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Vatican II &
Renewal (1)
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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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Australia
is neither Christian nor atheist |
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49. Let
us go forth, then, let us go forth to offer everyone the life of Jesus
Christ.
Here I repeat for the entire Church what I have
often said to the priests and laity of Buenos Aires: I
prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has
been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from
being confined and from clinging to its own security.
I do not want a Church
concerned with being at the centre and which then ends by being caught
up in a web of obsessions and procedures.
If something should
rightly disturb us and trouble our consciences, it is the fact that so
many of our brothers and sisters are living without the strength,
light and consolation born of friendship with Jesus Christ, without a
community of faith to support them, without meaning and a goal in
life.
More than by fear of going astray, my
hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within
structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which
make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at
our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us:
“Give them something to eat”
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There was a
young man with a hernia
who said to his surgeon Goldernia:
"When carving my middle,
be sure you don't fiddle,
with things that do not concernia" |
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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 - 335
The Synod of Bishops - emasculated by John Paul II
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John W
mini-Blog |
My
weekly article for today's HK Ming Pao newspaper
(On
MP website)
Today's
topic: Hot Australia |
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Asia
On this 21st
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Yunnan
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Filipino
wins Israeli X Factor
Winner hopes she has drawn attention to
low-paid foreign workers
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Female
Methodist minister used water to bless Cardinal O'Malley
c.f. Cardinal
Bergoglio blessed by evangelicals
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Girzone |
Be
careful whom you judge to be worthless and no longer of use |
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| Anniversary:
Alessandro
Valignano
died on this day
in 1606 |
"Xavier's life and
vision links the Jesuit mission in Japan and China, but it was Valignano
who shaped the mission in both those countries and made them a massive
challenge to the "Christendom" understanding of Christianity as
incarnated in the Portuguese Padroado and the Spanish patronato
In modern terms he shaped the missions in such a way as to challenge the
Eurocentric understanding not only of Christianity but of history and
culture"
Andrew Ross A
Vision Betrayed - The Jesuits in Japan and
China, 1542-1742, p. 32 |
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Interactive
Bible Quiz - 1 Timothy
Based on the actual words of the Bible.
How
many times you can get 3/3 ?!
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48. If
the whole Church takes up this missionary impulse, she has to go forth to everyone
without exception.
But to whom should she go first? When we read the Gospel we find a
clear indication: not so much our friends and wealthy neighbours, but
above all the poor and the sick, those who are
usually despised and overlooked, “those who cannot repay you”.
There can be no room for doubt or for explanations
which weaken so clear a message.
Today and always, “the
poor are the privileged recipients of the Gospel”,
and the fact that it is freely preached to them is a sign of the kingdom
that Jesus came to establish.
We have to state, without mincing words, that
there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we
never abandon them.
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ABC radio (Australia) yesterday morning had
a news report on the bushfires in southern Australia.
Report was by J. Woodburn |
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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 -334
What an ecumenical
council says is roof-top high authority,
higher than a Pope by himself
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John W
mini-Blog |
This website was officially
blessed and launched on this day 2012.
Thank you, Lord, for the past two years.
Blessings on all bloggers and readers over these two years.
May the site be a
voice for poor, and an encouragement for people trying to
follow the example of Pope Francis
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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, Monday,
please bless the people of Europe
& North Asia
On this 20th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Sichuan
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prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
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Australian
Volunteers for International Development
(Can be a great experience to spend time helping in another county) |
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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Shuttle
diplomacy: Kerry and Vatican's Parolin
(My feeling is that President Obama is totally
committed to a Middle East peace treaty before he finishes as president
....something to be remembered for by the world ....and he is missioning
Kerry to pull out all stops for such peace ....as well as to work for
peace in Africa. These two goals deserve our support.
Let's say a prayer each day asking the Lord to bless
Kerry's efforts)
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I find this is a
disturbing article. Why such an extreme stance?
Surely students should learn both European/British history AND
Asian/Australian history. Why set up
a division between them? Extremism
hinders the search for truth
Australia, it's Western, Christian and proud |
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47. The Church is called to
be the house of the Father, with doors always wide
open.
One concrete sign of such openness is that our
church doors should always be open, so that if someone, moved by
the Spirit, comes there looking for God, he or she will not find a closed
door.
There are other doors that should not be closed either.
Everyone can share in some way in the life of the Church; everyone can be
part of the community, nor should the doors of the sacraments be closed
for simply any reason.
This is especially true of the
sacrament which is itself “the door”: baptism. And the
Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is
not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for
the weak.
These convictions have pastoral consequences that we are
called to consider with prudence and boldness. Frequently,
we act as arbiters of grace rather than its facilitators. But
the Church is not a tollhouse; it is the house of the Father, where there
is a place for everyone, with all their problems.
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Worms are used to catch fish. But
fish are used to catch worms! ....it's called sandworming ...I saw
it every morning last week as I walked along the surf beach on the Gold
Coast. Video
(but men I saw doing this just used bare hands, not
pliars!)
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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 - 333
Article 2 of
decree on bishops
reflects the tensions that were present
at Vatican II:
one group pushing for absolute-monarchy type status for the
pope, another group pushing for collegiality between pope and bishops
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John W
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Yesterday was my last day on the
Gold Coast ...visit to beach early am and late afternoon. In the morning
on the waterfront at Main Beach, I saw maybe 300 people - men, women and
children - talking part in a Saturday
Morning Park Run, a movement begun in the UK |
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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 19th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Shanxi
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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American
gun culture: standing your ground against the deadly use of popcorn
(Shame USA, shame, shame, shame) |
The
unjust treatment
of Bishop Bill Morris
Tribalism
lives on, for better and for worse
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Central African Republic- 'seeds of genocide' being sown, warns UN
(Let's keep praying for CAR each day) |
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Facing
reality: popes have ordinary moments, too
("Facing" here is a pun because
the story
is about Pope's face!) |
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Historic
Christian site found in China |
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new cardinals |
Nichols
has been elevated to an office that should have long ago been scrapped |
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Review
of Missal translation promised as disquiet grows
Link to Prayers from 1998 Missal to be made available by ACP
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46. A Church which
“goes forth” is a Church whose doors are open.
Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does
not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world.
Often it is better simply to
slow down, to put aside our eagerness, in
order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to
another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way.
At times we have to be like the father of the prodigal
son, who always keeps his door open so that
when the son returns, he can readily pass through it.
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Another joke told last year
by Cardinal-elect Quevedo during a stop-over in HK:
Man tried to kill a bishop by firing bullet into his brain. Nothing
happened.
Then tried firing into his heart. Nothing happened.
Then fired into his mitre. Bishop dropped dead
(...no brain, no heart, but life
centred on power/importance)
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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 Hong Kong prisons |
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II
Reflection - 332
Religious
congregations have two choices:
1. Keep going as we have been, and gradually die out
2.
Open up to partnership with lay people....in Apostolic
Christian Communities
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John W
mini-Blog |
Gold Coast has a similar problem to Hong
Kong: more and more small shops, small businesses have closed
....because rent too high. Only medical centres and big
businesses able to afford high rents. Governments need to pass laws
about rent rates |
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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, Saturday,
please bless the people of Central
& North America
On this 18th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Shandong
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prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Compared
with prisons in most countries, HK's prisons are excellent. USA could
learn a lot. But rare incidents like this one are a cause for concern.
The light sentence is a joke, as is the appeal. And "protection" room here
means "punishment" room.
Prison officers lose appeal
Why was the Taiwanese man
beaten? Because while he was in prison hospital section to see doctor
(he was sick with flu at the time) he didn't hear/understand an order
in Cantonese to stand up for inspection by a superintendent (Taiwan
people don't speak Cantonese) ....for which he was punished ..... unto
death |
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
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Adelaide
yesterday the hottest city in the world! (43
degrees) |
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The truth about Israel's secret nuclear arsenal
c.f.r. Father,
with cigarette in mouth, to son: "It's wrong to smoke".
Israel, with nuclear arsenal, to Arab neighbours:
"It's wrong to have nuclear weapons" |
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60,000
South Asian ethnic minority people living in HK
- maybe a quarter of them live with 1km of
my centre in Jordan
- many of them (Nepalese especially) suffering from alcohol and
drug abuse |
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The saints go marching out as the face of Islam hardens in Pakistan
(It's important to know about fundamentalist Wahhabism)
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Vatican
to be grilled by UN panel about child sex abuse |
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Stop
the boats: the answer to the wrong question |
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Pope once again mentions how
Japanese
Christians kept their faith alive without priests |
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45.
We see that the task of evangelization operates
within the limits of language and of circumstances. It
constantly seeks to communicate more effectively
the truth of the Gospel in a specific context, without renouncing the
truth, the goodness and the light which it can bring whenever
perfection is not possible.
A missionary heart is aware of these limits and
makes itself “weak with the weak... everything for
everyone”. It never closes itself off,
never retreats into its own security, never opts for rigidity and
defensiveness.
It realizes that it has to grow in its own
understanding of the Gospel and in discerning the paths of the Spirit,
and so it always does what good it can, even if
in the process, its shoes get soiled by the mud of the street.
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More details about Tanzanian woman arrested intending to get plane to
Macau
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 S. American inmates in HK prisons
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Murphy
drops some buttered toast on the kitchen floor. It lands
butter-side-up. He looks at what he has done in astonishment,
for he knows it’s a law of nature that
buttered toast always falls butter-down. He rushes round
to the presbytery to fetch the priest. He tells the priest that
he thinks a miracle has happened round at his flat. He
won’t say what it is but wants Fr Flannagan to see it with his
own eyes. He brings Fr Flannagan into the kitchen and asks him
what he sees on the floor."
"“Well,”
says the priest, “it’s pretty obvious what we have
here. Someone dropped some buttered toast,
and then for some reason flipped it over so that the
butter was on top.”"
“No,
Father, I swear I dropped it and it landed like that,
isn't that a miracle?”
“Well,”
Fr Flannagan says, “it’s certainly a natural law of
the universe that dropped toast never falls butter side
up. But it’s not for me to say it’s a miracle. I’ll
report the matter to the bishop, and have him send people
round, to interview you, take photos, etc.”
An
investigation of some rigour is conducted, not only by
priests of the archdiocese, but by scientists sent from
the Curia in Rome. The final ruling is a negative,
however. it reads:
“It
was certainly an extraordinary event that occurred in
Murphy’s room, quite outside the normal
run of the phenomena. Yet we have to be very cautious
before ruling any happening miraculous, ruling out all
possible natural explanations. In this case we have
declared no miracle. For it probably resulted from
Murphy's having buttered the toast on the wrong side.”
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II
Reflection 331
So many
older women religious have become nervous wrecks or bitter lemons or control
freaks. How can one encourage people to join their communities?
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John W
mini-Blog |
Record heat in Australia
makes me hope that Pope Francis' next teaching letter, on the
environment and care for the planet, will be out soon. Word has
it that Cardinal Peter Turkson (Africa) personally phoned ecology
expert Fr
Sean McDonagh to recruit his help for drafting the document |
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Sun: Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia
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South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America
Sat:
Central & North America
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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 17h
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Shaanxi
Please join me in praying
for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
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Pope to new cardinals:
Your
new job is a service, not a promotion. Don't go arranging parties to
celebrate !
New
cardinals and implication for liturgy
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Something not
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China
cloning on an "industrial scale"
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come from!? |
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44. Pastors and the
lay faithful who accompany their brothers and sisters in faith or on a
journey of openness to God must always remember what the Catechism of
the Catholic Church teaches quite clearly: “Imputability
and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by
ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and
other psychological or social factors”.
Consequently, without detracting from the
evangelical ideal, they need to accompany with mercy and patience the
eventual stages of personal growth as these progressively occur.
I want to remind priests that the
confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with
the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best.
A small step, in the midst
of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which
appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting
great difficulties. Everyone needs to be
touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is
mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and
failings.
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Yesterday I had my annual check-up with skin
specialist Dr Michael Freeman.
DG all clear for another year.
When I made appointment for January 2015, kind secretary said only two spots
available ! (no pun intended ....in fact I needed to explain the pun to
her) |
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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 330
The Curia doesn't like the existence of any group that might
challenge its authority |
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John W
mini-Blog
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For some weeks now I've been putting on
the daily menu of this website one item of Pope Francis' letter "The
Joy of the Gospel". Each day I use color to highlight
some extra-important ideas.
But the whole letter is so good, that selecting just one or two
sentences is not easy. Almost every line needs highlighting ....so good is
the letter.
Today's item about allowing for human weaknesses and going slowly, slowly
in encouraging people is so practical. It's has the same theme
of patience as no. 24:
24. An evangelizing community is always
concerned with fruit, because the Lord wants her to be fruitful. It cares
for the grain and does not grow impatient at the
weeds. The sower, when he sees weeds sprouting among the grain does
not grumble or overreact. He or she finds a way to let the
word take flesh in a particular situation and bear fruits of new
life, however imperfect or incomplete these may
appear.
This letter has great wisdom for our
hearts, our families, our schools, our church, our world. Let's keep on
making the effort to read one item from it each day
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Africa
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Europe & Russia Tues:
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East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
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Central & North America
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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 16th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Qinghai
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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List
of 19 new cardinals reflects focus on the poor
and reflects a turning away from the
Cardinal Burke fashion
In
this report, notice that Francis baptised a
child whose parents were not married in the Church, only married civilly
A
monsignor-free Church? What next?
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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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At least 200 drown in South Sudan ferry accident while fleeing fighting
(let's keep praying each day for peace in South
Sudan) |
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Concern over replacement of
HK Ming Pao chief editor
c.f. radio/tv/university/government .....new
appointments showing distinct preference for people who will not rock
Beijing boat |
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Increase
in HK refugee/asylum seeker allowances 'mean'
EU must open doors to avoid Syrian refugee
catastrophe says UN |
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Amazing
sculpture tribute to Nelson Mandela
Video |
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Well done, India! Shows
what is possible when governments get their act together:
WHO set to declare India free of polio |
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Video recommended by a
reader
(Chinese Lunar New Year coming soon -Jan 31):
Singapore: The
Reunion Dinner 回家過年 |
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Russia:
AK-47
inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov plagued by guilt |
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43. In her ongoing
discernment, the Church can also come to see that certain
customs not directly connected to the heart of the Gospel, even some which
have deep historical roots, are no longer properly understood and
appreciated.
Some of these customs may be beautiful, but they
no longer serve as means of communicating the Gospel. We should not be
afraid to re-examine them.
At the same time, the Church has rules or precepts which
may have been quite effective in their time, but no
longer have the same usefulness for directing and shaping people’s lives.
Saint Thomas Aquinas pointed out that the
precepts which Christ and the apostles gave to the people of God “are
very few”. Citing Saint Augustine, he noted that
the precepts subsequently enjoined by the Church should be insisted upon
with moderation “so as not to burden the lives of the faithful” and
make our religion a form of servitude, whereas “God’s mercy has willed
that we should be free”.
This warning, issued many centuries ago,
is most timely today. It ought to be one of the criteria to be taken into
account in considering a reform of the Church and her preaching which
would enable it to reach everyone.
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Sign of a good holiday: yesterday after going for an early
morning (5am!) walk, run and swim, plus a delicious breakfast on beach at
life savers' cafe (coffee + a bacon and egg burger), I went home to my
brother's place and had a lovely hot shower ....and completely forgot to
have a shave! |
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A
new comment at Tanzania file has info re alleged
drug lords Mwigulu, Nchimbi, Ridhiwani & Kapuya
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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| Francis
wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican II
Reflection 329
"Merging mode" is not the best answer when numbers
decline ...in a monastery,
institute, parish or whatever
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John W
mini-Blog |
While I was having a second swim in the surf
yesterday (late afternoon) I thought how God's unconditional love is like
the surf we swim in: doesn't matter how old, how young, how good, how
bad ....the surf is there for everyone, refreshing, cleansing,
envigorating
Some
Gold Coast photos
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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 15th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Liaoning
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
