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8 Responses to “In the event of an emergency please contact a Catholic priest”

1. Peter Kirk Says:
   February 11th, 2012 at 12:34 pm

   Nice card. As a charismatic evangelical, I might like to carry something like this, but without the line about the sacraments. I would also choose a different image, indicating that Jesus is no longer on the cross but rose again and lives today.

   But there’s an important word missing there, “Roman”. Or would you be happy if the priest who was arrived was an Anglo-Catholic?

2. webmaster Says:
   February 11th, 2012 at 1:34 pm

   Ive just been told that in the Guardian, Bishop Alan Wilson, noting that the Catholic card is something that all Christians should sign up to, wonders about a specifically Anglican version:

   As an Anglican I [Insert your name] will:

   • Try to be nice to people, especially important ones
   • Sit in the back row at any liturgical function
   • Not use the 1662 prayer book
   • Give freely on condition as I get something back of equal value
   • Grit my teeth and share the peace
   • In the event of an emergency try calling 999

   

3. Phoebe Says:
   February 11th, 2012 at 10:31 pm

   To repeat the wonderful Baptist ‘faith card’ from the multi talented and gifted Feste

   As a Baptist I (Insert name if you feel led) will:

   Grin maniacally at non-church people to show them faith works.

   Avoid the back row (which suggests non-commitment) and the front row (which is pride) unless someone from Toronto’s speaking and I can catch the anointing.

   Avoid finding out what a Liturgical Function is.

   Not use any human, fleshly prayer book. I will spontaneously pray the same things every week myself.

   Widen my grin and mutter ‘G’blzyou’ as quickly as possible as I pass the bread and wine. I may even nod.

   Give unostentatiously by sticking my hand deep in the little velvet bag before I let go of the money.

   Give in faith, knowing that God will give it back to me ten-fold. Someday.

   Proclaim that Baptists do not have emergencies: we understand Scripture, and therefore always know what to do. The contributions of worldly policemen have nothing to add to the inerrant Word of God.

   Drink Fair Trade coffee after the service, thus honouring the Scriptural injunction to have fellowship.

   In the event of a medical crisis, phone the bloody ambulance! Note, this is not an emergency, it is a test of faith and I am responding in wisdom. When I leave A&E, call the Pastor.

4. Richard Collins Says:
   February 12th, 2012 at 9:29 am

   Peter Kirk – we are just Catholics actually. The word ‘Roman’ is an appendage that has its origins in abuse but now we just use it to differentiate.
   Also, Christ is still on His cross and will be until the end of the world. It was not a ‘one off’ redemption but an ongoing one, just as sin is ongoing.

5. Peter Kirk Says:
   February 12th, 2012 at 10:02 am

   Richard, people who find this card in an emergency need to differentiate. I agree that redemption is ongoing. But are you denying that Christ is alive?

6. Richard Collins Says:
   February 12th, 2012 at 11:09 am

   Peter, no of course not but this now leads into a deep discussion on the Sacrifice of the Catholic Mass and the unbloody sacrifice that is repeated every time a Mass is celebrated.
   Differentiation is an excellent point. Trouble is, for me, I would wish to have “Traditional Roman Catholic” – I guess, in extremis, I might have to settle for “Roman Cathoic”.

7. Caral Says:
   February 12th, 2012 at 12:21 pm

   Just my tuppence for what it’s worth.
   St Paul’s used the term ‘anamnesis’ to show us the way in which the sacrifice of Christ is made dynamically present and effective in the Eucharist. Which makes effectively present here and now an event of the past. Hence why Christ is still on the Cross, until the end of the Age, the end of time.

   My thoughts are that the although the Cross happened within continuum of time, the Cross is not limited, constrained or contained by time. The Cross is present in the past, present and future.

   I find it very difficult to grasp the Holy Mysteries (understatement!) hence why they are Mysteries. The closer we get the more incomprehensible to our minds they become.

8. Peter Kirk Says:
   February 12th, 2012 at 3:10 pm

   Caral, thank you for the explanation, which certainly helps me to understand what Richard meant. Yes, in this sense Christ is still on the cross, but also still rising again.