I don't know who this D.J. Lafferty is. A short search reveals he is featured on web pages called, Future Church and Where Peter Is. No links to these, they can be found if you must and the fact that they feature him, reveals much about him. He allegedly is a Ph.D., though I hardly find that impressive. He states he is a Catholic.
D.W. Lafferty (@rightscholar) / Twitter
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I am a female and for what it's worth, I received Holy Communion Last Sunday kneeling and on the tongue and I wore a veil. This is between Our Lord Jesus Christ and myself. Mr. Lafferty should keep his opinions to himself. Sincerely, in JMJ MJFarber
DW Laugherty speaks like your typical, modernist Catholic.
With "Catholics" like him (you know, the judgmental, pharisaical, rigid, "progressive" Catholic) is it any wonder that only 30% of Novus Ordo, Mass going Catholics actually believe in Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist?
Hey Dee Dub, go see if you can find a stand-up routine in Vegas.
I received my Lord in Holy Communion this morning on the tongue while kneeling. So did many men (no veil of course) receive kneeling and on the tongue. It is the most reverent possible position.
K. Can you repost? I hit the wrong button on my phone with my thumbs so I copied and pasted from the email. Thanks.
I'm 76 years old with a bad knee, resulting from an auto accident 25+ years ago. Kneeling is becoming more and more difficult for me, but I still kneel to receive Our Blessed Lord and I will as long as I'm capable of doing so.
When someone is perverse, they see perversion everywhere. Anything can be seen as nasty, if your eye and your soul is likewise. DW Lafferty has a personal problem, he views something wonderful, and interprets it through his perversion lens. DW Lafferty is not content with that, he does not comprehend that it is his interpretation that is disordered. He must inflict that disorder on you. The interpretation is one thing, his intention to convince you there is something perverse is another. It is serious to hold that something divine is perverse.
Poor man, throwing stones at something he cannot comprehend.
I may make myself a fool in the eyes of some or many, but I am going to attempt to contribute. The pretty woman is wearing a bright red lipstick and thick mascara in addition to the veil. It is my understanding that the purpose of the veil is not to destruct men with the beauty of women's hair. I do not see a logical reason for obvious face painting during the Holy Mass. The photo here is showing an attractive young woman with a slightly open mouth and tongue in view. Can people not see why the man could be making the comment he is making? I also consider very long fake fingernails of all colours, covered with sparkles and designs, inappropriate for a Catholic woman. How can she cook a meal or change a diaper with sharp weapons like those nails? And yes, I think that a woman who moves beyond discreet attempts at enhancing her God-given appearance, especially while attending the Holy Mass, is projecting a sexual appeal, whether deliberately or not.
Mr. Laffert:
"To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled." (Titus 1:15)
Once again the fine mind of Dorota makes an excellent point. I did not notice the details that you did, Dorota, and the point is well taken. It is a bit of a contradiction, this image. To those outside the TLM, it may be a difficult concept to grasp, or it may sound morally fussy, but it isn't. Young women, women in general, who attend the TLM and who veil, do not wear much makeup, and certainly not bright red lipstick, as a rule. I can't speak for all women, but for many women who attend the TLM, they are there for reverence of the One, True God, to be present for the representation of His Sacrifice, and to receive Him in the Holy Eucharist. They are not there as a pretty young lady to be seen wearing a veil. I can say this safely, having seen so many young ladies at the TLM. Vanity, is not what these women are generally thinking of, in these moments. This image appears staged, when considering these points. It does not look natural. People who sell veils often have photos of a pretty young woman wearing a veil, but not receiving the Eucharist. I won't say it's an inappropriate picture, but it gets close. These are sacred moments, when God comes to us, body, blood, soul, and divinity. Some things are too sacred to photograph.
So I will give DW Lafferty an apology and retract my former statement, because I think it does make a difference to an outsider's interpretation because of the details Dorota has mentioned. That being said, he didn't have to use it to make the kind of public fuss he did. Are we now compelled to say aloud every single thought we have?
Okay, so I’m a man. Truly, I did not see the lipstick or the nail polish.
Than you, Friends, for your responses.
I did not notice the nail polish, either, Vox. The comment about nail polish was more general, as an afterthought. I see Christian women on the internet with such nails, and I wonder about the ability to perform every day tasks around home and family. It is unhygienic and difficult.
A couple of months ago a young-ish woman send me an image of a female friend who allegedly discovered traditional Catholicism. She was kneeling in a pew, in a very short skirt, even for a mini, hands piously prayerful, looking at the photographer in a very non-pious way. The woman who send me the image asked whether something was wrong with it. We both noticed the same things. A person immersed in prayer does not look around, and is not aware of any pictures being taken. A woman should not wear a miniskirt to church. I know that some men get distracted. I have always taught young women that the feminist claim: "I dress for me, and as long as I feel good, I am dressed appropriately", is silly. People have (sometimes unintended) reactions to the way we chose to present ourselves.
I hope to have something to contribute, because one hears often that traditional Catholicism has become a fashion. Bergoglio speaks of it, too. As much as I despise Bergoglio, I do not think his criticism are always unfounded.
Of course, by pointing out a perceives lack of purity. I give away the impurity of my own soul. This is true.
As to bright face painting for reception of the Holy Communion, which is why a pious woman goes to the Holy Mass, it is in opposition to the veil. Subtle makeup may be an attempt to hide, to make oneself presentable, strong makeup is not. It is sexual.
Before we had the word "gay", we had the word "sodomite". Before we had the word "makeup" (making things up?), we had the expression "women who paint faces". A woman who painted her face was asking to be noticed. Even if society normalized unnatural-looking facial features, Catholics do not move with the times, as modernists would have it.
Frankly it looks like a staged photo. It's unlikely a TLM adherent would look like that, a girl who just happens to be that extremely attractive, wearing gobs of makeup and nails (which you rarely/never see), and who would not notice someone taking a photo this "perfect", during a Mass? Why would someone take a photo like this and at the exact moment of Holy Communion. Unless you have really good camera equipment and you're very close it's hard to get a photo like this, even cropping it. Someone like that would be very obvious to the other people, and it would be weird. Nobody pulls out a camera during Mass, certainly not someone with a long lens, unless it's a baptism or confirmation, which this clearly is not.
This is a set-up image. Not real.
@ Kathleen1031
You are correct.
What pious Catholic woman would not object to having a picture taken while receiving Holy Communion? Is there anything more holy on this earth?
What priest would allow it?
These staged photos popping up are unlikely to involve authentic, believing traditional Catholics. Unless it is all part of a fad, rightfully rejected by the current occupant of Saint Peter's Chair. Recently I was challenged: "You praise traditional Catholicism, but do you know what these people do? A friend was ready to start a family, but the traditional Catholic man was completely uninterested in marriage and children, only in using her". I had to explain that no traditional Catholic is perfect, but every one would have a fear of God, and in this short time on earth would be focused on following His will rather than the ways of the world.
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