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| | Topic: Dismantling of Vatican II |
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| Dismantling of Vatican II |
Thu, 08 July 2010 05:35 |
Anne
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http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2& entry_id=3088
Strong words from Bishop Kevin Dowling.
"The Southern Cross [South Africa's "national Catholic weekly"] about three or four weeks ago published a picture of Bishop Slattery with his "cappa magna" in colour... For me, such a display of what amounts to triumphalism in a Church torn apart by the sexual abuse scandal, is most unfortunate. What happened there bore the marks of a medieval royal court, not the humble, servant leadership modelled by Jesus. But it seems to me that this is also a symbol of what has been happening in the Church especially since Pope John Paul II became the Bishop of Rome and up till today - and that is "restorationism", the carefully planned dismantling of the theology, ecclesiology, pastoral vision, indeed the "opening of the windows" of Vatican II in order to "restore" a previous, or more controllable model of Church through an increasingly centralised power structure; a structure which now controls everything in the life of the Church through a network of Vatican Congregations led by Cardinals who ensure strict compliance with what is deemed by them to be "orthodox". Those who do not comply face censure and punishment..."
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| What Is "Abortion," Anyway? |
Thu, 20 May 2010 09:20 |
Anne
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from dotcommonweal:
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=8409#comments
This seems all very reasonable,legitimate as well as serious and difficult. Why do the bishops not give us explanations such as this to reflect on. They tell us what to we should believe blindly. The abuse scandal is proof that if this situation was about men,certain exceptions would be made.
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| | Topic: Final appeals rejected in RCAB parish closure cases |
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| Sister Margaret McBride Excommunicated? |
Mon, 17 May 2010 06:55 |
Anne
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Certainly by her bishop, but in the eyes of many she is not. Her decision and that of the hospital was the pro life decision.
Read here:
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-nun-excommunicated-af ter-abortion-to-save-mother-decision-93880384.html
What's up with Arizona anyway? First the very unfair immigration bill, now this from the Church.
The mother was dying and the 11 week old fetus would die as soon as the mother does. The fetus dies either way. There is no justifiable moral defense for allowing two innocents to die when one can be saved. To believe otherwise is mocking any pro life stand. To state that the 2 lives should end is nothing but murder.
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| | Topic: Church lost meaning for many young people |
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| Church lost meaning for many young people |
Sun, 09 May 2010 10:33 |
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"Unlike the generations of progressive Catholics who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, young Catholics are not willing to fight for the soul of the church. The church has lost its influence over the consciences of new generations. Our imaginations were not formed by its rituals and our morality was not created by its figures of authority. We were not raised by a church that held absolute authority over the state of our souls -- both in this life and the next."
http://ncronline.org/blogs/young-voices/challenge-old-progre ssives
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| | Topic: Missal Musings |
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| Missal Musings |
Sat, 24 April 2010 10:10 |
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from Pray Tell:
http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2010/04/24/missal-musi ngs/
A friend in a diocesan office who has a good sense of the landscape muses about how the implementation will go. It won't be possible for everyone to adopt the whole thing at one time. (The decree of promulgation might well provide a vacatio legis, an interim period.) Parishes will continue to sing well-known settings of things like the Gloria and Sanctus for a while, perhaps for years. Priests who now tinker around with the official text (sometimes well done, sometimes not so much) probably won't stop it now that they have a text they really don't like. Because the new text is sometimes a bit complicated in its twisting syntax, it won't be difficult to make a real hash of it on the fly. Some priests have already stated they simply won't use the new missal. A friend at a major publishing house tells me this is one more reason why they'll continue to sell products with the current text. The number of recusants probably won't be that great maybe some bishops will count on them being older guys close to retirement . Will some parishioners select where they worship based on which text is used? My friend says, "We'll be just like the Episcopalians with Rite I and Rite II, so get ready for it." Should we get ready for a real mess? Any ideas for how to calm the waters? What are you expecting?
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| | Topic: Open Letter to Hans Küng |
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| Open Letter to Hans Küng |
Thu, 22 April 2010 09:18 |
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George Weigel in First Things
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/04/an-open-lette r-to-hans-kung
A decade and a half ago, a former colleague of yours among the younger progressive theologians at Vatican II told me of a friendly warning he had given you at the beginning of the Council's second session. As this distinguished biblical scholar and proponent of Christian-Jewish reconciliation remembered those heady days, you had taken to driving around Rome in a fire-engine red Mercedes convertible, which your friend presumed had been one fruit of the commercial success of your book, The Council: Reform and Reunion.
This automotive display struck your colleague as imprudent and unnecessarily self-advertising, given that some of your more adventurous opinions, and your talent for what would later be called the sound-bite, were already raising eyebrows and hackles in the Roman Curia. So, as the story was told me, your friend called you aside one day and said, using a French term you both understood, "Hans, you are becoming too evident."
As the man who single-handedly invented a new global personality-type--the dissident theologian as international media star--you were not, I take it, overly distressed by your friend's warning. In 1963, you were already determined to cut a singular path for yourself, and you were media-savvy enough to know that a world press obsessed with the man-bites-dog story of the dissenting priest-theologian would give you a megaphone for your views. You were, I take it, unhappy with the late John Paul II for trying to dismantle that story-line by removing your ecclesiastical mandate to teach as a professor of Catholic theology; your subsequent, snarling put-down of Karol Wojtyla's alleged intellectual inferiority in one volume of your memoirs ranked, until recently, as the low-point of a polemical career in which you have become most evident as a man who can concede little intelligence, decency, or good will in his opponents.
I say "until recently," however, because your April 16 open letter to the world's bishops, which I first read in the Irish Times, set new standards for that distinctive form of hatred known as odium theologicum and for mean-spirited condemnation of an old friend who had, on his rise to the papacy, been generous to you while encouraging aspects of your current work.
Before we get to your assault on the integrity of Pope Benedict XVI, however, permit me to observe that your article makes it painfully clear that you have not been paying much attention to the matters on which you pronounce with an air of infallible self-assurance that would bring a blush to the cheek of Pius IX.
You seem blithely indifferent to the doctrinal chaos besetting much of European and North American Protestantism, which has created circumstances in which theologically serious ecumenical dialogue has become gravely imperiled.
You take the most rabid of the Pius XII-baiters at face value, evidently unaware that the weight of recent scholarship is shifting the debate in favor of Pius' courage in defense of European Jewry (whatever one may think of his exercise of prudence).
You misrepresent the effects of Benedict XVI's 2006 Regensburg Lecture, which you dismiss as having "caricatured" Islam. In fact, the Regensburg Lecture refocused the Catholic-Islamic dialogue on the two issues that complex conversation urgently needs to engage--religious freedom as a fundamental human right that can be known by reason, and the separation of religious and political authority in the twenty-first century state.
You display no comprehension of what actually prevents HIV/AIDS in Africa, and you cling to the tattered myth of "overpopulation" at a moment when fertility rates are dropping around the globe and Europe is entering a demographic winter of its own conscious creation.
You seem oblivious to the scientific evidence underwriting the Church's defense of the moral status of the human embryo, while falsely charging that the Catholic Church opposes stem-cell research.
Why do you not know these things? You are an obviously intelligent man; you once did groundbreaking work in ecumenical theology. What has happened to you?
What has happened, I suggest, is that you have lost the argument over the meaning and the proper hermeneutics of Vatican II. That explains why you relentlessly pursue your fifty-year quest for a liberal Protestant Catholicism, at precisely the moment when the liberal Protestant project is collapsing from its inherent theological incoherence. And that is why you have now engaged in a vicious smear of another former Vatican II colleague, Joseph Ratzinger. Before addressing that smear, permit me to continue briefly on the hermeneutics of the Council.
While you are not the most theologically accomplished exponent of what Benedict XVI called the "hermeneutics of rupture" in his Christmas 2005 address to the Roman Curia, you are, without doubt, the most internationally visible member of that aging group which continues to argue that the period 19621965 marked a decisive trapgate in the history of the Catholic Church: the moment of a new beginning, in which Tradition would be dethroned from its accustomed place as a primary source of theological reflection, to be replaced by a Christianity that increasingly let "the world" set the Church's agenda (as a motto of the World Council of Churches then put it).
The struggle between this interpretation of the Council, and that advanced by Council fathers like Ratzinger and Henri de Lubac, split the post-conciliar Catholic theological world into warring factions with contending journals: Concilium for you and your progressive colleagues, Communio for those you continue to call "reactionaries." That the Concilium project became ever more implausible over time--and that a younger generation of theologians, especially in North America, gravitated toward the Communio orbit--could not have been a happy experience for you. And that the Communio project should have decisively shaped the deliberations of the 1985 Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, called by John Paul II to celebrate Vatican II's achievements and assess its full implementation on the twentieth anniversary of its conclusion, must have been another blow.
Yet I venture to guess that the iron really entered your soul when, on December 22, 2005, the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI--the man whose appointment to the theological faculty at Tübingen you had once helped arrange--addressed the Roman Curia and suggested that the argument was over: and that the conciliar "hermeneutics of reform," which presumed continuity with the Great Tradition of the Church, had won the day over "the hermeneutics of discontinuity and rupture."
Perhaps, while you and Benedict XVI were drinking beer at Castel Gandolfo in the summer of 2005, you somehow imagined that Ratzinger had changed his mind on this central question. He obviously had not. Why you ever imagined he might accept your view of what an "ongoing renewal of the Church" would involve is, frankly, puzzling. Nor does your analysis of the contemporary Catholic situation become any more plausible when one reads, further along in your latest op-ed broadside, that recent popes have been "autocrats" against the bishops; again, one wonders whether you have been paying sufficient attention. For it seems self-evidently clear that Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI have been painfully reluctant--some would say, unfortunately reluctant--to discipline bishops who have shown themselves incompetent or malfeasant and have lost the capacity to teach and lead because of that: a situation many of us hope will change, and change soon, in light of recent controversies.
In a sense, of course, none of your familiar complaints about post-conciliar Catholic life is new. It does, however, seem ever more counterintuitive for someone who truly cares about the future of the Catholic Church as a witness to God's truth for the world's salvation to press the line you persistently urge upon us: that a credible Catholicism will tread the same path trod in recent decades by various Protestant communities which, wittingly or not, have followed one or another version of your counsel to a adopt a hermeneutics of rupture with the Great Tradition of Christianity. Still, that is the single-minded stance you have taken since one of your colleagues worried about your becoming too evident; and as that stance has kept you evident, at least on the op-ed pages of newspapers who share your reading of Catholic tradition, I expect it's too much to expect you to change, or even modify, your views, even if every bit of empirical evidence at hand suggests that the path you propose is the path to oblivion for the churches.
What can be expected, though, is that you comport yourself with a minimum of integrity and elementary decency in the controversies in which you engage. I understand odium theologicum as well as anyone, but I must, in all candor, tell you that you crossed a line that should not have been crossed in your recent article, when you wrote the following:
There is no denying the fact that the worldwide system of covering up sexual crimes committed by clerics was engineered by the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger (1981-2005).
That, sir, is not true. I refuse to believe that you knew this to be false and wrote it anyway, for that would mean you had willfully condemned yourself as a liar. But on the assumption that you did not know this sentence to be a tissue of falsehoods, then you are so manifestly ignorant of how competencies over abuse cases were assigned in the Roman Curia prior to Ratzinger's seizing control of the process and bringing it under CDF's competence in 2001, then you have forfeited any claim to be taken seriously on this, or indeed any other matter involving the Roman Curia and the central governance of the Catholic Church.
As you perhaps do not know, I have been a vigorous, and I hope responsible, critic of the way abuse cases were (mis)handled by individual bishops and by the authorities in the Curia prior to the late 1990s, when then-Cardinal Ratzinger began to fight for a major change in the handling of these cases. (If you are interested, I refer you to my 2002 book, The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church.)
I therefore speak with some assurance of the ground on which I stand when I say that your description of Ratzinger's role as quoted above is not only ludicrous to anyone familiar with the relevant history, but is belied by the experience of American bishops who consistently found Ratzinger thoughtful, helpful, deeply concerned about the corruption of the priesthood by a small minority of abusers, and distressed by the incompetence or malfeasance of bishops who took the promises of psychotherapy far more seriously than they ought, or lacked the moral courage to confront what had to be confronted.
I recognize that authors do not write the sometimes awful subheads that are put on op-ed pieces. Nonetheless, you authored a piece of vitriol--itself utterly unbecoming a priest, an intellectual, or a gentleman--that permitted the editors of the Irish Times to slug your article: "Pope Benedict has made worse just about everything that is wrong with the Catholic Church and is directly responsible for engineering the global cover-up of child rape perpetrated by priests, according to this open letter to all Catholic bishops." That grotesque falsification of the truth perhaps demonstrates where odium theologicum can lead a man. But it is nonetheless shameful.
Permit me to suggest that you owe Pope Benedict XVI a public apology, for what, objectively speaking, is a calumny that I pray was informed in part by ignorance (if culpable ignorance). I assure you that I am committed to a thoroughgoing reform of the Roman Curia and the episcopate, projects I described at some length in God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church, a copy of which, in German, I shall be happy to send you. But there is no path to true reform in the Church that does not run through the steep and narrow valley of the truth. The truth was butchered in your article in the Irish Times. And that means that you have set back the cause of reform.
With the assurance of my prayers,
George Weigel
Just another sinner
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| Should the pope resign or....? |
Sun, 11 April 2010 06:37 |
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Heated discussion over at Dotcommonweal:
A Smoking Gun
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=7786#comments
This blog comment asks some good questions. Would you add anything or disagree with anything?
"For those who persist in calling for the Pope to resign: what would you have him do? Today? What specific action could he take that he has not already taken, what is it that would make you say "Alright, that's what I wanted done, I now rescind my demand that he resign." Specify."
Resign. Today.
or:
1. Dissolve the Curia. It does more harm than good.
2. Dissolve all de facto and actual personal prelatures like the Leigionaries who have "purchased influence" [bribed] the Vatican.
3. Appoint an imparital "internal affairs committee" which has unlimited power and standing to ivestigate all accusations of corruption or clergy sex abuse. All reports of the committeee are in writing and published. The Pope, being the Pope has full discretion to ingore or act on the reports, but they are public.
4. Appoint another committee to investigate and determine worldwide whether celibacy is obverved at all and to what extent. Publish the results. No extensive study of celibacy and how it is observed has ever been condcuted. Acnectodal information indicates it is observed mostly in the breech.
5. Reconstitute the College of Cardinals. "Cardinal" historically was not a necessarily ordained position until the early 1900's and the last unordained Cardinal died as recently as the late 1800's. Return to that model. Require that 50% of the College of Cardinals are unordained. Require that 50% of the unordained cardinals be women. Any member of the college of cardinals has access to all churhc finanical information and all matters relatign to celibacy and sex abuse.
6. Prepare an annual report:
By diocese: Number of reports of clergy sex abuse.
Number of reports deemed credible.
Number reported to civil authorities.
Dollar amount of any settlements.
7. Get new PR people with two feet to stand on. The cuurent ones have shot both feet off.
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| Interview with Father Tom Doyle |
Tue, 06 April 2010 04:08 |
Anne
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Fr. Tom Doyle speaks his mind in this Australian interview. He covers just about everything in regards to the abuse issue. If only more priests of integrity would speak out like him.
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/transcript/id/600432/n/ Interview-with-Father-Tom-Doyle
(you might have to copy and paste)
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| | Topic: A General Intercession for Good Friday |
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| Triduum |
Wed, 31 March 2010 08:41 |
Anne
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A blessed Triduum to all of us! Happy Easter!
Love,
Anne
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| | Topic: "Give us bishops who are close to the people!" |
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| "Give us bishops who are close to the people!" |
Wed, 24 March 2010 12:03 |
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Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot while saying Mass on March 24, 1980. As a bishop in El Salvador, he regularly denounced the brutal violence and oppression sponsored by the military-led right-wing government during the nation's civil war.
Originally Romero made it a point to stay out of politics. However after Jesuit priest and friend Rutilio Grande was killed for calling for land reform on behalf of peasant farmers, Romero was motivated to take action. He was the only one to speak out and demand an investigation of Grande's death. The government predictably did nothing, but Romero continued to be vocal in his defense of the poor, speaking out against poverty, violence, terror tactics and overall injustices that were routinely being committed by the state. He gained international fame, which he used to argue that supporting the Salvadoran government was to
support violence.
On March 24, Romero proclaimed in his last homily, "One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives." Moments later, he was gunned down by a death squad.
Citizens and civil organizations have commemorated Romero's death over the years, but this year is the first time in history that the Salvadoran government has recognized the tragedy. In fact on March 4 the Salvadoran National Assembly declared March 24 to be Monseñor Oscar Arnulfo Romero Day.
President Mauricio Funes issued a public apology on behalf of the Salvadoran state for the assassination of Romero. Ironically President Funes is the nation's first leftist president and sided with Romero during the war.
There is a strong campaign for Romero to be canonized and he is often referred to as San Romero. He has not become a saint yet, but the late Pope John Paul II did bestow upon him the title of Servant of God. Regardless, his legacy lives on for the people of El Salvador and for the marginalized and voiceless who struggle for justice.
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| | Topic: L A RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CONGRESS |
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| L A RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CONGRESS |
Sat, 20 March 2010 05:35 |
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Wish I could be there. This yearly event gives me so much hope for the church, especially after viewing the youth day section. Nothing like this on the east coast, unfortunately.
http://www.recongress.org/
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| DAVID HAAS and LORI TRUE |
Fri, 12 March 2010 07:38 |
Anne
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In Concert
DAVID HAAS and LORI TRUE
All proceeds will benefit the David Haas institute for young pastoral musicians
Music Ministry Alive!
Fostering the growth of young pastoral musicians...one saint at a time!
www.musicministryalive.com
Sponsored by Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Sharon, MA
Hosted by Stonehill College in Easton, MA
Friday, June 18, 2010
7:30 p.m.
in the Stonehill College Martin Institute Auditorium
Please find directions to campus and concert site at www.stonehill.edu.
Tickets: $15 in advance/$18 at the door/$10 children under 12
Please make checks payable to Music Ministry Alive!
For tickets or additional information, please contact:
Rev. Scott Euvrard
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59 Cottage Street
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| religious illiteracy |
Mon, 08 March 2010 12:43 |
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http://ncronline.org/news/stemming-rampant-religious-illiter acy
How can Americans evaluate U.S. foreign policy if they don't know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite Muslim? How can citizens understand biblical references when cited by political leaders? How can Christians be so sure they have "the truth" if they aren't even aware what other religions believe?
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| | Topic: Lenten Fasting |
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| Lenten Fasting |
Tue, 16 February 2010 05:26 |
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Lent is a season that calls us:
to fast from discontent and to feast on gratitude;
to fast from anger and to feast on patience;
to fast from bitterness and to feast on forgiveness;
to fast from self-concern and to feast on compassion;
to fast from discouragement and to feast on hope;
to fast from laziness and to feast on commitment;
to fast from complaining and to feast on acceptance;
to fast from lust and to feast on respect;
to fast from prejudice and to feast on understanding;
to fast from resentment and to feast on reconciliation;
to fast from lies and to feast on the truth;
to fast from wasted time and to feast on honest work;
to fast from grimness and to feast on joy;
to fast from suspicion and to feast on trust;
to fast from idle talk and to feast on prayer and silence;
to fast from guilt and to feast on the mercy of God.
(Based on a version often attributed to William Arthur Ward)
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| Lord's Prayer in Haitian Creole |
Sat, 16 January 2010 05:11 |
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While watching news reports of the devastation I heard what sounded like prayer in the background. I was correct. This is the Our Father in Creole. The people have a strong faith despite the lives they lived before and now after the earthquake. If we can't do anything else, we certainly can pray with with them.
Papa nou
Ki nan syèl la
Se pou yo respekte non ou
Se pou yo rekonèt se ou ki wa
Se pou volonte'w fèt sou tè a tankou nan syèl la.
Pen nou bezwen an
Ba nou li jodi
a Padone sa nou fè'w
Tankou nou padone
Moun ki fè, moun ki choy
Pa kite nou pran nan pyèj
Men delivre nou anba sa ki mal Amèn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devSE64pFRc
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| Earthquake in Haiti |
Wed, 13 January 2010 11:14 |
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A Prayer After the Earthquake in Haiti
Diana Macalintal
Lord, at times such as this,
when we realize that the ground beneath our feet
is not as solid as we had imagined,
we plead for your mercy.
As the things we have built crumble about us,
we know too well how small we truly are
on this ever-changing, ever-moving,
fragile planet we call home.
Yet you have promised never to forget us.
Do not forget us now.
Today, so many people are afraid.
They wait in fear of the next tremor.
They hear the cries of the injured amid the rubble.
They roam the streets in shock at what they see.
And they fill the dusty air with wails of grief
and the names of missing dead.
Comfort them, Lord, in this disaster.
Be their rock when the earth refuses to stand still,
and shelter them under your wings when homes no longer exist.
Embrace in your arms those who died so suddenly this day.
Console the hearts of those who mourn,
and ease the pain of bodies on the brink of death.
Pierce, too, our hearts with compassion,
we who watch from afar,
as the poorest on this side of the earth
find only misery upon misery.
Move us to act swiftly this day,
to give generously every day,
to work for justice always,
and to pray unceasingly for those without hope.
And once the shaking has ceased,
the images of destruction have stopped filling the news,
and our thoughts return to life’s daily rumblings,
let us not forget that we are all your children
and they, our brothers and sisters.
We are all the work of your hands.
For though the mountains leave their place
and the hills be tossed to the ground,
your love shall never leave us,
and your promise of peace will never be shaken.
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
Blessed be the name of the Lord,
now and forever. Amen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devSE64pFRc
One of the sites where you might donate:
https://secure.crs.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3181&3181.do nation=form1
Here is another reputable group:
https://www.justgive.org/basket?acton=addGuideStarCharity&am p;ein=23-2566502&description=A+non+profit+charity+assist ing+the+poor+of+Haiti+through+its+schools%252C+educational+p rograms%252C+medical+clinics%252C+nutrition+programs%252C+wa ter-well+and+agricultural+development+programs.+&org_nam e=Hands+Together%252C+Inc.&address=PO+Box+80985+&cit y=Springfield&state=MA&zip=01138
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| A welcome addition to St Blog's |
Tue, 05 January 2010 14:43 |
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Pray Tell
http://www.praytellblog.com/
Contributors include Fr Anthony Ruff OSB and Fr John Baldovin SJ. This is intended as a blog complement to Collegeville's Worship magazine, and is most welcome to enter the lists, as it were. The voice of serious progressive scholars and practitioners of liturgy has largely been absent from St Blog's for far too long. The list of potential contributors is not evenly weighted, but having Ruff and Baldovin kick this off is a good omen - particularly as they are quite willing to challenge what often has passed for
"progressive liturgy" in recent decades (but was not necessarily progressive at all but merely old bad habits in a new frock and hat) - and I hope they contribute significantly and regularly. I wonder if Abp Weakland will end up contributing; I notice in his recent book some rather trenchant observations of the failure of Cdl Dearden's approach to let commercial publishers of liturgical music dominate the formation of the postconciliar liturgical music, something Weakland admits he insufficiently resisted and now regrets.
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| Just ask |
Fri, 01 January 2010 06:54 |
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"...faith, hope and charity are three great individual virtues, but faith alone will not pay operating expenses. Hope is not a strategy. And charity, as a mindset, will generate token gifts. “Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” With that passage from Luke’s Gospel, an organization has its biblical permission."
http://ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/two-word-action-plan- just-ask
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| | Topic: New Year’s Wishes from Pope Benedict |
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| New Year’s Wishes from Pope Benedict |
Thu, 31 December 2009 05:24 |
Anne
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At the conclusion of today’s audience, the Pope expressed his prayerful wishes:
Cari amici siamo giunti alla fine di questo anno e alle porte dell’anno nuovo. Vi auguro che l’amicizia di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo vi accompagni ogni giorno di questo anno che sta per iniziare. Possa questa amicizia di Cristo essere nostra luce e guida, aiutandoci ad essere uomini di pace, della sua pace. Buon anno a tutti voi!
Dear friends, we have reached the end of this year and stand at the threshold of the New Year. My wish is that the friendship of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, will accompany you each day of this new year. May friendship with Christ be our light and guide, helping us to to be people of peace, of his peace. Happy New Year to all!
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| Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe |
Fri, 11 December 2009 05:20 |
Anne
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December 12
Patron of the Americas
No matter what critics may say of the devotion of Mexicans (and Mexican descendants) to Our Lady of Guadalupe, they owe their Christianity to her influence. If it were not for her, they would not know her son, and so they are eternally grateful.
Mary appeared to Juan Diego not as a European madonna but as a beautiful Aztec princess speaking to him in his own Aztec language. If we want to help someone appreciate the gospel we bring, we must appreciate the culture and the mentality in which they live their lives. By understanding them, we can help them to understand and know Christ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oUlFt5VErg&feature=playe r_embedded
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| | Topic: World AIDS Day, December 1 |
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| World AIDS Day, December 1 |
Mon, 30 November 2009 13:33 |
Anne
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Dear God,
We ask you to walk with us in our HIV and AIDS filled world.
We pray expecting your presence among us!
Be with all who live with the effects of this disease.
Be with those who wait to die because they have no access to medication.
Be with children who received HIV as a legacy from their parents.
Be with orphans and families who have lost loved ones.
Be with countries who have millions of citizens with HIV/AIDS.
Be with all who are stigmatised and ignored
because they have HIV or AIDS.
Be with politicians and corporate executives
who control access to affordable medications.
Be with researchers and scientists who work to find a cure.
Be with health care workers and caregivers who comfort and encourage.
Be with all who have lost hope because of HIV and AIDS.
Lord, we hear the angel's song of peace!
Fill the hearts of people around the world with good will
so that together we can work for justice and healing
for all who suffer from HIV and AIDS.
Amen.
(from the Diocese of Oxford, UK)
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| | Topic: The Voice of the Faithful is the hope of the church |
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| The Voice of the Faithful is the hope of the church |
Mon, 30 November 2009 06:07 |
Anne
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Acceptance Speech: Reverend Donald Cozzens
Voice of the Faithful
Priest of Integrity Award
Long Island, New York
October 31, 2009
http://votf-li.org/cozaccept.pdf
"Your voice, the voice of the faithful laity, has spoken with urgency and strength and clarity to church leaders and to the church as a whole at a time when the voice of priests and bishops is hardly heard at all—except to minimize, contextualize, and rationalize the abuse scandals and their cover-up that have led to the worst crisis ever faced by the U.S. Catholic Church....
...You can’t give up because the church, in spite of deafness in many quarters, needs your voice, your commitment, and your witness.
You can’t give up because the women of the church and the world need you to stand shoulder to shoulder with them. We need women leaders in our chanceries and Catholic Centers. We need to hear the gospel preached in the voice of women as well as men.
You can’t give up because the men in holy orders are growing old and tired. The lifting of mandatory celibacy is the key to a healthy, revitalized priesthood and church.
You can’t give up because the world’s economic order is twisted and unjust and you are positioned to forge a more just and humane order.
You can’t give up because the church has barely set out on its grudging journey down the road of accountability and transparency.
You can’t give up because there remain victims of clergy abuse who need your support and compassion.
You can’t give up because children continue to be abused not only in rectories and schools, but also in their homes and neighborhoods.
Don’t give up. We priests, whether we realize it or not, need your witness of adult maturity and courage and integrity. You are the voice of hope to countless priests you may never hear from."
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| | Topic: Can Catholics find common ground? |
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| Can Catholics find common ground? |
Sun, 29 November 2009 07:42 |
Anne
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November 21, 2009
Chicago Tribune
Manya Brachear, The Seeker
Are American Catholics facing irreconcilable differences? The late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin didn’t believe that. Shortly before his death in 1996 he founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, a forum for the faithful to confront their polarities and celebrate their unity. That forum moved to Chicago last week and made a new home at Catholic Theological Union. Could it be here just in time to resolve the latest clash among conservatives, liberals and all those in between?
Though Catholics have long lived with differences beneath the surface, some of those disparate views will emerge this weekend when parishes pass the annual collection plate for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Instead of contributing money, conservative critics are urging parishioners to drop a coupon in the basket, calling on CCHD to provide proof that the groups funded by the agency in no way oppose church teachings.
The boycott stems from criticism that the national campaign has financed anti-poverty organizations that violate teachings on issues such as abortion rights, birth control and gay marriage.
But the conflict also reflects philosophical differences about Catholic social teaching. Mary Anne Hackett, president of Catholic Citizens of Illinois, said the church shouldn’t be working with government to change policies. It should be feeding, clothing and serving the poor more directly. Moreover, the agencies it funds should follow Catholic teachings to the letter, she said.
The Rev. Donald Senior, president of Catholic Theological Union, said the rift might be one for the initiative to tackle.
Participants would need to ask: “What is the proper Catholic social response? Should it only be working with corporal works of mercy? What is the legitimacy of trying to come to bear on the structures of society that trap people in poverty?”
Participants also would need to be willing “to hear both sides of that,” he said. “There would have to be an assumption of good will to get together.”
1. Recognize that no one person or group owns the truth. Solutions to problems are likely to come from a variety of sources.
2. Do not envision yourself or any group as the saving remnant. Do not participate in the bashing of any group.
3. Presume good faith on the part of those with whom you differ. Exercise charity; do not substitute labels for complicated realities.
4. Test all proposals for their pastoral impact as well as their theological truth. Pastoral effectiveness if a responsibility of leadership.
5. Do not ascribe motives to others.
6. Critique and evaluate cultural influences and values. Recognize achievements and real dangers.
7. Listen more, consult more, and explain more. Put the best construction on differing positions. Seize on valid insights before questionable arguments.
8. Practice hospitality and humility.
9. Trust in the process.
Senior clarified that the Common Ground Initiative isn’t intended as an instrument to hammer out a compromise. It’s an instrument for “mutually respectful dialogue in a context of faith and prayer so the church doesn’t become a series of warring parties over issues,” Senior said.
“There may still be differences, but we can be together in faith,” he added.
What do you think? Has the church already become a series of warring parties? Can the conflict over the Catholic Campaign for Human Development be resolved?
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| | Topic: Father Greeley's health update |
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| Father Greeley's health update |
Sat, 14 November 2009 10:31 |
Anne
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from his blog:
On November 7, the anniversary of Fr. Andrew Greeley’s tragic accident, his sister Mary Jule Durkin, and family wish to express their profound gratitude to all who have kept him in their prayers. On his behalf, we ask for your continued prayers for him and for all victims of traumatic brain injury and their families. We express our thanks to the skilled medical personnel, caregivers, and rehabilitation therapists who have cared for and encouraged him during this difficult time. We will continue to work so that, in spite of his injury, he can enjoy a quality of life in keeping with his imagination, intelligence, and service to his Church and community. Through the years, we have observed first hand his deep commitment to his friends, academic colleagues, readers, fellow priests, and parishioners. We know that Fr. Greeley blesses you for your concern.
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| | Topic: From One Liturgical Year to the Next |
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| From One Liturgical Year to the Next |
Fri, 13 November 2009 07:21 |
Anne
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from Ministry Resource Update
November 2009
To conclude our liturgical year, we proclaim our belief in Jesus as we celebrate the solemnity of Christ the King. One other idea in addition to the official blessing of the Advent wreath from the Book of Blessings is to use the following invocations when we light our Advent Wreath. These words echo our faith in Christ the King and come from the solemn words of blessing for the paschal candle on Holy Saturday Night:
You are the Christ, the same yesterday and today!
You are the Christ, the beginning and the end!
You are the Christ, the Alpha and Omega!
You are the Christ, forever and for always!
May the light of Christ, rising in glory, dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds.
This links the preparation for the celebration of the incarnation with the resurrection.
Another idea for the Advent season is to use the "Canticle of Zachary," perhaps as the dismissal hymn. The words to this song come directly from Scripture. It is a translation of the words that Zachary sang as recorded by the gospel of Luke. Once Zachary's mouth was opened after the birth of John the Baptist, Zachary was filled with the Holy Spirit and he praised God in song. This canticle, or song, is used each morning in the prayer of the Church. It speaks of God's promise and God's plan to save us through the coming of a Savior. It is wonderful statement of Advent faith! The church uses this song every morning as part of Morning Prayer.
If you bring the Advent wreath candles up in procession at the beginning of Mass, consider using, "Christ, Be Our Light" to accompany the procession. If you have placed the Advent wreath candles in the four corners of the building as was suggested in the November 2006 Ministry Resource Update, the procession with candles can come up the middle aisle and then circle around to the various locations of the candle stands. Using "Christ, Circle 'Round Us" highlights the fact that the community is, in fact, encircled by the Advent wreath. For me, personally, "O Come, O Come, Emmanual" really makes it feel like Advent. For one thing, the people know it and will sing. I would suggest using the song each week, but after the first verse, use a different verse or verses each week, so that the community can pray the "O" antiphons during the course of the season.
It is good to use many of the same songs at each liturgy during Advent, especially the gathering and dismissal songs. Since these are frequently seasonal songs, they should be repeated so that the community can become familiar with them and can participate fully. The song that seems to make the most sense to change is the song at the presentation of the gifts, since that would be the ideal song to echo the focus of the gospel and homily. Using the same setting for the Mass parts throughout Advent and then also for Christmas will emphasize the unity of the two seasons.
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