more sad news..

http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1459

MINNESOTA PROF PLEDGES TO DESECRATE EUCHARIST

July 10, 2008

Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris, has pledged to desecrate the Eucharist. He is responding to what happened recently at the University of Central Florida when a student walked out of Mass with the Host, holding it hostage for several days. Myers was angry at the Catholic League for criticizing the student. His post can be accessed from his faculty page on the university’s website.

Here is an excerpt of his July 8 post, “It’s a Frackin’ Cracker!”:

“Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers?” Myers continued by saying, “if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I’ll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won’t be tempted to hold it hostage (no, not even if I have a choice between returning the Eucharist and watching Bill Donohue kick the pope in the balls, which would apparently be a more humane act than desecrating a goddamned cracker), but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web.”

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:

“The Myers blog can be accessed from the university’s website. The university has a policy statement on this issue which says that the ‘Contents of all electronic pages must be consistent with University of Minnesota policies, local, state and federal laws.’ One of the school’s policies, ‘Code of Conduct,’ says that ‘When dealing with others,’ faculty et al. must be ‘respectful, fair and civil.’ Accordingly, we are contacting the President and the Board of Regents to see what they are going to do about this matter. Because the university is a state institution, we are also contacting the Minnesota legislature.

“It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ. We look to those who have oversight responsibility to act quickly and decisively.”


i just can't believe this.. i don't care about all the politics of this.. what bothers me is what this professor is planning to do to the precious Body and Blood of Christ. i pray this doesn't happen.. it's not "some cracker", it's HIM..
just to think..what our Lord endures at the hands of people that He died to save.. :(
Lord have mercy..

edit: July 12:

Yesterday I was thinking about this professor...and I really hope and pray that if he does manage to get a consecrated Host..that God would work a miracle in his life, and this would be the way he would become a believer. For example, he would be holding the Host in his hands, planning to do all sorts of terrible things to it :( but then realizing that truly God is present there...and bowing down to worship Him instead. And then bringing the Host back to the church and becoming a Catholic. that would be so awesome!

Lord have mercy on this man.. I think he is so lost just to think of doing something like this. At first this article made me really angry...I was mad because of the disrespect Jesus is treated with. And I'm still very sad about this. But then I started thinking how God loves this person and really wants him to know Him..and to believe in the Eucharist too.. so I pray that this would happen, as unlikely as it seems...all things are possible with God.

update: July 16
I just read in a news article that the professor has acquired some consecrated Hosts. I was really hoping that this wouldn't happen.. oh no.. I'm just going to keep on praying. This is so sad :(

update: July 23rd
a pretty good article:
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4140&Itemid=48
part 2:
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4140&Itemid=48&limit=1&limitstart=1

I guess all I can do is pray.. pray for this lost man, that maybe he would see what he is doing and turn to the Lord.
And I should offer reparation for these offenses to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.. go to Adoration and console Him for all the pain He endures for humans.
As the article said:
"The thirsty cruelty and cowardice of Myers is manifest in this: Regardless of your views of the deity of Christ, to make oneself into a creature who deliberately desecrates the memory of an innocent Man who died in torments, solely for the purpose of spite, is an utterly pathetic and deeply evil thing"
so very true..

UPDATE: JULY 25th

oh no I just found out that he did it :(
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/the_great_desecration.php#comments

reading that..it just made me cry. i'm still crying. Just looking at that picture.. I can't believe he actually did it.
May God bring him to repentance for this most griveous sin..and have mercy on him..

most of all it's just terrible that this man showed SO much hatred and disrespect for our Lord who ..created him, loves him, and died for him.

In the miracle of Lanciano, we found out that the Host is Jesus' heart. Myers pierced Jesus' Heart with a rusty nail. His Heart that is so full of love and mercy for all.
Then he said.. "Nothing must be held sacred. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your lord"
i want to pray for him.. because if he does not repent, he would be shocked to find out the truth someday, but then it would be too late.

here is a great blog post from InsideCatholic: http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=127
quote:
"There can be no doubt that Myers is an enemy of God, and of Christians. He wants to be. But from a Christian point of view, there can also be no doubt that he is a creature of the Most High, Who loves him, and that God's heart would be grieved to lose this self-tortured man to eternity. St. Silouan teaches that we must take care not to do anything that interferes with a man's salvation.

It's plain that the raging of Christians only feeds Myers' hatred. But what would he do if the response to his hideous blasphemy is ... love? What would he do if Catholics and other Christians, and even sympathetic members of other faiths, turned up en masse on his campus simply to pray quietly for him? What kind of witness would that be to the wider culture? How might that make straight the path to salvation for P.Z. Myers, and many who now admire him? Wouldn't that be blessing those who persecute you, as Christ commands us to do?

P.Z. Myers has provided quite a witness for what militant atheism is capable of. Let's provide a counterwitness for what faithful Christianity is capable of. God may work a miracle in that man's life yet (consider the example of Saul). Let's not get in the way of the work of redemption in this lost man's life. As much as we can, let's answer hate with love."

very true..

still, i'm so upset and also angry about this.

I think that it would be a good idea to just..go to an Adoration chapel and spend time with Jesus there.. there's soo much disrespect for the Eucharist in the world. Most don't believe in it.. and some, like this man, are trying to destroy it. It's like..Jesus is freely offering them Himself..as a gift.. and they don't even care. And how often do I too, not care as much as I should. And there is so much hatred for Him in the world, even though He has loved us more than His life. How can this be?? And how much pain this must cause Him! I think that's why we have devotions like Adoration.. so that we can console His Sacred Heart for what He goes through, daily.

Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
O Jesus, Divine Saviour, deign to cast a look of mercy upon Your children, who assemble in the same spirit of faith, reparation, and love, and come to deplore their own infidelities, and those of all poor sinners, their brethren.
May we touch Your Divine Heart by the unanimous and solemn promises we are about to make and obtain mercy for ourselves, for the world, and for all who are so unhappy as not to love You. We all promise that for the future:

For the forgetfulness and ingratitude of men, we will console You, O Lord.
For the way You are deserted in Your holy tabernacle, we will console You, O Lord.
For the crimes of sinners, we will console You, O Lord.
For the hatred of the impious, we will console You, O Lord.
For the blasphemies uttered against You, we will console You, O Lord.
For the sacrileges that profane Your Sacrament of Love, we will console You, O Lord.
For the outrages against Your divinity, we will console You, O Lord.
For the injuries of which You are the adorable Victim, we will console You, O Lord.
For the coldness of the greater part of your children, we will console You, O Lord.
For the contempt of your loving invitation, we will console You, O Lord.
For the infidelity of those who called themselves Your friends, we will console You, O Lord.
For the abuse of Your grace, we will console You, O Lord.
For our own unfaithfulness, we will console You, O Lord.
For the incomprehensible hardness of our hearts, we will console You, O Lord.
For our long delay in loving You, we will console You, O Lord.
For our tepidity in Your holy service, we will console You, O Lord.
For Your bitter sadness at the loss of souls, we will console You, O Lord.
For Your long waiting at the door of our hearts, we will console You, O Lord.
For the heartless scorn that grieves You, we will console You, O Lord.
For Your loving sighs, we will console You, O Lord.
For Your loving tears, we will console You, O Lord.
For Your loving imprisonment, we will console You, O Lord.
For Your loving death, we will console You, O Lord.
Let us pray: O Jesus! Divine Saviour, from whose Heart comes forth this bitter complaint, "I looked for one that would comfort me, and I found none," graciously accept the feeble consolation we offer You, and aid us so powerfully by your grace, that we may, for the time to come, shun more and more all that can displease You, and prove ourselves in everything, and everywhere, and forever Your most faithful and devoted servants. We ask it through Your Sacred Heart, O Lord, who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit one God, world without end.
Amen.