I am a woman who lived as a man for ten years. I am now back on the right track and in RCIA. I was just saying how I wish that in that ten years someone, anyone would have had the kindness to tell me that God loved me as he made me. Instead everyone just went along with it. I e-mailed Bishop Stowe and told him that what he is doing is not a kindness.
I lived as a man for 5 years and am now a Catholic convert with a husband and 2 children. Hormones and chest mutilation. I pray that Matsen discovers the beauty of God’s design fully.
I just watched Matt's interview with Chloe Cole. I'm going to your channel now. I used to work at Seattle Children's and we were starting to do top surgeries on kids. I'm a surgical tech and assist directly the surgeons. I had to refuse to do a case of a mastectomy on a 16 year old girl to "affirm" her transition. We met the folks running the "gender clinic". They are ruthless in their endeavors I can attest. They use emotionally charged tactics to convince the staff to go along with these various "treatments" Its horrific. I pray for the children suffering from these identity issues and pray we, as adults, parents, Healthcare providers will stop this madness. God bless you and I'm so happy you found you're way out!
As a person living in the Diocese of Lexington, I appreciate you organizing this effort. This is one of many "missteps" (to put it lightly) we've been forced to endure under Bishop Stowes' reign.
Hermits leave the world to seek the voice of God. This person is listening to the wrong voice. Meaning they should immediately be released from the life of a hermit. This is a violation of the vow of obedience of the highest order.
Yes I would have more respect for this poor individual if they did indeed devote themselves to prayer, repentance and a life of leaving the world (as opposed to coming out, waving the trans flag in our faces and concentrating on theatre efforts).
I was a man living as a woman. I thankfully never had surgery but I was on cross sex hormones for years. I thank God every day that he brought me out of that an on Easter this year I was welcomed into the Catholic Church and persue apologetics. I have only ever found true love and acceptance in Jesus Christ’s church once I began to love and accept the person God created me to be. I am NOT a mistake and anybody who believes they are supposed to be trans need to realize this fact as well. When you were conceived, your biological sex was NOT a mistake nor was it something God wanted you to discover for your own. You are the sex you were born for a REASON.
God Bless you always...I'm so happy for you... There are so many that have gotten out of that life style and they all said it's was by the the Grace of God that they said ....this is not normal... Jesus loves you and so do I.
If you are, take your focus off of these things for a while. The reason the Catholic Church exists, even if the leadership was rotten to the core, is to encounter Christ. Don't let the scandals, disappointments, sacrileges, heresies cause you to lose your peace. Do what you can, pray, fast, Rosary, correct your priest or bishop if they stray form the straight and narrow. The rest, you can do very little about.
@@crusader333ad That's how Bergoglio rolls. He appoints and promotes the people he called out recently (rhymes with ''maggots''). What convinced me that, say, Bishop Barron was a bad seed was his tweet when Gregory Wilton was made Archbishop of Washington, DC. He tweeted ''I'm delighted'' So I won't be shocked when a scandal involving Barron comes out (no pun intended)
@@phoenixaz8431 - well I appreciate the pun. We have to have a sense of humor with the way the bergoglian band of merry men run the church. Kinda like a fairy tale (pun also intended).
Dear Matt: I personally want to thank you for all you are doing, for stepping up; raising our concerns to the Church in a way that’s respectful and right to the point. We need more Catholics like you, more men and women defending our beautiful and beloved Church founded by our Lord. ❤ You will be always in my prayers. 🙏🏼
I live on the edge of a neighboring diocese to the diocese of Lexington, the closest parish is in the diocese of Lexington. In preparing to serve at this parish with the bishop my son was instructed not to genuflect because lady named Karen found it too distracting. We were also told Karen was allergic to perfume so no incense would be allowed. I asked when I could meet this wonderful woman and was informed she wouldn't actually be at the mass. We now drive an hour to our local Latin mass in our own diocese where my son enjoys serving every Sunday. Silver lining I suppose.
@@ciscornBIG That's what I thought. I'm celibate and see it as a gift from God. This man claims he's a hermit and wants to be viewed by the sex God didn't gift him. It doesn't make sense.
@@bookillful I get you man. It's intentionally confusing and infuriating. Hang in there. They cannot win! That's why they fight so hard. Remember, if what they were saying were true, their propaganda would be uncessary. 👍
Just a gentle reminder that we should we follow our God and our conscience and not the luxurious heresy of modernism. If the world is being gentle to us with its 24/7 messaging to be on message, were doing it wrong. If you analyse the No longer trending term "dead name", you will see their is an implicit self sacrifice and rebirth, a mockery that hides the absolute mental anguish she has gone thru, leading to the extreme fake solution euphoria before the final crash of despair , it is self harm by proxy, increasing the likelihood of mortal self cancellation, why would we enable this, either to go along to get along or to fatally pander to a vulnerable soul? Nice, is absolutely, not nice!
I live in the Diocese of Lexington and am so tired of our Bishop serking nationwide (worldwide) notoriety for "groundbreaking " "theology". Bishop Stowe, along with several of his priests and deacons, make it so difficult to teach the truth. Please flood the Diocese and Bishop Stowe with prayers, i think that is the only answer! Saint Joseph, please protect His Church!!
This is one of those rare cases where if this person never said anything, no one would have noticed. When I first saw news about this and saw the picture, I thought it was some stock photo of a hermit and not Matson. Then reading and realizing that the picture was of Matson I was shocked at how “well” transitioned this person was. If the whole point was to live like a man without anyone knowing the difference, then this person could have accomplished that easily. But instead, Matson had to go and say basically “It’s not enough that I get treated as a man, but you must know that I’m not really a man, but am a trans-man, so now I’ll never be treated as just a regular man…” Doesn’t make it right or truthful, but no one would have known any differently had nothing been said.
She had to expose her true identity, because this is the first step to allowing women to be priests. First it is a woman,who says she is a man, becoming a brother. Then more trans-men will insist on the same right. Next it will be a trans-man entering seminary, then it will be trans-men being ordained and bingo, we will have women priests.
Actually she now resides permanently in "uncanny valley", she has small features, even for a female, a sparse stubble beard and carries her weight in a female way. The mannerisms are incredibly female. Another example would be a media darling gender studies professor who is also diminutive, dresses like a dandy, and remains effeminate to the point of veering into camp in her gestures. This sketchy performative masculinity seems to be more of an unhappy, unintergrated, emotional shield than an identity, given that the impact is a very mixed message, theatrical, and the theatrical people she is working with, are equally "modern"(This very attention seeking is an opposite career for a hermit of course!!!) what we experience here is chao, a series of double binds layered into into an "oil and water" unstable order. Demoralisation, deliberate, and yet again. "All the world's a stage and all the men and women players ont. " Wm, Shakespeare
That’s my Bishop, the faithful that I know are all heavy hearted because of this constant nonsense, we are hoping justice will be done to him from the hierarchy and that he will be disciplined properly. Truly, We secretly wish him to be removed totally from the episcopate.
@@jnkelley42 Hi! A little word of caution : these are troubled times for the entire planet, but also for the Church. The *human* element of the institutional Church (priest,deacon, biship, cardinal, pope) is made up of fallen creatures, some are very faithful to Christ, some are actually not at all faithful to Christ. We come to the Catholic Church to encounter *Christ* Don't let the scandals, no matter how big, cause you to forget what the Church is for *primarily* : to encounter Christ. And NEVER FORGET, we have Christ's *solemn* promise that the gates of hell will not prevail against Christ's Church. Be well and God bless you. 🙏
@@upstatelynchmob We know the times we're in, we know who is in charge in the institutional Church, correct? Don't dwell on it. Vigano is an integral part of Christ's plan for his Bride (Church). In the end, there will be few of us, a small remnant. Take heart. Evil is having its temporary triumph.
I'm surprised a bishop would treat a hermitic lifestyle so flippantly. It's not for the faint of spirit. Living completely alone in solitude brings many temptations.
I hate to say it, but the Diocese of Lexington, KY is under Bishop John Stowe, a shepherd who has not led the Church as well as he should have. Please pray for him and the Diocese I am in close proximity to, for that matter the Commonwealth of Kentucky. And pray for all of us dealing with mental illness and dealing with sins of the flesh and soul. St. Dymphna, patroness against anxiety and distress, please intercede with St. Joseph who terrorizes demons, and the Theotokos and Christ who trample them.
Thank you. While Bishop John isn't my shepherd, the Diocese is close to my heart. Archbishop Dennis Schnur, Cincinnati, and Bishop Robert Pipta, Parma are my bishops.
@@Kari-st3wc Are the Glen Mary Home Missioners still present? I know they have vast mission territory and it's a bit complicated to reach out and serve.
Thank you, Matt, for calling a spade a spade - it's a lie to call a woman a man & brother. Also, it should be pointed out her spiritual director is NOT competent. That also was a lie.
“Sensory overload” isn’t “surrendering” yourself to God . That is surrendering yourself to your limbic system. Obedience to God’s word is surrendering yourself to God.
It is very sad that this individual got that far in discerning their vocation in the Church and no one loved "him" enough to teach "him" the truth about "himself", "his" vocation options and importantly the truth about who God created "him" to be. I think going along with this is abusive on the part of those who were supposed to be guiding "him". The Bishop should be made aware of the damage he contributed to this person's soul. Very sad story all around.
What I find really sad is that Catholicism has so much to offer. It was Father Mike a Catholic Priest on TH-cam talking about our bodies being good gifts from God that finally got thru to me. And I was so scared the first time I sat down with a Catholic Priest. But they are the ones helping me out of a mess I created. How do rouge Bishops get away with this kind of thing?
@@jnkelley42 If Bishops get away with these things it's because their superiors either agree with them or are too afraid to act. Don't focus on these people. Focus on finding a good, reverent parish and focus on Christ, not what men in the hierarchy do and do not do. I mean this in the *best* way. Father Mike Schmidt is awesome!
I live in the Diocese of Lexington and have my whole life. PRAY FOR US, and other dioceses with crosses (bad bishops) like us to bear. While agreeing with very little of what he says or does, we are still called to respect the authority he has been given by the church and trust that Jesus sees all and will bring justice in his own timing. To be honest, the church in downtown Lexington that has an “Our Lady of Pride” with a rainbow flag draped over our blessed mother, brings me much more pain and heartache than this “hermit” business.
The censorship makes me sick. I get that it's the platform rule, but to have to dilute the truth of a simple word by bleeping it out is gross. TH-cam knows they're doing the work of the enemy.
S/he is an actor, an 'artist' and this is 'their' greatest role and longest playing sitcom. The Church has been duped, hoodwinked and the camel is in the tent. "Matson’s application to become a diocesan hermit was “repeatedly rejected” by other bishops in a ten-year search that ultimately found support from Stowe." "... In 2021, Stowe signed a statement shopped around by progressive groups in order to advance the LGBTQ movement among schoolchildren in Catholic institutions such as schools." (The Catholic World Reporter June 1, 2024) But they excommunicated the Archbishop who outed McCarrick.
When i came across that news, I was shocked but also very glad she wasn't ordained a priest both for her soul, souls of her parishioners and the Catholic Church.😱 Maranatha!
I am a finally professed Diocesan Hermit; this profession in KY of Matsen is a travesty and inappropriate in the radical truth one must live to live the Evangelical Counsels in prayer, penance and reparation in the silence and solitude. If this profession as a hermit is merely a “step” to forming a religious community for artists, this is antithetical to the vocation of a vowed hermit. The whole sad, untruthful affair is an exercise in self will run riot.
As Fr Jason says, I am trying to give it to the Lord. I’m devastated a priest in the direct line of the Apostles outdoor say what was in that letter. The only thing that keeps me from screaming is the fact that God the Father will judge this priest in the general Judgement.
Sat in an Catholic lgbt workshop where the panelist was proud his fiance was the first baptized transgender in the arch diocese. These people find it the new frontier and the bishops and Pope supports it...... Hence why vigano was excommunicated in 30 days but rupnik and James martin remains.
It is a bad path to go down. I am currently an Episcopal. The Episcopal Church has gone down this road. And I am leaving the Episcopal Church. Once you (man) get to decide truth, instead of God, everything is up for debate. My Episcopal Priest does not believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, that Mary is a virgin, or even the definite reality of heaven. My church is not an anomaly.
How many times must the Pope clearly preach the Catholic position of “transgender” people (e.g. it is impossible and a form of mutilation and confusion) before people stop lying and slandering him as agreeing with it??
@@jnkelley42 The Catholic Church IS the true Church, please, I beg you : even if the pope himself was to deny the real presence, it would be indeed sad and a great scandal, but we don't join the Church for the men in the hierarchy, but for CHRIST. Keep your eyes on Christ, and don't let the scandals steal your joy and peace. God is indeed separating the wheat from the tares. Stay with the wheat! (smile)
A JW that used to go to Catholic grade school with me 55 years ago sent me many messages of the JW understanding of the Scriptures and of Jesus and tried to get me to agree with the JW interpretation of Scripture.
You can modify this email which I sent to the Bishop. I have worded it very carefully. Dear Bishop Stowe, I am a Catholic layperson in good standing with the Church, who maintains all the minimum requirements to maintain such standing, in addition to my own ministries as a lector and amateur apologist. Can you explain to me where in the Bible, Catechism, writings of Church Fathers, Popes, or Saints is the creation of 'transgender' persons by God been revealed? Catholic teaching has consistently maintained that there exists three, and only three types of persons: 1) Divine persons - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, the three persons existing from eternity past to eternity future. 2) Angelic persons - St. Michael Archangel, Lucifer etc. all such persons being created by God. 3) Human persons - All humans persons are created by God, of which there are only two sub-types, male and female persons. Genesis 1:27, 5:2, Matthew 19:4, Mark 10:6. Anticipating failure of you to demonstrate sufficient evidence to contradict near 2000 year old established Christian teaching and 3500+ Judeo-Christian teaching, it is my duty as a son of God and faithful servant of the Church, to remind you, in filial love, that you are in serious and grave error. Failure of you to conform to the dogmatic teachings of the Church on this matter renders you liable to Judgment by the Most High, as revealed to us in James 3:1. I am praying for you, and those under your spiritual responsibility within your diocese.
You can use some of the wording in the email I wrote below. The wording is very selective to not be aggressive. Dear Bishop Stowe, I am a Catholic layperson in good standing with the Church, who maintains all the minimum requirements to maintain such standing, in addition to my own ministries as a lector and amateur apologist. Can you explain to me where in the Bible, Catechism, writings of Church Fathers, Popes, or Saints is the creation of 'transgender' persons by God been revealed? Catholic teaching has consistently maintained that there exists three, and only three types of persons: 1) Divine persons - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, the three persons existing from eternity past to eternity future. 2) Angelic persons - St. Michael Archangel, Lucifer etc. all such persons being created by God. 3) Human persons - All humans persons are created by God, of which there are only two sub-types, male and female persons. Genesis 1:27, 5:2, Matthew 19:4, Mark 10:6.
Anticipating failure of you to demonstrate sufficient evidence to contradict near 2000 year old established Christian teaching and 3500+ year Judeo-Christian teaching, it is my duty as a son of God and faithful servant of the Church, to remind you, in filial love, that you are in serious and grave error. Failure of you to conform to the dogmatic teachings of the Church on this matter renders you liable to Judgment by the Most High, as revealed to us in James 3:1. I am praying for you, and those under your spiritual responsibility within your diocese.
We know that what this person is doing is wrong, but we do not know this person's thoughts and we must be careful not to imagine that we do, or we will have committed a rash judgement. St. Francis de Sales writes about this in _Introduction to the Devout Life._
This is so sad… my heart goes out to all those being deceived by a false sense of love and acceptance. God loves you as you were created. You were not an accident; everything He does is intentional and He loves you more than anything. God bless all those in this comment section sharing how they were deceived and led astray for years before realizing their worth and dignity
thank you for providing the contact details- and thank you for this interview- I agree- we have to be saints...may God help us to be what we were born to be. Kyrie eleison!
Yes i did question a 'hermit' putting himself all out there and even having a facebook account. The Bishop seriously needs to consider if he is subordinating the infinite to the finite, and is he doing this simply for an easy life.
As was mentioned in the video, there are some old videos of this lady, and she seems really nice and sincere in her love of the Catholic faith, and she also has a background in Tolkien and theater. It’s a sad situation, and I don’t approve of the statements from the diocese/bishop.
God save us from just anger becoming unjust hatred, and save us from letting that concern relax our hearts of justice against corruption like this abomination.
Michael Lofton and Joe McClane both individually raised concerns about Matson in May. I emailed bishop Stowe and expressed my deep concern for what was revealed. My email has never been acknowledged. The most hurtful part of this whole thing is that Matson has been given a tabernacle, meaning that every hour of every day, our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ is enduring this senseless situation. Why is no one in church hierarchy acting to correct this. From GB
Do you remember when we were young and they would beep out vulgarities on tv? Now we have to beep out the proper sex of an individual. My, how times have changed.
Yes. The bleeping is definitely distracting from the message. Silence would be much better, IF they absolutely must censor themselves. -which I don’t agree with doing any way. I know they’re trying to play by TH-cam’s rules but this feels like they’re being way too sensitive, IMO. But what do I know, I’m not a content creator.
If they didn't censor it the video would be immediately taken down and the video demonetised. They could even lose the entire channel. At least the beeps make it clear how invasive and targeted the censorship is.
Agree! The loud beeps were *very* distracting to actually pay attention to what he was saying. Even as I type this, I can’t recall most of that segment.
They can’t destroy the faith outright, so their first target is truth. If they can make you say something that you don’t believe, they can make you accept anything
Thank you for your charitable and honest reactions in this video, and good point from Fr. regarding the faithful who are suffering actual persecution, kidnapping, and martyrdom elsewhere. It seems decadent for the bishop to entertain this person's niche delusion with limited time and resources.
So, the bishop basically said if no one knows about the "quiet" sin being committed, it will not count - or did I hear that wrong? But to be honest, I am thoroughly confused as to what is really going on Mattson, but I am not confused and know that the coverup or acceptance from the clergy is wrong.
I saw Fr. Leo speak on this on his show also and am stunned how this person is 1. so convincing as a man and 2. has been allowed to go through various Catholic activities as a "man". I'm saddened.
To paraphrase the brilliant quote from _The Princess Bride_ -- "You keep using the word 'hermit.' I do not think that word means what you think it means." Imagine a hermit being fixated on his or her primary and secondary sexual characteristics.
Hey just a few factual errors: Portsmouth Abbey is in Rhode Island, not Ohio. And the abbot was aware of Matson’s gender identity when accepting him as a temporary member of the community. And I don’t think Stowe “sent” Matson there. You’d have to get clarification on that.
This is wrong on so many levels but the thought that this action of Matson and acceptance by a bishop will give entree to men who identify as women to enter convents is horrifying. This must stop now.
I have actually met a male Anglican 'nun' in 2016. He was in the habit, giving a speech at a political rally in Norwich, England. I went up to him and gave him a rosary I'd prayed on. We talked briefly - he told me he'd made a mistake transitioning, and if he'd been properly counselled he'd not have done it. I didn't do a good job talking to him, I wasn't prepared and didn't know what to say. I'm afraid I don't know how to get in touch with him or what order he associates with. He was in a full habit with wimple, but no beads,hence I gave him mine and talked briefly about Mary, which led to his admission that he regretted transitioning. Anyway, if you could pray for him. We only spoke a few minutes, then he was dragged off somewhere by a group of enthusiasts to an interview or party or something.
This is blatant “sheep’s clothing”. Thank you for bringing this to the Light. Let us always be aware of the the lurking evil in our midst. DOMINE UT VIDEAM…✝️✝️✝️
I am genuinely confused. I studied with the hermit, we were in the same university chaplaincy and he was always male then, I didn’t know him as anything else, so it is very surprising to me to here that is not the case. I knew he had gone to a monastery and then become a hermit, but the trans thing just baffles me, he hasn’t changed in appearance at all. I write simply because I am confused. Where does it say there was a transition from anything to anything?
There’s a serious crisis of leadership with men when it comes to the gender issues. The moms are trying to stop this and there’s very few dads involved
If this poor person leads a prayerful life, with access to a reasonable spiritual director, he will come to reality, and will be led to abandon his delusion and find peace.
Becoming a hermit is a very hard vocation and one that is really needed since they took all the nuns away. This person is now making it way harder for people like me who feel a calling to this vocation.
Some great advice I heard recently that might help you is this: don't abandon Jesus because of the sin of Judas. If you are feeling called to be a hermit then follow the call. This is just a distraction from the world. Look to Jesus, not the world. I'm also discerning my vocation. Please say a prayer for me. I'll pray for you today at Mass. (It is a local priest's first Mass. He's a Benedictine.)
Both cause scandal. There should be correction for them to put their faith that the Holy Spirit has rightly guided the magisterium since the beginning and even U.S bishops must be obedient to that.
I don't think the scandal is trying to find a place for a trans person in the church, the scandal is doing it so publically. As you said, hermits are supposed to be secluded from the world. It makes me worried that the hermit isn't earnest about God and just so happens to be trans, it makes it seem more like they're trying to make a statement with their transness, which would be wrong and prideful.
With regards to the monstrosity of the "Crowing" statue, I am dumbfounded by how many different ways we are just begging for the wrath of God to come upon us. Also, where is the $ GENDER tag coming from that beeps out any gender words during the podcast???? Strange.
Im confused. So if this woman an actress? What is an "artist spiritual institute" and what does it have to do with an authentic spiritual life? Why does our pope allow this?
I wanted to give the Bishop a benefit of doubt, and was clinging to believing, that maybe they took that person at their word, and assumed them to be male, who struggles with TS thoughts, and thus wants to be a hermit to run away from temptation or whatnot, looking at the public record of the bishop and this answer, I cannot do that in good faith anymore.
Like this comment if you are praying a rosary for Christian, the bishop, the admin at the diocese, and the parishioners who are watching this controversy unfold.
The timing at which the "bishop" and that woman decide to make this public was impeccable. Stowe has been putting up the flags of Sodom at the cathedral in Lexington and making blasphemous images of the crucifix for a long time now. It's unbearable.
Im also concerned for this Bishops own failed representation of the OFV Conventuals. They’re Franciscans who are the same community of St Maximilian Kolbe and I also know of some amazing OFV Conv fathers on the west coast. It’s a shame he’s allowing such sacrilege!
Is Stowe afraid of Francis if he doesn’t embrace this horror. Is he afraid of losing his position. Where are our leaders. What an opportunity to stand up for God. Sin is celebrated these days.
While I was watching this, there was loud Beeep sound wherever Fr.Jason mentioned gender of the person (for whom will I pray). And it happened numerous times. Is that youtube teaching us that we are not allowed to mention gender, that we are wrong to state obvious like: she=woman, girl he=man, boy. So I will take it on myself to teach back youtube some things. So: she=woman, girl he=man, boy she=woman, girl he=man, boy she=woman, girl he=man, boy she=woman, girl he=man, boy and so on... Let all of us pray for this person, I presume it is correct to say-for her, and for his Excellency bishop, and all in diocese who are involved in this mockery. Dear lady, pretending to be a monk, I love you, and I pray for you. Let our Lord Christ touch you with his infinite love God bless you.
TH-cam's terms mandate that you have to call people by their preferred pronouns or your whole channel can get demonetized, or in some cases, closed. The censorship is to abide by the platform rules, as objectionable as they may be.
I am a woman who lived as a man for ten years. I am now back on the right track and in RCIA. I was just saying how I wish that in that ten years someone, anyone would have had the kindness to tell me that God loved me as he made me. Instead everyone just went along with it. I e-mailed Bishop Stowe and told him that what he is doing is not a kindness.
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Proud of you my friend. Keep up the great work! We need you!
Wow.
Thank you for sharing your witness. God bless you on your path to deepening your relationship with Him.
God bless you.
I lived as a man for 5 years and am now a Catholic convert with a husband and 2 children. Hormones and chest mutilation. I pray that Matsen discovers the beauty of God’s design fully.
God be praised for what he has done in your life, sister. And may he continually bless you.
Glory to Jesus Christ for your testimony and for your vocation to motherhood.
God Bless you!
I just watched Matt's interview with Chloe Cole. I'm going to your channel now.
I used to work at Seattle Children's and we were starting to do top surgeries on kids.
I'm a surgical tech and assist directly the surgeons. I had to refuse to do a case of a mastectomy on a 16 year old girl to "affirm" her transition.
We met the folks running the "gender clinic". They are ruthless in their endeavors I can attest. They use emotionally charged tactics to convince the staff to go along with these various "treatments"
Its horrific.
I pray for the children suffering from these identity issues and pray we, as adults, parents, Healthcare providers will stop this madness.
God bless you and I'm so happy you found you're way out!
You haven't uploaded in a while. I'm glad that you're okay.
“Do you see how many times we’re being lied to here?” - Matt
Yes, Matt. Welcome to my diocese
Thank you so much for speaking up
As a person living in the Diocese of Lexington, I appreciate you organizing this effort. This is one of many "missteps" (to put it lightly) we've been forced to endure under Bishop Stowes' reign.
Can you get out of the diocese? FSSP, ICKSP, SSPX in the area? Sounds like this diocese is rotten and led by a heretic.
Being nice: Telling a lie for a short term relief.
Being kind: Telling the truth for a long term good.
Why evil subvert and conflate the two.
The 1st is performative and popular, the 2nd is risky
The path is ahead is clear.
Hermits leave the world to seek the voice of God. This person is listening to the wrong voice. Meaning they should immediately be released from the life of a hermit. This is a violation of the vow of obedience of the highest order.
Yes I would have more respect for this poor individual if they did indeed devote themselves to prayer, repentance and a life of leaving the world (as opposed to coming out, waving the trans flag in our faces and concentrating on theatre efforts).
I was a man living as a woman. I thankfully never had surgery but I was on cross sex hormones for years. I thank God every day that he brought me out of that an on Easter this year I was welcomed into the Catholic Church and persue apologetics. I have only ever found true love and acceptance in Jesus Christ’s church once I began to love and accept the person God created me to be. I am NOT a mistake and anybody who believes they are supposed to be trans need to realize this fact as well. When you were conceived, your biological sex was NOT a mistake nor was it something God wanted you to discover for your own. You are the sex you were born for a REASON.
You have had a really hard road, and are now inconvenient to to the narrative, this is where it gets real, welcome home.
God Bless you always...I'm so happy for you... There are so many that have gotten out of that life style and they all said it's was by the the Grace of God that they said ....this is not normal... Jesus loves you and so do I.
❤ I appreciate your comment so much I was in the LGBTQ community for a time
I'm so tired of high level clergy mocking our Catholic Faith by allowing such heresies to take place.
Do you think it's an attempt to be open in a desperate attempt to bring people in or is it leftists infiltrating the church?
If you are, take your focus off of these things for a while. The reason the Catholic Church exists, even if the leadership was rotten to the core, is to encounter Christ. Don't let the scandals, disappointments, sacrileges, heresies cause you to lose your peace. Do what you can, pray, fast, Rosary, correct your priest or bishop if they stray form the straight and narrow. The rest, you can do very little about.
Expect a note of warm camaraderie from the Francis Vatican. I see a promotion for this wicked bishop.
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That's how Bergoglio rolls. He appoints and promotes the people he called out recently (rhymes with ''maggots'').
What convinced me that, say, Bishop Barron was a bad seed was his tweet when Gregory Wilton was made Archbishop of Washington, DC. He tweeted ''I'm delighted'' So I won't be shocked when a scandal involving Barron comes out (no pun intended)
@@phoenixaz8431 - well I appreciate the pun. We have to have a sense of humor with the way the bergoglian band of merry men run the church. Kinda like a fairy tale (pun also intended).
Dear Matt: I personally want to thank you for all you are doing, for stepping up; raising our concerns to the Church in a way that’s respectful and right to the point. We need more Catholics like you, more men and women defending our beautiful and beloved Church founded by our Lord. ❤ You will be always in my prayers. 🙏🏼
I live on the edge of a neighboring diocese to the diocese of Lexington, the closest parish is in the diocese of Lexington. In preparing to serve at this parish with the bishop my son was instructed not to genuflect because lady named Karen found it too distracting. We were also told Karen was allergic to perfume so no incense would be allowed. I asked when I could meet this wonderful woman and was informed she wouldn't actually be at the mass. We now drive an hour to our local Latin mass in our own diocese where my son enjoys serving every Sunday. Silver lining I suppose.
She was literally named Karen? My goodness… Also, aren’t there types of incense specifically designed for people with allergies?
@@michaelkaminski1166 She found people kneeling ''distracting''. We both know what kind of spirit resides in her. Peace.
why are concessions being made to people who are not even faithful?
I bet this Karen is scheduled to attend a Taylor swift concert. Will she ask the singer to tone it down.??
@@PabloVelasco-hr3ko That's the spirit of the age : bending the knee to evil, whether it be BLM, a Karen in the parish, the alphabet mob etc.
If this "brother" was honest this "brother"s celibacy would be more important than this "brother"s coming out. How gross.
@@ciscornBIG That's what I thought. I'm celibate and see it as a gift from God. This man claims he's a hermit and wants to be viewed by the sex God didn't gift him. It doesn't make sense.
@bookillful Just a gentle reminder to not call her a man. I completely agree with everything you're saying.
@@thepuffinpanda9139 dang, I was actually convinced by the coverage she was, it's all so confusing.
@@bookillful I get you man. It's intentionally confusing and infuriating. Hang in there. They cannot win! That's why they fight so hard. Remember, if what they were saying were true, their propaganda would be uncessary. 👍
Just a gentle reminder that we should we follow our God and our conscience and not the luxurious heresy of modernism.
If the world is being gentle to us with its 24/7 messaging to be on message, were doing it wrong.
If you analyse the No longer trending term "dead name", you will see their is an implicit self sacrifice and rebirth, a mockery that hides the absolute mental anguish she has gone thru, leading
to the extreme fake solution euphoria before the final crash of despair , it is self harm by proxy, increasing the likelihood of mortal self cancellation, why would we enable this, either to go along to get along or to fatally pander to a vulnerable soul?
Nice, is absolutely, not nice!
Precious Blood of Jesus, have mercy on us
"a hermit announced publicly", this is an oxymoron and that's how you know it is disingenuous
I live in the Diocese of Lexington and am so tired of our Bishop serking nationwide (worldwide) notoriety for "groundbreaking " "theology". Bishop Stowe, along with several of his priests and deacons, make it so difficult to teach the truth.
Please flood the Diocese and Bishop Stowe with prayers, i think that is the only answer!
Saint Joseph, please protect His Church!!
Report them
This is one of those rare cases where if this person never said anything, no one would have noticed. When I first saw news about this and saw the picture, I thought it was some stock photo of a hermit and not Matson. Then reading and realizing that the picture was of Matson I was shocked at how “well” transitioned this person was. If the whole point was to live like a man without anyone knowing the difference, then this person could have accomplished that easily. But instead, Matson had to go and say basically “It’s not enough that I get treated as a man, but you must know that I’m not really a man, but am a trans-man, so now I’ll never be treated as just a regular man…” Doesn’t make it right or truthful, but no one would have known any differently had nothing been said.
She wants attention.
Ever known those who rebelled against God to be silent about their disobedience?
@@alisterrebelo9013very well said. And it's all because of the sin of pride.
She had to expose her true identity, because this is the first step to allowing women to be priests. First it is a woman,who says she is a man, becoming a brother. Then more trans-men will insist on the same right. Next it will be a trans-man entering seminary, then it will be trans-men being ordained and bingo, we will have women priests.
Actually she now resides permanently in "uncanny valley", she has small features, even for a female, a sparse stubble beard and carries her weight in a female way.
The mannerisms are incredibly female.
Another example would be a media darling gender studies professor who is also diminutive, dresses like a dandy, and remains effeminate to the point of veering into camp in her gestures.
This sketchy performative masculinity seems to be more of an unhappy, unintergrated, emotional shield than an identity, given that the impact is a very mixed message, theatrical, and the theatrical people she is working with, are equally "modern"(This very attention seeking is an opposite career for a hermit of course!!!) what we experience here is chao, a series of double binds
layered into into an "oil and water" unstable order.
Demoralisation, deliberate, and yet again.
"All the world's a stage and all the men and women players ont. "
Wm, Shakespeare
St. Benedict must be crying…of all Saints to disrespect with evil. I am doubtful this person ever has but in a Benedict medal
Yeah well I know somebody who was told by a Benedictine monk to trans his kid, so …
@@daisyviluck7932 then St Benedict is probably sad about that too.
@@ComiCross unfortunately, this bad example has led people out of the church
This is my diocese please pray for us. 😢
That’s my Bishop, the faithful that I know are all heavy hearted because of this constant nonsense, we are hoping justice will be done to him from the hierarchy and that he will be disciplined properly. Truly, We secretly wish him to be removed totally from the episcopate.
Praying for you all ❤
As long he supports the pope nothing is happening to him.😢
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i submitted a message to the bishop using that QR code thanks for letting us know thats going on
How could this Bishop be allowed to create such scandal.
I am new to Catholicism. Who holds the Bishop accountable? Does he have a supervisor?
@@jnkelley42 The Pope is his superior
@@jnkelley42 Hi! A little word of caution : these are troubled times for the entire planet, but also for the Church. The *human* element of the institutional Church (priest,deacon, biship, cardinal, pope) is made up of fallen creatures, some are very faithful to Christ, some are actually not at all faithful to Christ.
We come to the Catholic Church to encounter *Christ*
Don't let the scandals, no matter how big, cause you to forget what the Church is for *primarily* : to encounter Christ. And NEVER FORGET, we have Christ's *solemn* promise that the gates of hell will not prevail against Christ's Church.
Be well and God bless you. 🙏
This is what upsets me. Vigano is excommunicated, and this bishop gets no reprimand
@@upstatelynchmob We know the times we're in, we know who is in charge in the institutional Church, correct? Don't dwell on it. Vigano is an integral part of Christ's plan for his Bride (Church). In the end, there will be few of us, a small remnant. Take heart. Evil is having its temporary triumph.
I'm surprised a bishop would treat a hermitic lifestyle so flippantly. It's not for the faint of spirit. Living completely alone in solitude brings many temptations.
I hate to say it, but the Diocese of Lexington, KY is under Bishop John Stowe, a shepherd who has not led the Church as well as he should have.
Please pray for him and the Diocese I am in close proximity to, for that matter the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
And pray for all of us dealing with mental illness and dealing with sins of the flesh and soul.
St. Dymphna, patroness against anxiety and distress, please intercede with St. Joseph who terrorizes demons, and the Theotokos and Christ who trample them.
He appears to be a relativist and secularist who believes God should change for man than man change for God.
I will pray for you, your diocese, and Bishop Stowe tonight.
Thank you. While Bishop John isn't my shepherd, the Diocese is close to my heart. Archbishop Dennis Schnur, Cincinnati, and Bishop Robert Pipta, Parma are my bishops.
That's very disheartening to hear. Prayers from your southern neighbors in the Nashville diocese. God bless!
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Are the Glen Mary Home Missioners still present? I know they have vast mission territory and it's a bit complicated to reach out and serve.
As someone posted on another video regarding an offending bishop... And no one loved any of these people enough to stop them.
Good one. Claim the right to tell others how to live because you 'love' them. How christian of you. Little bit fascistic too.
Thank you, Matt, for calling a spade a spade - it's a lie to call a woman a man & brother. Also, it should be pointed out her spiritual director is NOT competent. That also was a lie.
“Sensory overload” isn’t “surrendering” yourself to God . That is surrendering yourself to your limbic system. Obedience to God’s word is surrendering yourself to God.
It is very sad that this individual got that far in discerning their vocation in the Church and no one loved "him" enough to teach "him" the truth about "himself", "his" vocation options and importantly the truth about who God created "him" to be. I think going along with this is abusive on the part of those who were supposed to be guiding "him". The Bishop should be made aware of the damage he contributed to this person's soul. Very sad story all around.
You are totally on point here. Nobody cared enough for this soul to tell her the truth. It's heartbreaking.
What I find really sad is that Catholicism has so much to offer. It was Father Mike a Catholic Priest on TH-cam talking about our bodies being good gifts from God that finally got thru to me. And I was so scared the first time I sat down with a Catholic Priest. But they are the ones helping me out of a mess I created. How do rouge Bishops get away with this kind of thing?
@@jnkelley42 If Bishops get away with these things it's because their superiors either agree with them or are too afraid to act. Don't focus on these people. Focus on finding a good, reverent parish and focus on Christ, not what men in the hierarchy do and do not do. I mean this in the *best* way.
Father Mike Schmidt is awesome!
Support Courage International. It's the only answer the Church has so far to these problems.
I live in the Diocese of Lexington and have my whole life. PRAY FOR US, and other dioceses with crosses (bad bishops) like us to bear. While agreeing with very little of what he says or does, we are still called to respect the authority he has been given by the church and trust that Jesus sees all and will bring justice in his own timing. To be honest, the church in downtown Lexington that has an “Our Lady of Pride” with a rainbow flag draped over our blessed mother, brings me much more pain and heartache than this “hermit” business.
Wow! This shows what is at the heart of this matter: Satan hates Our Lady and her humility.
I didn't know that St. Paul Church is called that, I'm not surprise with JR there.
@@cdawahare if I were there, that flag would disappear as often as it was put near the stayue
The censorship makes me sick. I get that it's the platform rule, but to have to dilute the truth of a simple word by bleeping it out is gross. TH-cam knows they're doing the work of the enemy.
What’s the word being blocked?
@@Jd-sd7xvFemale nouns and pronouns when referring to the person they're doing the video about. Woman, her, she, etc.
They're policing speech and ultimately thoughts.
S/he is an actor, an 'artist' and this is 'their' greatest role and longest playing sitcom.
The Church has been duped, hoodwinked and the camel is in the tent.
"Matson’s application to become a diocesan hermit was “repeatedly rejected” by other bishops in a ten-year search that ultimately found support from Stowe." "... In 2021, Stowe signed a statement shopped around by progressive groups in order to advance the LGBTQ movement among schoolchildren in Catholic institutions such as schools." (The Catholic World Reporter June 1, 2024)
But they excommunicated the Archbishop who outed McCarrick.
Thanks for making this known. Very sad but the truth must be told
The radicals found a way to make an individual with religious orders, trans. Period. Starting with a hermit was the easiest path.
When i came across that news, I was shocked but also very glad she wasn't ordained a priest both for her soul, souls of her parishioners and the Catholic Church.😱
Maranatha!
I am a finally professed Diocesan Hermit; this profession in KY of Matsen is a travesty and inappropriate in the radical truth one must live to live the Evangelical Counsels in prayer, penance and reparation in the silence and solitude.
If this profession as a hermit is merely a “step” to forming a religious community for artists, this is antithetical to the vocation of a vowed hermit. The whole sad, untruthful affair is an exercise in self will run riot.
good luck and lots of prayers for you loving out your vocation. Lots of hard days of prayer and pence coming up.
Agree fully with all you said.
Artistes.
As Fr Jason says, I am trying to give it to the Lord. I’m devastated a priest in the direct line of the Apostles outdoor say what was in that letter. The only thing that keeps me from screaming is the fact that God the Father will judge this priest in the general Judgement.
As a former Witness, Father is absolutely correct about this. That was part of what was so difficult in my process of leaving.
Was great having Chloe in Australia (Melbourne) the other week being a voice for those who need one.
Sat in an Catholic lgbt workshop where the panelist was proud his fiance was the first baptized transgender in the arch diocese. These people find it the new frontier and the bishops and Pope supports it...... Hence why vigano was excommunicated in 30 days but rupnik and James martin remains.
It is a bad path to go down. I am currently an Episcopal. The Episcopal Church has gone down this road. And I am leaving the Episcopal Church. Once you (man) get to decide truth, instead of God, everything is up for debate. My Episcopal Priest does not believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, that Mary is a virgin, or even the definite reality of heaven. My church is not an anomaly.
@@jnkelley42God is separating the wheat from the tares.
How many times must the Pope clearly preach the Catholic position of “transgender” people (e.g. it is impossible and a form of mutilation and confusion) before people stop lying and slandering him as agreeing with it??
@@jnkelley42 The Catholic Church IS the true Church, please, I beg you : even if the pope himself was to deny the real presence, it would be indeed sad and a great scandal, but we don't join the Church for the men in the hierarchy, but for CHRIST. Keep your eyes on Christ, and don't let the scandals steal your joy and peace. God is indeed separating the wheat from the tares. Stay with the wheat! (smile)
Vigano did kinda do everything possible to earn the excommunication though sadly. I pray he comes back to the church
A JW that used to go to Catholic grade school with me 55 years ago sent me many messages of the JW understanding of the Scriptures and of Jesus and tried to get me to agree with the JW interpretation of Scripture.
I don’t feel brave enough to email 😬 this really sucks. I will pray and pray hard.
I pray that you find the courage to send an email. We are in dark times and every good voice needs to be heard.
You can modify this email which I sent to the Bishop. I have worded it very carefully.
Dear Bishop Stowe,
I am a Catholic layperson in good standing with the Church, who maintains all the minimum requirements to maintain such standing, in addition to my own ministries as a lector and amateur apologist.
Can you explain to me where in the Bible, Catechism, writings of Church Fathers, Popes, or Saints is the creation of 'transgender' persons by God been revealed?
Catholic teaching has consistently maintained that there exists three, and only three types of persons:
1) Divine persons - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, the three persons existing from eternity past to eternity future.
2) Angelic persons - St. Michael Archangel, Lucifer etc. all such persons being created by God.
3) Human persons - All humans persons are created by God, of which there are only two sub-types, male and female persons. Genesis 1:27, 5:2, Matthew 19:4, Mark 10:6.
Anticipating failure of you to demonstrate sufficient evidence to contradict near 2000 year old established Christian teaching and 3500+ Judeo-Christian teaching, it is my duty as a son of God and faithful servant of the Church, to remind you, in filial love, that you are in serious and grave error.
Failure of you to conform to the dogmatic teachings of the Church on this matter renders you liable to Judgment by the Most High, as revealed to us in James 3:1.
I am praying for you, and those under your spiritual responsibility within your diocese.
You can use some of the wording in the email I wrote below. The wording is very selective to not be aggressive.
Dear Bishop Stowe,
I am a Catholic layperson in good standing with the Church, who maintains all the minimum requirements to maintain such standing, in addition to my own ministries as a lector and amateur apologist.
Can you explain to me where in the Bible, Catechism, writings of Church Fathers, Popes, or Saints is the creation of 'transgender' persons by God been revealed?
Catholic teaching has consistently maintained that there exists three, and only three types of persons:
1) Divine persons - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, the three persons existing from eternity past to eternity future.
2) Angelic persons - St. Michael Archangel, Lucifer etc. all such persons being created by God.
3) Human persons - All humans persons are created by God, of which there are only two sub-types, male and female persons. Genesis 1:27, 5:2, Matthew 19:4, Mark 10:6.
Anticipating failure of you to demonstrate sufficient evidence to contradict near 2000 year old established Christian teaching and 3500+ year Judeo-Christian teaching, it is my duty as a son of God and faithful servant of the Church, to remind you, in filial love, that you are in serious and grave error.
Failure of you to conform to the dogmatic teachings of the Church on this matter renders you liable to Judgment by the Most High, as revealed to us in James 3:1.
I am praying for you, and those under your spiritual responsibility within your diocese.
@alisterrebelo9013 thank you! This is exactly what I needed 🙏
1:30 they said the quiet part out loud. She doesn’t care about the church, she just wants money. Greed and Sloth are her only motivations.
We know that what this person is doing is wrong, but we do not know this person's thoughts and we must be careful not to imagine that we do, or we will have committed a rash judgement. St. Francis de Sales writes about this in _Introduction to the Devout Life._
This is so sad… my heart goes out to all those being deceived by a false sense of love and acceptance. God loves you as you were created. You were not an accident; everything He does is intentional and He loves you more than anything. God bless all those in this comment section sharing how they were deceived and led astray for years before realizing their worth and dignity
great work Matt!
thank you for providing the contact details- and thank you for this interview- I agree- we have to be saints...may God help us to be what we were born to be. Kyrie eleison!
It’s so wild to hear pronouns censored. My mind goes to real swear words which gave me a chuckle listening to the priest describe the trans person
Fr Charron gets it. God bless ❤
Yes i did question a 'hermit' putting himself all out there and even having a facebook account.
The Bishop seriously needs to consider if he is subordinating the infinite to the finite, and is he doing this simply for an easy life.
The hermit issued a press release with her picture in it. OK
As was mentioned in the video, there are some old videos of this lady, and she seems really nice and sincere in her love of the Catholic faith, and she also has a background in Tolkien and theater. It’s a sad situation, and I don’t approve of the statements from the diocese/bishop.
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I hope she can get the emotional and mental help she needs to heal from whatever pain she is suffering, and accept herself.
She won't as long as the diocese allows her to stay hidden and they continue to lie to her.
God save us from just anger becoming unjust hatred, and save us from letting that concern relax our hearts of justice against corruption like this abomination.
Michael Lofton and Joe McClane both individually raised concerns about Matson in May. I emailed bishop Stowe and expressed my deep concern for what was revealed. My email has never been acknowledged. The most hurtful part of this whole thing is that Matson has been given a tabernacle, meaning that every hour of every day, our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ is enduring this senseless situation. Why is no one in church hierarchy acting to correct this. From GB
This is probably the most important element, thank you for sleuthing, God bless you!
Do you remember when we were young and they would beep out vulgarities on tv? Now we have to beep out the proper sex of an individual. My, how times have changed.
Is TH-cam bleeping the video? They are okay with blatant falsehoods?
Instead of bleeping, could you silence them but let us see their mouths? Would that keep you safe while allowing us to see what they’re saying?
Yes. The bleeping is definitely distracting from the message. Silence would be much better, IF they absolutely must censor themselves. -which I don’t agree with doing any way. I know they’re trying to play by TH-cam’s rules but this feels like they’re being way too sensitive, IMO. But what do I know, I’m not a content creator.
If they didn't censor it the video would be immediately taken down and the video demonetised. They could even lose the entire channel. At least the beeps make it clear how invasive and targeted the censorship is.
Agree! The loud beeps were *very* distracting to actually pay attention to what he was saying. Even as I type this, I can’t recall most of that segment.
@@wyntersynergyundignified Yeah, I had to bail out after a while. I couldn’t pay attention while trying to fill in the blanks.
Very good analysis! Thank you!
I am in Portsmouth, Ohio. There is no abbey here, and our monastery has been abandoned for decades.
Father Jason is the best!
They can’t destroy the faith outright, so their first target is truth. If they can make you say something that you don’t believe, they can make you accept anything
God is a God of order and of Truth.
My favorite guest
Who can gut to listen to this diabolical madness!!!
Thank you for your charitable and honest reactions in this video, and good point from Fr. regarding the faithful who are suffering actual persecution, kidnapping, and martyrdom elsewhere. It seems decadent for the bishop to entertain this person's niche delusion with limited time and resources.
So, the bishop basically said if no one knows about the "quiet" sin being committed, it will not count - or did I hear that wrong? But to be honest, I am thoroughly confused as to what is really going on Mattson, but I am not confused and know that the coverup or acceptance from the clergy is wrong.
Why did she “come out” in the first place….
I saw Fr. Leo speak on this on his show also and am stunned how this person is 1. so convincing as a man and 2. has been allowed to go through various Catholic activities as a "man". I'm saddened.
Testosterone is a heck of a drug. It lowers the voice, redistributes body fat, and depending on genetics can grow facial hair.
The Matson interview recorded in 2013 on EWTN. The then scrubbed it. But not before it was leaked.
To paraphrase the brilliant quote from _The Princess Bride_ -- "You keep using the word 'hermit.' I do not think that word means what you think it means."
Imagine a hermit being fixated on his or her primary and secondary sexual characteristics.
Hey just a few factual errors: Portsmouth Abbey is in Rhode Island, not Ohio. And the abbot was aware of Matson’s gender identity when accepting him as a temporary member of the community. And I don’t think Stowe “sent” Matson there. You’d have to get clarification on that.
This is wrong on so many levels but the thought that this action of Matson and acceptance by a bishop will give entree to men who identify as women to enter convents is horrifying. This must stop now.
I have actually met a male Anglican 'nun' in 2016. He was in the habit, giving a speech at a political rally in Norwich, England. I went up to him and gave him a rosary I'd prayed on. We talked briefly - he told me he'd made a mistake transitioning, and if he'd been properly counselled he'd not have done it. I didn't do a good job talking to him, I wasn't prepared and didn't know what to say. I'm afraid I don't know how to get in touch with him or what order he associates with. He was in a full habit with wimple, but no beads,hence I gave him mine and talked briefly about Mary, which led to his admission that he regretted transitioning. Anyway, if you could pray for him. We only spoke a few minutes, then he was dragged off somewhere by a group of enthusiasts to an interview or party or something.
This is blatant “sheep’s clothing”. Thank you for bringing this to the Light. Let us always be aware of the the lurking evil in our midst. DOMINE UT VIDEAM…✝️✝️✝️
Minor Correction: "...thus participating in HER delusion."
Contacted the bishop - how is this kind - putting this woman at risk of damnation too! Gross
What is the purpose of the bleeping of Father's words? Is that from Pints or from TH-cam?
excommunications are in order
Emailing this bishop is useless. He’s been like this for years you wont change he’s mind
May I suggest the Vatican police to check the bishop's hard drive?
Submitted the form. Took two minutes to link the interview and recommend.
Is it TH-cam putting in the bleeps?
Thursday
I am genuinely confused. I studied with the hermit, we were in the same university chaplaincy and he was always male then, I didn’t know him as anything else, so it is very surprising to me to here that is not the case. I knew he had gone to a monastery and then become a hermit, but the trans thing just baffles me, he hasn’t changed in appearance at all. I write simply because I am confused. Where does it say there was a transition from anything to anything?
There’s a serious crisis of leadership with men when it comes to the gender issues. The moms are trying to stop this and there’s very few dads involved
If this poor person leads a prayerful life, with access to a reasonable spiritual director, he will come to reality, and will be led to abandon his delusion and find peace.
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Hi thanks Matt- sorry the qr code (to the bishop) was partly off screen
Could you post it again please?
Becoming a hermit is a very hard vocation and one that is really needed since they took all the nuns away. This person is now making it way harder for people like me who feel a calling to this vocation.
What do you mean they took all the nuns away?
Some great advice I heard recently that might help you is this: don't abandon Jesus because of the sin of Judas. If you are feeling called to be a hermit then follow the call. This is just a distraction from the world. Look to Jesus, not the world. I'm also discerning my vocation. Please say a prayer for me. I'll pray for you today at Mass. (It is a local priest's first Mass. He's a Benedictine.)
@MarilynBoussaid-yd1vk a lot of local parishes and towns had Catholic schools or missonary convents. Which no longer the case.
@blindknitter thank you for the wisdom! I'll be praying for you today for sure God bless!
@@thebeatls09k Thank you!
It's bishops like Stowe that should be removed. Not the likes of Strickland!
Both cause scandal. There should be correction for them to put their faith that the Holy Spirit has rightly guided the magisterium since the beginning and even U.S bishops must be obedient to that.
It's not obedience to seek to change the gender God made you. It's a violent expression of rebellion.
With bishops like these...
I don't think the scandal is trying to find a place for a trans person in the church, the scandal is doing it so publically. As you said, hermits are supposed to be secluded from the world.
It makes me worried that the hermit isn't earnest about God and just so happens to be trans, it makes it seem more like they're trying to make a statement with their transness, which would be wrong and prideful.
With regards to the monstrosity of the "Crowing" statue, I am dumbfounded by how many different ways we are just begging for the wrath of God to come upon us. Also, where is the $ GENDER tag coming from that beeps out any gender words during the podcast???? Strange.
Im confused. So if this woman an actress? What is an "artist spiritual institute" and what does it have to do with an authentic spiritual life? Why does our pope allow this?
I wanted to give the Bishop a benefit of doubt, and was clinging to believing, that maybe they took that person at their word, and assumed them to be male, who struggles with TS thoughts, and thus wants to be a hermit to run away from temptation or whatnot, looking at the public record of the bishop and this answer, I cannot do that in good faith anymore.
Like this comment if you are praying a rosary for Christian, the bishop, the admin at the diocese, and the parishioners who are watching this controversy unfold.
Matt, why'd you abandon Rumble? I want to hear the videos without censorship
The timing at which the "bishop" and that woman decide to make this public was impeccable. Stowe has been putting up the flags of Sodom at the cathedral in Lexington and making blasphemous images of the crucifix for a long time now. It's unbearable.
What were the censors for over his mouth? I was confused.
Im also concerned for this Bishops own failed representation of the OFV Conventuals. They’re Franciscans who are the same community of St Maximilian Kolbe and I also know of some amazing OFV Conv fathers on the west coast. It’s a shame he’s allowing such sacrilege!
Sorry to say, but he's not just allowing it, he's been perpetrating all this for a while now.
Is Stowe afraid of Francis if he doesn’t embrace this horror. Is he afraid of losing his position. Where are our leaders. What an opportunity to stand up for God. Sin is celebrated these days.
Where is Rome in all of this?
Were you guys told by TH-cam to have "Herself" bleeped?
None of us have any idea what conversations are happening privately between this person and the bishop.
While I was watching this, there was loud Beeep sound wherever Fr.Jason mentioned gender of the person (for whom will I pray). And it happened numerous times.
Is that youtube teaching us that we are not allowed to mention gender, that we are wrong to state obvious like:
she=woman, girl
he=man, boy.
So I will take it on myself to teach back youtube some things.
So:
she=woman, girl
he=man, boy
she=woman, girl
he=man, boy
she=woman, girl
he=man, boy
she=woman, girl
he=man, boy
and so on...
Let all of us pray for this person, I presume it is correct to say-for her, and for his Excellency bishop, and all in diocese who are involved in this mockery.
Dear lady, pretending to be a monk, I love you, and I pray for you. Let our Lord Christ touch you with his infinite love
God bless you.
So when does Rome swoop in and sort this mess out?
Do you mean that ironically? Bagolio seems to have a predilection for sexual nonconformists.
Who added the censored "beeps" over some of Fr Jason's words?
Guessing it's so the algorithm doesn't cancel them
TH-cam's terms mandate that you have to call people by their preferred pronouns or your whole channel can get demonetized, or in some cases, closed. The censorship is to abide by the platform rules, as objectionable as they may be.
They’re placed by the editor at pints with aquinas to prevent demonetization