At the Cathedral of Lima a "kiss-in against homophobia" was planned, and about 200 Catholics were there in peaceful prayer.
Lima (kath.net) Hundreds of Peruvian Catholics gatheredd last Saturday in front of the entrance of the Cathedral in the Capital, Lima: They prayed the Rosary together as an answer to a "Kiss-in against homophobia", which was hald by a small homosexual group only a few meters from the church. This was according to CNA.
This was the second "Kiss-in" of the group. At the first occasion, a few weeks before, they were removed from the entrance of the Cathedral by the police. This time the Group had permission from the Mayor of Lima, Susana Villaran, who has already made her support for expressions of homosexuality known on a number of occasions. Although this second "Kiss-in" was very heavily reported by the media, only eight persons took part in it, three couples of males and one female pairing.
As an answer to the planned and broadcast homosexual event there were some 200 Catholics in front of the Cathedral who formed a kind of human chain aroud the church. They peacefully prayed the rosary and sang religious songs.
Daniel Torres Cox, who had come to the prayer, told ACI Prensa: "We are simply here to defend our faith in some way." He described the homosexual protest "an attack on that which we believe and that is the reason why we're here in order to protect it."
Homosexuals in Peru "provoke us, because the Catholic Church represents everything that they want to destroy," said Nancy Freundt of Zentrum for Natural Family Planning. "The Catholic Church is not made of adobe bricks. The Church is made of all Catholics who understand and believe their faith."
A more recent poll was published indicating that 75 percent of Peruvians are against "homosexual marriage". The Peruvian Congress even declared, that which is also in the Constitution of the Land, that marriage is a bond between man and woman.
Kath.net original, here...
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Woman Renounces "Womenpriest" Returns to Church
[California Catholic Daily] On July 22, 2007, I was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Patricia Fresen, of Germany and South Africa who was ordained by three male bishops in Germany for the group called Roman Catholic Women Priests. The ordination took place at the Santa Barbara Immaculate Heart Spiritual Center. Because neither Patricia Fresen nor myself were given permission for the ordination by Pope Benedict XVI, the ordinations were illegitimate and not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. Thus an excommunication process called Latae Sententiae occurred, excommunicating oneself by failure to observe the Canon Laws of the Church.
I wish to renounce the alleged ordination and publicly state that I did not act as a deacon as a part of this group except on two occasions, when I read the gospel once at mass and distributed communion once at this same mass. I withdrew from the program within two weeks of the ceremony because I realized that I had made a mistake in studying for the priesthood. I confess to the truth of Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. I confess the authority of the Holy Father on these issues of ordination and recognize that Christ founded the ordination only for men.
Read further, here.http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=67472154-7019-4ee0-8b1b-d7880809a907
I wish to renounce the alleged ordination and publicly state that I did not act as a deacon as a part of this group except on two occasions, when I read the gospel once at mass and distributed communion once at this same mass. I withdrew from the program within two weeks of the ceremony because I realized that I had made a mistake in studying for the priesthood. I confess to the truth of Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. I confess the authority of the Holy Father on these issues of ordination and recognize that Christ founded the ordination only for men.
Read further, here.http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=67472154-7019-4ee0-8b1b-d7880809a907
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Judge Assigns Penance in Church as Punishment
Restorative Extra-Judicial Justice
In Italy two youth who were brought to trial for robbery must also "do penance" in the Church...
Mestre (kath.net) In the Italian city of Mestre two convicted minors have received an unusual punishment, as the Austrian daily 'Kurier' reported: A 15 year old and a 16 year old, members of a youth gang, were charged with robbery and extortion.
The judge decided for the following "judgment": The boys must go to Mass every Sunday to Mass. They must get volunteer jobs, earn good grades in school and apologize to their victims.
Original, from kath.net...
In Italy two youth who were brought to trial for robbery must also "do penance" in the Church...
Mestre (kath.net) In the Italian city of Mestre two convicted minors have received an unusual punishment, as the Austrian daily 'Kurier' reported: A 15 year old and a 16 year old, members of a youth gang, were charged with robbery and extortion.
The judge decided for the following "judgment": The boys must go to Mass every Sunday to Mass. They must get volunteer jobs, earn good grades in school and apologize to their victims.
Original, from kath.net...
Aha -- Life in the Pius Mass -- Germany
The Pope really doesn't have any other choice, than to conclude with the Society of St. Pius X. Because besides them, the Council in Germany doesn't have many left.
(kreuz.net) On 7 January 36 year old man visited Holy Mass with the Society in the village of Kleinwallstadt in Unterfranken.
He did it -- his piece on 4. February for the regional paper 'Main-Echo' -- "out of curiosity".
It appeared to him that the Mass was well attended for a week day.
He noticed, "that I wasn't -- as in other religious services -- the youngest one there -- but at least somewhere in the middle."
He estimated the median age of those present at about thirty or forty years old.
Next to the reporter there were some boys about fifteen years old.
They showed themselves "enthused" by the old Mass -- the reporter explained:
"The devotion was so heavy and deep, that it was almost alien".
The priest spoke during the Holy Mass, who was silently reading, not a single loud word.
For that reason, the reporter asked the question, why the youth would visit such a weekday Mass, while such age groups are almost never represented in Novus Ordo religious services.
As an answer he rhymed it out that those Pius people are drawn by the living example of the celebrating Priest?
The corresondent was also astonished that the Pius-priest prayed in every Mass for the Bishop and the Pope -- "which can not be said of many diocesan priests."
Which brought him to the point: "Critics of the Society of St. Pius X insist that they do not subject themselves to the Pope."
At the same time he called the words of Germany's Jesuit Provincial.
This one had promoted "open disobedience" against the Pope and German Bishops, "not to wait for a decision from Rome", rather to "ordain trustworthy laymen to the priesthood".
Link to kreuz.net...
(kreuz.net) On 7 January 36 year old man visited Holy Mass with the Society in the village of Kleinwallstadt in Unterfranken.
He did it -- his piece on 4. February for the regional paper 'Main-Echo' -- "out of curiosity".
It appeared to him that the Mass was well attended for a week day.
He noticed, "that I wasn't -- as in other religious services -- the youngest one there -- but at least somewhere in the middle."
He estimated the median age of those present at about thirty or forty years old.
Next to the reporter there were some boys about fifteen years old.
They showed themselves "enthused" by the old Mass -- the reporter explained:
"The devotion was so heavy and deep, that it was almost alien".
The priest spoke during the Holy Mass, who was silently reading, not a single loud word.
For that reason, the reporter asked the question, why the youth would visit such a weekday Mass, while such age groups are almost never represented in Novus Ordo religious services.
As an answer he rhymed it out that those Pius people are drawn by the living example of the celebrating Priest?
The corresondent was also astonished that the Pius-priest prayed in every Mass for the Bishop and the Pope -- "which can not be said of many diocesan priests."
Which brought him to the point: "Critics of the Society of St. Pius X insist that they do not subject themselves to the Pope."
At the same time he called the words of Germany's Jesuit Provincial.
This one had promoted "open disobedience" against the Pope and German Bishops, "not to wait for a decision from Rome", rather to "ordain trustworthy laymen to the priesthood".
Link to kreuz.net...
Local Minneapolis Progressivist Flips Out About Cancelling of Gay Event
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Here’s one example of misleading and inflammatory language used by PC: The parish priest, Leo Tibesar, is described as a “well known and highly respected same sex marriage and gay rights activist.” Can you imagine members of a Catholic parish going public with such a statement – even if it was true? It’s just asking for trouble (and PC knows it).
This isn't the first time Tibesar has been in trouble or hosted unCatholic activities at his gathering space, even being on the board of Dignity.
Archbishop Nienstedt's predecessor, Archbishop Flynn, was understandably blasé about Tibesar's activism, and Father Z gave him a pass too. C'mon, how many times do you have to have evidence that someone clearly doesn't represent Catholic teaching before you call him into the office and send him packing.
Surely, Father Tibesar would be more comfortable at Collegeville? No, wait, they still claim to be Catholic? Oh, well, putting them together might have advantages.
In any event, now even the Wild Reed is trying to defend the innocence of the homosexual enabler, Father Leo Tibesar.
The Archdiocese released the following statement in the wake of one of the last controversies in December 2007 with Father Z's bolding:
Various bloggers and websites have reported that Father Leo Tibesar, of Saint Frances Cabrini Parish in Minneapolis announced his intention to bless same sex marriages. Those reports are not true. Father Tibesar has never blessed a same sex marriage nor does he intend to do so, which would be a violation of his priestly vows and state. He made this very clear in a public clarification issued by Saint Frances Cabrini’s parish council and following a meeting with Archbishop Harry J. Flynn.Father Z went on to say about Tibesar:
During his meeting with Archbishop Flynn and Auxiliary Bishop Richard Pates, Father Tibesar also agreed to remove any language from the St. Frances Cabrini parish website that is in opposition to Roman Catholic Church doctrine and to refrain from statements in any form that are contrary to Church teaching. He confirmed these commitments to Archbishop Flynn in a letter following their meeting. Communications Office, Archdiocese of StP&M
I am posting about this because I am pleased with content of the statement. It is a very good thing that people know that a Catholic priest, in the midst of controversy, has never done what he was accused of doing. He didn’t in fact do something so scandalously irresponsible as bless a same-sex "marriage". [Heaven forfend, you OMIT to say that he was willing to do one and dissents from Church teaching on the issue in the first place] That should make people happy and relieved. Also, steps are being taken to remove improper language from the website. Moreover, Archbishop Flynn has taken the matter in hand. All these are good things.
Actually, Tibesar broadcast his willingness to perform those evil ceremonies on his website. Tada... Conveniently, Father Z left that part out.
Maybe Father Z thinks he can get back in the good graces of the Archdiocese by playing damage control for them when they get caught being less than honest?
What's clear to us in this case is that there are a lot of people out there who care about their Catholic Faith, and those people are not to be confused, necessarily, with the Clergy, who seems incapable of pleasing anyone, not the CCPSM people, nor the other alphabet soup Soviet-Style Acronym groups that don't like what the Church teaches.
Other efforts stopped in the past by CCCR, and here.
H/t to Stella too, with appraisal of Archbishop Nienstedt, here.
On the World Scene
Virtually every single Diocese in the developed world has a parish like Cabrini, here, Australia's "acceptance Mass" here, and on +Schoenborn's watch in Vienna.
Monday, February 21, 2011
The Old Mass is the Catholic Standard: Bishop Huonder Defends Old Mass in Switzerland
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| His Lordship Saying Mass |
Huonder described in the interview how much power criticisms of his person cost, where he wants to lead the faithful of his Diocese and how capable he is for his office. Of course, he was eager to defend the Immemorial Mass as well in his interview with 'Sudostschweiz" on Sunday, here's a partial translation, h/t kreuznet; but he's never been shy about that:
The education of priests who will read the Mass in Latin, is not a sign of a conservative outlook. "I work integratively in these cases", he said in the interview this Sunday. After all it will be forbidden the current Mass in the vernacular in return; the old Rite deals almost like a second upgrade of the offering.
"In this case I want to act integratively", he said in his interview with 'Sudostschweiz on Sunday". He concluded by saying that he wouldn't abolish the Mass in the vernacular.
Huonder is further convinced that the refusal of a second Auxiliary Bishop will lead to calm the situation in the Diocese of Church. A "large weight" has fallen from his shoulders now that the solution had been possible, he explained.
US Catholic is Curious about SSPX's Dilemma
I'm a bit puzzled by the SSPX on this one. It seemed to me likely that they would have been given a situation similar to the Anglican ordinariate, with freedom to do pretty much what they pleased, if they would just admit that the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are authentically Catholic. Did they really think that the pope was going to say that Vatican II was in error?
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Catholic Church is a Comfortable Hangout for Liberals and Marxists
You think the Catholic Church is a bastion full of backwards feudal reactionaries who want to live in medieval keeps and lord it over the lower classes? Think again, it's actually full of hardened Marxists who want to lord it over the lower classes from really ugly office blocks; read the essay and the comments:
Link to American Thinker...
Photo credit at "CaliVita", here.
Cardinal Sean and Archbishop Martin Pretend to Contrition
Editor: They're not reading from a Catholic script here, they're participating in something akin to a reality television show, like Bishop Bode's phony attempt. Cardinal Sean and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin are playing ball for the wrong team, as usual. His Lordship, the Primate of Ireland, has been vocal about his role as the good guy, but he's consistently silent on Catholic teaching. His job shouldn't be to attack the Catholic Church and provide fodder for Its enemies, you'd think. In any event, +Martin is a homosexual enabler and that makes him an enabler of the Church's enemies too.
It's going to be difficult to be convincing about whatever it is you're apologizing for if you're not going to admit what the problem really is, it's integrity, as pointed out above and repeatedly on this blog. Neither the Primate of Ireland, nor the Archbishop of Boston are consistently Catholic. So, the problem isn't with the media manufactured sex-abuse crisis, it's a problem with the integrity of Catholic Bishops. Very few are consistently Catholic. and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is helping the enemies of the Church by his concessions to their deceitful poses of sympathy for the victims of various homosexual predators.
Again, if we're going to attack the Catholic Church for the rare infractions of its ministers, we'd better be going after academia, the entertainment industry and leftists political parties with the same gusto, for their moral relativism is a feeble impediment toward the kind of behavior exhibited by pillars of the community like Rob Lowe, Woody Allen, Allen Ginsburg and other, and that's not even taking into account the descriably systematic attempts at the corruption of children in what that industry produces. Actually, leftist political parties admit that they're interested in sexualizing children, and it still doesn't matter to the media: they hate the Church, so no small wonder then that these Old Liberal Bishops play along to their tune. The pay is good and it's good to be Bishop.
No guts, no integrity, no Faith.
If you're going to be credible about being penitent as we'd suggested last year when +Martin was crying his crocodile tears in Dublin, try and do it for the right reason, and perhaps make it something like this, at 4:35:
Read further...
It's going to be difficult to be convincing about whatever it is you're apologizing for if you're not going to admit what the problem really is, it's integrity, as pointed out above and repeatedly on this blog. Neither the Primate of Ireland, nor the Archbishop of Boston are consistently Catholic. So, the problem isn't with the media manufactured sex-abuse crisis, it's a problem with the integrity of Catholic Bishops. Very few are consistently Catholic. and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is helping the enemies of the Church by his concessions to their deceitful poses of sympathy for the victims of various homosexual predators.
Again, if we're going to attack the Catholic Church for the rare infractions of its ministers, we'd better be going after academia, the entertainment industry and leftists political parties with the same gusto, for their moral relativism is a feeble impediment toward the kind of behavior exhibited by pillars of the community like Rob Lowe, Woody Allen, Allen Ginsburg and other, and that's not even taking into account the descriably systematic attempts at the corruption of children in what that industry produces. Actually, leftist political parties admit that they're interested in sexualizing children, and it still doesn't matter to the media: they hate the Church, so no small wonder then that these Old Liberal Bishops play along to their tune. The pay is good and it's good to be Bishop.
No guts, no integrity, no Faith.
If you're going to be credible about being penitent as we'd suggested last year when +Martin was crying his crocodile tears in Dublin, try and do it for the right reason, and perhaps make it something like this, at 4:35:
[Catholic Culture] At a special liturgy of lament and repenetance in Dublin’s pro-cathedral, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin rued the sexual abuse of children and the response by Church authorities to the abuse.
“I can ask myself how did this happen in the Church of Jesus Christ where as we heard in the Gospel children are presented to us as signs of the kingdom,” he said. “How did we not see you in your suffering and abandonment? The Church of Jesus Christ in this Archdiocese Dublin has been wounded by the sins of abusers and by the response to you for which we all share responsibility.”
“All survivors are indebted to those who had the courage to speak out and let it be known what had happened and how they were treated,” he continued. “The Church in Dublin and worldwide and everyone here today is indebted to them. Some of you in your hurt and your disgust will have rejected the Church that you had once loved, but paradoxically your abandonment may have helped purify the Church through challenging it to face the truth, to move out of denial, to recognize the evil that was done and the hurt that was caused.”
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New Nuncio for Russia
Editor: Paolo Rodari told you so.
21 febbraio 2011 - February 21, 2011 -
On Saturday Benedict XVI appointed apostolic nuncio in the Russian Federation, Ivan Jurkovič, Titular Archbishop of Krbava, Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine so far. I had written here that things were going well. It's up to Jurkovič pursue the dream of a meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch. And most importantly, to overcome all the ' Ukrainian obstacles .
Pubblicato su palazzoapostolico.it lunedì 21 febbraio 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
18 Bishops in a Hunger Strike -- 56 Churches Destroyed, And Government Exonerates Perpetrators
(New Delhi) Thousands of Christians from Karnataka are protesting with demonstrations and hunger strikes against a government report. Instead of reaffirming justice for the Christians, it vindicated both anti-Christian Hindu organizations who were behind the unrest in 2008. At that time, 56 churches were burned or destroyed. The president of the Global Council of Indian Christians greeted the report as "a bundle of lies that will misinform and confuse people." A counter-report was sent today to the Governor and the Prime Minister of Karnataka.
18 Bishops [13 Catholic] participated in a silent hunger strike on the property of St. Mark-University of Bangalore, among them the Archbishop of Bangalore, Msgr Bernard Moras. At the protest and the hunger strike the Bishops present, the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) and the Christians of Karnatakas have forged a counter-report with the title: "1000 Day Government, 236 Attacks, 1000 traumatized people".
The official report of the Somsekhar-Investigative Commission exonerated the radical Hindu organizations Bajrang Dal and Sangh Parivar. The Bishops called a press conference to make note of this, that this exoneration is "politically motivated". At the end of the report, where both Hindu organizations were exonerated, was a listing of the 56 churches destroyed by the perpetrators. In 12 cases Bajrang Dal was named, in one case Sangh Parivar. For that reason it was inconceivable, say the Christians, how the report came to its final ruling.
Te President of the GCIC, Sajan K. George, reiterated the complaint which the Christians have been making for two years: "28 attacks, which took place between August and September 2008, were accomplished by Hindu extremists, in the first line of Bajrang Dal. The Somakeshar-report made the exact opposite report after a year of published investigations, which named the leaders of the Hindu National Party and National Hindu Organizasions as responsible for the anti-Christian excesses of the police. At that point the contacts between the radical organizations and the Hindu government party of Karnatakas were proven.
Sajan K. George portrayed the Somasekhar-report during the press conference, as the "exoneration of unjust violence of the police against women and children in the churches of Kulschekara and Vamanjoor."
(Asianews/Giuseppe Nardi, Bild: Asianews)
As the Guardian reports, they are also protesting that charges against 150 Christians who were injured in the attacks be dropped.
18 Bishops [13 Catholic] participated in a silent hunger strike on the property of St. Mark-University of Bangalore, among them the Archbishop of Bangalore, Msgr Bernard Moras. At the protest and the hunger strike the Bishops present, the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) and the Christians of Karnatakas have forged a counter-report with the title: "1000 Day Government, 236 Attacks, 1000 traumatized people".
The official report of the Somsekhar-Investigative Commission exonerated the radical Hindu organizations Bajrang Dal and Sangh Parivar. The Bishops called a press conference to make note of this, that this exoneration is "politically motivated". At the end of the report, where both Hindu organizations were exonerated, was a listing of the 56 churches destroyed by the perpetrators. In 12 cases Bajrang Dal was named, in one case Sangh Parivar. For that reason it was inconceivable, say the Christians, how the report came to its final ruling.
Te President of the GCIC, Sajan K. George, reiterated the complaint which the Christians have been making for two years: "28 attacks, which took place between August and September 2008, were accomplished by Hindu extremists, in the first line of Bajrang Dal. The Somakeshar-report made the exact opposite report after a year of published investigations, which named the leaders of the Hindu National Party and National Hindu Organizasions as responsible for the anti-Christian excesses of the police. At that point the contacts between the radical organizations and the Hindu government party of Karnatakas were proven.
Sajan K. George portrayed the Somasekhar-report during the press conference, as the "exoneration of unjust violence of the police against women and children in the churches of Kulschekara and Vamanjoor."
(Asianews/Giuseppe Nardi, Bild: Asianews)
As the Guardian reports, they are also protesting that charges against 150 Christians who were injured in the attacks be dropped.
Diddums: Jesuit Cries Crocodile Tears at Tablet
Waaah, I want my ++Martini:
Worship and powerIgnis Ardens: Diddums
There are also serious questions about how authority is being exercised... But in both cases authority has dealt high-handedly and secretively with the sacred, the intimate, the vulnerable. High officialdom has been evasive; lesser authority has tacitly colluded...
... But "abusive" would not be too strong a word to describe the exercise of authority here.
...How are responsible Catholics to cope? The standard answer to that question is: "trust the authority of the Church's office-holders; give them the benefit of the doubt; make the best of the situation."...
...Pope Benedict himself acknowledged the difficulties ahead, and pointed to the need for both sensitivity and catechesis in implementing the change, given that "many will find it hard to adjust to unfamiliar texts after nearly 40 years".
Seminarians: Summorum Pontificum to extend to the Ambrosian Rite -- Call for the Old Rite
The Ambrosian Rite, which dates from St. Ambrose (339-397), Bishop of Milan and some neighboring areas, as also in parts of the Diocese of Lugano in the Swiss Canton of Tessin. The Archbishop of Milan is numerically the largest Diocese in the world. Only some parishes of the Diocese celebrate in the Roman Rite.
The reigning Archbishop, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, has refused up until now the implementation of the Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum with the reason that the Ambrosian Rite isn't effected by it.
The same position has been used by the Bishops of other Rites in the Latin Church,, like the Archdiocese of Braga in Portugal.
Because of this various internet blogs of Tradition have expressed the "concern" that the rules of implementation for the Motu Proprio will not bring the hoped for spread of the use of the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite. Much worse, it will bring feared "limitations" . For this reason the call "Request for the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, [English] in the event of the Instruction/Clarification of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum" has been called to life. The text is in seven languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese und Dutch) and published on the internet for signatures.
(Giuseppe Nardi, Bild: The Pope Benedict Forum)
Link to katholisches.info...
Archbishop Gall: Concerns about Liturgy
Editor: Rorate Caeli had caught this Archbishop saying in 2008 that he was mystified about the reports of liturgical abuses in France, but as we can see from what Messa in Latino says:
Good taste reigns supreme.
The rites are defined by a noble simplicity ...(Sacrosanctum Concilium, 34):
Archbishop Le Gall, archbishop of Toulouse, President of the Episcopal Commission for the liturgy and the sacramental ministry and a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship, during the celebration of a 'Day of Peoples'
Good taste reigns supreme.
The rites are defined by a noble simplicity ...(Sacrosanctum Concilium, 34):
Archbishop Le Gall, archbishop of Toulouse, President of the Episcopal Commission for the liturgy and the sacramental ministry and a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship, during the celebration of a 'Day of Peoples'
Additional Information: In an interview with Le Monde of 5.7.2008, Le Gall decried the "intolerable pressure" by those who are requesting the old Mass, and at the same time observed that it is essential to reintroduce the celebration according to the new missal [in a] "quieter, more reverential, more interior, with more beauty to the liturgical vestments." C As shown in the photo above, is precisely what he is doing ...
Father Harrison Takes on Wanderer For their Misinterpretation of Cantate Domino
Editor: Wasn't aware the Wanderer still existed.
Read further at Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, here.
The following is a scan from the current issue of the Wanderer (Vol 143, No.7- Feb 17, 2011) in which Fr. Harrison corrects them for their misinterpretation of Cantate Domino.
Read further at Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, here.
New Cloister in Vienna for The Sisters of the Lamb
In the Briggittenau there is a "little cloister" -- The financing of the building comes completely from donations, the foundation will be followed by a contribution from the Archdiocese of Vienna.
Vienna (kath.net/PEW) In Vienna- Brigittenau there is a new Religious Order: In the Dammer Street there will be built a "little cloister" of the "Little Sisters of the Lamb". The corresponding approval has been taken care of. The building for the wooden frame structure should begin in the spring. The Sisters should be celebrating Christmas in their new cloister.
The new cloister will have two ground level courtyards and an additional chapel connected to the street. The financing of the construction comes exclusively from donations. The building has been ordered by the Archdiocese of Vienna.
As a newer branch of the Dominican order the Little Sisters of the Lamb want "simple clean homes" built, in order to "live among the people" and make people "from every walk of life" welcome. That they are building their new cloister in the 20th district with its diverse population is especially interesting for the Sisters, because they offer a "wide field for friendship and meeting". The Sisters would like to be a "sign of friendship and peace of God" in a multicultural area: "We are really happy in our new neighborhood."
Till now the Sisters have set up housekeeping in the former Carmelite church on the Taborstrasse. Even here -- in an environment that is very strongly marked by Jewish and Islamic families -- they have already begun with "many signs of friendship".
The "Community of the Lamb" is in nine countries with a membership of 130 Little Sisters and 30 Little Brothers. In solidarity with all of the poor of the world the Brothers and Sisters have chosen a simple life.
Since 1996, Cardinal Schonborn has been ecclesiastically responsible for the order. Since then the Community has presented itself in Vienna. The Little Brothers and Sisters of the Lamb bestow their power of prayer to all people, who they meet every day and who confide in them.
There is a community of the "Friends Promoting the Community of the Lamb" where you can support it at www.freundevomlamm.at, or here in English.
Translated from kath.net...
Vienna (kath.net/PEW) In Vienna- Brigittenau there is a new Religious Order: In the Dammer Street there will be built a "little cloister" of the "Little Sisters of the Lamb". The corresponding approval has been taken care of. The building for the wooden frame structure should begin in the spring. The Sisters should be celebrating Christmas in their new cloister.
The new cloister will have two ground level courtyards and an additional chapel connected to the street. The financing of the construction comes exclusively from donations. The building has been ordered by the Archdiocese of Vienna.
As a newer branch of the Dominican order the Little Sisters of the Lamb want "simple clean homes" built, in order to "live among the people" and make people "from every walk of life" welcome. That they are building their new cloister in the 20th district with its diverse population is especially interesting for the Sisters, because they offer a "wide field for friendship and meeting". The Sisters would like to be a "sign of friendship and peace of God" in a multicultural area: "We are really happy in our new neighborhood."
Till now the Sisters have set up housekeeping in the former Carmelite church on the Taborstrasse. Even here -- in an environment that is very strongly marked by Jewish and Islamic families -- they have already begun with "many signs of friendship".
The "Community of the Lamb" is in nine countries with a membership of 130 Little Sisters and 30 Little Brothers. In solidarity with all of the poor of the world the Brothers and Sisters have chosen a simple life.
Since 1996, Cardinal Schonborn has been ecclesiastically responsible for the order. Since then the Community has presented itself in Vienna. The Little Brothers and Sisters of the Lamb bestow their power of prayer to all people, who they meet every day and who confide in them.
There is a community of the "Friends Promoting the Community of the Lamb" where you can support it at www.freundevomlamm.at, or here in English.
Translated from kath.net...
Is the Secret of the Tower of Jericho Solved?
Archeolgists: The 11, 000 year old building has something to do with the summer solstice.
Jerusalem (kath.net/KAP)Two Israeli Archeologists want to solve the riddle surrounding the tower of Jericho. As Roy Liran and Ran Barkai in the specialist magazine "Antiquity" write, the 11,000 year old structure clearly has some connection with the summer solistice. The cone shaped tower whose situation on the west side of the neolithic settlement has raised some questions, was erected as a kind of guardian against the powers of darkness.
After Liran and Barkai's observations puts the 8.25 meter high structure in alignment with Dschebel Quruntul, which in the Christian tradition is known as the "mountain of temptation" where Jesus is honored, and the point of the sunset on 21 June. In a computer simulation the researchers from the University of Tel Aviv discovered that the angle of the shadows of the Quruntul-summit matches the tower exactly on the longest day.
According to their indication, the tower structure was a "symbol of strength" to the ancient inhabitants and an expression of their "ability to endure the awe inspiring powers of nature". At the same time the Archeologists speculate that the builder used collective fear, in order to control the population. In this respect the tower is in the earliest phase of human settlement and also the earliest concrete monument of the "use of architecture as a means of calculating human control".
Link to msnbc, here
Link to kath.net original, here.
Jerusalem (kath.net/KAP)Two Israeli Archeologists want to solve the riddle surrounding the tower of Jericho. As Roy Liran and Ran Barkai in the specialist magazine "Antiquity" write, the 11,000 year old structure clearly has some connection with the summer solistice. The cone shaped tower whose situation on the west side of the neolithic settlement has raised some questions, was erected as a kind of guardian against the powers of darkness.
After Liran and Barkai's observations puts the 8.25 meter high structure in alignment with Dschebel Quruntul, which in the Christian tradition is known as the "mountain of temptation" where Jesus is honored, and the point of the sunset on 21 June. In a computer simulation the researchers from the University of Tel Aviv discovered that the angle of the shadows of the Quruntul-summit matches the tower exactly on the longest day.
According to their indication, the tower structure was a "symbol of strength" to the ancient inhabitants and an expression of their "ability to endure the awe inspiring powers of nature". At the same time the Archeologists speculate that the builder used collective fear, in order to control the population. In this respect the tower is in the earliest phase of human settlement and also the earliest concrete monument of the "use of architecture as a means of calculating human control".
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Scipio the Continent
Napoleon once said, "this old Europe bores me". No wonder then that he wanted to kill it. There was a temptation, still alive today, to regard the classics as something tired, old and dead. There is a very real inducement to do this as Latin and Greek has been virtually expunged from all academic expectation. So, too, are the classics, relegated by the perversity of multiculturalism to languish in old libraries and the few classics departments where it is still lingers on like a flickering light among the tombstones and memorials in the cavernous darkness of this present age.
If there were a temptation to join with those who don't know Ozymandias and stare in incomprehension when his name is mentioned, it is a temptation to that same desolation from which he suffered as part of the poet Shelley's ironic contrast, part of that motive force of self-destruction so prevalent in modernity which celebrates the evil as good, and portrays the most deplorable and vile scenarios for the viewing public, to desensitize their finer natures...as if despising creation itself. If there were a temptation to join that vexing crowd of moral zombies, it would be staved off by a quiet journey to stand before the plan for that drawing by the Venetian painter Pordone, Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis (c. 1484 – 1539), called, "The Continence of Scipio"
It was astonishing to encounter this work in a public gallery, thrown together by the curators who now guard these collections, what might be a fossilized rendering of the moral refinement of a bygone age, unexpected, perhaps passed by without much of a look. This painting demonstrates at once the hand and vision of a man raised and bred in Christendom, and who makes something he has witnessed through a lens, peering back through the ages, to the heart of noble antiquity where the conquering General Scipio is offered one of the vanquished city's maidens to have for pleasure; but he astonishes us, astonished his men, astonished the grateful people of the captured city and pleased the young girl, by having her fiance restored to her as a free gift.
Such grace, nobility and beauty amid the cruelty of war, particularly a war as brutal as that between Carthage and Rome, is captured for us, held in thrall as it were in a modern museum, like an exotic captive, war booty from some revolutionary's conquests, and brought for the contemplation of the masses who pass it by, perhaps unremarked, the way they carry on under the roofs and lattices of Europe's prayer in stone, Her glorious Cathedrals.
It is a work of great moment, because it is a great moment of art history, and of history, of the story of a man, that any man, even a great man though he, great not unlike the now forgotten Ozymandias, refuses to do what he is expected to do and acts graciously to those in his power, acting for their good, for no other reason than his own virtue.
Is it any wonder, considering the men who are our masters now, that the classics are no longer taught in schools, and that the master works, and the classical education that was their matrix, instead are pushed aside as mere curiosities, antiquarian interests and dusty mementos of the past.
If there were a temptation to join with those who don't know Ozymandias and stare in incomprehension when his name is mentioned, it is a temptation to that same desolation from which he suffered as part of the poet Shelley's ironic contrast, part of that motive force of self-destruction so prevalent in modernity which celebrates the evil as good, and portrays the most deplorable and vile scenarios for the viewing public, to desensitize their finer natures...as if despising creation itself. If there were a temptation to join that vexing crowd of moral zombies, it would be staved off by a quiet journey to stand before the plan for that drawing by the Venetian painter Pordone, Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis (c. 1484 – 1539), called, "The Continence of Scipio"
It was astonishing to encounter this work in a public gallery, thrown together by the curators who now guard these collections, what might be a fossilized rendering of the moral refinement of a bygone age, unexpected, perhaps passed by without much of a look. This painting demonstrates at once the hand and vision of a man raised and bred in Christendom, and who makes something he has witnessed through a lens, peering back through the ages, to the heart of noble antiquity where the conquering General Scipio is offered one of the vanquished city's maidens to have for pleasure; but he astonishes us, astonished his men, astonished the grateful people of the captured city and pleased the young girl, by having her fiance restored to her as a free gift.
Such grace, nobility and beauty amid the cruelty of war, particularly a war as brutal as that between Carthage and Rome, is captured for us, held in thrall as it were in a modern museum, like an exotic captive, war booty from some revolutionary's conquests, and brought for the contemplation of the masses who pass it by, perhaps unremarked, the way they carry on under the roofs and lattices of Europe's prayer in stone, Her glorious Cathedrals.
It is a work of great moment, because it is a great moment of art history, and of history, of the story of a man, that any man, even a great man though he, great not unlike the now forgotten Ozymandias, refuses to do what he is expected to do and acts graciously to those in his power, acting for their good, for no other reason than his own virtue.
Is it any wonder, considering the men who are our masters now, that the classics are no longer taught in schools, and that the master works, and the classical education that was their matrix, instead are pushed aside as mere curiosities, antiquarian interests and dusty mementos of the past.
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