It is a sad, sad, day, when we have to get information from Newsday, instead of announcing it at mass on Sunday.
I had predicted from the start, that Msgr Lisante was sent to OLLMP precisely for this reason, to diminish the school enrollment, inorder to shut down the school, and eventually the Parish. In my post of 2008, it was evident that Msgr Lisante was not sent to OLLMP to build it up, as the parish was already vibrant under Pastor Robert Mason. Too many Liberal parents of the School wanted to turn the Church School into something resembling the public schools, in other words, remove the catholic teaching and Catholic Observances. Why else would Msgr Lisante
cancel the Sunday Children's mass, or the regular practice of hearing confessions in the school for first Fridays, or remove the confessions on late Saturday night for those that worked on Saturdays. How about bringing into the parish a priest without faculties, which was an 8 year thing started by him from St Thomas parish, where he was the Pastor, and the hiring of another Music Director, when the school enrollment was already so low? Does he have any idea of what the name and duties of a Pastor are supposed to be? I doubt it, as we are lucky if he shows up one day a week for the Sunday "Performance" that he does. Do you think that because he was too busy with his TV Career to attend to his "Pastoral duties", that the School and the parish fell apart? He went through the motions of building up the School, waisting so much money on equipment and renovations, when it could have been used for the schools needs,
instead of squandered as a false show of trying to improve the school.
How about all of the money waisted on his furnishings, and extra help he imported to take the place of him being there to handle the daily problems and chores?
What happened to the $2.5 million that was left over to the parish by the previous Pastor? Other than the steadfast Conservatives in the parish, no one bothered to ask the questions that needed to be asked, if even on a business point of view. And yet, the claim that he has been reporting to
meet the parish needs by the of money he claims to collect every week.
According to his financial report in the Sunday Bulletin, he is collecting from the parishioners over $17,000 every week. What would have been received if he had not chased the good parishioners away because
of his anger over having Mathew Blockly removed.The steadfast contributors to the parish gave not just monetarily, but with the volunteers that worked around the parish. If this were a company, the parishioners
would have the rights to challenge the closing of the school, and the mishandling of money, and squandering of money by the Pastor.
My heart is torn apart, as the Bishop and Pastor of OLLMP have caused this to happen. Why couldn't the Bishop use some of his Millions of Dollars collected over the many years, to save the schools? Why is it expedient for the public schools to take money from so many sources to save the young minds in schools, and our Bishop can not find any excess money to save two small schools? You can not chase away the
contributors from the church, and expect it to keep thriving. I know where this action is heading and is why that gifted saint stated "The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of Bishops", and I would add, "and the walls are lined with the skulls of the Pastors and Monsignors that follow them".
You Liberals have inherited what you have sown, and are now reaping the fruits of rotten seeds. Yes I know , you will say, we'll just go to another school, or Parish.
You should have done that earlier, and left the thriving conservative parish, who were doing fine over the 32 years that our former Pastor took care of the parish. Just like the foolish Liberals that had voted
in the President, that is destroying our country, so to ,your voices were not added to the conservatives that opposed the attacks by the new Pastor, and aided by the Bishop. Talk about calumnious actions, I wonder how their sins will be washed away? GOD have mercy on us all. Because of the inactivity of parishioners all around the world, the Devil and his helpers are now attacking our Pope Benedict XVI.
Our only answer is with prayer, but we still must act, and with the help of our GOD, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, truth and our trust in our Lord, will save us,and in the end, GOD will triumph.
Yours in Jesus,
Itzik Janowitz
