{"id":585,"date":"2005-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=585"},"modified":"2005-02-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T00:00:00","slug":"signs-of-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">It would seem that Neocats,                            like many other creatures, are predisposed to marking                            out what they consider to be their territory.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Time and time again our pastors have                            insisted that St Vincent&#8217;s is not a Neocatechumenal                            Church. Last week a large sign was fixed to the Redfern                            Street facade of the old church, emblazoned with Kiko&#8217;s                            Madonna, the unmistakable sign of the Way [see <a href=\"http:\/\/epifania.tripod.com\/cuadros_i.htm\">Icons                            of the Neocatechumenal Way<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The community had not been consulted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"imageCborderedcap\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1039\" width=\"500\" height=\"604\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/church-mouse.lanuera.com_new_images_cm_P2200028a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"604\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong>Sensitive Signage<\/div>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Back in April 2004, a carpet                            [{rdlc id=349}] appeared beneath and behind the altar, without consultation                            and to the consternation of the community. A very similar                            carpet is to be found in the Good                            Shepherd Parish in Kelmscott {rdlc id=15} Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Earlier this month (February, 2005)                            Fr Eric Skruzny officiated at a 10:00am Sunday mass                            at St Vincent&#8217;s. After mass he was asked about the significance,                            if any, of these carpets and their design to the Way.                            Fr Eric adopted the familiar Neocat ploy of speaking                            without answering the question, even managing to slip                            in a criticism.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We have been uncharitable, he chastised,                            in our criticism of our pastors, but would not be drawn                            on the issue of their uncharitable behaviour towards                            the community, especially the Aboriginals in the area                            who feel they are treated as lepers by the Neocats.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">He also declined to talk to us about                            the Neocatechumenal Way; his parting words were &#8211; &quot;I                            am not a spokesperson for the Neocatechumenates&quot;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicweekly.com.au\/03\/apr\/6\/21.html\">Fr                            Eric Skruzny<\/a> is the inaugural rector of the Pagewood,                            Sydney Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary;                            he was previously vice rector and dean of studies for                            Perth&rsquo;s Redemptoris Mater Seminary, the first in Australia,                            when it opened in 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">It would seem that Neocats, like many other creatures, are predisposed to marking out what they consider to be their territory.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Time and time again our pastors have insisted that St Vincent&#8217;s is not a Neocatechumenal Church. Last week a large sign was fixed to the Redfern Street facade of the old church, emblazoned with Kiko&#8217;s Madonna, the unmistakable sign of the Way [see <a href=\"http:\/\/epifania.tripod.com\/cuadros_i.htm\">Icons of the Neocatechumenal Way<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The community had not been consulted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morsels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}