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Sunday November 11
Remembrance
Day Veterans
Day
A moving reflection
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Fear and Power
in an Age of Anxiety
David
Timbs
(Sunday
blogger from Australia)
It
may well take decades before the Bishops ever regain anything resembling
trust, confidence and credibility. What is happening in one local Church
might well pale into relative insignificance compared with the collapse of
credible leadership in the wider Church as Catholics continue to make the
critical distinction between blindly submitting to coercive
authoritarianism
and abiding faith in Jesus Christ.
Obama's
evolving Christianity (CNN)
Update
re women deacons (NCR)
World's
three deadliest words:
It's
a girl (3
min movie trailer)
Vatican
owes Asian bishops apology
for bumping conference (NCR)
- see comment by John W
US
military and climate change
Chinas'
choreographed Congress
"Party must maintain grip on power"
Last paragraph = "bottom
line"!
This
week's smile (widows..)
Vatican II Reflection 320
Brothers allowed to be priests
Bible
Plan: Sun 32 readings
All about widows
John W: Daily Blog - Nov 11
Remembrance Day reflection
I'm due to be
in Australia Dec 27 - Jan 30.
Love to meet up with readers
in Melb, Syd, Bris, GC - John W
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Monday November
12
Birthday of Sun
Yat-sen
Good
news story:
A "homeless bishop" experience
John W
The
lure of robes (Catholica)
..must read...
Cardinal
Turkson in Japan:
nuclear question & immigrants rights
"It
is urgent to protect the rights of immigrants, because there is evidence
that also because of the failure to do so “international labour is
by-passing Japan for other rich countries”.
Vat
computer man sentenced
((would Jesus wear red
shoes??))
Jesus
and the poor (4)
Joseph Girzone
The
poor are the hidden treasures of our society. They are honorable,
appreciative, and very creative business people if given a chance. They
really respond positively when they are treated honorably and with
respect. This
should be part of our evangelization process, showing how God has placed
the future progress of our civilization in the poor, who are the hidden
treasure of every community where they abound.
Vatican II Reflection 321
Apostolic Christian Communities!
John W: Daily Blog - Nov 12
Mainland pressuring Hong Kong
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Tuesday November 13
Richard
McBrien on Pope John XXII's opening address at Vat II
Martin Mallon
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
The Church
has always faced persecution and exterior threats, but the most serious threats
have always come from within.... We did not and do not listen to each other.
Dissent is crushed not “by
demonstrating the validity of her teaching”, but by condemnations and sanctions.
US
survey of Mass translation
Comments
from priests:
"Acting like I appreciate the new texts when I find them to be
terrible"
...."Mastering
the art of speaking
like Yoda"
Message
from Joseph Girzone:
- comments re
New Evangelization
- reason for starting his website
- visitors from Australia Are
Catholic children now protected by Obama's papal victory?
III in
this article recommended by a reader
Australian
Prime Minister
announces National abuse inquiry
| 4-Course
Bible meal for Nov 13
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| With difficult
people: use tact! |
| Be
still and know that I am God |
| Faith
without works is useless |
| God so loved the
world... |
Vatican II
Reflection 322
Chastity: theory & practice
John W: Daily Blog -
Nov 13
Hobnobbing yesterday
with two cardinals ...and a bishop!
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Wednesday Nov 7 Of
Presidents and Popes
Chris McDonnell
(Wed blogger from UK)
Are we sincerely intending to seek
a deepening of faith in the Mission of the Church or are we anxious to accept an
ever-tightening control from Rome over the intellectual integrity of our fellow
Christians?
Is it Mission or Maintenance?
Speaking
the truth to bullies
John W
Scriptural support for Brian D'Arcy
Work in Progress
James Hanvey (Tablet)
Once seen as a challenge to the secular world, Gaudium
et Spes
also challenges the Church itself
John
Allen's final Synod report (NCR)
Jesus
and the poor (3)
Joseph Girzone
The
real resentment for the new Affordable Care Law is that it provides health
insurance for 40,000,000 poor people, which is contemptibly labeled
Socialism... And
those same self-righteous Christians dare to call themselves the patriotic
models of a Christian nation. I
think that would make Jesus throw up.
Vatican
II Reflection 316
Love for Scriptures on low flame?
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Thursday
November 8
John W: Daily Blog - Nov 8
How to win (US) elections!
Book
Review - John W
Eric Liddell - Something Greater Than Gold by
Janet & Geoff Benge
Inspiring story of 1924 Paris Olympic Games
medalist who had the world at his feet but went to war-ravaged China as a
missionary
David
Timbs' Synod article has two comments, with a response by David
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Every Thursday, Daniel
Daring's reflection on the Sunday readings,
to help us prepare for Sunday:
32B:
Offering
all your living
In
our world money is a powerful tool to get what you want. It buys power,
position, and status. It buys votes and shapes politics. That is nothing new.
What is disturbing, however, is that it has entered the spiritual domain,
claiming to buy even God’s blessing. The widow
is not being contrasted with the scribes who devour widows' houses or
with the rich who donate much out of their abundance, but with the
disciples of Jesus who were - and still are - unable to grasp the power and
wisdom of the cross.
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Vatican II Reflection
317
Contemplative communities
invited to help with ministry
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Friday
November 9
VIP
article - lesson for Church -
a model for Evangelization!
Obama's
grass-roots campaign
The
2012 Obama For America (OFA) re-election campaign was the culmination of
the president's belief in the power of local neighbourhood action that he
acquired as a community organiser in poor areas of Chicago back in the
1980s.
(Whole chapter on this in Dreams
From My Father ....very
moving). The
emphasis was on the "direct". The Obama camp believes with the
fervour of the missionary that friendship, contact and the personal touch
is the key to winning elections Beyond
the Obama euphoria
Jim
McDermott (Eureka
Street)
Americans'
frustration with the same tone-deaf partisan politics with which
Australia currently struggles It's
the demography, stupid
Annabel
Crabb (ABC)
"Minorities"
are no longer minorities in the US. In this year's census, white births
are recorded as slumping to 49.6% of all births, with "minority"
ethnic births now 50.4% A
New America
"Must read"
Editorial (NCR)
| 4-Course
Bible meal for Nov 9 |
| Encouragement in
hopeless situation |
| Saved
me from distress |
| Be slow to
speak, quick to listen |
| Do whatever he
tells you |
Vatican II Reflection 318
Religious: apostolically minded?
John
W: Daily Blog - Nov 9
Election lesson: Leaders must
listen
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Saturday November 10
Time
for bishops to start listening
Conalo (ACP)
It's
hard to understand why the bishops as a body nor any individual
bishops are willing to meet an association with 1,000 priests
Opening
God's Word
from a female perspective
Judith Lynch
(CathBlog)
It
is a privilege singed with sadness to be asked to open up the Word of the
Lord from a female perspective and experience. As I prepare my words I
pray that in a generation or two the women who come after me will be
welcome to open up the Word of the Lord at the Sunday Eucharist.
Tablet
Letters Extra
2 letters re rescinding of invitation to British theologian Tina
Beatie
(c.f. NCR
update on this issue)
Vatican
II Reflection 319
Monastic hospitality
| 4-Course
Bible meal for Nov 10
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| Prayer
in time of big trouble |
| Cure
for sickness |
| Genuine religion |
When Jesus had
had enough!
(must have wanted to do this for decades!) |
John W: Daily Blog - Nov 10
Funeral of 14 year old girl
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