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Thank you David Timbs!
After some 60 articles
over the past 14 months,
David is closing his innings
...at least for the time being. Thank you, thank you David for all your
work. If you'd ever like to post an occasional article, this spot will
always be yours!
David's articles:
2011 2012
2013-01-06
The
new translation after one year - readers' views
John W
Our views can give courage to bishops, to help them
become "tank bishops"!
TV's
effect on children
Two US doctors outline statistics & suggestions
Urgent prayer request:
Update re
US man in Iran
Heavenly Father, please help
your beloved son Saeed!
Peace
witness from prison
Fr John Dear SJ
How much longer will
drone madness continue?
Australia
abuse commission
Update
reports
Australia's
heat wave
linked to climate change
This
week's smile
For Baptism of Jesus:
A Bush Christening !
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Jan 13: |
Readings for Baptism of
Jesus, with theme:
He went about doing good |
Please add your comments. How
can we
"go about doing good"? |
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See comments Jan
11 |
Vatican
II Reflection 383
More love for the Bible
should mean more interest
in Ecumenism
John W - Blog - Jan 13
Each year do we remember
the day of our baptism?
Dec 27-Jan
30:
I'm now in Australia.
Love to meet up with
readers in Bris, Gold Coast -
John W
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CC
to make USA hotter, drier, more disaster-prone
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Jan 14 |
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Choose goodness or junk |
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Notice flowers
& birds |
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Courage when
persecuted |
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Don't unplug
Jesus |
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Please add your own comments about any of these readings |
Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?
Noah. He was floating his stock while everyone else
was in liquidation
Worth re-reading:
Vatican
Vandalism
- the new translation
Vatican II Reflection 384
Praise for all the good done
by our Protestant/Evangelical
brothers and sisters
John W - Blog - Jan 14
A very special group
....and...28 years ago today
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Why
are bishops not accountable?
Martin Mallon
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
It is difficult
for many members of the Catholic church to stomach the fact that Cardinal
Bernard Law, Bishop Robert Finn and Archbishop Peter Sartain are held in
high esteem by the hierarchy of the church while the likes of Bill Morris
, Roy Bourgeois, Tony Flannery, Brian D’Arcy, etc are sacked, defrocked
or censored.
Aust
abuse commission:
Unknown
unknowns
Ray Cassin (Eureka
St) A
hoax currently doing rounds of social media:
500
Christians burned alive
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Jan 15 |
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Wisdom can't
be downloaded or bought |
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With grateful hearts the Jews daily meditated on God's goodness to them in
the past. This calmed their hearts, and gave
them courage to face the fears and problems of the present and the future |
Christian
principles
must not be compromised |
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Like a mother cancelling her plan to join
friends for a restaurant meal .... to stay home with a sick child |
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Please add your own comments about any of these readings |
Map
of the world
Based on population
Vatican II
Reflection 385
Pope Benedict's ecumenism?
John W - Blog - Jan 15
Getting up at 5am!
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The Didache
Chris McDonnell
(UK Wed blogger)
It is
mentioned by the Early Fathers and then appears to have been lost. It was only
re-discovered in
Constantinople
in the late 1800s. It gives us a valuable insight to those
formative years. It gives us direction for the Christian Community emerging from
its Jewish root and reflects on the lived experience of those early Christian
years.
Yesterday Australia's
hottest day since records began.
Any
connection with
climate change???
And notice all the comments from the anti-cc
lobby,
cousins of the gun lobby
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Jan 9 |
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Mother Teresa's desolation |
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The Old 100th |
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Kindness with
caution |
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Jesus'
desolation |
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Please add your comments about any of these readings |
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See Jan 6 comments |
Jesus' Cosmic
Presence
Joseph Girzone
His presence is like the sunshine & air
all around us
Vatican II
Reflection 379
East & West more like
sisters than cousins
John W - Blog - Jan 9
Weather report
Tomorrow, Jan 10:
Fr Harry Winter OMI
re the new translation's
anti-Ecumenical massacre
of the opening prayer for Mass of St Elizabeth Seton
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A sad
example
Fr Harry Winter OMI
(Blogger from USA)
I was truly
shocked as I celebrated the Mass for the feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton,
to see how the new edition of the Sacramentary changed and deformed the
former collect. We must shout from the rooftops that
we protest and reject the effort by fundamentalists to roll back Vatican II
Also
sad: first
three letters
And: Words
fail us
Stupidity:
at time of Galatians & now
A
powerful article (NCR)
Another
NCR VIP report:
Women
leaders in early church
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Every Thursday, Daniel
Daring's reflection on the Sunday readings,
to help us prepare for Sunday:
This week for the Baptism of Jesus:
You
are my beloved daughter
I personally call Baptism the sacrament of freedom, and connect it with the
experience of Israel in Egypt. Egypt represents the power of sin that tries to destroy our lives,
and we need God's mercy to be set free. |
Recently I met a cousin who checks the "homework" of prisoners
doing Bible study courses for this most
interesting group: CBI
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Jan 10 |
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Not i-Pad but eye pact! |
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Walk with
blameless heart |
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He's the Start
and Finish |
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Highest level
of love |
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Please add your own comments about any of these readings |
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See Jan
8
comments |
Vatican II Reflection 380
Diversity of customs & law
a good thing, better than
100% Rule from Rome
John
W - Blog - Jan 10
Multi-cultural Australia
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December
- quality time
Bakhita
(Friday Africa blogger)
As the year
begins,
I want to resolve that I will devote more time to my family, and that they
come first, no matter what Fr
Anscar Chupungco OSB,
one of the world's leading
liturgists, died Jan 8.
His
2011 HK talk
NCR tribute
Reading
Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Jan 11 |
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God doesn't answer Job re
suffering...not yet |
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Prayer for
time of suffering |
Times of
suffering
can be time of grace |
Care about
others,
despite a suffering heart |
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Please add your own comments about any of these readings |
New
weather new politics
George Monbiot
Climate change denial is almost a national pastime in Australia. The
Australian – owned by Rupert Murdoch – takes such extreme
anti-science positions that it sometimes makes the Sunday Telegraph look
like the voice of reason. Perhaps this is
unsurprising. Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal – the
most carbon intensive fossil fuel. It’s also a profligate consumer.
Taking meaningful action on climate change would
require a serious reassessment of the way life is lived there. Urgent
Prayer Request
US citizen to be sentenced
by Iran "hanging judge" Bishops
should talk to priests
Fr Brendan Hoban (ACP)
Behind the growing chorus of disapproval
among Irish priests is a great mixture of unease, worry, anger that the
Irish Church is imploding before our very eyes and our leaders seem to be
sleep-walking into the future.
Vatican
II Reflection 381
Vatican needs to treat the "West" as
kindly as it treats the "East"
John W - Blog - Jan 11
Brisbane memories
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People
want kind
and humble priests
He
was unhappy because the parish priest sees his parishioners as objects to
be disciplined, giving a good scolding during his homily, interfering in
parishioners’ activities and making arbitrary decisions without
listening to them.
Vatican
strips US priest
of (on paper) priesthood
for supporting ordination
of women
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Jan 12 |
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End of Job's story |
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Thanksgiving
prayer |
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Love can grow
cold |
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The highest
topic |
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Please add your own comments about any of these readings |
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See comments
Jan 10 |
Anything
different from Pope Benedict's interpretation
of Vat II is heresy!?!
c.f. David Timbs:
The
Year of Faith
The Reform of the Reform sets up a dialectic between
the Hermeneutic of Reform and Continuity with the Hermeneutic of
Discontinuity and Rupture. This is both very Teutonic and highly
contrived. It gets it oxygen from Ratzinger/Benedict’s favoured
Augustinian oppositional construct of reality, the City of God in conflict
with the City of Man.
New
fangled check-in
machines at Australian
airports! True story - jw
How
others see us
Joseph Girzone
Vatican
II Reflection 382
"Don't impose anything
beyond essentials"!
John W - Blog - Jan 12
Visit to my
parents' grave
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