Fr Harry Winter OMI - Blogger from USA - 2013 Articles 2012 Articles
Nov
8: Vatican
II and the Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy:
ECUMENICAL AND MISSIONARY ASPECTS
Probably
most would agree that his election, his thousand day presidency, and
assassination did make it easier for Americans of all kinds to work
together to lessen racism, poverty and ignorance. How long that attitude endured is another question
July
20: Anniversary of Communion on the Moon, July 20, 1969
The first food and drink consumed on the moon, was a Communion celebration by
Presbyterian astronaut Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr., July 20, 1969. Many
Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are still surprised that an elder in a supposedly
non-liturgical denomination did this
May
10: Anglican
Ordinariate,
Lutheran Ordinariate,
and Blessed John Henry Newman
I would beg any Catholic who has misgivings about the Anglican Ordinariate,
to find a former Anglican pastor who has survived the first year of the
preparation course for ordination to the priesthood in the Catholic
Church. By this time, the
angry ultra-conservatives have either been weeded out or transformed. I
think you will like those you meet, and welcome them as a blessing to our Church.
March 21:
Benedict
XVI and Ecumenism
The resignation moves the papacy away from all the trappings which repel
both the Eastern Orthodox and Protestants. We
will almost certainly see much more interest in the papacy now as the voice for
all Christians. May Benedict be
praised for this ecumenical advance.
(This is a really beautiful and very
important article ...most highly recommended
- jw)
Feb
21: Ecumenism
since Vatican II:
Mandate vs Discouragement
There is a greater emphasis today on spiritual ecumenism, ecumenism on our
knees. When the unity of
Christians reaches the point where we can concelebrate the Lord’s Supper
together, it will be because the Holy Spirit has taught us when to kneel
and when to run. It would seem
there is much more kneeling involved than running.
Jan
10: A sad
example
I was truly
shocked as I celebrated the Mass for the feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton,
to see how the new edition of the Sacramentary changed and deformed the
former collect. We must shout from the rooftops that
we protest and reject the effort by fundamentalists to roll back Vatican II