(August 26, 2020 at 9:00 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Wow, what these people concern themselves with
Quote:A priest discovered his baptism was invalid. Its ripple effects bring heartache and confusion to the entire church community
DETROIT (CNS) -- The Archdiocese of Detroit is seeking to contact anyone who may have received invalid sacraments after a priest of the archdiocese learned his own baptism as an infant 30 years ago was invalid.
On Aug. 6, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a note clarifying that baptisms using an improper formula -- namely, those using the phrase "We baptize you ..." instead of the church's ancient formula, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit," are not valid.
Father Matthew Hood, associate pastor of St. Lawrence Parish in Utica, contacted the Archdiocese of Detroit after discovering that his own baptism, captured on video in 1990, used improper wording.
Because the sacraments of confirmation and holy orders can only be conferred upon validly baptized Catholics, Father Hood was "devastated" to learn that not only was he not baptized or confirmed, but he also was not a validly ordained priest.
"There was definitely shock and sadness at finding out 30 years later that I was never baptized. It was an alienating sense that even though I was following the Lord, I wasn't a Christian, and I wasn't a priest and I wasn't a deacon," he told the Detroit Catholic, the online news outlet of the Archdiocese of Detroit.
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics...nsequences
The distance covered by a false belief, when considering what that belief informs and directs your actions in the real world, says everything you need to know how well it represents the actual real world. I'm more surprised that this priest thinks it changes anything; by changing the utterances of a single word. What is not surprising to me, is the inefficacy of human notions imparted by Logos. The universe doesn't care - nor is it able to - what you think of it, that should inform your actions.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman