Just Local Politics?

JMJ
April 13,2017
Holy Thursday

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    When Father Dumong came up from Saskatoon to be our priest we, as well as everybody else were so happy. We had a real priest who would give us Masses. We’d forgive him everything, his confusing sermons, his rant about names, his strange posters, his absurd politically correct comments,rias long as he would be our priest . I even said he likes us. You can tell he likes us.  Meaning Northerners even Caswells. Then reality hit.  When our two sons who are priests came home for their annual visit they stopped at La Ronge and two hours later we got a phone call. They were late in arriving home because they had a long visit with Father Dumong and had to straighten him out because he was saying that we should leave. I parked this conversation and thought I d’d deal with Dumong after the boys left.  I assumed that Fr. Dumong would contact us. I then realised the truth. Fr. Dumong hates us. He is working at kicking us out of the North. How could a priest come up to our home neighbourhood and in a few months start campaigning to kick us out? Do priests have a right to come into a parish and start kicking out people?people who had been here for 22 years, own a school, gardens, green house, chapel, home, the only one we have? Some more of Fr. Blum who would run constant insults and isolation tactics at us?.

    I had been well. My my diabetes was under vcontrol. Soon  I developed psoriasis on my face, scabies on my arms, itching all over my body. I couldn’t or didn’t get out of bed. I used Nix on the scabies. In sunlight the poison of Nix reacted and I had rivers of hives worse than the scabies.  I kept repeating “ spare the flock, spare the flock and threw up over and over until the bed was soaked but I didn’t have the strength to change the sheets or do the laundry. John came home while I was in this mess and began to look after me with considerable skill and patience. For five days I kept mostly in bed, kept repeating that I can’t say anything against a priest. I asked my husband “ Are you Daniel?” Daniel is our son in Saskatoon . There is quite a lot of difference between him and my husband. . Then,  I knew  I had to get up and fight back or I would go into a coma and possibly die. My foot was already swollen with pus oosing from an ulcer on the sole. It had been there for over a year but kept at the same level. Through Lent I usually don’t write blogs . But I got on our radio and started telling some of the story. I fought back. We quit going to Mass because Fr. Dumong had made it clear that we should leave the North.   He kept smirking and making pointed remarks that “ we’re both struggling.” I am not quite sure why being homeless in Saskatoon or Prince Albert would be good for our health. Hadn’t they tried this on in 2008? At any rate I discovered that not all priests are opposed to euthanasia especially if it comes to us. Hospitals are dangerous to us ( and others) so we do everything possible to avoid them. I doubt very much if I would even be allowed admission
    After a month without prescription drugs the psoriasis began to disappear. My foot drained of long term deep infection and the ulcer completely closed. I can walk through the ruts, ice and mud of Spring Thaw.  A long term concussion mysteriously lifted and the pressure was gone after at least thirty years.  Gay
               
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    In the time of  Fr. Blom the Confessional had been switched so that the penitent has to sit on the late Fr. LeMay’s chair and the priest sits where the lay person used to kneel . Fr. Blum would kick the door open with his foot to let people know that he is ready for the next one. No one can kneel unless he is prepared to have his feet out of the Confessional and the door ajar. The prayer of contrition so conveniently on the wall was no longer available.  Fr. Dumong left things as they were. I went to Confession and he told me to stop I thought if I was prepared to have the door ajar so I could kneel it was my business. Then I went to Confession at the rectory near Christmas. I said that I wanted to say the Act of Contrition. He wouldn’t let me. I said that I wanted to anyway. I did.  He said that when you go to Confession you already have made it clear that you are sorry so you don’t have to say it. When he came to our house to explain his good intentions and innocence John said in the Marriage Sacrament the couple don’t just stand up at the front of the church and expect that erveryone knows why they are here. You have to say “ I do” to get married so you have to say “ I am sorry “ to receive absolution.  He was not impressed with this logic .  He said that you have to make sure that people understand what they are saying. Later I read the Act of Contrition over the radio and said “ what possibly coul not be understood? “ I am sure that the elders know that prayer in Cree and/or  English and others can read it.  Everyone has to say I am sorry to God to be a Christian.

    That week we heard on Catholic Radio what the Catholic Catechism says of Confession.   The prayer of Contrition must be said as part of the Sacrament .
   
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         I was explaining that there are those who have used their son’s body to gain influence..  There are people who do witch craft . Father’s Dumong’s eyes glased over and a very bored look covered his face. He said “ How can I avoid local politics? “ I never said anything else . John carried on the discussion. “ Local politics” is a discussion as to whether we will have a winter carnival or not.  Fr. Dumong asked for no explanation or offered no criticism. He had been in the North before and surely had encountered witchcraft, people who practise it, people who believe they are victims of it. It is not local politics and is certainly very pervasive. If a priest doesn’t believe witch craft  exists a great many other people do. It deserves at least a serious discussion. The Bible could shed a great deal of light on this issue.  As for people using their bodies or the bodies of their children, adult or otherwise to gain influence , to get a bottle or drugs, or get out of trouble , this is not local politics. It is a sin. I don’t think Fr. Dumong actually believes sin exists. But I never asked him. Gay



                                               

God deals with us individually.

JMJ                               
Feb.24,2017
    In Margaret Epp’s autobiography WALK IN MY WOODS she states “ One thing I know, Jesus deals with individuals, and deals with us individually.” Margaret Epp (1913- 2008 )  was a Mennonite from Waldheim, Sask. who taught herself to be a writer by working almost eight hours a day. Her books stress that it is not enough to be a Mennonite but one needs a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. An ethnic culture, even a Christian ethnic culture cannot lead one to heaven. God deals with us individually.

    God deals with all of us including ethnic natives individually. Isn’t it time that all our Church leaders deal with us as individuals?. We don’t need pow wow music in a Saskatoon Park to be reconciled with... what ? White men? er sorry, white persons? other natives? the pain and suffering of the residential school we never went to?  We need to be reconciled with God . God has given us the Sacrament of Confession . We confess our sins, that is our individual sins , state an act of contrition ( an I’m sorry statement ) and the priest on behalf of Christ gives us absolution. It’s a deal , In exchange for our sins, once we confess , Christ wipes our slate clean.
   
    The Communist political organiser aka Native Studies professor states natives have to understand that they are victims. White culture is the oppressor . There is no place for sin. Therefor there is no place for accountability. Northern Saskatchewan has the highest crime rate per capita in Canada because ... there are more oppressed natives? Or is it really because for fifty years they have been taught that they are not accountable but only victim?

    One of the alleged victims of residential schools is Noel Starblanket . He received a huge sum of money because he went to a residential school.  He also I understand was named as an aggressor by residential school students when he was employed at the school. I mention him because I encountered him as a would be - rapist in my university student home.

    So Noel Starblanket was paid with tax payer money because he went to residential school. His alleged victims ( no proof needed) were paid with tax payer money because of the actions of Noel Starblanket.   Starblanket is rewarded with government money. His victims are rewarded with government money . No accountability all down the line. 

    A priest offered to cook fish and bannock for the “victims” of residential schools. These so called victims were busy leading the prayers and the singing at Mass . And their wives make very good bannock. It would seem the priest should stick to the confessional where he is needed and let the good cooks of the parish stick to the bannock and the fish.

    Non- natives get to have Confession not pow wow music. Non- natives get to be repentent sinners and Christians. We natives just get to be victim of the system. By some priests we are never encouraged to examine our conscience and our actions and to truly repent so our slates can be wiped clean.

    Of course natives like me who refuse to play the victim game are cast off as not really native but people who should be silenced and kicked out of the North. Like all Communist systems nobody ever gets treated like an individual who needs a personal individual relationship with Christ. Fortunately there still are priests who believe that natives are sinners who need a Redeemer, not a sociological excuse.  Gay

Own your sin... then get rid of It.

JMJ
Oct. 10,2016

   
    As we were travelling to speaking engagements against legalised murder we were visiting in other peoples’ homes.  I happened to mention that my husband while in Pre- Med published an article in our student newspaper THE DREADNAUGHT in 1981 on fetal experimentation . Babies were aborted intact so that their brains could be removed and ground. No one challenged the article but it certainly did not help John get into med. school.
I said it lightly and in a short version. The couple was incensed that I mentioned abortion in conversation. Although I heard that this couple was involved in abortion, officially it was their private past and apparently I was supposed to know that could not mention abortion around them.

    What about our past and present? John tried to get into medical school three times.  On the interviewing commitee was one of his lab instructor who was also seeking to get into med. school and was thus a competitor and in a position of conflict of interest. After the third time a rule was established that one could only apply three times.

    I encountered this woman while campaigning in 1982. She was yelling at me that my husband didn’t have a right to try to get into medical when he was wanting to deprive women of their “ rights”  . In short she admitted in high shriek that she stopped my husband from getting into med. school because of Our position on life.

    We’ve lived with a lot of disinformation campaigns.  A few examples of deliberate entrenched lies:
•     John has only grade 10 and he never went to university at all.
•    Neither of us are teachers and we have been just pretending that we are qualified to teach ,
 •    We believe , especially I, that all homosexuals should be killed, et c. et c.

    We are supposed to accept these lies and if we do not act like they are true some people get greatly offended. 

    Having an abortion is a very painful experience that keeps on hurting with increased intensity especially if you deny it. But we didn’t have the abortion . We can’t go to confession about that. We can’t join Rachel’s Vineyard. The person who had the abortion has to do these things. We’re not the problem. Not only that we’ve suffered enough from the abortion industry that we think we have a duty and a right to speak out.  We also have a duty and right to speak against euthanasia and assisted suicide. It may make people uncomfortable who have had their mother put down like an old dog but that is their problem and their sin, not ours.  It is not a sin to mention what makes some people uncomfortable. We also have our three AM cringes to endure.

    The solution: Admit your sin or sins. Help others to do the same.  Quit trying to make other people pay for your actions.  Own your sin.  Then get rid of it in the Confessional and start being part of the solution.  Gay