Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Allowing women into the priesthood (Episcopal Church, Congregational Church-UCC) was a huge mistake and the founding of our estate of aggressive confusion. Women did not ask for that. Bull Dykes did, and they did not ask, they demanded, per their nature. The fault was with the men, who allowed themselves to be buffaloed, just as it was the fault of American trade reps for allowing Chinese to run train on American wealth.
The fix is as easy as men seeing the mistake and reversing course. Restore the men-only priesthood (this excludes queers), eschew being buffaloed, by anyone, and, in the parallel process, put reciprocity at the center of trade deals.
Contemporary Hungary is a salutary case study. Salus animarum prima lex.
Women have no combat role in The Army and no clerical role in The Church.
When, notwithstanding, women enter upon those roles, those roles themselves shrink to insignificance, making their intended outcomes impossible to achieve.
Who admits women to the combat role in The Army or to the clerical role in The Church is ignorant, malicious, or both.
Labor to admit women to the clerical order of The Church started in earnest in the USA in the 1940s. It appeared victorious early in the 1970s. Here are some observations regarding that disgraceful digression.
Before 1945, Americans lived in cities comprising neighborhoods and in small towns. Churches belonged to the social dynamics of those neighborhoods and towns. Generations made it so. With mostly large, local congregations, lay and episcopal leaderships could and were willing to support clergy — all men — with a living wage.
After 1945, Americans moved from city neighborhoods and towns to suburbs of cities and larger towns. Lay and episcopal leaderships installed new churches in these suburbs. And they continued the expense of legacy churches in city neighborhoods and large towns.
Lay and episcopal leaderships responsible for suburban churches were unable and unwilling to support clergy — still all men — with a living wage. In addition, pressure from a certain type of female grew to ordain and stand up women, especially to staff the legacy churches in city neighborhoods and in large towns.
In other words, staffing needs increased, ability and willingness to pay for it decreased, and partisan noise was thrown into ecclesial administrative processes. In addition and contributing to that, suburban life invited families out of churches and into golf clubs, little leagues, scouting, PTAs, historical and hobby societies, and other non-ecclesial foci of social dynamics.
Finally, psychiatrists, psychologists, and entertainers developed, tested, and perfected propaganda, mass marketing techniques, which businesses and governments quickly adopted and eagerly deployed with irrational enthusiasm and to profoundly debilitating effect on themselves as well as on the general intelligence and character. Suddenly, every American saw bright, sparkly lures dangling just within reach and heard soothing sounds urging them to grab and, well, enjoy the ride, it will be so good for you.
All of this left lay and episcopal leaderships bereft of money and staff for their new and legacy churches. The right thing to have done at that juncture — late 1960s — was:
1- Consolidate congregations and judicatories who use versions of The Latin Rite.
This would include all so-called mainline denominations/churches. This done, even congregants living in sparsely-settled areas would experience reasonable travel times and distances for participation in church functions.
Consolidation would rest on agreement to the centrality of The Rite itself rather than to differential calculus regarding clerical orders. The Liturgy is The Kerygma. Therein rests the ecumenical peace: The Liturgy, not the clergy, is core of The Church and the churches. The corporeality of Grace is the conduct of The Liturgy, not apostolic succession. Reference the so-called consecration of queers and women as bishops. (Q.E.D.)
In cities, consolidation would go by way of government-sponsored Religion Parks. In suburbs and towns, consolidation would go by way of these four considerations: consolidate, liquidate, educate, celebrate.
A judicatory who refuses consolidation may be informed by their congregations that they, the judicatory, may henceforth pay all expenses incurred by said congregations, who herewith also cease paying assessments (taxes) laid on them by their judicatory.
The military term for consolidation of congregations and judicatories as described here is: shorten front. It has two purposes, one defensive, one offensive. They are: (1) to shorten a line of battle, a front too long for the force at hand to defend, and (2) to prepare for an assault at some point or points along an enemy’s line of battle, his front and flanks.
The Church is a military formation of power not of this world but effective in it. Thus, military terminology and the concepts upholding them are as appropriate for use by The Church as they are for The Army.
2- Liquidate the value of their properties.
Identify areas and one or two points inside them to which congregants using some version of The Latin Rite have reasonable travel times and distances for participation in church functions.
Sell off properties not at these points and use the proceeds to build at these points as well as to fortify clergy retirement funds.
The military terms for liquidation of properties as described here are: abandon weak positions and concentrate force.
Again, The Church is a military formation of power not of this world but effective in it. Thus, military terminology and the concepts upholding them are as appropriate for use by The Church as they are for The Army.
3- Train clergy — all men — to self-support as worker priests engaged in secular labor of their choice and to officiate in the clerical order gratis.
This gives the clergy and laity, both, the great power of freedom.
Offer clergy graduated retirement income based on age, starting at sixty five, and years in standing publicly celebrating The Mass and/or reciting The Daily Office at a sanctuary for a congregation.
The military term for training clergy as described here is: sustain the troops.
Again, The Church is a military formation of power not of this world but effective in it. Thus, military terminology and the concepts upholding them are as appropriate for use by The Church as they are for The Army.
4- With fewer congregations and more clergy, celebrate versions of The Latin Rite and/or recite its adjuncts daily at the few sanctuaries remaining.
Daily conduct of The Liturgy — The Mass and/or elements of The Daily Office, such as Morning Prayer, The Angelus, Evening Prayer, Compline — are God’s concentrated attacks to expose worldly wiles to powers of the light of truth. Some combination of The Mass and/or The Daily Office should occur daily in every sanctuary, for every congregation, in every judicatory comprising churches using a version of The Latin Rite.
The Liturgy is The Kerygma. The Mass and The Daily Office are God’s light bestowed upon the world to reverse its lapses into darkness and to elevate it from confusion to clarity. Celebrating The Mass and reciting The Daily Office are evangelical actions. They corporealize light.
With fewer congregations and judicatories and many clerical and lay volunteers concentrated in succinct geographies, daily celebration of some version of The Latin Rite is possible and desirable. Such celebration is, in fact, Christians’ duty and balm.
Judicatories should never allow the number of congregations to exceed the number of clergy and lay volunteers willing to maintain The Mass and/or The Daily Office in daily occurrence in each its congregations. The thinking of judicatories must be ecclesial, not financial. Judicatories’ thirst for properties must not exceed their enthusiasm for and guarantee of daily public worship and prayer in each congregation who relies upon their stewardship.
If daily public worship and prayer cannot be provided in each congregation of a judicatory, reduce the number of congregations until they can be provided. Better one bright light than a dozen dim ones.
The military term for maintaining The Mass and/or The Daily Office as described here is: close with the enemy.
Again, The Church is a military formation of power not of this world but effective in it. Thus, military terminology and the concepts upholding them are as appropriate for use by The Church as they are for The Army.
Had they done this, lay and episcopal leaderships could have and would have (1) experienced an abundance of clergy — all men — and money flow, and (2) ensured that clergy — all men — have a living wage.
Instead, lay and episcopal leaderships pissed way their assets, dispersing them to the winds, bowed to the ravings of bull dykes, and nursed their own venality (Give me my money, NOW!). Their considerations were financial, not ecclesial. They ordained women to staff ever-smaller congregations — being able to support them less because women already had the support of their husbands or so-called wives — and to keep at least some money flowing to themselves from their far-flung congregations. This is known as doubling down on stupid. In ecclesiology, is it known as simony. In warfare, it is known as suicide.
Unsurprising result: men left the churches, general membership declined steadily, money got scarce, prestige evaporated, bounders and swindlers abounded, properties became decrepit or weird, a shameless devolution of American revivalism claims to represent Christianity, and lay and episcopal leaderships stand dangling their bonnets and plumes.
All because when faced with the facts of human theological geography, lay and episcopal leaderships chose to not consolidate congregations and judicatories (shorten front), liquidate inapposite properties (abandon weak positions and concentrate force), ensure that clergy — all men — have a living wage (sustain the troops), and discharge their primal duty to celebrate The Mass and/or recite The Daily Office in each congregation in public daily (close with the enemy).
Ordaining a woman was a stupid man’s desperate act of self-promotion. The way forward is as outlined in the foregoing four points:
Consolidate
Liquidate
Educate
Celebrate
Shorten Front
Abandon Weak Positions/Concentrate Force
Sustain The Troops
Close With The Enemy
Remarkably, my first and only assignment as clergy, ordained or non-ordained — early 1970s, without ordination or standing initially, UCC, Southwest Conference — was to consolidate two small UCC congregations in El Paso, Texas. The congregation to which I was assigned chose to continue, expand, and precipitate my being ordained with standing in the Southwest Conference, UCC.
Thus, I failed that assignment. After than failure, I requested a new assignment and was told none was available in the Conference. In 1976 I confirmed in the Episcopal Church and have remained there ever since, though inactive, in the capacity of layman.
My first and only assignment by The Church while in the clerical order was exactly what The Church intended generally and wanted me to do specifically. I did not see it. Not for not wanting to see it. I just did not see it. Now I do. Miserere mei Deus secundum misericordiam tuam iuxta multitudinem miserationum tuarum dele iniquitates meas.
Βασιλεία του Θεού
Kingdom of God
Update 1: Globalization by Socialists and Moslems of murder, rape, and taunting of Christians, and arson, vandalism, and mayhem committed upon their handiworks, indicate, among other things, that the churches’ lines of battle are overextended. Their defenses are too thin to hold against attack. Appeasement whets perpetrators’ appetite for yet more blood-letting and destruction. Front must be shortened and concentration of force at defensible and attack-launch positions must be achieved. Then, successful attack to terminate the murder, rape, etc., must be launched. The churches’ weakness today is their diffusion of strength across indefensible geographical and therefore spiritual areas of operation. The foregoing list details remedies.
Update 2: Following WWII, the judicatories made the mistake of adding more plant in the new suburbs while keeping legacy plant in cities and large towns. They overextended their lines, so to speak. They could not pay a living wage to men to man those extended lines. So they hired ordained women, who would work for less because they had a husband to support them, and who swallowed the malarkey that they were doing good and breaking the future by leading the church.
But that made it worse. Women have as much role in clerical orders as they do in combat units. None. So normal people faded away from plant in both suburbs and cities/large towns. Then, as paying customers families left but the judicatories persisted in demanding income laying assessments on an array of plant ever more overextended relative to its taxpayer base pledging families, judicatories turned to freaks as both ordinands and customers congregants. So more normals faded away.
It started after WWII and the calculation was financial rather than ecclesial or historical. Judicatories then should have shortened front (consolidated judicatories who use versions of The Latin Rite), abandoned weak positions (sold off apposite properties) and concentrated force (at geographic points reasonably accessible to all), sustained the troops (teach/assist men-only clergy to self-sustain their families), and closed with the enemy (The Mass celebrated and/or The Daily Office recited gratis daily at each of the now-few but sustainable sanctuaries).
Update 3: No, Christianity Doesn’t Need To Endorse Homosexuality To Grow
Update 4: Sri Lanka Expels 200 Islamic Clerics Following Deadly Easter Attacks
Update 5: Good News: Celebrating The Mass in Latin at North American Martyrs Catholic Parish, Edmonds, WA, by the The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri).
Update 6: Jacob Howland: Odysseus Against the Matriarchy (PDF)
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
