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Sunday October 28

The Alienation of the Boomers
  David Timbs
(Sunday blogger from Australia)
If the leadership of the Church is to succeed in winning back the trust and confidence of the Boomer generation, it will need to learn quickly the lost art of listening to and conversing with an adult laity which is no longer prepared to bleat like sheep and mutely follow the shepherd. The Church at Vatican II called for a mature and educated laity and now it has got what it wished for. The big challenge now is, can the institutional Church catch up and keep pace with them?  

Synod missed the boat
Jesuit Superior-General reflects on how Synod ignored history. Full text of his address to Synod. What an important speech....which is why I hoped Synod might check these arts

John W:  Daily Blog - Oct 28
14 year old suicide & HK media  

Vat II DID make a difference
Rober Blair Kaiser (Tablet)
Be aware during the coming year of efforts to dumb the Council down, to convince you that the Council didn't change the Church very much. After you recall what kind of Church we lived in before Vatican II, I think you will agree with me, and rejoice with me and be glad for what the Council did do, irreversibly, I hope

This week's smile  Irish Ghost?

Vatican II  Reflection 306
Let the laity get on with it!

Bible Plan: Sun 30 readings
 Son of David, have mercy on me!

I"m due to be in Australia Dec 27 - Jan 30. If any readers in Melb, Syd, Bris or G Coast would like to meet up for a chat  ... love to see you!
My schedule so far   John W

Monday October 29

Warning: beware of Google/Gmail "verification" - a dangerous monster that lost me many hours over  the past few days until I could cancel it!

Spirituality that appeals to Gen Y
David Timbs (CathBlog)
While Gen Y has little or no time for the institutional Church, its youth do relate very positively to the no-nonsense, down to earth and challenging figure of Jesus. Serendipity and dogma are lost on them but not the real Jesus of the Gospels who connects with their experience of being human. He can speak to them and for them with persuasion and intelligibility.

 Vatican II  - unfinished business
Paul Collins 
Congar says he felt that historically Vatican II came 25 years "too early", that only the youngest bishops had imbibed the renewed theological, historical and scriptural studies that underpinned the conciliar documents. The result: the Council was forced to compromise on several important issues, and we are still working through the consequences of those compromises today. Congar thought the Council "had stopped half-way on many questions.


Australia in the Asian Century (ABC)
"All students will have access to at least one priority Asian language: Mand., Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese

4-Course Bible meal for Oct 29
Never tire of helping the poor
Prayer in time of danger
Jesus our High Priest
A leader who opposed killing Jesus

Vatican II  Reflection 307
Example from Chariots of Fire

John W:  Daily Blog - Oct 29
First time in a bed for several years!

Tuesday October 30

New Evangelisation
Martin Mallon 
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
So we are in a situation where the New Evangelisation is directed at “those who, though baptized, have drifted away from the Church” and yet we are expected to believe that liturgy will bring these lapsed Catholics back to the Church, even though many will have experienced the liturgy before they left the Church and in some cases liturgy was a reason for leaving. How can they experience the liturgy if they are not physically in the Church? Concentration on liturgy is going to evangelise few lapsed Catholics. Concentration on our daily lives, ecumenism and the poor appears to be the way forward and constantly deepening our relationship with Jesus is the engine of growth.

Synod interview with 
HK's Cardinal John Tong
Call for 4 dialogues

Update: Peru University 
saga re use of  "Catholic"
c.f.
David Timbs' article
Peruvian Catastrophe

Oct 26 menu had this art by Card George re a world without religion. Last week I met an inmate (!) who is editor of this "world without religion" site which he says has a big following in HK

Prostate cancer tests do
"more harm than good"

Dec 1: HK Oxfam gathering

 

4-Course Bible meal for Oct 30
Tobit's universalism
Dr God 
Ultimate blood transfusion
Word's most famous Rolling Stone

Vatican II  Reflection 308
The Holy See/Sea


John W:   Daily Blog - Oct 30
Mexico: priest in drug war zone

Wednesday October 24
United Nations Day

State of the Nation, State of our Church     Chris McDonnell
(Wednesday blogger from UK)
Obama and Romny at charity dinner are a lesson for us as we debate
 and argue the circumstances of the church 50 years after Vat II

Women and New Evangelization
Sr Inigo Joachim SSA, India
The Synod's preparatory document 
does not refer to women at all.
In the parable of the lost coin, what the woman is searching for is not the lost coin, but her lost dignity and equality.  Women are not asking for privileges, but for opportunities to serve the Church and society

Will Synod bite clericalism bullet?
John W
Vic inquiry & Synod: same Church?

Synod: upgrade for Catechists?

Vat II - unlike any other council
Cardinal Godfried Danneels
Reader: long but important article

Remembering Fr Vincent Lebbe
Belgian who embraced China

US Catholics: focus on poverty 
rather than abortion
(Reuters)
(Reader: should focus on both!)

A feminist reading of the Koran
Ruby Hamad
(Eureka Street)
What an important article!

  Vatican II  Reflection 302
Ecumenical summer or winter? 

4-Course Bible meal for Oct 24
Wedding night prayer
Forsaken person's prayer
Jesus experienced temptation
Weep for your children 

John W: Daily Blog - Oct 24
United Nations reflection


Thursday
October 25

Increase my faith Lord!
Sr Inigo Joachim SSA, India
 It is our hope that the Year of Faith will not only be filled with exemplary initiatives and beautiful celebrations, but also promote a sense of renewal in the profound relationship between God, his Son and believers, against the ever decreasing awareness of the religious dimension of human life

Every Thursday, Daniel Daring's reflection on the Sunday readings,
 to help us prepare for Sunday:
 
 
30B: Bartimaeus’ Faith in Jesus
Peter and demons were told not to reveal Jesus' identity. Bartimaeus  was allowed to proclaim to the whole world his expectant faith in Jesus as the Messiah. Those who wanted Bartimaeus to be quiet were those who were leaving Jericho with Jesus. It's often the case: in order to reach Jesus, you have to bypass the circle of the so-called pious ones,  those who assume that they know you well

SSPX expels holocaust denier

Six new cardinals

Synod: Financial transparency

Vatican  II  Reflection 303
Stay grounded!

4-Course Bible meal for Oct 25
 What I feared has not happened
My drooping spirit revived
Focus on Jesus
Ultimate forgiveness

John W:  Daily Blog - Oct 25
The dumbing down of society


Friday
October 26

Retreat preaching: My experience
Sr Inigo Joachim SSA, India
A retreat is time away from the crowd, like Jesus,  and entering into the cave of our own hearts. In the name of active ministry and busy schedules we have lost this cave experience. Our retreats too have become seminars and input sessions

Small and held captives
Daniel Daring 
In a world where the economy has taken a leading role in shaping how we think and make decisions on the domestic and international level, it is difficult to inject some theological discussion about God and His role in the affairs of the world.

Bishop Pat Power in Rome on
 Oct 11 anniversary of Vat II

Seriousness of US secularization
Cardinal Francis George OMI 

The inner journey to peace
Sr Joan Chittister
(Catholica)
A really beautiful 10 minute video

Afghanistan: help local level
Alleviation of poverty the main aim

Vatican II  Reflection 304
School students with apostolic spirit

4-Course Bible meal for Oct 26
Gratitude for blessings
Allow the Lord to enter our hearts 
God's word deep in our hearts
Remember me in your kingdom

John W:   Daily Blog - Oct 26
Helping poor people
....and being helped in return


Saturday
October 27

Vatican II anniversary:
Homily by Bishop Geoff Robinson
I remember that first exhilarating month when John XXIII left the Vatican more often than the pope before him had in nineteen years. I remember him visiting the major 
prison in Rome and, rather than delivering a profound discourse on the morality of prison life, telling the prisoners of an uncle of his who had done time for sheep stealing. He won my imagination and my undying affection, as he did for millions 
of other people

Proposal to kick-start 
China-Vatican dialogue
Card Filoni's excellent suggestion

Vat II betrayed by lack of discipline
Reader: hanging judge at it again

For many years I've been 
intrigued by this reflection:

A way to cut unemployment
God Calling (Oct 25)

Amazing TV interview (in English)
with Kim Jong Il's grandsonson

How a famous English cricketer
spent his last years helping the poor
(Enlarge for less difficult reading)


Vatican II Reflection 305
Compassionate from childhood

4-Course Bible meal for Oct 27
Tobit gets back his sight
The Lord is my light 
Message for house church leader
Then he died

John W:  Daily Blog - Oct 27
Urgent request for prayers 

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Calendar      (any other items?):

 Oct 7 -28 Synod of Bishops

Dec 1: Hong Kong Oxfam Supporters' gathering 


John W's Australia schedule

For all above:
Come Holy Spirit !

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Let's encourage more people 
to see 1-10  re Bishop Bill Morris
1: Judge's conclusions
2: Canon lawyer's report
 
3: Radio interview with judge

4:  "The Age" file of letters
5: Summary re Rome
 6: Frank Brennan's update
7: ABC radio Fr Frank Brennan

8. Update from Frank Brennan

9. Vatileaks & Bp Bill Morris

10: Tablet letter - Frank Brennan

After reading 1-10, check the "Pravda" report of CNA

Google "Morris" at top of this page
for many articles re Bishop BM

 

 
Bp Pat Power
Bp Geoff Robinson
Bruce Duncan
Catalyst for Renewal
Catholics for Ministry  
Catholics for Renewal
Frank Brennan
Peter Johnstone     
The Swag
 

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16 Documents of V2 
We Are Church
STANDUP4VATICAN2
VII - Voice of the Church

Catholic Priests Ireland

PrayTell
Donald Cozzens
Misguided Missal
 
Too Western/European

"Reform of reform" agenda    

 

Hans Küng:
Letter to bishops
         Revolution to stop authoritarianism

Fr J. Ratzinger's writings on Vat II

US priests: reassess new translation

Open letter to US bishops re new translation

Making do with a faulty translation

Irish priests use 1998 ICE  - not new translation

Priests say 9 Masses a day - need to ordain married men

The evil of compulsory celibacy

Why are women not being ordained to priesthood?

Same-sex marriage and anal sex

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