Pope Francis

Pope's Encyclical:The Joy of the Gospel

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See "Drugs", below

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'Noah' not typical robe-and-sandal Bible film

Tuesday April 1

Why I am no longer a missionary!
( See - Pope Francis: The Joy of the Gospel, below)

Today's Bible readings * *

* Water ....Baptism .....Holy Spirit
* Water ....healing

Russell Crowe epic Noah on course for blockbuster opening weekend

'Noah' sails straight to US number one

Bless me Father - Pope makes surprise visit to confession

Will Pope again wash women's feet on Holy Thursday?
...even though the ban on washing women’s feet remains (c.f. "the law is an ass", below)

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

'Grave concerns' for missing Tanzanian fishing vessel near Antarctica

Rich man poor man

Although wealth often appears to be a great blessing, it is far less a spiritual blessing than the poverty of being deeply needy and dependent – open to help from God. Wealth inevitably carries the blinding danger of feeling self sufficient, unaware of being needy – of being independent without reliance on God to provide our day to day practical sustenance, security, and survival

For Chinese readers:
letter from an inmate in a Hong Kong prison
- how his health improved after prayer

Climate change shouts at us to drop our obsession with economic growth

Humbling experience

The Catholic Church pursued its legal defence as though there was no divine judge

Pope Francis

Full text

120. In virtue of their baptism, all the members of the People of God have become missionary disciples. All the baptized, whatever their position in the Church or their level of instruction in the faith, are agents of evangelization, and it would be insufficient to envisage a plan of evangelization to be carried out by professionals while the rest of the faithful would simply be passive recipients.

The new evangelization calls for personal involvement on the part of each of the baptized. Every Christian is challenged, here and now, to be actively engaged in evangelization; indeed, anyone who has truly experienced God’s saving love does not need much time or lengthy training to go out and proclaim that love.

Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she has encountered the love of God in Christ Jesus: we no longer say that we are “disciples” and “missionaries”, but rather that we are always “missionary disciples”.

If we are not convinced, let us look at those first disciples, who, immediately after encountering the gaze of Jesus, went forth to proclaim him joyfully: “We have found the Messiah!”. The Samaritan woman became a missionary immediately after speaking with Jesus and many Samaritans come to believe in him “because of the woman’s testimony” . So too, Saint Paul, after his encounter with Jesus Christ, “immediately proclaimed Jesus.” So what are we waiting for?

Origin and meaning of "the law is an ass" !

Sent by a reader: The "Y" Chromosome
(..don't read this if you were born 1980 - 2010!)

Filipina sentenced to 23 years in jail over drug trafficking
(I've met this poor lady several times. Her story a very sad one. Please Philippine readers, spread the news: don't bring drugs to HK!)

Online illegal drug business is booming

New letter (in Swahili) from a Tanzanian inmate in a HK prison

On tomorrow's menu: open letter from Tz inmate in HK prison
to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tz re prisoner transfer agreement

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

Francis wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity

Vatican II Reflection - 404

The novels of Charles Dickens described the terrible conditions of poor people in Industrial England....and brought about social change

John W mini-Blog

My weekly article for today's HK Ming Pao newspaper (On MP website)
Today's topic: The stories of Ah-Won and Ah-Too !

On this 1st of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Anhui
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Pope welcomes Jean Vanier,
founder of L\'Arche (YouTube)

Monday March 30

As part of his mysterious love for humanity,
God furnishes the totality of the faithful with an instinct of faith
– sensus fidei –
which helps them to discern what is truly of God

(Pope Francis: The Joy of the Gospel, below)

Today's Bible readings * *

* The future, stupid
* What was Jesus' "second sign"?

Darlene Starrs
(Canada)

Still Looking for a Credible Explanation?
Father John Shea, an Augustinian priest in the United States, has put “his money where his mouth is,” as the saying goes. He has written a letter to Cardinal Sean O’Malley asking for a clear and CREDIBLE explanation of why women cannot be priests. He wrote another open letter in 2012. Such a letter did not go unnoticed and he received a couple warnings and his contract to teach at Boston College was not renewed

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Pope Francis

Full text

We are all missionary disciples

119. In all the baptized, from first to last, the sanctifying power of the Spirit is at work, impelling us to evangelization.

The people of God is holy thanks to this anointing, which makes it infallible in credendo. This means that it does not err in faith, even though it may not find words to explain that faith. The Spirit guides it in truth and leads it to salvation.

As part of his mysterious love for humanity, God furnishes the totality of the faithful with an instinct of faith – sensus fidei – which helps them to discern what is truly of God.

The presence of the Spirit gives Christians a certain connaturality with divine realities, and a wisdom which enables them to grasp those realities intuitively, even when they lack the wherewithal to give them precise expression

Don't give God instructions .. just report for duty

The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.

We don't change the Message .. the Message changes us

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

Francis wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity

Vatican II Reflection - 403

This article discusses the relationship between art and morality....how far can you go in the media, in the name of art, without becoming immoral?

John W mini-Blog

Last week I paid a visit to the new born ill baby of an inmate - at a local hospital. Baby was one of about 100 (!) in the one ward (the size of a ward that usually has 8 adult beds) ....and about half of the babies were crying. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry ....but I sure had an overwhelming feeling of admiration for the staff working in that ward!

On this 31st of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Tianjin
Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Bishop Pat Power ( Australia)

See, Judge and Act:
Reading the Signs of the Times

^{Over the years, I have read and heard much of the Church’s
"preferential option for the poor". I must say that it always
embarrassed me because I saw so little evidence of it in practice. But our new
Pope having placed himself under the patronage of the poor man St Francis
seriously challenges us to return to the simplicity and poverty of Jesus.}

^{Personal
friendships, neighbourly concern and simple acts of kindness can be powerful
antidotes to many of our contemporary evils}

Sunday March 30 Fourth Sunday of Lent

Readings of today's Mass

Reflection on today's readings by Daniel Daring:
I was blind but now I see
There are many nominal Christians for whom Jesus means nothing. The Gospel of John makes it clear that our response to Jesus affects the outcome of our lives. Taking this most important relationship for granted leaves us in sin, whereas faith in Him gives us a new kind of vision that allows us to see the world in an entirely new way.

A new website journal of religion and culture:
OMG!

One of the articles in its first issue is by David Timbs of Melbourne

Want to know how and when the institutional Church highjacked Jesus and the Gospels? David Timbs of Melbourne takes us back to the 11th century to show us how Pope Gregory VII mandated celibacy for all the priests in Christendom and created the College of Cardinals as a self-perpetuating ruling class of the elite and privileged.
In his "Reinvention of the Fisherman," Timbs recounts the failed efforts of Cardinal Newman to bring us back to our senses...Read more.

Pope Francis:
Thank you Holy Spirit

Inspiring photos:


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Newness, harmony, mission

Engagements of Pope Francis

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St Paul on Metro/Tube/MTR!

Little girl telling the story of Jonah - brilliant!

Deaf 40-year-old woman hears sound for first time - video

(May many more deaf people be helped to hear!)

Central African Republic:
Bishops Seek Western Help As Crisis Engulfs Millions

Des
O'Donnell
O.M.I.

Pope Francis' Evangelii Gaudium:

In an attempt to summarize the main points in this great document,
I have chosen significant sentences from each paragraph.
I have also added a partial index to its main themes

South Korea: fewer marriages, fewer babies

c.f. Why less sex in Japan?

Pope Francis

Full text

118. The Bishops of Oceania asked that the Church “develop an understanding and a presentation of the truth of Christ working from the traditions and cultures of the region” and invited “all missionaries to work in harmony with indigenous Christians so as to ensure that the faith and the life of the Church be expressed in legitimate forms appropriate for each culture”.

We cannot demand that peoples of every continent, in expressing their Christian faith, imitate modes of expression which European nations developed at a particular moment of their history, because the faith cannot be constricted to the limits of understanding and expression of any one culture. It is an indisputable fact that no single culture can exhaust the mystery of our redemption in Christ

Little Johnny and his family were having Sunday dinner at his Grandmother's house. Everyone was seated around the table as the food was being served. When Little Johnny received his plate, he started eating right away.
'Johnny! Please wait until we say our prayer.' said his mother.
'I don't need to,' the boy replied. 'Of course, you do.' his mother insisted. 'We always say a prayer before eating at our house.' 'That's at our house.' Johnny explained. 'But this is Grandma's house and she knows how to cook!'

Information has it that the Number One Drug African Drug Lord - "Omari" - is currently in Guangzhou. He is in charge of all operations in Guangdong, HK and Macau ....having taken over this post after the previous Number One returned to Africa (where he was recently arrested)

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

Francis wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity

Vatican II Reflection - 402

These words from article 5 should be displayed on the desk of every media owner and editor

John W mini-Blog

Visit yesterday to Matteo Ricci Centre by "Brother" Bruce Aitken,
host of "The Power of the Word" (9pm-10pm) and "The Hour of Praise" (10pm-11pm) every Sunday night on Hong Kong's AM 1044 METRO PLUS

Bruce's programs are very popular with the inmates of HK's prisons

On this 30th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Shanghai
Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Earth Hour 2014 Video - with Spider Man!

Tonight 8.30 - 9.30: Earth Hour

Earth Hour- millions to switch off lights around the world

Saturday March 29

March 29-30 declared "day of reconciliation" by Pope

Today's Bible readings * *

* Fickle love
* Superficial love

Almost airbrushed from history: Women and the early Church

Why are women not being ordained to priesthood? (updated)

Google: images - women in early church

The unjust treatment
of Bishop Bill Morris

Tribalism lives on for better and for worse

Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi, two saints the Chinese Church deserves to venerate together
(Excellent idea...a local with a foreigner, rather than a foreigner by himself)

This is a powerful article:
The mentally ill are our lepers

R.I.P.

Bishop Michael Putney called home to God

A dear friend. He once joined me for a pilgrimage to China

Email from a friend yesterday mentioned the Huegenots.
Their persecution was a most shameful episode in the history of the Catholic Church

Open borders
Want to double global GDP while eliminating global poverty? Then put aside your nationalist hang-ups and throw open the borders between countries.

Questionable ethics of Cardinal Pell's lawyers go under microscope

Rape victims' parents say George Pell vowed to review Church compensation payments

Right people for the job

Europe's economic crisis is getting worse not better, says Caritas report Survey shows increase in the number of new poor in seven countries and challenges the official European Union discourse

UN votes in favor of Sri Lanka war crimes inquiry

Pope Francis

Full text

117. When properly understood, cultural diversity is not a threat to Church unity.

The Holy Spirit, sent by the Father and the Son, transforms our hearts and enables us to enter into the perfect communion of the blessed Trinity, where all things find their unity. He builds up the communion and harmony of the people of God. The same Spirit is that harmony, just as he is the bond of love between the Father and the Son. It is he who brings forth a rich variety of gifts, while at the same time creating a unity which is never uniformity but a multifaceted and inviting harmony. Evangelization joyfully acknowledges these varied treasures which the Holy Spirit pours out upon the Church.

We would not do justice to the logic of the Incarnation if we thought of Christianity as monocultural and monotonous.

While it is true that some cultures have been closely associated with the preaching of the Gospel and the development of Christian thought, the revealed message is not identified with any of them; its content is transcultural.

Hence in the evangelization of new cultures, or cultures which have not received the Christian message, it is not essential to impose a specific cultural form, no matter how beautiful or ancient it may be, together with the Gospel.

The message that we proclaim always has a certain cultural dress, but we in the Church can sometimes fall into a needless hallowing of our own culture, and thus show more fanaticism than true evangelizing zeal

Email from friend yesterday had a word I'd never seen before: discombobulate !

Very disturbing news from a reader in Tanzania: (re Shikuba)

Hi Rev John!
Please be informed (may be you have already got some information) that the mentioned drug dealer (Ali Khatibu Haji, popularly known as Shikuba) who is in custody MAY BECOME FREE SOON!. This is because there is A VERY VERY BIG EFFORT from the state house (Tanzanian's president office) trying to intervene the matter and make sure the man is free. We had this news in some of our local papers. It seems the ''force'' from the state house is inevitable and it is a matter of time the guy will be a free man!

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

Francis wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity

Vatican II Reflection - 401

We can become so "dumbed down" that we take it for granted that our nightly TV news is just all local material, most of it sensational, with nothing from other countries

John W mini-Blog

Last Tuesday in a prison I met a man who has been in prison for 21 years for murder ...and must wait till 25 years is up before any release date can be applied for. Such is "life imprisonment" in Hong Kong. I guess most people will say "fair enough...murder is no light thing". But after hearing a talk on restorative justice recently, I can't help thinking there must be a better way than 25 years of incarceration

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      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 29th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Chongqing
Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Fridays of Lent:

Prayer before a Crucifix

The Jesus Stabat Mater

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Yesterday: very special guest at Ricci Centre - see mini-Blog, below

Friday March 28

Whenever a community receives the message of salvation, the Holy Spirit enriches its culture
with the transforming power of the Gospel

(see below, The Joy of the Gospel)

Today's Bible readings * *

* Invitation: "Come Back!"

* The Foundation Commandment

Barack Obama meets Pope Francis – video

Pope Francis welcomes Barack Obama to Rome

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1998 ICEL Sacramentary
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Ron Schmit:
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Pope to Italy's Parliamentarians: no to slaves of duty, yes to God
"In Jesus’ time, the leading class had distanced itself from the people, abandoning them by pursuing their own ideologies and sliding ever downwards into corruption"

Pope makes Prospect magazine's list of top 50 world thinkers
Pontiff is only religious leader in catalogue of public intellectuals, which jettisons last year's winner – Richard Dawkins

Ukraine may set off new Scramble for Africa

World Vision adopts policy allowing hiring of Christians in same-sex marriages – then renounces it two days later

Joan Chittister

Lent - a time for almsgiving

Iran and Iraq account for global rise in capital punishment
Figures do not include China which is believed to have executed several thousand people – more than the rest of the world together

Japanese man freed after 45 years on death row

State forces Church back to its mission basics (Frank Brennan)

George Pell publicly apologises to victim John Ellis

Cardinal George O.M.I. out of hospital, receiving antibiotics

Pope Francis

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116. In the first two Christian millennia, countless peoples have received the grace of faith, brought it to flower in their daily lives and handed it on in the language of their own culture.

Whenever a community receives the message of salvation, the Holy Spirit enriches its culture with the transforming power of the Gospel.

The history of the Church shows that Christianity does not have simply one cultural expression, but rather, “remaining completely true to itself, with unswerving fidelity to the proclamation of the Gospel and the tradition of the Church, it will also reflect the different faces of the cultures and peoples in which it is received and takes root”.

In the diversity of peoples who experience the gift of God, each in accordance with its own culture, the Church expresses her genuine catholicity and shows forth the “beauty of her varied face”.

In the Christian customs of an evangelized people, the Holy Spirit adorns the Church, showing her new aspects of revelation and giving her a new face.

Through inculturation, the Church “introduces peoples, together with their cultures, into her own community”, for “every culture offers positive values and forms which can enrich the way the Gospel is preached, understood and lived”.

In this way, the Church takes up the values of different cultures and becomes sponsa ornata monilibus suis, “the bride bedecked with her jewels” (cf. Is 61:10)”.

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

A boy went to Reconciliation with a foreign priest. The boy confessed that one of his sins was that he did a somersault in the pews. The priest's English wasn't good, so he asked what "somersault" meant. The boy went outside the Confession box and performed one in front of the priest. Then an old lady in the queue walked away quietly, saying to herself 'I need to find another priest for Reconciliation, because I can't perform this kind of penance!'

Francis wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity

Vatican II Reflection - 400

Does my local media have a human and Christian spirit?

John W mini-Blog

2014-03-27 Visit to Matteo Ricci Center by Professor Richard Rigby

- Executive Director of ANU China Institute
- Shanghai Consul-General 1994-1998
- Ambassador to Israel 2000-2001

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      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 28th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Beijing
Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Thursday March 27

** Today's Bible readings **

** First reading is from Jeremiah who unsuccessfully spent more than 20 years
trying to get people to listen to God's message
** Gospel: Jesus up against the same stubbornness

What’s wrong with us Africans?

Pioneers of colonialism were chartered companies which have been rebranded into multinational corporations, but with identical aims and objectives

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Australia has been silent on a United Nations push for an inquiry into war crimes in Sri Lanka. Why? Because the government is more concerned about "stopping the boats"

South African lessons about racial discrimination
In Australia, as in most Western societies, wealth and power are being concentrated increasingly in the hands of fewer people and corporations

Tom Roberts (NCR) Notes from the cutting room floor of my reporting trip to Australia

Pope Francis

Full text

A people of many faces

115. The People of God is incarnate in the peoples of the earth, each of which has its own culture.

The concept of culture is valuable for grasping the various expressions of the Christian life present in God’s people. It has to do with the lifestyle of a given society, the specific way in which its members relate to one another, to other creatures and to God.

Understood in this way, culture embraces the totality of a people’s life. Each people in the course of its history develops its culture with legitimate autonomy. This is due to the fact that the human person, “by nature stands completely in need of life in society” and always exists in reference to society, finding there a concrete way of relating to reality. The human person is always situated in a culture: “nature and culture are intimately linked”

Grace supposes culture, and God’s gift becomes flesh in the culture of those who receive it.

Sent by a reader When my daughter, Kelli, said her bedtime prayers, she would bless every family member, every friend, and every animal (current and past). For several weeks, after we had finished the nightly prayer, Kelli would say, 'And all girls.'
This soon became part of her nightly routine, to include this closing. My curiosity got the best of me and I asked her, 'Kelli, why do you always add the part about all girls?' Her response, 'Because everybody always finishes their prayers by saying 'All Men'!'

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

Francis wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity

Vatican II Reflection - 399

Media like a car: can be "driven" safely or dangerously

John W mini-Blog The last two Monday's have seen my schedule changed as I was about to go out the door:
March 17: about to go to a detention centre when I learned that Cardinal Orly was in town for just a day ...so I joined a very happy gathering (and said a prayer for inmates at the centre I had planned to visit).
March 24: about to leave for O.M.I. monthly retreat when police rang to say that a judge was requiring my presence at a High Court appeal case of an inmate I know.
So I was in court instead of on retreat.
March 31: what's your next surprise Dear Lord?!

On this 27th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Tibet
Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Pope Francis blesses a casting of
the Homeless Jesus sculpture.
This one will be installed near
St. Peter's Square

From this report:
'Homeless Jesus' sparks debate on meaning of Christianity

Wednesday March 26

** Today's Bible readings **

** Teach your children about God's love
** Teach, not breach,
God's Law

Chris McDonnell
(Wed UK blogger)

Influencing the vote

We have to accept that no one generation has the final say and that we must experience faith within the developing understanding of the society in which we live. It was not without significance that Edward Schillebeeckx bowed to the empty chair once occupied by Galileo when he too was called to meet with the CDF

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Robert Mickens:
Vatican Implosion

Nicholas Lash: Vatican II:
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Link between compulsory celibacy and sexual abuse

Why are women not being
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God forsaken

The fighter listened impassively as I spoke to him about Jesus. To him God had always seemed remote and Jesus was confined in a world of priests and churches, and old ladies. Although I knew my words were true, they felt so empty and meaningless in the presence of the young man’s anguished story.

Tom Roberts (NCR) Report from Australia: Part Two:
Australian church's quiet revolution 'had to happen'

(Part One: Catholicism in Australia: Demographics, scandal underlie tectonic shifts)

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