The following comes from a December 13 Valley Catholic article by Joanna Thurmann:
“This is not your grandmother’s Mass,” chuckles Father Jon Pedigo at the beginning of his Misa de Solidaridad, while standing in front of the Newman Center at San Jose State University. And none of the faithful expect or desire it to be. In addition to the sacred liturgy of a regular Mass, the Misa also includes leadership training and community development.
On November 20, the Misa was followed by the first Congreso del Pueblo and a rally at City Hall. The goal was to focus commitment on shared values of inclusion, participation, and justice in response to post-election fears of harassment, mass deportations, the construction of a massive wall, and the registration of Muslims.
The Congreso included members from a host of community organizing and advocacy groups, as well as representatives from the Muslim and Jewish faith communities.
The bilingual Congreso was about forward-looking action. Discussions focused on vision, values, principles, and policies. Vision first meant defining what the nation should look like in terms of inclusion, participation, and justice. This led to identifying its most important values and principles and finally, the public policies that would move it toward that vision while promoting the principles.
Diversity, equality, opportunity, human dignity and rights, love and compassion topped the lists of vision and values.
Nonviolence, listening, and dialogue were its vehicles. The model of Jesus Christ himself – his vision for humanity, resistance to injustice, and hope at a time of oppression – served as prime example of the love, sacrifice, and the commitment that positive social change requires.
Dozens of large poster sheets were covered with plans and ideas, from peaceful protests, petitions, and rallies, to the establishment of sanctuary and safe spaces, and self-registering as Muslims in the case of a nationwide registry.
Pedigo, who is Director of Projects for Peace and Justice for the Diocese of San Jose, will be hosting the weekly Misa de Solidaridad and future Congreso sessions in the hope is that the process is used to connect other social movements together throughout the Bay Area and beyond. “This is what our faith requires of us,” says Pedigo.
Not my grandmother’s Mass and not my Mass.
Good!
Not a Catholic Mass, either. How many liturgical abuses occurred?
“This is what our faith requires of us,” says Pedigo. Qualification: only if your “faith” is leftist ideology. Catholicism promotes no such thing as that travesty nor the warped “social justice” views of Fr. Pedigo.
Pedigo is the type of priest who would struggle to make a living were not a comfortable and secure one provided for him via largesse from the Church’s faithful contributors, and his occupation affords him the luxury of ample free time to post incessantly on Facebook and be a community agitator for his pet left-wing causes.
I love how the election results are making all the left-wing nuts apoplectic.
Before anyone jumps on board with Fr. Jon Pedigo’s carefully crafted “Gospel message “, it is worthwhile reviewing the long, well-documented history of what he has said is the “church” he believes in (much of it in the Cal-Catholic archives), which he has articulated in his own words.
Of course, he was the full support of Bp. “PJ”.
A Mass? The TLM is a Mass.
Liberation Theology is baack! Oh when will we ever learn, when will we ever learn. This type of Communist/Anarchist talk is very dangerous.
Gratias, is this liberation theology? “Diversity, equality, opportunity, human dignity and rights, love and compassion topped the lists of vision and values.” or the teachings of Jesus Christ? Any government that doesn’t offer these is less than good.
Cultural Marxism is what these Vatican II priests are offering.
Oh Bob One enough of the DIVERSITY rubbish already, we have had 8 years of this Marxist crap from the imposter in chief, man up already, oh sorry I can’t say that it may hurt your feelings. Everything is about “feelings” and “sensitivity” and self-esteem, how names hurt and make people sad, what a weak and feeble society America has become all do in part to LIBERALISM.