Letter to the Most Reverend José H. Gomez, S.T.D.

Thursday, August 2, 2007.

To: His excellency Archbsihop José H. Gomez
Re: Possible [sic.] inadequate deacon / instructor formation.
Location: St. Mary Magdalene Parish, Brackettville, Texas.

"Dear Excellency:

Over the past two(2) Wednesdays we've been receiving religious instruction at our Parish Charismatic group meetings, using material attributed to the Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding the role of the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit.

Item One: Sections 1830 - 1832 of my two copies of this catechism, one in English and one in Spanish, appear to me to be in rare agreement:

a.) 1831 refers to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, and names them.
b.) 1832 refers to the twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit, and names them.

Item Two: The enclosed two (2) pages supposedly drawn from this same Catechism of the Catholic Church include the following gifts, so called: Healing, Prophecy, Tongues, Interpretation of Tongues, and Discerning of Spirits, plus one more that was not copied.

Item Three: As of last night, Wednesday, August 1, 2007, we are now all "empowered" to bless one another in the following manner:

"I bless you in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen."

Thank you, your Excellency, and yes!

We've chosen to omit any and all references to our favorite standby's: Marcelino Menendez y Pelayo's Historia de los heterodoxos españoles, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou, village Occitan de 1294 - a 1324 / Montaillous[sic.]: the Promised Land of Error.

Oh, yes: nor the Roman Catechism of 1984!

Respectfully submitted,

(signed)

Dennis Paul Morony

Copy to: Rev. Father Quang D. Van (absent on vacation)"