Left, the pastel-gay vestments for the 2018 WMF with a logo ostensibly meant to be a Celtic triskelion; right, top panel: what the letters mean in BDSM and the BDSM's presentation of its own symbols; right, top panel: the Celtic triskelion as depicted in ancient Celtic works of art.
Is the Dublin WMF infiltrated, if not run,
by advocates of sinful sexual lifestyles?
If you had any doubt at all that the organizers of the increasingly dubious World Meeting of Families in Dublin later this month have been
infiltrated by - if not composed of - apostates advocating sinful lifestyles, the design for the liturgical vestments to be used therein ought to nail those doubts.
Father Z first raised the alarm over the vestments because of their dubious pastel-gay colors, and then an alert reader called his attention to the 'logo' found on the vestments, which he traced to the website describing BDSM, a variety of erotic practices based on - as their derivation diagram shows - bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism.
Which led me to further research the origins of the 'triskelic' logo used by the BDSM movement, and which obviously, the organizers of the Dublin WFM have adapted as a logo for the liturgical vestments ordered for the event. A design which mirrors the BDSM logo more than it does the Celtic symbols from which it was derived.
All of it, in fact, is a deliberate corruption of two ancient Celtic symbols, the Triskelion and the Triquetra pictured below.
The Celtic people spanned numerous countries including Greece, Italy, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. A people of oral tradition and art, they left behind numerous works of art depicting the world and their beliefs. Celtic art and markings burst with symbols, many of which invoke the energies of Nature and of the Universe itself.
The
Triskelion, or life spiral, has also been discovered in ancient Greek and Hopi Indian tradition. Drawn in a continuous line, it represents life’s movement and other three-part elements of life (like past, present and future). Because its symbolism is that of having the will to move forward no matter the circumstances, it is one of the major Celtic symbols for strength.
It is the most often seen symbol on stone art from early Celtic history and appears later in Christian manuscripts to symbolize the Triune deity, along with the
Triquetra, or trinity knot.
The
Triquetra has three parts that interconnect and symbolizes anything in the world that is bundled in threes (such as mind, body and spirit). Pagan custom associated the triquetra with Odin, the three-fold goddess, and with the three elements of nature – water, earth and air. In Christian tradition, it became a representation of the Triune God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit).
Everyone who wears the vestments designed for the WMF in Dublin - the reigning pope included - will therefore be emblazoned with the logo of a movement that goes exponentially beyond the mere LGBTQ lifestyles that the likes of Fr James Martin, SJ, are seeking to mainline.
It really is not too late to cancel this travesty of a 'family meeting' as many have been advocating. Already, two prominent US cardinals have decided to cancel their appearances in Dublin:
- Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who was supposed to chair a committee and moderate a debate on "Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults",
begged off because "important problems concerning the pastoral care of St John's Seminary in the Archdiocese of Boston and its seminarians require the cardinal's personal attention".
- Today, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the embattled Archbishop of Washington, DC, and a major protagonist in the recently released Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report on eoiscopal misdeed and clerical sex abuses, also announced he will not be going to Dublin, where he was to chair a discussion on the theme "The wellbeing of the family is decisive for the future of the world".
On August 17 it became known that Wuerl’s publisher cancelled the publication of his forthcoming book
“What Do You Want to Know?”
On August 18 Wuerl withdrew from presiding the installation mass for Father Kevin Regan, the new parish-priest at St John Neumann parish in Gaithersburg (August 19).
This is the parish where in February 2012 Wuerl fired Father Marcel Guarnizo, then parochial vicar at St John Neumann, because Guarnizo quietly denied communion to a woman who had introduced him to her female lover before a funeral Mass.
Three other major protagonists in Dublin have been the object of protests by many Catholic faithful who find their associations dubious, beginning with
- Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity and Family which is overall in charge of the WMF event, whose history includes long and close association with two figures who have become emblematic of the sexual abuse crisis in the Church - Theodore McCarrick and Marcial Maciel.
- Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga of Honduras, whose longtime deputy in Tegucigalpa recently resigned after disclosures of his long-standing sexual and financial crimes, despite which Maradiaga remains the coordinator of the reigning popes Council of Cardinals; and
- Jesuit Fr. James Martin, the Bergoglio church's most prominent advocate of LGBTQ lifestyles, and against whom more than 10,000 have signed an online petition asking that he be dropped from the Dublin speakers' line-up.
Last week, the Irish Times published an editorial calling for the non-participation of three pro-gay Cardinals Kevin Farrell, Donald Wuerl and Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga the Dublin WMF, saying these cardinals should be "investigated, not honoured".
More and more, the Dublin WMF appears to be an occasion designed for - if not by - the devil himself.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 20/08/2018 01:18]