Identity Crisis

 

As I gasped at an online article (that I subsequently verified as true); I wondered what would happen if I showed up at the doctors and told him that I now identified as a cat…would he offer me a saucer of milk ? Probably not, but if someone (even a child) declares that they ‘feel’ like they are another gender than their actual one, despite the physical evidence to the contrary, the doctor may proceed with hormone therapies or surgery to mutilate them and they can transition to another gender.

Well I suppose there are few surprises left in the madness of our age; a one minute read of a newspaper reveals the brokenness of humanity as it spirals down ever further into confusion and depravity.

One would however expect better from within the Church, and the Catholic schools entrusted with the formation of the hearts of the next generation of Catholics. The article I just read was about a transgender ‘man’ (a woman who has undergone a transition to become a ‘man’) who is a teacher of religion at a Catholic school in England… supposedly ‘bridging the gap between LGBT community and religion’. A little further study revealed that the Bishop of the same diocese is officiating at LGBT Masses.

Casualties of gender ideology and the LGBT agenda are stacking up, ruining people’s lives; they need help and only God can fix this. He equipped the church to deal with any such attack on the dignity of the human person. He gave His church the power of His word to call to repentance, His gifts of counsel and Healing to restore their minds and hearts and the gift of Exorcism for those under the worst kind of demonic oppression to set the captives free. How He longs to set them free and heal them and welcome them home; without compromise, fully restored. He makes no treaties with the enemy of their souls who seeks only to pervert and destroy them.

Ambiguity is Satan’s foot in the door and there is already plenty of it without importing it into the classrooms or church; we do a great disservice to those who are confused about gender when you sign a peace treaty with the author of confusion.

Fr Blount ..leading prayer

 

Fr Blount talk in Knock

 

Fr Blount .. Knock

 

Fr Blount Healing Service at Knock

 

Fr Blount ... at Ballintubber abbey

 

Fr Blount at Knock

 

Fr Blount Carlo Acutis..

 

Fr Blount Medjugorje, closing Homily

 

Stephanus Antonious

 

A couple of years ago my dad surprised me with a story I had not heard. It was about my Baptism. Apparently I was Baptised in Latin, so strictly speaking my name is not Stephen Anthony but Stephanus Antonious. It has a nice Gladitorial ring to it ; which explains a lot.

I wonder what all the fuss is about having Mass in Latin; it seems to verge on obsession from some quarters; particularly when it is idolised to the point of its proponents separating themselves from the church, becoming essentially Latin speaking protestants; like the SSPX for whom even the subtle hint of excommunication of its bishops wasn’t enough to snap them out of it. In true protestant tradition they quickly splintered into SSPV and a host of other factions who couldn’t agree on what they disagreed with. It sounds familiar somehow… (2 Timothy 2:14) 

Language is important though. And I think scripture hints at what is appropriate. In the Acts of the Apostles, on Pentecost we see the Apostles preaching (I Imagine in Aramaic) and ‘everybody understood them in their own language’. (Acts 2:6) That’s how the Holy Spirit did it; He did not make them all suddenly understand Aramaic, but translated it for them into their own language; the language of the heart. 

A few years ago, up in a fairly remote Northern Province in the Philippines I was talking to a chap from the Isneg tribe who told me about a missionary who had spent years translating the New Testament into the Isneg language. The people there speak English and Filipino of course and many were already Christians but He said when he read scripture in his ‘own language’ he wept; it moved him so deeply to hear it in the language of heart. 

Surely though what is needed is to get back to basics, not so much with tradition but fully ‘orthodox’ to the instructions left behind by Jesus. To preach the Gospel, Heal the sick, Raise the Dead, Cast out demons.

Power of Baptism (Fr Blount in Medjugorje)

 

Fr Blount in Siroki Brijeg (medjugorje pilgrimage)

 

Fr Blount and His Guardian Angel

 

Fr Blount (Medjugorje Pilgrimage)

 

Fr Blount - Miracles of the Rosary

 

Fr Blount in Medjugorje St Michael Chaplet

 

Fr Blount in Medjugorje

 

Talk by Fr Blount

 

Fr Blount ... Renewal day

 

A Vision of Freedom: Apparitions of Our Lady #Hrushiw, #Ukraine Witness ...

I Lost the True Relic of the Holy Cross ... Fr Blount talk

 

He Knows your name (audio only)

 

La Salette

 

Blessed Carlo Acutis .. Fr Blount