Greetings, parish organs and retrogrades.

Today I bring to you Father Craig Friedly, who is a priest in the Diocese of Phoenix, and Father

Craig went viral after having released a December 14th response to Cardinal Blaise Supich,

who on December the 11th of last year, a little over a month ago,

released an anti-Eucharistic kneeling admonition to his entire diocese there in Chicago, and it's

entitled, As We Pray, Father, I heard that your homily was really, really good. I heard it from several

sources, and I wanted to talk to you. So, so thanks, thanks for doing that first off, and welcome to Rules for Retrogrades.

Thanks, thanks for joining me today.

Thank you.

So, okay, so like, getting ready for Christmas, it's we're winding down Advent,

which is what was happening in that second

and third week of December that Cardinal Supich and you wrote basically homiletics about the nature

of Eucharistic reverence. And it's, you know, the most reverent or second most reverent time of the year.

Everyone's winding up to finish Advent and get ready for Christmas.

And we get this homily, basically admonition from Cardinal Supich saying, as we pray, we need to make sure that we're,

if I can just cut through all of the noise, not be overly reverent because too much reverence

is really narcissism or something.

It reflects some psychological disorder where people are attempting

to call attention away from the object of their reverence and toward themselves. This strikes me

as absolutely perverse logic. I'll read in a second from Supiches as we pray, but I mean,

do you agree what I'm saying? This is just a bizarre inflection of what

actual Eucharistic reverence is. Well, that's why I wrote what I did, because when I read it,

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