More MHR - Gay Pride Parade 2008

“A 100 percent chance we will not be in the parade”

“It is really just our response to… well, we’re tired of the hate mail,” he said. “The parishioners see their participation in the parade as an evangelical outreach, but they don’t enjoy being called nasty names either. This wasn’t because of any request from the archdiocese.” - Fr. Meriwether

PRAYERS ANSWERED!!! SF Archdiocese, MHR, & Gay Pride Parade 2008

San Francisco Archdiocese Puts Kibosh on Church's Plans for Gay Pride Parade

THANK AND PRAISE YOU FATHER, THANK AND PRAISE YOU JESUS, THANK AND PRAISE YOU HOLY SPIRIT!!!

Thank you dear Blessed Mother, all the angels, saints, and holy souls in purgatory!
Please continue to pray for Archbishop Niederauer, Fr. Meriwether, and the Most Holy Redeemer Parish.

Clinton: Gay Pride Parade

Senator Clinton: I want to be first U.S. president to march in gay pride parade

MORE- MHR-SF, Archbishop Niederauer, & The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer Gives Communion to Blasphemous ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’

Catholic ‘Drag Nun Bingo’ Parish, Most Holy Redeemer, Participates in San Francisco Pride Parade 2007

HEAVEN HEAR & HELP US!

SF-Most Holy Redeemer in Gay Pride Parade 2007

Fr. John Malloy, SDB asks: "Where are we going?"
Btw...'veil tip' to the Curt Jester for Fr. Malloy's blog !

***WARNING- GRAPHIC & SCANDALOUS!

Did you see all the children in this video?

LORD HAVE MERCY!

St. John Bosco pray for us!
Our Lady Help of Christians PRAY FOR US!

Fr. Malloy, I know where some people are going this weekend...The SF Gay Pride Parade 2007(general parade info.) is scheduled for this weekend and the list of participants (PARADE LINE-UP LIST-***as of today MHR is only CATHOLIC PARISH/CHURCH LISTED) can be found all over the internet.

Let's start here:

Most Holy Redeemer (SF Archdiocese):

Bulletin for June 17, 2007: FULLY participating in the SF Gay Pride Parade 2007 events-

Thurs. June 21st -"Young Adult Group (Pride Parade Dance Rehearsal) in Ellard Hall"

Sat. June 23 "Pride Weekend. MHR AIDS Support Group Beverage Booth near the Main Stage in Civic Center.10 am Gardening in the Garden 12:30 pm Young Adult Group (Parade Signs/Posters Making) in Ellard Hall"

Sunday (Solemnity of The Birth of St. John the Baptist) - June 24 "Pride Weekend. After the 10 am Mass - MHR Pride Parade Contingent Send Off. No Sunday Coffee Hour."

"More Pride Beverage Booth Volunteers Are Needed to help staff our ASG Beverage Booth next Saturday, June 23 in Civic Center. This is a great fundraising opportunity for us. We have a (Look at the "scandalous line-up of entertainment displayed nearby") super location next to the Main Stage and need lots of volunteers to be successful. Shifts are only two hours and will not conflict with the Parade on Sunday. Please sign-up in Ellard Hall after the 10 am Mass on Sunday, or give us a call at 415-863-1581."

They are not only participating but they have a booth located in a prominent and well seen location FOR ALL TO SEE! AND NOW THAT IT WILL BE 'BROADCAST' via the internet - "An estimated 850 million people around the world with Internet access will be able to watch the parade live for the first time. Webcasts are on Clear Channel's LGBT network at http://www.shakeradio.com/ and on KRON 4 at http://www.kron4.com/. This year Pride broadened its exposure with a new two-hour live broadcast on Comcast's digital cable channel 99. Individuals without access to digital cable will be able to view an edited version of the parade on Pride Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. on KRON 4."

GOD WILL SEE TOO!

I pray that those who will read this post will contact the Archdiocese and those in authority-requesting that the Archdiocese ask all participating parishes to remove their PARISH/"CATHOLIC" banners from this event.

One more thing...

How awesome is IT that an 85 yr. old priest can alert and keep his sheep from being devoured by wolves?

Thank & GOD BLESS you Fr. John Malloy - OUR SHEPHERD!

And may Our Lady Help of Christians protect and keep you always Fr. Malloy!

Why not charitably assist OUR LORD, Our Blessed Mother, St. John Bosco, and Fr. Malloy:

US Nunciature

Archbishop Pietro Sambi

3339 Massachusetts Avenue,

N.W,Washington, DC, USA

Telephone: (202) 333-7121 Fax: (202) 337-4036

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Piazza del S. Uffizio,

11, 00193

Roma, Italy

Telephone: 06.69.88.33.57 or 06.69.88.34.13

Fax: 06.69.88.34.09

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco

One Peter Yorke Way

San Francisco, CA 94109

Telephone: (415) 614-5500

E-mail: info@sfarchdiocese.org

USCCB & Update-MHR in San Francisco

As the USCCB wraps up their fall session with their documents...

(Bishop Bruskewitz was awesome--he reminded the conference of their place in the Church-

see "The Role of the Bishop's Conference")

Problems continue to brew again....Fr. Stephen Meriwether RETURNS!

Welcome Back, Fr. Steve!
Fr. Steve returns for good this week from

his stint in Minnesota!

Welcome home!

"Veil Tip" to--The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen & Curt Jester to see if the scandalous pictures (Gay Pride Parade 2006) are removed from their site.

Look at their resources site. While I was awaiting Fr. Meriwether's (quick) return I happened upon this "lovely" article. Read what he thinks (2004) in interview-

Cross purposes - "The Vatican is about to issue a new directive condemning homosexuality and keeping gay priests out of the Catholic Church. In San Francisco, that would threaten one of the most vibrant Catholic parishes. "

(funny how timely this is today and obviously, the bishop's document today doesn't effect Fr. or the S.F. archdiocese either!)

On MHR:

For some, "Mass" became an ironically named, long-running Sunday-evening dance
party – and a religious experience of another kind.

[snip]

But since the ascension of Pope Benedict XVI this spring, and the move of San Francisco's Archbishop William Levada to Rome, the future of gays in the Catholic Church, and at Most Holy Redeemer, is very much in question. The new pope's record "has been one of unrelenting, venomous hatred for gay people," said Matt Foreman, head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. And that, coupled with the uncertainty of whom Pope Benedict will appoint to replace Levada as archbishop of San Francisco, has some MHR parishioners worried. "Now, more anxiety," Hopke said. "The new archbishop is like a 'gulp,' The pool of candidates is so conservative. I think we're going to have some tough times ahead."

[snip]

I guess they haven't been tough enough....the times that is...Most Rev. George H. Niederauer, D.D., Ph. D what is happening?

[snip]

Still, on a recent Sunday morning, Hopke and his group were in front of the Blessed Virgin Mother statue in the bright sunlight. More people were arriving. "God's inclusive love proclaimed here," the parish bulletin said. They clumped in groups of three or four on the sidewalk. Chatting. Laughing. Before mass, at the top of the big stairs leading to the sanctuary, Meriwether stood greeting the arrivals. The parishioners renovated the building in 2000 and rearranged the sanctuary so it would seem less daunting. The pews now surround the altar on three sides so the priest can stand out in the middle of the congregation.

[snip]

Most Holy Redeemer's organizers say that about two thirds of the 900-member congregation is gay or lesbian. Almost all the members are people who call themselves "cradle Catholics," people who were brought up in the Church.
But many, usually when they started thinking of themselves as gay, drifted away.
Now, they say, they've come back because Most Holy Redeemer welcomes them.

[snip]

"Which of course frightens even people at MHR. They're always wondering, 'When is it going to happen to us?" " Meriwether told me. "Because they can't be happy with us.... I think the diocese would like to see us keep a very low profile.... What does that mean, you're supposed to crawl under a rock? You can't ask people to do that. It's a very ambivalent attitude."

Meriwether thinks that even though the Vatican's policy on gay priests hasn't been released yet, "what they're saying is that if you're willing to deny it, then that's OK."
What the archdiocese could easily do, Meriwether said, is to muzzle the congregation by forbidding members to march in the gay pride parade, which they do every June, and by forbidding them to place their advertising in gay newspapers like the Bay Area Reporter. By making them less visible, it could push MHR's parishioners back toward the closet and again make the people whom the Church drove away once, painfully reconsider their decision to come back. And it could cause those people a lot of pain.

"Most Holy Redeemer is a real flash point for conservative Catholics," Meriwether said.

[snip]

If the archdiocese came down hard on Most Holy Redeemer, how would he feel? "Very compromised.... As pastor, yes, you have to uphold the teaching and the discipline of the Church, but you also have to be a father to your parishioners," he said. Would Most Holy Redeemer be closed entirely? Ironically, because MHR isn't financially successful, that seems unlikely. Meriwether said that, at least in part because, unlike Saint Brigid, which had about $750,000 in its bank account when it was closed, MHR still owes for the 2000 renovation – about a million dollars.

It does not appear to me that they have been shut down at all!

And the real reason it won't get shut down.....$$$$!

WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS-OUR SHEPHERDS?

HAVE MERCY LORD! LORD HAVE MERCY!

*UPDATE-Jerusalem Gay Pride Event

At least they won't be parading through the city...this still isn't good. Their intent is still obvious.

Closed event to replace gay parade in Jerusalem on Friday

Parade organizers announced that the parade was officially cancelled, and pending final logistical arrangements the gay pride event will no longer consist of a march through Jerusalem's streets, rather a closed event at the stadium at Hebrew University's Givat Ram campus.

[snip]

Meanwhile, religious opponents of the parade were holding what they have called a "March of Beasts" on Thursday afternoon.

The protesters were leading cows and horses along the route plotted for the gay parade, Army Radio reported. The High Court of Justice denied four petitions asking to ban the so-called march of beasts.

More-Gay pride parade organizers propose closed Jerusalem venue

News Items this week- High Court to discuss parade petitions

Labor Minister Eli Yishai - "stood as a potential obstacle to the event"-stated:
"The opposition to the parade of abomination cuts across parties, nations and religions... Those marchers cause damage to the sanctity of Jerusalem, and they do it only out of spite. I have heard the argument that they will hold a smaller parade. There is no such thing as restricting the abomination and the affliction. This march will lead to world-wide social destruction."

Another Update: Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade

Jerusalem gay pride march likely to be postponed: police
But, it could be postponed until next week. We continue to pray that it does not take place. But not due to violence.

Police in Israel were placed on a heightened state of alert Wednesday after Palestinian militant groups vowed to resume suicide attacks inside the Jewish state, following the deaths of 18 people, mostly women and children, from Israeli shelling in Gaza.

[snip]

On Wednesday the Vatican joined in the fray, voicing "bitterness" about the march and expressing "its strongest disapproval for such an initiative which constitutes a serious affront to the feelings of millions of Jewish, Muslims and Christian believers," in the Holy City.

Our Prayers Continue...

Israel May Scrap Planned Gay Pride March

A week before a planned gay pride parade in Jerusalem, the city's religious Jews are warning of possible violence and a government minister said the march might have to be scrapped to keep the peace in the holy city.

[snip]

"This march is a ruthless assault on traditional Jewish values and the sanctity of Jerusalem," said Mina Fenton, an Orthodox member of Jerusalem's City Council who has led the fight against the parade. More than 100,000 people will attend a counterdemonstration on the day of the march should it be allowed to go ahead, she said, and violence was a possibility.

Please Lord...may this be totally stopped!

Lord have Mercy!

Archdiocese of S.F. Stops "Revival Bingo"

(See "Denial of Sin" previous post below-10-27-06)

Statement by the Archdiocese of San Francisco:
Permission to use Ellard Hall should not have been given to the group. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has directed the parish to end the arrangement immediately. For years the group has directed contempt and ridicule at Catholic faith and practices. The particular targets of the group's derision are women in religious communities, for whom Catholics, and many non-Catholics,have a special reverence and respect.

See my letter below:
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From: XXXXXXXX
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:14 PM
To: Marta Ribbeck
Cc: av@pccs.va; cdf@cfaith.va; Harry Schlitt; Stephen Meriwether; mcole@dioceseofspokane.org; ornet@ossrom.va
Subject: >>> POSSIBLE SPAM <<< href="http://www.sfhustlers.com/events.html--" eudora="AUTOURL">http://www.sfhustlers.com/events.html--"Switch Hitters Ball".

Your Excellency,
Please speak with Rev. Stephen Meriwether-Chancellor of your archdiocese and Pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Church in regards to the sinful, scandalous, and deplorable event Revival Bingo scheduled for Nov. 2 on the MHR property-Ellard Hall. A group well-known locally, nationally, and internationally Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) is scheduled to use this property to hold a charity fund raiser this week and is currently scheduled for Dec. 7th. (they also used the property last month Sept.7) and apparently the Ellard Hall/Church property has been used before (6-21-2003) for another function http://www.sfhustlers.com/events.html--"Switch Hitters Ball".

I am so very scandalized by this behavior and ashamed that such deplorable and blasphemous actions would take place where the presence of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST RESIDES--the Tabernacle-IN HIS TEMPLE! I plan to alert the Vatican, the USCCB, and others of this unseemly and scandalous behavior against the BODY OF CHRIST.

I ask that you please inform Fr. Meriwether to cease and desist this type of use of diocesan property and in fraternal charity/correction please advise him NOT to participate in the scandalous behavior recently demonstrated in a Gay Pride Parade held this past Spring (2006). He presents confusion not only to his "flock" but to the rest of the world in these pictures displayed on the MHR home web-pages: http://www.mhr.org/pride2006.html. I also beg that these images be removed from the public domain of the inter-net as they too present great scandal and offense to the Body of Christ-good Catholics and holy priests. This behavior also gives our priests great sorrow and anguish as they currently defend their vocations (Priesthood Sunday). I also request action to be demonstrated to the faithful that this scandalous behavior or any other scandalous behavior will not again occur in the future in your archdiocese. Please know that lay Catholics world-wide await and pray for an immediate response and correction to this situation.
Thank you for your time.
In Christ,
XXXXX

I can only hope and pray that these events will not continue to occur in this diocese or this country! GOD HAVE MERCY!

Blasphemy Planned Again in Jerusalem

Jewish groups mobilising to stop Jerusalem’s Gay Pride parade

Parade is scheduled for November 10. Counter demonstrations and protests are
being organised. Police might stop everything for security reasons.

We pray and hope that it will be stopped--period!

In July Israel’s chief Sephardic rabbi, Shlomo Amar, had called on Benedict XVI for help to stop Gay pride celebrations in Jerusalem.

In his letter, Rabbi Amar had said such an event would “violate and humiliate” the Holy City.

Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Yona Metzger, had also demanded that the “parade in the Holy City of Jerusalem be cancelled.”

In recent days, survey results released during a meeting of the Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee indicated that among secular Jews, 63 per cent oppose the parade; 81 per cent of conservative Jews are opposed, 99 per cent of National Religious are opposed; 100 per cent of Orthodox are opposed; and 92 per cent of Arab Muslims and Christians are opposed.

Why Jerusalem?

Jerusalem Loses Battle to Ban Gay Pride Parade—Court-Ordered Date Set for November 10

Haredim mull sabotaging gay parade

The Goal: Stop the Parade!

'Do Over' in Jerusalem-World Pride Gay Parade

Russian Jews Urge Jerusalem to Ban Gay Parade, Warn of Possible Attacks