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20
years ago today, Nelson Mandela received
the Nobel Peace Prize
His
speech that day (YouTube)
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Today in Norway the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize will be presented. It is
presented each year on this Human Rights Day to highlight the link
between peace and human rights. This year's award has gone to the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Human
Rights Day has the aim of promoting the United Nations Declaration of
Human Rights. The full text of the Declaration is here
at the United Nations website
The
Declaration has 30 articles which are well worth reading. Not many
countries can say they put the 30 articles into practice. Some countries
which complain about a lack of human rights in other countries, themselves
don't follow all 30 articles
One
thing for sure: the more a nation follows the 30 articles, the more stable
and socially developed it will be. But the less a nation follows the 30
articles, the less it will know harmony and peace
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Vatican II & Renewal
(1)
16
Documents of Vatican II
A
Call to Action
Assn Catholic Priests Ireland
Bp Pat Power
Bp Geoff Robinson
Bruce Duncan
Catalyst for Renewal
Catholica
Catholics for Ministry
Catholics for Renewal
STANDUP4VATICAN2
The Swag
VII - Voice of the Church
We Are Church
Excellent
articles on Mission
Hugh McMahon SSC
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On December 10th, join us to Write for Rights!
5 min video from UN:
20
years of human rights - the road ahead
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Mandela
Mass in Soweto's cathedral
The Regina Mundi church still bears the bullet-holes of
apartheid and finds the spirit of '94 revived in Nelson Mandela's
passing
Nelson
Mandela - a Christmas story
Few stories in modern history are as compelling and provocative as that
of Nelson Mandela, who was scorned and mistreated and imprisoned by the
Apartheid regime of South Africa for twenty seven years. If
anything could bring a man down or fuel his rage, it would be the years
of humiliation to which he was subjected. On
one occasion Mandela was forced by his jailers to dig a trench for his
own grave. As they made him lie down in that macabre trench they
unzipped their pants and urinated on him.
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Pope:
“may the cry of the poor not leave us indifferent”
He
prayed that Mary would help everyone “to remain listening, attentively
to the voice of the Lord” so that “the cry of the poor may not leave
us indifferent, the suffering of the sick and the one who is in need may
not find us distracted, the solitude of the elderly and the fragility of
children may move us” and that everyone “may always love and venerate
every human life”
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A bad Christmas for refugees |
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13. Nor should we see the newness of this mission as entailing
a kind of displacement or forgetfulness of the living history which
surrounds us and carries us forward. Memory is a dimension of our faith
which we might call “deuteronomic”, not unlike the memory of Israel
itself. Jesus leaves us the Eucharist as the Church’s daily remembrance
of, and deeper sharing in, the event of his Passover.
The joy of evangelizing always arises from
grateful remembrance: it is a grace which we constantly need to
implore. The apostles never forgot the moment when Jesus touched their
hearts: “It was about four o’clock in the afternoon”. Together with
Jesus, this remembrance makes present to us “a great cloud of
witnesses” (Heb 12:1), some of whom, as believers, we recall with
great joy: “Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of
God” (Heb 13:7). Some of them were ordinary people who were close
to us and introduced us to the life of faith: “I am reminded of your
sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your
mother Eunice” (2 Tim 1:5). The believer
is essentially “one who remembers”
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A good sermon should be like a glass of water offered to people (just two
or three simple ideas) rather than a bucket of water poured over people (a
gush of ideas that are hard to understand or remember) |
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This website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from
being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
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from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
South
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from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from S. American inmates in HK prisons
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Vatican
II Reflection 294
Christians in places of restricted religious freedom
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John W
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For Hong Kong readers:
This month's gathering to pray for healing will be held this coming
Sunday, Dec 15, at St Paul's Mass Centre, Yau Ma Tei, 3pm to 5pm.
Everyone welcome ...whether Christian or not.
Photos
of previous gatherings
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Jesus, today, Tuesday,
please bless the people of South
Asia
On this 10th
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please bless the
prisoners of Hubei
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Poor little rich kids
Monied teens generally have easier access to substances,
ample money to purchase them, good entree to providers, and the best fake
IDs.
Upper-middle-class youngsters show alarmingly high rates of serious
disturbance |
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Without Observer & Astor, Mandela would have hanged
Archbishop
of Canterbury praises Nelson Mandela's courage
(...beautiful ...)
Cardinal
Turkson to represent Pope at funeral on Dec 10
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"There
are now two Americas. My country is a horror show"
The creator of The Wire,
David Simon, delivered a coruscating speech
about the divide between rich and poor in America, and how capitalism has
lost sight of its social compact.
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This
applies to many countries.
Sounds like what Pope Francis has been saying |
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Catholic parishioners try to reconcile faith with child sex abuse
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Interactive
Bible Quiz - Galatians
Based on the actual words of the Bible.
How many times you can get 3/3 ?!
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12.
Though it is true that this mission demands great generosity on our part,
it would be wrong to see it as a heroic individual undertaking, for
it is first and foremost the Lord’s work,
surpassing anything which we can see and understand. Jesus is “the first
and greatest evangelizer”. In every activity of evangelization, the
primacy always belongs to God, who has called us to cooperate with him and
who leads us on by by the power of his Spirit.
The
real newness is the newness which God himself mysteriously brings about
and inspires, provokes, guides and accompanies in a thousand ways.
The life of the Church should always reveal clearly that God takes the
initiative, that “he has loved us first” (1 Jn 4:19) and that
he alone “gives the growth” (1 Cor 3:7). This conviction
enables us to maintain a spirit of joy in the midst of a task so demanding
and challenging that it engages our entire life. God asks everything of
us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.
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Cryptic Christmas Card
A man sent his friend a cryptic Christmas card. It said: A B C D E F G H I
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K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. The recipient puzzled over it for weeks,
finally gave up and wrote asking for an explanation. In July he received
the
explanation on a postcard: "No L."
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See "Poor
little rich kids" above, re drug use by wealthy teenagers
This website's Tanzania
File (stopping Africans from
being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
South
America file (stopping S.
Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from S. American inmates in HK prisons
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Vatican
II Reflection 293
The
basic form of lay apostolate is that of the individual Christian,
in their home, at work, in their social life
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John W
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The article on today's menu
"There are now two America's" is a
wake-up call of where the world is heading as the divide between rich and
poor grows greater. And to support the call is the article at the top of
the menu about "Poor little rich kids",
showing that as the rich grow richer, their children grow more
troubled. We need to heed Pope Francis' call for a simpler life
style |
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praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Monday,
please bless the people of Europe
& North Asia
On this 9th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Henan
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prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
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The
Founding Father
Iconic
Mandela Had Human Touch
East
Africa pays tribute to legend Nelson Mandela
Grief
as Judge cries in court for Mandela
A
Mandela speech in Tanzania in 1997
Mandela
mindful of church role in SA's struggle
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Pope
Francis:
Thank
you Holy Spirit
Inspiring photos:
Newness,
harmony, mission
Engagements
of Pope Francis
Many
thanks for checking
this website each day
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Pope:
Mandela will
inspire generations of South Africans |
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Pope:
Use internet to offer "real reasons for hope" |
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The TV series The
Bible, with English and Chinese subtitles: Episode
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10 |
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11. A renewal of preaching can offer believers, as well as the
lukewarm and the non-practising, new joy in the faith and fruitfulness in
the work of evangelization. The heart of its message will always be the
same: the God who revealed his immense love in the crucified and risen
Christ.
God constantly renews his faithful ones, whatever their age: “They shall
mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they
shall walk and not be faint” (Is 40:31). Christ is the
“eternal Gospel” (Rev 14:6); he “is the same yesterday and
today and forever” (Heb 13:8), yet his riches and beauty are
inexhaustible. He is for ever young and a constant source of newness.
The Church never fails to be amazed at “the depth of the riches and
wisdom and knowledge of God” (Rom 11:33). Saint John of the Cross
says that “the thicket of God’s wisdom and knowledge is so deep and so
broad that the soul, however much it has come to know of it, can always
penetrate deeper within it”. Or as Saint Irenaeus writes: “By his
coming, Christ brought with him all newness”.
With this newness he is always able to renew our
lives and our communities, and even if the Christian message has known
periods of darkness and ecclesial weakness, it will never grow old. Jesus
can also break through the dull categories with which we would enclose him
and he constantly amazes us by his divine creativity.
Whenever we make the effort to return to the source
and to recover the original freshness of the Gospel, new avenues arise,
new paths of creativity open up, with different forms of expression, more
eloquent signs and words with new meaning for today’s world. Every form
of authentic evangelization is always “new”.
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see yesterday's menu, below |
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Mandela humour:
He was also adept at poking fun at himself, saying in 2000:
“My bosses always say that I have had 27 years in prison to loaf. It is
now time to do some catching up”. In 1998, he declared: “My greatest
regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion of
the world”. And when South Africa narrowly lost its bid for the
2006 World soccer cup he said: “At least we have the right to get
drunk... next time we will win”. He was right.
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File (stopping Africans
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from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
South
America file (stopping S.
Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from S. American inmates in HK prisons
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Vatican
II Reflection 292
When Christians are travelling, they are heralds of
Jesus
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John W
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As I passed a fire station yesterday, I saw a
Chinese fireman in uniform come out from closed doors doors for about 20
seconds ....to greet two very small boys who had approached the door....to
greet their father....who kissed both of them on the forehead when they
reached up to him and he bent down to them. A beautiful scene |
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praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Sunday,
please bless the people of Africa
On this 8th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Heilongjiang
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prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Godspeed,
Madiba
A marvellous movie: Invictus
Full
text of John Paul II's beautiful
speech on arrival in South Africa Sep 16, 1995
May
the gathering of world leaders at Nelson Mandela's funeral
see an agreement by African leaders, a
Mandela Covenant, pledging
themselves to work together for justice, peace and development ....and an
end to corruption and war
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Bishop
Geoff Robinson
and Bishop Bill Morris:
Petition to Pope Francis
to stop sexual abuse
and to reform Church
- & calling for a new
Ecumenical Council !
(John W has signed petition)
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Please
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, the most recent being talk of March 26, 2013:
Reclaiming
the Spirit of Vatican II
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Interesting
that three giants of reconciliation and forgiveness
- Gandhi, Mandela &
Aung San Suu Kyi -
spent long periods in detention.
The same three preferred detention to any compromising of their
principles.
Online, China Looks for Its Mandela |
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Why
did British Prime Minsiter kowtow to China on recent visit to Beijing? |
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Power
scramble in the China seas and its pitfalls
A few years ago Nigeria took its dispute with neighbouring Cameroon over
the oil-rich Bokassa peninsular to the International Court of Justice. It
lost and President Olusegun Obasanjo gracefully turned over the territory
to Cameroon, including its sea riches. |
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Playing
God on asylum seekers is unacceptable |
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10. The Gospel
offers us the chance to live life on a higher plane, but with no less
intensity: “Life grows by being given away, and it weakens in isolation
and comfort. Indeed, those who enjoy life most are those who leave
security on the shore and become excited by the mission of communicating
life to others”.
When the Church summons Christians to take up the task of evangelization,
she is simply pointing to the source of authentic personal fulfilment. For
“here we discover a profound law of reality: that life is attained and
matures in the measure that it is offered up in order to give life to
others. This is certainly what mission means”.
Consequently, an evangelizer must never look like
someone who has just come back from a funeral! Let us recover and
deepen our enthusiasm, that “delightful and comforting joy of
evangelizing, even when it is in tears that we must sow… And may the
world of our time, which is searching, sometimes with anguish, sometimes
with hope, be enabled to receive the good news not
from evangelizers who are dejected, discouraged, impatient or anxious, but
from ministers of the Gospel whose lives glow with fervour, who have first
received the joy of Christ”.
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Nelson
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This website's Tanzania
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(stopping Africans
from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
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South
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- letters
from S. American inmates in HK prisons
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Vatican
II Reflection 291
May acts of kindness help people discover the Source of
love
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John W
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At yesterday's weekly English prayer service
at a detention centre, the main topic was Nelson Mandela as an example of
forgiveness, reconciliation, courage etc.
Three black South African inmates paid tribute to Mandela. Two of them had
seen and heard him in person ....and quoted his words about forgiveness
and unity.
May Mandela's passing inspire more leaders to be
like him |
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Jesus, today, Saturday,
please bless the people of Central
& North America
On this 7th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Hebei
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prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Clashes
in Central African Republic prior to French intervention
Archbishop
supports intervention |
Liturgy
- New Translation
1998
ICEL Sacramentary
Misguided Missal
The new translation
Ghastly process/result
Ron
Schmit:
1962
Mass a condemnation of Vatican II
PrayTell
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Spirituality
Sacred
Space
Daily prayer online.
Available in 19 languages
Jackie
Evancho - To
Believe
Pray-as-you-go.org
Daily prayer with
beautiful music
Whole
text of 1966 Jerusalem Bible
Previous Smiles
file |
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David
Cameron: Learn Mandarin instead of French
- with quote from
Mandela: 'If you talk to a man in a language
he understands, that goes to his head; if you talk to him in his own
language, that goes to his heart.' |
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Re learning Mandarin
(above): This
video (in Mandarin) is about a Buddhist monk
from Taiwan who has set up a centre for Africans in Mali, teaching
orphans Chinese culture and Buddhism as well as African studies. These
Mandarin-speaking Africans will have many doors open for them in the
future! |
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Mandela
on deathbed
Nelson
Mandela dies at the age of 95
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Christian
Healing Ministry Winter Issue -
many encouraging items, especially the article about "soaking
prayer" |
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Ethiopia
hailed as 'African lion' - achieving 93%
GDP growth |
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Asylum
seeker visa freeze 'a new low'
'Australians would rightly be ashamed of a
Federal Government that is so willing to inflict cruelty and punishment
on people fleeing persecution and torture, simply in order to teach their
political opponents a lesson.' |
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Pope
establishes commission on protection of minors |
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Goodness always tends to spread. Every authentic experience of truth and
goodness seeks by its very nature to grow within us, and any person who
has experienced a profound liberation becomes more sensitive to the needs
of others. As it expands, goodness takes root and develops. If we wish to
lead a dignified and fulfilling life, we have to reach out to others and
seek their good. In this regard, several sayings of Saint Paul will not
surprise us: “The love of Christ urges us on” (2 Cor 5:14);
“Woe to me if I do not proclaim the Gospel” (1 Cor 9:16). |
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For
St Nicholas Day |
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What country is Santa Claus from?
Poland
....North Polish |
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Vatican
II Reflection 290
The first apostles of young people should
be young people
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John W
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As you probably know
"Santa Claus" comes from "Saint Nicholas".
"Santa Claus" was a saint....who helped the poor
I'd love to see his feast
celebrated on the first Sunday of Advent:
Santa Sunday! A great example of the spirit of Christmas, the spirit
of giving
We think of Santa as part
of a secular Christmas. We forget he was a saint.
I hope the Church will soon reclaim Santa!
Let's help our children/students find out that Santa was/is real! |
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praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Friday,
please bless the people of South
America
On this 6th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Hainan
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Pope asks to meet reformed Indian killer
Brendan Hoban: Pope
Francis is a "man with a plan"
Hans Kung:
Church
reform at all levels
Pope
ramps up charity office to be near poor, sick
James
Martin: The
prophets of doom have got their answer!
Curia
reform: The liturgy comes under scrutiny
(c.f. photo in
this report ....dressed in suits rather than soutanes....a sign of
getting down to work?)
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Thanks solely to this encounter – or renewed
encounter – with God’s love, which blossoms into an enriching
friendship, we are liberated from our narrowness and self-absorption. We
become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring
us beyond ourselves in order to attain the fullest truth of our being.
Here we find the source and inspiration of all our efforts at
evangelization. For if we have received the love which restores meaning to
our lives, how can we fail to share that love with others?
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A
few days before Christmas, two young brothers were spending the night at
their grandparent's house. When it was time to go to bed, and anxious to
do the right thing, they both knelt down to say their prayers.
Suddenly, the younger one began to do so in a very loud voice.
"Dear Lord, please ask Santa Claus to bring me a play-station, a
mountain-bike and a telescope."
His older brother leaned over and nudged his brother and said, "Why
are you shouting your prayers? God isn't deaf."
"I
know" he replied, "But Grandma is!"
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This website's Tanzania
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- letters
from S. American inmates in HK prisons
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Vatican
II Reflection 289
Families forming Christian Action Groups
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John W
mini-Blog |
People in this part of the world don't
usually show affection in public. But yesterday morning I saw an
exception. As I waited for the ferry to Hei Ling Chau Island drug
addiction centre, passengers came ashore from the ferry's previous trip
back from the island. One women, about 30, was greeted by her father
.... a long and loving hug, with tears from both of them. The woman had
just been released from the treatment centre. A moving scene.
Jesus, let your love fall powerfully on that family! |
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Jesus, today, Thursday,
please bless the people of South
East Asia
On this 5th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Guizhou
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prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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I've almost finished reading
"Dying To Be Me" ....not
unlike other Near Death Experience books...but with one big difference:
Anita "died" of cancer that riddled her body.
And not long after she "came back", the cancer was gone. A
riveting book.
Amazon
link has c. 1,000 customer reviews. c.f. this
professional review |
Vatican II - Renewal (2)
Hans
Küng:
Letter
to bishops
Revolution
to stop authoritarianism
Fr Joseph Ratzinger:
Writings
on Vat II
(link
gone...anyone able to find it?)
Robert
Mickens:
Vatican Implosion
Nicholas Lash:
Vatican II:
Of Happy Memory - and Hope?
Robert
McNally:
Crisis & Criticism in the Church
Priests
9 Masses a day
- need to ordain married men
The
evil of compulsory celibacy
Link
between compulsory celibacy and sexual abuse
Why
are women not being
ordained to priesthood?
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Dancing
with Israel's elephant c.f.
Israel's
nuclear weapons |
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“Managing
Transparency”
Multi-nationals driving secret plan
to make Europe-US one market |
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Catholica Commentary |
Fr Eric Hodgens: Can
We Save the Catholic Church? |
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This website's statistics for November 2013.
Many thanks to kind readers who check this
site each day of the week |
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Latest
Broken Bay Institute newsletter
- with lovely
Advent/Christmas articles |
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Dec 5-7 |
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Australian
Catholic Youth Festival -
live webcast details |
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Jeffrey
Sachs |
How
church can help promote sustainable development goals |
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Meeting
of Prime Minister Netanyahu & Pope Francis
- with video c.f.
Vatican
Insider report
Pope to visit Israel May 25-26?
May his visit help bring about lasting Middle East peace |
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Full text has been replaced on
Vatican website by a PDF link ...which can't be copied and pasted ...and
which is not very attractive to read.
Today
let's read no. 7 of the text - about the
difference between superficial joy and real joy
(If anyone knows where the full
text is again available, please send me the link: jdwomi@gmail.com)
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Police
arrest trapped tomb robbers
(robbers made grave mistake) |
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God bless the kind
reader who put
my Jamii item into Swahili
If you have a sensitive stomach, don't look at graphic
photos on
this post
This website's Tanzania
File (stopping Africans from
being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
South
America file
(stopping S. Americans from being tricked
into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from S. American inmates in HK prisons
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| Francis
wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican
II Reflection 288
An apostolic laity
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John W
mini-Blog |
Over the past few days I've had
the joy of giving inmates copies of the newly-reprinted "Dook
Hoi", the story of how the power of prayer released Ben Keung Bing Yu
from drug addiction. It's an inspiring story not just for addicts,
but for everyone. In fact yesterday at one detention centre, two staff
members asked for copies and I gladly gave them a copy! |
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Sun:
Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America Sat:
Central & North America
Please join me in
praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Wednesday,
please bless the people of East Asia
On this 4th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Guangdong
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
