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Revival,
Stagnation, Extinction
Fr Louis Lougen OMI
Three choices facing any religious group...and the Church as a whole.
Article has special application for time of a new papacy. Will Church revive
or stagnate or decline?
Awaken
the sleeping giant,
the laity Darlene
Starrs
(Canada
Sunday blogger)
I
suggest that until the majority of Catholics understand that they are Church, we
cannot have an effective mobilization of the laity
(This is the sort of cry from the
laity's heart that should be heard by the next pope! - jw)
John W - Blog - March 3
Pope George Pell - Oh no!
Worth re-reading for conclave:
My vision for
Church of future
Cardinal Franz Konig
The
Pope they missed
Benedict's faith-in-action legacy
Reading Reflection Prayer
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God's
name: "I AM WHO AM" |
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God's
name: "Compassion, Love" |
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Learning
from the past |
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God's
name: "Second Chance" |
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March
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Cardinal Francis George OMI:
When
selecting pope,
must ask "Can he govern?"
c.f. this
1878 (sic!) interview
with Cardinal George!
Honor
Benedict's honesty
with bolder initiatives
Can any person of any age effectively manage
our global church as it continues to be mired in an outdated monarchal
governing system?
Obama going to Isreal &
Palestine:
A
time to act
The hurdle: Israeli settlements
This
week's smile
5 offerings: A, B, C, D, E
For
Chinese readers:
Wu Oi Drug Treatment Centre
A
beautiful ministry in HK
Vatican
II Reflection 16
The Holy Spirit of Renewal
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John W - Blog - March 4
Cardinal Tagle is part-Chinese.
A Chinese pope would help China and Church be friends again!
"Our
vestments are pompous"
John W
In this time of shame and
sorrow re child
abuse, it would be good,
as a sign of sorrow, for priests & bishops & cardinals & pope
to wear just an alb and stole ..to abandon the chasuble for "a year
of sorrow"
Full
text of Pope Benedict's
talk to Roman clergy last month
Pope's recollections and reflections
re Vatican II - contains some amazingly positive and even enthusiastic
statements re Vat II
Questions from a Ewe
asks how we feel re church reform:
Am
I a victim or an influencer?
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
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The
older we get, the more we are inclined to practice these words |
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An
orchestra at every Mass? |
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A
powerless priesthood? |
Keep
going even when people
insult and mock you |
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World
poverty: G8 report card
Only yesterday did I finally
finish listening to
Spirituality
& the stages of life:
One size doesn't fit all
Ron Rolheiser OMI (YouTube)
(Talk given in US Feb 23).
Most highly recommended!
This websites Feb
statistics
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Vatican II Reflection 17
Kingdom of God
a wider term
and
a greater entity than the Church
Cardinal
Tagle wants
people power for the Church
Magister noted that Benedict had appreciated the Filipino’s
“balance of vision and doctrinal correctness.”
“Especially striking is the style with which the bishop acts, living
simply and mingling among the humblest people, with a great passion for
mission and for charity”
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Reform
and Evangelisation
Martin Mallon
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
If
another example was needed to explain why the Roman Curia needs reforming,
here it is: Cardinal Mahony has stated that the nuncio phoned him
requesting that he attends the conclave and that this request was
initiated by those at the top in the Vatican
John W - Blog - March 5
Pope
not wrong to resign;
fixed term of office for pope?
You
have to hand it to the man
Brian Coyne (Catholica)
commenting
on Cardinal Pell's media visibility.
And now yet another
interview,
this time for Vatican
Insider Also
from Vatican Insider:
US
cardinals prepare to conclave
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
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Would
that all young people
had chance to hear these words |
The
two basic choices we have:
Life or death, good or evil |
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Healings
should be more frequent |
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Asking
healing for the blind |
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March 3 |
Vatican II
Reflection 18
At a time of shame and sorrow,
we pray for good shepherds
Religious
communities I had known were communities mainly in name, bound and
restricted by fears and artificialities and lack of humanness and absence
of common interest
- Vincent J.
Donovan, p.
106
of Christianity
Rediscovered On
the same page: When
I came in contact with African communities for the first time,
one of the things I noticed about them was the lack of competition within
a community....
The British pyramidal educational system lent itself to the inculcation of
individualism and competition
(p.
106-107)
Christians really
admire Jesus?
Joseph
Girzone
("contains
strong language"...)
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Light
in the Shadows
Chris McDonnell
(UK Wed blogger)
How much do
we need a light in the darkness! These could be, should be, transformative days
for the Church. The days of a centralised structure must surely be numbered as
the need for a real collegiality becomes self-evident.
At
Martin Mallon's article
Reform
and Evangelisation
David Timbs has
posted a strong comment re Australia abuse inquiries
John W - Blog - March 6
Jesus' idea:
pope to be a rock
not a rock star
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
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Three
pieces of advice
for our modern world |
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Does
my nation love God? |
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Religious
leaders the problem |
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Need
for better leaders |
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a comment! |
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comments March
4 |
Welsh
bishop:
time for radical reform Lay
people can be cardinals!
If the Church is serious about the need for reform
of its governance it would do well to revisit the major constitutional
reforms established in the 11th cent
Lessons
from last dictators
Church needs subsidiarity
Conclave
suggestions
Conclave:
all seats vacant
Australia abuse inquiry:
Judge Peter
Perfect v Vatican
TV series:
The
Real Vatican II
The
wages of celibacy
Why
celibacy?
Real
reason pope quit?
Vatican II
Reflection 19
Allow Jesus to download and
install his divine life in our lives
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The
Shape of the Church to Come
Maybe, as the church elects a new pope,
we will glimpse again the greatness of the church’s mission
Elephants
in the Living Room
Discussing what needs to be
discussed in the Church
John
W - Blog - Feb 28
A herd of elephants in the
room
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Every Thursday, Daniel
Daring's reflection on the Sunday readings,
to help us prepare for Sunday:
This week - Lent 3(C):
Second Chance
Look around; see the faces
of the people you meet everyday. Think of what you can do for them. It is true that life is fragile and we do not know the day and the hour. Yet we
can turn it into something priceless and live each day in such a way that, at
the end, we will not regret having missed chances of doing good and losing
opportunities of caring for others.
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Too
many priests preaching
the truth but living a lie
Re Cardinal O'Brien case
c.f. Elephant
in the room
Homosexuality in priesthood
and religious life
Reading Reflection Prayer
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Leader's
prayer for wisdom |
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Don't
trust in cardinals? |
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Peter's
point - leaders got it! |
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Please
heal or let die.... |
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See Feb
26 comments |
Vatican II Reflection 13
What makes the Church tick
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See top of this page for
conclave movies and videos!
A
time to work, a time to rest
Reflection on pope's resignation
by Joseph Girzone
Pope
Benedict's final address to the cardinals John W (hoping...)
Silence in the House of God:
Mea Maxima Culpa - review
and reflections by Frank Brennan SJ
Government and governance of the Church have been wanting during
the papacy of Benedict
Reading Reflection Prayer
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Beautiful
garden ....God! |
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Almighty
Creator is ...loving! |
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Disobeying
religious leaders |
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Me?
Mix with down-&-outs? |
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China:
letter calling for reform
Like the Catholic Church,
voices calling for reform
Anatomy
of a papal scandal
Andrew Hamilton (Eureka St)
Adopt
a cardinal
Pray for conclave - yes.
But pray for another Benedict???
A moving new book
which
is helping prevent suicide:
Life,
In Spite of Me
by Kristen Jane Anderson
Her site: www.reachingyou.org
Fridays of
Lent - Stations of Cross:
The
Jesus Stabat Mater
Vatican
II Reflection 14
Jesus' job: to
reformat us
John W - Blog - March
1
Praying for Pope/cardinals
A new pope on
Ides
of March?!
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The
Mystery that is the Church
Joseph Girzone
Enemies within and without,
yet the Church keeps going!
Bangladesh:
30% in dire poverty
This article helps me understand the actions of an imprisoned
refugee I met recently. For 16 (!) years he has been coming to HK as a
refugee....allowed to stay...arrested for working (refugees not allowed to
have employment)... imprisoned, sent back to Bangladesh ....new
name/passport...back to HK. I asked him "why do you keep coming
here?" He answered "Because life is hopeless in
Bangladesh"
John W - Blog - March 2
Why so many cardinals missing
from Feb 28 farewell gathering?
Video conception
to birth & more
- using latest scanning technology.
A
Vatican Spring?
Hans Kung
Reform
dominates agenda
Frank
talk - selecting pope
Reading Reflection Prayer
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Caring
for aged parents |
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Pop/movie/sports
s t a r
s |
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Bold
conclave cardinals? |
Out of date religious structures need a
drastic overhaul,
not just external plastic surgery |
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Benedict's
resignation like
John XXIII calling Council
Crimes
of Church - not in our name
If leaders had listened, much pain could have been avoided
Vatican II Reflection
15
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