On Saturday, May 16, Catholics from all over the Archdiocese of San Francisco will gather at the city’s Sue Bierman Park to express support for their fighting Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. The archbishop has come under fire from politicians, media, LGBT activists, and teachers and students at Catholic Schools for his insistence that the high schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco be faithful to the entire teaching of the church. The commonsensical insistence ran afoul of LGBT activist in and out of the church, to whom Catholic teaching on sodomy is unacceptable.
Support for the Archbishop, and the event, has grown beyond the picnic itself. Last week it was announced that the picnic will be preceded by a Latin Mass in the Extraordinary Form at San Francisco’s namesake church, the Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, at Columbus and Vallejo Street. The Mass, sponsored by the Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco, will be celebrated at 9:30 AM by Canon Olivier Meney of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. The Shrine of St. Francis is a 15 minute walk from the picnic site.
As support for the Family Support Picnic has grown, necessitating a move to Sue Bierman Park to accommodate the existing crowds, organizers have increased the attractions—especially for kids. There will be balloons emblazoned with the head of a lion and the Archbishop’s name “Cordileone” which translates as “heart of a lion.” Games for the kids with prizes, include sack races, three-legged races, hula hoops, egg and spoon races, and bean bag tossing. Organizers are also bringing 400 rosaries to be given out, along with instruction books in English and Spanish on how to pray the rosary.
The picnic will begin at 11:00 a.m. Attendees must bring their own food, or patronize the food vendors that surround Sue Bierman Park, but non-alcoholic drinks will be provided as supplies last. Entertainment will be provided by a mariachi band.
To learn more, download flyers in English, Spanish, and Chinese, or to sign a petition supporting the Archbishop visit: https://www.sfcatholics.org/
Good organizing! Beginning with a Latin Mass, having picnics, games for children, giving rosaries (with instructions for praying), should create more support and enthusiasm for Archbishop Cordeleone and the traditional Church. Maybe this could be an annual event. Groups in other dioceses could consider having similar events in support of their bishops who are under fire or to promote the Latin Mass, the rosaries and other traditions.
God bless them.
Well done…
When the persecution bears down – are people noticing – the Latin Mass comes to the fore.
A Latin Mass! This will send the hentes into orbit!
Lex orandi, lex credendi.
Do not intend to be disrespectful, but YOU Go, Planning Committee!.
Latin mass games for the kiddies ….
Swing the thurible?
Find the hidden maniple?
Beat the female altar servers?
Someone commented thusly on another website that tends to belittle the Usus Antiquior:
A retrograde mass celebrated by a member of a retrograde religious order seems quite appropriate for this occasion.
We need to pray for people who make such insensate remarks.
I think we can offer those going to the mass and the picnic a more charitable view. Even if we disagree with them, I’m sure they come to their opinions because they believe they are doing the right thing, and I don’t think they need be insulted.
Oh, Please, Jim McCrea, you do not speak for me and many other women.
Annne-T – The mc-creap troll is just playing the “How Often do you Beat Your Wife’ scam while trying to get a rise he can play off of.
And Yes, he speaks the true ‘truthiness’ we all must be ashamed of (along with other Catholic Teachings) – We Beat the Female Alter servers mercilessly, but like the media version of ‘good christians’ (small ‘c’) we only do it on the Weekends, and then in places where the bruising won’t show – in public, provided she dresses ‘modestly’.
Otherwise it is tied to a stake and surrounded by faggots of wood for the Quick Fire – as the big flames play best on the evening news, where the motto remains “if it bleeds, it leads”
YFC and Jim Mc Crea = Hostages to the Devil
Here (see below) is a very beautiful and truthful post written by Jim McCrea to someone who left the Catholic Church due to claims of hypocrisy.
On a homosexualizing website. Jim J. McCrea writes: a year ago
” What you have done is left Jesus in the Eucharist – the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus which you take in in Holy Communion. The smallest increase in Sanctifying grace is worth more than the entire physical universe. What oceans of grace are lost without the Eucharist. We do not value such grace. St. Teresa of Avila revealed to someone after her death that every saint in heaven, without exception, would be willing to come back to earth to suffer all the torments of this earth, to the end of time, for one more degree of grace and the increase of heavenly glory that goes with it. ”
continued…..
Jim Mc Crea in his post about St. Teresa of Avila is revealing his own hypocrisy but most of all his own culpability in choosing sin. It shows a divided conscience while serving the wrong master by always mocking Church teaching and the Latin Mass on CCD. Jim promotes homosexual unions while ignoring his own great loss of sanctifying grace. Only a tormented and divided soul who blindly justifies his own loss of sanctifying grace could regularly visit CCD to taunt everything that St. Teresa of Avila valued. Those torments that St. Teresa of Avila talks about also include the torment of having to carrying one’s own uniquely fashioned cross, even though it is heavy. Jim quotes from St Teresa of Avila, “Nothing is worth the loss of sanctifying grace” while blindly proving his own hypocrisy for all to see. No one does that unless they are a hostage to the devil due to serious habitual mortal sin.
No mortally sinful act is worth the loss of Eternal Life. It does not matter how accepted or in vogue that mortal sin becomes to a world that in so many ways has turned it’s back on Almighty God. Would Jim Mc Crea stop trying to serve two masters and listen to St. Teresa of Avila if she appeared to him and told him to pick up his own cross and stop offending God.
Jim McCrea’s split conscience, behavior and posts reminds us of the scene in an exorcism when the possessed individual attacks, writhes and spits on the Catholic priest while all of the sudden at the same time the scratched out words “HELP ME” appear on the possessed persons torso.
Jim McCrea and Jim J. McCrea are two different persons. Jim J. McCrea (myself) wrote the one about the loss of grace. I adhere to all articles of Catholic teaching and believe that the TLM should return as the standard.
On the bright side, here at Cal-Catholic McC seems to be moderating the venom he customarily uses in those “other” comboxes where he has lots of like minded compatriots to cheer him on.
I wonder if he has actually met Canon Meney?
I agree Ann T…
Excellent!
I wish that I could be at this wonderful occasion but distance does not allow me to attend – I am serving in Nigeria as a missionary.
How about adding a giant virtual e-greeting card to the occasion where people who are unable to be present at the picnic for various reasons can send their greetings for the Archbishop to read. Please consider this, Thank you.
Praise God. Im grateful that our church is pulling together being faithful and supportive. This is all a blessing. Praise be Jesus Christ.
May I recommend that someone (several in fact) bring Video Cameras – To Record any ‘protestors’ and their actions, as well as the lamesteam Media (who will doubtless give more time to the protest than the event) – but you can at least document said Media Bias…
And Protect against potential retaliation / suits by having a good clean video / audio record of what went on.
Just Sayin – if it ain’t on TV, how do you know it is real??? Ahem.
Great suggestions!
I wanted to mention to some of my friends who are attending (I cannot) that they snap pictures of the picnic and other activities and upload to social media. Tweet the local news sites! Check in on Facebook!
I know that’s easier said than done, especially when having a good time!
I think it’s wonderful to support and to pray for the Archbishop, but to turn him into some sort of celebrity bishop is a grave mistake. Think of how celebrity priests usually end up in the American Catholic Church.
Also recall that juxtaposed with some good initiatives, the Archbishop has also colluded with Sister Jeannine Gramick of New Ways Ministry and MHR parish. He doesn’t have a spotless record by any means. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t support him, but not everything he does deserves to be emulated.