book written, by Robert Kennedy, S.J., chairperson of the theology department of St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey. I do not know if I should call him Fr. Kennedy, Professor Kennedy or Zen Master Kennedy…
Maybe it
is best I
leave it at “the good professor”, teaches theology and the Japanese language
(cool!) … Kennedy Roshi sits with his Zen students daily at the Morning Star
Zendo in Jersey City
(Me I sit before the tabernacle, every day in a place called “the Catholic
Church”… silly me, I do not wear a Roman Collar, just a “common uneducated
member of the flock”)…
“The good Professor Kennedy”, sits with other Zen
students, in twelve other zendos in the tri-state area… (Once again silly me, I
thought a priest was supposed to sit with the 12 apostles within the Catholic
Church) … Professor Kennedy also conducts weekend and week long sesshins (Zen
retreats) at various centers in the United States
and Mexico
Okay those
last four words in the paragraph above, I do agree with, there is but one
spirit that blows on us all and this is true… But unfortunately we are in
different ball parks, the student of Zen and the Catholic, I am sure God did
not choose to divide his children, but since we are I am sure he is working
with us all…
There are many gifts of the spirit and Jesus clearly said that he
had sheep in other pastures … maybe Zen is one of those pastures, I do not
know… I have enough trouble in the pasture I am in called the Roman Catholic
Church…
I do not have the time or inclination to look to see if the grass is
green, next door to me … It would serve this Christian no purpose, yet she will
not throw stones into the pasture next door to her… She will, though stop any
who seeks to muddy the waters in her faith, such as Professor Kennedy, tries to
do with his blending of Zen and Christianity…
And I will stop the slandering
of the True Presence, of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity: in the flesh and blood;
in the Eucharist, by this Professor Kennedy and anyone else, who seeks to
defame Jesus Christ’s true human, and divine presence, within the Eucharist as
this book of Professor Kennedy, clearly does… hence it screws up the thinking
of the Catholic and the real Truth within the Catholic Church…
there we are
able to worship in Truth as well as spirit… It is fine if Professor Kennedy
wants to get to “his happy place” and contemplate his navel there… I seek to promote
and proclaim to all, why stop with meditating in spirit only, go to the God/man
in person as well, go to the Eucharist,
truly find the God/man there… (oh once again I show myself to be silly
and uneducated, sorry I am a Catholic I
really do believe in the True Presence, of Christ in the Eucharist… it is not a
symbol of us in the Bread, but of the Truth of the Second Person of the Blessed
Trinity; truly there) …
Here are
some of things Professor Kennedy mentions in his book, in regards to the Eucharist.
Just as we see many
agents of transformation in literature, so too we see them in real life. For
his part Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest, contends that priests are agents of
transformation. But priests, he says, need not to be ordained priests, nor need
they be men at all. Instead Rohr recognizes as priest all men and woman who
assist others in the process of being transformed into
a new life...
Question ??? why then do we give donations to the Franciscan order to support them ... if everyone is a priest ... ??? that is not "Zen" of you to accept such donations then... but "capitalist of you" making money off your religious order that you say is irrelevant to transformation ... according to your words ... ah "deep thinking" ... such inner peace
Since this “ordained
priest” speaks to all as being “priests” I feel comfortable rolling in on my
Harley, with this one; as a “theologian”, addressing, what he is saying…
He
uses the word priest, “loosely” the way many use the word, “love” loosely in
order to screw you… Yes we are all metaphorically speaking, “priests” called to
transform; first ourselves, and than help others to do like wise…
But there is
a higher word usage to the concept of “priest”, as there is a higher word usage
to the word “love”… one speaks to the ordinary, based in human terms, the other
to the extraordinary, based in divinity, as in the one true high priest, and
that is Jesus Christ, and the owner and giver of true love and this is God..
Man cannot save man, this took a God/man to do, or he would not have come onto
the scene. Man was never without the thinking that they were self righteous
enough, and could heal themselves, this is called human ego, and it has always
been present within mankind.
Christ teaches we must die to this human thinking,
and ego and we cannot do so independently of him, he is the one and only
“transformer” and path to truth. Humans offer chaos, along the way, placing
their own projections onto to the path, or roadblocks, theirs is more of an
interruption of what God, should look and act like …
Richard
Rohr associates the healing transformation with three symbols: the knife, fire
and blood. The knife cuts off illusions; the fire transforms all it touches;
the blood that heals the affliction of body and mind … (I agree to this, I see the person and
divinity of Jesus Christ being all three elements though)
The book
goes on to make these comments… Much more than “priests”. The Eucharist is par
excellence the agent of transformation..(Yeah baby, now we are talking!) ..
Interestingly, Father Aloysius Pieris, S.J., founder of the Tulane Research
Center in Sri Lanka, introduced an Asian celebration of the Eucharist founded
on his experience of the Zen Buddhist practice of attentiveness and
selflessness (this is not just a practice of a Zen
Buddhist, this should have been this Catholic priest’s common practice, being an
ordained priest, he should have always been, “attentive and selflessness” in
his approach to the Eucharist… it is certainly mine, as an uneducated member
of the laity ) …
Fr. Pieris goes on to
write this; Jesus did not institute the Eucharist to change bread and wine into
his body and blood, but to change us into his body…. hmmm....Christ saved souls first up ... "not bodies"
okay where and what is
Fr. Pieris thinking is he processing his religion and faith as a Catholic, or
a Zen Master.
This hot headed theologian, (that would be me), and I hear St.
Peter was a hot head to… but I want to run this Fr. Pieris, over with my bike…
how dare he say, such things… does he not remember the words… “This is my body,
this is my Blood”, spoken by Christ…
Not this is “your body transformed by me,
this is your blood transformed, by me”.
The Eucharist is the body of the lamb,
the Jew who became the “new Passover”.
His is the body offered for punishment
due, his body is the sin offering, the acceptable sacrifice, it is his body
that offers the “justification”, before the Father, not our bodies, even when
we eat of this Bread, our human bodies, will still die.
They will be
resurrected and transformed after death. The Eucharist offers to our souls a
human/divine shield that protects us from the wrath of the Father… This priest
defames Christ’s True Presence within the Eucharist...
Fr. Pieris
the educated Jesuit goes on to say, The
Mass is not meant to transform elements, but to transform people. When he
said, “Behold I am with you always, until the end of the world”, Jesus was not
referring to his real presence in the Eucharist; he was referring to his real
presence in his people, the members of his body”… OMG defrock this dude !!!!
Our greatest gift given and this
priest just masturbated on with his Zen Buddhist belief system …
Hey I do Zen,
during the day, when I have to deal with my family, I go to “my happy place” so I do not go “crazy with them”… so I am into Zen… just do not bring this into
my church, everything has a place, a season and a reason for it… let’s just be
happy co-existing, no need for “takeover”… each others “personal space”, that
would not be “Zen” of you…
People/children of God…
as one who has slept around in life, I know when someone is trying to screw
you, the Jesuits sleep around a lot as well just not with women ...
they will give you a song and dance, wine and dine you, try to impress you
with their knowledge, only to get into your pants…
Such thinking by a Roman
Catholic priest dismiss it, he is trying to rape you and your faith… None of us
are virginal anymore, we have all been raped within the Catholic Church of
some very basic truths and as all rape victims are told I say to you it was not
your fault. You are better than what happened to you in this church stay
there and reclaim the worth and dignity that can still be found in this
church you have to claim it though as you have to claim your title of being a
child of God, no matter what you have done God still loves you and here is
really present in the Second Person of Blessed Trinity, Jesus Christ in the
Eucharist, go to a Tabernacle and visit
him there, be ahead of the game, get to know, “in person/true presence”, the
God/man, you will stand before upon your death …
