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This
week's smile
For the Lunar New
Year of the Snake - this will
cheer you up!
Why
is change really so difficult,
specifically in Catholic Church?
Darlene
Starrs
(Canada
Sunday blogger)
At the
root of all the discord, injustice, and abuse of power in the
Church, is the work of Satan.
This point came home to me,
while I was reading Jesuit Father Gerry
O’Hanlon’s book A
New Vision:
A View From Ireland.
Why are we, as the Church, having to prove
our need for change, having to
beg and cry and shout to be heard by the powers that be?
Chinese
readers welcome to comment on special
readings for Lunar New Year, instead of Sunday 5 menu
below
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Feb 10 |
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Young
Isaiah: I'm unworthy |
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Isaiah
was praying with the angels |
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Paul:
I'm No. Last |
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Peter: I'm unworthy |
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Please add your comments! |
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See comments
Feb
8 |
Shining
a light on the Chuch's dark secrets
Sophia
Bodegon, Manila
"Salvation
is not a magic formula produced by a secret mixture of sacraments and
church membership.
It is the result of love of God and grace and holiness and goodness"
- Vincent Donovan on p. 42 of
Christianity
Rediscovered
Vatican
II Reflection 411
Set up Catholic TV stations!
John W - Blog - Feb 10
Meal for 7 at McDonald's
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Pope's
message for 2013
World Day of the Sick
Fufilling the Unrealized
Vision
of Vatican II (YouTube)
Richard Gaillardetz
Professor of Catholic Studies
at the
University of Toledo
- explains how Vatican II's call for a
permanent standing synod of bishops with a deliberative voice was turned
into the present anaemic structure
A hole in the dam:
Comments by Anthony
Ruff OSB
on Tablet survey re the new translation:
"We now
have someone from within the Vatican structure saying openly that the new
Missal texts are abstruse and pretentious"
Harassment
and Bullying
in the Church
(Questions from a Ewe)
Laypeople can be harassed or bullied because
Canon Law grants few rights to laypeople and little to no recourse for
holding clergy accountable when bullying occurs (c.f.
above YouTube video...mentions how new Canon Law code is deficient re
laity)
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Feb 11 |
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A
river, a stream (c.f. Lourdes) |
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Mary's
place in God's plan |
The
value of Mary's
intercession
with Jesus |
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Please add a comment! |
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See comments
Feb
9 |
Eugene
Kennedy
re Gomez - Mahony bout
Vatican II Reflection 412
Training courses for Christians
working in the media
John W - Blog - Feb 11
Happy gathering @ McDonald's
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Dissent
and Authority
Martin Mallon
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
Ryan suggests that the bishops need to show some humility and admit that
they do not know everything that God wills. Basically, the hierarchy must accept
the sensus fidei, that the People of God cannot err in matters of belief c.f.
Walk out during homily!
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New translation:
Lent
prefaces have problems
Offensive use of "disordered"?
Vatican II
Reflection 413
Young people & Facebook!
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Feb 12 |
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Downsizing! |
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May
you see your kids' kids |
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World's
cleanest river |
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World's
dirtiest river |
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Please add a comment! |
See comments
Feb 10
(for LNY & for Sun 5C) |
Lent:
Many
excellent articles
at latest BBI E-News
Lent a good time for Downsizing:
What one
couple did!
New file:
Near Death Experiences
We should not base our faith on such books, but these books are a great
encouragement for our life of faith.
These books are especially an encouragement for families who have recently
lost a loved one - as one comment on the site of Mary Neal says: I
recently lost my 23 year old son and I cannot express how much hope and
comfort your book gave me. One
thing for sure, when you start reading one of these books, it's not easy
to put it down!
John W - Blog -
Feb 12
A most common site in HK these days: families,
families, families
spending time together for LNY!.
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Praying
the Psalter
Chris McDonnell
(UK Wed blogger)
The
Psalms are rich and fertile ground wherever we find ourselves of our
journey. They speak of joy and suffering, success and failure, life and
death. The words of the Psalms have been read and prayed through the
centuries and are still at the core of the Liturgy of the Hours Magisterium
needs to be seen
in its historical context
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Feb 6 |
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Bad
rulers rule poor people |
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We
are escapees! |
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What's
the most important book in the world? Not the Bible but ... |
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Church
is a fishmarket! |
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Please add
a comment! |
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oh oh,
no comments Feb 4! |
It is in the cultures of the world, and not in
the church, that the possibility of salvation for most of the human race
is to be found. God enables every people and
nation to reach salvation through their cultural and tribal customs and
traditions. In this regard we should remember
the words of Jesus: "I did not come to do away with the Law (the
Jewish culture and religion) but to fulfill it".
Therefore a foreign form of Christian liturgy
and spirituality should not be enforced on a local culture, but rather
each local culture should be allowed, within reason, to work out its own
enfleshing of the Gospel message.
- adapted from pp23-24 of Christianity
Rediscovered
by Vincent Donovan
Vatican II
Reflection 407
Internet addiction!
John W - Blog - Feb 6
Not being home for LNY
like not being home for Christmas
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G.
Weigel re Card Martini
Garry Everett
GE says GW missed the point....
China's
burning bed
There is a growing chorus of anger, both within China and across the
world, over the impending execution of Li Yan after she killed her abusive
husband
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In HK this Sunday:
Mass for Lunar New Year
Every Thursday, Daniel
Daring's reflection on the Sunday readings,
to help us prepare for Sunday:
This week - Sunday 5(C):
Beyond Sin
We should be less preoccupied with sin, and more with Jesus’
amazing grace of provision and invitation to join in His mission. It was not
without reason that the story about Jesus was called good
news. It is all about God’s gracious
love, abundance, and blessing. Let us, then, keep it that way and not change it
into a religion of guilt.
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China:
Price of 3rd child
Ireland:
Magdalene laundries
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Feb 7 |
Not
"Superwoman"
but "Superbeauty" ! |
Basic
to every relationship:
Trust |
As
we grow older,
a growing longing for Heaven |
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You
know I love you (x 3!) |
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Please add a comment ! |
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See Feb
5 comments |
Vatican II Reflection 408
Going down: media standards
John
W - Blog - Feb 7
Another copy of Proof
of Heaven !
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The
Calisthenic Mass
John W
In the space of 25 minutes for a
daily Mass, people are up at start, down for readings, up at Alleluia,
down for homily, up for Prayer of Faithful, down for Offertory, up for
Pray brethren, down for Eucharistic Prayer, up for Consecration
acclamation, down after Lamb of God, up for receiving Communion, down
after Communion, up for Prayer after Communion....that's a 7-Up Mass!
Abbot
Martin re Church reform
Have
faith, be healed
Vatican vs
Fr Flannery:
Radio
interview with Fr Flannery
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Feb 8 |
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Thinking
about meaning of life |
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Freed
from bondage |
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Eternal
Life vs Eternal Death |
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Eternal
life by faith in Jesus |
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Please add your own comments about any of these readings |
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See Feb
6 comments |
The
wisdom of forgetting
everything you know !
Philippines:
Happy 65th Birthday
Mindanao Cross!
Australia:
Climate change petition
Vatican
II Reflection 409
"Self-regulation"
doesn't work.
Media needs government
regulation
John W - Blog - Feb 8
A book to fire the heart!
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Tablet survey results:
New translation after
one year
A
fisherman's story
Judith Lynch
Peter,
with his tangle of bluster, impulsive generosity and what he called his
sinfulness, is a great role model for we twenty first century disciples.
He reminds us that God works with who we are just as long as we work
with what we have been given
In
Christianity
Rediscovered Vincent Donovan says how he was influenced by
Frederick Lebbe. This
short summary of Lebbe's life shows how he stood up to
unreasonable church authority of his time...and was eventually vindicated
by the Vatican
Reading Reflection Prayer
- with readers' comments
Menu for today Feb 9 |
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YouTube:
"Turn, Turn, Turn" |
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Woman
= baby factory? |
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No
electricity bills in Heaven |
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Every
Christian a missionary |
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Please add your own comments about any of these readings |
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See Feb
7 comments |
Philippines:
Crazy Oblates
These
rugged men live in the most treacherous parts of the country. Four
of their brother priests have already been killed, some tortured.
Yet instead of getting scared, they’re emboldened to serve God even
more.
Vatican
II Reflection 410
More effective use of media
John W - Blog - Feb 9
Lunar New Year Eve
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Many thanks for checking
this website each day
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Calendar
February
28, 2013:
Pope Benedict to resign
Come Holy Spirit !
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