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JP monk discusses the ultimate punk rocker: Jesus Christ
By adamg on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 8:14am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports:
Sammons, who often traverses the neighborhood dressed in his brown cloth habit tied with a cord, writes about the religious life in a blog called “A Minor Friar” (friarminor.blogspot.com). His posts range from scholarly commentary on Catholic theology to the perils of walking across the Arborway.
Mixed in are plentiful references to the likes of horror-punkers the Misfits and diabolical thrashers Slayer. The music may seem surprising—and certainly is to some of Sammons' peers. But the metal and punk subcultures brought Sammons a key realization: "the given thing, the given taste, is not what you really want."
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Comments
"vow of poverty", right
"He has taken vows of obedience, chastity and poverty."
Yeah, too bad the church hasn't. The brookside complex he lives in? It's literally a mansion - I've been inside. The wood floors are so perfect you could shave from the reflection. The place has to be worth millions.
Try as I might, I couldn't
Try as I might, I couldn't find the reference to his vows or his home. It may be in there but you spent way more time reading the blog than I did. You should start your own blog entitled "The rants and raves of an anticaholic asshole."
JC isn't a punk rocker...
As Non Phixion pointed out in his classic "The CIA is Trying to Kill Me":
Jesus Christ was a gangstah rapper,
They killed him and then he came back and made a platinum album
Or
If you listen to Ministry, "Jesus Built My Hotrod," making him an Industrial fan.
Punk?
I don't know man, with that long hair, the beard and the robe, I think Jesus was more prog rock than punk. I mean, I never saw Jesus at the Rat...
Anon - chill your decalced heals.
Franciscans take a vow of poverty, chastity and obedience. Perhaps the vow is not mentioned in the blog because it is implicit. All Franciscan monks take this vow.
But I did read other posts in the blog. Much was pretty and sweet but there was one very sour note. It concerned Jews.
Read both the writer's thoughts and the responses, especially the response from Lee Gilbert (from 2011).
Here are a couple of quotes: "'I’ve said many times that the most Jewish thing a Jew can do is to become Catholic'" (which was quoted from another article) and "We, and not the Jews, have the authentic tradition within which and from which to interpret it"(The Pentateuch).
I am still trying to figure out how these statements are not fundamentally anti-Jewish. For that matter the writer's statement "all your 'coexist' bumper stickers be damned" does not present a very kind opinion about anyone not Catholic.
So much for love and tolerance.
My goodness, free me from
My goodness, free me from looking up obscure words in the Catholic lexicon. Talk about guilt by association. A gentle monk starts a blog and in order to besmirch him, you look to the comments section to prove blah, blah, blah. We all should hold the Globe and Herald to the same standards for any story they cover as proof they support blah, blah, blah. Keep up the good work wandering the halls of the Vatican library. You may find what the Franciscan monk was originally intending for interested parties like yourself.