The LC ordinations to take place today

Life after RC: August ordinations (and more)

This week, the Legion will be holding more ordination ceremonies to bring men into the transitional diaconate on their way to priestly ordination, and Archbishop Chaput will preside on August 7th. This is their prerogative, as long as there is no direction to the contrary. For the sake of a full-bodied discussion let's look at how some might interpret this event:

• The Legion is maintaining an outward show of "business as usual," despite a lack of a charism;
• The men are being ordained in a Movement that will have to entirely rewrite their constitutions;
• The ceremony will be led by a man who was charged with investigating the congregation;
• His presence is confusing, because it lends credibility to a group that he said had serious flaws;
• Hundreds (if not thousands) of people wounded by the Legion poured out their hearts to him in private testimonies, trusting that he would take them into consideration;
• His presence would seem to indicate that he found them either lacking in credibility or collectively not rising to a certain level of concern;
• His presence helps enormously with the Legion's ongoing recruiting drive that has continued unabated;
• His presence confuses the existing members who have been struggling mightily with their own discernment process--a process that was manipulated for years in this group.
  

Just a few days ago... Diaconal Ordination in Canada

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