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Sr Inigo Joachim:
Prison
Christmas homily
Let us always remember this message: God
with us and proclaim this message to others. We are joyful not because we
have no problems but our joy is due to our belief that He is with us in
the midst of all these difficulties and frustrations. He is the cause of
our Joy.
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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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It's
official: Pope to Holy Land May 24-26
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Brian
Lewis
(Australia) |
Being
responsible people
Responsibility means more than freedom
& knowledge |
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35. Pastoral
ministry in a missionary style is not obsessed
with the disjointed transmission of a multitude of doctrines to
be insistently imposed.
When we adopt a pastoral goal and a missionary style
which would actually reach everyone without exception or exclusion, the
message has to concentrate on the essentials, on what is most beautiful,
most grand, most appealing and at the same time most necessary.
The message is simplified, while losing none of
its depth and truth, and thus becomes all the more forceful and convincing.
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“Hi!
My name is Gertrude,” said the lady next to him on the plane. ”It’s
so nice to meet you! I’m flying to New York for my grandson’s third
birthday. I’m so excited! I remember when he was just a little thumbkin
and now he’s already three! It’s really hard to believe. He’s
the most adorable thing you’ve ever seen! You know what? Hold on,
I think I might have a picture on me. Let me take a look in my
purse, yes, here it is, just look at him, isn’t he adorable. Do you see
his dimple on his left cheek? Simply adorable! I could stare at his
picture all day.
Oh
my, and you should hear him on the phone! He is just the cutest, he
says to me in the cutest voice “Hi Grandma!” It just gets me all teary
eyed.”
After
what seemed like two hours for the poor man sitting next to her, Gertrude
seemed to realize that perhaps she was talking a bit too much. “You
know, I feel terrible! Here I am just talking and talking without letting
you get in a word edgewise!
 Tell
me..what do you think about my Grandson!”
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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
South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters from South American inmates in HK prisons
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II Reflection - 321
So
many mostly-empty religious houses and priests' quarters:
open them up to become ACCs!
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John W
mini-Blog |
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My
weekly article for today's HK Ming Pao newspaper
(On
MP website)
Today's
topic:
A new city to be built in Australia....called ....NEW
HONG KONG ! |
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US
Church stands up for migrants |
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Bangladesh
textile factory operator to face charges over fatal life |
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You
think you feel miserable? A cricket reflection
c.f. Guardian
report (UK
readers excused from clicking this link)
- best comment at this article:
English cricket helpline: 1800 505050
That is 1 800 5 nothing 5 nothing 5 nothing
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Pope
abolishes honorary title of monsignor for diocesan priests under the age
of 65 (literally,
a very Frank
article!) |
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Interactive
Bible Quiz - One Thessalonians
Based on the actual words of the Bible.
How
many times you can get 3/3 ?!
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34. If we
attempt to put all things in a missionary key, this will also affect the
way we communicate the message. In today’s
world of instant communication and occasionally biased media coverage, the
message we preach runs a greater risk of being distorted or reduced to
some of its secondary aspects. In this way certain issues which
are part of the Church’s moral teaching are taken out of the context
which gives them their meaning.
The biggest problem is when the
message we preach then seems identified with those secondary aspects
which, important as they are, do not in and of themselves convey the heart
of Christ’s message. We need to be realistic and not assume
that our audience understands the full background to what we are saying,
or is capable of relating what we say to the very heart of the Gospel
which gives it meaning, beauty and attractiveness.
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Season's
greetings from the University of Oxford (YouTube) |
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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 South Americans from
being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in HK prisons
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II Reflection - 320
May the day arrive soon when the Church will
give
the green light
for
permanent deacons and (other) married men to be admitted to priesthood
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John W
mini-Blog |
Yesterday with a retired priest at his
seniors home in Brisbane I watched the last two hours of the cricket match
between England and Australia in Sydney. After the game, the priest
reflected on the courage and determination of the Australian team (a team
which last year was badly defeated by England). The priest expressed
the wish that all Christians be blessed with such courage and
determination. Amen! |
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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
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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 6th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Hainan
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
David Timbs
(Melbourne)
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The
God of All Nations
What Matthew invites his community to do with this
story is to explore what the Magi’s quest was focused on. It was
illumination, an epiphany of divine intervention. They were searchers for
wisdom and so it is not surprising that their presence supports the key
Wisdom (Sophia in Greek) theme of the first Gospel. They were
symbols of an outside world desperately in need of enlightenment and
guidance
c.f.
David's 2012 article: Epiphany |
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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Today is the birthday of "the Protestant Matteo
Ricci": Robert Morrison
(1782-1834). See this
excellent book: Robert
Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism. Morrison
arrived in China in 1807, produced a Protestant Chinese Bible and laid the
foundation for the Chinese Protestant Church. He is buried in Macau in
the Protestant Cemetery |
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China-Australia
co-operation and friendship in Antarctica ice
Update: Chinese
ship now out of danger |
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6
injured in Dec 31 explosion at church in Tanzania |
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Pope Francis tells Religious Orders to "Wake up the World"
Be careful of seminarians
becoming monsters ...and be careful of the "novice trade"
- in
this report
c.f.
Nuns
fail to answer Pope's phone call! |
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33. Pastoral ministry in a missionary key seeks
to abandon the complacent attitude that says: “We have always done it
this way”. I invite everyone to be bold and
creative in this task of rethinking the goals, structures, style and
methods of evangelization in their respective communities.
A proposal of goals without an adequate communal
search for the means of achieving them will inevitably prove illusory. I
encourage everyone to apply the guidelines found in this document
generously and courageously, without inhibitions or fear. The
important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as
brothers and sisters, and especially under the leadership of the bishops,
in a wise and realistic pastoral discernment.
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If three wise women had shown up at Jesus’
birth instead of three wise men, they would
have asked directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, cleaned
the stable, made a casserole, and brought practical gifts
How many kings in today's Gospel? (answer in mini-blog,
below)
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This website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into
bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
South
America file
(stopping South Americans from
being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in HK prisons
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II Reflection - 319
How monastic hospitality can serve the world of
today
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John W
mini-Blog |
How many kings in today's Gospel?
Five: The three wise men + Herod + Jesus! |
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Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America Sat:
Central & North America
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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 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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Today is the anniversary of Elizabeth
Seton (1774-1821) the first native-born citizen
of the United States to be canonized as a saint. She established the first
Catholic school in the US and founded the first American congregation of
Religious Sisters, the Sisters of Charity. |
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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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Bob
Welsh - My Christmas Eve A
moving YouTube video |
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Excellent
article:
Tribalism
lives on, for better and for worse
It has been a common jibe that the
Europeans “divided” Africa.
In fact they brought Africa together |
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Withhold
aid from regimes that persecute Christians, argues senior Conservative |
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Winning
friends and souls - the lesson of Pope Francis
The more Catholicism points away from itself and towards
Christ, the more convincing it is |
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Vatican
hosts top world leaders to push for end to Syrian war
"With a death toll of 126,000 and 300,000 orphans in 36 months of
war, can we remain indifferent?" |
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Filipinos'
lack of dedication at work (?) |
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This
website's statistics for Dec 2013.
DG In December 6,787 unique visitors made 14,559 visits
..that's an average of 218 visitors and 437 views
per day. DV this site will continue to be a voice for the poor
....and help people avoid drug trafficking. Thank you for checking this
site each day and using your Facebook etc to spread the message of this
site.
This site has helped prevent more than a hundred Africans from going to
prison in HK. This fact alone makes the site worthwhile. Before this
site's anti-drug campaign began in July 2013, at least 3 or 4 new African drug
trafficking inmates were entering HK's prisons each week. Since the
campaign began, only one new drug trafficker
from the whole of Africa has joined the HK prison population (a man from
South Africa). In the week before the campaign began, seven new Tanzanians
entered prison in HK. Since the campaign began, not one new
Tanzanian. DG! |
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Changing
church needs new models - a layman running a
parish |
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32. Since I am
called to put into practice what I ask of others, I
too must think about a conversion of the papacy. It is my duty,
as the Bishop of Rome, to be open to suggestions which can help make the
exercise of my ministry more faithful to the meaning which Jesus Christ
wished to give it and to the present needs of evangelization.
Pope John Paul II asked for help in finding “a way of
exercising the primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential
to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation”. We have made
little progress in this regard. The papacy and
the central structures of the universal Church also need to hear the call
to pastoral conversion.
The Second Vatican Council stated that, like the ancient
patriarchal Churches, episcopal conferences
are in a position “to contribute in many and fruitful ways to the
concrete realization of the collegial spirit”. Yet this desire has not
been fully realized, since a juridical status of episcopal conferences
which would see them as subjects of specific attributions, including
genuine doctrinal authority, has not yet been sufficiently elaborated.
Excessive centralization, rather than proving
helpful, complicates the Church’s life and her missionary outreach
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A Polish immigrant went to apply for
a driver's license. First he had to take an eye sight test. The optician
showed him a card with the letters 'C Z W I X N O S
T A C Z.' 'Can you read this?' the optician asked.
'Read it?' the Polish man replied, 'I know the guy.' |
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Big
drug raid in Southern China
Nigerian
man with 71 heroin capsules arrested Tanzania airport
This website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing
drugs to HK)
- letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
South
America file
(stopping
South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II Reflection - 318
The better and the truer my friendship with Jesus,
the more apostolically minded I'll be |
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John W
mini-Blog |
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Brisbane due for a top
temperature of 41 today (after 36 yesterday). 2013 was
Australia's hottest year on record. High temperatures are generating
increased interest in the subject of climate change. But, sadly, a
big number (the majority?) of Australians don't believe climate change is
caused by humans
On the other side of the globe: US
having snowstorms
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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, Saturday,
please bless the people of Central
& North America
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
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Today is the anniversary of Gladys Aylward
(1902 - 1970). See The
Little Woman, the true story behind the movie "The
Inn of the Sixth Happiness" and see also this
YouTube |
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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Morrison's cynical Catch-22 ploy on asylum seekers |
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Israeli-Palestinian talks- perpetual motion
It is important that the responsibility for this failure is assigned
correctly, with the greatest part belonging to Israel,
the next largest share to the United States
and only the smallest portion to the Palestinians
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Critical lessons
We need to keep careful watch for possible danger or
difficulty, whether that danger or difficulty comes from a changing
climate or unchanging human nature |
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Assaulted
Indian student in Australia remains critical |
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No other world leader can match Francis’ honesty and sincerity, says “The Financial Times”
Hang onto your hats for 2014- it may be a bumpy ride
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31. The bishop must always foster this missionary communion in
his diocesan Church, following the ideal of the first Christian
communities, in which the believers were of one heart and one soul . To do
so, he will sometimes go before his people,
pointing the way and keeping their hope vibrant. At
other times, he will simply be in their midst with his
unassuming and merciful presence. At yet other
times, he will have to walk after them, helping those who lag
behind and – above all – allowing the flock
to strike out on new paths.
In his mission of fostering
a dynamic, open and missionary communion, he will have to encourage and
develop the means of participation proposed in the Code of Canon Law, and
other forms of pastoral dialogue, out of a desire
to listen to everyone and not simply to those who would tell him what he
would like to hear. Yet the principal aim of these
participatory processes should not be
ecclesiastical organization but rather the missionary aspiration of
reaching everyone
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This website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into
bringing drugs to HK)
- letters from
Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
South
America file
(stopping
S. Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons
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On the flight from HK to Brisbane on
Wednesday night, in seat behind me were a mother, father and two year old
son. As the son went to sleep, he sang a beautiful spontaneous
melody...not words, just "la da ah ma ra" etc, quite a range of
notes, in a very sweet voice. Parents said he does that each night
as he goes to sleep. He sings himself to sleep. Record companies should be
offering him a scholarship! |
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II Reflection - 317
Pope
Paul VI once invited/challenged contemplative communities to help with a bit of ministry
outside the monastery
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John W
mini-Blog |
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On the train yesterday from Brisbane airport
to Iona College where I'm staying, I met a family from Somalia: parents +
four young children....been in Australia only one month....most grateful
for new start in life and help from so many people after being rescued
from a refugee camp in Kenya where the parents had spent almost 20 years.
May materially better-off countries do more to help such people in refugee
camps around the world
UN
Refuses to close Somali refugee camps in Kenya
Somali refugees in Kenya fear early return |
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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, Friday,
please bless the people of South
America
On this 3rd
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Gansu
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
DG arrived Brisbane this morning after very smooth Qantas
flight from Hong Kong.
My mobile no. in Australia (same as last year): 0452437902
(if phoning from overseas, need to use +61 and 452437902 (leave out 0)
God Calling (Jan 1)
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Encouraging words for the start of the year -
really beautiful
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site's full statistics
for December 2013
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China
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- essential reading for anyone interested in China's Christian
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Archbishop of Canterbury says emulate Nelson Mandela in tackling poverty |
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French
priest speaks of boring captivity after being kidnapped in Cameroon |
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Paedophile priest dies in jail
(I knew Michael when I attended lectures at Corpus
Christi Seminary in Melbourne ....may the Lord have mercy on him, and may
the Lord heal the darkness and damage caused by Michael in his poor
victims and their families...and may the priesthood become what St Paul
said: a vocation for mature married men, not immature single men) |
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South Sudan truce possible after rebel leader agrees to
talks |
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30. Each particular
Church, as a portion of the Catholic Church under the leadership of its
bishop, is likewise called to missionary
conversion. It is the primary subject
of evangelization, since it is the concrete manifestation of
the one Church in one specific place, and in it “the one, holy,
catholic, and apostolic Church of Christ is truly present and
operative”.
It is the Church incarnate in a certain place, equipped
with all the means of salvation bestowed by Christ, but with local
features. Its joy in communicating Jesus Christ is expressed both by a
concern to preach him to areas in greater need and in constantly going
forth to the outskirts of its own territory or towards new sociocultural
settings.
Wherever the need for the light and the life of the
Risen Christ is greatest, it will want to be there. To make this
missionary impulse ever more focused, generous and fruitful, I
encourage each particular Church to undertake a resolute process of
discernment, purification and reform.
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New Year Resolutions for Pets
I do not need to suddenly stand straight up when I'm
lying under the coffee table.
My head does not belong in the refrigerator.
I will no longer be beholden to the sound of the can opener. |
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This website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into
bringing drugs to HK)
- letters from
Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
South
America file
(stopping
S. Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons |
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| Francis
wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II Reflection - 316
Low-flame Scripture love means a lot of other low-flame loves...for ministry, for
prayer etc
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John W
mini-Blog |
Hello from Hong Kong Airport on Wed night Jan
1 where I'm waiting for flight to Australia. Some people have the lovely
custom on this first day of the year to pray to the Holy Spirit to fall
afresh on us during the year....so...let's pray:
Spirit of the Living God, Spirit of the
Word-made-Flesh, please fall afresh on our world, on our Church, on our
nations, on our city, on our parish, on our family, on our school .....
right through this New Year! |
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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, Thursday,
please bless the people of South
East Asia
On this 2nd
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Fujian
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Pope's message for January
1:
Only fraternity defeats hunger, war and corruption
Peace agreements are not enough. There needs to be a
"conversion of hearts". Message also makes appeal for
disarmament and for concern for prisoners
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Vatican II - Renewal (2)
Hans
Küng:
Letter
to bishops
Revolution
to stop authoritarianism
Fr Joseph Ratzinger:
Writings
on Vat II
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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Excellent book review
of "What Went Wrong":
American
Exceptionalism
Stagnating wages, declining living standards, growing
inequality, deindustrialization, increasing poverty, a disappearing middle
class, redistribution of wealth toward the top, bursting bubbles |
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| R.I.P. |
Fr. Peter Ma passed away November
13 in New York City, brother of Fr Thomas Ma Si Wan who served for
many long years in Zhaoqing and Yunfu ...who
died in 2007 in Yunfu ....a priest who lived simply and cared for the
poor...a Francis priest |
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How
the church can support young priests in a secular age
The rosy picture painted by this
article needs to be balanced by articles like these from the real world:
Priests
9 Masses a day - need to ordain married men
The
evil of compulsory celibacy
Link
between compulsory celibacy and sexual abuse
Elephant
in the room: homosexuality in priesthood and religious life
Why
are women not being ordained to priesthood?
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29. Other Church institutions, basic communities and small
communities, movements, and forms of association are a source of
enrichment for the Church, raised up by the Spirit for evangelizing
different areas and sectors. Frequently they bring a
new evangelizing fervour and a new capacity for dialogue with the world
whereby the Church is renewed.
But it will prove beneficial for them not to lose
contact with the rich reality of the local parish and to
participate readily in the overall pastoral activity of the particular
Church. This kind of integration will prevent
them from concentrating only on part of the Gospel or the Church, or
becoming nomads without roots
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A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the
other
New Year is just a holiday created by
calendar companies who don't want you reusing last year's calendar
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This website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into
bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's South
America file
(stopping
South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons |
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II Reflection - 315
Does Mt
19.12 refer to celibacy or marriage/divorce?
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John W
mini-Blog |
Yesterday as I looked
back on 2013 and thanked the Lord for so many good things, one item stood
out. It transformed the year. Before it, a sense of hopelessness. After
it, a sense of hope. No prizes for guessing what it was ....the happiest
event of 2013: Francis - DG! |
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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 1st
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Anhui
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
