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Sunday September 16

A Good Pagan Samaritan
  David Timbs
(Sunday blogger from Australia)
Would it not have been better
 to have a wounded Samaritan 
with a Jew stopping to aid him?
 It would have been beyond the lawyer's imagination and utterly illogical to think that this idea of ‘neighbour’ could extend to anyone outside his own clan and community

We need to work more
on our identity
Fr Hugh McMahon SSC
In the 1980s and 90s  tens of  thousands of young Koreans were drawn to the Church in a search to satisfy their deeper yearnings. 
I believe only Christianity has the answers to this search 

Reader: Glad you are publishing
 many items on evangelisation
 as the big meeting on Mission
  begins in Rome next month 

Arctic sea ice shrinks
 to smallest extent ever recorded
(Guardian)

Widow gave $60 million to Legion
Reader: Didn't stop beatification 

Card Burke speaks about humility
c.f.r. last week's post re CB's h'y

This week's smile
Ta end is near! Turn yerself around
Vatican II  Reflection 262
Priesthood "club" needs changing

Bible Plan: Sun 24 readings
 "Cross" = persecution (not sickness)

John W:  Daily Blog - Sep 16
Carrying Cross - don't focus on self


Monday September 17

Whatever happened to Mission?
 Fr Hugh McMahon SSC
I just felt that something was missing and wondered what it might be.   
It was only when I moved to China and a new missionary situation,  
 that I began to see where the crux
 of the problem lay.
Somewhere along the line
missionaries had wandered
from their original task

Why do they hate us?
(Guardian)
Reasons for world protest at US

Pope in Lebanaon
Arab Spring = Christian Winter?
John Allen (NCR)

Were medieval universities Catholic?
Fr John O'Malley SJ (America)

What is a homily supposed to be?
Elizabeth Harrington (Leader)
"Conversation"...feedback!?

Speaking of feedback:
Cardinal Dolan re new translation

Call for reform:
Voice of Faithful - 10 years old

4-Course Bible meal for Sep 17
When God breezed in
Lovely night time prayer
A demonstration model of mercy
Jesus like a mother hen

Vatican II  Reflection 263
Promoting dignity of laity

John W:  Daily Blog - Sep 17
Good News ...and drums of war


Tuesday September 18

Martin Mallon 
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
Why did Jesus not marry?
Celibacy, as a requirement of the priesthood, is a church discipline and no more. The Second Vatican Council made this plain when it stated that "Celibacy is not required by the priesthood itself, as is evident in the practices of the early Church, and in the tradition of the Eastern Churches"

 

From Fr Harry Winter OMI
(blogger from USA)

Did Vat II "reform" the Church?
The first session of Vatican II could not speak of reforming the Church.  But by the third session, reform was again an acceptable concept, and was getting a Biblical underpinning with the introduction of the image of the Church as a Pilgrim People

Seminarians at Vatican II
(revised copy)

Supplement to Seminarians at VII
(new material)

I have put on Catholica a summary index of recent Mission articles by Fr Hugh McMahon SSC 

4-Course Bible meal for Sep 18
Respecting others' property
Trust only in our Creator
Pray for people in authority
Leaders remained silent

Vatican II  Reflection 264
"The world is my parish" !

John W:   Daily Blog - Sep 18
Video: violent protests in Shenzhen


Wednesday September 12

So what can we do?
Chris McDonnell
(Wednesday blogger from UK)
All of us have a responsibility to take the next steps and if that means raising a critical voice, in charity, then so be it. But always in charity

Card. Martini's radical hopefulness
David Timbs (CathBlog)
Martini’s final challenge was for the entire Church to re-examine itself on the extent to which it has actually received and embraced the call of the Holy Spirit through Vatican II

Best update I've seen re current situation between China & HK
William Pesek (Bloomberg)

Why the lack of excitement?
Fr Hugh McMahon SSC
For over 400 years missionaries took a confident faith from the west to the east. It may be time for modern missionaries to take that faith, refined and renewed, back to their home Churches and rekindle enthusiasm there

The Mind Thieves
George Monbiot
Link between diet and dementia,
  junk food & Alzheimer’s disease 

Vatican II  Reflection 260
All meetings should start with a ..?

4-Course Bible meal for Sep 4
A reason for no rain
Everyone is guilty
Interfering idlers
Speaking of best: Best of all gifts!

John W: Daily Blog - Sep 12
"Prisons will be the last to go"

Thursday September 13

Every Thursday, Daniel Daring's reflection on the Sunday readings,
 to help us prepare for Sunday: 
Sun 24B: Giving it all for Jesus
Story of the monk who brought an end to gladiator fighting !

Side of the road - 2 true stories
John W
Spot the difference

Have you seen this YouTube? !

Sep 21: UN Int'l Day of Peace 

China maintains silence over vice-premier missing for 10 days
Where is future president?

Empty churches - "church is dead"
Gary Everett (CathBlog)
People looking for a Christ-centered community,  not an institution 

Giant balloon Rosary over Chicago

 

4-Course Bible meal for Sep 13
How to BBQ a bull!
Unity like oil on beard 
Immoral with women, boys, men
Bent over for 18 years

Vatican  II  Reflection 261
Priests: use parish church rather than presbytery oratory for prayer

 John W:  Daily Blog - Sep 13
Photos from 10 years ago


Friday September 14
 Feast of The Cross
A beautiful poem for this feast:
"Retreat" by James McAuley

Refocusing for the future
Fr Hugh McMahon SSC
With the dramatic decrease in clerical and religious missionary vocations, the challenge of preparing lay missionaries to take a leading role in mission is an obvious concern
 that has yet to be faced.

56 too old to be a deacon
...but 86 ok to be pope John W

Pope to Lebanon today
A high-risk trip

Rule of Law in China a sad joke?
Today's Ming Pao editorial - note how the reporters were treated!
 Li Wangyang (Wikipedia)

 

Sunday 24B Liturgy:
Alternative prayers
Gospel Play: The Messiahs' Staff !

The Bishop Robert Finn saga
Reader: Send him to a monastery for the term of his natural life

Vatican II  Reflection 262
Priests not interested in the poor?

Bible Menu: Readings for Sep 14
The Feast of the Cross

John W:   Daily Blog - Sep 14
Today a good day to wear a Cross


Saturday September 15
Our Lady of Sorrows

"Very few people have what it
 takes to stay with the dying":
John W:  Daily Blog -Sep 15

To tune of  "Stabat Mater":
The Jesus Stabat Mater

Remembering Jesus:
 Using the name "Jesus"
John W
In court, in argument situation, in rough talk situation: use the name "Jesus" for a download of help

Can anyone verify this story?
When Carlo Martini was rector of the Gregorian University, Pope Paul VI said to him "I hope you become pope one day"

Can anyone verify this story?
Cadres in Hong Kong who are pushing "National Education" are doing so in order to get fast-track promotion by Beijing

Mission institutes 
- adapting to the new reality?
The new missionary situation is challenging, but it can be a wake-up call for mission institutes rather than their death knell. In a divided world where hope, concern for others
and regard for the non-materialist is fading, the Ad Gentes mission institutes can show their worth

Vatican II Reflection 263
Priests are a bishop's friends

Sep 15 Bible Plan: O.L of Sorrows

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Calendar      (any other items?):

Aug 26 - Sep 24 Los Angeles:
 Columban Fathers Gen Assembly 

Sep 14 - 16: Pope to Lebanon 

Sep 19-22: Melbourne
 3-day conference on Vatican II 
organised by  theological institutes

Sep 21: UN Int'l Day of Peace 

Oct 7 -28 Synod of Bishops

Oct 10 - Heythrop, London: 
Call to Action meeting 

For all above: Come Holy Spirit !

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Let's encourage more people 
to see 1-10  re Bishop Bill Morris
 1: Judge's conclusions
2: Canon lawyer's report 
3: Radio interview with judge
4:  "The Age" file of letters
5: Summary re Rome
 6: Frank Brennan's update
7: ABC radio Fr Frank Brennan
8. Update from Frank Brennan
9. Vatileaks & Bp Bill Morris
10: Tablet letter - Frank Brennan

After reading 1-10, check the "Pravda" report of CNA

Google "Morris" at top of this page
for many articles re Bishop BM
 

 Bp Bill Morris   
Bp Pat Power
Bp Geoff Robinson
Bruce Duncan
Catalyst for Renewal
Catholics for Ministry  
Frank Brennan
Peter Johnstone     
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Hans Kung's letter to bishops
(the best description of what's happening)

Fr J. Ratzinger's writings on Vat II

US priests: reassess new translation
Open letter to US bishops re new translation

Making do with a faulty translation

Irish priests use 1998 ICE  - not new translation

Priests say 9 Masses a day - need to ordain married men

The evil of compulsory celibacy
Why are women not being ordained to priesthood?

Same-sex marriage and anal sex

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