What the Bishop of Baltimore really wanted to say to the Legion of Christ & John Allen needles them

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
All your reindeer armies, are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Allen rubs it in ***

"Three Things to Understand about the Legion of Christ"

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The Serenity Prayer

Lord, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change about my "ex", my boss, my work environment, my spouse, my kids, the Catholic Church, [my experience with the Legion of Christ, Regnum Christi]...

AA and Recovering from a Bad Relationship, a Cult, the Legion of Christ or Regnum Christ

adapting the AA Preamble

“We [REGAIN] are a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from... a bad relationship, unhealthy work environmente, a high control group, [the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi]... The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop involvement and take back your life. Our group [REGAIN] is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay healthy and help others to achieve recovery."

The Archbishop is on the side of Legion of Christ critics

There’s a lack of transparency, as I’ve called it. I’ve met some extraordinarily fine members of Regnum Christi. They’ll talk about what had happened before they met Regnum Christi. Every priest they went to, they got a different story about what the church taught, and then finally they got it [from the Legionaries]. What they’re hearing usually is right. But it’s the tactics that get you. The question is, will some of these very good people be disenchanted someday? For that matter, should they be disenchanted now? Do they know all the facts? I don’t know. I’m not in there to break up Regnum Christi, I’m in there just to see that Regnum Christi is as accountable as every other group should be to the ordinary of the diocese.


The Archbishop of Baltimore in a letter to the superior general of the Legion of Christ Religious Order and its Regnum Christi lay Movement has ordered them to be more transparent re their activities in the diocese and to report to him like all the other groups operating under his authority.***

This letter, together with a scathing interview with National Catholic Reporter, John Allen, confirms what REGAIN and other groups have been saying for some time: the Legion and Regnum have been operating under the radar in parishes and diocese. Under the flag of ignorance and "we are Orthodox and friends of the pope" they have been winning over the richest benefactors and skimming off the cream of the vocation crop. Pope Benedict, who censored the controversial pedophile founder, Mexican Maciel Maciel in 2006, is wise to them and now American bishops are waking up and getting the message

One of the Bachs

This is Bach music though not exactly the piece I was looking for ***

A little bit of Music and Lightheartedness

Anonymous suggested that I may have been listening to the following piece of music the day I had my musical revelation:
here

and s/he was very close

Psych 101: Have you noticed how Narcissists take themselves too seriously, cannot laugh at their own foibles, and will not allow themselves to made fun of?