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<h2>Thursday, 03 December</h2>
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<h3>23:41</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NCRegisterDailyBlog/~3/8xxpZbTL8JM/new-orleans-catholics-raise-1-million-in-24-hours">New Orleans Catholics Raise $1 Million in 24 Hours</a></span>
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<p>By PETER JESSERER SMITH | NEW ORLEANS — Catholics in the Archdiocese of New Orleans came to crowdfund for their ministries; they saw they had only 24 hours for Giving Tuesday; and they conquered where others failed, raising a cool record-making...<img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NCRegisterDailyBlog/~4/8xxpZbTL8JM" width="1" />
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<h3>23:40</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/catholicnewsagency/dailynews/~3/Q6t2x4sSQJU/">A car chapel? It's a real thing and Pope Francis blessed one</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Pope_Francis_blesses_a_traveling_image_after_the_general_audience_in_St_Peters_Square_Dec_2_2015_Credit_LOsservatore_Romano_CNA_12_2_15.jpg" /><p>Vatican City, Dec 3, 2015 / 04:40 pm (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- A Marian chapel built into a car – called an “Autocappella” – received a blessing from Pope Francis yesterday just before the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square.<br />
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The mobile chapel belongs to the “Marian Mission of the Rosary of the Shrine of Pompeii” and carries an icon of the Virgin of Pompeii to dioceses around the world.<br />
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At the request of a diocese, the mission brings copies of the icon and organizes prayer and<br />
evangelization activities at parishes, schools, hospitals and prisons.<br />
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So far, the mission has been to several countries including Italy, the United States, Canada, Australia and Malta.<br />
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The original image of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii is located in the town of Campania, an area located about five minutes away from the ruins of the city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in 79 A.D. by a volcano from Mt. Vesuvius.<br />
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The car chapel is among the more interesting things Pope Francis has blessed during his time in the Petrine ministry, including a bishop’s bicycle during the Synod, a “knotted grotto” in Philadelphia, a kid-built satellite bound for space, and even the rains down in Africa (just kidding).<br />
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There was a petition circulating prior to the Pope’s visit to the United States, asking him to bless the Metro in Washington, D.C. so that it would start working again, but the Pope was unable to do so during his visit.<br /><br /></p><div class="feedflare">
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<h3>23:36</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/pope-god-is-father-and-mother/">Pope: “God is Father and Mother”</a></span>
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<p>What can one say anymore? <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/12/god-is-father-and-mother-as-jubilee-of.html#more" target="_blank">I agree with Rorate</a>, this is a statement with enormous, and dire, implications.  It will be used and abused by feminists and similar types for years, probably decades, to come.  Also contained in this rambling discourse are further condemnations of the Church’s 2000 year defense of Doctrine as “exclusive.”  Yes, the Church is exclusive, and so is Heaven, but that doesn’t play well in the radical egalitarianism beloved by those given over to a libertine, progressive mindset.</p>
<p>Rorate’s quote is quite long. I’m short of time and have had a long day, so I’ll only quote the most key parts:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pope Francis: The theme of mercy has been strongly accentuated in the life of the Church, since Pope Paul VI. John Paul II stressed it strongly with <i>Dives in Misericordia</i>, the canonization of Saint Faustina and the institution of the Feast of Divine Mercy on the Octave of Easter. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[How many readers have problems with Divine Mercy as proposed by Saint Faustina?  I know [a good number do.  I waver.]</strong></span></p>
<p>…….My first Angelus as Pope was on God’s mercy and, on that occasion, I also spoke of a book on mercy which was given to me by Cardinal Walter Kasper during the conclave……<b>The world is in need of discovering that God is Father, that there is mercy, that cruelty isn’t the way, that condemnation isn’t the way, because the Church herself sometimes follows a hard line, she falls into the temptation of following a hard line, into the temptation of stressing only the moral rules, many people are excluded. <span style="color: #ff0000;">[Again touting Cardinal Kasper.  Hinting at what may come in the post-synodal exhortation?  It is not cruel to condemn, if that condemnation leads to repentance, that repentance to conversion, and that conversion to everlasting life. As a matter of fact, it is the modern indifferentism, and pretense that grave sin isn’t, that “mistakes” don’t really matter to God, thus totally blocking the process of conversion, that is cruel. It is the cruelty of the world against the true mercy of God.  Once again we see Pope Francis quite clearly state that the pre-conciliar Church was unmerciful.]</span></b></p>
<p>……Q: <i> <b>Can the Jubilee of Mercy be an occasion to rediscover God’s ”maternity”?</b></i></p>
<p>……. <b>Yes,</b> He himself affirms it when He says in Isaiah that perhaps a mother can forget her child, a mother can also forget her child … “I, instead, will never forget you.”……..<b>Therefore, I prefer to use <the word> tenderness, proper to a mother, the tenderness of God, tenderness born from the paternal insides. God is Father and Mother. <span style="color: #ff0000;">[So because the Holy Ghost inspired an allusion to a mother, that means God is a Mother-figure?  That’s an unreachable stretch.]</span></b></p>
<p>…….<b>To discover it will lead us to have a more tolerant, more patient, more tender attitude. </b>In 1994, during the Synod, in a meeting of groups. it was said that a revolution of tenderness should be established, and a Synodal Father  — a good man, whom I respect and love – then very elderly, said that it wasn’t appropriate to use this language and he gave me reasonable explanations <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[So we should thus conclude, that it was Bergoglio who made this intervention in favor of a “revolution of tenderness?”]</strong></span> , from an intelligent man, but I continue to say that today the revolution is that of tenderness because justice stems from here as does all the rest <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[Ideologue: (n) one who holds to a notion or idea in spite of all contrary evidence]</strong></span> ……..<b>The revolution of tenderness is what we have to cultivate today as the fruit of this Year of Mercy: God’s tenderness towards each one of us. Each one of us must say: “I am an unfortunate man, but God loves me thus, so I must also love others in the same way.”</b></p>
<p><i>Q: Can you anticipate to us a gesture you intend to make during the Jubilee to give testimony of God’s mercy?</i></p>
<p>Pope Francis: <b>So many gestures will be made, but on a Friday of every month I will make a different gesture.</b></p></blockquote>
<p>Oy vey.  Here comes another push for trashing the Liturgy – even more than it already has been – through “inclusive language.”</p>
<p>I fear Rorate’s closing note is right:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>In the abusively “ultramontane” (or pseudo-ultramontane) atmosphere of the Franciscan papacy, where liberals and their conservative fellow-travelers defend everything that falls from the mouth of Francis as pure orthodoxy, one does not have to be very imaginative to realize how much the enemies of the faith will make use of this erroneous expression. <span style="color: #ff0000;">[Indeed]</span></strong><b>Keep in mind that the Pope affirmed, in this interview, that the Jubilee of Mercy will be an occasion to “rediscover” the “maternity” of God. </b></p>
<p>As of late, not a week has passed without an ambiguous or problematic expression coming from the Pope and causing immense confusion and difficulty for the already-besieged, outnumbered, and often-demoralized defenders of Catholic orthodoxy. It would seem that during the Jubilee of Mercy, things are about to get even worse.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ultramontanism run amok – hypermontanism – is a grave disorder in the Church today.  It is the prime mode of operation for the crisis.  “This is impermissible!”</p>
<p>“But the Pope said it.”</p>
<p>“Oh, well……ok, then.”</p>
<p>We already have severe problems in the Church, and in so many domestic churches, where proper understanding and operation of the roles of father and mother, male and female, have been not just lost, but corrupted and turned upside down.  This kind of language is profoundly unhelpful, and even more, dangerous.  I fear it will give renewed vigor to efforts like the feminist push for “inclusive language” in the Liturgy.  Heck, why stop there, we can’t have cisnormative, heteronormative language in the Liturgy, either, right!  Bugnini and his acolytes intended the liturgical revolution to be a perpetual motion machine, never stopping, forever grinding the Mass (and other Sacraments) down into meaningless, perfectly ineffective modernist gibberish.</p>
<p>I’m out of time.  What a mess. Our Lady, have mercy on us.  Pray for us!  Christe eleison!</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24234/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24234/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=veneremurcernui.wordpress.com&blog=10897848&post=24234&subd=veneremurcernui&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<h3>23:28</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2015/12/god-is-my-father-mary-and-church-are-my.html">God is my Father, Mary and the Church are my Mother</a></span>
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<p><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>onsidering the latest from Pope Francis, I am reminded of the balderised words in Catholic Book of Worship III approved by child pornography aficionado and former Bishop of Antigonish Raymond Lahey." </span><span>Fatherlike, God gently bears us, well our feeble frame God knows. M</span><span>otherlike, God gently bears us, rescues us from all our woes."</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>In the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke at verse thirty-four Jesus addresses the holy city with:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span>Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! </span></blockquote><a href="http://www.summagallicana.it/lessico/p/pie_pellicane/16_Padre_Pio_mother_pelican_2001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.summagallicana.it/lessico/p/pie_pellicane/16_Padre_Pio_mother_pelican_2001.jpg" width="244" /></a><span>We have the medieval symbol as St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us in Adore te devote, "Pie pelicane, Jesu Domine." The icon of the ancient myth of a </span><a href="https://www.google.ca/search?q=pie+pelicane&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix_8PJ_sDJAhXBqx4KHQo4BfsQ_AUIBygB&biw=1280&bih=634#imgrc=oLK_z1fjVHcd6M%3A" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">pelican piercing its breast to feed its blood to her chicks</a><span> was a medieval symbol of Christ as shown on this icon of St. Pio of Pietrelcina. </span><br /><span><br /></span><span>These do not mean that God is our mother. </span><span>There are also those who believe that the Holy Spirit is the feminine of God and that Mary usurped the role.</span><br /><span><br /></span><a href="https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vedanta.com%2Fstore%2Fmedia%2Fss_size2%2FIndian_Vision_of_God_As_Mother.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.vedanta.com/store/media/ss_size2/Indian_Vision_of_God_As_Mother.jpg" width="125" /></a><span>To refer to God as "mother" whom Jesus only referred to as Father is simply wrong. I highly recommend <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/12/god-is-father-and-mother-as-jubilee-of.html">you read Rorate Caeli's post</a> because I am just too gobsmacked and dumbfounded to write anything reasonably coherent.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>Perhaps, he's been reading Swami Ranganathananda. </span><br /><span><br /></span><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2343420606832907511"><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And speaking of the feminine.</span><br /> <span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><blockquote></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>
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<h3>23:27</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/12/madison-8-dec-solemn-mass-in-the-presence-of-bp-morlino-for-immaculate-conception/">MADISON: 8 Dec – Solemn Mass in the presence of Bp. Morlino for Immaculate Conception</a></span>
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<p><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/15_11_30_rubens_immaculate-conception_2001.jpg"><img alt="15_11_30_rubens_immaculate-conception_200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-79967" height="283" src="http://wdtprs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/15_11_30_rubens_immaculate-conception_2001.jpg" width="199" /></a>On Tuesday evening, 8 December, Feast of the Immaculate Conception (in these USA <strong>a Holy Day of Obligation</strong>), a special Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be celebrated in the presence of the Diocesan Bishop of Madison, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino.</p>
<p>A Solemn Mass includes the service also of a Deacon and Subdeacon.  Since it is in the presence of the diocesan bishop, some of the ceremonies are changed.</p>
<p>This Mass also marks the beginning of the Year of Mercy, officially inaugurated in Rome by Pope Francis on 8 December.</p>
<p>All are welcome. Clergy are invited to participate in appropriate choir dress.</p>
<p>The music for this Holy Mass will be Gregorian Chant and a polyphonic Ordinary under the direction of Mr. Aristotle Esguerra.<br />
– <em>Missa secunda</em>, Michael Haller (1840–1915)<br />
– <em>Magnificat octavi toni</em>, Ciro Grassi (1868–1952)<br />
– <em>Ave Maria</em>, Jacob Handl (1550–1591</p>
<p>What: Solemn Mass in the Presence of the Bishop in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite<br />
When: Tuesday, 8 December, Immaculate Conception, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>7:30 PM</strong></span><br />
Where: <a href="http://www.boccmadison.com/" target="_blank">Bishop O’Conner Pastoral Center</a> – <strong><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/702+S+High+Point+Rd,+Madison,+WI+53719/@43.0511666,-89.5246216,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x8807afa58d5b76dd:0x656f3c71c22418c7" target="_blank">MAP</a></strong><br />
Why: Patronal Feast of the United States of America, Holy Day of Obligation, opening of the Year of Mercy in Rome<br />
Who: His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison (Homilist – Presiding), Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (Celebrant), Fr. Alex Navarro (Deacon), Fr. Chris Gernetzke (Subdeacon).</p>
<p>The Mass is sponsored by the Tridentine Mass Society of Madison. <a href="http://latinmassmadison.org/" target="_blank">http://latinmassmadison.org/</a></p>
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<h3>23:10</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/failure-of-modern-ecumenism-is-not-accidental-it-is-deliberate/">Failure of modern ecumenism is not accidental – it is deliberate</a></span>
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<p>It has often been overlooked in these years of crisis, that the Church, in her long history, has a quite successful record of ecumenical efforts, in the form of true ecumenism – that is, the return of separated Christians to the bosom of Holy Mother Church.  The return of a large portion of the Ukranian Orthodox is just one example.  Others include the return of various Maronite and Melkite groups to full unity.  This history stretches back many hundreds of years.</p>
<p>HJA Sire notes in his book Phoenix from the Ashes that the post-conciliar ecumenical movement – one deliberately NOT oriented</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_24232" style="width: 160px;"><a href="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/3ad6be3c8d6993cabe49a4b2515a47492433-750x500.jpeg" rel="attachment wp-att-24232"><img alt="Anglican memorial" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-24232" height="100" src="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/3ad6be3c8d6993cabe49a4b2515a47492433-750x500.jpeg?w=150&h=100" width="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Anglican memorial</p></div>
<p>towards what modernists call “the outdated methodology of the return” – has been unique in its failure to produce any real progress in the growth of unity.  That is because its orientation – not towards return, but endless, pointless jabber – is fundamentally perverse.  It is also because the wrong priorities have most often been operative – ecumenism with protestants has been much more heavily pursued than with actual, if schismatic, churches:</p>
<p>In ecumenism in the past fifty years the Catholic Church has done everything that it should not have done and failed to do everything that it should have done. In the genuine, Catholic view, the one that was pursued by popes long before Vatican II, the first purpose of ecumenism is to remedy the scandal of Christian division…….[E]cumenism ought to direct itself first and foremost to the traditions represented by the ancient patriarchates, the churches that have preserved the ecclesial and sacramental understanding of early times <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[instead of the heavy focus on protestantism seen since the 20th century].  </strong><span style="color: #000000;">With such churches the highest prize of rapprochement is corporate reunion, which has in fact been achieved many times in the past.</span></span></p>
<p>The same objectives cannot apply in the case of protestantism. Here, doctrinal convergence would mean the entertaining of 16th century innovations in Christianity, or of modern Western ideas to which Catholics are only too much exposed, anyway.  Moreover, since protestantism has no sacramentally valid hierarchies, there is no possibility of ecclesial union in the sense that exists with Eastern Churches.  That is not, however, to say that there can be no ecumenical amity with protestantism; far from it.  There is no need to accept the modernist dichotomy that either one waives Catholic doctrine on what constitutes a church or one is committed to unconditional bigotry and exclusivity. <strong> But with protestantism different objectives apply; since doctrinal agreement is impossible in practice, and ecclesial union impossible in principle, it is a waste of time talking about them</strong>.  <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[This is a really key point, one I’ve addressed many times in the past. With tens of thousands of protestant sects, each believing mutually exclusive things, any ecumenical advance with one sect necessarily means a reverse with another.  That is why ecumenism with protestants outside the conversion of souls into the Church is ultimately worse than pointless.  It is also impossible to reunite with bodies that are not, in fact, churches.]</strong></span> <strong>What distinguishes the case of the protestant churches is that the Catholic Church is immersed with them in a Western society that is becoming increasingly anti-Christian.  The task here is to combine for the defense of essential Christian principles.</strong>  Closer mutual understanding may or may not be the reward but, even if it is, it is more likely to come form practical cooperation than from doctrinal negotiations. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[Bu- bu- but……what of the fabulous conferences in Switzerland at posh resorts?  What of <a href="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/download-27.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-24231"><img alt="download (27)" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-24231" height="102" src="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/download-27.jpg?w=150&h=102" width="150" /></a>the feting by the media?!?  What of the great meals?  Sire doesn’t get the point of the ecumenical movement at all!!!]</strong></span> The fact needs to be borne in mind that the ultimate purpose of ecumenism is not a diplomatic one, concerned with relations between churches, but an evangelical one, concerned with the presentation of Christianity to the world. <strong>From the beginning, the premise of ecumenism, even in the East, but above all in the West, ought to have been that what the Christian churches needed to do was not sit down and talk but stand up together and fight</strong>. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[Of course, this assumes that the leading lights of the ecumenical movement have concern for souls, or the state of the Church, or fighting against the decomposition of Christendom, anywhere on their agenda.  That is to say, what Sire is describing may not be a bug, but a feature.]</strong></span></p>
<p>……The weakness and incoherent voice of the Church has removed what should have been a strong anchor to which the Christians could have clung……….<strong>[O]ne should notice the complete nullity of the Church’s modern record, in contrast to its success in the past.</strong>  <strong>Throughout its history, the Roman Church has achieved unions with many Eastern churches, the most important of them being that with the Ukrainian Church in 1596.</strong> Following it, one could say that unions in one part of the world or another took place every few decades; the more recent ones include those with the Ethiopian Catholic Church in 1846 and the Syro-Malankar Church in India in 1930, besides minor concords with small groups of Bulgarians, Macedonians, and Russians.  <strong>Since Vatican II, however, there has been not a single union of a separated Church with Rome; as seen by the bodies to which it makes such ingratiating gestures, the new, ecumenically minded Catholic Church is not worth joining.  <span style="color: #ff0000;">[Again, to the modernists who dominate the ecumenical movement in the Church, that is viewed much more as a feature, than a bug]</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>We may turn to the protestant churches, whose alliance would have done most to defend Christian principles in a secularized world. That opportunity has been thrown away by an approach that ignored the aims of joint action and lost itself in ecumenical talk.</strong>  <strong>Plans for reunion were founded on false doctrinal premises which, instead of building friendship, have only damaged it.</strong>  An example was given by Pope John Paul II’s official visit to Norway in 1989, when his meeting with Lutheran sin the royal palace was boycotted by seven of the country’s eleven bishops, on the ground of the Catholic Church’s failure to give way on a range of points <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[notice how it is always the Church giving way?  These points were on matters that simply could not be compromised, even if <a href="https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/pope-francis-says-lutheranism-catholicism-essentially-same-lutherans-can-discern-to-receive-eucharist/" target="_blank">the present pope seems determined</a> to introduce heretofore  unheard of novelties regarding them]</strong></span>  , including intercommunion and the ecclesial recognition of the Lutheran “church;” one of the protesters declared that the ecumenical process had stopped with the accession of Pope John Paul II. <strong>This display against a pope who spent his reign grovelling to every conventicle of Christian and non-Christian religion shows the fact that in protestant circles – and indeed in Catholic ones – ecumenism was understood as the indiscriminate surrender by the Catholic Church to protestant claims.</strong></p>
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<p>That.  It’s the key to understanding the major thrust of the ecumenical movement within the Church.  It is led by individuals of the same disposition as those who gutted the Mass – including, originally, the Roman Canon – because it offended protestant sensibilities.  “Saint” Anibale himself declared he wanted a Mass that would be totally acceptable to protestants.  The revolutionaries who gained control over Vatican II were heavily disposed to similar views: Yves Congar knelt before the tomb of Luther and believed protestantism better preserved Christianity’s early “purity” better than the Church! <a href="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/download-28.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-24230"><img alt="download (28)" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-24230" height="106" src="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/download-28.jpg?w=150&h=106" width="150" /></a>Throughout the movement’s history over the past 50 years, it has involved far more grovelling, self-abasement, and doctrinal surrender on the part of the Church than on its ecumenical “partners.”  Their compromises have been mostly symbolic.</p>
<p>Even in its much-touted “successes” – such as the Joint Declaration on Justification with the Lutherans – all that resulted was a mealy mouthed, horribly worded document that badly undermined Catholic belief while failing to achieve anything of even remote significance.  Who, besides to make a point like this one, speaks of that all-but-forgotten Joint Declaration today?</p>
<p>Ecumenists -and I do not exaggerate – view the process as “success.”  That is, they view simply sitting down at endless, increasingly pointless discussions as the very success they seek. So very, very bureaucratic.  Of course the ecumenical movement cannot go away!  It employs thousands!  It has been institutionalized.</p>
<p>One final point: note that ecumenism focuses almost entirely on those sects who have most fallen into modernism and progressive agitation.  They don’t like to have much to do with those icky fundamentalists. I think that can be stressed even more now that Francis is pope, notwithstanding his friendship with shysters like Kenneth Copeland. The movement is, in many respects, simply a way for like-minded progressive modernists to meet and talk endlessly at other’s expense.  I imagine that talk at times turns to how to frustrate the obstructionism of those knuckle-dragging observant souls.  I’m being harsh, but I see duplicity throughout this self-described movement.  I think it is one of the most obscene aspects of the modern Church, because it deliberately undermines what remains key for all those outside the Church – <em>conversion</em>.  And I find in the statements of many of the leaders of this movement (stating that conversion is not necessary, that the Church desires protestants to remain where they’re at) really annoying, since I’m a convert and believe passionately in the extreme importance – one might say practical necessity –  of visible communion with the Church for salvation.</p>
<p>I said practical necessity.  Yes I understand baptism by desire and all the rest.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24229/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24229/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=veneremurcernui.wordpress.com&blog=10897848&post=24229&subd=veneremurcernui&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<p><img alt="infierno" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" height="264" src="http://www.adelantelafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/infierno-1024x438.jpg" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="618" /><p style="text-align: center;"> <strong>Para el viernes primero de Adviento</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="wpsdc-drop-cap">P</span><strong>UNTO PRIMERO.</strong> Considera en el mismo lugar en que te hayas una boca cómo de un pozo profundo, que llega al centro de la tierra, a donde está un calabozo oscuro, y como dice el santo Job, tenebroso, cubierto de sombras de muerte, de miseria y de tinieblas, a donde no hay orden ni concierto, sino eterna confusión; a donde no se oye otra cosa sino confusa vocería de atormentadores y atormentados, llantos, gemidos, aullidos, blasfemias y crujir de dientes, despechos y maldiciones contra Dios y sus santos; y no se siente sino cieno y hedor insoportable, fuego que abrasa y no alumbra, ahogos y congojas intolerables, sin esperanza de un rayo de luz o una respiración de aire tan estrecho por la multitud de los condenados, que no se pueden mover, ni rodear, sino que, como dice Isaías, del lado que cayere el leño ha de quedar para Siempre: ahonda en este profundo, contempla la pena que será estar en un lugar tan lleno de tormentos sin esperanza de salir de él, y cobra grande temor de la justicia divina y de caer en tal abismo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>PUNTO II.</strong> Discurre por todos los sentidos y por las potencias del alma y considera cómo en el infierno cada uno tiene estipulado y particular tormento: los ojos viendo cosas feísimas y espantosísimas; los oídos oyendo aquellos gemidos y aullidos y gritos lamentables y desordenados con indecible confusión; el olfato con el hedor intolerable; el gusto amargado con hiel de dragones; el tacto con todo género de dolores y tormentos; por que como dice San Bernardo, no hay acá enfermedad, por penosa y exquisita que sea, que no la padezca en el infierno cualquiera de los condenados; y así cada una de las partes y miembros del cuerpo padecerá su particular tormento; y luego la memoria, el entendimiento y la voluntad y la imaginativa y todas las potencias del alma perderán su orden, y cada una padecerá este tormento; y como el condenado será despojado de todos los hábitos de las virtudes, y quedará sin fe, sin esperanza y sin caridad, sin prudencia, sin paciencia, sin habilidad para cosa buena, en cada uno se hallará una avenida de penas y tormentos inaplicable, sin tolerancia, ni consuelo ni alivio. Saca de aquí la grandeza de aquellos tormentos, y si no puedes sufrir una calentura ardiente por dos horas, o una chispa que acaso te cayó en la mano por un momento, ¿cómo podrás sufrir tantos y tan grandes tormentos juntos sin fin? Propón firmísimamente de mortificar ahora tus sentidos, y entrar por la senda estrecha de la penitencia para que entonces no caigas en las penas del infierno.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>PUNTO III.</strong> Considera otra pena común a todos los condenados, que llaman los teólogos pena de daño, y es la negación que tienen de ver y gozar de Dios para siempre, porque sin duda es la mayor de todas cuantas padecen; y así como el ver a Dios es el mayor de todos los bienes, así por el contrario el carecer de Dios es el mayor de todos los males, y origen y raíz de cuanto padecen los condenados en el infierno. Santo era Tobías, y decía con sentimiento que no podía tener gozo alguno en cosa de la tierra, porque no podía ver la luz del cielo. ¡Cuánto más, privados estarán de tener gozo ni contento en cosa alguna, sino antes duro tormento los que carecerán de la vista de Dios, sin esperanza de gozarle eternamente! ¡Oh qué rabioso dolor les causará el gusano roedor de su conciencia, dándoles Dios noticia de lo que perdieron, y viendo con cuán poco pudo ganar y escapar de tan terribles tormentos! ¡Oh qué gemidos! ¡Oh qué gemidos! ¡0h qué sollozos y llantos darán, y tan temerosos pero sin fruto, porque no les aprovechará nada! Aprende ahora a llorar tus pecados, cuando tus lágrimas son fructuosas y tus gemidos aceptables, y no esperes a tiempo en que no han de aprovechar.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>PUNTO IV.</strong> Considera que fuera de lo dicho cada uno de los condenados padecerá su particular tormento, conforme a los delitos que cometió, disponiendo la justicia divina que se le dé a cada uno la pena a medida de su culpa: y así los lujuriosos, amadores de deleites, tendrán su pena particular por este pecado, y los soberbios la tendrán de confusión y desprecio por el suyo, y los glotones, como el rico avariento, de hambre y sed rabiosa por su pecado; y de la misma manera todos los demás; pero todo lo sella la duración de estas penas, en que has de cargar el peso de la consideración; porque ellas son tales; que si se dieran por un año, pareciera rigurosísimo castigo, y si por diez intolerable, y si por ciento insoportable, y si por mil imposible; pero no es el plazo de ciento, ni de mil, ni de cien mil, sino por una eternidad sin fin, ni plazo, ni término, ni esperanza de acabarse o disminuirse jamás; y después de millones de años han de empezar con el mismo dolor y sentimiento, que al principio, sin término, ni refrigerio, disminución, de suerte que si de cien mil a cien mil años llorara un condenado una lágrima en el cóncavo que hay entre el cielo y la tierra, con ser un espacio tan dilatado, y en llenándole, como llena el agua el seno de la mar, se hubieran de acabar sus penas, les fuera de refrigerio; porque aunque agota el entendimiento pensar el tiempo que se había de tardar, al fin, al fin era limitado, y tenía fin; pero sus penas no le tendrán, y después de lleno el espacio señalado en el modo dicho, han de volver a empezar, sin esperanza de acabarse jamás; y después de millones de millones de siglos se han de hallar tan al principio, como el primer día que empezaron a padecer. Cava en este pensamiento, y extiende los ojos a este camino sin paradero y este mar sin lindes, ni suelo, ni número, y mira por cuánto no quisieras caer en él, y da mil gracias a Dios nuestro Señor, porque mereciéndolo por tus pecados, no te ha lanzado en el infierno, sino que te ha dado lugar de hacer penitencia, y hazla en adelante tal, que merezcas gozar eternamente de su santa gloria.</p>
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<p><img alt="alicevonhildebrand" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" height="264" src="http://www.adelantelafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/alicevonhildebrand-1024x438.jpg" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="618" /><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>“Dedicamos este artículo a todas las mujeres que visitan este humilde blog”</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Alice, dice que las mujeres pueden escapar de una trampa imitando la fuerza y humildad de María</em></p>
<p><em>New Rochelle, Nueva York, noviembre 26. 2003 (Zenit) – Las mujeres en el mundo secularizado necesitan que se les recuerde que el cumplimiento de su función materna es infinitamente valiosa a los ojos de Dios, dice la esposa del filósofo Dietrich Von Hildebrand.</em></p>
<p><em>Alice Von Hildebrand, autora de “El privilegio de ser mujer” nos compartió cómo cada mujer puede encontrar la fuerza sobrenatural en lo que el feminismo percibe como su debilidad y mirar a María como modelo de feminidad perfecta.</em></p>
<p><em>Von Hildebrand obtuvo su doctorado en filosofía en la Universidad de Fordham y es profesor emérito de Hunter College de la City University de Nueva York.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pregunta: ¿Qué te inspiró a escribir este libro?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Von Hildebrand:</strong> <em>El veneno de la laicidad. Que ha penetrado profundamente en nuestra sociedad. Lo hizo por etapas. Los hombres fueron sus primeras víctimas: Se fueron transformando cada vez más convencidos de que para ser alguien, tenían que triunfar en el mundo. El éxito significa dinero, el poder, la fama, el reconocimiento, la creatividad, la inventiva, etc.</em></p>
<p><em>Muchos de ellos sacrificaron su vida familiar con el fin de lograr este objetivo: Ellos vinieron a casa para relajarse o divertirse simplemente. El trabajo era la parte más seria de su vida.</em></p>
<p><em>Matrimonios Innumerables han sido arruinados por esta actitud. Muchas esposas con razón sentían que eran meros apéndices, una relación necesaria. Los esposos tuvieron poco tiempo para intercambios amorosos ya que estaban demasiado ocupados. Los niños vieron muy poco a sus padres. El sufrimiento de esas esposas era no sólo comprensible sino también legítimo.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pregunta: ¿Por qué las mujeres tienen que estar convencidas de que es bueno ser una mujer?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Von Hildebrand:</strong> <em>Lo sorprendente es que el feminismo, en vez de hacer a las mujeres más profundamente consciente de la belleza y la dignidad de su papel como esposas, como madres, y del poder espiritual que puedan ejercer sobre sus maridos, las convenció de que ellas, también tenían que  adoptar una mentalidad secularista: Ellas también deben entrar en la fuerza de trabajo; ellas también deben llegar a ser ellas mismas, ser alguien, obteniendo diplomas, competir con los hombres en el mercado de trabajo, demostrando que eran sus iguales, y que cuando se les deba esa oportunidad podrían ser más astutas que ellos.</em></p>
<p><em>Se han dejado convencer de que la feminidad significa debilidad. Ellas comenzaron a mirar malos ojos a las virtudes tales como la paciencia, la abnegación, la entrega, la ternura y ser sumisas. Para llegar así a equiparse a los hombres en todas las cosas. Algunas de ellas incluso se convencieron de que tenían que utilizar lenguaje grosero con el fin de mostrar que eran el  sexo “fuerte” que no eran las delicadas muñecas frágiles e insignificantes que los hombres creían que eran.</em></p>
<p><em>La guerra de los sexos estaba en marcha. Las que cayeron en las trampas del feminismo querían ser como los hombres en todas las cosas y vendieron su primogenitura por un plato de lentejas. Se convirtieron en ciegas ante el hecho de que los hombres y mujeres, aunque iguales en dignidad ontológica, se hicieron diferentes por la elección de Dios: Varón y hembra los hizo. Diferentes y complementarios.</em></p>
<p><em>Cada sexo tiene sus fortalezas; cada sexo tiene sus debilidades. Según el plan admirable de Dios, el del  marido es ayudar a su esposa a superar estas debilidades, para que todos los tesoros de su feminidad vengan a plena floración, y viceversa.</em></p>
<p><em>Cuántos hombres verdaderamente se convierten en tales gracias al amor de sus esposas. Cómo las esposas pueden ser transformadas por la fuerza y ​​el coraje de sus maridos.</em></p>
<p><em>La tragedia del mundo en el que vivimos es que nos hemos convertido en apóstatas. Muchos han abandonado los tesoros que nos ha dado la revelación, lo sobrenatural.</em></p>
<p><em>El pecado original fue esencialmente un ataque a la jerarquía de valores: El hombre quiso ser como Dios, y sin Dios. El castigo era terrible: El cuerpo del hombre se rebeló contra su alma. Hoy en día, esta inversión de la jerarquía de valores va tan lejos que Peter Singer niega la superioridad del hombre sobre los animales, y que los ballenatos se preserven de todo peligro mientras que los bebés humanos son asesinados.</em></p>
<p><em>Todo se ha vuelto al revés: los matrimonios se rompen; muchos ni siquiera consideran casarse; la asociación dura sólo el tiempo que se cumplen unos a otros. Relaciones antinaturales tan severamente condenadas por Platón están de moda y reclaman su derecho a ponerse en el mismo nivel  de aquellos que Dios ha ordenado.</em></p>
<p><strong>PREGUNTA: ¿Cómo puede la supuesta debilidad de las mujeres verse como una fuerza?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Von Hildebrand:</strong> <em>Por supuesto que desde un punto de vista naturalista, los hombres son más fuertes: no sólo porque son físicamente más fuertes, sino también porque son más creativos, tienen más creatividad y son más productivos. Las más grandes obras en la teología, la filosofía y las artes plásticas siempre fueron hechas por hombres. Ellos son los grandes ingenieros, los grandes arquitectos.</em></p>
<p><em>Pero el mensaje cristiano nos dice que estas invenciones son valiosas como el polvo y la ceniza en comparación con cada acto de virtud. Una mujer por su propia naturaleza esta llamada a ser madre y, es asi para todas las mujeres, ya sea casada o soltera, está llamada a ser una madre biológica, psicológica o espiritual. Ella sabe intuitivamente que dar, para nutrir,  para cuidar a los demás, para sufrir con y para ellos, porque la maternidad implica sufrimiento, y este sufrimiento materno es infinitamente más valioso a los ojos de Dios que la conquista de las naciones y  el volar a la luna.</em></p>
<p><em>Cuando uno lee la vida de Santa Teresa de Jesús o San Teresita de Lisieux, llama la atención el hecho de que constantemente se refieren a su “debilidad”. Las vidas de estas mujeres heroicas (y hay muchas) nos enseñan que el conocimiento y la aceptación de la debilidad de uno, junto con una confianza sin límites en el amor y el poder de Dios, otorgan a estas almas privilegiadas una fuerza que es tan grande porque es sobrenatural.</em></p>
<p><em>La fuerza natural no puede competir con la fuerza sobrenatural. Esta es la razón por la que María, la bendita, es “fuerte como un ejército listo para la batalla.” Y, sin embargo, ella se llama “Clemens, pía, dulcís Virgo María.”</em></p>
<p><em>Esta fuerza sobrenatural explica cómo ha sido mencionado por Dom Prosper Guéranger en “El Año Litúrgico”  que el diablo teme a esta humilde Virgen más que a Dios porque su fuerza sobrenatural que aplasta la cabeza es más humillante para él que la fuerza de Dios.</em></p>
<p><em>Por ello, el Maligno hoy se levanta con su peor ataque a la feminidad que ha tenido lugar en la historia del mundo. Al final de los tiempos, y sabiendo que su derrota será total, redobla sus esfuerzos para atacar su único gran enemigo: la mujer. Se dice en Génesis 3:15: “Y pondré enemistad entre ti y la mujer”. La victoria final es de ella, como se ve en la mujer coronada con el sol.</em></p>
<p><strong>PREGUNTA: ¿Por qué crees que las mujeres tienen poder moral?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Von Hildebrand:</strong> <em>La misión de la mujer de hoy es de vital importancia. De alguna manera, tienen la clave para la cordura, el primer paso hacia una conversión. Por lo sobrenatural, base de la naturaleza, y a no ser que volvamos a una solidez natural, la sublimidad del mensaje sobrenatural se perderá para la mayoría de nosotras.</em></p>
<p><em>¿Por qué tienen la llave? Debido a su influencia en los hombres, que es enorme cuando realmente entienden su papel y su misión. Una y otra vez escucho sacerdotes que dicen que deben su vocación a la abuela o la madre.</em></p>
<p><em>Santa Mónica, en colaboración con Dios, trajo a su hijo descarriado hacia la conversión. La madre de San Bernardo,  la madre de San Francisco de Sales(que sólo tenía 15 años mayor que él) y la madre de San Juan Bosco fueron factores clave en su camino espiritual hacia la santidad.</em></p>
<p><strong>PREGUNTA: ¿Cómo es María un modelo de feminidad?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Von Hildebrand: </strong><em>Las mujeres tienen la clave, ya que son los guardianes de la pureza. Esto ya está claramente indicado por la estructura de sus cuerpos, que oculta castamente sus órganos íntimos. Debido a que sus órganos están“velados”, con indicación de su misterio y sacralidad, las mujeres tienen el inmenso privilegio de compartir el sexo de la Bendita: María, la más santa de todas las criaturas.</em></p>
<p><em>El feminismo comenzó en los países protestantes, por la sencilla razón de que habían dado la espalda a la madre de Cristo, como si el Salvador del mundo se sentiría privado del honor dado a su amada Madre.</em></p>
<p><em>María, por lo que se refiere gloriosamente en el Apocalípsis, es el modelo de la mujer. Es mirando hacia ella, orando con ella y contemplando sus virtudes que las mujeres encontrarán su camino de regreso a la belleza y la dignidad de su misión.</em></p>
<p><strong>PREGUNTA: ¿Cómo escribir este libro ayuda a crecer en el aprecio de ser mujer?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Von Hildebrand:</strong> <em>Escribir este libro ha sido un privilegio. Me dio una oportunidad única para meditar en la grandeza de la misión de la mujer, siguiendo los pasos de la Santa Virgen.</em></p>
<p><em>María nos enseña dos reglas que conducen a la santidad. Una de ellas es: “Yo soy la esclava del Señor, hágase en mí según tu palabra.”. Esto indica que la misión de la mujer es dejarse fecundar por la gracia, la receptividad santa. El segundo es: “Haced lo que Él os diga”.</em></p>
<p><em>Este es el programa de santidad que la Iglesia nos ofrece. Sin duda, si las mujeres entendieran este mensaje, el matrimonio, la familia y la Iglesia podrían superar la terrible crisis que nos afecta. Como la liturgia dice: “Dios ha puesto la salvación en las manos de una mujer.”</em></p>
<p><a href="http://sanmiguelarcangel-cor-ar.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/alice-von-hildebrand-sobre-feminismo-y.html">Fuente</a></p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheEponymousFlower/~3/KqYKHgvArwM/pope-francis-blames-benedict-for.html">Pope Francis Blames Benedict for Corruption Passes Buck on Chaoqui</a></span>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Edit: there are suggestions that Francesca Chaoqui is a member of the Italian Secret Police, but it's impossible to believe that Pope Francis didn't know more about her when she was brought on board, than he suggests in his interview. She was a high profile appointment obviously conceived to present a more open, inclusive Vatican. It's difficult to discern what he's saying, but it also looks like he's accusing Pope Benedict of the corruption he's pretending to fight with the C9, made up mostly of some of the most liberal and princely Cardinals of the Church. It's hard to call most of them Catholic.<br /><br />(Paris) The <em>Vatileaks 2</em> scandal is substantiated in a lawsuit by the Vatican court. Therin, none of the details are spared that make for all the ingredients of the perfect S<em>ex, Crime and Vatican</em><em>Story</em>. That the bustling Francesca Chaouqui should betray her Vatican mentor, Msgr. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, since the police of the Vatican showed up, makes them even more interesting to the media and even more embarrassing for the Vatican. Her appointment shall be directly attributed to Pope Francis on the recommendation of Msgr Vallejo Balda<br /><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em;">When questioned by journalists, Pope Francis gave reply on the return journey from Africa regarding</span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em;"> </span><em style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em;">Vatileaks 2</em><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em;">His full answers:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><span id="more-53187"></span></div><div id="frage" style="background-color: white; color: #779d03; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Question: There is much talk about Vatileaks. Without going into details about the process, which takes place just: How important is the free and secular press in uncovering the corruption?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Pope Francis: The Free Press, the secular and ecclesiastical, but professional in any case: The professionalism of the press may be secular or religious. It is important that it has professionals and that the messages are not tampered with. For me it is important because the accusation of injustice and corruption is a good work. The professional press have to say anything, but without falling into the three most common sins: disinformation, which is to tell only half the story, and the rest not; defamation, if the non-professional public spotted the people; and the defamation that has things to say, which takes the reputation of a person. These are the three flaws that threaten the professionalism of the press. We need professionalism. And when it comes to corruption, it's good things to say: "Corruption exists here, here and here." And if a truly professional journalist was wrong, he apologizes.</div><div id="frage" style="background-color: white; color: #779d03; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Question: We could get into the COSEA appointing Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda and Francesca Chaouqui.?Think of having made a mistake?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Pope Francis: I think that was a mistake. Vallejo joined because of the role he had and did have up until now: he was secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See. How did she get in: I am not sure, but I think I am right in saying that it was he who said she was someone who was well acquainted with the world of business relations. They worked and when the work was complete, COSEA’s members kept some positions in the Vatican. Mrs. Chaouqui did not stay in the Vatican: some say she was angry about this. The judges will tell us what her real intentions were, how they did it. It did not come as a surprise to me, I didn’t lose any sleep over it because they showed everyone the work begun with the commission of nine cardinals, to root out corruption and the things that are wrong. There’s one thing I want to say, not about Vallejo and Chaouqui. Thirteen days before John Paul II’s death, during the via Crucis, the then Cardinal Ratzinger, talked about the filth in the Church. He denounced the first one. Then John Paul II died and Ratzinger, who was a dean on the "pro eligendo Pontefice” Mass, talked about the same thing. We elected him because of his openness about things. </span><span style="color: red;">It is since that time that there has been corruption in the air in the Vatican.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Regarding the trial: I have not read the charges in full. I would have liked the whole thing to have been over and done with before the Jubilee but I don’t think that’s possible because I want all the defence lawyers to have time to do their job and the freedom of defence.” </span></div><div id="frage" style="background-color: white; color: #779d03; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><span class="goog-text-highlight" style="background-color: #c9d7f1;">Question: How will you proceed, to prevent the recurrence of these things?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Pope Francis: I thank God that there is no longer Lucrezia Borgia! [laughs] But I do not know, with the Cardinals, to do away with the Commission. Not true? Thank you.</div><div id="quelle" style="background-color: white; color: #779d03; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding: 5px 0px;">Text: Giuseppe Nardi/Vatican Reports translation<br />Image: Mil</div>Trans of Nardi's Text: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com Link to Katholisches... AMDG<img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheEponymousFlower/~4/KqYKHgvArwM" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/12/liturgical-calendar-papa-stronsay-style.html">Liturgical calendar -- Papa Stronsay style!</a></span>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Take a look at the <a href="http://www.papastronsay.com/calendar">calendar</a>, and the video. Gotta admire the confidence in their product!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>A note to you, our readers, from the F.SS.R:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer would like to thank <i>Rorate</i> readers for their continued support. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As you may have read already, the 2016 Papa Stronsay Calendar is now available, bringing so much of your Catholic year together into one place. Have a look at the video and see what you're missing out on. If you would like a Papa Stronsay Calendar, <b><a href="http://www.papastronsay.com/calendar">you can obtain one here</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2015/12/03/what-can-a-catholic-do-in-these-times/">What Can A Catholic Do In These Times?</a></span>
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<p>Go over to the St. Louis Catholic Blog.  Tim, the man behind the wheel of the blog, has put up a very sensible, and shall I say, Holy way of dealing with the current state of affairs in the church.  I completely echo his sentiment and I love that he reference to Our Lady of Fatima. Check …</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2015/12/03/what-can-a-catholic-do-in-these-times/" rel="nofollow">What Can A Catholic Do In These Times?</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com" rel="nofollow">Traditional Catholic Priest</a>.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=1351186&eng=y">A Jubilee By Popular Acclaim</a></span>
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<p>Mercy for all except the hierarchical Church, too closed-off and backward to deserve the pope’s forgiveness. But in the meantime two cases with uncertain outcomes have exploded: the trial of Balda and Chaouqui and the clash with the supreme court of Chile
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/catholicnewsagency/dailynews/~3/_mdw903rFQA/">Fighting injustice 'is going to hurt' – the legacy of Rosa Parks</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Rosa_Parks_with_Dr_Martin_Luther_King_Jr_ca_1955_Credit_USIA_via_Wikimedia_Commons_CNA_12_3_15.jpg" /><p>Washington D.C., Dec 3, 2015 / 03:05 pm (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- The legacy of Rosa Parks, 60 years after her arrest for civil disobedience, is that Catholics must fight injustice even when it hurts, said a member of the National Black Catholic Congress.<br />
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“I think that it is a powerful image for us as individuals, to know that justice hurts,” said Michael Howard of the National Black Catholic Congress in an interview with CNA about Parks’ arrest.<br />
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“To stand up for justice, it’s going to hurt. But yet in the end, the reward is that the Lord will bless us, and so we stand up for people who are ridiculed and mistreated.”<br />
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Dec. 1 marked the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest in Montgomery, Ala. for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.<br />
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Parks, a 42 year old black woman traveling home from work, was ordered by the bus driver to move to the back of the bus and stand in the section reserved for African-Americans so that a white passenger could take her seat in the middle seating area. The whites-only section in the front of the bus was full.<br />
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By the city’s law in 1955, she had to obey the bus driver. Parks calmly refused and the bus driver had her arrested.<br />
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Following her arrest, Martin Luther King, Jr., then a 26 year-old pastor, earned fame as he led a peaceful 381-day boycott of the city’s segregated bus system. Parks appealed her case against the system in court and the Supreme Court, ruling on another challenge, struck down laws segregating public transit systems in 1956 in <em>Browder v. Gayle</em>.<br />
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President Obama praised the legacy of Parks as a precursor to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, in a statement released by the White House Dec. 1.<br />
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“Because Rosa Parks kept her seat, thousands of ordinary commuters walked instead of rode. Because they walked, countless other quiet heroes marched. Because they marched, our union is more perfect. Today, we remember their heroism. Most of all, we recommit ourselves to continuing their march,” he stated.<br />
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Today’s Catholics should learn from Parks’ “tenacity” in fighting injustice, Howard explained.<br />
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Problems of poverty, homelessness, and neglect of the elderly all plague society today under a general disrespect for life, he added. People should uphold the dignity of life “from the womb to the tomb.”<br />
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Most importantly, Catholics should seek to receive mercy first in the sacrament of Confession before giving it to others, he insisted.<br />
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“Go to Reconciliation,” he said, in light of the upcoming Jubilee Year of Mercy which begins Dec. 8, “so that we can give mercy to others who are in such dire need of mercy right now.”<br />
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Catholics must stop heeding calls to be silent in the face of injustice, he said.<br />
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“One of the things that, as African-Americans in general experienced over the years is that we’re always taught to succumb to the forces of evil. When told to do something, we’re told to do it without asking questions,” he said. “And that is perhaps how a lot of African-Americans were able to survive through the years of the 60s and 70s.”<br />
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This pressure to keep silent continues today, he added, when young black men are warned to “be careful how they speak to police officers and how they talk to higher authority, because you just don’t know what’s going to happen behind closed doors.”<br />
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However, Parks’ legacy is that she “was willing to take that risk and speak about justice.”<br />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://johngbrungardt.com/2015/12/03/de-koninck-on-the-state/">De Koninck on “The Great State”</a></span>
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<p>An excerpt from reading Vallée’s introduction to De Koninck’s <em>Œuvres, II.3</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Great State [Le Grand État] is an evil in itself, writes de Jouvenal, for a fundamental reason relating to the very nature of the human mind. Incapable of considering the innumerable relations linking a great quantity of objects, it considers them only by reducing them to a small number of classes, a number determined in advance by the quality of the mind. If, then, the quantity of objects is greatly increased, it must happen that the classes embracing each of the growing quantity of objects be of the sort that, if the objects have an individuality, the classes constituted by the mind be a view increasingly distant from reality. . . .  The administration of a State is necessarily, especially blind to individual realities insofar as the State is the larger. It is more inhuman, more geometric, more automatic. . . .</p>
<p>Now, what prevents the Great State from being a political society, that which renders it ineluctably despotic, is not simply the fact that the human mind is incapable of considering the innumerable relations linking a great quantity of objects. The characteristic difficulty arises from this, that the objects in question are despite everything political animals. That man is by nature a political animal is one of these necessities that liberty presupposes but which the Great State cannot tolerate except in name. The Great State faces the past, customs, at all types of contingencies which have shaped persons, peoples, and their diversity. It is this matter—so complex, heterogeneous—which men are . . . [and] which the Great State is constrained to homogenize.</p>
<p>~ C. De Koninck, “La Confederation, rempart contre le Grant État,” 80, 81 (Œuvres II.3; translation mine)</p></blockquote>
<p>One wonders whether or not the advent of modern computing technology—the aid to a massive bureaucracy and its the “homogenization” that De Koninck critiques—in fact overcomes the “epistemological-political problem” in the first paragraph. It strikes me that the answer is no, for the reason given in the second paragraph. These thoughts are a work in progress.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/johnofstthomas.wordpress.com/1804/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/johnofstthomas.wordpress.com/1804/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=johngbrungardt.com&blog=14017465&post=1804&subd=johnofstthomas&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<p>By CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY | VATICAN CITY — A surprise visitor to St. Peter’s Square during the general audience yesterday was met with a warm welcome.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheEponymousFlower/~3/ZQNM92_1h-4/anti-terror-cell-uncovered-in-italy.html">Jihadist Terror Cell Uncovered in Italy, Allegedly Planning Attack Against Pope</a></span>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6kHibVqu3dg/VmCzuiLZf0I/AAAAAAAASI0/7j1Q4yC_SwQ/s1600/Antiterroraktion-Papst.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6kHibVqu3dg/VmCzuiLZf0I/AAAAAAAASI0/7j1Q4yC_SwQ/s320/Antiterroraktion-Papst.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">(Rome) in Italy a jihadist cell was exposed. The Italian and Kosovar police led in a joint anti-terror operation in Italy and in Kosovo. Four Islamists were arrested on Tuesday. All those arrested are from Kosovo and the Muslims are of Albanian origin. They are accused of having planned an assassination attempt against Pope Francis. "This is the last pope" is a quote from an Internet entry of the aforementioned Islamists.<span id="more-53253"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Internet surveillance is supposed to have brought the four suspects under investigation. They have published "unique" images which identified them as sympathizers of the <em>Islamic State</em>identifies (IS). They have regularly visited websites by jihadist groups, and maintain contacts with Islamists in Syria.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">The group had directed threats against Pope Francis and Tracey Ann Jacobson, who was until August 2015, the US ambassador in Kosovo. The suspects "celebrated" the attacks in Paris and urged further attacks.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">According to police, the group's leader was arrested in Kosovo. Weapons were seized n his house. The base of the cell, however, is to have been in the Italian province of Brescia, where three other people were arrested.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #6fb4fc; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">"We are in your streets"</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">In recent months, many Muslims were detained in several police actions. At the end of July two Islamists, a Tunisian and a Pakistani were arrested. They had leaflets with the black banner of the <em>Islamic State</em> (IS) and circulated the text: "Islamic State in Rome. We are in your streets." Similar pamphlets have surfaced in recent years in several Italian cities.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">On the day before the attacks in Paris, Islamists were arrested in various provinces, 17 of them in the South Tyrolean town of Merano. Among them is also Abdulrahman Nauroz. He and his cell, according to police, recruit new fighters for the Jihad militias in Syria and Iraq. Contacts existed in Switzerland and Finland. Whether this group also had contacts with the Islamist scene in Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany, has not been announced by the investigators so far.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><span class="">Italian security agencies fear that Islamic terrorist militia could be planning an attack in Rome during the Holy Year, which begins this coming December 8.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Text: Giuseppe Nardi<br />Image: Polizia di Stato / TG5 (screenshots)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><a href="http://www.katholisches.info/2015/12/02/dschihad-zelle-in-italien-ausgehoben-planten-islamisten-attentat-gegen-papst-franziskus/">Link to Katholisches...</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">AMDG</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><br /></div><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheEponymousFlower/~4/ZQNM92_1h-4" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2015/12/does-cair-often-refute-workplace.html">Does CAIR Often Refute Workplace Violence?</a></span>
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<p>Some headlines from today:<br />ABC News:Motive Still a Mystery in San Bernardino Shooting as Police Investigate Shooters<br /><br />BBC News:San Bernardino: Police seek motive in mass shooting <br /><br />MSNBC: What was the motive in San Bernardino shooting? <br /><br />Workplace violence? In most of the stories I've read there's no mention that the two shooters were Muslim. But why if this is just workplace violence did CAIR come out and hold a press conference.<br /><br /><a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2015/12/3/shooters-brother-in-law-at-cair-presser-i-have-no-idea-why-he-would-do-that">PJ Media</a>:<blockquote>The Council on American-Islamic Relations in Los Angeles pulled together a press conference after the name of one of the San Bernardino shooters was identified as Syed Farook.<br /><br />Farook's brother-in-law, Farhan Khan, was brought to the microphone by CAIR to make a family statement -- but was shielded from questions about the degree of Farook's faith or other details about the shooter.<br /><br />Farook, a U.S. citizen, worked as an inspector for the county health department that was holding the Christmas party at the site of the shooting, the Inland Regional Center's auditorium. Khan's sister was married to Farook.<br /><br />"We unequivocally condemn the horrific act that happened today," said Hussam Auyloush, executive director of the CAIR chapter, at the press conference, adding "there is absolutely nothing that can justify" the mass shooting that killed 14 and wounded 17. He mused that the cause could be workplace violence, mental illness or extremism.<br /><br />Muzammil Siddiqi, director of the Islamic Society of Orange County, said Southern California Muslims stood "in solidarity" with the victims and condemn the attack.</blockquote>Does CAIR often come out and hold press conferences about workplace violence issues?<br /><br />It's interesting that CAIR is the only organization acknowledging the elephant in the room. Hint: The Elephant prays to Mecca three times a day.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <div style="height: 0px; width: 0px;">*subhead*Put Your Blurb Here.*subhead*</div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~3/7m5-4hSe-Ns/the-feast-of-st-francis-xavier-in-rome.html">The Feast of St Francis Xavier in Rome - A Small Step in the Right Direction</a></span>
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<div class="dropcap">In many different years, I have been able to visit the Jesuit mother church in Rome, popularly known as the Gesù (but formally “the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus”), on the feast of St Francis Xavier. The altar of the right transept is dedicated to him, and just over it is suspended a reliquary which contains his right arm, the arm by which he baptized hundreds of thousands of people during his long career as a missionary in India and the Far East. The altar has the normal number of steps, the lowest of which rests on a platform extending slightly away from it, a step above the main floor level. This platform is surrounded by a communion rail, and the space inside the rail, while not huge, can certainly accommodate a decent number of concelebrants, or even a solemn Mass in the rite for which it was built. Nevertheless, every time I have been there on the feast day, a table was set up outside the rail, on the same level as the main floor, and the Masses of St Francis celebrated on the table. That is, until this year, when there was no table, and I saw part of a Mass, OF in Spanish, celebrated <i>versus Deum</i> at the principal altar. Just a small step, but one in the right direction.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3a9zFUm8PS4/VmCYAUvKzoI/AAAAAAAAE8w/pfZ-Vc-9jP8/s1600/01.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3a9zFUm8PS4/VmCYAUvKzoI/AAAAAAAAE8w/pfZ-Vc-9jP8/s400/01.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The altar, designed by Pietro da Cortona, contains the painting of “The Death of St Francis Xavier” by Carlo Maratta, and the reliquary of his arm (closer view below).</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uqhcd7Vt-E4/VmCYAe5835I/AAAAAAAAE8s/swDVzJQl_Zs/s1600/02.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uqhcd7Vt-E4/VmCYAe5835I/AAAAAAAAE8s/swDVzJQl_Zs/s400/02.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UtLRMxERjk8/VmCYDPLWsVI/AAAAAAAAE9E/4sj7j6OJuy4/s1600/04.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UtLRMxERjk8/VmCYDPLWsVI/AAAAAAAAE9E/4sj7j6OJuy4/s400/04.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">The Trinity Crowning St Francis Xavier, by Giovanni Andrea Carlone. The saint is not represented in the fresco itself, but in the stucco relief below it set on top of the altar piece. (In the next photograph.) The representation of the death scene below, the Saint rising into Heaven in the middle, and the glory of Heaven above, also reinforces the idea of the Saint as a mediator between us and God, an important theme of the Counter-Reformation period which this church exemplifies. Various miracles of the St Francis are represented on either side of the window, and to the left and right of the Trinity.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0acxKHbmiyQ/VmCYAcw1AMI/AAAAAAAAE8o/o1nkTWRUgIQ/s1600/03.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0acxKHbmiyQ/VmCYAcw1AMI/AAAAAAAAE8o/o1nkTWRUgIQ/s400/03.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Francis Xavier Assumed into Glory in Heaven </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nTXGaeZMAHs/VmCYEqb8-vI/AAAAAAAAE9M/FjhWmTU3LIo/s1600/05.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nTXGaeZMAHs/VmCYEqb8-vI/AAAAAAAAE9M/FjhWmTU3LIo/s400/05.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Db-qfTaBZrI/VmCYEVxVamI/AAAAAAAAE9I/rCET0M0xsGw/s1600/06.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Db-qfTaBZrI/VmCYEVxVamI/AAAAAAAAE9I/rCET0M0xsGw/s400/06.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~4/7m5-4hSe-Ns" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://katholon.de/2015/12/03/wenn-sie-sonst-nix-suendigen/">Wenn sie sonst nix sündigen</a></span>
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<div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_323" style="width: 210px;"><a href="http://i2.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMGP0293.jpg"><img alt="Hans-Josef Becker Erzbischof von Paderborn" class="size-medium wp-image-323" src="http://i2.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMGP0293.jpg?resize=200%2C300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hans-Josef Becker<br />Erzbischof von Paderborn</p></div>
<p>Es kann ja bekanntlich jede Sünde vergeben werden, außer der Sünde wider die Umwelt.</p>
<p>Oder nein, halt! Das war ganz anders.</p>
<p>Es kann jede Sünde vergeben werden, außer der Sünde wider den Heiligen Geist. Also Entwarnung, unser Episkopat bekommt noch eine Chance.</p>
<p>Erneut hat in diesem Jahr die DUH (Deutsche Umwelthilfe) eine Umfrage unter deutschen Bischöfen veranstaltet, bei dem die Oberhirten in einen Wettstreit um <del>die dickste Karre</del> den geringsten CO<sub>2 </sub>– Ausstoß treten durften.</p>
<p>Da erfährt man dann so ganz nebenbei, daß man in Paderborn jetzt von schwäbischen Autos auf bayrische Fahrzeuge umgestiegen ist. Der Erzbischof sitzt hinter 3 Liter Hubraum, die Weihbischöfe lassen sich von 2 Liter Hubraum bewegen. Kein Benz mehr in Paderborn. O Tempora, o mores.</p>
<p>Was man sonst so fährt? Audi, VW, BMW alles eher obere Mittelklasse.</p>
<p><a href="http://autobilderklub.de/rolls-royce-phantom.html" target="_blank">Also echt, unter einer fetten Karre stelle ich mir was ganz anderes vor.</a></p>
<p>Auch ansonsten birgt die Studie keine sonderliche Überraschung. Allein, daß der Bischof von Essen stur auf Phaeton beharrt und eine rote Karte von der DUH kassiert, verwundert doch etwas. Man gibt sich in Essen doch sonst so öffentlichkeitsgeschmeidig. Die langen Beine des Bischofs fordern ihren Preis. Wer wollte es ihm verübeln. Überhaupt muß man bei nüchterner Betrachtung sagen, daß die Größe und Leistung deutscher Bischofskarossen sich in Grenzen hält. Der allgemeine Trend geht nämlich in die Gegenrichtung. Die SUVs werden immer größer und leistungsstärker. Bei Bischofs begnügt man sich in der Regel mit 150 kw Leitung in einer soliden Limousine.</p>
<p>Logischerweise müssen die Autos der Bischöfe langstreckentauglich sein, sie müssen geeignet sein, von einem Fahrer gefahren zu werden, verlangen also ein Mindestmaß an Platzangebot. Auf langen Fahrten ist das Auto der Arbeitsplatz, in dem Akten studiert und Telefonate geführt werden müssen.</p>
<p>Darin unterscheidet sich der Bischof einer Diözese kaum von einem normalen Manager. Ob das so sein muß, mag an anderer Stelle mal diskutiert werden. In Deutschland werden Bischöfe wie Ministerpräsidenten besoldet und haben Anspruch auf vergleichbare Dienstwagen. Neidhammeldebatten sind da völlig fehl am Platz. Ebenso muß man die Arme-Kirche-Romantiker hier mal schlicht und knallhart enttäuschen. Die Kirche bewegt sich in unserer Gesellschaft auf Basis der Konventionen unserer Gesellschaft. Das gilt auch automobil.</p>
<p>Als Fazit der Umfrage, die in etwa so überflüssig sein dürfte, wie ein Kropf und daher von hier auch nicht verlinkt wird, man mag sie halt selber googlen, darf man feststellen, daß unsere Bischöfe zumindest automobil garantiert keine Großmannssucht pflegen.</p>
<p>Mein eigenes Gefährt pustet übrigens  nach Herstellerangaben 118g CO<sub>2</sub>/km in die Luft.</p>
<p>Das hält sich ja zum Glück noch in Grenzen.</p>
<p>Wieviel g CO<sub>2 </sub>/ Stunde stoßen eigentlich linksgrüne Gutmenschen bei einer gut gepflegten Empörungsveranstaltung aus?<br />
Und kann man das vielleicht noch ein wenig reduzieren?<br />
Mal beim DUH anfragen …</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://beiboot-petri.blogspot.com/2015/12/sandro-magister-ist-die-ehe-schon.html">Sandro Magister- Ist die Ehe schon verloren?</a></span>
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<p><br /><b><span><br /></span></b><b><span>"MEHR ALS NUR EINE KRISE- DIE KRISE DER EHE IST EINE NIEDERLAGE"</span></b><br /><div class="post-entry" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"><br /><img alt="nozze" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10966" height="250" src="http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/files/2015/12/nozze.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 5px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="311" /></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Dum Romae consulitur Saguntum expugnatur". </span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Während Rom verhandelt, wird Sagunt erobert"</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Das bezieht sich zwar auf den 2.Punischen Krieg, als Hannibal die iberische Stadt Sagunt lange belagerte, die auf Hilfe aus Rom hoffte, die aber nicht kam.....</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">aber </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Sandro Magister</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> fühlt sich an die Synode erinnert, bei der verhandelt wurde, während die Ehe- jedenfalls nach der These des italienischen Demographen Roberto Volpi, dessen Artikel aus dem Osservatore Romano er im L´Espresso abdruckte, ihrem Ende entgegengeht- und innerhalb von 2-3 Dezennien in Westeuropa verschwinden wird, unterdes wir voller Ungeduld auf ein Wort von Papst Franziskus zur Kommunion für die wiederverheirateten Geschiedenen warten. Hier geht´s zum Original: </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/?topic=03/04/09/3080386">klicken</a></b></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wenn also einige Synodenväter diesen berühmten Satz des römischen Historikers Titus Livius zitiert haben, wozu es bei der Synode mehr als nur einen Anlass gab, sind sie doch am Niedergang der Ehe nicht Schuld. Die Ehe nähert sich dem Aus- und das nicht nur in den von Säkularisierung verwüsteten Ländern sondern auch in einem Land, das allgemein als besonders familienfreundlich und katholisch angesehen wird- wie Italien.</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In seinem Artikel "DAS IST KEINE EINFACHE KRISE" legt Volpi seine These vom Ende der Ehe in Westeuropa anhand der statistischen Zahlen für Italien dar.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #444444; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gab es <b>2009</b> noch <b>230.613</b> geschlossene Ehen, waren es (bei höherer Einwohnerzahl) <b>2014</b> noch <b>189.765. </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Das entspricht einem Verlust von 18%.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1972</b>, dem Jahr vor dem italienischen Referendum zur Ehescheidung, waren es<b> 418.000</b> geschlossene Ehen, davon <b>386.000</b> in kirchlicher Trauung, gegenüber <b>108.000</b> heute ( minus 55%). </span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dabei konnte die Zivilehe nicht die Verluste an kirchlich geschlossenen Ehen auffangen.</span></div><br /><a name="more"></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mit anderen Worten: es ist die Institution Ehe selbst, die in Italien in einer tiefen Krise steckt, aus der es keine Rückkehr zu geben scheint.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ebenso stellt Volpi ein Auseinanderfallen der Institutionen Ehe und Familie fest, die Ehe wird nicht mehr allgemein als Voraussetzung für das In-die-Weltsetzen von Kindern betrachtet.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dennoch gibt es nicht nur weniger Ehen sondern auch weniger Familien in Italien.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Die Zahl der 1-Personen-Haushalte lag vor 2 Jahren bei 7, 1 Millionen und dürfte inzwischen die 8 Millionen erreicht haben und bei einer Bevölkerung von 61 Millionen Menschen haben 13, 7 Millionen, die als Ehepaare oder in Lebensgemeinschaften leben, keine Kinder.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aus der Tatsache, dass das mittlere Alter der Frauen bei der Geburt ihres ersten Kindes unter dem durchschnittlichen Alter bei der Eheschließung liegt, schließt der Autor auf die Dissoziation von Ehe und Familienplanung.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Der geneigte Beobachter der Synode und der großen Schlacht um die Ehedoktrin und die wiederverheirateten Geschiedenen (die immer noch andauert) könnte auf die Idee kommen, daß Sagunt- sprich die Ehe, ob katholisch oder nicht- verloren ist und um eine längst verblichene Institution gestritten wurde/wird.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Quelle: Settimo Cielo, Sandor Magister, Roberto Volpi</span><br /><br /></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/priestly-perversion-still-rampant-in-texas-two-dioceses-react-very-differently/">Priestly perversion still rampant in Texas – two dioceses react very differently</a></span>
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<p>T<a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/12/03/88791/" target="_blank">heodore Shoebat has a blockbuster post </a>regarding grave immorality in the ranks of the priesthood.  After learning from two women that a priest in the Diocese of Tyler – a Father Bernard Boteju – had sexually assaulted while on pilgrimage to the World Meeting of Families attended by Pope Francis earlier this year, Bishop Strickland put Fr. Boteju on administrative leave within hours of the (very well substantiated) accusastions.  Because this matter appears pretty cut and dried (no matter how disgusting it is), with Bishop Strickland reinforcing his reputation for relative orthodoxy, I will leave it to you to<a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/12/03/88791/" target="_blank"> go to Shoebat’s site</a> and watch the very dramatic confrontation between the assaulted woman and Fr. Boteju, caught on video by Shoebat.</p>
<p>The other matter is potentially even more troubling.  It appears a Fr. Robert L. Kincl of the Diocese of Austin, who is also a canon law judge, holds that it is no sin (and certainly not a mortal one) for two men to manually service each other.  The response of the Diocese of Austin has been to defend the priest and to try to defuse, if not cover up, the allegations:</p>
<blockquote><p>For years we have seen how the Vatican covers up for sexual predators and deviants, heretics and debased theologians. But we have never seen how the agents of the Vatican cover up for such evildoers in their private conversations. Well, Shoebat.com is now giving you this exclusive video showing you how the conniving is really done.</p>
<p>I confronted Deacon Ron Walker, an official of the Vatican, <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[??? – not sure what that means]</strong></span> asking why the Church has done nothing to punish Robert L. Kincl, a priest and canon law judge who was appointed by the Pope himself, <strong>who teaches that if two men masturbate each other they do not commit sin, and who himself defended confirmed child molester priest, Fr. Robert Hrdlicka</strong>. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[This was in 1993, just as the first major boy rape scandals were breaking]</strong></span> This is after Shoebat.com filed a complaint against Kincl after we caught him teaching us depravity.</p>
<p>Deacon Ron Walker and the Bishop of Austin, Joe Vasquez, and Vicar General Daniel Garcia, did nothing to have Robert L. Kincl punished, even after they promised to take care of this evil. Shoebat.com realized that they were just patronizing us and so we made this video.</p></blockquote>
<p>You’ve got to go <a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/12/03/88791/" target="_blank">to the link</a> for the video.</p>
<blockquote><p>Robert L. Kincl, who was appointed by the Pope, <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[again, I am not sure what this means]</strong></span> had befriended us as a fan of Shoebat.com acting as conservative, yet referred to homosexual fondling as permissible in the conversation. Having been shocked at his remarks, I told Kincl:</p>
<p><em>How can you, as a priest, be so liberal toward such a sick evil as two men fondling each other, or as two men having a “relationship” just as long as they are not going with other men. It is evil and it is reprobate.</em></p>
<p>I also told him:</p>
<p><em><strong>It is not tolerable for you, as both a priest and a canon law judge, to be permissive to somebody having a homosexual relationship just as long as they are not being promiscuous with other men. It is deplorable, and in the words of St. Paul, “worthy of death”</strong> (Romans 1:32).</em></p>
<p>Kincl defended his position and responded with a rejection of the Old Testament and a twisting of St. Paul’s condemnation of homosexuality in Romans, stating</p>
<p><em><strong>We do not follow the Hebrew Scriptures.</strong> We follow Jesus Christ <strong>who never mentioned gay relationships.</strong> When St. Paul mentioned such a relationship he was referring to the promiscuousness of the Romans using sodomy. </em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[Complete utter crap.  So, we no longer observe the Ten Commandments?  Good to know! To bad Our Lord Himself said he came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.  It is amazing the lies these heretics will spin to try to justify their heresy.  I will remind again Aquinas’ dictum that public heresy is almost invariably the result of private sin, especially sins against the 6th and 9th Commandments.]</strong></span></p>
<p>Shoebat.com decided to investigate Kincl and found that he has a dark past. In 1993, Kincl worked as a Commander in charge of clergy at the U.S. Navy, and while he was in the service he defended another chaplain confirmed to be guilty of child molestation, named Robert Hrdlicka.</p>
<p>The investigation revealed that Robert L. Kincl had even <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/jul/5/20030705-120850-9217r/#ixzz33jCPbVZz" target="_blank">written the authorities</a>, not to charge the pedophile who molested the young boys, but urged them to send him back to serve as a chaplain……..</p>
<p>……Kincl is now serving as a priest in <strong>Our Lady’s Maronite Catholic Church alongside Msgr. Don Sawyer.</strong> When I confronted Sawyer on Kincl, Sawyer vehemently defended Kincl. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[<a href="http://www.ourladysmaronite.org/" target="_blank">I checked the website</a> of Our Lady Maronite in Austin.  If Fr. Kincl has been on staff, or served as a priest there, they have deleted him off the website.]</strong></span></p>
<p>Shoebat.com decided to contact the Diocese of Austin to file a complaint, and spoke with the Very Reverend Daniel E. Garcia as the Vicar General for the Diocese of Austin, and Chancellor and Secretariat Director for Administration, Deacon Ron Walker, who were under Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of the Diocese of Austin.</p>
<p>We asked them how could someone who supports homosexuality and defended a pedophile still be serving as a priest and not be excommunicated, to which Deacon Ron Walker, rolling his eyes, said that the Church’s main objective would be to reconcile him with God, and not excommunicate him. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[Excommunication would seem a bit much in this case. But he could be removed from ministry and/or laicized]</strong></span></p>
<p>It seems that the Diocese of Austin could care less if one of its priests supports homosexuality and defended a pedophile.</p></blockquote>
<p>The very long post also outs a third priest who, at the very least, by his own words holds several pernicious errors, including denial of certain biblical miracles and rejection of the idea of demonic spirits.</p>
<p>I am generally in favor of Shoebat’s advice on how to deal with the error and perversion that has been tolerated in the Church for far too long:</p>
<blockquote><p>If your pastor says anything in favor for Islam and homosexuality, confront him, and do so with aggression. If you attend a Christian school or university, and they have events in favor for homosexuality or Islam, go in there and confront the entire event, and do so with aggression…….</p>
<p>……It is my aspiration that this video will begin an international movement I call <em>Operation Whip. </em>We must confront the deviant and heretical ministers, and not only that, we must film them and post the videos on the internet. Its time to apply the whip (peer pressure) on them.</p>
<p>This will break their will and put us, the zealous, in the position of power and advantage over them, and make them submit to God and not to money and mammon.</p>
<p>The time for weakness and sycophancy is over, there must be a movement of zealots who will take up cameras, confront these wicked ministers, and make them tremble.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dang right.  Reading a hostile blog post or article is one thing. Getting called out in person is totally different. It tends to have a dramatic effect on most people’s behavior.  That kind of humiliation – even if most defend the priest, even if they throw you out – can have lasting effects.  Might be worth a try sometime.  At the link you can see an episode where Theodore Shoebat did just such a calling out.</p>
<p>Regarding the Diocese of Austin’s response: typical.  In some respects, promotion of heresy is even more damaging to souls than physical abuse.  And yet we see how it is still so tolerated and covered up.  Now perhaps this priest has spun a story that Shoebat is deranged and that he is making this up.  That could be a dangerous play, Shoebat tends to record a whole lot.  I take him at his word.  I am hardly surprised that a priest of that generation has some perverse beliefs regarding men getting it on short of actual sodomy.  I doubt those are the only ones.</p>
<p>Better watch out, Dallas.  Shoebat might be coming your way……..</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/catholicnewsagency/dailynews/~3/UmewJtg63IQ/">'Saint Nicholas' makes surprise appearance in Saint Peter's Square</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Wolfgang_Georg_Kimmig_Liebe_a_German_who_dresses_as_St_Nicholas_at_the_general_audience_in_St_Peters_Square_Dec_2_2015_Credit_Daniel_Ibanez_CNA_12_2_15.jpg" /><p>Vatican City, Dec 3, 2015 / 12:46 pm (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA</a>).- A surprise visitor to St. Peter’s Square during the general audience yesterday was met with a warm welcome.
A “Saint Nicholas” in full costume came all the way from Germany to offer some holiday cheer.
Wolfgang Georg Kimmig-Liebe is the man who brought the well-known saint to life. And this is not the first time he visited the Vatican – in 2007, he received a blessing from then-Pope Benedict XVI.
For the past 30 years, Kimmig-Liebe has dressed up each Christmas season as the fourth-century bishop with the recognizable red robe, crosier, yellow miter and long white beard.
He travels throughout the world visiting hospitals, schools and markets, where he is received with joy. At the beginning of this year, he even visited a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey.
In a post on his Facebook account, Kimmig-Liebe published a Christmas message:
“My mission is simply the best, I meet people who love peace and life. The Christmas Spirit has begun and is already everywhere...I would really be pleased if in this time we would treat each other with respect and that we would experience a beautiful Christmas Octave.”
Despite possible similarities, Kimmig-Liebe clarified that he is not Santa Claus.
“I have nothing to do with that guy,” he said in an interview with Wolfgang Duschl, head of the bishop’s communications office in Passau, Bavaria.
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<p>A priest friend sent a video of a Portuguese priest, Fr. José Cruz in Moita dos Ferreiros from Easter 2014.</p>
<p>I can imagine statues of Our Lady of Fatima weeping at the sight of this.</p>
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<p>Enjoy more of Cruz <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQ9sZcydvM" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://dprice.blogspot.com/2015/12/if-you-can-help-out-please-do.html">If you can help out, please do.</a></span>
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<p>The family of Lexys Lamp is struggling with her loss and the medical bills for treating her cancer.
Lexys' mother and her teacher say they never heard her complain about
her disease, the nearly 50 radiation treatments she endured or
the endless stream of doctor's appointments.
"She was always bubbly and courageous," Kerby said.
DIPG is exceedingly rare. Lamp said she knows of only four other
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.marcpuck.com/2015/12/i-like-hour-prime.html">I like the hour Prime...</a></span>
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And while they had their reasons for suppressing it, I believe the Office is <i>better</i> with its inclusion. I look forward each morning, before I am off to work or preparing to go out into the rain, to praying for the intercession of Our Lady and all the saints explicitly, to the Martyrology (even if sometimes I have no idea where the blessed confessor or martyr lived), to the first parts of Psalm 118 (<i>Dormitávit ánima mea præ tædio: confírma me in verbis tuis...</i>) and to the invariable collects:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dómine Deus omnípotens, qui ad princípium hujus diéi nos perveníre fecísti: tua nos hódie salva virtúte; ut in hac die ad nullum declinémus peccátum, sed semper ad tuam justítiam faciéndam nostra procédant elóquia, dirigántur cogitatiónes et ópera. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum.... </i></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dirígere et sanctificáre, régere et gubernáre dignáre, Dómine Deus, Rex cæli et terræ, hódie corda et córpora nostra, sensus, sermónes et actus nostros in lege tua, et in opéribus mandatórum tuórum: ut hic et in ætérnum, te auxiliánte, salvi et líberi esse mereámur, Salvátor mundi: Qui vivis et regnas in sǽcula sæculórum. </i></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">And to this verse and responsory specially:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: large;">V. <i>Réspice in servos tuos, Dómine, et in ópera tua, et dírige fílios eórum.</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">R. <i>Et sit splendor Dómini Dei nostri super nos, et ópera mánuum nostrárum dírige super nos, et opus mánuum nostrárum dírige.</i></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Sit splendor Domini Dei nostri super nos....</i></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Pardonne, ô Seigneur, si nous avons murmuré en voyant la désolation de ton temple; pardonne à notre raison ébranlée! L’homme n’est lui-même qu’un édifice tombé, qu’un débris du péché et de la mort; son amour tiède, sa foi chancelante, sa charité bornée, ses sentiments incomplets, ses pensées insuffisantes, son cœur brisé, tout chez lui n’est que ruines.</div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://dprice.blogspot.com/2015/12/ive-done-this-its-terrifying.html">I've done this--it's terrifying.</a></span>
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<p>Happened to me four times over the course of a week a few years ago.
Thank God I wasn't behind the wheel any of those times.
Get well soon, Rep. Levin.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://onemadmomblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/one-more-thing-to-consider/">One More Thing to Consider…</a></span>
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<p>I posted my last blog less than 24 hours before the attack in San Bernadino.  I was trying to stay away from the topic of “jihad” for the most part.  In hindsight, I might have wanted to propose we consider that one a little more.  Expand the whole section on assimilation and radicalization.  Clearly this is going to be a bigger issue in the upcoming days.  Please note, I have no knowledge of these people being refugees.  How much harder is it going to be for them to stay away from radicalization?  This couple were apparently citizens, with a baby and jobs.  <a href="https://onemadmomblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/what-if-we-paused-to-ask-a-few-questions/" rel="nofollow">https://onemadmomblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/what-if-we-paused-to-ask-a-few-questions/</a></p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/onemadmomblog.wordpress.com/412/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/onemadmomblog.wordpress.com/412/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=onemadmomblog.wordpress.com&blog=90236438&post=412&subd=onemadmomblog&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2015/12/the-friday-gestures.html">The Friday Gestures</a></span>
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<p>I wonder if it is possible to get my insurance company to pay for placing me in a medically induced coma one Friday a month for the next year. I am quite certain we can call it preventative medicine.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.visnews-en.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-pope-explains-motives-and.html">VIS</a>: Finally, “ is there a gesture you intend to make during the Jubilee to show God's mercy?”</b><br /><b><br /></b> <b>Pope Francis: “There will be many gestures, but one Friday each month I will make a different gesture”, the Holy Father concludes.</b><br /><br /><div style="height: 0px; width: 0px;">*subhead*Oh no.*subhead*</div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://semiduplex.com/2015/12/03/grenier-on-economic-liberalism/">Grenier on economic liberalism</a></span>
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<p>Yesterday, we published a longish piece here about Paul VI’s attitude toward socialism compared to Pius XI’s. We quoted the Canadian Thomist Henri Grenier’s <em>Cursus Philosophiae</em> (translated as <em>Thomistic Philosophy</em>) at some length, both to give a concise summary of the doctrine as it existed after <em>Quadragesimo anno</em> and to clarify—by means of summary—some of Pius’s points. We noted, briefly, that Grenier also summarizes the important points of the Church’s condemnation of economic liberalism.</p>
<p>The Church’s position on economic liberalism is often a point of contention, especially with Catholics on the American political right, who frequently express great fondness for the free market. Indeed, some of the most strident criticisms of the Holy Father’s recent social encyclical, <em>Laudato si’</em>, have come from these Catholics. (Just as some of the most strident criticisms of Benedict’s <em>Caritas in veritate</em> came from these Catholics.) And these criticisms have two key features: (1) the Holy Father has somehow sold out to a climate-change consensus that is not settled at best and bogus at worst, and (2) the Holy Father is inflexibly opposed to capitalism and the free market. The former point, we think, is best left to the experts, most of whom, we are told, say that climate change is a thing. But the latter point, it seems, is easily answered by the Church’s own teaching.</p>
<p>But discussing the Church’s own teaching is difficult, since the definition of capitalism, the free market, and economic liberalism is tricky. Definitions are either inadequately simplistic or too complex to be agreed upon as a premise. Consequently, the argument becomes definitional. And this is where we think Grenier is helpful. He offers a very helpful summary of economic liberalism that seems <em>right</em> to us. We reproduce it here simply as something interesting to read:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">2° Economic liberalism maintains that the control of material goods is a strictly private, personal, and individual right. Its fundamental principles are the following:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>a)</em> Private utility is the chief and almost the sole stimulus of economic life, and especially of production, for it is the individual who can best seek, know, and promote his own interests or utility.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>b)</em> Therefore, in economic life, private liberty must be strictly safeguarded. Hence the State’s only function in economic matters consists in the protection of private rights; and it must abstain from all positive intervention in the settlement of the economic problems of society (State police or night watchmen).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Moreover, all associations, especially workmen’s associations, should be abolished, because they are a restraint on individual liberty.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>c)</em> Economic life should be governed by free competition. In other words, the first law of economic activity is free competition, i.e., <em>the free play of economic individualities seeking, by any lawful means, the greatest possible advantages, respecting at the same time, of course, the equal rights of others to do the same</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>d)</em> The consequence of free competition is responsibility; and hence each one not only must provide for his own needs entirely through his own initiative and industry, but becomes solely responsible for the happiness or unhappiness that may be his.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">(3 <em>Thomistic Philosophy</em> § 1152, 2º, trans. O’Hanley.)</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">La cour d’appel de Paris a confirmé la condamnation de <em>Valeurs actuelles</em> à 2000 € d’amende, un euro de dommages et intérêts à l'Union des étudiants juifs de France (UEJF) ainsi qu’à SOS Racisme, 500 euros de dommages et intérêts à la Maison des potes ainsi qu’à la Licra.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pourquoi ? Pour avoir mis une Marianne voilée en couverture et avoir mis en titre : «Naturalisés l'invasion qu'on nous cache», et avoir écrit : «Deux Français sur trois contre les naturalisations massives de Valls», «Islam, immigration: comment la gauche veut changer le peuple», «Le poids des musulmans n'a cessé d'augmenter». </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sic. Il est aujourd’hui interdit d’écrire cela en France. Il est interdit d’écrire des évidences quand ces évidences évoquent l’une des deux religions d’Etat (l’autre étant le laïcisme, protégé par la même dictature).</span></p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.adelantelafe.com/profanaciones-y-santa-ira/">Profanaciones y santa ira</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://www.adelantelafe.com">Adelante la Fe</a>]</span>
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<p><img alt="silencio" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" height="264" src="http://www.adelantelafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/silencio-1024x438.jpg" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="618" /><span class="wpsdc-drop-cap">Q</span>uizá sean “asco” e “indignación” los vocablos que mejor compendian la inquietante sensación en que se me zambulle el alma en este instante, justo ahora, cuando sostengo la pluma entre mis dedos ya crispados y comienzo a perpetrar este artículo; una sensación que se me antoja como gusanos regordetes y pegajosos, como llenos de pus y de malas intenciones, que me recorren por entero y me dejan la piel erizada, zaherida y embadurnada de mucílago. Pues cuando leo sobre la profanación que ha cometido ese inconsciente botarate que se tiene por artista; ese mamarracho que ha empleado Hostias para vomitar una mierda de las que ahora, en este mundo enfermo y enloquecido, se tienen por arte, me veo como animado por la santa ira e impelido a sajar las orejas de los impíos, como antaño hizo san Pedro con aquel miserable de Malco. Pero intento comedirme, no obstante; no dejarme arrastrar por el enfado ni por el repeluzno y así no volcar sobre el papel todo el vitriolo que me brota de las meninges.</p>
<p>No enfadarme, por ejemplo, con los políticos navarros que rechazaron condenar la exposición; con esos miserables cainitas que, sin duda emborrachados hasta el tuétano de un humanismo envilecedor y descacharrado de moral, aseguraron que la libertad de expresión —ese tan democrático embeleco que no oculta más que insultos y sectarismo— ha de privilegiarse por sobre todo, anteponerse a cualquier otro derecho y ser elevada a ese altarcito ateo que levantan día a día, mampuesto a mampuesto, sobre los pretendidos escombros del Cristianismo —sobre el que querrán sacrificarnos, sin duda, una vez que la cultura cristiana haya fenecido—. Intento no enfadarme, además, con los medios de comunicación de la Conferencia episcopal española, que, en lugar de execrar los hechos y exigir toda suerte de reparaciones, han preferido silenciar el tema en sus informativos y anegarnos el entendimiento con la enorme gavilla de salutaciones encomiásticas con que acostumbran a ponerse de hinojos ante el PP, para que los más altos prebostes de este partido nos ofusquen con su abyecta política de ojetes y de vacuas tolerancias. Como intento no enfadarme, incluso, con el propio Abel Azcona, pues tal vez no tenga más remedio que yacer en las aberraciones, ya que el alma ha debido quedársele hueca o como endurecida; tal vez el demonio se la recorra por entero y haya acampado en ella, en sus entrañas, llenándoselas de basura y de dolor; tal vez su vida sea ese báratro hórrido que me imagino, donde sólo se aposentan las ideas más inicuas; o, tal vez —y perdonen la tautología—, un odio irracional y enfermizo se le haya enviscado hasta en sus más íntimas entretelas, cubriéndoselas de excrementos.</p>
<p>Todo esto, digo, intento embridarlo, acallarlo, dejarlo en sordina y, así, mantenerme como limpio, alejado de ese vitriolo que me nace de las tripas y del pecado que brota de él. Pero lo que en verdad me horroriza es la respuesta que ha dado buena parte de esta sociedad enferma, eviscerada de bondad, donde un laicismo feroz y esquizofrénico pretende ciscarse en lo más sacro y defecar en los cristianos, mientras a éstos, a un tiempo, se les exige la quietud y la paciencia. Pues, ¿A santo de qué hemos de aguantar nosotros, los cristianos, cuantas tropelías e insultos nos endilgan los comecuras? ¿Por qué hemos de soportar la inacción de quienes dicen protegernos mientras se arroja por el suelo a Cristo Sacramentado? ¿Por qué las administraciones públicas se mofan de los católicos y nos niegan la justicia que nos asiste? Y es que lo que ha venido a evidenciar este suceso es el repugnante légamo en que yacemos, oprimidos por una democracia que se nos ha vuelto sectaria y esquizofrénica, donde las libertades se revelan bizcas y los derechos de aquellos que no se pliegan a los dictados del sistema son amputados de cuajo, hasta que caigan en la defección y acepten ser eviscerados de bondad.</p>
<p>Pero muchos, a pesar de todo, no se rendirán. Muchos, sin duda, defenderán su fe y los principios innegociables que ella nos enseña; gritarán la verdad a los cuatro vientos y la asperjarán por doquier, intentando rescatar a quienes se mantienen en las tinieblas, y no se arredrarán ante los denuestos y los ataques. Muchos llevarán su cruz con arrojo y esperanza, con el corazón henchido de gozo, burbujeante de alegría, aunque los goznes de su cuerpo se les malbaraten por el esfuerzo; y ante ese dolor horrísono que les quiebre esbozarán una sonrisa como oceánica, mirando al cielo. Y muchos, al fin, elevarán sus voces cuando lo cristiano sea vilipendiado, gruesas y atronadoras, hasta que las piedras ocupen su lugar. Quizás, incluso —sólo quizás—, ofrezcan una pequeña muestra de aquella santa ira que nuestro señor Jesucristo nos regaló, como una más de Sus enseñanzas.</p>
<p><strong>Gervasio López</strong></p>
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<h3>19:27</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/12/a-proposal-for-the-year-of-mercy-ban-communion-in-the-hand/">A proposal for the Year of Mercy: ban Communion in the hand</a></span>
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<p>Dom Mark Kirby of <a href="http://cenacleosb.org/" target="_blank">Silverstream Priory</a> posted at his blog <a href="http://vultuschristi.org/index.php/2015/11/ave-verum-corpus-2/" target="_blank">Vultus Christi</a> an idea which I endorse.</p>
<p>Reacting not only to the hideous sacrilege committed by an “artist” in Pamplona, Spain, but also to constant abuses of the Eucharist across the globe, Dom Mark suggests Holy Masses of Reparation be offered, public Hours of Adoration and Reparation be scheduled, Eucharistic processions of reparation through the city streets. But then he goes on with…</p>
<blockquote><p>Proposal for the Year of Mercy</p>
<p>Even if these things were done, it remains that other questions need to be addressed. A priest friend said to me this morning that <strong>bishops the world over need to consider a moratorium on Holy Communion in the hand. Perhaps for the Year of Mercy?</strong> Are we to <strong>show no mercy to the One who is present among us under the appearances of a thing so fragile as the Host</strong>? <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">[Do I hear an “Amen!”?]</span></strong> Do we not recognize in the Sacred Host God become, for love of us, vulnerable, poor, silent, and defenseless? Do we not see that the Sacred Host is the ultimate expression of what Saint Paul (see Philippians 2:7) calls the kenosis of the Son of God, that is His utter self–emptying? <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">[The Host is not a some<span style="text-decoration: underline;">thing</span>.]</span></strong></p>
<p>More than a Mere Oversight?</p>
<p>The Instruction <a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html" target="_blank">Redemptionis Sacramentum</a> promulgated eleven years ago by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments 25 March 2004, seems, in most places, to have had <strong>little or no effect</strong>. One wonders if the clergy were at all given the opportunity to come together to <strong>study the document and, with one mind, plan its implementation</strong>. Among other things, in article 92,the Instruction says clearly:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“If there is a risk of profanation, then Holy Communion should not be given in the hand to the faithful”.</p>
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<p>Read the rest there.</p>
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<h3>19:22</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://papastronsay.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-2016-papa-stronsay-calendar.html">The 2016 Papa Stronsay Calendar!</a></span>
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<div style="text-align: center;">I'm pleased to let you know that our 2016 Papa Stronsay Calendar has shipped out and there are more available! Watch the video below to see everything you could be getting with a Papa Stronsay Calendar!<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You can order the calendar from our website <a href="http://www.papastronsay.com/calendar" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b>You can even conveniently order your calendars right here on this very page:</b></span><br /><form action="http://www.papastronsay.com/bookshop/index.php#Cart" method="get"><input id="ID" name="ID" type="hidden" value="68" />Quantity: <input id="qty" name="qty" style="width: 50px;" type="text" value="1" /> <input type="submit" value="Buy Now" /></form></div><div style="text-align: center;">Last year there were some who questioned our inclusion of the Zodiac signs in our Calendar. If you are also interested, you can read our responses in a series of posts on our blog. They appear in reverse order here: <a href="http://papastronsay.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/The%20Signs%20of%20the%20Zodiac">http://papastronsay.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/The%20Signs%20of%20the%20Zodiac</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remember that if you have a Subscription to our <a href="http://papastronsay.com/catholic/" target="_blank">Catholic newspaper</a>, you will already be receiving one copy of the calendar.</i> </div>
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<h3>19:19</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com/archive/2015/12/03/la-hongrie-aussi-5725978.html">La Hongrie aussi</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com/">Le blog d'Yves Daoudal</a>]</span>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Après la Slovaquie, la Hongrie annonce également avoir déposé plainte, aujourd'hui, devant la Cour européenne de Justice, contre les quotas contraignants de "réfugiés".</span></p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://dprice.blogspot.com/2015/12/theres-something-purported-to-be.html">There's something purported to be a rebuttal of the 1P5 piece out there.</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://dprice.blogspot.com/">Dyspeptic Mutterings</a>]</span>
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<p>I'd never heard of the blog in question before, and I'm not going to give it oxygen by linking to it. However, it's a pastiche of frenzied material taken out of context (oh, the irony!) using "WAR IS DECLARED" sized font which predictably flounces off in a snit at the end. Oh, and he first shrills at the far more estimable (not to mention reasonable) Carl Olson's more measured criticism.
Here's
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<h3>19:09</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com/archive/2015/12/03/emitte-agnum-domine-5725971.html">Emitte Agnum, Domine…</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com/">Le blog d'Yves Daoudal</a>]</span>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">« Envoyez l’agneau du souverain du pays… » Ainsi la TOB traduit-elle les premiers mots du chapitre 16 d’Isaïe. Exactement comme Osty. Les deux supposent qu’il s’agit d’un agneau donné comme tribut symbolique, au roi de Juda selon Osty, au roi de Juda ou au roi de Moab selon la TOB qui ne sait pas trop… Mais ce qui est sûr est qu'il n'y a nulle part dans l'Ancien Testament la mention d’un agneau envoyé comme tribut symbolique…</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">La TOB, fidèle à son principe négationniste bétonné, ne fait aucune allusion à la traduction de la Vulgate et à son emploi dans la liturgie de l’Avent. Osty quant à lui ne se prive pas de se gausser du « contresens de la Vulgate que la liturgie catholique [il veut dire latine] a immortalisé en appliquant l’agneau à Jésus-Christ : l’Agneau dominateur de la terre ! »</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Emitte Agnum, Domine, dominatorem terrae, de petra deserti ad montem filiae Sion.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Envoie l’Agneau, Seigneur, le dominateur de la terre, de la pierre du désert à la montagne de la fille de Sion.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Y a-t-il vraiment de quoi se moquer de la Vulgate ?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Le texte massorétique, le fameux texte de référence de tous les traducteurs modernes, dit littéralement :</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Envoyez-agneau dominateur-terre.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Les traductions sont incertaines, entre « l’agneau du maître » et l’agneau qu’on envoie « au maître » (dont la soi-disant Bible de la liturgie…). Osty et la TOB (et la Bible de Jérusalem) se gardent de nous dire pourquoi elles ont choisi « du ». Et pour la Bible du rabbinat, c’est « le troupeau dû au maître du pays »…</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On constate que John Nelson Darby, l’anglican (très) dissident polyglotte qui voulait traduire au plus près des textes, a traduit : « Envoyez l’agneau [du] dominateur du pays. » Il n’allait évidemment pas donner raison à la Vulgate, mais il a dû se résoudre à mettre [du] entre crochets, car il n'y a rien dans le texte hébreu qui indique un complément de nom (ou d'attribution). Et, plus près de nous, le syncrétiste André Chouraqui qui se piquait de donner une traduction littérale, a proposé : « Renvoyez l’agnelet, gouverneur de la terre ». Renvoyez étant un pluriel, <em>gouverneur</em> est bien en apposition à <em>agnelet</em>. C’est l’agneau qui est le gouverneur de la terre. Chouraqui donne raison à la Vulgate. Et du même coup à la liturgie latine, et donc au fait que le texte est une prophétie christique. N’en déplaise à la TOB. Et Osty peut ravaler son mépris.</span></p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/and-the-trivialization-of-the-papacy-continues-apace/">And the trivialization of the papacy continues apace</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com">A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics</a>]</span>
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<p>Brought to you by Twitter – which I continue to despise and refuse to join (even as I lament more and more sources posting less and less to their blogs and more and more to Twitter) – further trivialization of the papacy.  This is an ad for twitter showing how much “fun” one can have with things on twitter, but it is also quite revealing of how skin deep the popular impressions this papacy has engendered are:</p>
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<p>Favorite quote: “This visit by the Pope is so exciting, I may have to start my Catholicism class again!”</p>
<p>Anyone want to lay odds?</p>
<p>Just love the image, too (0:21/0:52) – Francis flanked by arch-progressives Kicanas and Cupich.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24224/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24224/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=veneremurcernui.wordpress.com&blog=10897848&post=24224&subd=veneremurcernui&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://pblosser.blogspot.com/2015/12/wow-what-happened-to-michael-voris-as.html">Wow! What happened to Michael Voris as a 19-year-old lad at Notre Dame</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://pblosser.blogspot.com/">Musings of a Pertinacious Papist</a>]</span>
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<p>Using the movie "Spotlight" as a foil, Mr. Voris launches into an <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-2015-12-03">amazing account of what happened to him personally </a>while a student at the University of Notre Dame. It helps bring clarity to a number of things, though it's not easy hearing.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/terror-in-san-bernardino/">Terror in San Bernardino</a></span>
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<p>I’m sure readers are aware of the terrorist atrocity that occurred yesterday in San Bernardino.  That makes quite a counterpoint to the US bishops continuing proselytizing in favor of unlimited Hispanic and now muslim immigration into this country.  Yes, there are some odd aspects to this atrocity, the man attacked a party being held for his co-workers (a party on Wednesday morning?  Working for the state gets better all the time), it involved his wife, but there is growing evidence he had experienced a process of radicalization over the past few years, and the police described his house as an “IED factory.”  Explosive devices were reportedly used during the final chase, and law enforcement was very skittish in approaching anything – house, car, their persons – having to do with the assailants, so spooked were they regarding bombs/booby traps.</p>
<p>A few <a href="http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=360383" target="_blank">more details</a>:</p>
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<p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia', 'serif'; color: black;">Three pipe-bombs were bundled together as one (like a clutch of dynamite). They were put on to a remote control car, but the gizmo didn’t work. (He wasn’t clear if it was the RC car that didn’t work, or the ignition for the pipe-bombs.)</span></p>
<p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia', 'serif'; color: black;">The cops fired 380 rounds at them in the pursuit. The terrorists fired 65-75 rounds at the cops.</span></p>
<p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia', 'serif'; color: black;">There were 12 pipe bombs at the house in Redlands.</span></p>
<p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia', 'serif'; color: black;">The handguns were legally purchased (as I guess he had no criminal history) and the AR-15 type weapons (not really AR-15s, but that style) were legally purchased <i>but not by the shooters.</i> So this may be a straw-purchase situation — which, um, isn’t actually a legal purchase, then. They’ll be following up to find out who helped this guy get his guns.</span></p>
<p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia', 'serif'; color: black;">California has the strictest gun control laws in the country. AR-15 type weapons can actually be bought, but only in a “California legal” configuration. I think this means, mostly, that the gun’s magazine can only hold 10 rounds, and not a more typical 20 or 30. The cop says they do not know yet if these particular guns were California legal, or, as I’m suspecting, straw-purchased by a friend or Online Hybrid Workplace Jihad Consultant and then given to Syed and Tashfeer.</span></p>
<p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia', 'serif'; color: black;">Tashfeer is in the country on a K-1 visa, under a Pakistani passport. A K-1 visa is used to bring over fiancees. This is beginning to smell very much like a scam — I’m thinking this woman is not merely a fiance who “became radicalized.” I’m thinking she was much more central to this plot.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white;">There is no way this was sudden jihad syndrome. I think the workplace aspect is just a smokescreen, or this guy is really unimaginative and couldn’t think of a better place to find a group of people to kill.  I suppose he could have had a certain animus to a particular co-worker or two, perhaps for perceived slights to allah and his false prophet.</p>
<p style="background: white;">It was amazing watching the media work yesterday. I had to do so after the fact – I didn’t learn of this attack until 9 pm last night – but it was simply amazing.  Contra Paris, when ANY discussion of immigration policy was declared by the left out of bounds in coordinated fashion, this time they couldn’t wait to declare simply offering “thoughts and prayers” a ludicrous response, proclaiming this attack the policy event of the decade.  That is, until they found out the attackers were muslim.  Then the sudden interest in discussing policy wilted, and we were back to only being allowed to offer “thoughts and prayers.”</p>
<p style="background: white;">Today however, jihad be damned, there are a goodly number of leftists <a href="http://www.latimes.com/la-et-st-san-bernardino-shooting-mcnamara-notebook-20151202-column.html" target="_blank">trying to turn this into an anti-2nd amendment opportunity</a>.  Demonrats are trying to attach gun restrictions – presently unspecified – to any pending Republican legislation (like Obamacare repeal).  Never let a crisis go to waste.</p>
<p style="background: white;">Conversely, France has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world, and yet they just suffered the worst Western terror attack of the past 10 years – one carried out primarily with firearms.  Obviously, reason or logic has nothing to do with this push, it has to do with the left’s desire to confiscate virtually all private firearms a la Australia.  That is, it’s ideology, not compassion, not concern, not reason, that is behind this.</p>
<p style="background: white;">The thing is, these terrorists were perfectly happy committing any number of felonies on their way to their big atrocity. Bomb-making alone can get you 10-15 years in a federal pen, minimum.  They likely straw-purchased the ARs. Numerous felonies were committed simply in preparing for this attack – just as numerous felonies are committed by criminals every day in the obtaining of weapons to commit crimes.  Firearms restrictions only have the effect of disarming private citizens and making them far more vulnerable, which, if the left were to be honest, they would admit is their overall goal.</p>
<p style="background: white;">Lucky for me, I just received another 1280 rounds of 7.62×39 on Monday.</p>
<p style="background: white;"><a href="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/flag-come-and-take-it-old.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-24222"><img alt="Flag-Come-and-Take-It-old" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-24222" height="345" src="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/flag-come-and-take-it-old.jpg?w=460&h=345" width="460" /></a></p>
<p style="background: white;">One final note, a neighbor reported seeing a recent influx of strange men – presumably muslim – coming and going from the house at odd hours. The neighbor thought about reporting this behavior, but didn’t – because he did not want to be guilty of “racial profiling.”</p>
<p style="background: white;">These leftist inanities have many real world consequences.</p>
<p style="background: white;">I still predict that in the remaining year of Obama’s presidency there is going to be a cataclysmic terror attack on this country.  I tend to imagine it will occur early next fall.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24220/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24220/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=veneremurcernui.wordpress.com&blog=10897848&post=24220&subd=veneremurcernui&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://thomism.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/sic-et-non-on-the-euthyphro-problem/">Sic et Non on the Euthyphro problem</a></span>
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<p>A: First of all, Plato has nothing to do with the Euthyphro problem.</p>
<p>B: He wrote the dialogue, didn’t he?</p>
<p>A: He wrote a dialogue about piety that challenged us to see the degree of unity required for its object, but it would never cross his mind to raise the question whether the gods were necessary for morality.</p>
<p>B: The unity of piety’s object?</p>
<p>A: Right. What could be more Platonic than that? Your relation to the highest things should be a relation to the One. Socrates starts by arguing against a multiplicity of things willed and moves on to arguing against the more profound multiplicity of knower and known, willer and willed. It’s this second move that is misunderstood as the Euthyphro problem.</p>
<p>B: But it’s just basic <em>henad-dyad </em>stuff that the Neo-platonists talked about.</p>
<p>A: They would have just called themselves platonists, but sure. The dialogue isn’t aporetic (as though it ends randomly). It goes as far as the mind can go in ascending to the divine. We have to (a) see God as a knower, and (b) see knowers as knower-known dyads. But the One is beyond this dyad of knower-known, willer-willed.</p>
<p>B: True piety cannot be to the dyad.</p>
<p>A: Right. That’s the point.</p>
<p>B: But what about the Euthyphro dilemma then?</p>
<p>A: It seems like a way of struggling with our belief that morality is obligation. Honestly, it seems like a way of struggling with the contradictions in the morality of Thrasymachus.</p>
<p>B: Obligation and authority.  The “will of the stronger”</p>
<p>A: Yeah. If morality is obligation we supposedly need a deontic superman to account for it.</p>
<p>B: Craig argues for that.</p>
<p>A: Right. But obligations are <em>restrictions </em>on action not fulfillments or fruits of it.</p>
<p>B: So we end up opposing the need for a deontic superman to actions that are fulfilling and enjoyable.</p>
<p>A: That’s exactly the dispute between Craig and Harris. If morality is obligation, we need superman-authorities to account for how it is “objective” (I think this means “universal”). But if morality is obligation, then it is not a fulfillment or fruit of action.</p>
<p>B: The idea of a “good we are obliged to do” becomes a contradiction.</p>
<p>A: You would suppose that when your moral theory got to that point, you’d dig around for a mistake somewhere.</p>
<p>B: And you see it as what?</p>
<p>A: I think that only children see morality as obligation.</p>
<p>B: There you go with the extremes again.</p>
<p>A: Okay. It’s only so far as our morality is <em>imperfect</em> that we see it as obligation. Better?</p>
<p>B: So seeing morality as an obligation is a subjective judgment that we make from inexperience?</p>
<p>A: Something like that. But since everyone starts of as inexperienced the obligation account of morality can be taken as universal. Only the perfect see morality as a good that sets us free. Everyone else sees it as a burden and a restriction.</p>
<p>B: An obligation.</p>
<p>A: Right. The <em>ligo</em> in “Obligation” means “to tie up” or “to bind”. But if moral growth is being more and more tightly bound, who needs it? The experience of learning anything worth knowing only feels like being bound at the beginning. It’s not as if it is a permanent feature, much less one that gets more and more extreme.</p>
<p>B: So is God necessary for morality or not?</p>
<p>A: As a good, maybe. But he doesn’t make obligation any more than he makes any other thing that arises from uninformed judgment.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thomism.wordpress.com/15113/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thomism.wordpress.com/15113/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thomism.wordpress.com&blog=679086&post=15113&subd=thomism&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/2015/12/fugees-roundup.html">Fugees Roundup</a></span>
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<p><a href="http://superiorcatholicherald.org/news/local-news/statement-of-wisconsin-bishops-on-terrorist-attacks-and-resettlement-of-syrian-refugees/" target="_blank">Statement of Wisconsin bishops on terrorist attacks and resettlement of Syrian refugees</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">We reaffirm our support for the resettlement of refugees from Syria and all other places where persecution, terrorism, and war have inflicted terrible suffering and forced people to flee for their lives.</blockquote>Not clear if this means Catholics literally have a moral obligation to hypothetically resettle a Muslim man whom is a member of ISIS and is plotting to murder Americans. Does Catholic Charities <a href="http://theamericanmirror.com/syrian-refugee-group-admits-we-dont-track-them/" target="_blank">check refugees</a> against the US Terrorist Watch list? <br /><br /><a href="http://superiorcatholicherald.org/news/local-news/ashland-woman-opens-heart-to-call-from-god/" target="_blank">Ashland woman opens heart to call from God</a><br /><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mEgnGp4nGA4/VmBrI8H4yaI/AAAAAAAAl2o/ZULyeL53TYg/s1600/sr.lucia_.110515-225x300%255B1%255D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mEgnGp4nGA4/VmBrI8H4yaI/AAAAAAAAl2o/ZULyeL53TYg/s200/sr.lucia_.110515-225x300%255B1%255D.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>A native of Ashland, Sr. Lucia – or Anya Gadamus, as she was then – attended Our Lady of the Lake Catholic School and graduated from Ashland High School in 2008.<br /><br />Sr. Lucia grew up on a hunting preserve and spent a lot of time hiking, backpacking and camping. She was active in sports in high school; one of four valedictorians in her class, she liked art and traveling and spending time with friends.<br /><br />Sr. Lucia is currently in her novitiate with the Missionaries of the Word. She makes her first vows with the 3-year-old, three-member community in April.</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TVQSeILVn04/VmCDThlIinI/AAAAAAAAl3I/siIF-tApjd8/s1600/Nathan-Linton.02132014-239x300%255B1%255D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TVQSeILVn04/VmCDThlIinI/AAAAAAAAl3I/siIF-tApjd8/s200/Nathan-Linton.02132014-239x300%255B1%255D.jpg" width="159" /></a></div><a href="http://superiorcatholicherald.org/news/local-news/linton-joins-capuchins/" target="_blank">Cumberland man joins Capuchins</a><br /><div><br /><div><blockquote class="tr_bq">“I have been told I have a Franciscan heart,” Linton explained. “I have always wanted to life a simple life and to serve those in need. I am following the example of my parents. They have been devout in their faith and helping others. They are hard-wired for service. Turns out I am as well.”</blockquote><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4490/Cardinal-Burke-Marriage-Catechesis-Should-Be-Priority-for-Catholic-Schools-Colleges.aspx" target="_blank">Cardinal Burke: Marriage Catechesis Should Be Priority for Catholic Schools, Colleges</a></div><blockquote>“It’s a primary responsibility” for Catholic schools to conduct age appropriate instruction for younger children, Cardinal Burke replied. “I remember when I was going to elementary school, we had the <i>Baltimore Catechism</i> and we were taught about marriage from the first years of school. Then as we got older, we got the second and third edition and it got more substantial, but it was always the same in building and growing.”<br /><div><br />Catholic colleges and universities “most especially should be attentive both in what’s taught in the theology classes, but also in the discipline in the life of the university to reflect the truth about marriage,” he said, adding, “It is a great, great responsibility.”</div></blockquote><a href="http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/bishop-rededicates-carmelite-fathers-church-altar/article_0878454a-3428-56b4-babb-2bff7cd64b22.html" target="_blank">Bishop Hying rededicates Carmelite Fathers church</a><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PQcIjE6pVKQ/VmBwoLHoTXI/AAAAAAAAl24/IIkTBVTznt0/s1600/564a51ef0d764.image%255B1%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PQcIjE6pVKQ/VmBwoLHoTXI/AAAAAAAAl24/IIkTBVTznt0/s1600/564a51ef0d764.image%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><a href="http://superiorcatholicherald.org/news/local-news/welcome-to-our-king-superior/" target="_blank">Superior Cathedral profiled in SCH</a><br /><blockquote><i>What is something about your parish most people might not know?</i><br /><br />“We currently have over 50 saint relics and are awaiting the opportunity to build a reliquary to house them.<br /><br />We had a successful $2 million capital campaign to invest in the exterior of Cathedral school.”</blockquote>“Of all the things that should be beautiful in the sacred liturgy, music is one of the most important ones,” <a href="http://www.madisoncatholicherald.org/news/around-diocese/6034-abbot-rooney.html" target="_blank">said Abbot Marcel Rooney, OSB, to the attendees at the St. Thérèse Lecture November 20</a> at the Bishop O’Connor Catholic Center in Madison. </div></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://marquettewire.org/3937955/tribune/tribune-news/mcadams-still-waiting-for-faculty-hearing-committees-decision-on-whether-to-dismiss-him-from-marquette/" target="_blank">McAdams still waiting for Faculty Hearing Committee’s decision on whether to dismiss him from Marquette</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wxow.com/story/30594500/2015/11/24/following-pope-francis" target="_blank">WXOW: Pope Francis is undoubtedly a social media star</a><br /><blockquote>Recent Pew studies show only 16% of Millennials identify as Catholic out of the more than 65% who adhere to some sort of faith. Likewise, Pew research also shows nearly 80 percent of those raised Catholic who no longer identify with the religion cannot see returning.<br /><br />"We're not just interested in numbers," said Diocese of La Crosse Bishop William Callahan. "[We're looking to alter] the ministry itself. What's going on in the Church? are we only open on Sundays?"</blockquote>Video:<a href="https://gracesystem.org/2015/11/09/bishop-rickens-presentation-on-november-3-2015/" target="_blank"> Bishop David L. Ricken joined the GRACE School System to share his thoughts at the St. John Paul II Classical School.</a><br /><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.thecompassnews.org/2015/11/bishops-place-friendly-wager-on-nda-catholic-memorial-football-game/">Bishops place friendly wager on NDA-Catholic Memorial football game</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Bishop Ricken bets cheese curds while Archbishop Listecki offers bratwursts</blockquote></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/12/ask-father-lutheran-wife-is-against-me-a-convert-going-to-mass/">ASK FATHER: Lutheran wife is against me, a convert, going to Mass</a></span>
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<p>From a reader…</p>
<p><em>QUAERITUR</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I am a convert from Lutheranism, and my wife and children remain irregularly practicing Lutherans. My wife says that my absence for Mass every Sunday is a selfish betrayal of family time, and that our whole family suffers. I do not want to upset her, particularly since her bad moods affect our children, but I cannot live with the idea of regularly missing Sunday Mass. What can I do?</p></blockquote>
<p>Marriage is difficult. Mixed marriages are even more difficult. Successful marriages require lots of prayer, communication, and compromise. Compromise does not entail giving up things that are essential, but rather finding ways to give a little in order to make peace. Compromise where one party is forced to give up something essential is not really compromise, but rather capitulation.</p>
<p>Depending on where you live, there might be other Masses that are possible to attend. Is there an early morning Mass you could attend, before the rest of the family is up? Or a Mass later in the day? Or perhaps even a Mass on Saturday evening?</p>
<p>If there is not another Mass to attend, which might accommodate the family schedule, then the onus on you is to ensure that before and after Mass, you’re giving your all to your family.</p>
<p>Let’s say, for example, the Catholic Mass is at 10 AM, and the Lutheran service that your wife and children irregularly attend is at 10:30. Wake up early and prepare a nice breakfast for your family to enjoy (as they are not enjoined to fast before worship), even if it’s an egg casserole warming in the oven as you toddle off to Mass. Let your wife know that she need not do the dishes after their repast because you’ll take care of that as soon as you get home. Kiss your wife tenderly when you return from Mass (or when she returns from the Lutheran service) and let her know the joy you feel from being able to receive Christ and how your newly found Catholic faith strengthens you as a person, strengthens your love for her, and strengthens your marriage.</p>
<p>If she starts to see your Catholicism not as some sort of a rival in the marriage, but rather as an asset to you and to the marriage itself, she may become a bit less hostile.</p>
<p>Regular applications of flowers and chocolate can help, too, … so I’m told.</p>
<p>Look for other ways, after Mass, to maximize your family time. Read some Scripture to your children, pray a psalm or two with them. They, too, need to see their father’s Catholicism as something which makes him a better person and a better, more loving father, not as something that takes him away from them.</p>
<p>Certainly, pray for your family’s conversion, but in the meantime (or if that doesn’t happen), you need to show them by your actions how your Catholic faith makes you a better man, and thereby a better husband and father.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/st-francis-xavier/">St. Francis Xavier</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com">Charlotte was Both</a>]</span>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.adelantelafe.com/necesitamos-un-papa-martir-que-quiera-reconstruir-la-casa/">Necesitamos un Papa mártir que quiera “reconstruir la casa”</a></span>
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<p>Se han propuesto muchas teorías acerca del modo en que la Iglesia Católica podría salir de la actual crisis en que se encuentra. Me referiré a algunas de ellas y luego propondré la mía.</p>
<p><strong>Reformar el laicado</strong><br />
Algunos sugieren que si el laicado estuviera mejor catequizado la iglesia podría salir de la crisis actual, ya que podría brindar mejores candidatos a la iglesia para la formación sacerdotal. Estos luego se convertirían en sacerdotes ortodoxos, obispos y hasta papas. Si bien una mejor catequización del laicado y mejores candidatos para el sacerdocio son muy importantes, esto solo no solucionaría la situación en que se halla la Iglesia.</p>
<p>¿Por qué? Porque la iglesia necesita sobre todo la ecclesia docens (la iglesia docente, es decir, a los obispos) para que la ecclesia discens (la iglesia que aprende, es decir, el laicado) sea bien catequizado. Hay mucho que algunos laicos podrían enseñar sobre la fe a otros laicos, pero se necesita el magisterio para sopesar aspectos actuales de doctrina y práctica, que no se han tratado en el pasado, pero son de vital importancia para permanecer firmes en la fe (de aquí la necesidad de un magisterio vivo).</p>
<p>Además, el laicado puede producir candidatos ortodoxos dignos de ingresar en el seminario pero si el seminario tiene gente que rechaza a los candidatos ortodoxos y sólo acepta a los candidatos disidentes esta teoría no funcionaría. Evidentemente, para que se produzca un cambio serio es crucial una reforma en la jerarquía.</p>
<p><strong>Reformar a los sacerdotes</strong><br />
Esta teoría sostiene que el saneamiento de la crisis actual será posible mediante sacerdotes ortodoxos. Como mencionamos antes, existe el problema de la admisión de los candidatos ortodoxos al seminario, pero suponiendo que se produjera esta reforma con sacerdotes ya ordenados, aún no sería suficiente. Si un sacerdote se pusiera a “reconstruir la casa” en su parroquia, es decir, no permitiera al laicado llevar la batuta, celebrara la misa tradicional, predicara acerca de la conversión y de la necesidad de creer en Cristo y su Iglesia Católica como único medio de salvación, recibiría un llamado al día siguiente y sería silenciado o reducido al estado laical. Esto no significa que no tengamos necesidad de mejores sacerdotes; significa que no alcanza con reformar a los sacerdotes.</p>
<p><strong>Reformar a los obispos</strong><br />
Algunos creen que si los obispos fuesen más ortodoxos la iglesia podría salir de la crisis actual en que se encuentra. Esto es controvertido porque tan pronto como un obispo intente reformar la iglesia en su diócesis, de acuerdo con los parámetros de ortodoxia normales, sería apartado por sus hermanos obispos, quienes rápidamente se dirigirían al Santo Padre y pedirían su remoción del cargo.</p>
<p>Imagínense si un obispo les dijera a todos sus sacerdotes disidentes que se vayan a casa, retornara a la liturgia tradicional, y comenzara a predicar la fe católica (que inevitablemente incluye un llamado al arrepentimiento del pecado y la exclusividad de la salvación sólo en la Iglesia Católica), se notificaría al Papa inmediatamente y se presionaría para removerlo de su puesto ( y hasta el momento los disidentes han obtenido todo lo que querían en este aspecto). Está visto que ésta no sería tampoco la solución del problema de la crisis actual.</p>
<p><strong>Un Papa mártir</strong><br />
Parecería que la única esperanza real para un cambio serio (con excepción de una intervención divina) es que un Papa “reconstruya la casa”. ¿Por qué un Papa? Porque el Papa tiene el poder de hablar claramente sobre la doctrina y la práctica sin la posibilidad de ser removido, puede definir dogmas infaliblemente, excomulgar a los disidentes, reducir al estado laical a los clérigos rebeldes, etc. Sin embargo sin un Papa que quiera implementar cambios de radicales con mano firme, la iglesia permanecería atrapada en la crisis actual por los motivos ya mencionados.</p>
<p>¿Cómo podría un Papa reconstruir la casa en forma eficaz? Se podría lograr de la siguiente manera: El Papa podría encerrarse en una habitación con un fuerte dispositivo de seguridad y un catador de alimentos, redactar una lista de obispos disidentes del mundo y reducirlos a todos al estado laical inmediatamente. Luego podría reunir a un grupo selecto de clérigos bien ortodoxos, conocidos por oponerse férreamente al error, y emplearlos en encontrar nuevos candidatos para reemplazar a los obispos recientemente reducidos al estado laical.</p>
<p>Luego podría redactar una carta para todos los obispos que queden en el mundo para informarles que tienen una semana para reducir al estado laical a todos los sacerdotes disidentes en sus diócesis.</p>
<p>El Papa podría establecer un grupo selecto de clérigos sumamente ortodoxos para recibir cualquier queja contra herejías por parte de clérigos. Si existiera suficiente evidencia para demostrar que aún quedan obispos o sacerdotes disidentes en una diócesis, esto se llevaría ante el Papa quien inmediatamente reduciría al estado laical a tal obispo o sacerdote disidente.</p>
<p>Posteriormente el Papa podría escribir un nuevo syllabus de errores, condenando todos los errores de la iglesia moderna. También podría establecer una ley que obligue a todos los obispos y sacerdotes a celebrar exclusivamente la Misa Tridentina bajo pena de pecado mortal y reducción al estado laical (este Papa podría considerar la reforma de la Misa determinada por el Concilio Vaticano Segundo nula y sin efecto). Se podría otorgar un cierto tiempo para que aprendieran latin los sacerdotes que no lo conocieran. Mientras tanto se les permitiría decir la Misa Tridentina en su lengua vernácula pero sólo dentro del tiempo estipulado para el aprendizaje del idioma.</p>
<p>El Papa podría entonces crear otra comisión compuesta enteramente por clérigos verdaderamente ortodoxos para determinar qué actos de los anteriores Papas post conciliares necesitan ser declarados nulos. Después de esto se podría dirigir a todo el mundo con un documento llamando a todo el mundo a arrepentirse de sus pecados, a creer sólo en Cristo y a convertirse a la Iglesia Católica como la única esperanza de salvación.</p>
<p>Es cierto que, aún con el mejor dispositivo de seguridad, dicho Papa sufriría el martirio, pero antes habría puesto en marcha cambios serios, que permitirían a la iglesia superar la crisis actual. Es seguro que si tuviera lugar tal reforma, la iglesia se haría más pequeña de la noche a la mañana. Pero ¿no sería mejor tener una iglesia más pequeña compuesta casi en su totalidad por católicos con temor de Dios que una iglesia grande que arrastra mayormente peso muerto -que prácticamente la ha paralizado en su capacidad para llevar a cabo su misión? Quizás este sólo sea un sueño imposible de un laico católico naif, pero todavía espero contra toda esperanza que Dios algún día nos envíe un Papa así.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Lofton</strong></p>
[Traducción Romina R.<a href="http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/2188-we-need-a-martyr-pope-who-will-clean-house"><span class="st"> Artículo original</span></a>]
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://incarnationandmodernity.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/seduced-by-grace/">Seduced By Grace</a></span>
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<p>  “We love, because he first loved us.” —1 John IV.19 The truest intimacy possible on this side of paradise is the intimacy of the soul with God. From it and only through this intimacy is it possible for us to know intimacy with one another. To truly know another is to love them. This […]<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=incarnationandmodernity.wordpress.com&blog=46690437&post=2719&subd=incarnationandmodernity&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/1p5-podcast-episode-27-the-origins-of-islamic-violence/">1P5 Podcast – Episode 27: The Origins of Islamic Violence</a></span>
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<p>Another Islamic attack. More people dead. Yet again, the principle shooter was viewed by others as a normal guy with a normal job who was well-liked and was "living the American Dream." How does this happen? What is it about Islam that can lead a man to walk out of his office holiday party to come back with his wife and commit a suicide attack, together abandoning their six-month old child?
Islamic scholar Andrew Bieszad goes back to the basics of Muslim belief to help us make sense of the latest tragedy.
 
RELATED LINKS:
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-syed-farook-had-traveled-to-saudi-arabia-married-appeared-to-live-american-dream-co-workers-say-20151202-story.html" target="_blank">San Bernardino shooting suspect traveled to Saudi Arabia, was married, appeared to be living 'American Dream,' co-workers say</a>
<a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/the-two-guadalupes-mary-and-the-crescent-moon/" target="_blank">The Two Guadalupes – Mary and The Crescent Moon</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lions-Faith-Blesseds-Catholic-Struggle-ebook/dp/B017Z9NXIO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=onep073-20&linkId=cd08970d7050c9faaf5287f04dbd58e3" target="_blank">Lions of the Faith: Saints, Blesseds, and Heroes of the Catholic Faith in the Struggle with Islam</a>
<a href="http://shop.catholic.com/20-answers-islam.html" target="_blank">20 Answers: Islam</a>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/2015/12/something-to-think-about.html">Something to think about after San Bernardino ...</a></span>
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EvDd6nW_qLc/VmCAGJihgAI/AAAAAAAAqDo/cofxaiGK3Gw/s1600/abbey%2Broads%2Bguernica.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EvDd6nW_qLc/VmCAGJihgAI/AAAAAAAAqDo/cofxaiGK3Gw/s400/abbey%2Broads%2Bguernica.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It was an office Christmas party.</span></i></div><br /><br />"We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced." - Karol Wojtyla"<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">We must prepare ourselves to suffer great trials before long, such as will demand of us a disposition to give up even life, and a total dedication to Christ and for Christ... With your and my prayer it is possible to mitigate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it, because only thus can the Church be effectively renewed. How many times has the renewal of the Church sprung from blood! This time, too, it will not be otherwise. We must be strong and prepared, and trust in Christ and His mother, and be very, very assiduous in praying the Rosary." - <a href="http://www.spiritdaily.com/johnpaulapocalypse.htm">Karol Wojtyla</a></blockquote></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheEponymousFlower/~3/hiqH5hBklSo/pope-adopts-newchurch-trinitarian.html">Pope Adopts NewChurch Trinitarian Formula</a></span>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span><strong>[Zenit] --Q:</strong> Holy Father, now that we are about to begin the Jubilee, can you explain what movement of the heart drove you to highlight precisely the subject of mercy? What urgency do you perceive in this regard, in the present situation of the world and of the Church?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span><strong>--Pope Francis: </strong>The theme of mercy has been strongly accentuated in the life of the Church, since Pope Paul VI. John Paul II stressed it strongly with <em>Dives in Misericordia, </em>the canonization of Saint Faustina and the institution of the Feast of Divine Mercy on the Octave of Easter. In line with this, I felt that it is somewhat a desire of the Lord to show His mercy to humanity. Therefore, it didn’t come to my mind, but rather the relatively renet renewal of a tradition that has however always existed.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span>My first <em>Angelus </em>as Pope was on God’s mercy and, on that occasion, I also spoke of a book on mercy which was given to me by Cardinal Walter Kasper during the conclave; also, in my first homily as Pope, on Sunday, March 17, I spoke of mercy in the parish of Saint Anne. It wasn’t a strategy; it came to me from within: the Holy Spirit wills something. It’s obvious that today’s world is in need of mercy, it is in need of compassion, <em>or to begin with <compasion>. </em>We are used to bad news, to cruel news and to the greatest atrocities that offend the name and life of God. The world is in need of discovering that God is Father, that there is mercy, that cruelty isn’t the way, that condemnation isn’t the way, because the Church herself sometimes follows a hard line, she falls into the temptation of following a hard line, into the temptation of stressing only the moral rules, many people are excluded.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;">http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/text-of-pope-s-interview-with-italian-jubilee-publication-credere</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;">HT: Rorate</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;">He's also sanitizing the Ugandan Martyrs:</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/pope-francis-astoundingly-neglects-to-mention-real-reason-ugandans-were-bru?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/pope-francis-astoundingly-neglects-to-mention-real-reason-ugandans-were-bru?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;">AMDG</p><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheEponymousFlower/~4/hiqH5hBklSo" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://opuspublicum.com/2015/12/03/everyone-knows/">Everyone Knows…</a></span>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Note: </strong>This post from the <em>Opus Publicum </em>archives is a tongue-in-cheek followup to “<a href="http://opuspublicum.com/2015/12/03/how-libertarians-win-arguments/">How Libertarians Win Arguments</a>.” It first appeared on January 20, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Everyone knows antitrust laws increase unemployment. You don’t agree? Well, consider this. Take a scenario where a firm has 1,000 employees and controls 50% of the market. Now, let’s say the Department of Justice (DOJ) issues a new set of enforcement guidelines, <em>Big Is Bad</em>, in which it will go after any business that controls more than 10% of a given market. After getting the federal courts to overturn its 1970s and 80s Chicago-informed antitrust jurisprudence, the DOJ prevails; they break up all of these big, bad businesses and, in the process, seriously erode economies of scope and scale. Moreover, these business are hit with major litigation costs and statutory fines. A big change in favor of vigorous antitrust enforcement means big economic effects. Now, of course we have lower-level antitrust enforcement in the U.S. than we did just 40 years ago without any “big is bad” policy, <em>but we still have antitrust laws</em>. Even some antitrust law is going to have some effect on businesses, <em>ergo </em>everyone knows that antitrust laws increase unemployment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Everyone knows strict liability rules for common carriers such as international airlines increases unemployment. You don’t agree? Well consider this. Take a scenario where the U.S. agrees to an amendment to the Montreal Convention and imposes a strict liability base floor for any passengers killed in an accident at $1 billion. International airlines, such as United and Delta, will have a difficult time attracting insurers and, when they do attract them, the premiums will be so high that they will have to price flights out of the range for most people. The number of international flights will decrease and the airlines will have to lay off employees. Now, of course, the U.S. only subscribes to the current Convention’s mandate that carriers are strictly liable for up to $113,100 (more accurately 113,100 Special Drawing Rights) in proven damages. However, <em>any strict liability rule for aircraft is going to have some effect on common carriers such as airlines</em>, <em>ergo </em>everyone knows strict liability rules for common carriers increases unemployment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Everyone knows the public police forces increase unemployment. You don’t agree? Well consider this. Take a scenario where a city pays its police officers $1 million a year. To fund this force, the city needs to impose a special sales tax which inflates the costs of goods and services sold in the city limits (let’s say a 10% sales tax on top of whatever state tax may be in place). So what happens? Businesses take flight for the suburbs or simply fold; unemployment increases as a result. Now, of course no city compensates their police officers at such a high rate, <em>but all cities have police officers which they have to pay through tax revenue</em>. So some taxes which shift costs onto businesses and individuals will be incurred. As such, everyone knows that the public police forces cause unemployment.</p><br />Filed under: <a href="http://opuspublicum.com/category/economics/">Economics</a>, <a href="http://opuspublicum.com/category/humor/">Humor</a>, <a href="http://opuspublicum.com/category/politics/">Politics</a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1585/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=opuspublicum.com&blog=70036207&post=1585&subd=opuspublicum&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://opuspublicum.com/2015/12/03/how-libertarians-win-arguments/">How Libertarians Win Arguments</a></span>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Note</strong><strong>: </strong>This is a slightly revised version of a post which appeared on the old <em>Opus Publicum </em>web-log on January 20, 2014. As I have had numerous requests to re-post old pieces, I am trying to do better about fetching them from the archives. Your patience is appreciated.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">A few days ago Joe Carter at the <em>Acton Institute Power Blog </em>wrote, “<a href="http://blog.acton.org/archives/64802-prove-everyone-knows-raising-minimum-wages-increases-unemployment.html">How To Prove That Everyone Knows Raising Minimum Wages Increases Unemployment</a>.” In what is an all-too-common trick among libertarian sorts, Carter offers the thought experiment of a minimum wage hike from $7.25 to $57.25 — a near eight-fold increase — and states that no one would disagree that such a large increase would increase unemployment. Why? Because many businesses would not be able to afford such a radical upward shift in labor inputs and so they would either have to fold (which is likely if they are a small business), decrease their work force (which would obviously contribute to unemployment), or find substitutes for labor (ditto), etc. Ok, that’s fine. What’s not so fine, however, is that Carter assumes, sans evidence, that if a large change will produce large effects in an economy a small change will produce small effects, and that those effects will be registered in the unemployment figures. But that’s not necessarily true, and Carter knows this. He just doesn’t want to admit it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Take, for instance, the example of a fast food restaurant. Let us say the minimum wage is more realistically increased from $7.25 to $8.00/hour. Let us assume that this restaurant has five full-time employees, all of whom make the minimum wage. The cost of employing all five under the old regime per week is $1,450; under the new regime the cost would be $1,600, or $150 more. According to Carter’s logic, it would seem that the restaurant owner would choose to reduce one employee’s weekly hours by half since $150 is approximately 20 hours of work at $7.25/hour. But that assumes the restaurant could still properly function with one employee working part-time, and that’s far from certain. More likely than not the restaurant will choose to pass the new costs on to the customers in the form of small increases in prices or, absent that, the substitution of other inputs. The profit margin of the restaurant, <em>i.e.</em>, what the ownership makes, might be reduced, but is $150 the make-or-break between loss and profitability? Even if one assumes that there will be instances where this is true (which is not as safe an assumption as Carter imagines), it’s not going to be universally true; it’s not even inevitable. Yet Carter, like other libertarians, believes that his audience ought to draw the worst possible conclusion — and he gets them far closer to that conclusion by beginning with the extreme and then quietly slipping in the plausible as an offshoot of the extreme.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Granted, my example above is very simplistic and limited to a single hypothetical firm operating in the fast food industry. What’s important to keep in mind, though, is that a minimum wage hike would be felt throughout the industry. In other words, McDonald’s would not feel the brunt of the hike while its primary competitors, Subway and Burger King, evaded it. Moreover, sophisticated empirical studies have cast doubt on whether or not realistic minimum-wage increases — <em>i.e.</em>, the sort which Carter’s hypothetical eschews right out of the gate — actually adversely affects employment rates. John Schmitt of the Center for Economic and Policy Research has a thought-proving paper on this topic, <a href="http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf"><em>Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernable Effect on Employment? </em></a>(February 2013). Andrajit Dube et al.’s peer-reviewed piece, “<a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/86w5m90m#page-1">Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders</a>,” 92 <em>Review of Economics and Statistics </em>945 (2010), also casts doubt on the “common sense” conclusion that increment increases to the minimum wage produces unemployment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Admittedly, empirical reality can, at times, be difficult to measure, and economists, like all participants in the murky realm of the social sciences, love to feud with each other over methodological matters until the cows come home. However, let’s be clear here. Libertarians, most of whom subscribe to the heterodox Austrian School of economics, disdain empiricism. They prefer to present “logically airtight” hypotheticals to “prove” their theories; that is where the matter ends. While not every hypothetical and the conclusions they draw from it are implausible (again, an eight-fold increases to the minimum wage is going to have an impact on employment — no one denies this), many of them are questionable, particularly when they draw closer to reality. Before that fact settles in to the mind of their audiences — most of which are comprised of folks who’ve already been converted to that old-time religion of supply-side economics and trickle-down distribution –, the libertarians have duped them with Chicken Little tactics. It’s an unedifying spectacle, especially when it emanates from a think tank which is ostensibly Catholic.</p><br />Filed under: <a href="http://opuspublicum.com/category/economics/">Economics</a>, <a href="http://opuspublicum.com/category/politics/">Politics</a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1578/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=opuspublicum.com&blog=70036207&post=1578&subd=opuspublicum&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://branemrys.blogspot.com/2015/12/ticking-time-bomb.html">Ticking Time-Bomb</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://branemrys.blogspot.com/">Siris</a>]</span>
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<blockquote>Suppose an occasion to arise, in which a suspicion is entertained, as strong as that which would be received as a sufficient ground for arrest and commitment as for felony — a suspicion that at this very time a considerable number of individuals are actually suffering, by illegal violence inflictions equal in intensity to those which if inflicted by the hand of justice, would universally be spoken of under the name of torture. For the purpose of rescuing from torture these hundred innocents, should any scruple be made of applying equal or superior torture, to extract the requisite information from the mouth of one criminal, who having it in his power to make known the place where at this time the enormity was practicing or about to be practiced, should refuse to do so? To say nothing of wisdom, Could any pretence be made so much as to the praise of blind and vulgar humanity, by the man who to save one criminal, should determine to abandon a hundred innocent persons to the same fate?</blockquote>[from Jeremy Bentham, "Means of extraction for extraordinary occasions" (1804) UC 74b/428–30.]<br /><br />Bentham, because of the above passage, is generally regarded as the originator of what is usually called the 'ticking time-bomb' justification of the use of torture in interrogation. (It's one of many reasons to dislike the influence of Bentham on ethics, I think, but not at all the least.) Jeremy Davies has a very good discussion of Bentham's views on torture in <a href="http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/10.16995/ntn.643/#fn13">The Fire-Raisers: Bentham and Torture</a>.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/through-thick-and-thin-pope-urges-youths-to-read-the-bible.cfm">Through thick and thin: Pope urges youths to read the Bible</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://www.catholicnews.com">CNS Vatican News</a>]</span>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/pope-wants-year-of-mercy-to-tenderly-transform-world.cfm">Gentle revolution: Pope wants Year of Mercy to tenderly transform world</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://www.catholicnews.com">CNS Top Stories</a>]</span>
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<p>By Carol Glatz</p><p>VATICAN
CITY (CNS) -- When Pope
Francis planned the Year of Mercy and the opening of the Holy Door, he
did not mean to give the starting signal for a frenzied wave of pilgrims to
Rome. </p>
<p>More
than call to sign up for an Eternal City package tour, the pope is inviting people
to strike out on a yearlong spiritual journey to recognize a loving God who's already
knocking on their door. </p>
<p>He
says he wants the Year of Mercy to usher in a "revolution of tenderness."
</p>
<p>Once
people realize "I'm wretched, but God loves me the way I am," then "I,
too, have to love others the same way," the pope said in an interview published
just a few days before the Dec. 8 start of the jubilee year. </p>
<p>Discovering
God's generous love kick-starts a virtuous circle, which "leads us to
acting in a way that's more tolerant, patient, tender" and just, he said.</p>
<p>Speaking
with "Credere," an
Italian weekly magazine run by the Pauline Fathers, the pope gave an in-depth
look at why he sees such an urgent need to highlight God's mercy.</p>
<p>"The
world needs to discover that God is father, that there is mercy, that cruelty
is not the path, that condemnation is not the path," he said.
"Because the church herself sometimes follows a hard line, she falls into
the temptation of following a hard line, into the temptation of underlining
only moral norms, but so many people remain on the outside," he said.</p>
<p>The
pope said the thought
of all those people -- sinners, the doubtful, the wounded and disenfranchised
-- conjured up that iconic image of seeing the church "as a field hospital
after the battle."</p>
<p>"The
wounded are to be
treated, helped to heal, not subjected to cholesterol tests," he said, meaning
a too narrow scrutiny of minutiae delays staving off the broader disease of conflict
and indifference. He once
illustrated the same concept by painting a visual image of pastors who
prefer to coif and comb the
wool of the tiny flock in the pews rather than seek the sheep that are outside
in danger or lost. </p>
<p>"I
believe this is the time for mercy. We are all sinners, we all carry burdens
within us. I felt Jesus wants to open the door of his heart," he said in
the magazine interview.</p>
<p>The opening of the holy doors in Rome
and around the world will be a symbol of how Jesus is opening the door of his
heart.
</p>
<p>In
fact, dioceses have been asked to designate and open their own "Door of
Mercy" in a cathedral, an important church or sanctuary. The pope also
will send out from Rome "missionaries of mercy" -- priests mandated
to the world's peripheries to show patience and compassion in their ministry.</p>
<p>Such
gestures suggest the pope still wants people to avoid the expense of travel -- like
his post-election suggestion to fans back home in Argentina to give to the poor
the money they would have spent for a trip.  </p>
<p>To
help people at home feel "just like being there" in Rome, the Vatican
television center will start broadcasting major papal events during the Holy
Year in latest generation "Ultra HD 4K" resolution as well as HD, 3D
and standard definition. </p>
<p>With
the appropriate displays or TVs, people will be able to watch events with
increased depth and detail, and, for the opening of the Holy Door in St.
Peter's Basilica Dec. 8, 19 cameras were to be deployed to capture every angle,
including a unique papal point of view.</p>
<p>The
Vatican also planned to set up 4K screens in a prison in Milan, a hospital in
Rome and possibly in the Holy Land so people who are physically confined could feel
part of the opening ceremony.</p>
<p>From
the very start of his pontificate, Pope Francis has been showing what the way
of mercy means. </p>
<p>The
pope's very first Angelus address and homily in 2013 centered on mercy, as he
explained God always waits for that day of awakening and conversion, then forgives
everything. The real problem is people -- not God -- who give up on forgiveness,
he said.</p>
<p>But
mercy changes everything, he said; it "makes the world a little less cold
and more just."</p>
<p>The
pope's own religious vocation is rooted in that concrete experience of mercy,
when he -- as a 17-year-old student -- walked out of a confessional "different,
changed." It was the feast of St. Matthew, and like St. Matthew, he was
overcome, feeling "God looked at me with mercy" and said,
"Follow me."</p>
<p>Realizing
God knows he's a sinner, but embraces him anyway lies at the heart of Pope
Francis' ministry and his motto: "By showing mercy, by choosing," based
on "The Call of St. Matthew."</p>
<p>He
said in the magazine interview that one Friday of every month during the Year
of Mercy "I will make a different gesture" that shows God's mercy. He
had asked the world's young people to rediscover the corporal and spiritual
works of mercy, like feeding the hungry and counsel the doubtful, and choose
one to practice each month as they prepare for World Youth Day in July.</p>
<p>The
"Credere" interview reveals that the pope has been championing a more
merciful church for decades. </p>
<p>In
a small group discussion during the 1994 ordinary Synod of Bishops on
consecrated life and its role in the church and the world, then then-Auxiliary
Bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he said it was necessary "to
institute a revolution of tenderness," to which one synod father countered,
"with reasonable explanations," how "it wasn't good to use this
kind of language." </p>
<p>But
now two decades later as leader of the universal church, the opening of the
Year of Mercy may be his moment to set that revolution into motion.</p><p>- - -</p><p>Copyright © 2015 Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. www.catholicnews.com. All rights reserved. Republishing or redistributing of CNS content, including by framing or similar means without prior permission, is prohibited. You may link to stories on our public site. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To request permission for republishing or redistributing of CNS content, please contact permissions at cns@catholicnews.com.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/san-bernardino-bishop-urges-prayers-for-unity-healing-after-shootings.cfm">San Bernardino bishop urges prayers for unity, healing after shootings</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://image.catholicnews.com/imagehandler/photos/2015/12/03/20151203T1523-771-CNS-MASS-SHOOTINGS-REACT_310.jpg" /><p>IMAGE: CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters</p><p></p><p>By </p><p>SAN
BERNARDINO, Calif. (CNS) -- San Bernardino Bishop Gerald R. Barnes urged people
to pray for unity and healing after the mass shooting in San
Bernardino Dec. 2 that left 14 people dead and 17 others wounded.</p>
<p>"For those who lost their
lives, we pray for their eternal rest and God's strength to their loved ones
left behind; for those who are wounded, we pray for their health and healing,"
he said.</p><p> In a Dec. 2 statement, the bishop called on people to
pray for "all of the victims of this horrific incident and their families"
and also asked for prayers for law enforcement officers who at the time were
still "pursuing the suspects in this case."</p>
<p>"Our community of San
Bernardino has faced great challenges through the years. Let us come together
now in unity to bring light to the darkness of this day," Bishop Barnes
said.</p>
<p>The shooting took place at the Inland
Regional Center, a state-run facility for individuals with developmental
disabilities where county health officials were having an employee holiday
party.</p>
<p>Two armed suspects -- later identified as Syed
Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27 -- were killed by police four hours later in
a shootout about two miles from the social services center.</p>
<p>Farook, a county environmental
inspector, had attended the holiday party and left, returning with Malik, wearing
"assault-style clothing" with ammunition attached, according to news reports. </p>
<p>Police and federal agents have
not yet offered a motive for the couple's shootings at the center, which provides housing
and work programs, and therapy and social services to more than 30,000 people
with developmental disabilities.</p>
<p>"Today, yet another
American community is reeling from the horror of gun violence," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,
D-California, said in a Dec. 2 statement.</p>
<p>"As the
families of the victims grieve and the survivors focus on healing, the entire
American family mourns," she added.</p>
<p>Pelosi noted that gun violence
is "a crisis of epidemic proportions in our nation" and said Congress
has a moral responsibility to vote on common sense measures to prevent the
daily agony of gun violence in communities across America. Enough is enough."</p>
<p>Philadelphia Archbishop Charles
J. Chaput said "each innocent life lost" in the shooting was
precious. "Each was intimately connected through family and friendship to
many others, who now survive them and bear a burden of unearned suffering."</p>
<p>The archbishop, in a Dec. 3
statement, added: "Pursuing justice in this matter is in the hands of law
enforcement. Our task as Christians is to pray for those persons whose lives
were ended by the inexcusable cruelty of others."</p><p>- - -</p><p>Copyright © 2015 Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. www.catholicnews.com. All rights reserved. Republishing or redistributing of CNS content, including by framing or similar means without prior permission, is prohibited. You may link to stories on our public site. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To request permission for republishing or redistributing of CNS content, please contact permissions at cns@catholicnews.com.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://benedict-iana.blogspot.com/2015/12/gospel-for-first-sunday-of-advent.html">Gospel for the First Sunday of Advent</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://benedict-iana.blogspot.com/">Lectio Divina Notes</a>]</span>
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">The Gospel for the First Sunday of Advent (EF calendar) is St Luke 21:25-33:<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">25 Et erunt signa in sole, et luna, et stellis, et in terris pressura gentium præ confusione sonitus maris, et fluctuum: 26 arescentibus hominibus præ timore, et exspectatione, quæ supervenient universo orbi: nam virtutes cælorum movebuntur: 27 et tunc videbunt Filium hominis venientem in nube cum potestate magna et majestate. 28 His autem fieri incipientibus, respicite, et levate capita vestra: quoniam appropinquat redemptio vestra. 29 Et dixit illis similitudinem: Videte ficulneam, et omnes arbores: 30 cum producunt jam ex se fructum, scitis quoniam prope est æstas. 31 Ita et vos cum videritis hæc fieri, scitote quoniam prope est regnum Dei. 32 Amen dico vobis, quia non præteribit generatio hæc, donec omnia fiant. 33 Cælum et terra transibunt: verba autem mea non transibunt.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span>Douay-Rheims: <br /><br /><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">[25] And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea and of the waves; [26] Men withering away for fear, and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved; [27] And then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with great power and majesty. [28] But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand. [29] And he spoke to them in a similitude. See the fig tree, and all the trees: [30] When they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is nigh;[31] So you also, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand. [32] Amen, I say to you, this generation shall not pass away, till all things be fulfilled. [33] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.</span><br /><br />The third Nocturn Matins readings on the Gospel in the Benedictine Office are from St Gregory the Great:<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Reading 9: Our Lord and Saviour wisheth to find us ready at His second coming. Therefore He telleth us what will be the evils of the world as it groweth old, that He may wean our hearts from worldly affections. Here we read what great convulsions will go before the end, that, if we will not fear God in our prosperity, we may at least be scourged into fearing His judgment when it is at hand.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Reading 10: Immediately before the passage which hath just been read from the Gospel, are found the following words of our Lord, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and pestilences and famines. Then, after a few more verses, cometh to-day's Gospel. There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring. Now some of these things are come to pass already, and we fear the others are not far off.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Reading 11: In these our days we see nation rise against nation, and their distress over all the earth, more than we read in books hath ever come to pass of old time. Ye know also how often we hear of earthquakes overwhelming countless cities in other parts of the world. As for pestilences, we suffer from them ourselves, with hardly any intermission. As yet we do not see signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; but the changes of seasons and climates warn us that we may look for these also before long.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">You can also find some notes on the Gospel from de Lapide <a href="http://benedict-iana.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/st-luke-21-25-38.html">here.</a></span></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2015/12/ordinariate-use-10.html">Ordinariate Use (10)</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/">Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment</a>]</span>
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<p>The 'Rubrical Directory' to our Missal (Paragraph 11) provides that "another cleric or even an instituted Acolyte may serve the subdiaconal ministry and read the Epistle".
Nice to have this splendid encouragement for restoring the proper old High Mass with the three Sacred Ministers walking one behind another up the church "just like a train", as one very approving girl at S Thomas's commented.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://beiboot-petri.blogspot.com/2015/12/europa-groe-zeiten-groe-papste.html">Europa: Schwere Zeiten - Große Päpste</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://beiboot-petri.blogspot.com/">Beiboot Petri</a>]</span>
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<p> Normal 0 21 false false false DE JA X-NONE <br /><div class="MsoNormal">In diesen bedrängten Zeiten, ist es ganz wunderbar, dass sich so mancher Journalist, der sich ob eigener Angst nicht mehr so richtig aus der Deckung traut - der Historie besinnt: Der Größe Europas und der mutigen Europäer, die sich damals einfach gewehrt haben hat Welt-Online eine ganze Artikelserie gewidmet, die sich sehr spannend liest. Sie zeigt auf, dass die Osmanen-Überfälle dank großer Glaubensfestigkeit - wenn auch mit herben Verlusten besonders bei der Bevölkerung - immer glimpflich ausgegangen sind.</div><div class="MsoNormal">
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Europa - erlebte ja zu diesen großen Zeiten nicht nur "Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen". Im Gegenteil, man bekriegte sich so oft als möglich und gerade in der Zeit der großen Türkenkriege war ja Europa überwiegend mit sich selbst beschäftigt. Luther spaltete die Christen, befördert durch Kleinstaaten, die durch die "Entmachtung" der Kirche reichen Lohn erhielten.</div><div class="MsoNormal">
Die Habsburger legten sich mit Papst ClemensVII an, was zur "<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_di_Roma"><span style="color: #420178;">Sacco die Roma</span></a>" führte und den Papst zur Flucht in die Engelsburg nötigte.</div><div class="MsoNormal">In diese Zeit platzte der erste Türkenüberfall auf Europa und im Oktober 1529 standen die Türken erstmals vor Wien, was die Österreicher zwang, ihre Belagerung des Kirchenstaates schnell wieder aufzugeben und es kam zum Frieden von Barcelona 1529: Im Kampf gegen die Türken waren die Katholiken vereint.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Doch zuvor musste das Volk leiden. <a href="http://www.welt.de/geschichte/article149093186/Als-die-Osmanen-zum-ersten-Mal-Wien-erobern-wollten.html"><span style="color: #420178;">WeltOnline</span></a> beschreibt in diesem Artikel das Szenario: <i><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">"Dieses schöne Land ward von den Reitern zerwühlt und mit Rauch gefüllt. Aschenhügel waren die Reste der Häuser und Paläste. In den Zelten und auf den Lagermärkten wurden schöne Gesichter verkauft, und der Beute war kein Ende. Die Familien der Ungläubigen waren verbrannt und verheert ihr ganzes Land."</span></i><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Es handelte sich also keineswegs um die Exzesse einzelner Truppenteile, sondern bildete ein Kalkül der türkischen Strategie, durch Mord und Terror gegen die Zivilbevölkerung den militärischen Widerstand des Gegners zu brechen.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal">So gelang es den Türken, die Belagerung Wiens durchzuhalten: <i>"</i><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Die Belagerung dauerte nun schon drei Wochen, und ein Ende war nicht in Sicht, denn die Türken wurden gut versorgt. ... Aber als am 14. Oktober ein weiterer Sturm auf die Stadtmauer blutig zurückgeschlagen wurde und eine Schlechtwetterperiode mit verfrühtem Schneefall einsetzte, kamen Süleyman Zweifel ... Am 16./17. Oktober schließlich zogen sich die Türken Richtung Istanbul zurück und hinterließen dabei eine Spur von Tod und Verwüstung...... In der befreiten Stadt läuteten nach drei Wochen wieder die Kirchenglocken, im Stephansdom wurde eine Dankesmesse gefeiert."</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal">Zum Dank wurde das <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Engel_des_Herrn"><span style="color: #420178;">Mittagsläuten</span></a> eingeführt, eine Vorstufe des heutigen Angelus: <i>"</i><i><span style="color: #1c1c1c;">Im 16. Jahrhundert kam das Mittagsläuten hinzu, um zum Gebet wegen der drohenden </span></i><i>Türkengefahr</i><i><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"> und <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamisierung"><span style="color: #0a006d; text-decoration: none;">Islamisierung</span></a> Europas aufzurufen."</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal">
<br />Aus Wien waren die Türken dann erstmal weg - aber sie trieben ihr Unwesen weiter im Mittelmeer, bedrohten die dortigen Staaten, insbesondere Venedig und die venezianische Handelsflotte. Kein Wunder, dass es dann irgendwann einmal genug war.... und auch diesmal sah es zunächst nicht sehr gut aus: Europa, wie immer zerstritten, hatte kein allzu großes Interesse mehr am östlichen Mittelmeer, was die Türken natürlich im Glauben bestärkte, das östliche Mittelmeer für sich erobern zu können: "<i><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Da die Sultane aber ihre Legitimation nicht zuletzt aus militärischen Erfolgen zogen, forderte er von Venedig die Abtretung der großen Insel Zypern. Wie erwartet, lehnte die Serenissima ab."</span></i><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">beschreibt dieser <a href="http://www.welt.de/geschichte/article122539934/Vier-Schiffsgiganten-besiegten-die-tuerkische-Flotte.html"><span style="color: #420178;">WON-Artikel</span></a> die Situation im Mittelmeer. Venedig begann mit den Kriegsvorbereitungen:</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> <i>"Doch Versorgungsprobleme, Stürme und eine Typhus-Epidemie ruinierten die Flotte, bevor sie Zypern erreichte. Nur <b>die allgemeine Furcht vor der islamischen Supermacht ermöglichte das diplomatische Wunder, </b>das folgte. Der <b>Papst,</b> Spanien und Venedig stellten ihre unterschiedlichen Interessen in Italien und auf dem Meer zurück und fanden in der "Heiligen Liga" zusammen. Im Mai 1571 schlossen sie einen Vertrag, eine kombinierte Flotte aus 200 Galeeren mit 50.000 Soldaten aufzustellen und damit die christlichen Positionen auf Zypern zurückzugewinnen." </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"></span></div><a name="more"></a>Am 7. Oktober 1571 kam es zur Seeschlacht von Lepanto, bei der die türkische Flotte vernichtend geschlagen wurde. Das Mittelmeer blieb christlich. Und die Türken hatten ihre komplette Flotte verloren. Es gelang ihnen auch nicht mehr, diese annähernd wieder aufzubauen. <br /><div class="MsoNormal">
Nach diesem Sieg wusste Pius V zu handeln: Die erneute Rettung des Abendlandes wurde durch die Hilfe und Fürbitte Mariens erreicht. Deshalb wurde der 7. Oktober zu einem katholischen Feiertag: "Unsere Liebe Frau vom Sieg" - Heute nur noch ein Gedenktag "Unsere liebe Frau vom Rosenkranz". Der Oktober wurde zum Rosenkranzmonat. Wir begehen ihn heute noch - mit besonders feierlichen Rosenkranzgebeten (in München z.B. der Stadtrosenkranz auf dem Marienplatz oder der "Güldene Rosenkranz" in St. Peter). Außerdem führte Pius V die bis heute gebetete Version des Angelusgebetes ein, das der Papst jeden Sonntag auf dem Petersplatz betet.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Pius V wurde am 22. Mai 1712 heilig gesprochen. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">
Inzwischen hatte sich Europa komplett gespalten: Der Norden war mehr oder weniger protestantisch geworden - und mitten durch Deutschland zog sich ein Glaubensgraben... das endete im 30jährigen Krieg, der Verwüstung Mitteleuropas und einer stark dezimierten Bevölkerung.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Europa schien am Ende - und so witterten die Türken ihre nächste Chance. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Über die zweite Belagerung Wiens hatten wir 2012 auf unserem Blog eine Serie, aber auch dieser weitere <a href="http://www.welt.de/geschichte/article149358500/Polens-Panzerreiter-retteten-Wien-vor-den-Tuerken.html"><span style="color: #420178;">WOn-Artikel</span></a> beschreibt die missliche Lage, in der sich das katholische Europa und vor allem dessen Hauptstadt Wien befanden. Wieder traf es zuerst die Dörfer außerhalb der Stadtmauern:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">"Die Bevölkerung Niederösterreichs wurde von den Türken auf ihrem Vormarsch wieder aufs Schlimmste malträtiert. Ihre "Renner und Brenner" genannten Horden plünderten, mordeten, ließen Häuser, Gehöfte und Kirchen in Flammen aufgehen, verschleppten Tausende als Sklaven ins Osmanische Reich......Dieses Treiben, gelegentlich als christliche Propaganda abgetan, bestätigt ein unverdächtiger Zeuge. Der türkische Hofbeamte und Geschichtsschreiber Mehmed Aga befand sich 1683 in der unmittelbaren Gefolgschaft Kara Mustafas und berichtet über die türkische Soldateska: "Da dehnten sie ihre Raubzüge aus und zerstörten unterwegs die Dörfer, Städte und Burgen, machten die Männer nieder, führten die Frauen und Kinder in die Gefangenschaft ab, verbrannten die Wohnstätten und Saatfelder zur Gänze und verwüsteten und verheerten die Länder der Ungläubigen...."</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Doch die Hilfe nahte:</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> <i>Bald standen "fast 75.000 Mann bereit, davon 24.000 aus Polen unter König Jan Sobieski, 21.000 Mann unter Karl von Lothringen und Markgraf <a href="http://www.welt.de/geschichte/article148259079/Das-Genie-aus-Baden-bezwang-die-tuerkische-Uebermacht.html"><span style="color: #2e7aa8; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden, dem legendären "Türkenlouis"</span></a>. Dazu kamen 10.000 Bayern, 9000 Sachsen, 4000 Brandenburger.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Und Europa betete: 3 mal täglich den Angelus, den Rosenkranz und unter einer Fahne mit dem Namen Mariens war am 12. September 1683 die Schlacht geschlagen.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Die Türken verließen fluchtartig den heiligen Boden Österreichs.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> <b>"Der polnische König Jan Sobieski, sandte Papst Innozenz XI. die erbeutete Fahne des Propheten Mohammed mit den Worten: "Venimus, vidimus, Deus vincit"</b> (Wir kamen, wir schauten, Gott hat gesiegt)."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Der 12. September wurde von Papst Innozenz XI zum Feiertag erhoben: "Maria Namen". Wir feiern dieses Fest heute noch mit einer Lichterprozession innerhalb der <a href="http://beiboot-petri.blogspot.de/2012/09/warum-in-munchen-seit-1684-der.html"><span style="color: #420178;">Gebetszeit des Frauendreißigers. </span></a>Einem Gelübde, das die Münchner 1683 gegeben hatten, wenn die Türken vor Wien aufgehalten würden.</div><span>
</span><br /><div><span>Schöne Beispiele, die zeigen, dass Europa immer dann, wenn es in großer Not war, gerettet wurde. Die Einheit im Glauben, die Gebete und die Unterstützung durch die jeweiligen Päpste, halfen, Europa zu bewahren.</span></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NCRegisterDailyBlog/~3/1zL3bkHQcHw/no-room-at-the-inn-why-few-syrian-christian-refugees-come-to-us">No Room at the Inn: Why Few Syrian Christian Refugees Come to US</a></span>
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<p>By JOAN FRAWLEY DESMOND | WASHINGTON — Only weeks before Christmas, 153 Syrian Christians will be welcomed to their new home in Slovakia, courtesy of an unlikely team of Americans moved by their plight.
Nina Shea, an expert on religious-freedom...<img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NCRegisterDailyBlog/~4/1zL3bkHQcHw" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/2015/12/cuf-milwaukee-newsletter-december-2015.html">CUF Milwaukee Newsletter - December 2015</a></span>
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<p>Now posted at Catholics United for the Faith's <b><a href="http://www.cufmilwaukee.org/files/DEC_2015_e-NWSLTR.pdf" title="">Milwaukee Chapter</a></b>.
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<p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FfsSbNigw0I/VmBxb6zuQ_I/AAAAAAAALhM/klK7uerbaN8/s1600/sr.%2Blucia.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FfsSbNigw0I/VmBxb6zuQ_I/AAAAAAAALhM/klK7uerbaN8/s200/sr.%2Blucia.jpg" width="133" /></a>With the 100th anniversary of Fatima less than two years away, I'm reading every book I can get my hands on about Our Lady's messages to the three little shepherds from the "beautiful lady." This morning, reading <i>Sister Lucia: Apostle of Mary's Immaculate Heart,</i> written by Mark Fellows and published during the 90th anniversary year (2007), I came across an interesting item. In 1946, Lucia, the only surviving seer of Fatima, was interviewed by American historian Professor William Thomas Walsh. During the questioning, she told him several times:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">What Our Lady wants is that the Pope and all the bishops in the world shall consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart on one special day. If this is done, She will convert Russia, and there will be peace. If it is not done, <span style="color: red;">the errors of Russia will spread through every country in the world</span>.</blockquote>Professor Walsh asked her if she believed that all the countries throughout the world, without exception, would succumb to Communism.<br /><a name="more"></a> Her answer: "Yes." To be completely clear, Walsh asked "and does this mean the United States of America too?" Lucia's answer: "Yes."<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">This is how Mark Fellows described what came next:<br />So, had Our Lady spoken to Sister Lucia about the United States? "She gave me a rather startled glance," Walsh reported, "and then smiled in faith amusement, as if to suggest that perhaps the United States was not so important in the general scheme of things as I imagined. "No," she said gently. "She never did. But I wish you would have Masses said for in the United States." Walsh promised to do so.</blockquote>I have a strong sense that Fatima is key in what is happening today. Clearly, we are not in the period of peace promised by Our Lady. Every book I've read indicates that only a part of the Third Secret has been revealed: the vision. Our Lady's words have only partly been revealed. "<span>I</span>n Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved, <span style="color: red;">etc. ...</span>" What our those words that Lucia indicated with "etc.?"<br /><br />I don't know and I'm certainly not going to speculate. But what I will do and I hope you will join me, readers, is do everything I can to fulfill Mary's wishes. Tomorrow is <a href="http://first-fridays.us/Home/First-Friday-Promises">First Friday which has its own promises revealed to St. Margaret Mary</a>. The next day is the <a href="http://fatimaonline.org/first-saturday-communion-reparation/">First Saturday of reparation</a>. Will you join me in hearing Mass, receiving Communion, going to Confession within the week, saying the rosary, and spending fifteen minutes in meditation? None of us has control over what the pope and magisterium do. We cannot force them to fulfill the request of Our Lady to consecrate Russia. We can, however, fulfill her request to all the people of the world: do penance, pray the rosary, and make the Five Dirst Saturdays of atonement.<br /><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">I am positive that by now most of our readers have heard about the shootings in my area. I live in Jurupa Valley, San Bernardino is about 40 minutes north of me, Redlands about 20 minutes, and Corona where one of the shooters lived is about 20 minutes away. </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w_dI7oT2g-w/VH8TBCE40QI/AAAAAAAABf8/pz_Gn6ZL7vI/s1600/428px-Galgano_Sword.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w_dI7oT2g-w/VH8TBCE40QI/AAAAAAAABf8/pz_Gn6ZL7vI/s1600/428px-Galgano_Sword.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are those in the media mocking prayers after such an event, when in reality prayer is the greatest and best thing we can do. What can a soul do unless Providence puts him at the place of violence or you are personally involved in law enforcement, the military or federal agencies to affect the situation? </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today is the feast of St. Galgano, who is a patron in the brotherhood that I belong too, the <a href="http://www.militiatempli.net/">Militia Templi</a>. I have written about<a href="http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-real-sword-in-stone-and-real-penance.html"> St. Galgano here</a>, and also have worked with <a href="http://mediatrixpress.com/?tag=st-galgano">Ryan Grant of Mediatrix Press on a book project</a>, and an <a href="http://www.alleluiaaudiobooks.com/the-true-story-of-the-sword-in-the-stone-st-galgano/">audiobook available here</a>. St. Galgano was a knight chosen by God to lead a life of prayer. His asceticism was so great that it certainly rivaled or exceeded any bodily exertion he could have done in training at arms. When he became a hermit, St. Michael told him that he had joined the Heavenly Militia. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For hundreds of years after his death, his head remained incorrupt. It was St. Galgano who the locals and people up and down Italy and into France invoked in times of danger to offer prayers to God for deliverance, prayers which were many times answered as have been recorded, and are recorded in both the book and Audiobook above. The Lord our God is mightier than any weapon, and stronger than any shield. David was able to slay the mighty Goliath not because he was stronger or better equipped, or because of political maneuvering. He defeated Goliath because the Lord was with him. But even a mighty warrior does well to pray before going into battle. I would rather be saying prayers than murmuring cheap political slogans; at the hour of death, I would rather call upon God then hum Imagine. St. Galgano effected much good, even after his death, and that goodness came through prayer. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I hope that you will join me in praying that our Lord breaks the teeth of our enemies, Psalm 3:7 as the church not only prays in Her Psalter but also invokes on the feast of St. Pius V in his collect. I also pray that he grants all the just who died quick deliverance from their purgatorial cleansing, thanksgiving that the violence was not worse, and that this reminder of death and how close we always are to death brings souls to repentance through Our Lord Jesus Christ.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><i></i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><i>"Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face." Psalm 68:1</i></i></div><i></i></div>
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<p>Fair warning: the OnePeterFive piece regarding the current pontificate contains sweeping and judgmental quotes, observations and one-sided anecdotes--and some of my commentary is likewise. 
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More seriously--yes, it is a polemical take. And? If you're interested in arguing the facts, or offering rebuttal facts, fire away. If you're interested
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4528/Regina-Academies-Announces-New-Education-Track-Amid-Increasing-Demand-for-Classical-Education.aspx">Regina Academies Announces New Education Track Amid Increasing Demand for Classical Education</a></span>
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<p>A new classical education track called the Regina Chesterton Academy was recently announced as the fifth venture of the Regina Academies, a group of Catholic classical schools that have seen great success in Pennsylvania and indicate a growing demand for classical models in K-12 education.
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“The classical model of education is once again rising and flourishing across the country as a vibrant trend in Catholic education,” said James Growdon, executive director of the Regina Academies, in an interview with The Cardinal Newman Society. “It is being remembered and pressed into action as a preferred antidote to the failed educational experiments of the last seventy-five years.”<p><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4528/Regina-Academies-Announces-New-Education-Track-Amid-Increasing-Demand-for-Classical-Education.aspx">More...</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Suite au scandale du trafic d’organes de bébés avortés (ou même entiers) par le Planning familial américain, et la révélation subséquente que l’Union européenne aussi subventionnait le Planning familial américain, Marie-Christine Arnautu, député FN au Parlement européen, avait annoncé qu’elle déposerait une question écrite à la Commission européenne.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On lira ci-dessous le texte de la <a href="http://arnautu.fr/2015/12/02/federation-internationale-planning-familial-arnautu-demande-montant-total-arret-subventions-europeennes/">question</a>, et on attend la réponse avec grand intérêt.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mais ce qui est aussi intéressant que la question est la liste des co-signataires, ou, si l’on préfère, la liste des non-signataires députés FN au Parlement européen. Nos amis ne sont guère nombreux… Je me permets de noter spécialement le courage de Sylvie Goddyn (en relation avec un autre fait qui n’a pas à être mis sur la place publique). Et sans aucun doute de Mylène Troszczynski, mais je ne la connais pas. Sans oublier évidemment Marie-Christine Arnautu, mais on le savait déjà. Quant à Jean-Marie il est bien là, côte à côte avec Gollnisch, ce qui a un certain goût d’amertume…</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On notera aussi qu’aucun autre député européen ne s’est commis avec ces affreux.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Le 22 septembre 2015, la Fédération internationale du planning familial (IPPF) a cofinancé un événement au Parlement européen.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or, depuis juillet dernier, le Planning familial américain, membre de l’IPPF, est accusé de faire du trafic illicite d’organes prélevés sur des bébés avortés dans les centres qui lui sont affiliés. Ces organes sont vendus à des laboratoires, à des centres de recherche ou à des sociétés privées (notamment StemExpress) comme le démontrent les vidéos très compromettantes du Center for Medical Progress.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Face à ces scandales, la Commission :</span></p><ol style="padding-left: 30px;"><li><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">peut-elle fournir le montant exact des subventions versées par l’Union européenne depuis 2005 à l’IPPF, qui soutient ouvertement le Planning familial améri-<br />cain ?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">envisage-t-elle de reconsidérer sa décision relative à l’initiative citoyenne «Un de nous», qui avait recueilli près de 1,7 million de signatures et demandait la suppression de toutes les subventions à des organismes promouvant ou pratiquant la destruction d’embryons ?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">peut-elle expliquer pourquoi elle subventionne des organisations comme l’IPPF et MSI (Marie Stope International) alors que la promotion et la pratique de l’avortement ne font clairement pas partie de ses domaines de compétences ?</span></li></ol>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/12/03/diocese-hires-graffiti-artist-for-the-year-of-mercy/">Diocese hires graffiti artist for the Year of Mercy</a></span>
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<p>The Diocese of Brentwood has commissioned a piece of graffiti art for the Year of Mercy. </p>
<p>The graffiti, by 17-year-old Joe Rose, spells out the word “Merciful” with “Like the Father” underneath. It covers the previously bare wall of a former air-raid shelter on the site of Brentwood’s cathedral.</p>
<p>The artist said he wanted to incorporate liturgical colours into the design to give it “more meaning” while using traditional graffiti letters.</p>
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<p>Fr Martin Boland, dean of the cathedral, said: “The word feels as if it is dancing and alive. It’s a bold and fresh take on the motto.”</p>
<p>Fr Boland said the words “Like the Father” remind us to “imitate the merciful example of the Father who asks us not to judge or condemn but to forgive and to be merciful”.</p>
<p>He added: “Joe has also managed to create another Holy Door by painting an image of the Year of Mercy logo on a recessed door. This image has Christ, the merciful shepherd, carrying humanity on his shoulders. In the image, Christ and humanity look at each other and their look becomes one which is symbolised in Joe’s work by the single and shared eye.”</p>
<p><a href="http://d2jkk5z9de9jwi.cloudfront.net/content/uploads/2015/12/joe_rose.jpg"><img alt="joe_rose" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-94781" height="300" src="http://d2jkk5z9de9jwi.cloudfront.net/content/uploads/2015/12/joe_rose-240x300.jpg" width="240" /></a></p>
<p>Catholic cathedrals around the world have been invited by Pope Francis to create a Holy Door for the Year of Mercy. </p>
<p>As well as the door created by Joe Rose, Brentwood Cathedral will be unveiling a specially decorated Holy Door into the Cathedral itself at the 11.30am Mass on Sunday December 13.</p>
<p>Fr Boland said he wanted people to visit the wall and send the wonderful image on it around the world. “A huge thank you to Joe for this brilliant piece of work for the Year of Mercy,” he said. “Do go and have a look. Take a photo or selfie and post it on social media.”</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zenit/english/~3/xmtBWtbz6DA/zenit-news-in-text-format--28">ZENIT News in Text Format</a></span>
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<p>Pope Receives Prime Minister of Samoa
During Cordial Discussions, Special Attention Was Given to Conference on Climate Change in Paris
This morning, Pope Francis received the Prime Minister of the Independent State of Samoa, His Excellency Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi, in the Vatican.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zenit/english/~3/vZNzfpT1OoE/full-text-pope-s-address-to-plenary-assembly-of-congregation-for-evangelization-of-peoples">FULL TEXT: Pope's Address to Plenary Assembly of Congregation for Evangelization of Peoples</a></span>
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<p>Here is a ZENIT translation of Pope Francis' address to those present at the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples this morning in the Vatican:
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Dear Cardinals,
Dear Brother Bishops and Priests,
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/12/video-sen-marco-rubio-r-fl-talks-frankly-about-belief-in-christ-and-his-catholic-faith/">VIDEO: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) talks frankly about belief in Christ and his Catholic Faith</a></span>
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<p>Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) talks frankly about his Catholic Faith and his relationship to other Christians.</p>
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<p>Moderation queue is ON.  I don’t want this to turn into a merely political debate about various candidates, as in, “I don’t like Joe Sixpack. I’m for Jane Bagofdonuts!”</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://paraphasic.blogspot.com/2015/12/some-half-informed-thoughts-on-gun.html">Some Half-Informed Thoughts on Gun Control</a></span>
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<p>I don't like the Republican Party (which increasingly feels like the last act of a satire staged by vicious liberals), nor do I fully understand people who collect firearms. I'm a city-dweller, and urbanites like me tend not to really "get" guns. For us, guns are mostly thought of as the stuff of gang wars, nasty accidents, and murder sprees.<br /><br />I have friends, however, who are not urbanites, and who understand gun hobbyists. One of the big advantages of being temporarily removed from your native environment during college is that you get to meet people who are from different parts of the country, with different cultural backgrounds and perspectives. So, where my urban background would incline me to think of gun collectors as insane and weird, actually talking to people from rural areas about guns, who can point out that any number of ordinary recreational and practical utilities are also highly effective deadly weapons (knives, chainsaws, nail guns, household chemicals) has disabused me of the notion that guns are intrinsically evil and that people who enjoy them and enjoy the freedom to own and collect them are all militia-minded sociopath extremists who hate humanity. They're not.<br /><br />What I don't understand, despite my urban background, is the reasoning behind the regular call for increased gun control which follows any nationally reported shooting incident. Obviously gun control isn't the solution, because most urban shootings are perpetrated by people who are (presumably) acquiring firearms and ammunition illegally. The absence of adequately stringent gun laws isn't the <i>cause</i> of these shootings, nor is there any clear reason to believe that the passage of such laws will <i>decrease</i> the number of shootings. If you're going to go on a homicidal (and usually suicidal) rampage, legal barriers to gun ownership probably aren't going to be much of a concern, and in the age of the internet they're probably not that difficult to circumvent.<br /><br />The whole gun control thing seems to me to have become a blind prejudice or phobia among left-wing people. <i>Guns are killing machines</i>, they think. <i>If we keep guns legal, we are keeping murder legal. If murder is a problem (which it is!), we should outlaw the instruments of murder.</i> Simple enough! But it would not be difficult to murder large numbers of people without using any guns. (And you could even maybe get away with it!) For example, by the use of poisoning, or fire, or homemade explosives. But we never hear any outcry for the banning of the ordinary (and widely available) chemicals which could be used to wreak havoc in this way. Why not? Why aren't they being used? Poison is far older and more universal an instrument of murderous vengeance than gunfire. What is it that motivates people to carry out these mass killings, and what motivates them to use guns? <br /><br />This latter question—the question about the choice of means—is one that I have never seen addressed. It seems like a good <i>sociological</i> question, and a question which has more to do with themes in mass culture and developments in community life than with the existence or non-existence of gun control legislation. <br /><br /><b>So, to summarize:</b><br />1. It seems like the widespread gun control mania in the mainstream news media is based on a narrow urban perspective and a phobia of guns.<br />2. It is unclear that the imposition of gun control legislation would have any significant impact on the occurrence of murderous rampages, given the extent to which existing gun laws are already widely thwarted among gangs.<br />3. It is obvious that the cause of these rampages, assuming there has been an increase in them over the past half-century, is not the absence of gun control legislation, but the emergence of some new social and cultural factors, which lead people to do these things.<br /><br /><br /><br />This has been a half-informed reflection on guns.<br /><br /><br />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zenit/english/~3/CsNMk2-1KEg/let-us-permanently-be-in-state-of-mission-say-pope">'Let Us Permanently Be in State of Mission,' Say Pope</a></span>
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<p>"Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission."  Speaking to the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Pope Francis stressed this, urging, that this 'going forth' is innate in our Baptism, and the mission's 'boundaries' are those of the world.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://theologicalflint.com/?p=2042">JPII – A Fundamentalist Catholic!</a></span>
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<p>This is from <a href="http://theologicalflint.com" rel="nofollow">Theological Flint</a></p><p>I’ve heard a recent definition of “Catholic Fundamentalism”. = Those who believe they have absolute truth. I began to puzzle. I recalled the marvelous encyclical of JPII, Veritatis splendor, which begins with this joyful remark of a philosopher: “In the depths of his heart there always remains a yearning for absolute truth and a thirst to […]</p><p>The post <a href="http://theologicalflint.com/?p=2042" rel="nofollow">JPII – A Fundamentalist Catholic!</a> appeared first on <a href="http://theologicalflint.com" rel="nofollow">Theological Flint</a>.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com/archive/2015/12/03/tout-va-bien-5725874.html">Tout va bien</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com/">Le blog d'Yves Daoudal</a>]</span>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Le taux de chômage est au plus haut depuis fin 1997, dit l’INSEE.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Et la cote de popularité de François Hollande a fait un bond spectaculaire à 50%...</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">La Russie accuse la Turquie d’acheter du pétrole à l’Etat islamique. La Turquie dément. Et les Etats-Unis se portent au secours de la Turquie, « rejetant entièrement cette hypothèse » car il n’y a « aucune preuve, aucune », qui corrobore une telle accusation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ainsi parle le porte-parole du Département d’Etat. Il précise que ce que les Etats-Unis ont vu c’est que l’Etat islamique « vend son pétrole au pied des puits », à des « contrebandiers », or la contrebande entre la Syrie et la Turquie est une pratique qui date de bien avant l’Etat islamique.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bref, la Turquie n’achète pas de pétrole à l’Etat islamique, mais aux contrebandiers qui font l’intermédiaire… Comme avant, finalement…</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">CQFD…</span></p>
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<p>via <a href="http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2015/12/marquette-poor-attendance-at-lgbt-mass.html" target="_blank">Marquette Warrior </a><br /><blockquote><a href="http://marquettewire.org/3938761/tribune/tribune-news/campus-ministry-hopes-to-increase-attendance-at-lgbt-community-mass/">From Marquette Wire</a>:<br />Campus Ministry hosted one of its monthly Masses for the LGBT community and its allies at the St. Joan of Arc Chapel on Nov. 20. <br /><br />Theology professor the Rev. Bryan Massingale led Mass with the <b>eight students</b> and community members who attended. <br /><br />“Many of the LGBTQ community members have heard stories that they are not welcome in the church,” Massingale said. “It is important to have a Mass where they feel welcome and that God does love them and no one is excluded.”</blockquote>But don't worry, LGBTQRSTUVs, there are other opportunities for pride!<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Other Marquette worship opportunities include<b><u> Islamic prayer</u></b>, Jewish services, Lutheran worship and Eastern Orthodox Vespers.</blockquote>You know, because Islam is peace because tolerance.<br /><br />Come on, if your going to cover a student event for EIGHT people, at least let us know what the music selection was.<br /><br />I would think if they can't get attendance for these, they will start hijacking existing Mass times to force it down everyone's throats. <br /><br />Not reported if a Gay Marriage was performed; <a href="http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/2011/04/marquette-univerity-priest-promotes.html" target="_blank">Massingale is more than willing</a>.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.adelantelafe.com/revestios-del-senor-jesucristo/">Revestíos del Señor Jesucristo</a></span>
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<p><img alt="eucaristia" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" height="264" src="http://www.adelantelafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/eucaristia-1024x438.jpg" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="618" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="wpsdc-drop-cap">E</span>l Santo Cura de Ars, San Juan María Vianney, pasaba mucho tiempo en silencio delante del Santísimo Sacramento. Después de haberlo observado así por muchos días, un campesino lo interrumpió para preguntarle: “<em>¿Qué hace aquí durante tanto tiempo?</em>”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Le contestó: “<em>Nada. Yo lo miro, y Él me mira.</em>”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hoy empezamos el tiempo de Adviento, un tiempo de preparación y anticipación para la venida de Nuestro Señor. La liturgia nos da cuenta de esta realidad.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Supongo que todos habrán tenido la experiencia de estar en una comida o un evento donde hay mucha gente hablando, mientras ustedes están intentando conversar con una sola persona. De repente, llega un momento de casi silencio cuando las demás conversaciones paran, pero tú sigues hablando al mismo volumen y todos, entonces, oyen algunas de tus palabras sacadas fuera de contexto, y tú te avergüenzas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hoy la liturgia nos hace algo semejante. Todo es más sombrío. Hay un silencio que nos llama la atención y nos fuerza a examinar a dónde está dirigida nuestra mirada.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“<em>Entonces, verán al Hijo del hombre venir en una nube con poder y majestad… Cobrad ánimo y levantad vuestras cabezas porque se acerca vuestra salvación.</em>” Dice nuestro Señor en el evangelio de hoy. Y en verdad esto es exactamente lo que hacemos en cada Santo Sacrificio de la misa. Fijamos nuestra mirada en Cristo, en el crucifijo y en el altar donde se hace carne de nuevo. Y si, por casualidad, tu atención, devoción, o afección se han desviado un poco, cada año la Iglesia nos otorga esta temporada para volver a enfocarnos. Porque, como dice san Pedro en los Hechos de los Apóstoles: “<em>Pues no se ha dado a los hombres otro nombre debajo del cielo por el cual debamos salvarnos.</em>”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">En el Adviento la Iglesia quiere que consideremos las tres venidas de Nuestro Señor y cómo se relacionan. Estamos preparándonos para el aniversario de su nacimiento, cuando Dios apareció en carne humana entre nosotros para redimirnos y enseñarnos el camino hacia el cielo. Nos vino en una forma tan humilde, tan amorosa que sólo los corazones más congelados y endurecidos no se derriten al considerarlo. Ahora debemos de estar recordando los sentimientos que en las navidades pasadas nos han impedido llorar, y pensamos, entonces ¿cómo me puedo hacer un poco más merecedor de un regalo tan inmenso este año?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">También anticipamos su venida final en la cual queremos encontrarlo y ser encontrados por Él con este mismo gozo que experimentamos celebrando la Navidad. Dice San Bernardo: “<em>Vivimos de esperanza, hermanos, y no nos desalentemos… animados por la expectación de aquellos gozos.</em>”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pero el Adviento no es sólo para que recordemos el pasado y anticipemos el futuro. El puente entre su primera venida y la tercera es su venida diaria y actual para la santificación y salvación de todos, y en cierto sentido ésta es la más importante de sus manifestaciones hacia nosotros.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“<em>Se encarnó para todos, pero no todos le permitimos que habite en nosotros. Por lo tanto, lo mejor será recibirle en nosotros, para que después no haya de venir contra nosotros</em>” dice San Bernardo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">El constante entre las tres venidas es nuestro Señor Jesucristo.  Es fácil distraernos preparando todos los detalles prácticos para la Navidad. Es fácil pensar solamente en el temor o vergüenza de ser castigados si consideramos la venida final. Es fácil pensar, al ver cómo son las modas del mundo, que existen otras prioridades o que es bueno tener una diversidad de creencias o verdades, las cuales todas son válidas. Es fácil pensar que  si Cristo viene después, entonces luego me convierto, o que ya me hice cristiano cuando fui bautizado o hice mi primera comunión, entonces ya estoy bien.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pero dice San Pablo en la epístola, “<em>Ya conocéis el tiempo y que ya es hora de levantaros del sueño, pues nuestra salud está más cercana</em>.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Y como Jesucristo mismo dice en el libro del Apocalipsis: “<em>Yo soy el Alfa y la Omega, el principio, y el fin. Al sediento yo le daré de beber graciosamente de la fuente del agua de la vida.</em>”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Los que no conforman sus vidas según la de Cristo, que es la primera, la última, y la única realidad, serán los que temerán y temblarán por la venida de Cristo, como explica el evangelio de hoy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> “<em>¡Fijad en Él y sólo en Él, vuestra mirada, y…adelante, que reine!” Dice el padre Mateo “No hay más sabiduría que la de conocerle a Él, ni hay más dicha verdadera que la de intimar con Él. . . ¡Jesús nos basta! Creer es sobre todo abalanzarse a Jesús, darse a Él, vivir en Él.</em>”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Esto  lo hacemos fácilmente por estar atentos a las gracias que nos ofrece en cada momento de cada día a cada persona. Cuando vienen los sufrimientos y dificultades podemos ofrecerlos para nuestra santificación o renegar de ellos. Podemos buscar su voluntad en cada situación o podemos buscar nada más que la nuestra. Podemos servir Cristo a través de nuestros prójimos necesitados, o podemos vivir en el aislamiento de un corazón incapaz de amar. Podemos estar levantando nuestros deseos y pensamientos hacia Él siempre para convertir todo en una oración o podemos disiparnos en nuestras fantasías, angustias y monólogos interiores.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pero más que todo, tenemos que reconocer que la Encarnación del Hijo de Dios no fue simplemente un evento histórico, es algo actual. Hay una Encarnación en cada misa, hay una Navidad en cada comunión, hay un Belén en cada sagrario. ¿Cómo podemos pensar en emocionarnos por la celebración de su nacimiento, mientras no aprovechamos su presencia continua entre nosotros?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>¡Jesús está aquí!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">San Francisco de Sales dice: “<em>Hay que visitar a Jesucristo Sacramentado unas cien miles de veces a diario.</em>” Vino en la Navidad para visitarnos, y ahora espera que nosotros lo visitemos. Este es el secreto de todos los santos:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">“<em>¿Sabes que probablemente ganarás más por rezar quince minutos delante del Santísimo que por todas las demás devociones del día?</em>” Dice san Alfonso.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">O el Venerable Padre Olier: “<em>Cuando hay dos caminos que me conducirán al mismo lugar, escojo el que tiene más templos para quedarme más cerca del Santísimo.</em>”</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Y san Pío: “<em>Mil años disfrutando la gloria humana no vale tanto como pasar una hora en dulce comunión con Jesús Sacramentado.</em>”</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">¡Pobrecitos los que decimos que si hubiéramos estado en Belén, habríamos viajado con los Magos, vigilado con los pastores, y no habríamos negado hospedaje a los Santos Peregrinos, pero al mismo tiempo no aprovechamos casi nunca de la posibilidad de visitarlo en sus sagrarios!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hoy celebramos la primera comunión de estos niños. Rezamos para que nunca pierdan el entusiasmo que hoy tienen. Que en verdad hoy y siempre Cristo sea el dueño de sus corazones. Y para los demás, tenemos que preguntarnos si hemos permitido que desfallezca nuestro fervor. Tanto para estos niños como para cada uno, que cada comunión sea como si fuera la primera, la última, y la única, y que encontremos siempre toda nuestra alegría en esta intimidad con Cristo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Propónganse algo concreto entonces este Adviento. Lleguen a conocer mejor a su Señor que ha de venir y en verdad viene a ti. Asistan más a la santa misa. Visítenlo en sus sagrarios. Pero me dicen, “Padre, no tengo tiempo, estoy muy ocupado.” ¿Por qué no hacemos tiempo para lo que es prioridad? ¿De veras diríamos, “<em>Ah, qué lástima que mis hijos no han comido en una semana, pero no he tenido tiempo ni para comprarles comida ni para preparársela</em>”? Claro que no. ¿Cómo es posible entonces que podamos permitir que pasen días y aun toda una semana sin saludarlo ni siquiera una vez? O aún peor, que pasen semanas, meses, o años sin recibirlo en la Santa Comunión. Les pregunto, ¿si supiéramos que Cristo nacería de nuevo, pero esta vez se encontraría su pesebre en Guadalajara, quién no estaría dispuesto a levantarse un poco más temprano, organizar su tiempo un poco mejor, y echarle ganas para asegurar de que podrá estar presente? ¡Hay que pensarlo bien!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Si no encontramos tiempo para Él ahora, en esto, su venida actual, en verdad no hubiéramos encontrado el tiempo para Él en su primera y es muy seguro que Él no encontrará tiempo nosotros en su última.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nos preocupamos por lo que vamos a regalar en Navidad, pero Cristo solo pide un regalo: nada más ni menos que tu corazón.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Concluyo con las palabras del padre Mateo:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No basta creer que vino, es preciso vivir como quien cree realmente que se quedó y que vive entre nosotros. ¿Cómo llegar a ver Jesús en todo e incrustarle en nuestra vida, y que llegue a ser, en nuestra mente y nuestro corazón, la <u>obsesión</u> de nuestra vida, Él, Jesús, solo Él? ¿Por qué no podría Jesús, la única realidad indefectible, ejercer sobre el alma la fuerza de atracción que vemos que ejercen un marido, un amigo, un novio, o un hijo?  Y Jesucristo, hermosura increada, creador de todo lo que admiramos, Él, cuya sola mirada extasía a los ángeles  y es la exaltación eterna de un paraíso, ¿no llegará a apoderarse de todo nuestro ser?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Padre Daniel Heenan, FSSP</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Sermón del primer domingo de Adviento</em></p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~3/xNaF5ybmdv8/a-catholic-praise-tradition_3.html">A Catholic Praise Tradition?</a></span>
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<div class="dropcap"><div class="MsoNormal">Most Catholics have no idea what it is to “praise” God. We hear this verb occasionally in the Psalms, but the experience of praise is unfamiliar.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Praise is distinctly different than worship in the broad sense. Worship is showing reverence and adoration to God, through rite and through sacrament. Praise, however, is the specific act of identifying God as savior, redeemer, the almighty, the superlative Good. Further, praise recalls the great works of the Lord. The Psalms are chock full of praise. Take Psalm 107, for example:</div><div class="MsoNormal">1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;</div><div class="MsoNormal"> for his steadfast love endures forever.</div><div class="MsoNormal">2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,</div><div class="MsoNormal"> those he redeemed from trouble</div><div class="MsoNormal">3 and gathered in from the lands,</div><div class="MsoNormal"> from the east and from the west,</div><div class="MsoNormal"> from the north and from the south.</div><div class="MsoNormal">What gives praise its particular value and depth comes from our personal context. It is particularly difficult to identify God as the savior when all seems lost. It is difficult to praise God as the source of good, when goodness around us seems tarnished by pride, ego, deception, and greed. Offering God our praises in this context is an act of faith, hope, and love. Praise, for that reason, must be personal. It must come from “all that is within me,” warts and all (Psalm 103). Then, the praises being offered, our personal situation is illumined by God’s very being, placed in context of eternity as it were. Through praise, we come to see God's involvement in the circumstances of our own life and sanctification. This personal benefit does not come when someone else offers God praise on our behalf.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">While the Psalms are certainly a part of our Catholic experience, the mode of the Mass is primarily didactic and demonstrative, offering lots of “we do this” and “we do that.” Of course, there is the singular worship Jesus offers God the Father through his death and resurrection, and that is made present at every Mass. With the exception of the Gloria and the Sanctus, however, Mass is not in the "mode" of praise as we've defined it above. Music covers movement or actions at Mass; an Introit or entrance antiphon, a Gradual or Offertory antiphon, a Communion anthem, or a closing hymn all co-exist with other actions that take precedence. For some, sacred music is just music of the court, even though it is God’s court; it offers reflections on the readings and brings beauty. Praise, however, as an act of faith – identifying God as God – demands our focus, commitment, and time. In fact, St. Gregory the Great required monks observe a pause of at least five syllables in the middle of a psalm verse to provide adequate time for praise to seep into the soul and become understanding.<br /><br />Without belief in the authentic, real presence of God, liturgy slips into a comfortable and bloodless deism, where God is distant and disengaged, a watchmaker who winds the watch and walks away. In this counterfeit spirituality, we attempt to make God present through human interaction (support, community, etc). But ultimately this is madness. As Chesterton wrote in <i>Orthodoxy, </i>“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head, and it is his head that splits.” God has already made a way for us to get our heads (and someday, please God, our whole body) into the heavens, and that way is faith. The psalms are a sort of litmus test, a way to show our faith in action; it is impossible to sing the psalms without faith that God is indeed "our refuge and our strength, our ever present help in time of trouble" (Psalm 46). In keeping with the Jewish tradition, praise is the correct response to God's deliverance and liberation from sin and oppression.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Many well-intentioned pastors go to great lengths to offer their own compassion and heart-felt understanding to parishioners, as if there were something sacred or divine about their own emotional commitment or vulnerability. “Fr. Bob <i>understands,</i>” and for some that's enough. But while human compassion is profoundly valuable, what about the freedom that comes from the virtue of faith, which comes from God and grows strong within us? Why offer the lesser (and split your head in the process), when you can offer the greater? 1 John 5:4 says, “this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith;” and <i>faith</i> is the primary virtue cultivated by praise.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">How could praise be more thoroughly included in our Catholic liturgy and practice? At one time whole psalms of praise were sung with the Introit, but today the ancient praise tradition remains most intact in the Liturgy of the Hours. Priests are obligated to keep the Liturgy of the Hours daily, even if they are unable to say Mass. Laypeople can keep the office without priests. In communities that struggle to find clergy to staff their parishes, a rediscovered tradition of praise, the practice of keeping the Liturgy of the Hours, might be just the ticket. Furthermore, it is an opportunity for ecumenism and collaboration with Jewish and Protestant communities. If the value of praise were discovered, it could be a tremendous boon on a variety of fronts.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Here at St. Mary’s Church in Auburn, NY, we started singing Compline (Night Prayers) a few years ago during Advent and Lent. About fifteen to twenty of us sing the psalms and various prayers by dim candlelight, without any accompaniment. Another thirty to forty folks sit in the pews, taking it in quietly. It’s a new experience for all of us, and you’re welcome to take a look at the music we’re using <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8IRFkniFQxdMnp6RWtuUHVJZ0E/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here.</a> The prayers and psalms are assembled after the old Latin Benedictine office, with Cardinal George’s favorite, the newly revised Grail psalms. I composed two new antiphons to satisfy the requirements of the new office. It's not perfect, but it's a start.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">What would it look like if parishioners arrived Sunday about thirty minutes early, and sang Matins and Lauds (Morning prayers) before the Mass started? What parish communities are keeping the office? How do you see the ancient Catholic praise tradition becoming a meaningful part of your spirituality? Let’s start the discussion!</div><div class="dropcap"></div></div><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~4/xNaF5ybmdv8" width="1" />
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<p><span style="font-size: 120%;"><a href="http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/12/15/pope_francis_rigidity_is_a_sign_of_a_weak_heart/1114830">In today’s [15 dec 2014] homily Pope Francis warns</a>, yet again, about the threat that he feels modern Pharisees pose in the Church. Now, some people think that the pope’s incessant critiques of law and lawyers are spot-on; others feel that, while an occasional papal caution against ‘pharisaical attitudes’ is useful, a steady stream of same is counterproductive; still others fear that such frequent comments foreshadow the pope’s intention to work major changes in certain key ecclesiastical practices. Personally, I gained no new insights into modern phariseeism from this <em>ferverino,</em> although I was struck, if I may say so, at the pope’s prayer that God “throw a banana peel in front of [today’s Pharisees], so that they will take a good fall, and feel shame that they are sinners.” Hmmm. I grant, of course, that experiencing the <em>intrinsic</em> consequences of one’s sin might move one to repentance; whether that ever justifies asking God to visit <em>extrinsic</em> harms on another, well, I’ll need to think about that one. Just now, though, my concern is different.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 120%;">In the course of his remarks Francis referenced the major changes in discipline surrounding the Communion fast that were worked some 60 years ago and, because the Communion fast is of <a href="http://www.canonlaw.info/catholicissues_fast.htm">professional interest to me</a>, I use the occasion of the pope’s remarks to offer a few of my own.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 120%;">I can certainly see why any pope worried about phariseeism in the Church would recall with disdain the days (well, more like 18 centuries) wherein the Communion fast, though never presented as doctrinal in nature, <em>was</em> extremely strict and <em>was</em> subjected to some now almost-embarrassing hair-splitting by canonists and moral theologians. Frankly, I would not contest the label ‘pharisaical’ being applied to those debates, although (besides wondering whether one can find <em>another</em> example of such excessive fretting—I for one cannot), I would observe that, when Pius XII mitigated the Communion fast, he did not do so in terms that cast aspersions on the spiritual motives or psychological profiles of those who observed and explained the Church’s laws as they existed at the time, nor did he question whether those laws might have operated in service to some important ecclesial values, albeit values by then obscured by legal minutiae. He just did what he did soundly and in a measured way.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 120%;">But while Pope Pius XII <em>mitigated</em> the Communion fast, Paul VI <em>eviscerated</em> it, reducing Pius’ reasonable three-hour fast down to the negligible and purely formalistic one-hour “fast” now required (if that is not too pretentious a word to use) of the faithful. Almost anyone who is not eating as they walk in the door for Mass can “satisfy” a one-hour “fast” before Communion. Who cannot see that to require by law any action that a normal human being, going about a normal activity, can scarcely <em>not</em> do, is to engage in a legalism precisely of the sort that Francis rejects? Ironically, though, the same <a href="https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com/page/2/">ecclesial antinomianism</a> that makes the enforcement of Church law such a hit-and-miss affair these days masks the patent hollowness of requiring a <em>one-hour</em> “fast” <em>for anything</em>, let alone for something as momentous as receiving holy Communion. A society disinclined to respect law in the first place is much less likely to notice when some of its laws <em>are</em> inappropriate. That’s a lose-lose situation, in my opinion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 120%;">Being opposed, as I am, to having any law simply for the sake of having a law, I am opposed to Canon 919 § 1, requiring (again, if that is not too pretentious a word to use) a <em>one-hour</em> “fast” before reception of Communion. But sensing, too, what I think Pius sensed when he reformed this discipline, there are, I suggest, some very important ecclesial values to be served by observing a notable fast before Communion. Thus I call again for the Communion fast to be restored to that established by Pius XII, namely, three hours. Personally, I would orient the Communion fast to the start of Mass rather than to the physical reception of the Sacrament, but these are among various related points that can be discussed in due course. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 120%;">I have set out my arguments for changing Canon 919 in two places: Edward Peters, “The Communion fast: a reconsideration”, <em>Antiphon</em> 11 (2007) 234-244, summarized <a href="http://www.canonlaw.info/2008/06/proposal-extend-communion-fast.html">here</a>; and Edward Peters, “Furthering my proposal to extend the fast for holy Communion”, <em>Homiletic & Pastoral Review on-line </em>(July 2013), on-line <a href="http://www.hprweb.com/2013/07/furthering-my-proposal-to-extend-the-fast-for-holy-communion/">here</a>. I invite my readers to consider them.</span></p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/canonlawblog.wordpress.com/3568/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/canonlawblog.wordpress.com/3568/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=canonlawblog.wordpress.com&blog=30834243&post=3568&subd=canonlawblog&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/2015/12/good-friday-prayer-for-jews-press.html">Good Friday Prayer for the Jews: Press Release from the FIUV</a></span>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The occasion for this Press Release is the story <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/11/24/prayer-for-jews-should-be-updated-say-england-and-wales-bishops/">reported here</a> that the Bishops of England and Wales are to petition the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei for a change to the Good Friday Prayer for the Conversion of the Jews used in the Extraordinary Form.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b>FIUV Press Release: on the Good Friday ‘Prayer for the Jews’</b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>The Prayer for the Jews used in the Extraordinary Form Good Friday Liturgy continues to be a source of comment and misunderstanding, and the FIUV wishes to respond as follows.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><span><b>Statement by the President of the FIUV, Felipe Alanís Suárez:</b></span></u></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>It was to avoid misunderstandings of the Prayer for the Jews that Pope Benedict XVI composed the 2008 version of the prayer, which is clearly based on what is essential to Christianity: the acceptance of Christ as the saviour of the whole world, and the desire that all persons be saved. Jews are mentioned because of their special role in the history of salvation, and the special concern we must have for our ‘elder brothers’ (as Pope St John Paul II called them). The prayer looks forward to the incorporation of the Jewish people, of which Our Lord Jesus Christ and His first disciples were all members, in the salvation won for the human race by Christ on the Cross, a reconciliation which, as St Paul teaches, will be fulfilled only towards the end of history.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>The FIUV is convinced that any possible continuing misunderstanding regarding the Good Friday Prayer for the Jews can be resolved in the context of the Magisterium of the Church, without veiling the treasures of our Faith.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>We, as faithful attached to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, acknowledge that to ask of our Lord for the grace of sharing with all our brothers the joy of salvation in Jesus Christ, is an act of humility and selfless love, and a spiritual work of mercy. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>The FIUV entirely rejects all hatred and hostility towards the Jewish people, and all forms of unjust discrimination.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><span>Further observations:</span></u></div><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span>1. Although the Novus Ordo Good Friday Prayer for the Jews does not explicitly refer to Jews acknowledging Christ as Saviour, other prayers in the revised liturgy do so. </span></span><span>The Novus Ordo Vespers of Easter Sunday includes the prayer ‘Let Israel recognize in you the Messiah it has longed for’; the Morning Office of 31<sup>st</sup> December includes the prayer ‘Christ, Son of David, fulfilment of the prophecies, </span><span>may the Jewish people accept you as their awaited Deliverer [</span><i style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Latin</i><span>: Messiah].’</span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span>2. In their daily prayers, Jews pray for the conversion of ‘all of the impious of the earth’.</span></span><span>Rabbi Jacob Neusner, responding to criticisms of the 2008 Prayer for the Jews, pointed out the parallel with the Prayer for the Jews and remarked ‘The Catholic prayer manifests the same altruistic spirit that characterizes the faith of Judaism.’ (<i>Die Tagespost,</i>23 Feb 2008)<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>3. Walter, Cardinal Kasper, defended the 2008 prayer,</span></b><span> explaining that a hope that Jews accept Christ, which may be fulfilled only by God, rather than by targeted proselytism, and eschatologically (at the end of history), is nothing more than a necessary consequence of the Christian faith:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>A sincere dialogue between Jews and Christians, …is possible only, on the one hand, on the basis of a shared faith in one God, creator of heaven and earth, and in the promises made to Abraham and to the Fathers; and on the other, in the awareness and respect of the fundamental difference that consists in faith in Jesus as Christ and Redeemer of all men. (<i>L'Osservatore Romano</i> 10th April 2008)[2]</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><u>Background:</u></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span>1. The prayer used today in the Extraordinary Form was composed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008</span></span><span>, in response to concerns about the wording of the previously used prayer, and runs as follows:</span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Let us also pray for the Jews: that our God and Lord may illuminate their hearts, that they acknowledge Jesus Christ is the Saviour of all men.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>2. It is recited, in Latin, once a year, in the small number of churches worldwide where the Good Friday Liturgy is celebrated in the Extraordinary Form.</span></b><span> It forms part of a series of prayers for different categories of persons, both within and without the Church, the latter including heretics and pagans. In each case the celebrant prays for God’s graces for them. This pattern is followed in the reformed, 1970 (‘Novus Ordo’) Missal, although the wording of the prayers is different.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>3. The prayer is based on Scripture, notably St Paul.</span></b><span> The image of ‘light’ penetrating the hearts of the Jews is drawn from 2 Cor 4:3-6; St Paul speaks of the eventual conversion of the Jews in Romans 11:25-26. Romans 11:29 says of the Jewish Covenant that God ‘never revokes His promises’, which is quoted by Vatican II’s <i>Nostra aetate,</i> and by Pope St John Paul II, as the basis for a special affection and respect which Christians owe the Jewish people.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></div></div><div><hr size="1" style="text-align: left;" width="33%" /> <br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span><span> The full text of the article can be seen in English here:</span></div></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/193041?eng=y">http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/193041?eng=y</a></span></div></div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span></span></span><span> The full text can be found in English here:</span></div></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/197381?eng=y">http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/197381?eng=y</a></span></div></div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></span></span></span><span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(240, 240, 225);"><span style="background-color: white;">The different versions of the Good Friday Prayer for the Jews can be found on Wikipedia:</span><span style="background-color: #f0f0e1;"></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_prayer_for_the_Jews" style="background-color: white;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_prayer_for_the_Jews</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div></div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></span></span></span><span> Romans 11:29: ‘For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.’ Quoted by <i>Nostra aetate</i> 4, and Pope St John Paul II in his Address to the Jewish Community of Berlin on 17<sup>th</sup> November 1980.</span></div></div></div></div><br />Support the work of the LMS by becoming an '<a href="http://www.lms.org.uk/resources/anniversary-supporters">Anniversary Supporter</a>'.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://easternchristianbooks.blogspot.com/2015/12/christians-in-late-antique-iran.html">Christians in Late Antique Iran</a></span>
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<p>The University of California Press has just put into my hands the latest publication in their "Transformation of the Classical Heritage" series under Peter Brown's general editorship. This is the same series that recently published a book on Syriac Christianity noted earlier this year <a href="http://easternchristianbooks.blogspot.com/2015/05/missionary-stories-and-syriac-churches.html">here</a>. <br /><br />The latest offering, sure to be of interest in all students of Muslim relations with Eastern Christians, is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520286197/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0520286197&linkCode=as2&tag=eastern-20&linkId=WRA5VN4UPWNPWTP3" rel="nofollow">Richard E. Payne, <i>A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity </i>(U California Press, 2015), </a><br /><br /><br />About this book we are told: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted participants in this empire, Richard Payne demonstrates their integration into elite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices and imaginaries, and participation in imperial institutions.<br /><br /> The rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion. Christians, for their part, positioned themselves in a political culture not of their own making, with recourse to their own ideological and institutional resources, ranging from the writing of saints’ lives to the judicial arbitration of bishops. In placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, <i>A State of Mixture</i> helps explain the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries.</blockquote>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/no-free-power-lunches/">No free power lunches</a></span>
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<p>Modern people have a terrible attitude of entitlement, of which they are mostly unaware. Sure, they can see where <em>those bad people over there</em> feel entitled; but they don’t see it in <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/the-problem-is-you-and-the-solution-is-repentance/" target="_blank">themselves</a>.  It may be obvious to other people, but to the entitled the world just looks so unfair and wrong when it doesn’t hand them what they want on a silver platter.</p>
<p>The form taken by this entitlement attitude depends on the person and what he <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/pay-no-attention-to-that-gun-to-your-head/" target="_blank">takes for granted</a>. Modern sluts feel entitled to free contraception and the right to murder their own children as a ‘backup’; baby mommas feel entitled to promiscuous sex with bad boys and food, shelter, education, domestic safety and HDTV for their fatherless children; college girls feel entitled to have ‘safe spaces’ and to punish their mutually drunken lovers as ‘rapists’ when they regret their hookups; libertarians feel entitled to <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/12/paper-wealth-or-were-going-to-disneyland/" target="_blank">functioning sovereign marketplaces</a> and communities with low or nonexistent taxes; <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/usury-is-so-gay/" target="_blank">usurers</a> feel entitled to profits without the concomitants of investment in property; and in general people who are terrible followers feel entitled to good leaders.</p>
<p>I’m sorry to inform all of these entitled modern people that there is no free lunch.  Liberals feel entitled to the benefits of living under authority without actually having to live under <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/how-consent-of-the-governed-makes-everybody-gay/" target="_blank">real authority</a>; as a result they are ungovernable and get the lousy leadership they deserve.</p>
<p>Every man is <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/why-are-men-in-love-with-bad-boys/" target="_blank">both leader and follower</a>.  It is important to be a good follower: not a yes-man toady, which is a form of cowardice, but loyal — even when leadership is bad. The form of this loyalty will vary based on the institution in question and the circumstances, and like all things it has its limits.  But we didn’t get to where we are today through an excess of good followership and loyalty.</p>
<p>I don’t speak for other men, but being under <em>my</em> <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/because-i-said-so-thats-why/" target="_blank">authority</a> is a privilege that is offered to very few people.  Only very particular circumstances can result in someone being under my authority.  When those circumstances obtain, my subjects get my total commitment to their well being.  If my authority is challenged – not particular judgments, mind you, since I am as fallible as the next guy, but the legitimacy of my authority per se – then that follower is out.  That person and their issues are not my problem anymore.  Living under my authority is a privilege: a privilege which can be revoked.</p>
<p>No self-respecting man is interested in leading ungovernable people. Liberals believe in non-authoritative authority, non-governing governance, non-discriminating discrimination.  Liberals are inherently ungovernable.</p>
<p>Leadership is like any other human activity; which is to say, it is subject to all of the flaws associated with human beings.  It isn’t always true that “you get what you pay for.”  Being good followers doesn’t guarantee good leadership.</p>
<p>But being bad followers <em>does</em> guarantee bad leadership.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4797/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4797/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=zippycatholic.wordpress.com&blog=38463386&post=4797&subd=zippycatholic&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2015/12/03/choosing-between-pam-ayres-and-king-david-at-a-wedding-should-be-a-no-brainer/">Choosing between Pam Ayres and King David at a wedding should be a no-brainer</a></span>
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<p><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/12/02/england-and-wales-bishops-discourage-poems-at-weddings/">We are soon to have new translations</a> of the <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/12/02/england-and-wales-bishops-discourage-poems-at-weddings/">Orders of Matrimony and Confirmation</a>, which are to be introduced at Easter next year. </p>
<p>This should not come as a surprise, as we already have a new translation of the Mass. The liturgy office of the Bishop’s conference has produced a document to prepare us <a href="http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/Marriage/">for this change</a>, which brings to our attention a few other matters as well, through the form of ‘frequently asked questions’. Here is the key quotation:</p>
<p>“Can I have my favourite poem?Every wedding liturgy is unique. It will provide a series of images and memories that will give the couple a wealth of memories to recount and reflect upon. Couples will want to prepare the liturgy with care considering such elements as the scripture reading.</p>
<p>“It is also a celebration of the Church, which means that the structure, texts and how the liturgy is celebrated are laid down. Any reading in the Liturgy of the Word should be taken from scripture (the Bible) and cannot be replaced by another text. In a similar way any music played or sung should normally be taken from the Church’s long and living tradition of music. </p>
<p>“Texts should be expressive of the faith of Church. It is important to remember that the Marriage liturgy is one of a sequence of events that make up the whole of the Wedding Celebration. It is not therefore necessary that a favourite poem or song is included within the liturgy; it may be better placed within the wedding reception.”</p>
<p>This is very reassuring. The essential point that it tries to convey is that liturgy is “laid down” and is not a matter of “knit your own”, simply because it is a celebration of the Church as Church, rather than a celebration of individuals: so you do what the entire Church does. </p>
<p>This may of course come as a shock to couples who have garnered their idea of what a wedding should be from various civil celebrations, or from films, or who may have the idea from going to Mass that the priest makes things up as he goes along. </p>
<p>The idea that liturgy is the action of Christ in head and members is, I find, one of the hardest messages to convey. Most people are mystified by this and think that when one wants to keep to the rubrics one is either being fussy or a killjoy; their idea is that it would be so much nicer to be able to do things “in their own way”.</p>
<p>Of course, within the parameters of the liturgy there are a variety of choices to be made, with regard to texts and readings and music, so it is not true that every wedding will be exactly like the next, and the same is true for funerals. </p>
<p>One argument that does strike a chord with those who may wish to have their favourite poem is that the texts of the Church and the Bible in particular are much better than any text we ourselves can come up with. I mean: Pam Ayres or King David? You choose, but it is what’s called a no brainer. Boney M or Mendelssohn? Again, no contest. But this isn’t just taste – it is a matter of keeping elements that cannot accord with the liturgy out of it, and preserving its coherence.</p>
<p>Liturgy is a language, and all languages have grammar; all languages have to reject the intrusion of elements that make no sense in that they contradict grammar. We don’t make up grammar as we go along. Similarly, we need to protest the integrity of our liturgical celebrations. </p>
<p>One thing that this admirable guidance from the bishops’ conference does not address is the question of compliance. Once again it is parish priests who will have to enforce these rules and protect the liturgy as best they can, and have to deal with couples who perhaps are very attached to a favourite poem, and who have, thanks to fifty years of poor catechesis, no real idea of why liturgy is important. </p>
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<p>Below is the Vatican-provided text of the address that Secretary for the Vatican's Relations with States, Monsignor Paul Richard Gallagher, gave this morning at the 22nd ministerial council of the Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the theme, 'In defense of religious liberty' which be...<div class="feedflare">
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://taylormarshall.com/2015/12/is-catholic-advent-the-forgotten-liturgical-season.html">Is Catholic Advent the Forgotten Liturgical Season?</a></span>
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<p>Last Sunday our priest said: “Advent has become the forgotten and lost liturgical season of the Catholic Church. Nobody knows what it means. Nobody remembers how to celebrate it. It’s really sad.”</p>
<p>I think Father is right. Advent has become the forgotten or lost liturgical season. But it should be a season as important and powerful as Lent.</p>
<p><strong>If we understand the “History and Catholic Theology of Advent,”</strong> then this season could become the most fertile time of year for spiritual recollection and the New Evangelization (despite the secular commercialization of Christmas).</p>
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<h2>Join us for a Live Catholic Event on “Catholic Advent”:</h2>
<p>So to help you answer the question: <strong>“What is Advent and how do I celebrate it?”</strong> I’m inviting you to a live, free, online 30 minute Webinar this Thursday evening Dec 3 2015 on: <strong><a href="http://app.webinarjam.net/register/12133/10c97c0591" target="_blank">“The History and Theology of Advent (Plus Tips for Catholic Families)”</a>:</strong></p>
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<li>Did you know that Catholics used to celebrate 5 (<a href="http://app.webinarjam.net/register/12133/10c97c0591" target="_blank">not just 4</a>) <strong>Sundays of Advent</strong>?</li>
<li>Did you know that there is an ancient theological and <strong>“40 day” connection between Advent and Lent?</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://app.webinarjam.net/register/12133/10c97c0591" target="_blank"><img alt="Screen Shot 2015-11-28 at 12.27.01 PM" class="size-full wp-image-6518 alignright" height="163" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-28-at-12.27.01-PM-e1448740671101.png" width="200" /></a>Did you know that the <strong>Advent Wreath</strong> may have started with Lutherans?</li>
<li>Did you know that Taylor will be <strong>sharing personal Advent recommendations</strong> based on how his family and children celebrate Advent?</li>
<li>Taylor will give advice on how to <strong>share the Catholic faith</strong> over the holidays with non-Catholic family and friends.</li>
<li>Did you know that everyone who attends this webinar will get a <strong>free ebook copy of my book</strong> <em><a href="http://app.webinarjam.net/register/12133/10c97c0591" target="_blank">God’s Birthday: The Evidence for Christ’s Birth on December 25</a>:</em></li>
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<p>What are you waiting for? Let’s learn about <a href="http://app.webinarjam.net/register/12133/10c97c0591" target="_blank">Catholic Advent</a>! Please register (it’s free) below:</p>
<p><strong>Sign up for the Live Advent Webinar Event this Thursday. Register by <a href="http://app.webinarjam.net/register/12133/10c97c0591" target="_blank">clicking here:</a></strong></p>
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<p>Speaking to catechists and teachers in Uganda last week, Pope Francis encouraged the educators to follow the example of Christ and the Ugandan martyrs, stressing that they must teach the faith fearlessly and be witnesses of its truth and power.<br />
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“The message you bring will take root all the more firmly in people’s hearts if you are not only a teacher but also a witness,” the Holy Father said, according to Vatican Radio’s translation. “You teach what Jesus taught, you instruct adults and help parents to raise their children in the faith.”<br />
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Pope Francis thanked those gathered for their sacrifices and devotion to the essential task of educating children and families, and stressed that teachers reflect Christ in their vocation and are called in their own way to be martyrs. He urged educators to echo the “fearless testimony” of the Ugandan martyrs, 21 companions who along with Saint Charles Lwanga were killed in the 1880s by King Mwanga for teaching the faith and later canonized by Blessed Pope Paul VI in 1964.<p><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4527/Pope-Francis-Calls-Educators-to-Dual-Role-as-Teachers-and-Witnesses.aspx">More...</a></p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/2015/12/sacrilege-oh-dear-how-sad-never-mind.html">Sacrilege: oh dear, how sad, never mind!</a></span>
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<p><br />Is this the reaction to the Pamplona desecration of the Blessed Sacrament?<br /><br />There was a time when priests were expected to inform the local Ordinary about any act of profanation of the Holy Eucharist, there were even Rites to be performed if a host was accidentally dropped on the floor. Now they have become so commonplace that we simply mentally note them, possibly with air of sadness, and move on. At the beginning of this year the <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/bishop-of-ars-removes-blessed-sacrament-from-all-parishes">Bishop of Ars ordered that the Blessed Sacrament be removed from every tabernacle</a> in his diocese because of a wave sacrilege. There was a time when priests were killed to rescue the Blessed Sacrament from profanation, or even fire..<br /><br />I am glad that the Bishop of Pamplona, with a number of his priests offered a Mass of Reparation but I wonder if the reparation was addressed to Christ for the offence to His Body or for to those of the faithful who found this action offensive, in the sense of a politician who apologises '<u><b>if you</b></u> found an action offensive'. The answer of course is clearly answered by whether His Excellency introduced measures to ensure that never, ever again in his diocese was it possible that such profanation should ever happen again.<br /><br />One of our recently retired Bishops spent over a quarter of century ensuring that no where in his diocese was the Blessed Sacrament reserved in the apex of any church. It was the diocese of Brentwood, and I am not entirely against this move - but read on, please. I have always wondered what impact was made on a individual or a community's spirituality if for living memory the Blessed Sacrament was at centre of the Church and genuflected to on entering the Church and then was suddenly replaced by a bunch of flowers or a piece of furniture, the priest's chair perhaps. I just don't think we can tell people, and keep a straight face, that our practice might have changed but theology remains exactly the same. Obviously if the practice has changed so has the thinking, the theology, behind it. It is a fiction that what we do can be disassociated from what we do. Lex orandi, Lex credendi, Lex vivendi.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G0RFa82AwmI/TmaDyHQdpkI/AAAAAAAAA4g/LOOm8-0EKMM/s1600/14+-+Missa+Ambrosiana.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G0RFa82AwmI/TmaDyHQdpkI/AAAAAAAAA4g/LOOm8-0EKMM/s1600/14+-+Missa+Ambrosiana.jpg" /></a>I celebrated Mass for my 25th Anniversary of ordination in the Extraordinary Form. one priest said, "I loved the music, what I found so alien was all that bobbing up and down". <a href="http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/browsing-in-byzantium-liturgical-greek-3.html">If the liturgy is the touchstone of what we believe</a>, then although the words are important so too are the liturgical actions that accompany it. 'The bobbing up and down' in the Old Rite, the different postures, that are adopted -in the Roman Rite the joining of the fingers, in most of its derivative Rites the adoption of the 'crucis stance' mark a change in that which is on the altar.<br /><br />Though I hate those videos of that picture the Old Rite as something glorious and the New as something trivial, there is a difference between Old and New Rite which is important, it is that the minimalisation of the change of Substance that occurs according to Trent and from St Thomas onwards at the moment of Consecration. Where Mass is offered 'ad Orienten' which according to Missal, and at least the last four Prefect's of the CDF have stressed, is normative, perhaps the difference is only noted by the priest.<br /><br />In places where Mass is offered 'ad Populum', where this involves a deliberate turning of one's back to the reserved Blessed Sacrament by the celebrant, a strange 'anti-sign' is brought into play. What does it mean to encourage people to treat as God something to which at Mass everyone on the sanctuary turns their back on, it is a nonsense sign! and what does it say to the priest himself, more on the subconscious level than on the concious level? Hence I have a certain sympathy with the former Bishop of Brentwood. If the priest is going top turn his back on the reserved Eucharist when celebrating Mass, isn't it better it is reserved elsewhere? In the Old Rite if the Bishop was to sat before the tabernacle, even below the altar steps, the Eucharist was removed to a side chapel, hence it being the usual practice in Cathedrals. Let me not get onto concerts in Churches where the Lord is reserved.<br /><br />I agree with Cardinal Sarah, "the great crisis in the Church is a crisis of faith", the greatest crisis of faith is crisis of belief is in the Eucharist. I find it difficult to draw a distinction between the sacrilege in Pamplona and the sacrilege of giving Holy Communion to a politician who is plainly working against the Catholic Church's moral teaching, or a couple living in a relationship that opposes Christ's clear teaching on the permanence of marriage. Then of course I am reactionary enough to consider it a sacrilege for a sinful or obviously heretical bishop or priest to celebrate Mass at all.<br /><br />follow on Twitter: @raylblake
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://edinburghhousewife.blogspot.com/2015/12/brave-new-worlds.html">Brave New Worlds</a></span>
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<p>For an interesting--if depressing--reflection on how Aldous Huxley, author of <i>Brave New World</i>, seems to have been something of a prophet, have a read of <a href="http://www.quadrapheme.com/aldous-huxleys-twenty-first-century-utopia/">Emily Watson's article </a>in Quadrapheme. Because <i>Nineteen-Eighty-Four</i> is sooooo 1989, n'est-ce pas? I mean, now that we're moved on from Stalinism to kindergarten sex-ed, it ain't your grandparents' dystopia no more.<br /><br />***<br />I was having a chat with a Fellow Foreign Wife yesterday, and I remembered my first Christmas in Edinburgh, the one in which I couldn't for the life of me remember how to make the Sacred Christmas Bun and ended up crying hysterically on the kitchen floor.<br /><br />Sadly, too many of our Christmas holidays involve me crying hysterically on the kitchen floor, which is one reason why B.A. is so keen for us to go to Italy this year. I have made a private oath to do as little Christmas baking as possible during Advent, so the cooky-baking madness will not begin until our return.<br /><br />Yesterday I pondered my need to cook and bake like a maniac in the last few days before Christmas, and of course I am trying to recreate the wonders of family Christmas. I am pretty sure when B.A. and I were courting he promised we would always go "home for Christmas"--<i>and we never have. </i>I was heartbroken about the first missed Christmas, but after six years, I am used to it. Little by little, I get used to my new life in Scotland and the drawbacks bother me less and less.<br /><br />As I grew up in a town that saw wave after wave of immigrants, I looked forward (as an engaged lady) to discovering what it is like to be oneself an immigrant, and of course I was brought up with a bump against the realities immigrants to Canada often complain about.<br /><br />The number one issue, since I immigrated for love, is <b>work</b>. Those delightful jobs in Catholic media that would have been my second choice after academia are none so many in Scotland, where Catholics make up only 15% of the population and of those maybe 30% go to Mass on Sunday. And, since I immigrated into my husband's Catholic traditionalism, I am not keen to become a lay chaplain, which is what my M.Div. qualifies me to do. Finally, the two sectors in Edinburgh in which workers are most needed are 1. minimum wage "carers" and 2. retail sales.<br /><br /><b>How I cope:</b> Freelance for Catholic media and education in communities with more Catholics. Yay, internet!<br /><br />What complicates all this is (2.) the <b>persistent British class system</b>, which used to put working-class people at a hideous disadvantage, but now puts middle-class outsiders at a disadvantage. If you are deemed to "talk posh" or you obviously aren't "one of us", that stop-gap job can make you miserable. The do-as-little-as-possible-but-look-busy ethos of the latter union era which still persists in places is quite shocking to foreigners, as is the casually sexist and sex-obsessive "banter" that deeply shocked another foreign wife friend of mine.<br /><br /><b>How I cope:</b> I channel my Scottish-Canadian grandmother, who, like many Scots, loved to chat with bus-drivers and other near strangers. If a Scot in a queue makes some remark about the weather, I agree that it is terrible. If a Scot mentions it is dark for 3 PM, I agree that the nights are fair' drawing in. If my shopping bill is strangely low, I joke about it with the cashier. And I almost always chat with cab drivers, who are fonts of information about a side of Scottish society I rarely see. At the same time, I hang out with the minority within the minority of my religious minority, which fortunately does not mean ISIS-sympathizers, but Latin Mass fans.<br /><br />Then, of course, (3.) <b>I sound foreign</b>. Thanks to the red hair, pink skin and charity shop wardrobe, I don't look foreign. But naturally as soon as I open my mouth, I can be pegged as foreign. Because the number one non-English group of foreigners in Edinburgh are Polish, I was asked if I were Polish even before I began to learn Polish. Occasionally I am asked if I am American, which can be a bit tricky, as Americans are not universally loved in the UK.<br /><br /><b>How I cope:</b> Generations of Canadians before me have lost it on Scots assuming that they are Americans, as so in my experience Scots are careful about this. If they ask if I'm American, and I reveal that I am a Canadian, they apologize profusely. After all, if there's anything a Scot hates, it's being mistaken for English.<br /><br />Meanwhile I am gradually changing my vocabulary and responses to match those around me, being careful, however, not to use any expression my husband does not use. "Ah dinnae mind" ("I don't remember) is right out. I have tried to say "I must go home and make my man's tea" but it sounded false to my ears. We don't have <i>tea</i>, we have <i>dinner</i>. Or <i>supper</i>. And usually after 8 PM, so that is not any kind of "tea" my great-grandfather would have recognized.<br /><br />I live a pretty quiet life, though, so "Where-are-you-from" does not crop up all that often.<br /><br />And indeed (4.) <b>I am foreign.</b> <b>Sort of. </b> As my mother is a Scottish-Canadian, with a lot of east-coast Scottish assumptions about saving money, Christian decency, social dynamics, and that the Scots are the SALT of the EARTH, the Scots do not drive me crazy. They seem pretty normal to me, except for the class chippiness and, before the Referendum, any Scottish republicanism. (Horror!) However the Scots are generally too busy to hang out with under-employed foreigners. If I lived in Toronto, I would probably be too busy with work, family and old friends to go about making new foreign friends myself.<br /><br /><b>How I Cope:</b> Polska! Polska! Polska! The Poles are foreign; I'm foreign. What better way to find togetherness in voluntary exile than hanging out with other exiles? As a matter of fact, though, my list of fellow foreigner friends and acquaintances also includes English, Americans, Italians, and an Australian. Meanwhile, I have gradually stopped celebrating Canadian holidays. As I have no Canadian friends here, it makes no sense to cook up a huge dinner whose special significance was lost on everyone but me. I needed them at first--Thanksgiving and Hallowe'en--but now I don't.<br /><br />My Polish class has a fair number of other foreigners, and swing-dancing is incredibly pan-European.<br /><br /><b>IN CONCLUSION:</b> Marrying a Scot and then whisking off to his flat in the Scottish Historical House for which he works takes some adjustment. My adjustment was relatively easy because my mother is a Scottish-Canadian whose Scots Protestant grandparents came from roughly the same culture I now live in. It's easy to like people who remind you of your beloved grandmother, and it's reasonably easy to channel your own grandmother. The biggest headaches are the job market and sounding foreign--although this latter problem is less of a problem now that I have started automatically making the appropriate responses to Scottish questions. (e.g. "What do you think of X town?" "Weeeeellllll......")<br /><br />That said, 21st century Scots are a lot different from 20th century Scottish-Canadians, so many contemporary realities confuse or trouble me, from public female drunkenness to sudden outbreaks of street violence to Scottish republicanism, for in my view it undercuts the unity inherent in being British. However, all places have their ups and downs. The important thing for me is that B.A., who does not have a migrant nature, is happy in his home and that I, who <i>do</i> have a migrant nature, get to leave Scotland from time to time, especially to return to Canada to see my family and old friends.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/nuns-activists-want-new-salvadoran-inquiry-into-1980-churchwomen-deaths.cfm">In El Salvador, families say U.S. churchwomen's work lives on</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://image.catholicnews.com/imagehandler/photos/2015/12/03/20151203T0927-750-CNS-SALVADOR-ANNIVERSARY-CHURCHWOMEN_310.jpg" /><p>IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters</p><p></p><p>By Edgardo Ayala</p><p>SANTIAGO NONUALCO, El Salvador
(CNS) -- North Americans and Salvadorans gathered Dec. 2 at the precise spot
where four churchwomen were killed 35 years ago to emphasize that their work
for the country's poor remains alive.</p>
<p>"It is important for us to
remember that her work for justice and peace lives on ... the messenger is gone, but her work continues," Terri Keogh told the crowd, talking about her
sister, Maryknoll Sister Maura Clarke, during the memorial service held to
commemorate the 35th anniversary of the killings.</p>
<p>On Dec. 2, 1980, Sister Clarke
and Maryknoll Sister Ita Ford, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missionary
Jean Donovan were abducted, raped and murdered by members of the National
Guard, when the North Americans traveled by car from the airport. Civil war in
El Salvador had erupted earlier that year. The churchwomen were in El Salvador
to work with refugees of that conflict but were regarded as leftist by the
government.</p>
<p>The ceremony took place in the
atrium of the small church located in the village of San Francisco Hacienda, in
the municipality of Santiago Nonualco, 27 miles east of San Salvador.</p>
<p>A monument with the churchwomen's
names stands in the exact place where they were executed 35 years ago.</p>
<p>"Maura spent the first 20
years of her missionary life in Nicaragua, she then came to El Salvador at the
request of Archbishop Oscar Romero, and she did so willingly in a dangerous place,"
Keogh said.</p>
<p>She came from New York accompanied
by Judy Clark, as well as Sister Ford's sister and other family members.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Miriam Ford, Sister
Ford's niece, thanked all those who helped their family to cope with the deaths,
but especially Salvadorans and Americans that continue today the work begun by the
churchwomen.</p>
<p>"You are witness of hope,
continuing the work that the women did," she said, crying.</p>
<p>"I'm sorry, I'm Irish and
we don't cry in public," she added, laughing.</p>
<p>The community cooked corn and
other meals for the visitors, and residents said missionaries' spirit lives on.</p>
<p>"We feel happy to see all
these people who come here to remember the life of the nuns," Maria Rosa Alvarado
told Catholic News Service, while serving a beverage called "arroz con
leche", a local rice pudding.</p>
<p>"It was very painful for us
in the community to witness everything that happened 35 years ago," she
added.</p>
<p>SHARE Foundation representatives
said the Salvadoran government is willing to declare the place of the killings
as a National Heritage Site.</p>
<p>"To think now that I'm
standing here in this spot is very powerful, I feel the life of the churchwomen
right now," Rhianna McChesney, 22, a student at Ursuline College in
Cleveland told CNS.</p>
<p>"I feel honored to be here
with these people," she added.</p>
<p>On Dec. 2, in a memorial service
held in San Salvador's Parque Cuscatlan, the U.S. delegates called for the
Salvadoran government to reopen the investigation in order to find the truth
about who gave the orders of the killings.</p>
<p>It is important to "ask the
Salvadoran government and prosecutors to open this case, so that the
masterminds of this crime do not walk free, with impunity," said Claire
White, who came on behalf of her father, former Ambassador Robert White, who
died in January.</p>
<p>White told CNS the U.S.
government should pressure the Salvadoran authorities to do a proper investigation
and not let the intellectual authors go unpunished.</p>
<p>The U.N. Truth Commission,
established in 1992 to investigate cases of political violence during the civil
war, concluded that then-Col. Eugenio Vides Casanova, director of the National
Guard, knew that a unit from his command had carried out the assassinations and
facilitated the concealment of the facts, which hampered the investigation. In
1984 four guardsmen were found guilty of the killings and convicted to 30 years
in prison, but those who planned the murders and gave the orders have never
been brought to justice, said some of the more than 100 North Americans who
traveled to El Salvador to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the murders.</p>
<p>Isabel Hernandez, El Salvador
office director of the SHARE Foundation, said: "We don't want revenge,
because we are Christians, but we do want justice, the truth, we want to know
who gave the order." She said the 1992 Salvadoran amnesty law must be
repealed because it protects those responsible for the murders of the
churchwomen and many other victims.</p>
<p>In 2002, Vides Casanova and
former Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia, who were both granted residence
in the United States, were found responsible by a Florida jury in a federal
civil case for the torture of three Salvadorans. In April 2015, Vides Casanova
was deported to El Salvador for participating and assisting the torture and
assassination of thousands of victims, including the four churchwomen.</p>
<p>The four guardsmen were
convicted because they were not eligible for amnesty, as their case was
regarded as nonpolitical.</p>
<p>The U.S. delegates were to
travel Dec. 3 to the cemetery of Chalatenango, to lay flowers at the graves
of Sisters Ford and Clarke.</p>
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<div class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">ZENIT has published <b><a href="http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/text-of-pope-s-interview-with-italian-jubilee-publication-credere">an English translation</a></b> of Pope Francis' interview with "Credere", the official magazine of the Jubilee of Mercy. We are posting the most important sections here; emphases ours. At the end of this article is our commentary on the <u>extreme danger</u> posed to Catholicity by the Pope's assertion that God is "Father <b>and</b> Mother". And then there is the, by now, depressingly familiar line about how the Church "excludes people" and is too legalistic, following a "hard line", "stressing only the moral rules." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b><a href="http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2015/12/02/0952/02135.html">Italian text of the interview</a></b> was published on the Vatican website yesterday, December 2, 2015. We repeat: the original of this interview is on the VATICAN WEBSITE. </div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a name="more"></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Q: Holy Father, now that we are about to begin the Jubilee, can you explain what movement of the heart drove you to highlight precisely the subject of mercy? What urgency do you perceive in this regard, in the present situation of the world and of the Church?</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pope Francis: The theme of mercy has been strongly accentuated in the life of the Church, since Pope Paul VI. John Paul II stressed it strongly with <i>Dives in Misericordia</i>, the canonization of Saint Faustina and the institution of the Feast of Divine Mercy on the Octave of Easter. In line with this, I felt that it is somewhat a desire of the Lord to show His mercy to humanity. Therefore, it didn’t come to my mind, but rather the relatively recent renewal of a tradition that has however always existed.</span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">My first Angelus as Pope was on God’s mercy and, on that occasion, I also spoke of a book on mercy which was given to me by Cardinal Walter Kasper during the conclave; also, in my first homily as Pope, on Sunday, March 17, I spoke of mercy in the parish of Saint Anne. It wasn’t a strategy; it came to me from within: the Holy Spirit wills something. It’s obvious that today’s world is in need of mercy, it is in need of compassion, or to begin with (compassion). We are used to bad news, to cruel news and to the greatest atrocities that offend the name and life of God. <b>The world is in need of discovering that God is Father, that there is mercy, that cruelty isn’t the way, that condemnation isn’t the way, because the Church herself sometimes follows a hard line, she falls into the temptation of following a hard line, into the temptation of stressing only the moral rules, many people are excluded.</b></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">There, came to my mind that image of the Church as a field hospital after a battle; it’s true, how many people are wounded and destroyed! The wounded are taken care of, helped and healed, not subjected to analyses for cholesterol. I believe this is the moment of mercy. We are all sinners, we all bear interior burdens. <b>I felt that Jesus wishes to open the door of His heart, that the Father wishes to show his deepest mercy, and therefore sends us the Spirit: to move us and to deter us. It is the year of forgiveness, the year of reconciliation.</b> On one had we see the arms trade, the production of arms that kill, the murder of innocents in the most cruel possible way, the exploitation of persons, minors, children: a sacrilege – permit me the term – is being carried out against humanity, because man is sacred, he is the image of the living God. See, the Father says: stop and come to me.” This is what I see in the world.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> ***</span></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Q: According to the Bible, the place where God’s mercy dwells is the womb, the maternal insides of God, which are moved to the point of forgiving sin. <b>Can the Jubilee of Mercy be an occasion to rediscover God’s ”maternity”?</b> Is there also a more “feminine” aspect of the Church to appreciate?</span></i></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pope Francis: <b>Yes,</b> He himself affirms it when He says in Isaiah that perhaps a mother can forget her child, a mother can also forget her child ... “I, instead, will never forget you.” Here God’s maternal dimension is seen. Not everyone understands when there is talk of “God’s maternity,” it’s not a popular language – in the good sense of the word – it seems a language that is somewhat chosen. <b>Therefore, I prefer to use <the word> tenderness, proper to a mother, the tenderness of God, tenderness born from the paternal insides. God is Father and Mother.</b></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Q: Always with reference to the Bible, mercy makes us know a more “emotive” God than that which we sometimes imagine. Can the discovery of a God who is moved and has compassion for man also change our attitude towards brothers?</i></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pope Francis: <b>To discover it will lead us to have a more tolerant, more patient, more tender attitude. </b>In 1994, during the Synod, in a meeting of groups. it was said that a revolution of tenderness should be established, and a Synodal Father -- a good man, whom I respect and love – then very elderly, said that it wasn’t appropriate to use this language and he gave me reasonable explanations, from an intelligent man, but I continue to say that today the revolution is that of tenderness because justice stems from here as does all the rest. If a businessman who takes on an employee from September to July, says to him, <to take his leave for vacation in July, to then take up his work again> with a new contract from September to July, thus the worker has no right to identity, or to a pension, or to social security. He has no right to anything. The businessman doesn’t show tenderness, but treats the employee as an object – so much to give an example of where there is no tenderness. If one puts oneself in the shoes of that person, instead of thinking of one’s need for a bit more money, then things change. <b>The revolution of tenderness is what we have to cultivate today as the fruit of this Year of Mercy: God’s tenderness towards each one of us. Each one of us must say: “I am an unfortunate man, but God loves me thus, so I must also love others in the same way.”</b></span></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">***</span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Q: Can you anticipate to us a gesture you intend to make during the Jubilee to give testimony of God’s mercy?</i></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pope Francis: <b>So many gestures will be made, but on a Friday of every month I will make a different gesture.</b></span></div></blockquote><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Regarding the Pope's description of God as "Father and Mother" - <b>we are on extremely problematic territory here</b>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is one thing to use feminine metaphors or imagery to describe God's actions towards men, or to compare Him and His love to a mother and her love for her offspring (as we sometimes find in Sacred Scripture, notably in the Book of Isaias). It is quite another thing to directly refer to Him as "Mother" - something for which there is <i><b>absolutely no warrant </b></i>in both Scripture and Tradition. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is true that a handful of medieval Western devotional authors referred on occasion to God, or Christ, as "Mother"; Julian of Norwich and St. Anselm of Canterbury are the most-cited examples. There is also Pope John Paul I's reference to God as "He is our father; even more he is our mother", during <b><a href="https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-i/en/angelus/documents/hf_jp-i_ang_10091978.html">one of his audiences</a>, </b>which has remained (until now) an isolated case in the vast body of papal teaching.<br /><br />Nevertheless, one cannot reach far into the Church's past, pick isolated instances of a peculiar practice, and use this extremely thin body of evidence to declare that this practice is therefore beyond question. <b>Far more powerful is the fact that the Church has never referred to God as "Mother" in her liturgies, her creeds, and her doctrinal documents, not to speak of the overwhelming evidence in the practice of Catholics through the centuries of referring to God as "Father" but never as "Mother". </b>Furthermore the medieval mind is worlds apart from the (post)modern mind; what might have been a harmless idiosyncrasy centuries ago is today a weapon in the hands of modernist, feminist and radical "theologies" that seek to tear apart and destroy the authentic Tradition of the Church.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By adopting this language the Pope, whether he realizes it or not, encourages the many feminists and liberals who have been pushing precisely for God to be addressed as "Mother", while humiliating the many orthodox Catholics who have spent much effort to block feminist and inclusive language from the liturgy and from spiritual exercises. In the abusively "ultramontane" (or pseudo-ultramontane) atmosphere of the Franciscan papacy, where liberals and their conservative fellow-travelers defend everything that falls from the mouth of Francis as pure orthodoxy, one does not have to be very imaginative to realize how much the enemies of the faith will make use of this erroneous expression. <b>Keep in mind that the Pope affirmed, in this interview, that the Jubilee of Mercy will be an occasion to "rediscover" the "maternity" of God. </b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As of late, not a week has passed without an ambiguous or problematic expression coming from the Pope and causing immense confusion and difficulty for the already-besieged, outnumbered, and often-demoralized defenders of Catholic orthodoxy. It would seem that during the Jubilee of Mercy, things are about to get even worse.</div><br />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://katholon.de/2015/12/03/da-faellt-auseinander-was-zusammen-gehoert/">Da fällt auseinander, was zusammen gehört</a></span>
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<div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_318" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://i0.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMGP5186.jpg"><img alt="Schwarz-Rot-Gold auf dem Reichstagsgebäude in Berlin" class="size-medium wp-image-318" src="http://i0.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMGP5186.jpg?resize=300%2C201" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Schwarz-Rot-Gold auf dem Reichstagsgebäude in Berlin</p></div>
<p>Zwei Meldungen heute. Beide aus Niedersachsen. Beiden könnten auch aus jedem anderen Bundesland stammen. In Hannover gehen die grüne Politikerin Claudia Roth und der niedersächsische Landwirtschaftsminister auf einem Demonstrationszug mit. Auf diesem werden für beide hörbar von linksradikalen Demonstranten Parolen wie „Deutschland, Du mieses Stück Scheiße“, „Deutschland verrecke“ und „Nie wieder Deutschland“ gebrüllt. Beide Politiker bleiben beim Demonstrationszug und gehen trotz der für keinen Demokraten akzeptablen Parolen weiter mit.</p>
<p>Die andere Nachricht betrifft Osnabrück. Dort meldet sich Pegida zurück, wie NOZ berichtet. Die Bewegung sei sogar im Aufwind, schreibt die Zeitung. Anlaß für den Bericht ist die Tatsache, daß es jetzt wieder eine Facebook- Seite Pegida Osnabrück gibt. Über die Motive könnte man allenfalls spekulieren. Auch die NOZ weiß nicht, ob die Seite für die Organisation von Kundgebungen u.ä. verwendet werden soll.</p>
<p>Unsere Gesellschaft zerfällt immer weiter in politische Extreme. Linke Gewalt ist keineswegs ein aufgebauschtes Problem, wie die Bundesfamilienministerin noch Mitte des vergangenen Jahres behauptete. Die linksextreme Gewaltbereitschaft und die ausgeübte Gewalt in unserem Land nehmen zu. Dazu gehört auch schon die verbale Gewalt, die anderen oder dem Land angetan werden.</p>
<p>Aber es ist nicht die Gewalt allein, die Sorgen bereitet. Es ist der zunehmende Verfall eines gesellschaftlichen Grundkonsens in unserer Gesellschaft, wenn schon die Nachwuchsorganisation einer ehemaligen Volkspartei (hier der SPD) sich ebenfalls Parolen wie „Deutschland, Du mieses Stück Scheiße“ zu eigen macht. Man kann und muß damit rechnen, daß der eine oder andere von den Schreihälsen irgendwann in einem Landesparlament oder sogar im Bundestag sitzt. Man möchte nicht, daß ein Land von einem regiert wird, der gerade dieses Land „Scheiße“ findet. Denn was man scheiße findet, regiert man auch scheiße. Solche Politiker brauchen wir nicht.</p>
<p>Rechte Gewalt z.B. gegen Flüchtlingsheime ist ein Problem. Linke Gewalt gegen unser Land und seine freiheitliche Grundordnung, gegen Menschen mit anderen Meinung und gegen friedliche Demonstranten sind ebenfalls ein Problem. Es nützt nichts, dem einen oder den anderen oder beiden ein politisches Mäntelchen umzuhängen, denn das verharmlost am Ende nur. Gewalt ist Gewalt. Ein Opfer von Gewalt empfindet nach linker Gewalt keine anderen Schmerzen als nach rechter Gewalt.</p>
<p>Politik ist Wettstreit von Meinungen im offenen Diskurs auf allen Ebenen der Gesellschaft und Durchsetzung von Entscheidungen auf der Basis von Mehrheiten. Legt man diesen Maßstab an, muß man derzeit leider sagen, daß kaum noch Politik gemacht wird. Es wird nur noch durchregiert. Opposition? So was gibt es nicht mehr, denn die haben wir weggroßkoalitioniert.</p>
<p>Wenn in der Mitte der Gesellschaft der Diskurs und die Debatte nicht mehr möglich sind, dann zerfällt die Gesellschaft. Zerfällt die Gesellschaft, wird die Debatte in der Mitte durch Gewalt auf der Straße ersetzt. Die Straßenschlachten zwischen Kommunisten und Nazis in den 20er Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts sollte man sich dazu ins Gedächtnis rufen. Diese und die Folge der Verweigerung gegenüber dem Staat von fast allen politischen Kräften führte unmittelbar in die Dikatur.</p>
<p>Derzeit schafft es die Polizei noch, linke und rechte Gewalttäter daran zu hindern sich offene Straßenschlachten zu liefern. Die Frage ist, wie lange noch. Derzeit schaffen es die Ordnungskräfte noch, bei friedlichen Demonstrationen die Bürger vor Gewalt zu schützen. Aber es wird einem schon mulmig, wenn man die massive Gewaltbereitschaft linker Gegendemonstranten in Berlin oder Stuttgart erlebt. Bislang ist es immer noch gut ausgegangen.</p>
<p>Pegida macht, wenn man wirklich ernsthaft nachdenkt, deutlich weniger Angst als ein Schwarzer Block. Doch auch Pegida ist ein Symptom, das zeigt, woran unsere politische Kultur krankt: Die Fähigkeit zur Auseinandersetzung und zum offenen Streit über offene Frage. Mit einem platten „Wir schaffen das“ ist den Menschen nicht gedient, die vor Ort erleben, daß die Grenzen der Leistungsfähigkeit schon lange überschritten sind. Wer Angst hat, weil er mit seinen Sorgen nur noch ignoriert wird, landet dann eben bei Pegida oder im Schwarzen Block.</p>
<p>Wer Visionen hat solle zum Arzt gehen und nicht in die Politik, riet der kürzlich verstorbene Helmut Schmidt. So weit, so gut. Doch eine reine Politik auf Sicht, die jedes perspektivische Denken abwürgt, führt eben am Ende zu einer Politik der Plattitüden. Und eine Politik der Plattitüden atomisiert die Gesellschaft. Sie treibt die Menschen über die Unzufriedenheit in die Extreme und am Ende die ganz Extremen in die Gewalt.  Die Spirale der Gewalt und der Einschränkung der Freiheit, auch der Meinungsfreiheit, um der Gewalt zu wehren, dreht sich so lange weiter, bis die Freiheit endgültig gestorben ist.</p>
<p>Noch wäre Zeit zum Umdenken.</p>
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<p>I have no words for this. (Almost. Two come to mind right away but they're not appropriate.) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EEI33CZ1Lbw/VmAyh0KK7kI/AAAAAAAAEVs/SPMqScBGc6I/s1600/ny%2Bdaily%2Bnews.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EEI33CZ1Lbw/VmAyh0KK7kI/AAAAAAAAEVs/SPMqScBGc6I/s400/ny%2Bdaily%2Bnews.png" /></a></div><br />This is rich. Two radicalized Muslims kill 14 people and injure several others and the media decides to attack Christians for praying. Tell that to the young woman hiding in an office who texted her father to pray. Tell that to her father who could barely read the text without breaking down.<br /><br />Note to Daily News: Evil is not evidence that God is powerless or does not exist. Evil is evidence that we are fallen creatures with free will and in great need of God.<br /><br />It's bewildering that they call it a "gun scourge" when everyone knows the real issue behind these killings. And it ain't guns. Guns didn't motivate these two to kill.<br /><br /><br /> <div style="height: 0px; width: 0px;">*subhead*Sick.*subhead*</div>
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<p>Gefunden wo? Man staune: bei <b>katholisch.de</b> !!<br />Bevor wir uns in Spekulationen ergehen, was die DBK-Website bewogen haben mag- so einen Beitrag zu veröffentlichen- der ihr zu Zeiten des Benedetto-Pontifikates niemals in die Tastatur gekommen wäre-hier ist der Link - <b><a href="http://www.katholisch.de/aktuelles/aktuelle-artikel/immer-noch-fruhaufsteher">klicken</a></b><br /><b>"Immer noch Frühaufsteher":</b> Georg Ratzinger in einer neuen Wortmeldung über das Leben seines Bruders in Mater Ecclesiae.<br /><br /><br />Und wo wir schon mal dabei sind- hier noch ein schönes Fundstück über unseren Emeritus:<br />Gefunden haben wir es bei<b> Benoît-XVI-et-moi</b> <b><a href="http://benoit-et-moi.fr/2015-II/benot-xvi/une-chapelle-pour-le-pape-emerite-en-baviere.html">klicken</a></b><br />Es geht um die Kapelle die für den Papa emeritus in Thurmansbang im Dreiburgenland in Bayern gebaut werden soll. Wie man hier lesen kann- <b><a href="http://unternehmen-heute.de/news.php?newsid=311539"> klicken</a> -, </b>sind jetzt die Baupläne für dieses schöne Projekt genehmigt worden.<br />Hier eine Skizze der geplanten Kapelle:<br /><br /> <img height="320" src="http://benoit-et-moi.fr/2015-II/images/thurmansbang5_160.jpg" width="240" /><br /><br /><br />Papst em. Benedikt XVI hatte der Mit-Initiatorin des Projektes zu ihren Plänen Folgendes geschrieben:<br /><br />".......<br /><br />Vielen dank für Ihren freundlichen Brief vom 9. Mai. Ich freue mich, daß Sie in der schönen Landschaft Niederbayerns eine Papst Benedikt XVI Kapelle errichten wollen, die natürlich noch auf mich , sondern auf den Herrn verweisen wird. Selbstverständlich setze ich das Einverständnis des Ortsbischofs voraus.<br /><br />Für alle Mühen gilt Ihnen mein besonderer Segen<br />Im Herrn Ihr<br /><br />Benedikt XVI<br /><br />Der Ortsbischof- Dr. Stefan Oster von Passau- hat sein Einverständnis gegeben.<br /><br /><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><i> </i></span></span><i>"Das inzwischen konkret gewordene Bauanliegen erfülle die kirchenrechtlichen Voraussetzungen, so der Passauer Bischof Dr. Stefan Oster SDB, in einem Schreiben vom 6. Oktober 2015 an die Kapellen-Initiatorin. Gemäß den Bestimmungen des kirchlichen Gesetzbuches can. 1223f CIC 1983 erteile er die "oberhirtliche Genehmigung" und wünsche "Gottes reichen Segen, viel Mut und Tatkraft zur Verwirklichung ihres ehrenhaften Bauvorhabens". </i><br /><i><br /></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Quelle: katholisch.de, Benoît XVI-et-moi, </span><br /><br /><br />
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/NavarraExpoBlasfema_261115.jpg" /><p>Pamplona, Spain, Dec 3, 2015 / 06:07 am (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- Despite protests from thousands of Spaniards opposed to the desecration of the Eucharist, the Pamplona city council has failed to pass a proposal to remove a sacrilegious art exhibit from a publicly funded exhibition hall.<br />
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The exhibit involved the theft of more than 240 consecrated Hosts from Mass. Artist Abel Azcona stole the Hosts by pretending to receive Holy Communion at Mass, and then placed the Hosts on the ground to form the word “pederasty” in Spanish.<br />
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“The council has insisted the author remove his work, but the council itself is not going to do it,” Polonia Castellanos, spokeswoman for the Christian Lawyers Association, told CNA.<br />
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This was the second time the city council has asked Azcona to remove his exhibit, but they have received no response from him so far.<br />
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Photos of the theft of the Hosts and their placement on the ground are shown in Pamplona’s publicly funded Conde Rodezno exhibition hall. The Hosts were laid out on display until a private citizen removed them.<br />
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The Pamplona city council is governed by a Basque separatist coalition called Bildu. Maider Beloki, a councilwoman for the city’s Department for Culture, had helped unveil the exhibit.<br />
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A Nov. 27 plenary session of the city council did not pass a proposal to remove the exhibit. The proposal came from members of the Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN), a center-right regional political party considered.<br />
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Enrique Maya, a UPN spokesman, said there was debate over who should pull the exhibit as offensive. In his view, a city government team from the Department of Culture should remove the exhibit photos.<br />
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Beloki commented on the debate on behalf of Bildu. She charged that “extreme right wing and fundamentalist religious groups have taken the opportunity to launch a political campaign against the council and its mayor” in order to “limit freedom of speech and to hide the harsh realities that lie behind the controversy.”<br />
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Castellanos, however, said the exhibit’s opponents wanted to know what will happen if Ancona doesn’t remove his work as requested by the city council. She said “this kind of behavior could incite civil disobedience.”<br />
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“What’s the point if the city council says something has to be done, they don't do anything about it, and nothing happens?" Castellanos asked.<br />
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The Christian Lawyers Association had filed suit against the artist for violating Spanish laws related to religious freedom and respect for religious sentiments. The group said its lawsuit could be expanded to include Beloki.<br />
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"If the exhibit continues, after the decision by the full session of the city council, we’re going to expand the lawsuit,” Castellanos said. “The city council has an obvious responsibility.”<br />
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Masses of reparation were said Nov. 25 at the cathedrals in Pamplona and Tudela, a municipality about 50 miles south of the city.<br />
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Mass attendees were explicitly told that Holy Communion would only be distributed on the tongue and had to be consumed in front of the priest. However, Azcona claimed on Twitter that some attendees stole 32 consecrated Hosts, though there was no way to confirm his claims.<br />
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On Nov. 26, some 2,000 people demonstrated in front of the city council building against the art exhibit and called on Mayor Joseba Asirón to remove it. The crowd shouted “Blasphemy isn't culture!” and “Asirón, pull the display!” Hundreds had protested at the city council building Nov. 23 and Nov. 24. Nearly 400 people prayed the Rosary in front of the art display at the exhibition hall.<br />
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More than 100,000 people have signed an internet petition against the blasphemous exhibit.<br />
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However, Azcona remains defiant. He claimed on social media that these demonstrations and acts of reparation are “a marvelous continuation of my performance art. Amen.”<br />
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<p>In “Preces meae non sunt dignae,” we referred to the <em>Dies irae</em> as “a splendid old hymn.” It has been brought to our attention—by a source we respect very much and have quoted here from time to time—that this is not quite correct. The <em>Dies irae</em> is a <em>sequence </em>historically used in the Requiem. (This is, of course, why your copies of the Mozart and Verdi Requiems have settings of the <em>Dies irae</em>, for example.) It was dropped from its venerable position in the Mass in the Bugnini revisions, though, which is why it got transported over to the <em>Liturgia Horarum</em> as an optional hymn for the thirty-fourth week of <em>Tempus Per Annum</em>, according to the same source.</p>
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<p><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> few weeks ago, Jorge Bergoglio the Bishop of Rome said to a gathering of Catholic teachers in Rome:</span></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One cannot speak of Catholic education without speaking of humanity, because, precisely, the Catholic identity is God who became man. To go forward in attitudes, in full human values, opens the door to the Christian seed. Then faith comes. To educate in a Christian way is not only to engage in catechesis: this is one part. It is not only engaging in proselytism—never proselytize in schools! Never!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/reilly/did-pope-francis-say-dont-proselytize/#ixzz3tG6Pqc91"></a><a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/reilly/did-pope-francis-say-dont-proselytize/#ixzz3tG6Pqc91">http://www.ncregister.com/blog/reilly/did-pope-francis-say-dont-proselytize/#ixzz3tG6Pqc91</a></span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In his audience yesterday, he stated:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pope appealed to all young people, calling on them to reflect on their vocation and "to not exclude the possibility of becoming a missionary" and to preach with their lives, not by proselytizing.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-CA"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA">"Those who are looking for something else are the ones that (proselytize)," he said. "Faith is preached first through witness then with words -- but slowly."</span> </div></span><span lang="EN-CA"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/missionary-spirit-means-giving-witness-not-proselytizing-pope-says.cfm">http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/missionary-spirit-means-giving-witness-not-proselytizing-pope-says.cfm</a></div></span></span></blockquote><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://sites.stfx.ca/chaplaincy/sites/sites.stfx.ca.chaplaincy/files/stxavier.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://sites.stfx.ca/chaplaincy/sites/sites.stfx.ca.chaplaincy/files/stxavier.jpg" width="242" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We can add this to his previous statements to Scalfari, publisher of La Repubblica, the only newspaper he allegedly reads, that "proselytizing is solemn nonsense."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Catholics help the poor as the example he gave in Africa, they do it because they are Catholic not because the people in need are. In Toronto, the hospital that does the most caring and research for people with AIDS is St. Michael's Hospital, founded by the once great and mighty Sisters of St. Joseph. All people are helped, not just Catholics. Nobody has to right a test to receive help from a Catholic charity, Where does he get this idea?</span></div><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today is the Feast of St. Francis Xavier, the "second Apostle" to India after St. Thomas the Apostle. When one sees the situation with our Jesuit Pope, and other media talking head and twitterati Jesuits, it is a far cry from the spirit of Francis and Ignatius and Jean de Brebeuf and Isaac Jogues and companions or Paul Miki, these great Saints of God. I wonder what they would think of the above. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh for Jesuits such as these.</span><br /><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What follows is from Matins today.</span><br /><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Third Reading from Matins according to the 1961 Divine Office:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Francis was born of noble family at Xavier in the diocese of Pamplona. In Paris, he joined the companions and disciples of St. Ignatius, and in a short time became a shining example of austerity of life and untiring contemplation of divine things. Paul III made him apostolic nuncio to India, and he traveled about through countless provinces, always on foot and often barefoot. <b>He brought the faith to Japan and six other regions. In India he converted many hundreds of thousands to Christianity, cleansing many princes and kings in the holy waters of baptism. </b>His humility was so great that, when he wrote to St. Ignatius, his general, he always did so on his knees. By many and wonderful miracles, the Lord confirmed his zealous work in spreading the Gospel. Finally, on the Chinese island of Sancian, he died on the 2nd of December, rich in merits and worn out with his labors. Gregory XV enrolled him among the Saints, and Pius X, appointed him the heavenly patron of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and of its work.</span></span></blockquote><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Second Reading from the Liturgy of the Hours</span></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A letter from St Francis Xavier to St Ignatius</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-CA"><div style="text-align: justify;">Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel</div></span><span lang="EN-CA"><div style="text-align: justify;">We have visited the villages of the new converts who accepted the Christian religion a few years ago. No Portuguese live here, the country is so utterly barren and poor. The native Christians have no priests. They know only that they are Christians. There is nobody to say Mass for them; nobody to teach them the Creed, the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Commandments of God’s Law.</div></span><span lang="EN-CA"><div style="text-align: justify;">I have not stopped since the day I arrived. I conscientiously made the rounds of the villages. I bathed in the sacred waters all the children who had not yet been baptized. This means that I have purified a very large number of children so young that, as the saying goes, they could not tell their right hand from their left. The older children would not let me say my Office or eat or sleep until I taught them one prayer or another. Then I began to understand: “The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”</div></span><span lang="EN-CA"><div style="text-align: justify;">I could not refuse so devout a request without failing in devotion myself. I taught them, first the confession of faith in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, then the Apostles’ Creed, the Our Father and Hail Mary. I noticed among them persons of great intelligence. If only someone could educate them in the Christian way of life, I have no doubt that they would make excellent Christians.</div></span><span lang="EN-CA"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.</b> Again and again I have thought of going round the universities of Europe, especially Paris, and everywhere crying out like a madman, riveting the attention of those with more learning than charity: <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">“What a tragedy: how many souls are being shut out of heaven and falling into hell, thanks to you!”</span></b></div></span><span lang="EN-CA"><div style="text-align: justify;">I wish they would work as hard at this as they do at their books, and so settle their account with God for their learning and the talents entrusted to them.</div></span><span lang="EN-CA"><div style="text-align: justify;"> This thought would certainly stir most of them to meditate on spiritual realities, to listen actively to what God is saying to them. They would forget their own desires, their human affairs, and give themselves over entirely to God’s will and his choice. They would cry out with all their heart: Lord, I am here! What do you want me to do? Send me anywhere you like – even to India.</div></span></span></blockquote><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">St. Francis Xavier, pray for us, interceded for the Church.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA"><img alt="Indian Christians carry the remains of Saint Francis Xavier towards the Se Cathedral, Goa - 22 November 2014" height="225" src="http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/79200000/jpg/_79200724_79198347.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA"><img alt="Indian Christians pay their respects to the Saint Francis Xavier at the Se Cathedral, Goa - 22 November 2014" height="224" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/79200000/jpg/_79200721_79198343.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<p>Cardinal Raymond Burke has said that if the family synod opened the way for divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion then it has “departed from Catholic teaching in a very fundamental matter”. </p>
<p>The cardinal, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, made the comments in an interview with Mass of Ages, the quarterly magazine of the Latin Mass Society.</p>
<p>He cited an article by Fr Antonio Spadaro, editor of the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, who said the synod had “laid the foundations” for remarried Catholics to be admitted to Communion.</p>
<p>Fr Spadaro, said Cardinal Burke, “goes through this whole confused argument about a ‘penitential way’ and ‘internal forum solution’ to say that now the way is open for all this”.</p>
<p>“So I believe that Catholics should be very concerned,” Cardinal Burke said. “If, in fact, the Synod is taking this position, then it has departed from Catholic teaching in a very fundamental matter. The teaching of the indissolubility of marriage is based on the very words of Our Lord in the Gospel.”</p>
<p>The cardinal was asked by the interviewer, Dylan Parry, what concerned Catholics should do.</p>
<p>“I think Catholics should simply say ‘I cannot accept this teaching as it goes against what the Church has always taught and practised.’ I don’t think that Catholics should permit themselves to be driven away from the Church by those who are not upholding the Church’s teaching.”</p>
<p>The cardinal also said that Pope Francis’s annulment reform was a “radical departure” from Church practice.</p>
<p>The cardinal, a leading canon lawyer and former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial authority in the Church apart from the pope, said: “The reforms are radical and they are a radical departure from what has been the consistent practice with regard the examination of a claim of nullity of marriage.”</p>
<p>He said also bishops should not be asked to judge marriage nullity cases, as will be the case under the Pope’s reforms. </p>
<p>“Many bishops are not canon lawyers and there is nothing wrong with that, but they shouldn’t be asked to do things they haven’t been prepared to do,” he said. </p>
<p>The cardinal said he was “not an enemy of the Pope and never will be”, explaining: “You won’t find a single statement of mine in which I am speaking against the Holy Father. I just don’t do that.” </p>
<p>But he suggested that the Pope’s liking for language that was “unusual, colloquial and catchy” at times led to confusion.</p>
<p>“The danger of it is that because of who he is, the Supreme Pontiff and Bishop of the Universal Church, this language can be taken and used against the Church. This is certainly not the Holy Father’s intention. So, I think perhaps that’s one thing – and people have pointed this out to him – where he could be more attentive to resist that desire to speak in this way as it does cause confusion. </p>
<p>“I think, for example, of the famous phrase ‘Who am I to judge?’ and how that’s been misused to insinuate that the Church’s teaching about the intrinsic disorder of homosexual acts has changed. </p>
<p>“People who weren’t too fond of the Church used the 15, or I think it was 18, ailments of the Curia to say, ‘You see how sick and corrupt the Church is’ … So, no doubt people sometimes get the impression that the Pope is very upset with priests, bishops and even cardinals.” </p>
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<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/doppledrei.jpg"><img alt="doppledrei" class="size-full wp-image-312 alignleft" src="http://i2.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/doppledrei.jpg?resize=300%2C300" /></a> Ein doodle Problem war Schuld, daß wir heute zwei Beiträge haben.</p>
<p>Das Türchen von heute ist somit als Doppeltor ausgeführt.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bethanien-op.org/Dominikanerinnen/2015/12/03/dein-licht-kommt-3-dezember-2/" target="_blank">Türflügel 1 </a></p>
<p><a href="http://wellenwindwandern.blogspot.de/2015/12/vorbereitung-freut-advent-ist-fur-mich.html" target="_blank">Türflügel 2 </a></p>
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<p>So, nachdem der Tischler das Doppeltor jetzt eingepaßt hat, viel Freude beim Lesen.</p>
<p>Ab morgen gibt es aber wieder nur ein Türchen pro Tag. Wir sind ja keine Protzblogger. <a href="http://i0.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/icon_cof.gif"><img alt="icon_cof" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-62" src="http://i0.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/icon_cof.gif?resize=35%2C31" /></a></p>
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<p>Den Adventskalender der Blogoezese findet man <a href="http://katholon.de/adventskalender-2015/" target="_blank">hier</a> oder <a href="http://heikesanders.blogspot.de/2015/11/adventskalender-der-blogoezese-2015.html?spref=fb" target="_blank">hier</a>.</p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The occasion for this Press Release is the story <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/11/24/prayer-for-jews-should-be-updated-say-england-and-wales-bishops/">reported here</a> that the Bishops of England and Wales are to petition the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei for a change to the Good Friday Prayer for the Conversion of the Jews used in the Extraordinary Form.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b>FIUV Press Release: on the Good Friday ‘Prayer for the Jews’</b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>The Prayer for the Jews used in the Extraordinary Form Good Friday Liturgy continues to be a source of comment and misunderstanding, and the FIUV wishes to respond as follows.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><span><b>Statement by the President of the FIUV, Felipe Alanís Suárez:</b></span></u></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>It was to avoid misunderstandings of the Prayer for the Jews that Pope Benedict XVI composed the 2008 version of the prayer, which is clearly based on what is essential to Christianity: the acceptance of Christ as the saviour of the whole world, and the desire that all persons be saved. Jews are mentioned because of their special role in the history of salvation, and the special concern we must have for our ‘elder brothers’ (as Pope St John Paul II called them). The prayer looks forward to the incorporation of the Jewish people, of which Our Lord Jesus Christ and His first disciples were all members, in the salvation won for the human race by Christ on the Cross, a reconciliation which, as St Paul teaches, will be fulfilled only towards the end of history.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>The FIUV is convinced that any possible continuing misunderstanding regarding the Good Friday Prayer for the Jews can be resolved in the context of the Magisterium of the Church, without veiling the treasures of our Faith.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>We, as faithful attached to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, acknowledge that to ask of our Lord for the grace of sharing with all our brothers the joy of salvation in Jesus Christ, is an act of humility and selfless love, and a spiritual work of mercy. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>The FIUV entirely rejects all hatred and hostility towards the Jewish people, and all forms of unjust discrimination.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><span>Further observations:</span></u></div><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span>1. Although the Novus Ordo Good Friday Prayer for the Jews does not explicitly refer to Jews acknowledging Christ as Saviour, other prayers in the revised liturgy do so. </span></span><span>The Novus Ordo Vespers of Easter Sunday includes the prayer ‘Let Israel recognize in you the Messiah it has longed for’; the Morning Office of 31<sup>st</sup> December includes the prayer ‘Christ, Son of David, fulfilment of the prophecies, </span><span>may the Jewish people accept you as their awaited Deliverer [</span><i style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Latin</i><span>: Messiah].’</span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span>2. In their daily prayers, Jews pray for the conversion of ‘all of the impious of the earth’.</span></span><span>Rabbi Jacob Neusner, responding to criticisms of the 2008 Prayer for the Jews, pointed out the parallel with the Prayer for the Jews and remarked ‘The Catholic prayer manifests the same altruistic spirit that characterizes the faith of Judaism.’ (<i>Die Tagespost,</i>23 Feb 2008)<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>3. Walter, Cardinal Kasper, defended the 2008 prayer,</span></b><span> explaining that a hope that Jews accept Christ, which may be fulfilled only by God, rather than by targeted proselytism, and eschatologically (at the end of history), is nothing more than a necessary consequence of the Christian faith:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>A sincere dialogue between Jews and Christians, …is possible only, on the one hand, on the basis of a shared faith in one God, creator of heaven and earth, and in the promises made to Abraham and to the Fathers; and on the other, in the awareness and respect of the fundamental difference that consists in faith in Jesus as Christ and Redeemer of all men. (<i>L'Osservatore Romano</i> 10th April 2008)[2]</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><u>Background:</u></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span>1. The prayer used today in the Extraordinary Form was composed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008</span></span><span>, in response to concerns about the wording of the previously used prayer, and runs as follows:</span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Let us also pray for the Jews: that our God and Lord may illuminate their hearts, that they acknowledge Jesus Christ is the Saviour of all men.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>2. It is recited, in Latin, once a year, in the small number of churches worldwide where the Good Friday Liturgy is celebrated in the Extraordinary Form.</span></b><span> It forms part of a series of prayers for different categories of persons, both within and without the Church, the latter including heretics and pagans. In each case the celebrant prays for God’s graces for them. This pattern is followed in the reformed, 1970 (‘Novus Ordo’) Missal, although the wording of the prayers is different.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>3. The prayer is based on Scripture, notably St Paul.</span></b><span> The image of ‘light’ penetrating the hearts of the Jews is drawn from 2 Cor 4:3-6; St Paul speaks of the eventual conversion of the Jews in Romans 11:25-26. Romans 11:29 says of the Jewish Covenant that God ‘never revokes His promises’, which is quoted by Vatican II’s <i>Nostra aetate,</i> and by Pope St John Paul II, as the basis for a special affection and respect which Christians owe the Jewish people.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></div></div><div><hr size="1" style="text-align: left;" width="33%" /> <br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span><span> The full text of the article can be seen in English here:</span></div></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/193041?eng=y">http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/193041?eng=y</a></span></div></div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span></span></span><span> The full text can be found in English here:</span></div></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/197381?eng=y">http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/197381?eng=y</a></span></div></div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></span></span></span><span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(240, 240, 225);"><span style="background-color: white;">The different versions of the Good Friday Prayer for the Jews can be found on Wikipedia:</span><span style="background-color: #f0f0e1;"></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_prayer_for_the_Jews" style="background-color: white;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_prayer_for_the_Jews</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div></div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></span></span></span><span> Romans 11:29: ‘For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.’ Quoted by <i>Nostra aetate</i> 4, and Pope St John Paul II in his Address to the Jewish Community of Berlin on 17<sup>th</sup> November 1980.</span></div></div></div></div>
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<p>(<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews</a>) – The new president of Germany’s bishops-sponsored lay organization has already made news by publicly defending same-sex unions and an organization that facilitates abortions.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://thewandererpress.com/featured-today/intense-conflicts-is-the-catholic-church-in-germany-in-danger-of-apostasy/">controversial</a> German Catholic lay organization Zentralkomitee der Deutschen Katholiken (Central Committee of  German Catholics – ZdK) elected Dr. Thomas Sternberg, a politician and theologian, as president on November 20.</p>
<p>Then on November 24, as the German branch of Vatican Radio <a href="http://de.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/11/24/d_neuer_zdk-pr%C3%A4sident_f%C3%BCr_eintragung_von_lebenspartnerschaf/1189134">reports</a>, Sternberg signed a petition together with other German Catholic politicians who call for the State’s legal protection of same-sex civil unions. The reason given for this petition was the desire for a “legal peace and for the recognition of a different form of living,” as Radio Vatikan quotes them. The German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost also quotes this same petition in their own article the same day, saying:</p>
<p>The signatories stress, at the same time, that ‘same-sex partners who take up reliable and enduring responsibilities for one another, who stand for one another, and who promise to be faithful, should also have the claim for a special protection by the State. They deserve, too, full and unrestrained acceptance.</p>
<p>Earlier, on November 22, the radio station of the Archdiocese of Cologne published an <a href="http://www.domradio.de/themen/laien/2015-11-22/zdk-praesident-sternberg-zu-kommenden-aufgaben">interview</a> with Sternberg in which he proposed to do away with some of the standing controversial topics that are still agitating the Catholic Church. In giving one example, he says that,</p>
<p>in the near future, there will no longer be any struggle concerning those Catholic men and women who work in the field of care for pre-born human life, as it is being performed by the organization “Donum Vitae.” Such unnecessary issues of controversy have to be removed, and relatively fast.</p>
<p>Donum Vitae is indeed a controversial organization which, in the past, was even <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/german-bishops-finally-denounce-abortion-counselling-service">rebuked by the German bishops</a> as being “outside the Catholic Church” and for partaking in a legal system in Germany that demands an explicit certification that a woman has personally partaken in an official counseling session before carrying out her intended abortion. This form of procedure allows a woman in Germany to have a legally permitted abortion. Since 1995, the German government has legally required women to obtain such a certificate from a legally constituted abortion counseling agency.</p>
<p>However, in 1999, the Vatican criticized the German bishops for lending a hand themselves, with the help of their pregnancy counseling organizations, to the practice of abortions. Pope John Paul II had issued a statement saying that the German bishops should not participate in this German legal system, and that they should abstain from supporting or allowing these ominous Counseling Certificates. It was then that Donum Vitae was founded in 1999 by German laymen – members of the above-mentioned Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) – with the purpose of handing out Counseling Certificates, and with the justification that some women might in the counseling session be dissuaded from going ahead with the intended abortion.</p>
<p>Only in 2006, the German bishops finally <a href="http://downloads.bistum-hildesheim.org/1/10/2/75607056756207280148.pdf">prohibited</a> any Church cooperation with Donum Vitae. However, still today, on the <a href="http://www.donumvitae.org/Beratungsschein">official website of Donum Vitae</a>, one can see that this organization offers the so-called “Beratungsschein” – Counseling Certificate – which is a necessary permit granted to those seeking a legal abortion, to include, in certain cases, receiving financial help by a health insurance agency. The exact words on the official website are:</p>
<p>Even if you are to decide for a termination of the pregnancy, you still can make use of the accompaniment by our counselors. Our counseling stations are authorized to sign the Counseling Certificate, according to the Penal Law §219, with which in Germany, a termination of a pregnancy is permitted without penalty.</p>
<p>As the German pro-life activist, Mathias von Gersdorff, <a href="http://mathias-von-gersdorff.blogspot.com/2015/11/neuer-zdk-chef-sternberg-will-sich-fur.html">points out</a> in a November 23 article, the former and now-deceased bishop of Fulda, Germany, Archbishop Johannes Dyba, called these Counseling Certificates “Death Certificates” because they give a helping hand in killing a child in the womb. Von Gersdorff continues:</p>
<p>Archbishop Johannes Dyba was of the opinion that the real name of this organization [Donum Vitae—Gift of Life] should be “Donum Mortis,” [Gift of Death] since the only purpose of these Counseling Certificates which are given out there is to make possible an abortion without penalty.</p>
<p>Von Gersdorff, therefore, criticizes Sternberg for defending Donum Vitae. He concludes that “the ZdK has obviously never accepted the decision of the pope and of the German bishops.”</p>
<p>Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, had himself <a href="http://www.kath.net/news/46170">stated</a> in May 2014 that the employees of the organization Donum Vitae should “not be excluded from the Catholic Church,” that the discussion should not now “be instrumentalized for other purposes,” and that the German bishops will still continue their discussions with Donum Vitae. The new president of the ZdK, Thomas Sternberg, by now making his own statement in defense of Donum Vitae, might well hope that in the future there will be a softening attitude toward Donum Vitae on the part of the German bishops themselves, collectively and individually.</p>
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<p>Cover story…</p>
<p>This everyone, from priests to schoolchildren, can play their part, <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/december-4th-2015/we-need-catholics-with-attitude/">says</a> Bishop Philip Egan.</p>
<p><strong>More comment…</strong></p>
<p>Laura Keynes <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/december-4th-2015/my-burden-lifted-forever/">thought</a> her sin was too big even for Confession. She was wrong.</p>
<p>Sr Janet Fearns<a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/december-4th-2015/book-review-how-to-live-after-a-loved-one-dies/"> on how to live</a> after a loved one dies.</p>
<p>Bishop David McGough <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/december-4th-2015/to-be-at-peace-with-god-is-to-satisfy-the-hearts-deepest-longing/">meditates</a> on the Second Week of Advent.</p>
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Have Catholics really gained anything from the Reformation, asks Ed West.</p>
<p>John Pridmore, a reformed criminal, on the moment he knew that Jesus was on his side.</p>
<p>Joseph Pearce on how God forgave him for his racist past.</p>
<p>Stuart Reid stocks up on tea, chewing gum and an apple.</p>
<p>Quentin de la Bédoyère explains why he’s wary of Evangelicals.</p>
<p>Luke Coppen launches our app for smartphones – and it’s absolutely free for a month.</p>
<p>Tim Stanley takes a way-out trip courtesy of Amazon.</p>
<p>Mick Duggan on St Augustine and the power of flatulence.</p>
<p>An era of peace and good health may be coming to an end, says Michael Tugendhat.</p>
<p>The first victims of Islamist terrorism are peaceful Muslims, argues Fr Ronald Rolheiser.</p>
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<div class="dropcap">The feast day of St Andrew was celebrated on the evening of November 30th at St Joseph’s Church in Greenock in the Scottish Diocese of Paisley, the first mass in the Extraordinary Form for many years in this diocese. The Mass was celebrated by Fr Robert Mann, with music by the Schola Benedicti, and was well attended the Mass. The parish priest, the Rev. Doctor John Bollan was present in the sanctuary.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gnI2j-WCp2k/VmAsBczQLlI/AAAAAAAAE7Y/Ht5BGcaYo-I/s1600/P1160669.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gnI2j-WCp2k/VmAsBczQLlI/AAAAAAAAE7Y/Ht5BGcaYo-I/s400/P1160669.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rr16HT9-ks4/VmAsBRa643I/AAAAAAAAE7Q/0-H5UV25gDk/s1600/P1160677.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rr16HT9-ks4/VmAsBRa643I/AAAAAAAAE7Q/0-H5UV25gDk/s400/P1160677.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nxepG9LFgsM/VmAsBQq5xKI/AAAAAAAAE7U/9A6Jdg6TEms/s1600/P1160710.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nxepG9LFgsM/VmAsBQq5xKI/AAAAAAAAE7U/9A6Jdg6TEms/s400/P1160710.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7X62Pxkcnz8/VmAsDtEgqLI/AAAAAAAAE7o/rrLZ1Gs1Kqk/s1600/P1160727.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7X62Pxkcnz8/VmAsDtEgqLI/AAAAAAAAE7o/rrLZ1Gs1Kqk/s400/P1160727.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qWMtgreFUBg/VmAsFR7nviI/AAAAAAAAE7w/fYVh39PLG54/s1600/P1160766.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qWMtgreFUBg/VmAsFR7nviI/AAAAAAAAE7w/fYVh39PLG54/s400/P1160766.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9o_q5ViEIvs/VmAsFX3EurI/AAAAAAAAE70/L3L5KgNq0Zo/s1600/P1160772.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9o_q5ViEIvs/VmAsFX3EurI/AAAAAAAAE70/L3L5KgNq0Zo/s400/P1160772.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9aYJbL5Yv2U/VmAsG7HY_8I/AAAAAAAAE8A/en2ZBkBFmCM/s1600/P1160797.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9aYJbL5Yv2U/VmAsG7HY_8I/AAAAAAAAE8A/en2ZBkBFmCM/s400/P1160797.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bsUxtO_lFS8/VmAsIh44qnI/AAAAAAAAE8M/Bx93uIZVM1E/s1600/P1160815.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bsUxtO_lFS8/VmAsIh44qnI/AAAAAAAAE8M/Bx93uIZVM1E/s400/P1160815.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yizyFYsR0fM/VmAsIy0EGgI/AAAAAAAAE8I/1iVwzitEjX0/s1600/P1160821.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yizyFYsR0fM/VmAsIy0EGgI/AAAAAAAAE8I/1iVwzitEjX0/s400/P1160821.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9ZjuwyUXUps/VmAsJkb0ZhI/AAAAAAAAE8Y/Ft2ARP9PS84/s1600/P1160831.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9ZjuwyUXUps/VmAsJkb0ZhI/AAAAAAAAE8Y/Ft2ARP9PS84/s400/P1160831.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~4/kjiGmzTdAG8" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.dominicanajournal.org/praying-the-our-father-with-the-blessed-mother/">Praying the Our Father with the Blessed Mother</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://www.dominicanajournal.org">Dominicana</a>]</span>
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<p>When the disciples of Christ asked Him how to pray, he gave them a formulaic prayer that has been recited billions of times since His instruction. Let us now consider praying that prayer with the one who is God’s highest creation, the Mother of the Eternal Son and the daughter of the eternal Father. Our […]
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<h3>11:29</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zenit/english/~3/gHpgal_8aAM/pope-receives-prime-minister-of-samoa">Pope Receives Prime Minister of Samoa</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://www.zenit.org">ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome</a>]</span>
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<p>This morning, Pope Francis received the Prime Minister of the Independent State of Samoa, His Excellency Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi, in the Vatican.
According to a communique issued by the Holy See Press Office, the parties' discussions were cordial, and focused on some aspects of the social and eco...<div class="feedflare">
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<h3>11:09</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/extraordinary-formcommentaries-for-the-second-sunday-of-advent/">Extraordinary Form~Commentaries for the Second Sunday of Advent</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com">The Divine Lamp</a>]</span>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">This post probably needs some updating. I’ll try to do that latter today</span>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>MISSAL AND BREVIARY:</strong></span></p>
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<li><a href="http://divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl">Daily Roman Missal</a>. Be sure correct date is set.</li>
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<li><a href="http://divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium.pl">Roman Breviary</a>. Be sure correct date is set.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/goffinesdevoutin00goffuoft#page/n38/mode/1up">Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistle and Gospel</a>. Readings and prayers from the Mass of the day, with brief instructions on the readings. Includes a short essay on Consolation in Adversities and Afflictions.</li>
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<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>COMMENTARIES ON THE LESSON:</strong> Romans 15:4-13.</span></p>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/bernardin-de-piconio-on-romans-151-13/">Father de Piconio’s Commentary on Romans 15:4-13</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/bishop-macevilys-commentary-on-romans-154-9-for-the-2nd-sunday-of-advent-dec-5/">Bishop MacEvilly’s Commentary on Romans 15:4-13</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/father-callans-commentary-on-romans-154-9-for-the-2nd-sunday-of-advent-dec-5/">Father Callan’s Commentary on Romans 15:4-13</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://nvjournal.net/files/Aquinas_on_Romans.pdf">Aquinas’ Lecture on Romans 15:4-13</a>. Pdf. Scroll down to page 566 and read lectures 1 & 2.</li>
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<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21searchin/dailyword/Romans$2015/dailyword/Mf_oc70YnuI/wZiBJXBAWEQJ">Navarre Bible Commentary on Romans 15:4-13</a>. On 4-9.</li>
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<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>COMMENTARIES ON THE GOSPEL:</strong> Matthew 11:2-10.</span></p>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/third-sunday-of-advent-maldonados-commentary-on-matt-112-11/">Maldonado’s Commentary on the Gospel (Matt 11:2-10)</a>. Includes commentary on verse 11 since this reading (with vs 11) will be used in the Ordinary Form next Sunday.</li>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/third-sunday-of-advent-aquinas-catena-aurea-on-matt-112-11/">Aquinas’ Catena Aurea on Matt 11:2-10</a>. See previous note.</li>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/thrid-sunday-of-advent-bishop-macevily-commentary-on-matt-112-11/">Bishop MacEvily’s Commentary on Matt 11:2-10</a>. See previous note.</li>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/2010/12/02/cornelius-a-lapide-on-matt-112-11-for-the-second-sunday-of-advent-extraordinary-form/">Cornelius a Lapide’s Commentary on Matt 11:2-11</a>. See previous note.</li>
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<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21searchin/dailyword/Matthew$2011/dailyword/CW3nQF9cGl0/b4rpuTrAAscJ">Navarre Bible Commentary on Matt 11:2-10</a>. See previous note.</li>
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<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>HOMILIES AND HOMILY NOTES:</strong></span></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/newseriesofhomil01bonouoft#page/n42/mode/1up">Homily on the Epistle</a>. Prefaced by Epistle reading.</li>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/st-jerome-a-homily-on-the-gospel-for-the-second-week-of-advent-extraordinary-form/">St Jerome’s Homily on the Gospel</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/st-john-chrysostom-a-homily-on-matt-117-ff-for-the-second-sunday-of-advent-extraordinary-form/">St John Chrysostom’s Exegetical Homily on the Gospel</a>. Actually, this is just on verse 7-11.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/newseriesofhomil01bonouoft#page/n53/mode/1up">Homily on the Gospel</a>. Prefaced by Gospel reading.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/christthepreache00pheluoft#page/n21/mode/1up">The Christian Decision</a>. Homily on the Gospel.</li>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/aquinas-sermon-notes-on-the-epistle-second-sunday-of-advent/">St Thomas Aquinas’ Sermon Notes on the Epistle</a>. Can be used for sermon prep, points for meditation or further study.</li>
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<li><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/aquinas-sermon-notes-on-the-gospel-second-sunday-of-advent/">St Thomas Aquinas’ Sermon Notes on the Gospel</a>. Can be used for sermon prep, points for meditation or further study.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/sermonplansbeing00howeiala#page/6/mode/1up">Spiritual Reading</a>. Sermon notes on Romans 15:4. Can be used for sermon prep, points for meditation or further study.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/sermonplansbeing00howeiala#page/254/mode/1up">Miracles</a>. Sermon notes on Matt 11:5. Can be used for sermon prep, points for meditation or further study.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/sermonplansbeing00howeiala#page/256/mode/1up">Spiritual Disease</a>. Sermon notes on Matt 11:5. Can be used for sermon prep, points for meditation or further study.</li>
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<h3>11:01</h3>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2015/12/bishop-schneider-denounces-gnostic.html">Bishop Schneider denounces Gnostic clergy - calls them LIARS and SOPHISTS!</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/">Vox Cantoris</a>]</span>
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width="400" /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">B</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ishop Athanasius Schneider </span><a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/bp.-schneider-denounces-gnostic-clergy" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">has denounced</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "gnostic clergy" who have been proffering that doctrine and pastoral practice can be separated and are essentially sentimentalists, abusing true mercy and compassion. In a talk </span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/291360122/The-unchangeable-truth-about-marriage-and-sexuality-by-Bishop-Athanasius-Schneider" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">published by Edward Pentin and given at the Lepanto Foundation</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, the Bishop said that:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When clergy stand up for the admittance of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to Holy Communion, they in fact solemnize their adultery and their sin against the Sixth Commandment. They give to such faithful the message that their divorce and the continuous violation of their sacramental bonds can become ultimately a positive reality. In other words, such clergy are liars.<br />No Catholic who still takes seriously his baptismal vows should allow himself to be intimidated by these new sophistic teachers of fornication and adultery, even though — sad to say — these teachers hold the office of a bishop or cardinal.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We well remember this quote originally written by Richard Gaillardetz and used repeatedly in speeches and on videos by Thomas Rosica without attribution to the writer:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span lang="EN-CA">"Doctrine changes when pastoral contexts shift and new insights emerge such that particularly doctrinal formulations no longer mediate the saving message of God's transforming love?" Does he mean that "Doctrine changes when the Church has leaders and teachers who are not afraid to take note of new contexts and emerging insights?" Or does he mean that, "It changes when the Church has pastors who do what Francis has been insisting: leave the securities of your chanceries, of your rectories, of your safe places, of your episcopal residences go set aside the small minded rules that often keep you locked up and shielded from the world?"</span></span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider have been ceaseless in standing up for the truth of the Catholic faith in the face of those who would attempt to undermine the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ with flippant comments such as "It is my church."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where are the rest?</span></span></div>
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<p>The president of a traditionalist movement has said the prayer for the Jews used in the extraordinary form of the Good Friday liturgy does not need revising.</p>
<p>The bishops of England and Wales are appealing to Rome to <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/11/24/prayer-for-jews-should-be-updated-say-england-and-wales-bishops/">change the wording of the Good Friday prayer for Jews in the extraordinary form </a>because it had caused “great confusion and upset in the Jewish community”.</p>
<p>The prayer reads: “Let us also pray for the Jews: that our God and Lord may illuminate their hearts, that they acknowledge Jesus Christ is the Saviour of all men.”</p>
<p>But Felipe Alanís Suárez, president of Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce (FIUV), said that Pope Benedict had already revised the prayer in 2008 and that the new text was “clearly based on what is essential to Christianity: the acceptance of Christ as the saviour of the whole world, and the desire that all persons be saved.”</p>
<p>He continued: “Jews are mentioned because of their special role in the history of salvation, and the special concern we must have for our ‘elder brothers’ (as Pope St John Paul II called them). </p>
<p>“The prayer looks forward to the incorporation of the Jewish people, of which Our Lord Jesus Christ and His first disciples were all members, in the salvation won for the human race by Christ on the Cross, a reconciliation which, as St Paul teaches, will be fulfilled only towards the end of history.”</p>
<p>Felipe Alanís Suárez added that FIUV were “convinced that any possible continuing misunderstanding regarding the Good Friday prayer for the Jews can be resolved in the context of the Magisterium of the Church, without veiling the treasures of our Faith” and emphasised that the organisation rejects “hatred and hostility towards the Jewish people, and all forms of unjust discrimination.”</p>
<p>But Archbishop Kevin McDonald, chairman of the bishops’ Committee for Catholic-Jewish Relations, said the difference had caused “great confusion and upset in the Jewish community”.</p>
<p>He said: “The 1970 prayer which is now used throughout the Church is basically a prayer that the Jewish people would continue to grow in the love of God’s name and in faithfulness of his Covenant, a Covenant which – as St John Paul II made clear in 1980 – has not been revoked.</p>
<p>“By contrast the prayer produced in 2008 for use in the extraordinary form of the liturgy reverted to being a prayer for the conversion of Jews to Christianity.”</p>
<p>He said the English and Welsh bishops had “added their voice” to that of the German bishops, who had already asked for the prayer to be amended.</p>
<p>The statement released by FIUV said: “In their daily prayers, Jews pray for the conversion of ‘all of the impious of the earth’. Rabbi Jacob Neusner, responding to criticisms of the 2008 prayer for the Jews, pointed out the parallel and remarked: ‘The Catholic prayer manifests the same altruistic spirit that characterises the faith of Judaism.’”</p>
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The Venerable English College in Rome this week celebrated its 44 alumni who were martyred for the faith between 1581 and 1679 — the ultimate act of love for Christ that, as the VEC's rector explained, derived from...<img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NCRegisterDailyBlog/~4/UUduWGduMpA" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/on-weddings-in-novels/">On Weddings in Novels</a></span>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">An essay of mine has just been published in <a href="http://amzn.com/1498232078" target="_blank">a volume on the philosophy and theology of the soul, edited by Eric Austin Lee and Samuel Kimbriel</a>. It’s the first time that I have contributed an essay in an actual, printed book, and so I am perhaps slightly inordinately proud of it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My essay is on the portrayal of the soul in the novel. I argue that the novel  developed as a literary form particularly suited to the modern view of the subject as an isolated <em>res cogitans </em>separate from the <em>res extensa </em>and also from other <em>res cogitantes, </em>except to the extent that it enters into voluntary relationships with other subjects<em>. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Following Ian Watt, I argue that this explains not only the <em>form </em>of the novel, but also to a large extent the main theme of English novels since Samuel Richardson: love between a man and a woman usually terminating in marriage. As I put it in my essay,</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Capitalism having destroyed the interpersonal ties of more organic societies and replaced them with cold contractualism, freely chosen relationships took on a great importance: especially the relationship of husband and wife, which, disengaged from other areas of life, becomes a matter of personal choice. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Resounding-Soul-Reflections-Metaphysics-Vivacity/dp/1498232078/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449136045&sr=1-3&keywords=samuel+kimbriel" target="_blank">p. 204</a>)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Now it occured to me recently that since marriage here is important mostly for its subjective purpose of overcoming the isolation of the individual, rather than for its role in a larger society, it makes sense that while <em>proposals </em>of marriage play a prominent role in novels, actual weddings are surprisingly rare. Moreover, on the rare occasions when a wedding is actually described, it is often described as being a small, private affair, rather than a great feast for a whole community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Take for example David Copperfield’s wedding to Agnes. If anyone might be expected to ignore the novelistic convention of small weddings, one would think it would be Dickens, who has so much concern with “social” problems and so on, and is by no means so devoted to the classical novelistic purpose of giving a window into the depths of the <em>res cogitans </em>as more formally perfect novelists. Moreover, David Copperfield is by the time of his wedding to Agnes a national celebrity, who might be expected to have a very wide social circle. (Even in our lamentable time celebrities like to have big weddings; witness Francesco Totti’s wedding at Santa Maria in Aracoeli, which was televised so that the whole of Italy could be, as it were, present). And yet this is how Dickens describes David and Agnes’s wedding:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Traddles and Sophy, and Doctor and Mrs. Strong, were the only guests at our quiet wedding.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">A notable exception to the rule, however, is (<em>spoiler alert:</em>) <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3166/3166-h/3166-h.htm#c47" target="_blank">Mary and Frank’s wedding in Trollope’s </a><em><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3166/3166-h/3166-h.htm#c47" target="_blank">Dr Thorne</a>. </em>It is a truly magnificent affair in which not only all the friends and relations of the Thornes and Greshams are present, but also all the dignitaries of Barsetshire, and (significantly) all the common people dependent on the Greshams.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The reason for this, it seems to me, is that <em>Dr Thorne</em> is really about the conjunction of two different worlds, and of two different views of marriage. The Greshams are an old aristocratic family whose position in the community is threatened by <a href="https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/use-values-and-corn-laws-aristotelian-marxists-and-high-tories/" target="_blank">new economic realities of 19th century England</a>. The only practicable way for Frank to save his position, and thus the whole way of life of his family, and to a certain extent of the whole community, is to marry someone rich. But of course he falls in love with Mary Thorne, who is very poor. The interesting thing about the novel is the way in which both Frank and Mary are torn about their prospective marriage— both acknowledge the importance of personal choice and love (so central to the bourgeois ideal of marriage that is the main theme of novels), and yet both also see the importance of saving Frank’s position, and the suffering that their marriage would consequently bring on the whole community. There are two apparently incommensurable moral ideals in conflict here. This conflict is only resolved by the fortuitous circumstance of Mary’s inheriting the fortune of a railway magnate. Thus bringing a strange synthesis in which the wealth of the new world of railways and industry is used to prop up the old world way of life of the landed gentry. This works quite well in the novel, but it was not a solution that admitted to a general application to the problems of English society.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/sancrucensis.wordpress.com/4198/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/sancrucensis.wordpress.com/4198/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=sancrucensis.wordpress.com&blog=13298615&post=4198&subd=sancrucensis&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>„Wenn euch der Gehorsam viele äußere Verpflichtungen auferlegt,</em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>etwa in der Küche, dann sollt ihr wissen, </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>auch zwischen den Kochtöpfen wandelt der Herr.“</em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em> (Hl. Theresa von Avila)</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Die moderne Buchreihe aus dem Bonifatius Verlag in Paderborn heißt „3×7  Zusagen des Glaubens“ könnte man zeitgemäße Umsetzung des obigen Zitats der Hl. Theresa auffassen. Gott findet sich im Alltag, im Tatort, bei Star Trek und jedem nur denkbaren Lebenszusammenhang. Wie könnte es auch anders sein? Der Schöpfer hat seine Schöpfung nie verlassen. So kann auch der Alltag, das Hobby, ja selbst die Krankheit Ort der Gottesbegegnung sein.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_304" style="width: 193px;"><a href="http://i1.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/3x7_Insel_Kraft_zurueckgewinnen_300.jpg"><img alt="Johannes Insel Meine Kraft zurück gewinnen" class="size-medium wp-image-304" src="http://i1.wp.com/katholon.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/3x7_Insel_Kraft_zurueckgewinnen_300.jpg?resize=183%2C300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Johannes Insel<br />Meine Kraft zurück gewinnen</p></div>
<p style="text-align: left;">Burnout ist eine heimtückische Krankheit. Der Patient verliert nicht nur die Lust am Leben, sondern geradezu die Fähigkeit zu leben. Es fehlt die Kraft für alles. Nicht selten sogar die Kraft am Morgen überhaupt aufzustehen. Diese Krankheit sucht gerade die heim, die in ihrem (Arbeits-)Leben besonders aktiv sind. Es trifft die, die sich immer mehr und noch mehr zutrauen, weil sie es können. Und wirklich, sie können es. Bis das filigrane System aus Terminkalender, Zeitmanagment, Ehrenamt, Pionierarbeit und Brotberuf zusammenbricht.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Pfarrer Johannes Insel hat es getroffen. Gemeindepfarrer, Notfallseelsorger, Ansprechpartner für Notfallseelsorge und viele andere Aufgaben füllten die Tage des engagierten Priesters aus. Kein Handschlag Arbeit war ihm zu viel. Nicht wurde abgelehnt, denn Verantwortung für die Menschen, der Dienst in der Gemeinde und in anderen Feldern waren wichtig und mußten gemacht werden. Dann ließ die Kraft nach. Am Ende war sie vollständig weg. Die Diagnose war niederschmetternd: Burnout! Ende! Alles vorbei, nichts geht mehr.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Eine Auszeit steht an. Der Pfarrer geht nach Münsterschwarzach ins Recollectio- Haus. In den guten Händen der Therapeuten und nicht zuletzt im Gebet mit den Mönchen findet der Priester langsam seine Kraft zurück. Es ist ein Weg, der gegangen werden will. Dieser Weg ist nicht leicht, denn lieb gewordene Verhaltensmuster müssen sich ändern. Das Leben muß sich ändern.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Johannes Insel entdeckt längst verloren geglaubte Schätze in seinem Leben wieder. Da ist die Musik. Seine alte Liebe zur Geige flammt wieder auf und der Klang des Instruments hilft ihm zu heilen. Doch mehr noch die Musik lehrt, daß sie nur gut klingt, wenn man übt. Auch das Leben verlangt üben. Johannes Insel beschreibt diese Erkenntnis sehr lebendig.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Da sind Menschen, die den Weg mit ihm gehen. Gespräche mit Mönchen, die der Seele neue Wege zeigen. Pfarrer Insel beschreibt in den 21 kurzen Texten mal ernst, mal heiter, doch immer mit großer Ehrlichkeit und Tiefe seinen Weg. „Meine Kraft zurück gewinnen“ ist kein medizinisches oder psychologisches Buch. Auch wenn Fragen der Gesundheit, Sport, Ernährung durchaus eine Rolle spielen. Pfarrer Insel gelingt es bei jedem dieser Aspekte auch den geistlichen Anteil zu finden. Dabei wirkt das nie konstruiert oder künstlich, es ist durchlebte Erfahrung, die sich in Texte niedergeschlagen hat.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Das kleine Büchlein von gerade mal 112 Seiten enthält eine Fülle von Anregungen zu einem gelingenden Leben. Auch Menschen, die nicht vor Burnout betroffen sind, können im Buch geistliche Impulse für ihr Leben finden. Es gibt keine Universalrezepte, es sind Erfahrungen, aus denen Anregungen erwachsen. Am Ende muß jeder seinen eigenen Weg gehen. Vor Fehlern ist man dabei nicht gefeit. So berührt doch die Stelle, in der Pfarrer Insel dem Mönch Anselm Grün gesteht, er habe doch so viele Bücher von ihm gelesen, wieso habe er denn nicht besser gelernt, wie sein Leben gelingen kann. Wer selber Burnout- Kandidat ist, versteht sofort. Ich leiste und leiste und leiste, doch am Ende mache ich alles falsch. Ich bin der Klassenbeste, schreibe die besten Noten, bin der geniale Pfarrer oder Manager oder Ingenieur, ich habe alles gelesen, müßte alles wissen und scheitere dennoch.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">„Das Leben findet eben im Leben statt“, antwortet der Mönch dem Pfarrer, „nicht in Büchern.“ Das muß man auch lernen, wenn man ein Burnout hat. Der Ansage von Pater Anselm zu Trotz sei das Buch von Johannes Insel wärmstens empfohlen. Gerade den „Guten“, den „Spitzenkräften“, den „Fleißigen“ sei es an die Hand gegeben, um für sich Wege zu einem erfüllteren Leben zu finden. Aber bitte im Leben, nicht im Buch. Man muß Pfarrer Johannes Insel für seinen Mut danken, zu seiner Geschichte zu stehen, denn das ist nicht leicht. Scheitern ist in unserer Gesellschaft nicht erlaubt, doch gerade aus dem Scheitern wächst neues Leben, wenn man sich ihm stellt.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Pfarrer Insel hat seinen Weg zurück gefunden. Er ist wieder in der Gemeindeseelsorge. Auch als Feuerwehrseelsorger ist er wieder aktiv. Sein Beispiel, das er in gut lesbare kurze Texten gefaßt hat, zeigt es: Auch wenn alles hoffnungslos wirkt, mit Gott gibt es immer einen Weg. Diese 21 kleinen Texte aus der Reihe „3×7 Zusagen des Glaubens“ zeichnen diesen Weg nach und es lohnt sich der gelegten Spur zu folgen.</p>
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<p><strong>Johannes Insel</strong><br />
<strong> Meine Kraft zurückgewinnen</strong><br />
Reihe: 3 x 7 Zusagen des Glaubens<br />
112 Seiten. Vierfarbig illustriert<br />
Dezember 2014<br />
ISBN/EAN: 978-3-89710-597-3</p>
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<p><b>Raymond Kardinal Burke</b> widerspricht in einem Beitrag im<b> National Catholic Register </b>Msgr. A.Spadaro, Direktor von "Civiltà Cattolica", und dem, was er in der letzten Ausgabe der Zeitschrift über die Familiensynode und das Schlußdokument geschrieben hat.<br />Hier geht´s zum Original: <b><a href="http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-truth-about-the-14th-ordinary-assembly-of-the-synod-of-bishops/">klicken</a></b><br /><br /> <b> "ES EXISTIERT KEINE ANDERE PASTORAL FÜR DIE GESCHIEDENEN" </b><br />von R.L.Burke<br /><br />"In der neuen Ausgabe der "Civiltà Cattolica" vom 28. November hat der Jesuitenpater Antonio Spadaro, Direktor der Zeitschrift und Synodenvater, eine Zusammenfassung der Arbeiten der 14. Ordentlichen Synode zur Berufung und Mission der Familie präsentiert.<br />Obwohl der Autor verschiedene Behauptungen über Natur und Arbeit der Synode aufstellt, die eingehendere kritische Kommentare an anderem Ort erforderlich machen würden, muß eine seiner Behauptungen sofort kommentiert werden, die der Autor wie folgt zusammenfaßt::<br /><br />"Die Synode wollte besonders auf die verletzten Paare und Personen eingehen, um sie zu begleiten und in einem Prozess der Integration und der hindernislosen Versöhnung-zu heilen. Sie suchte nach dem Zugang für die wiederverheirateten Geschiedenen zu den Sakramenten, die Synode hat den Weg der Unterscheidung und des "forum internum" formuliert und so eine Tür geöffnet, die bei der vorhergehenden Synode verschlossen geblieben war."<br /><br />Ich lasse die Tatsache beiseite, daß verschiedene Synodenväter in öffentlichen Äußerungen, das Gegenteil behaupten,-also daß die Synode die immerwährende Praxis der Kirche denen gegenüber, die in einer irregulären Beziehung leben, beibehalten hat.<br />Auch wenn die Texte der Paragraphen 84 und 85 es an Klarheit mangeln lassen, was die fundamentalen Glaubenswahrheiten, die Hl. Eucharistie und die Hl.Ehe angeht, so erscheint dieser Mangel an Klarheit jetzt auch in den öffentlichen Erklärungen der Synodenväter.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><br />Tatsache ist, daß die Synode eine Tür, die es nicht gibt und nicht geben kann, nicht öffnen kann- besonders nicht die der Gewissens-Unterscheidung, die der Wahrheit über die höchste Heiligkeit der Allerheiligsten Eucharistie und der Unauflöslichkeit des ehelichen Bandes widerspricht<br />Die Synode-wollte- wie es die Kirche immer gelehrt und praktiziert hat- dem einzelnen Menschen, der sich in einer Situation befindet, die nicht mit der Lehre Christi und seiner Kirche übereinstimmt, Liebe zeigen.<br /><br />Die christusgleiche Liebe zum Einzelnen jedoch bedeutet nicht "Integration und grenzenlose Versöhnung", weil sie auf der unersetzbaren Wahrheit von Natur und Gnade gegründet ist- zum Wohl des Einzelnen und der Gemeinschaft. Christusgleiche Liebe begleitet den Einzelnen auf seinem Weg zu Reue und Wiedergutmachung, damit er wieder fähig wird, Christus in den Sakramenten zu begegnen.<br />Auf dem "Weg der Unterscheidung" begleitet der Priester den Bereuenden, der in einer irregulären Beziehung lebt, um sein Gewissen wieder mit der Hl. Eucharistie und der Wahrheit über die Ehe, an die er gebunden ist, in Einklang zu bringen.<br /><br />Wie die Kirche unverändert gelehrt und praktiziert hat, wird der Bereuende in einem "forum internum" dahin geführt, keusch und treu zum bestehenden Ehebund zu leben, auch wenn er mit jemand anderem in einer ehelichen Verbindung zu leben scheint- um so wieder Zugang zu den Sakramenten zu erhalten- auf eine Weise, die keinen Skandal erzeugt.<br />Der Hl. Papst Johannes Paul II beschreibt die Kirchenpraxis des "forum internum" in "Familiaris Consortio" Nr. 84. Die "Deklaration des Päpstlichen Rates für Legislative Texte " vom 24. Juni 2000 illustriert diese Lehre von Familiaris Consortio Nr. 84.<br />Auf diese beiden Dokumente wird im Schlußrepüort der Synode Bezug genommen, aber leider auf eine irreführende Weise.<br /><br />Um den Eindruck zu erwecken, daß es im "forum internum" eine andere Praxis gäbe, die es dem Einzelnen erlaubte, in einer irregulären Beziehung Zugang zu den Sakramenten zu haben, wird behauptet, daß das Gewissen mit der Glaubenswahrheit im Konflikt stehen darf. So eine Behauptung versetzt den Priester in die unmögliche Situation, - die Erwartung, daß er für den Beichtenden "eine Tür öffnen" könne, die es in Wirklichkeit nicht gibt und nicht geben kann.<br /><br />Zuletzt und zum größten Schaden für die universale Kirche erweckt das den Eindruck, daß der Römische Pontifex eine Praxis gutheißen kann, die im Konflikt mit der Glaubenswahrheit steht. Die Synode der Bischöfe - kann gemäß ihrer Natur und ihres Zwecks- nicht das Werkzeug für eine solche Erwartung sein."<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Quelle: NCR, Kardinal R. Burke</span><br /><br /><div id="col-dx" style="color: #333333; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 14px; width: 342px;"><div><br /></div></div>
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<p>  Dale Price has an intriguing post over at One Peter Five: If you are a typical observant Catholic who has struggled with this papacy, dealt with distress caused by his words and actions, and generally struggled with dislike for the pontifex, it’s OK. Well, all right, it’s not: honestly, it is both strange and […]<div class="us_excerpts_bottom" style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;"><div class="us_wrapper tal us_skin_default"><div class="us_facebook us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-facebook"></i></div><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_twitter us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-twitter"></i></div><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_googleplus us_transient us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-google"></i></div><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_love us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-love"></i></div><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_linkedin us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-linkedin"></i></div><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_reddit us_transient us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-reddit"></i></div><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_stumble us_transient us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-stumbleupon"></i></div><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_mail us_button us_no_count"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/#us-modal-SlrGX"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-mail"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_print us_no_count us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-print"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_delicious us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-delicious"></i></div><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div></a></div><div class="us_total us_button"><div class="us_box" href="#"><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div><div class="us_share"></div></div></div><div class="us_comments us_button"><a class="us_box" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/2015/12/03/popewatch-is-the-pope-anti-catholic/#respond"><div class="us_share"><i class="us-icon-comments"></i></div><div class="us_count"><i class="us-icon-spin us-icon-spinner"></i></div></a></div></div></div>
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<p>Orthodoxy is not as monolithic as orthodoxophile Westerners sometimes like to imagine. Not surprisingly, there has been (at least) one call, in 2007, from a dozen "dissident" priests within Orthodoxy, for 'antisemitic' texts found on Good Friday and elsewhere to be excised from the Liturgy. [I don't like the word 'antisemitic' because Jews are not the only Semites. I prefer 'antijudaic'.] The '
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/San_Francisco_2_Credit_UnSplash_CNA_12_2_15.jpg" /><p>San Francisco, Calif., Dec 3, 2015 / 03:12 am (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- The early days of the AIDS epidemic of San Francisco marked a time of fear, uncertainty and suffering. But amid the anxiety and confusion, those in need of treatment and care found one of their biggest advocates and supporters in the Catholic Church.
“I always think it’s one of the great secrets of San Francisco County that Archbishop Quinn and Catholic Charities reached out very early on in the epidemic to serve people who had HIV and AIDS,” said George Simmons, senior program director at Catholic Charities Assisted Housing & Health in an interview with CNA.
“I think it was a part of the faith of the Catholic community to say – I hate to use this cliché – but, ‘what would Jesus do?’”
Among the groundbreaking elements of the Church’s response, Simmons said, was that “(t)he Catholic Church was the one of the first with programs for Women and Children.”
“We prevented a larger outbreak of HIV and AIDS in women and children,” he said, explaining that “at the time, the epidemic was primarily focused on men, because that was the majority of the people who were infected.”
The Catholic community realized that the virus was spreading and other populations – including women and people of color – were becoming infected, he said. “We responded very early and it helped.”
In the early 1980s, doctors started noticing clusters of rare cancers and infections in cities such as San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. In 1982, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) named the syndrome Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, and opened the first clinic to treat AIDS in San Francisco. It was later discovered that the disease was caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, and transmitted through bodily fluids.
Meanwhile, the virus took a staggering human toll. By 1994, HIV infection and related illnesses had become the leading cause of death in the United States among people aged 25-44 years old.
Eventually, advances in antiretroviral treatments would increase the lifespan of those able to receive them, and debates over prevention would gain prominence. But as the outbreak was just beginning in San Francisco, information about the virus was lacking. All that was clear was that people were in need of help.
And the Catholic Church responded swiftly. “Archbishop (John) Quinn reacted very early to the crisis,” said Deacon Jeff Burns, recently retired archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
“Much was done in the early days,” he told CNA in a statement. He pointed to Father Michael Lopes, OP, who set up an initial office of AIDS ministry at the Archdiocese, which included the formation of an AIDS hospice and programs to educate local communities on the disease and decrease fear and stigma.
One of the local parishes at the center of the outbreak – and response – was Most Holy Redeemer, located in the Castro District, a prominent LGBT neighborhood in central San Francisco. Fr. Tony McGuire, former pastor of Most Holy Redeemer described in an oral history video for the parish what the community experienced as the epidemic broke in the 1980s.
“There was this kind of anxiety about how the disease was communicated,” he explained, and the anxiety even carried over into worship. “The devotion to the Precious Blood dwindled,” he continued, adding that people became “much more reserved” at the Sign of Peace and other parts of the Mass. “A number of people even left the parish.”
But even during the initial period of fear, parishioners tried to help and do what they could, Fr. McGuire said. Some who were doctors or medical professionals helped to educate parishioners about the disease and how it was transmitted as information became available.
“That became a great source of relief,” he recalled.
Prayer also became a foundation for Most Holy Redeemer’s ministry to those with HIV/AIDS, Father said. “What do we do when we don’t know what to do? We pray.”
One of the first tasks that brought peace to the parish was the creation of a list of the sick so that they could be named in the Prayers of the Faithful. In 1987, the parish also drafted a scroll with the names of the dead, both from AIDS and of other causes, as a symbol of remembrance and as a tool for the faithful to use in their prayers.
Devotion to the Eucharist was also revived at Most Holy Redeemer as a response to the AIDS crisis. During a liturgy meeting, Fr. McGuire recalled, a parishioner asked where a parish tradition of 40 hours of exposition and worship of the Blessed Sacrament had originated and why it had stopped. Father replied that while the devotion had faded in the parish over time, he thought it had started when a plague hit San Francisco.
“Well, we’ve got a plague going on, why don’t we do the 40 Hours?” the parishioner responded.
The exposition, which was joined by local religious sisters and Archbishop Quinn, made a deep impact on the parish, Fr. McGuire recounted. “The 40 Hours became a kind of turning point,” he said. The devotion and exposition “became a way the community responded, both in prayer and in service to a great need.”
The exposition made a difference to individuals as well. “I remember one man came who had been a brother at one time in his life, and he had left the Church,” Father started. “When the bar closed he just happened to walk in while in passing, and the Blessed Sacrament was exposed.”
“He felt great calm and came back the next day,” his former pastor said. “It became a time for him to return to the Church. Sometime later, he himself was diagnosed with AIDS, but he was able to die reconciled and at peace.”
“Eventually parishioners wanted to respond in a more direct way, and they created the AIDS support group in 1985,” Fr. McGuire said, bringing together people of all walks of life within the parish.
The members would go out together to visit AIDS patients, deliver meals, help with errands and offer emotional and spiritual support. For many facing HIV/AIDS, “it became a real resource for them.”
The AIDS Support Group at Most Holy Redeemer still exists today, said Pete Toms, the program coordinator.
“It’s an important parish outreach to the community,” he told CNA, with volunteers from the parish as well as from the neighborhood at large helping to provide home assistance, care and other kinds of support to those with HIV/AIDS. “For many, I think, the time has come in their life to do something for others.”
Some of the support group’s beneficiaries come through local programs, including those operated by Catholic Charities, Toms said.
Simmons explained that Catholic Charities offers a variety of financial and counseling programs for those with HIV/AIDS, but a major concern is housing.
“San Francisco’s one of the most expensive places to live in the world,” he noted. For many living with HIV/AIDS, finding affordable housing – much less paying for expensive treatments and doctors’ appointments – is a daunting task. “It’s important that they have housing and services for that reason.”
The main goal, he continued, is to make sure that those that have HIV/AIDS have access to medical care. Because the city was one of the first to face a large outbreak, “we have a very, very good system of care in San Francisco for people with HIV and AIDS.”
When patients lacking access to housing and medical care come to Catholic Charities, Simmons said, the aim is for those patients not only to find but continue to receive the treatment they need. “Our first goal when someone comes to us is to link them with care. The second priority is to give them stable housing.”
The number of lives saved by these care and housing programs is unknown, particularly the lives of women and children with HIV/AIDS, who at the time were often overlooked in care programs.
“Catholic Charities and the Archdiocese of San Francisco have been very involved since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic to serve people,” he said. Today, the organization serves “more than a thousand people every month.”
“There are many Catholic communities in many cities across the states that have responded in kind. We just happened to be here at the beginning of the epidemic and have been here since.”
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/excita-domine-potentiam-tuam/">Excita, Domine, potentiam tuam</a></span>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">P.J. Smith, of the excellent new blog <em><a href="http://semiduplex.com/" target="_blank">Semiduplex</a>, </em>recently <a href="http://semiduplex.com/2015/11/28/preces-meae-non-sunt-dignae/" target="_blank">remarked</a> that one element of the post-conciliar <em>Liturgia Horarum </em>is clearly superior to pre-conciliar versions of the <em>Roman Breviary</em>: the singing of the <em>Dies Irae </em>at the major hours in the week before Advent. As it happens the <a href="http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2014/07/the-art-of-book-in-third-millennium.html">Heiligenkreuz Breviary</a> adopted this commendable reform.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is is interesting to  compare the <em>Dies Irae </em>with those of the liturgical texts of the first week of Advent that also deal with the Second Coming and the Last Judgement. One can see two different but complementary ways of considering the Last Judgement. The <em>Dies Irae </em>looks to the Last Judgement from the stand point, as it were, of the guilty and accused: <em>culpa rubet vultus meus. </em>But the Liturgy of Advent looks at it more from the perspective of a plaintiff, from one calling for justice against his opressors, or it looks at it from the perspective of a member of an opressed people hoping for justice from a more powerful ruler:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Veni Domine, et noli tardare: </i><em>relaxa facinora plebi tuae… Excita Domine potentiam tuam, ut salvos nos facias.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Both ways of thinking of the Judgement are necessary. As St. John the Baptist teaches the people, we are not ready for the Messiah to save us from oppression untill we recognize that we are our selves also sinners and in need of repentance. If we consider things only from the point of vew of the accused then it can be hard to see why the coming of Our Lord is the <em>beata spes, </em>the blessed hope, but if we look at it only from the point of view of the plaintiff or the opressed people, then there is the danger of self-righteousness and zealotry.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To keep the look of the accused alive in our hearts it is necessary to <a href="https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/what-abraham-did-not-do/" target="_blank">realize the malice of sin</a>. How do we keep the look of the plaintiff? For a bourgeois Westerner, enjoying the wealth and priveledge that the global economy affords to Westerners of such a class, there can easily be something false and pretend about identifying with the poor and the oppressed. Contrast the way that Pope Francis speaks about the oppression of the poor in South America with the way certain Western European prelates speak on the same topic. Pope Francis speaks as one who really sees the evil and identifies with the victims— as one who has struggled against the evil, and known the frustration of coming up against the seemingly immovable powers that cause it. But how <em>jejune</em> do the words of certain Western European prelates on the troubles of the Third World seem by contrast.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So what are we to do? The remedy would seem to be found in greater engangement in struggle against injustice and opression. The more one is actually trying to overcome structures of sin, and feels all the frustrations of the struggle against great powers, the more one truly desires that the Lord would at last come, and show is power, and put an end to all the evils that cry to Him for vengeance.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Stephen Wedgeworth gives an example of what I am thinking of in <a href="https://calvinistinternational.com/2015/12/02/pro-life-rhetoric-in-civil-society-a-reply-to-karen-swallow-prior/" target="_blank">a recent post at <em>The Calvinist International </em>on the necessity of speaking prophetically about abortion</a>. It is necessary, Wedgeworth argues, to speak plainly about abortion: to call it murder, even if it is not so under the civil law, because it is in violation of Divine Law. Wedgeworth speaks as one who is himself involved in the pro-life movement, and the prophetic speech about abortion that he advocates is speech that arises from the confrontation of a human heart with this great evil, and with the powerful interests that perpetuate it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The blessed hope in the Second Coming is thus not an excuse for political quietism, but rather a true fruit of the thirst for justice that comes from really fighting injustice.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/sancrucensis.wordpress.com/4127/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/sancrucensis.wordpress.com/4127/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=sancrucensis.wordpress.com&blog=13298615&post=4127&subd=sancrucensis&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://aleteia.org/2015/12/03/when-love-overflows-from-the-heart/">When Love Overflows from the Heart</a></span>
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<p>“Mi corazón quiere alabar …” (“My heart wants to praise …”) This song is so rich and full of love, and so sweet, just like the soul of the one singing it. Young Argentinean singer-songwriter Athenas Venica offers praise to Christ with her clear, sweet voice. When we encounter a love as strong and infinite as <a class="excerpt-read-more" href="http://aleteia.org/2015/12/03/when-love-overflows-from-the-heart/">Read More…</a>
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<p>A lawsuit in Massachusetts is reigniting debate about the responsibilities of non-teaching staff at Catholic schools to uphold the moral principles and serve as models of the faith, raising concerns for the religious freedom of Catholic schools to fire employees whose public statements and actions contradict Church teaching.<br />
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On Tuesday, the Norfolk Superior Court heard arguments from both parties in an ongoing legal battle between Fontbonne Academy, an all-girls Catholic school based in Milton, Mass., and Matthew Barret, who was told he could not work at Fontbonne Academy as food services director in July 2013 after the school found out that Barret is in a same-sex marriage.<p><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4526/Lawsuit-Sparks-Debate-Over-Moral-Expectations-of-Non-Teaching-Staff-in-Catholic-Schools.aspx">More...</a></p>
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jede Sprache ist die meine, d.h. jenes Leibes, dessen Glied ich bin. Die über alle Völker zerstreute Kirche redet in allen Sprachen, die Kirche ist der Leib Christi; wenn du also ein Glied jenes Leibes bist, der in allen Sprachen redet, so glaube, daß du in allen Sprachen sprichst.</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- </i><span style="color: blue;">Augustinus</span>:<i> </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium</i>, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">32. Vortrag</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sQF5plENt4Y/Vl_4XZ4Mw7I/AAAAAAAABfo/WGrMgMeBW9s/s1600/Erzpriester%2BStephan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sQF5plENt4Y/Vl_4XZ4Mw7I/AAAAAAAABfo/WGrMgMeBW9s/s320/Erzpriester%2BStephan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Den Freunden des überlieferten Breviergebetes wird die Seite <a href="http://divinumofficium.com/" target="_blank">http://divinumofficium.com/</a> nicht fremd sein. Sie bietet ein umfassendes Angebot, das seinesgleichen sucht ... und eine äußerst praktische Hilfe für diejenigen, die keinen Ordo parat haben und ihre Bändel ordnen müssen.<br />Was ist jetzt aber neu daran? Seit letztem Sonntag, also mit dem Beginn des neuen kirchlichen Jahres, gibt es die Texte nicht nur auf Englisch, Italienisch, Polnisch und Ungarisch ... sondern nun auch in deutscher Sprache. Übersetzungsquelle ist zum größten Teil die klassische Übertragung des Breslauer Erzpriesters Dr. Stanislaus Stephan. (Man vergisst bisweilen, welch ein bedeutsames Zentrum katholischer Gelehrsamkeit Breslau im deutschen Sprachraum war!)<br /><br />Ein herzliches Vergelt's Gott also an das Team von Divinum Officium, nun steht dem wahrlich nichts mehr im Wege, dass wir <i>Seinen heiligen Namen preisen!</i>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://thejesuitpost.org/2015/12/when-britney-spears-becomes-art/">When Britney Spears Becomes Art</a></span>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In every dance course that I take, we are asked about our training. Some students mention ballet; others modern. Then it is my turn.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Hey, my name is Andrés, and I would say that I’ve been trained in the Britney Spears technique for twelve years.” After the laughter settles, I go on to list my other, “more professional,” training: ballet, modern, jazz, and Mexican folkloric. But really, I’m not lying about the Britney Spears technique.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me explain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a twelve year-old kid, I did not fit in. I faced bullying every day given that I was not considered “one of the guys.” I didn’t like sports. I hung out with the girls. I had Hilary Duff posters on my locker.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One day, in seventh grade, I was cornered by three eighth graders. I was slapped in the face and called horrible slurs. Soon after, I tore down the posters, abandoned my female friends, and joined the basketball team.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Needless to say, this was one of the most difficult times in my life. I would come home after basketball practice and cry in my room. That is until one Friday, my eldest sister picked me up from school.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the drive home, she was playing a CD that I had never heard before. I immediately fell in love with it and asked if I could borrow it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CD was Britney Spears’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the Zone</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. On it were the hits “Toxic,” “Me Against the Music,” and “Outrageous.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From then on, I would rush home from basketball practice — even ditching a few — and choreograph routines to every single song on the album. These routines were basically dances that infused hip-hop and pop dance styles—forms that are currently taught professionally. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These moments of choreography were the times in which I felt most free and joyful. But I hid it all. I hid it from my schoolmates. I hid it from my family.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I continued this discreet hip-hop dancing throughout my equally difficult high school years. I turned my pain and frustrations into choreographed dance. It made for four years’ worth of routines.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I joined the Jesuits after college, I mentioned my therapeutic Britney Spears/hip-hop dancing to my spiritual director. He encouraged me to embrace and celebrate it. I was shocked. I never thought that I would be asked to dance as a Jesuit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Andrés, this is your spirituality; this is your prayer.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, it was my prayer. The dancing had little to do with the pop star herself nor the content of her songs. Rather, the dancing had offered me a way to break free from so many hardships and it allowed me to be my truest self. My mind would go from stress and anger to joy and the present moment. It was cathartic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“God has worked in you through dance. Use it,” my director said, as my eyes welled up with tears.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That was all it took. Every dancer has a “reference point,” a specific technique from one’s earliest training, and I used the Britney routines that I had developed during my difficult youth as the means to create new movements. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thereafter, I began to perform in front my Jesuit brothers and my family. It was liberating. Above all, it was incredibly spiritual. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before every routine, I would spend an hour in a chapel, praying for the gift of confidence to be my truest self during a performance. As always, my faith needed to be strong for me to dance with full joy. And it was then that I came to learn an important lesson: to dance was to be joyful, and to be joyful was to know God. I mean, just ask King David.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That being said, my dancing did experience some backlash. Just picture a twentysomething Jesuit moving around to hip-hop music in the style of Britney Spears. Questions started arising. Was this actually spiritual? Was God really working through this style of dance? What exactly was being promoted through these dances? These were worthwhile questions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And so, each dance needed justification. Some dances were stopped altogether. Although it was emotionally difficult at the time, I kept performing and embracing my dance. As time went on, God began confirming it more and more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once, after performing at a talent show, one of my Jesuit brothers hugged me and said, “The cutest thing happened while you were performing.” He pointed to the top of the bleachers to a shy-looking boy hugging his mother. “That little boy started dancing along with you for the entire dance performance.” I couldn’t believe it. My dancing had moved this one shy boy to move, to be free. It had inspired him to be joyful for that moment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I thought: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">maybe, this kid will one day use dance as a tool to truly be who is</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wow</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you, God</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here, I saw greater value in what I was doing. I realized that I wasn’t and had never been dancing solely for myself. My dancing had always been a way to reveal God’s joy to others. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I knew that if I taught dance to children, they would have a time and a space to feel completely free and unjudged. This is now my second year as a hip-hop dance instructor at a parish school in Ferguson, MO.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">***</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Hey, my name is Andrés and I would say that I’ve been trained in the Britney Spears technique for twelve years.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the year and a half that I have studied dance, my ballet and modern dance instructor has supported my Britney Spears technique. I got weak in the knees when she, a professional ballerina, saw my dancing as…art.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Britney Spears technique: it’s hip-hop, it’s pop, it’s jazz, it’s modern, and it has hints of ballet. Call it what you may, it’s dance. It’s art.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s liberation and an expression of the soul. Just ask my thirteen-year-old self. Or, just ask the fifth graders that I teach in Ferguson. They can all attest to the freeing and joyful power of a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">sassy hair whip, twist, turn, wink.</span></i></p>
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“We are especially addressing those who belong to criminal groups, those who look with indifference upon the tragedy their brothers are going through, those who are collaborating by omission or commission in the spread of this scourge,” the bishops of Argentina said.<br />
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Their appeal came in their message “No to drug trafficking, yes to the fullness of life,” written during their 110th Plenary Assembly in early November.<br />
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The Argentine bishops also called for efforts to combat the plague of drug trafficking in their country. They warned that its presence and spread entails the complicity of power “in its various forms.” The prelates warned of “the gravity of the situation our country is facing on this issue” and reminded all of society of “the need for urgent conversion.”<br />
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This transformation, they explained, “can't be understood from just one aspect” since “any response on just one level will turn out to be just as inefficient as it is useless.”<br />
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The prelates emphasized that drug trafficking is “a business of global dimensions, that extends its network into governments, businesses and multiple sectors of society.”<br />
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“The government needs to deploy an organized force to neutralize the enormous damage it causes” they pointed out. They lamented that drug trafficking is “deeply rooted in our country.”<br />
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The bishops’ conference connected drug trafficking with the “global culture of consumerism” which “creates unsatisfied desires and imposes on our countries a market with an inadequate scale of values.”<br />
This consumerist culture, they said, “is constantly sending out the false notion that without having certain things you can’t be happy.”<br />
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The bishops connected this to the “globalization of indifference,” an often-used phrase of Pope Francis. They said this phenomenon “creates an individualistic culture based on consumption which creates a favorable framework for the expansion of drug trafficking networks.”<br />
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“Drug trafficking is conducted in the most brutal spirit of capitalism and the idolatry of money: it's inseparable from them,” they reiterated.<br />
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Argentina is seeing a rise in the manufacture and use of a drug called “paco,” a highly addictive cocaine-based drug that is smoked like crack.<br />
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The bishops referred to “the growing number of people who make ‘paco’ or other very harmful preparations at home.” They lamented that these small-scale manufacturers then act “without any scruples to the outrageous point of sending out their own children or grandchildren to sell drugs.”<br />
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“This reality offends against the Fifth Commandment, ‘Thou shalt not kill’!” they warned. At the same time, they said drug dealers are more morally culpable than “the poor kid who's finally used to deliver the drugs.”<br />
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One response to drugs is to have the “best possible security forces.” But the Argentine bishops emphasized the most appropriate response is “a profound cultural transformation.”<br />
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“Drug trafficking ensures the success of the person who with little effort gains a lot and who’s outside the law,” they stated. This discourages those who try to succeed through honest work.<br />
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The bishops called on governors, legislators and members of the judiciary to take responsibility for these situations. They called for strong and appropriate policies to eliminate drug trafficking and sales.<br />
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They called upon “all the People of God and so many people of good will” to fight against drug trafficking. They also called for a commitment to care for those who are suffering from drug use “directly or indirectly.”<br />
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<em> De algunos errores sobre la división</em><br />
<em> de Pastores y Fieles en la Iglesia</em><a href="file://C:/Users/Carlos/Desktop/Pastor1.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><strong>[1]</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Jesucristo fundó su Iglesia instituyendo en ella dos clases de fieles: Los Pastores y los simples fieles. De ahí que la Doctrina considerara siempre a la Iglesia como dividida en dos estamentos distintos, aunque formando un solo Cuerpo. Los cuales son llamados, respectivamente, Iglesia <em>docente</em> o de los Pastores e Iglesia <em>discente</em>, formada por el resto de los fieles.</p>
<p>Corresponden a la primera, integrada por los Pastores, las funciones de <em>santificar</em>, <em>enseñar</em> y <em>gobernar</em>al resto de los fieles. Mientras que a la segunda compete la disposición a escuchar la recta doctrina de boca de sus Pastores, recibir de ellos los medios para su santificación y obedecer sus mandatos.</p>
<p>Esta forma de constituirse la Iglesia es de <em>disposición divina</em> y no puede ser cambiada, por lo tanto, ni siquiera por la misma Iglesia. Lo cual es una verdad de Fe, reconocida siempre por la Iglesia, que no admite discusión alguna. O al menos eso es lo que debiera ser, aunque de hecho no haya sucedido así siempre y especialmente en los tiempos más modernos.</p>
<p>Por más que se diga que el hombre es un ser de naturaleza racional, sería falso asegurar que siempre actúa <em>racionalmente</em>. Y para decir toda la verdad, incluso hay que reconocer que la mayoría de las veces anda lejos de comportarse conforme a la manera que correspondería a su naturaleza.</p>
<p>Aunque parezca difícil de creer, no hay sino reconocer que la <em>fidelidad</em> a Jesucristo es cosa de excepción en la Iglesia. Ni por parte de los Pastores ni por parte de los fieles. Que es lo que ha dado lugar a la aparición de Pastores que nunca han sabido ser Pastores y que forman un conjunto de variadas especies de las que después hablaremos. E igualmente han surgido multitud de ovejas que se consideran Pastores, por no haber llegado a comprender el carisma propio de los seglares y su función en la Iglesia. Todo lo cual debido a un desbarajuste de ideas confusas en gran parte introducidas por la teología de la Nueva Iglesia.</p>
<p>Aunque conviene sin embargo, antes de continuar con el tema, hacer una referencia a las razones que han contribuido a hacer posible la aparición de un fenómeno que ha transformado la vida de la Iglesia y ha dado la vuelta a todas sus estructuras. Los cambios importantes de ideas que se producen en una sociedad no surgen de forma repentina o improvisada, sino que proceden de un punto en el que confluyen una serie de antecedentes y de causas por lo general bastante complejos.</p>
<p>En nuestro caso concreto, el precedente más próximo debe ser señalado en el movimiento de ideas surgidas del Concilio Vaticano II. El cual, se quiera reconocer o no, estuvo manejado por grupos progresistas adictos a la herejía modernista que fueron quienes determinaron los procedimientos y pautas a seguir. La principal arma del modernismo, como todo el mundo sabe, es el manejo de la <em>confusión</em>, para lo que utiliza principalmente el instrumento del lenguaje, inteligentemente manipulado como medio de introducir las ideas que se pretenden difundir.</p>
<p>El hecho de que más de dos mil Obispos de la Iglesia, procedentes de todas partes del mundo, coincidieran en firmar y proclamar una serie de ideas y doctrinas con frecuencia <em>contrarias a la Tradición de la Iglesia</em>, al fin y al cabo un suceso sin precedentes en la vida de la Iglesia y la historia de los Concilios, es un misterio imposible de aclarar acudiendo a razones históricas o sociológicas que siempre resultarían insuficientes a pesar de lo que se diga. Han transcurrido más de cincuenta años, después de haber sido clausurado el Concilio, y ahora es cuando parece menos probable que nadie vaya a atreverse a plantear el problema.</p>
<p>Pues efectivamente no es costumbre para los hombres reconocer estos hechos, ya que siempre se han sentido reacios a explicar las verdaderas razones de ciertos acontecimientos graves de la Historia; por lo que no han querido aplicar los medios para descubrir las auténticas causas que los motivaron. Quizá porque en el fondo las conocen y les horroriza la posibilidad de verse en la situación de <em>confesarlas ante sí mismos</em>, tal como ocurre con ciertas verdades desagradables que a menudo atormentan la vida de cualquier ser humano.</p>
<p>El espíritu modernista de algunos Documentos del Concilio, junto a su lenguaje deliberadamente ambiguo utilizado para dar paso a ciertas doctrinas ajenas a la Revelación y a la Tradición bimilenaria de la Iglesia, desataron una <em>ola devastadora de confusión</em> que afectó tanto a los Pastores como a los fieles. La consecuencia inmediata tomó cuerpo a través de una apostasía que desembocó en la deserción de la casi generalidad de los Pastores y de un número de fieles que habrá rebasado el de muchos millares; todos los cuales, de una manera más o menos consciente pero siempre culpable, pasaron a formar parte de la <em>Nueva Iglesia</em>.</p>
<p>Esta deserción, cuya verdadera causa de motivación es la apostasía, se ha manifestado, como no podía ser de otra manera, de múltiples y variadas maneras. Pero, por lo que hace concretamente al problema de la distinción de Pastores y simples fieles, el fenómeno ha aparecido con manifestaciones externas extraordinariamente peculiares e incluso curiosas, aunque nadie se haya atrevido a reconocerlas. Las figuras surgidas, enteramente híbridas y hasta ridículas por lo demás, del Pastor empeñado en no distinguirse del mundo o <em>clérigo secularizado</em>; y su contraria del <em>seglar clericalizado</em>, son fruto en último término de un vergonzoso aunque inconfesado <em>complejo de inferioridad</em> hijo a su vez del miedo.</p>
<p>Cuando el Papa Juan XXIII pronunció con toda solemnidad, en el discurso de apertura del Concilio Vaticano II, la consigna proclama de que la Iglesia <em>se abría definitivamente al mundo</em>, dio entrada libre sin saberlo a una legión de demonios que aguardaban impacientes a las Puertas de un Recinto que hasta ahora no habían logrado traspasar.</p>
<p>Las decisiones sobre hechos que atentan contra la misma naturaleza de las cosas siempre dan lugar a desastres, cuyos daños y consecuencias son difíciles de calcular de momento e imposibles de prever para un futuro más o menos próximo.</p>
<p>La gran verdad, por nadie reconocida, consiste en que la Iglesia <em>no podía abrirse al mundo en modo alguno, desde el momento en que tal cosa sería atentar contra su propia naturaleza</em> tal como había sido creada e instituida por Jesucristo. Desgraciadamente, sin embargo, los muchos años de crítica racionalista bíblica protestante ya habían hecho mella por entonces en la Teología católica, por lo que se había alcanzado un punto en el que apenas si se se creía ya en la Revelación. A pesar de que la doctrina estaba contenida en ella demasiado claramente: <em>¡Adúlteros! ¿No sabéis que la amistad con este mundo significa la enemistad con Dios? Quienquiera que se haga amigo de este mundo se hace enemigo de Dios</em>.<a href="file://C:/Users/Carlos/Desktop/Pastor1.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a> Y Jesucristo, por su parte, hablando de sus discípulos en la Oración Sacerdotal dirigida a su Padre: <em>Yo les he dado tu palabra, y el mundo los ha odiado porque no son del mundo, lo mismo que yo tampoco soy del mundo. No pido que los saques del mundo, sino que los guardes del Maligno. No son del mundo, lo mismo que tampoco yo soy del mundo</em>.<a href="file://C:/Users/Carlos/Desktop/Pastor1.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a> El mismo apóstol San Juan ahondaba, por su parte, en el tema exhortando en su Primera Carta: <em>No améis al mundo ni a las cosas que están en el mundo. Si alguno ama al mundo, el amor del Padre no está en él</em>.<a href="file://C:/Users/Carlos/Desktop/Pastor1.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title="">[4]</a></p>
<p>Si el pecado introdujo la muerte en el mundo, el discurso inaugural de Juan XXIII introdujo la confusión en la Iglesia en todos los órdenes. Los Obispos, por ejemplo, se sintieron obligados a acercarse a los fieles haciendo alarde de gestos de aparente humildad que en realidad eran más bien de estupidez. Tomar posesión de una nueva Diócesis y saludar a los fieles mediante el anuncio de que el Obispo llegaba a ellos con ánimo de <em>aprender</em>, dicho por un sucesor de los Apóstoles, Maestro y Padre en la Fe al que se le ha encomendado la delicada tarea de guiar a las ovejas, es cosa difícil de explicar. Cualquiera puede imaginar lo que sucedería en una escuela cuando el nuevo maestro se presentara ante los niños diciendo que había ido allí <em>para aprender</em>. Nada tiene de extraño, por lo tanto, que toda la Cristiandad se sintiera confusa ante el gesto del nuevo Papa Francisco, cuando apareció en el balcón para presentarse a la muchedumbre pidiendo ser bendecido por ella.</p>
<p>Aún fue mayor, si cabe, el desbarajuste producido entre los estamentos del simple clero y el del laicado. Dos principales patrañas, tan burdas como extravagantes, difundidas cada una en los distintos estamentos por los <em>peritos</em> modernistas del Concilio, bien instruidos en el manejo de los instrumentos de confusión mediante la utilización de toda clase de operaciones necesarias (manipular las Escrituras, utilizar el lenguaje ambiguo, desautorizar el valor de la Tradición y la autoridad de los Concilios, ridiculizar el tomismo, declarar obsoleto a todo el Magisterio preconciliar, etc.), fueron suficientes para desorganizar hasta su práctica destrucción a ambos estamentos de la Iglesia.</p>
<p>El hecho de que partes importantes de la sociedad, e incluso a veces la sociedad entera, acepten sin la menor discusión las mentiras más disparatadas sería un arduo misterio de no estar suficientemente comprobada por la experiencia la eficacia de la consigna de Lenin: <em>mentir de la mayor forma posible, puesto que la aceptación de la mentira es directamente proporcional a su magnitud</em>.</p>
<p>La falacia introducida entre el simple clero parecería demasiado cerril y arrabalera como para que fuera aceptada por cualquier ser dotado de capacidad de entendimiento. Sin embargo el hecho está ahí, <em>en cuanto que fue aceptada sin el menor examen por el clero en su totalidad</em>. Y se materializó en lo que se aceptó como la necesidad de eliminar cualquier diferencia de apariencias entre el sacerdote y el simple laico con el fin de lograr una mayor eficacia pastoral. Puesto que la Iglesia acababa de abrirse por completo al mundo, era preciso que el sacerdote no apareciera como distinto a los demás hombres, una vez que quedaba demostrado que el mejor acercamiento a ellos le obligaba a ser uno más entre los demás. O dicho con otras palabras, <em>la manera más eficaz de ser sacerdote no era otra que la de no aparecer como sacerdote ni actuar como sacerdote</em>. Después de todo fue un modo de convertir el absurdo en algo racional y de enviar la Lógica al cubo de la basura.</p>
<p>Como resultado de todo este alucinamiento, la Cristiandad asistió asombrada a la aparición de la figura del <em>sacerdote aseglarado</em>, o más propiamente la del <em>sacerdote seglar</em>. El ambiente eclesial y pastoral se pobló de sacerdotes descamisados vestidos de pantalones vaqueros; de clérigos sesentones vestidos al estilo de jóvenes de quince años; de sacerdotes, sobre todo jóvenes, que se esforzaban en adoptar maneras que los aproximaban más fácilmente a la juventud (<em>¡Llámame Pepe!</em>), etc. En definitiva, que al inmenso e incalculable daño que se hizo al conjunto de todos los fieles hay que sumar la situación de general <em>ridículo</em>que ofreció ante el mundo el clero de la Iglesia: tanto por parte del clero bajo como por la del clero alto.</p>
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<p>How would you feel if the best that could be said of you were, ‘Well, (s)he was sincere’? There is something midly dismissive about the phrase — meant well, you know, but never quite made the grade. That is not (…)</p><p><a href="http://www.ibenedictines.org/2015/12/03/the-limits-of-sincerity/">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Ibenedictines/~4/ZoCP3N_trLY" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://undergroundthomist.org/the-manchurian-candidate">The Manchurian Candidate</a></span>
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<p>Most of the support for The Candidate Who Must Not Be Named must come from name recognition -- at least I hope so, because the other hypotheses are even more disheartening.  Some pollster should ask voters whether they are more likely to vote for him or for Khloé Kardashian.  It would be close.</p>
<p>The Candidate Who Must Not Be Named understands this; he operates on the theory that there is no such thing as bad publicity.  So far he seems to be right.</p>
<p>This doesn’t excuse the liberal networks who <em>make</em> him right.  Yes, they would love to see the Republicans nominate a cad.  I can’t open my browser without being treated to a stream of newsbites about his obscene plays for attention:  “Mocks Disabled Reporter.”  “Compares Another Candidate to Child Molester.”  “Says Female Reporter Has Blood Coming Out of Her Whatever.”  “Says He Won’t Take It Back.”</p>
<p>Nor does it excuse the conservative talking heads and radio mouths who pimp for him, because unlike the Kardashian caucus, they understand perfectly what he is:  A spoiled vulgarian bully with no virtues, no knowledge, and no relevant experience, who denies all the principles they once claimed to uphold.</p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Princess_Alexandra_of_wales.jpg/336px-Princess_Alexandra_of_wales.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Princess_Alexandra_of_wales.jpg/336px-Princess_Alexandra_of_wales.jpg" /></a></div>From <a href="http://hrhprincesspalace.blogspot.com/2015/11/princess-spotlight-alexandra-of-denmark.html" target="_blank"><i>Princess Palace</i></a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Despite the many privileges of her life, the woman who was born <b>Princess Alexandra of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Gluckburg</b> also faced many challenges. Some of these were common to many women of her day, some were inherent in her royal status at a time of great international turmoil, and some were specific to her.<br /><br />Although she became incredibly wealthy and is remembered today as a glamorous figure dripping in jewels, Alexandra was born into a relatively poor and minor branch of the Danish royal family. She and her sisters shared a chilly room in the attic and even made their own clothes. Then, when she was eight, she underwent an incredible change of fate when the vagaries of succession laws made her father heir to the throne and future King Christian IX of Denmark. This raised his six children to the top of the royal European marriage market; Alexandra's siblings made brilliant marriages with the royal families of Sweden, France, Hanover, and Russia. One of her younger brothers was even selected to be the King of Greece, and one of her nephews was presented with the throne of Norway.<br /><br />Admired for her beauty and quiet charm, Alexandra caught the attention of the Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia who was on the hunt for a bride to help curb her brother's "wild" ways. The Crown Princess arranged a meeting for the couple, and within no time, Alexandra was on her way to England to become the Princess of Wales in a wedding ceremony where the gloomy widow Queen Victoria and the ghost of Prince Albert loomed over the limited festivities.<br /><br />Despite her new mother's funereal spirit, Alexandra soon found herself caught up in the exuberant and exciting whirlwind lifestyle of her groom, Prince Albert Edward, better known as Bertie and she as Alix in the family. Their first child was born 10 months after the wedding and seven more babies followed within five years. With the arrival of her last child, Prince Alexander John, Alix suffered like so many other nineteenth century mothers with the loss of her baby before she had even recovered. Twenty-one years later, she lost her firstborn to influenza. Then, 23 years later, her beloved youngest grandson, also named John, died at the age of 13. <a href="http://hrhprincesspalace.blogspot.com/2015/11/princess-spotlight-alexandra-of-denmark.html" target="_blank">(Read more.</a>)</blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">From the Hebrew University of Jerusalem comes news of an exciting archaeological find: <a href="http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/28173">http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/28173</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3FWc2Jyjooc/Vl_giFPNO7I/AAAAAAAAA5g/cgqvw7Y46-A/s1600/bulla.png"><img border="0" height="357" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3FWc2Jyjooc/Vl_giFPNO7I/AAAAAAAAA5g/cgqvw7Y46-A/s400/bulla.png" width="400" /></a> </div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">The bulla (inscribed clay) is imprinted with the symbol of a winged sun and an inscription in an ancient Hebrew script [<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34988649" target="_blank">BBC</a>].</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>King Hezekiah’s Seal Impression Found in the Opel Excavations Jerusalem, Israel</i></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">02/12/2015 [<a href="http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/28173" target="_blank">source/link</a>]</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><i>First seal impression of an Israelite or Judean king ever exposed in situ in a scientific archaeological excavation(.)</i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><i>Discovery brings to life the Biblical narratives about King Hezekiah and the activity conducted during his lifetime in Jerusalem's 1st Temple Period Royal Quarter</i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">The Ophel <b>excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount</b>, conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology under the direction of <b><a href="http://archaeology.huji.ac.il/depart/biblical/eilatm/eilatm.asp" target="_blank">Dr. Eilat Mazar</a></b>, have unearthed an impression of the royal seal of King Hezekiah (727–698 BCE).</blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">See also: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34988649" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34988649</a></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">Measuring 9.7 X 8.6 mm, the oval impression was imprinted on a 3 mm thick soft bulla (piece of inscribed clay) measuring 13 X 12 mm. Around the impression is the depression left by the frame of the ring in which the seal was set.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">The impression bears an inscription in ancient Hebrew script:</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">"לחזקיהו [בן] אחז מלך יהדה"</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">"Belonging to Hezekiah [<i>ben</i> | son of] Ahaz king of Judah"</blockquote>King Hezekiah in Holy Scripture:<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018" target="_blank">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018</a></li><li><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+20">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+20</a></li></ul>
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Why do you think that was important to note?<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Recently Jesuit Antonio Spadaro, who edits La Civiltà Cattolica and who is deeply interested in the life and works of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Vittorio_Tondelli">Pier Vittorio Tondelli</a> (<a href="http://www.antoniospadaro.net/tondelli.html">HERE</a>), made some observations about the recent Synod of Bishops which has caused eyebrows to rise. - WDTPRS</blockquote><br />What is Fr. Z suggesting by that? He did two posts - or posted the same post twice, the final one an update of the first. He leads with that particular introduction. Perhaps the update - double posting - gave me the impression Fr. Z was trying to make some sort of statement about the Jesuit? Although Spadaro is well known in his own right as the editor of La Civita as well as for his exclusive interview with Pope Francis not long after his election - something which seems to me would be much more newsworthy and significant.<br /><br />It appears Fr. Z's article is in support of Cardinal Burke, who wrote an article correcting observations and misinformation coming from Spadaro's interpretations concerning the Synod. In brief:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">To give the impression that there is another practice in the “internal forum,” which would permit an individual in an irregular union to have access to the sacraments, is to suggest that the conscience can be in conflict with the truth of the faith. Such a suggestion clearly places priests in an impossible situation, the expectation that they can “open a door” for the penitent, which, in fact, does not exist and cannot exist. - WDTPRS</blockquote>I think that's fairly straightforward from Cardinal Burke - his article is available online at NCRegister and didn't impress me as needing any more obsequities, polishing or editorializing. Cardinal Burke speaks clearly and understandably, and always charitably. Cardinal Pell also made statements in anticipation of the final conclusions forthcoming from Pope Francis. One is free to speculate and interpret these statements of course, and even clarify erroneous statements - nothing wrong with that. Likewise, Edward Pentin can make of Vatican news whatever he wants - that's his job. (The Holy Father had some things to say to journalists on his return flight from Africa he might want to make note of as well. But I digress.)<br /><br />The way Fr. Z phrased his introduction made me curious. What if someone writing about Fr. Z always pointed to his enthusiasm for the Acton Institute and his admiration for Fr. Robert Sirico with embedded links to Sirico's homosexual past? (I have written about Sirico's past - without linking to Fr. Z of course. My bad for bringing it up again.)<br /><br />What if every time someone wrote about Cardinal Burke, someone always noted the approval he gave to a transgender woman to make religious vows in a secular institute, only to rescind the permission after a concerned member of the faithful went to the Vatican over the issue? (That's very public, BTW. It was once a bit of a local scandal and I too posted on it. My bad - again.)<br /><br />Pier Vittorio Tondelli<br /><br />Just for the record - Pier Vittorio Tondelli was an Italian gay writer who converted and returned to the sacraments not long before he died - he praised the virtue of chastity as a mystic grace. He's a wonderful example of conversion and reconcilliation for gay/ssa persons seeking to return to the sacraments. I've written about him many times, and his photo is in my sidebar. I pray for the repose of his soul, while admiring him for the reformation of his life.<br /><br />Passive aggressive, suggestive innuendo flies in the face of Christian charity, perhaps even implying the mere association or interest in the life of a former homosexual indicates that person's sexual orientation or interest. Think I'm over-reacting? I am ashamed to admit I have done the same in the past. Nevertheless, it remains a Pewsitter tactic, a Remnant tactic of discrediting or impugning the character of another. If Fr. Z is doing that, <i>I'm not saying he is</i>, that is too bad for him. <br /><br />The phrasing, the 'tone' if you will, sounds a bit familiar to me. What it says to me is that despite what Courage Apostolate promotes, despite what the Catechism teaches, once a homo - always a homo. You can leave it all behind - but someone - even wearing a collar - is there to remind people of your reputation, or suggest something is wrong with you because you are 'too soft' on gays. One local priest famously told a group of people - I was among them - that in this archdiocese alone, well over 50% of the clergy are gay. At the time his inventory included the local ordinary. This type of jock-seminarian shaming explains why many priests can be less than willing to promote Courage or sign on as spiritual directors. Years ago when I tried to find priests to help persuade the local ordinary to establish a Courage chapter here, the priests I spoke to sought to preserve their reputations and wouldn't get involved. They didn't want to be labeled as gay friendly.<br /><br />These days there are angry priests online, often with an ax to grind. Perhaps thrown out of 'liberal' seminary, or kicked off the faculty of a Catholic university, they remain angry, often cloaking their bitterness in traditional vestments and clerical-wear they know will goad Novus Ordo bishops. It's a great way to legally and boldly one-up their 'liberal' superiors and critics. When they resort to gossip and mudslinging - they are careful to stop just short of public defamation, detraction and calumny. I do not trust them. Not. At. All.</div>
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(<a href="http://www.clearcreekmonks.org/_pdf/EOC-June-2013-IHP-Catholic-legacy-endures-born-in-wonder.pdf">source</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table>[<a href="http://theradtrad.blogspot.com/2015/12/considering-legacy-of-john-senior-part-1.html">Part 1</a>]<br /><br /><div class="p1"><span class="s1">It was at the University of Kansas that Senior accomplished his greatest academic and spiritual work, his <i>magnum opus</i> which was also an <i>opus Dei</i>. The Integrated Humanities Program (IHP), founded in 1970 with Dennis Quinn and Franklyn Nelick, was a classics or “great books” program that passed down ancient Christian and pre-Christian wisdom as a true oral tradition.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">Senior had become very seriously Catholic by this time. He encouraged his students to read the <i>Rule of St. Benedict</i>, and sent some of them on pilgrimages to the Fontgombault monastery in France, which was one of a few still celebrating the pre-<i>Novus Ordo</i> rites of the Church. Many of his students had converted to the Faith, some joined the religious life to found Our Lady of Clear Creek Monastery in Oklahoma (a daughterhouse of Fontgombault), and others are priests and bishops today (including Bp. James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska). His intellectual-spiritual children and grandchildren are seemingly as numerous as the sand of the sea.</span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1">The success of the IHP was hotly opposed by many in the administration, who had received calls from concerned parents that their children were being subjected to brainwashing by a cult figure. A local Unitarian minister formed the “Committee for Academic and Religious Freedom” with the aim of abolishing all religious freedom within the IHP. The local Catholic archdiocese was even convinced to oppose the program, which was finally abolished in 1979 by the Kansas faculty after a thorough witch hunt. Senior, Quinn, and Nelick soon filed a libel suit which was settled in their favor, but they continued to teach at Kansas.</div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aBmDKUmDJ9Y/Vl9cmraKfCI/AAAAAAAAAmw/6Iu1DHecJXQ/s1600/ihp_converts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aBmDKUmDJ9Y/Vl9cmraKfCI/AAAAAAAAAmw/6Iu1DHecJXQ/s640/ihp_converts.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="p1"><span class="s1">Meanwhile, Senior had published <i>The Death of Christian Culture</i> in 1978 through Arlington House. Parts of the book were pieced together from previously published essays, and the final result is a mighty jeremiad against the suicidal literary-cultural movement of the West. Here, Senior condemns the “Perennial Heresy” which he had described with such affection in <i>The Way Down and Out</i>, and corrects it with the Perennial Philosophy. The various chapter titles—“Eastward Ho!—Hum,” “The Real Absence,” “The Emperor’s New Literature,” “Dark Night of the Church,” etc.—gives the reader a sense of his thoughts on cultural and spiritual matters.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">He retired from teaching in 1983 due to a severe heart condition, and the same year published <i>The Restoration of Christian Culture</i> through Ignatius Press, a decision one can hardly imagine the publisher making today. In <i>Restoration</i> he more strongly pushes for a revival of Benedictine monasticism and Marian devotion. Chapters such as “The Air-Conditioned Holocaust” and “A Final Solution to Liberal Education” proved that he had lost none of his bitter wit.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XLy4Rs77_No/Vl-PbAV8VxI/AAAAAAAAAnI/XZ1KYEJZg04/s1600/dr_john_senior.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XLy4Rs77_No/Vl-PbAV8VxI/AAAAAAAAAnI/XZ1KYEJZg04/s1600/dr_john_senior.jpg" /></a></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">Senior’s close relations to the Society of Pius X were a matter of some concern for his fellow Catholics, even to the traditionalists. He wrote articles arguing for the possibility that the Society’s break with the pope in the ’80s was justified (republished as “The Glass Confessional” and “Lost at Sea” in <i>The Remnants</i> by Remnant Press, 2013), and his son Andrew remained friendly with the Society and Dr. David Allen White, a brilliant English professor who is still a close collaborator with Bp. Richard Williamson. Both Andrew Senior and Dr. White wrote introductory notes to recent editions of <i>Death</i> and <i>Restoration</i>. On his deathbed, the elder Senior angrily dismissed a priest who tried to comfort him with the assurance that nobody really knows what happens to us after we die. “I may have lived awhile with the New Church,” he replied, “suffered under it, but I will not die in it.”</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">John Senior’s legacy deserves repeated consideration. Even the imperfections of his <i>Christian Culture</i> diptych cannot eradicate its moments of brilliant clarity. A short excerpt from one of them is enough to prove the point:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="s1">Generations brought up in centrally heated and air-conditioned homes and schools, shot from place to place encapsulated in culturally sealed-off buses, who swim in heated, chlorinated pools devoid of current, swirl or tide, where even the build-up from one’s own pushing of the water is suctioned off by vacuums so as not to spoil the pure experience of sport-for-sport’s sake... poor little rich suburban children who have all these delights, and living in constant fluorescent glare, have never seen the stars, which St. Thomas, following Aristotle and all the ancients, says are the first begetters of that primary experience of reality formulated as the first of all principles in metaphysics, that <i>something is</i>. (<i>Restoration</i>, p. 83)</span></blockquote><div class="p2">The spiritual tradition he handed down bears fruit to this day, and shows little sign of stopping. He was perhaps right in warning his students and friends—if one can indeed separate the former group from the latter—to avoid his book on occult literary themes, but even that work can serve as an indirect warning against certain spiritual temptations. If the esoteric tradition is in fact the Perennial Heresy, it deserves a thorough explication to show that it is no mere passing <i>Harry Potter</i>-esque fad.<span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><br /></span></div><div class="p1">On April 8, 1999, Senior passed away and was buried in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery in Kansas by Fr. Ramon Angles of the SSPX. He was joined two years later by his wife, and their tombstone reads, “Love is strong as death.”</div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LGYeHza8FQw/Vl9cw-BG_2I/AAAAAAAAAm4/sAxT8TU1Cb4/s1600/9048038_138725600508_john_senior.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LGYeHza8FQw/Vl9cw-BG_2I/AAAAAAAAAm4/sAxT8TU1Cb4/s400/9048038_138725600508_john_senior.jpg" width="316" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=9048038&PIpi=94147247">source</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>What'll it be, lake of fire or everlasting life?</i><br /><br />Do souls go to hell? Yes. The Lord Jesus taught so.</div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, <b>and throw them into the furnace of fire</b>; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">So it will be at the close of the age. <b>The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous, and throw them into the furnace of fire</b>; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.—St. Matthew 13:41-42, 49-50.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Do we know who goes to hell?</i><br /><br />Nope, not exactly. We know that if a soul is in a state of mortal sin at death, such a soul will spend an inescapable eternity in the hell state. It's not our job, however, to locate people in hell. We're not driving the car, so-to-speak. We can and should, however, inform someone about certain consequences when his behaviour behind the wheel is putting his soul (and possibly the souls of others) at risk. If the driver is drunk on his sins, he is more than likely going to drive off the salvation road and crash into reality. Whose fault is that? His, the human driver. His choices add up to a direction in this life and the next.<br /><br />The soul that is satisfied with his or her bad choices, the soul who makes no attempt whatsoever to change direction, the soul who rejects the Sacrament of Penance that could free him/her from their bad choices, the soul too proud to change, is someone who is already very close to hell. For the person who behaves badly and who refuses to repent, hell should come as no surprise.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a name="more"></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Conversely, the soul that abandons himself or herself to God and trusts that God should be in the driver's seat, that God's way is the best path, the path taught by Holy Mother Church, then such a soul has hope.<br /><br /><i>Hope, love, beauty.</i><br /><br />God loves us. Each of us is created to respond to God's invitation to everlasting life found only in and through Jesus Christ. God made us for love, but man misused his freedom and fell into sin.<br /><br />We are born into a fallen world, a world of imperfect love, of love gone awry, a world of false loves. Because we enter into this world in a fallen state, and we lack the grace to live with the freedom and love for which God designed us, we need God's saving help to respond to His invitation to authentic love.<br /><br />Jesus, Who is God, entered into the human condition to rescue us from sin and death. He gave His life so that we might live. His Sacrifice broke the chains of death on men's souls. God provides the grace to accept His invitation to the fullness of freedom and new life and the peace which only Jesus can give. We need but ask Him to give us the grace to respond, moment to moment, day by day, year after year. All are invited to intimate communion with Jesus Christ and His Church.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What'll it be? Hope or despair? It's your choice. Jesus is waiting to give you the grace to believe in Him and His Gospel of hope, joy and love. Just ask Him to show you the Way—<i>His</i> Way of love.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This Advent, pray. Ask Jesus to reveal Himself to you. If you are doing that much, you are on the right track. A willingness to consider Jesus is a sign that the seed of faith is already growing within you. Now you must water that seed. Ask God to help you grow in faith.<br /><br />Pray. Go to Mass. Read the Gospels. Talk to a priest.</div>
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<p>The post <a href="http://www.thecatholicthing.org/2015/12/03/c-s-lewis-on-21st-century-campus-unrest/" rel="nofollow">C.S. Lewis on 21st-century campus unrest</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.thecatholicthing.org" rel="nofollow">The Catholic Thing</a>.</p>
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<p>The post <a href="http://www.thecatholicthing.org/2015/12/03/the-sack-of-rome/" rel="nofollow">The sack of Rome</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.thecatholicthing.org" rel="nofollow">The Catholic Thing</a>.</p>
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<p>In the heart of every Christian, in the inmost depths of each person, there is always an echo of the question which the young man in the Gospel once asked Jesus: “Teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life?” (Mt 19:16). Everyone, however, needs to address this question to the “Good Teacher”, since he is the only one who can answer in the fullness of truth, in all situations, in the most varied of circumstances. And when Christians ask him the question which rises from their conscience, the Lord replies in the words of the New Covenant which have been entrusted to his Church. As the Apostle Paul said of himself, we have been sent “to preach the Gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the Cross of Christ be emptied of its power” (1 Cor 1:17). The Church’s answer to man’s question contains the wisdom and power of Christ Crucified, the Truth which gives of itself.</p>
<p>When people ask the Church the questions raised by their consciences, when the faithful in the Church turn to their Bishops and Pastors, the Church’s reply contains the voice of Jesus Christ, the voice of the truth about good and evil. In the words spoken by the Church there resounds, in people’s inmost being, the voice of God who “alone is good” (cf. Mt 19:17), who alone “is love” (1 Jn 4:8, 16).</p>
<p>Through the anointing of the Spirit this gentle but challenging word becomes light and life for man. Again the Apostle Paul invites us to have confidence, because “our competence is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit… The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit” (2 Cor 3:5-6, 17-18).</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://www.thecatholicthing.org/2015/12/03/this-comes-from-the-lord/" rel="nofollow">This comes from the Lord</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.thecatholicthing.org" rel="nofollow">The Catholic Thing</a>.</p>
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<p>Zechariah was a priest doing his duty, making the incense sacrifice in the temple, when an angel appeared to him. The story is told in the first chapter of Luke’s gospel. The angel told Zechariah that, despite he and his wife, Elizabeth, being too old to have children, she would have a son. The language <a class="excerpt-read-more" href="http://aleteia.org/2015/12/03/angels-of-advent-announcing-the-forerunner/">Read More…</a>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eWvNItaGR3o/S-OMpxJ_j_I/AAAAAAAAFb0/ivxPbbbmUU0/s1600/trianon_paperback.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eWvNItaGR3o/S-OMpxJ_j_I/AAAAAAAAFb0/ivxPbbbmUU0/s1600/trianon_paperback.jpg" /></a></div>I came across <a href="http://www.thewinedarksea.com/2015/11/08/october-reading-notes/" target="_blank">an interesting review</a> of my novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Trianon-A-Novel-Royal-France/dp/0557351715/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0MWF4CDTFHBVZ9ZZKHNQ" target="_blank"><i>Trianon</i>,</a> originally published in 1997, and now in its third edition, by a homeschooling mother, which had the following reflections:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">I also wondered if perhaps Vidal doesn’t err towards being too positive about King Louis XVI and his queen. While I don’t find it at all believable that they were the villains the revolutionaries painted them, I also wonder if they were the paragons of virtue and martyrs for the faith that Vidal’s narrative often suggests they are. She protests that she doesn’t mean to make them seem to be perfect, but maybe it’s just the shortness of the novel, they don’t have much room to develop. What was most moving to me were their deaths. But also their commitment to almsgiving and prayer and their attempts to rule justly and fairly and to do right by the peasants, even at the expense of the nobility and clergy.<br /><br />I want to believe this portrait, but I don’t know enough about the history to know how accurate it is. And this is the limitation of a historical novel, of course. I really want to find some good nonfiction now. I’ve poked about a bit on Vidal’s blog an have been disappointed so far not to find more about her research and links to historical sources. Maybe there’s more there that I’m not seeing? I wish she were better at showing her work. She does have a series of podcasts that explore hte history and I’ve listened to one of them and it was very interesting and she seemed to be quoting from historical documents and various historians, but sadly there were no bibliographical notes for the listener to follow up with, so I’m no closer to being able to find good historical sources to read. Vidal’s work would be much stronger and more compelling if she were more forthcoming with her sources. I wish the novel had a good bibliography and historical notes. I hope she considers them for future editions. (<a href="http://www.thewinedarksea.com/2015/11/08/october-reading-notes/" target="_blank">Read more.</a>)</blockquote>I left the following comment:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Dear Melanie, thank you for reading <i>Trianon</i> and reviewing it so thoughtfully on your always insightful blog! I am really honored. Yes, you are right, there are no sources listed at the end of <i>Trianon</i>. I decided to wait until I finished the sequel, <i>Madame Royale</i>, to include the sources I used for both novels. Also, on my Tea at Trianon blog I try to have posts about the various books consulted in my research, as well as controversies about the King and Queen. But because the blog has been going on for nine years, it is rather hard to find things on it now. So I am working on a non-fiction book about Marie-Antoinette which will include an extensive bibliography, footnotes, etc. It should be finished by January 2016. If you would like a review copy, just email me and I will send you one! <a href="mailto:emvidal@planetrussell.net">emvidal@planetrussell.net</a></blockquote>Actually, it will probably be more like February 2016 that it will be finished. I have written all my books with homeschoolers in mind, particularly older teens. I am sincerely honored when anyone takes the time to read <i>Trianon</i> since it was my first novel and rather lumpy. In spite of its flaws, it continues to sell steadily after eighteen years. The <i>Tea at Trianon</i> blog is full of discussions about my sources for all my books, and the sidebar in particular has several articles about various aspects of the royal couple's life. It depends on what one is looking for. People have been using this blog for research purposes for almost a decade! If people have a question which they cannot find on the blog, then they are welcome to write to me and often do. The <a href="http://teaattrianon.forumotion.com/forum" target="_blank">Tea at Trianon forum</a> also has topics about various books and biographies of Louis and Antoinette. My favorite biography is the two-volume study about both Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette by Nesta Webster. As for the podcasts on Marie-Antoinette on<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/teaattrianon" target="_blank"> BlogTalkRadio</a>, I try to always mention my source material, as those who have listened carefully can attest. There have been discussions among novelists as to whether a bibliography is necessary in a work of fiction. I decided that it is, and so put a lengthy one at the end of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Madame-Royale-Elena-Maria-Vidal/dp/0557560926/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=httpteaattria-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=JBLDQLU7VJN2CKRU&creativeASIN=0557560926" target="_blank"><i>Madame Royale</i></a> for both <i>Trianon</i> and <i>Madame Royale, </i>since so much of the information overlaps. In my three other novels, I have bibliographies, and my new book, being non-fiction, will as well.
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<p>I'm reading more and more about the crybully student movement in America. The term "crybully" is a good one, as the movement has two very different sides. On the one hand, there is much talk about racial minority students suffering poor mental health to the point that if anything doesn't go their way that they will be crushed and unable to function. On the other hand, the same students then go about in mobs fiercely intimidating those who don't cravenly fall into line, and they seek (usually successfully) to kick people out of their jobs. They cry and then they bully: they are crybullies. <br /><br />I wrote a bit about this in my last <a href="http://ozconservative.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/are-student-radicals-losing-mental.html">post</a> on events at Yale and the University of Missouri. A reader alerted me to an even more <a href="http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2015/11/dont-oppress-my-people-with-your-branded-headphones.html">troubling</a> event at the prestigious Dartmouth College, where white students studying in the library were surrounded by a mob and had racial insults screamed at them. <br /><br />Then there is Claremont McKenna College. The Dean of Students, Mary Spellman, <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/cmc-students-feel-marginalized-demand-resources-and-resignations/">resigned</a> there because she sought to support minority students but used a phrase they didn't like (word crime?). It didn't matter how pro-diversity she was, she was swallowed up by the movement regardless. Oddly, the minority students claim to be "marginalised" but are confidently demanding the right to remake the place according to their own wishes: <br /> <blockquote>Their demands include a permanent resource center; the immediate creation of two diversity positions for student affairs and faculty; and a general education requirement for ethnic, racial, and sexuality theory; along with over a dozen other demands. <br /><br />“To the administration as a whole, we require greater diversity in our faculty and staff,” stated the protest leader. “The need for such programs to educate the student body is eminent [sic] by the numerous microaggressions felt by students of color.” Students of color called out racially-insensitive professors for making them feel unsafe. “We want mandatory and periodic racial sensitivity trainings for all professors,” one protestor stated. “How are students supposed to learn in the classroom when they don’t even feel safe? When their own professors, someone who is supposed to be a mentor to them, a teacher, doesn’t even respect their identities? We want more diverse course offerings for critical race theory, community engagement, and social justice issues.” </blockquote><br /> They want white professors sacked and replaced; they want courses (critical race theory) which make white people the oppressors; and they want a kind of Stalinist style "mandatory and periodic racial sensitivity training for all professors". <br /><br />Such is life in the modern liberal West.
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<p>For those of you tracking my <a href="http://drandmrsholmes.com/?p=965">adventure</a> in novel writing, the word is in.  At a writer’s conference last June the owner of a literary agency invited me to submit my work, and a few days ago I got this note:</p>
<blockquote><p>Dear Jeremy,</p>
<p>Thank you for allowing me to read your submission for THE ROBOT’S MAKER. I really enjoyed your engaging narrative voice as well as the light touches of humor throughout. However, I unfortunately didn’t quite fall in love with the story in the way I would need to to offer you representation. Therefore, I do not think we would be the correct agents to market this project in today’s competitive book publishing industry.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the opportunity to read your work. I wish you the best of luck with THE ROBOT’S MAKER and your future endeavors.</p>
<p>All best,</p>
<p>Shira S. Hoffman</p></blockquote>
<p>Now isn’t that about the sweetest rejection letter one could ask for? I’m truly grateful to have achieved my first goal, which was to get a rejection letter from a literary agent.</p>
<p><span id="more-1544"></span>What’s next for The Robot’s Maker? Well—nothing, really. At this point in my life, I simply cannot undertake another big project or major revisions of this one, and if a literary agent ever accepted the manuscript the first thing she would ask me to do would be to make big changes. Even though the book works—by which I mean that it has been tested on dozens of kids of varying ages around the United States, none of whom are my relatives or owe me money, and all of whom responded with something like “Where’s the sequel?!”—despite the fact that the book works, it flouts an industry convention. The target audience is children, but the hero of the story is not a child. Any literary agent into making a living by what she does will tell me to re-write the whole thing, plot, stock, and barrel, to make the child the hero. And I can’t do that right now.</p>
<p>What’s more, I don’t want to. Readers tell me that The Robot’s Maker is a fast, fun read that keeps them reading ‘til it’s over, but I’m here to tell you that it isn’t the Great American Novel or anything. It won’t be a monument people remember me by. It was a practice project to teach me about novel writing and to entertain some kids, and it did both. When the time is right, I hope to do something new and more challenging that will motivate me to suffer through the many revisions and re-revisions that great novels demand.</p>
<p>But in the meantime, I am thrilled to say that my daughter <a href="http://drandmrsholmes.com/?p=947">Bernadette</a> is a NanoWriMo winner for the second year running. I have almost no idea what she wrote about this time, but she banged out her 50,000 words before the end of November—a few hours before, actually—and got the t-shirt. I am proud enough to pop!</p>
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<p>"I am living proof that you can be -- at the same time -- both a fanatic and a nerd. I’m a fanatic about my science, actually, and a bit of a nerd about my church."<br />-- <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-are-there-so-many-catholics-in-science-fiction/414990/" target="_blank">Guy Consomagno</a>, SJ, Director of the Vatican Observatory<br /><br /><br />
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<p>[From the <a href="http://drandmrsholmes.com/?page_id=1505#JesseTree">online Jesse Tree</a>.]</p>
<p>A reading from the book of Genesis (22:15-18):</p>
<blockquote><p>The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven, and said, “By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies, and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Abraham lived long, long ago in the city of Ur, where people worshipped the moon and other things as gods. In those days, his name was Abram. But the one true God called Abram to leave his home and travel far, far away to a new land that God would show him, and because Abraham believed God and obeyed him his name was changed to Abraham, which means “father of many nations.”</p>
<p>It seemed like a funny name at the time, because Abraham didn’t have any children. He and his wife were old, and it didn’t seem like they would ever have children. But by a miracle, God gave them a boy named Isaac. Everything seemed fine: Abraham believed God’s promise about the land and about his children, and God had brought him to the land and had given him a child.</p>
<p><a href="http://drandmrsholmes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Ram.jpg"><img alt="Ram" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1541" height="201" src="http://drandmrsholmes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Ram-300x201.jpg" width="300" /></a>But God wanted to push Abraham to be even greater than he was already. He put Abraham through a terrible test by telling him to kill his son Isaac as a sacrifice. How could God give Abraham many descendants if Abraham’s only son were dead? And how could God ask Abraham to kill his own child? But Abraham trusted God even when he didn’t understand. He went to the appointed place, got everything ready, and raised his hand to do what God had said—but suddenly God’s angel called out him and stopped him. He gave him a ram to sacrifice instead of Isaac, which is why today’s ornament is a sheep.</p>
<p>Because Abraham had obeyed him, God promised him not only the land and many descendants, but also that all the nations of the world would be blessed through Abraham’s descendant. With this promise, light dawned over the darkness left by Adam and Eve. God had begun something with Abraham that would become the Advent story we tell every year now.</p>
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<p><a href="http://blog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Blog12-02.png"><img alt="Blog12-02" class="alignright size-full wp-image-34410" height="375" src="http://blog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Blog12-02.png" width="360" /></a>Part of the genius of the African-American spirituals is their ability to treat serious themes such as the final judgment in a creatively compelling manner that steers a middle course between unproductive fear and prideful presumption. Some of them are even playful: “I would not be a sinner. I’ll tell you the reason why. I’m afraid my Lord might call my name and I wouldn’t be ready to die!” Another spiritual says, “Satan wears a hypocrite’s shoe. If you don’t watch, he’ll slip it on you!” Yet another warns with love, “In that great gettin’ up morning, fare you well, fare you well! Oh, fare you well poor sinner, fare you well!”</p>
<p><strong>Some of the early African-American hymns from the late 19th century also draw heavily on this tradition.</strong> One such hymn is “Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds?” by Charles P. Jones (1865-1949). The hymn consists in applying the question “Where shall I be?” to a litany of biblically based descriptions of the Second Coming of Jesus, when He will judge the world by fire. Each verse is steeped in rich, biblical tradition. Together, they provide us with a series of good Advent reflections, all rooted in the essential Advent focus of the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus.</p>
<p><strong>When I sing it along with my congregation each Advent, I am reminded of the familiar themes of another masterpiece: the ancient “Dies Irae.”</strong> That hymn is also richly biblical and I have written about it on the blog in the past (<a href="http://blog.adw.org/2010/11/dies-irae-day-of-wrath-as-a-hymn-of-mercy-yes/">HERE</a>).</p>
<p><strong>Let’s look at each line of “Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds.” </strong>I provide some biblical background for each line.</p>
<p>Here is the hymn <em>in toto</em>, followed by a line-by-line analysis, including biblical references and some brief commentary. Since this is a long post I have made it available here as a PDF: <a href="http://blog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Where-Will-You-Be-When-the-First-Trumpet-Sounds.pdf">Where will you be when the first trumpet sounds.</a> You can listen to the hymn in the video at the bottom of the post.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When judgment day is drawing nigh,<br />
Where shall I be?<br />
When God the works of men shall try,<br />
Where shall I be?<br />
When east and west the fire shall roll,<br />
Where shall I be?<br />
How will it be with my poor soul:<br />
Where shall I be?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Refrain</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">O where shall I be when the first trumpet sounds,<br />
O where shall I be when it sounds so loud?<br />
When it sounds so loud as to wake up the dead?<br />
O where shall I be when it sounds?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When wicked men His wrath shall see,<br />
Where shall I be?<br />
And to the rocks and mountains flee,<br />
Where shall I be?<br />
When hills and mountains flee away,<br />
Where shall I be?<br />
When all the works of man decay,<br />
Where shall I be?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Refrain</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When Heav’n and earth as some great scroll,<br />
Where shall I be?<br />
Shall from God’s angry presence roll,<br />
Where shall I be?<br />
When all the saints redeemed shall stand,<br />
Where shall I be?<br />
Forever blest at God’s right hand,<br />
Where shall I be?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>1. When judgment day is drawing nigh, Where shall I be?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A.</strong> <em>Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door</em> (Matt 24:32-33).<br />
<strong>B.</strong> <em>Do not grumble … The Judge is standing at the door!</em> (James 5:9)<br />
<strong>C.</strong> <em>Here I am! I stand at the door and knock</em> (Rev 3:20).<br />
<strong>D.</strong> <em>If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping</em> (Mk 13:36).<br />
<strong>E.</strong> <em>For, in just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay</em> (Heb 10:37).<br />
<strong>F.</strong> <em>While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape</em> (1 Thess 5:3).<br />
<strong>G.</strong> <em>Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, “There will be no more delay!”</em> (Rev 10:5-6)<br />
<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Comment:</strong></span> Judgment day is drawer nearer and nearer for us all. With each beat of our heart the moment edges closer. Are you ready for the Day of Judgment? What are you doing to get ready? The “Dies Irae” says, “Day of wrath and doom impending, Heaven and earth in ashes ending …” Do not delay your conversion to the Lord. <em>The Lord has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God</em><strong> (2 Cor 5:19-20).</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 2. When God the works of men shall try, Where shall I be?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A.</strong><em> Their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames</em> (1 Cor 3:13-15).<br />
<strong>B.</strong> <em>For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done</em> (Matt 16:27).<br />
<strong>C.</strong> <em>And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds</em> (Rev 20:12).<br />
<strong>D.</strong> <em>God will repay each person according to what they have done. To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger</em> (Rom 2:6-8).<br />
<strong>E.</strong> <em>But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken</em> (Matt 12:36).<br />
<strong>F</strong>. <em>So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad</em> (2 Cor 5:9-11).<br />
<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Comment:</strong> </span>We will not be saved by our deeds but we will be judged by them, for the veracity of saving faith is made manifest by its work. As Jesus attests, <em>The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil</em><strong> (Matt 12:35). Hence, our works shall be tried by God. That is, they shall be judged by the Lord Jesus, to whom we must render an account. The “Dies Irae” says, “Lo the book exactly worded, wherein all hath been recorded, thence shall judgement be awarded.”</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 3. When east and west the fire shall roll, Where shall I be?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A.</strong><em> Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays</em> (Mal 4:1-3).<br />
<strong>B.</strong> <em>For behold, the LORD is coming forth from His place. He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth. The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place</em> (Micah 1:3-4).<br />
<strong>C.</strong><em> By the wrath of the LORD Almighty the land will be scorched and the people will be fuel for the fire; they will not spare one another</em> (Isaiah 9:19).<br />
<strong>D.</strong> <em>For behold, the LORD will come in fire And His chariots like the whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire. For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many</em> (Is 66:15-16).<br />
<strong>E.</strong> <em>By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly … But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat</em>. (2 Peter 7, 10-12).<br />
<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Comment:</strong></span> The only way to survive on the day of fire is to be fire yourself. Let God set you on fire with love and bring you up to the temperature of glory. Let God send tongues as of fire to enkindle in you the fire of His love.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 4. How will it be with my poor soul: Where shall I be?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A</strong><em>. For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? “And if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good</em> (1 Peter 4:17-19).<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Comment:</span> </strong>While we can have confidence for the day of salvation, this confidence cannot be in our own ability. It must rest in the grace and mercy of God. We are all poor sinners, beggars before God. The “Dies Irae” says, “What for I fail sinner pleading, who for me be interceding, when the just are mercy needing?”</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 5. O where shall I be when the first trumpet sounds, O where shall I be when it sounds so loud?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A.</strong><em> Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed</em> (1 Cor 15:52).<br />
<strong>B.</strong> <em>Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other</em> (Matt 24:30-31).<br />
<strong>C.</strong> <em>For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first</em> (1 Thess 4:16).<br />
<strong>D.</strong> <em>The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet; he will march in the storms of the south</em> (Zech 9:14).<br />
<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Comment: </strong></span>The trumpet summons all to judgement, some to glory and others to wrath. But all must come. This is an appointment that all must keep! The “Dies Irae” says, “Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth, Through earth’s sepulchers it ringeth, all before the throne it bringeth.”</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 6. When it sounds so loud as to wake up the dead? O where shall I be when it sounds?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A.</strong><em> And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued. Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt</em> (Dan 12:1-2).<br />
<strong>B.</strong> <em>And [The Father] He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment</em> (Jn 5:27-29).<br />
<strong>C.</strong> <em>For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed</em> (1 Cor 15:52).<br />
<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Comment: </strong></span>Where will you be? Will you be with the righteous or with the wicked, with the Saint or the aints? Everyone will rise, but to entirely different realities. Where shall I be?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 7. When wicked men His wrath shall see, Where shall I be?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A.</strong><em> “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them</em>” (Mal 4:1).<br />
<strong>B.</strong> <em>By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly</em> (2 Peter 3:7).<br />
<strong>C.</strong> <em>The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness</em> (Rom 1:18).<br />
<strong>D.</strong> <em>You formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest</em> (Eph 2:2-3).<br />
<strong>E.</strong> <em>You turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God, 10and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come</em> (1 Thess 1:9-10).<br />
<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Comment: </strong></span>Are you getting this? The Day of Judgment is going to be bad for the wicked. They will experience God’s wrath. And what is God’s wrath? It is our experience of the total incompatibility of our sin in the presence of God’s holiness. It is like fire and water coming together. They cannot coexist; there is a fundamental conflict and one has to give way. So it is with sin in the presence of God—no can do. Only Jesus can give us the capacity to stand before God’s utter sanctity. Only Jesus can rescue us from the coming wrath. The “Dies Irae” says, “When the wicked are confounded, Doomed to flames of woe unbounded: Call me with thy saints surrounded.”</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 8. And to the rocks and mountains flee, Where shall I be? When hills and mountains flee away, Where shall I be?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A.</strong><em> As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us! and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”</em> (Luke 23:26-31)<br />
<strong>B.</strong> <em>Men will go into caves of the rocks And into holes of the ground Before the terror of the LORD And the splendor of His majesty, When He arises to make the earth tremble</em> (Is 2:19).<br />
<strong>C.</strong> <em>Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”</em> (Rev 6:15-17)<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Comment:</span> You can’t run from God because He’s already there. There will be no escape, no postponing the Day of Judgment.</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 9. When all the works of man decay, Where shall I be?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A.</strong><em> Each man’s work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames</em> (1 Cor 3:13-15).<br />
<strong>B.</strong> <em>But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up</em> (2 Peter 3:10).<br />
<strong>C.</strong> <em>Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him. And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down”</em> (Matt 24:2).<br />
<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Comment: </strong></span>All things of man shall pass away, including all our works. Only what we do for Christ will last. Jesus says, <em>You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you</em><strong> (Jn 15:16). Only what you do for Christ will last. All other works will decay.</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 10. When Heav’n and earth as some great scroll, Where shall I be? Shall from God’s angry presence roll, Where shall I be?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A.</strong><em> Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it! The Lord is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies … the mountains will be soaked with their blood. All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves</em> (Isaiah 34:1-4).<br />
<strong>B.</strong> <em>The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night</em> (Rev 8:12).<br />
<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Comment:</strong> </span>The “Dies Irae” says, “Death is struck and nature quaking, All creation is awaking, To its judge and answer making.” Come on now, if even the stars are struck and must answer, who are we to make light of judgement?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 11. When all the saints redeemed shall stand, Where shall I be? Forever blest at God’s right hand, Where shall I be?</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>A</strong>. <em>But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD offerings in righteousness</em> (Mal 3:2).<br />
<strong>B</strong>. <em>Wherefore … having done all to stand, Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints</em> (Ephesians 6:10-18).<br />
<strong>C</strong>. “<em>When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world’”</em> (Matt 25:31-33).<br />
<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Comment:</strong></span> The Dies Irae says, “With thy sheep a place provide me, From the goats afar divide me, To thy right hand do thou guide me. When the wicked are confounded, Doomed to flames of woe unbounded: Call me with thy saints surrounded.”</p>
<p><strong>Yes, it’s quite a song, so rich in biblical allusion!</strong> Like the “Dies Irae,” it references many scriptures quite vividly and creatively. And like so many of the spirituals, it is able to combine them in ways that are almost celebratory. The hymn is usually sung in an upbeat manner; in my parish we clap hands as we sing.</p>
<p><strong>At the end of the day the question remains:</strong> Where shall I be? Will I be among the righteous in glory, or among the sinful and unrepentant in Hell? Where, poor sinners that we are, shall you and I be? Thanks be to God for His grace and mercy, which help us to stand a chance.</p>
<p><strong>But as with all offers of God</strong>, grace and mercy are accessed only through repentance.</p>
<p><strong>This song, like the more ancient “Dies Irae,” could not be more clear:</strong> we are hastening to the Day of Judgment, a day about which to be sober and ready. Are you ready? Where shall you be when the first trumpet sounds?</p>
<p>Here is a performance of the song:</p>
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<p>The post <a href="http://blog.adw.org/2015/12/where-will-you-be-when-the-first-trumpet-sounds-a-good-question-from-an-advent-hymn/" rel="nofollow">Where Will You Be When the First Trumpet Sounds? A Good Question from an Advent Hymn</a> appeared first on <a href="http://blog.adw.org" rel="nofollow">Community in Mission</a>.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://ethikapolitika.org/2015/12/02/ulysses-in-hell-or-the-soldiers-homecoming/">Ulysses in Hell, or, the Soldier’s Homecoming</a></span>
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<p><img alt="beauchamp2" class="attachment-rssimage wp-post-image" height="100" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ethikapolitika/wp-content/uploads/beauchamp2-100x100.jpg" width="100" /></p>My first deployment to Iraq lasted almost sixteen months. My second deployment lasted a year. The cliché about war being long stretches of boredom punctuated by brief moments of terror is true, but more complicated than the simple dichotomy suggests. I have vivid memories of exploring all the various shades of boredom that it’s possible to experience: the mind-numbing tower guard that makes you ache, the light-hearted satisfaction of cleaning weapons or smoking cigarettes with comrades, the hours and hours of daydreaming about strip malls and supermarkets.
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The boredom was sometimes fascinating; often more so than the terror of actual combat. The violence felt monotonous, mind-numbing, and sometimes even scripted. Boredom, on the other hand, was anything but boring.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">One way to be bored was to fantasize about the banalities of civilian life. I would imagine myself sitting in a diner booth in a well-lit, air-conditioned restaurant, a friendly waitress taking my order, drinking cup after cup of coffee. I would imagine the feeling of walking barefoot on my parents’ kitchen floor. Pressing traffic buttons to cross the street. Tall oak trees. The sounds of trains that you can’t see.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">When you do eventually return home, these common sensations, things that you took for granted before idealizing them during combat, inevitably fail to live up to your wartime reveries. The waitress is rude. The kitchen floor is ugly. The traffic buttons don’t work. The oak trees have been cut down and the trains no longer run on that line.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Friendships lack the easy intimacy of those you had during the war. The rituals of your civilian domestic life are polluted with banality. The asceticism and sense of necessity that animated your wartime experiences with meaning become muted on your return to the trivial spectacle of American culture. You feel alone, adrift in a sea of empty signifiers.</span>
<b>And You Start to Miss</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">And you start to miss, not combat necessarily, but the purpose and community that combat gave you. And that’s why so many former soldiers long to return to war. Instead of being pathologized as a psychological wound, that desire should be explored for what it is: a moral indictment of the ways in which contemporary culture fails to nourish humans on a fundamental level. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Sebastian Junger is a writer and documentarian who has spent the past few years giving serious consideration to soldiers, their experiences, and how they cope with the aftermath of war. A theme he dwells on is why many soldiers, some traumatized by the violence in which they participated, miss combat. </span>
To begin to understand the soldiers that Junger talks to, an admission must be made: war isn’t an entirely negative experience. As Junger writes, “[The soldiers] miss brotherhood—that incredibly close bond between 30 guys in combat. And real intimacy. From the bunk I slept in at Restrepo I could reach out my arm and touch three other men. We were really close—physically and emotionally close. It’s kind of terrifying to be in such an emotionally safe environment and then suddenly be expelled into an alienated, fractured, and empty American society.”
<span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s true. After I left the Army I moved to New York. The transition was rough. I met a few people, some very nice, but most encounters seemed transactional. People were sizing me up, calculating my use to their careers. It reminded me of Cicero writing that “most persons have acquired the habit of recognizing nothing as good in human relations and affairs that does not produce some revenue, and they most love those friends, as they do those cattle, that will yield them the greatest gain.”</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">It became so prevalent that I came up with a code word for it: checking teeth. People were checking my teeth if they showed initial interest in a conversation but faded away after they realized that I couldn’t help advance their career. If I couldn’t distinguish a friendly coffee from a networking opportunity, my teeth were probably being checked. How could these relations be worth anything to me after living side by side with men who would have given their lives to save mine? Combat felt less barbaric.</span>
<b>America Felt Brutal</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">America felt more brutal to me than actual combat, but again, you have to remember that combat isn’t entirely bad. People have a sense of purpose. There is an experience of deep trust when you rely on others for your continued existence. There’s an authentic sense of a community of people, with shared sorrow and joy.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Our economic system on the home front, which drives whatever culture or shared values we have left, works in the opposite direction. One of the most lucid interpreters of neoliberalism, Wendy Brown, recently described our collective modus operandi in an interview as “a governing rationality through which everything is ‘economized.’” Everything is economized </span>
<blockquote><span style="font-weight: 400;">in a very specific way: human beings become market actors and nothing but, every field of activity is seen as a market, and every entity (whether public or private, whether person, whether person, business, or state) is governed as a firm…. Neoliberalism construes even non-wealth generating spheres – such as learning, dating, or exercising—in market terms, submits them to market metrics, and governs them with market techniques and practices. Above all, it casts people as human capital who must constantly tend to their own present and future value.”</span></blockquote>
In other words, it’s “checking teeth” writ-large. Everything, including what should be some of the most sacred relations between people, had been reduced to transactional encounters. It was the opposite of what I had experienced in Iraq.
<span style="font-weight: 400;">I deeply feel the incongruity between the depth of my Iraq experiences and the shallowness of the civilian world. I sense the same in many of the guys that deployed with me. Relationships with co-workers are depressingly vapid. Jobs are meaningless. There’s no larger community to care for them if they slip through the cracks—just a depressing, impersonal bureaucracy. The most common critiques of our current economic system focus on wealth disparity or problems with the distribution of services. What often gets overlooked is how the larger governing rationality that surrounds our rapacious transactionalism is dispiriting. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or de-spiriting, really, in the literal sense. It’s a thinly veiled nihilism in which, to borrow the cosmological World Turtle epithet, it’s the marketplace “all the way down.” Veterans sense that on a fundamental level, having already experienced an alternative. The failure of veterans to adjust to this system is not something that should be therapized away. It’s the culture that should be healed.</span>
<b>Wisdom Lost in Translation</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of the difficulty in recognizing this is our penchant for compartmentalizing war and warriors. Junger addressed this in the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, writing, “We avoid any direct look at the reality of war. And both sides of the political spectrum indulge in this; liberals tend to be scandalized that war can be tremendously alluring to young men, and conservatives rarely acknowledge that war kills far more innocent people than guilty ones. Soldiers understand both of these things but don’t know how to talk about them when met with blank stares from friends and family back home.” </span>
Most Americans don’t experience war firsthand, which is of course good in many ways, but it also cuts them off from the deep perceptions that warriors return with. Their wisdom becomes lost in translation, drowned in a shallow, horizonless sea of clicks, tweets, rankings, dollars, and rootless consumerism.
<span style="font-weight: 400;">In Canto XXVI of Dante’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inferno</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we find the ultimate veteran of all literature, Ulysses, in Hell. Dante didn’t have access to the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Odyssey</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">; so most of his knowledge of Ulysses after the Trojan War came secondhand from Ovid. Traditionally, it’s said that he placed Ulysses in the eighth circle because of his insatiable and reckless curiosity. But Dante’s son Pietro in his own commentary on the canto notes that Ulysses left Ithaca once more after finally returning home. Not only does he ignore the divine decree to not journey past the Pillars of Hercules, but he ignores the sacred bonds of duty that tie him to his home, his family, and his society.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Society owes veterans, but veterans also owe society. We are duty-bound to communicate our hard won wisdom, even if prevailing convention makes it difficult to recognize it as wisdom at all. The desire to return to combat is a compelling one, especially in the contemporary  miasma of consumerism. But it </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ours. And the temporary euphoria of combat is no replacement for the struggle to build a lasting, more moral community. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a saying that sometime around Chaucer, life turned from a dance into a race. Veterans are doing the right thing by scoffing at the finish line. But we also need to help others to hear the tune.</span>
<b>Further Reading:</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Scott Beauchamp’s </span><a href="https://ethikapolitika.org/2015/06/29/the-executioners-wrong/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Executioner’s Wrong</span></a>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">His </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/13/boots-on-the-ground-other-confusing-military-jargon-us-troops"><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘Boots on the Ground’ and Other Military Jargon</span></a>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">His </span><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/military-business-success/407422/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Military Isn’t Preparing People for Private-Sector Success</span></a>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dylan Pahman’s </span><a href="https://ethikapolitika.org/2013/12/13/busyness-askesis-advent-reflection/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Busyness and Askesis: An Advent Reflection</span></a>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Andrew Haines’ </span><a href="https://ethikapolitika.org/2012/07/18/seeing-hallmark-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘Seeing’ as the Hallmark of Culture</span></a><p>The post <a href="https://ethikapolitika.org/2015/12/02/ulysses-in-hell-or-the-soldiers-homecoming/" rel="nofollow">Ulysses in Hell, or, the Soldier’s Homecoming</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ethikapolitika.org" rel="nofollow">Ethika Politika</a>.</p>
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<p>I am traveling this week for work. This morning my lovely wife sent me <i>via</i> email a post from the blog <a href="http://dappledthings.org/">"Dappled Things"</a> entitled <a href="http://dappledthings.org/8451/the-advent-curmudgeon/">"The Advent Curmudgeon."</a> She wrote, "When I started reading this, I thought you had written it!!" While I did not write it (Michael Rennier did), it is a piece that sums up my attitude towards this time of year very well. Like Rennier, I am inclined to be one of those "emotionally warped anti-Christmas crusaders [who] maintain a penitential Advent with nary a wisp of mistletoe in sight." I'll readily admit that there were years I attempted to observe Advent in such a puritanical spirit. But experience has taught me to that the best way to observe Advent is to do what Rennier suggests and simply observe the Church's calendar. This is an antidote to my seasonal loathing my lovely wife seized upon years ago. <br /><br />In Western culture, which, at least in my view, has been correctly characterized as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Burnout-Society-Byung-Chul-Han/dp/0804795096/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449059095&sr=1-1&keywords=the+burnout+society"><i>The Burnout Society</i></a>, we don't know how to wait. Christians are often caught up in impatient behavior, which is wholly antithetical to our faith. But a lot of life and most of history consists of waiting. What does it mean to wait in joyful hope? This is the question I am pondering over the course of this Advent season. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ii-xO1aTV4w/Vl-cFfX1b-I/AAAAAAAAIjg/291tyOfbx-s/s1600/Know%2BHope.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ii-xO1aTV4w/Vl-cFfX1b-I/AAAAAAAAIjg/291tyOfbx-s/s400/Know%2BHope.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />With Dr Tim O'Malley, Director of <a href="http://liturgy.nd.edu/">Notre Dame University's Center for Liturgy</a>, I grow suspicious of promotions like "Best Advent Ever," which strike me as attempts to Osteenify U.S. Catholicism. I think Tim's reason for rejecting these kinds of things quite sound: "It seems to play into an American spiritual assumption that it is the best that matters. That liturgical seasons are about self-improvement rather than keeping alive the memory of Christ anew." So the last thing I need is to load up on "Advent resources." What do I need to do? Shut-up and sit down. Stop, be quiet, and wait in joyful hope, keeping memory of Christ anew. <br /><br />I hope it isn't either maudlin or pedantic to point out that Advent is about holy waiting for the light to dawn anew in our hearts: "What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it" (<a href="http://usccb.org/bible/john/1:3">John 1:3b-5</a>). In a word, Advent is about hope, which is the least understood of the theological virtues. While faith is discussed to the point that it begins to fold back on itself, while love, like Christmas, is often reduced to mere sentiment, more than anything hope, the flower of faith, is an experience.
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<p>“St. Francis Xavier was born in the Castle of Xavier near Sanguesa, in Navarre, 7 April, 1506; died on the Island of Sancian near the coast of China, 2 December, 1552. In 1525, having completed a preliminary course of studies in his own country, Francis Xavier went to Paris, where he entered the collège de …</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2015/12/02/st-francis-xavier-december-3/" rel="nofollow">St. Francis Xavier – December 3</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com" rel="nofollow">Traditional Catholic Priest</a>.</p>
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<p> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Er war in Indien; und obwohl er China nicht betrat, ist er heute auch dort hoch verehrt. </span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Was hat den hl. Franz Xaver bis in den Fernen Osten getrieben, um das Evangelium zu verkünden? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In ihm musste ein Feuer gebrannt haben, das Feuer der Liebe zu Jesus Christus und das Feuer der Liebe zu den Menschen, die Jesus noch nicht kannten. Er hatte erfasst, welch großes Geschenk, ja welches Glück es ist, glauben zu dürfen und zu Jesus Christus zu gehören. Er hat erkannt, dass der Glaube ein Geschenk zum Weiterschenken ist. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">„Ich bin gekommen, um Feuer auf die Erde zu werfen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Wie froh wäre ich, es würde schon brennen“ (Lk 12,49). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In Franz Xaver hat es gebrannt, und er setzte alles daran, dass sich dieses Feuer ausbreitet und auch die Menschen im fernen Indien, Japan und China erfasst. Sie alle sollen mit Gottes Liebe beschenkt werden.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">+</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Oration</span></u></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Gott, der Du die Völker Indiens durch die Predigt und die Wunder </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">des heiligen Franz Deiner Kirche beigesellen wolltest, gewähre gnädig, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">dass wir auch das Vorbild der Tugenden dessen nachahmen, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">dessen glorreiche Verdienste wir verehren.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Durch unseren Herrn. </span></span><br /></div> Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10px;"> </span></h1><div><span style="font-size: 10px;"><br /></span></div><h2 class="subhead" style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">COMMENTARY</span></h2><h2 class="subhead" style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></h2><div class="social-right" style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul class="share" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 80px !important;"><div class=" fb_reset" id="fb-root" style="background-image: none; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: auto; direction: ltr; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div><div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><div style="border: 0px; height: 41px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible !important; padding: 0px;"><div class="fb-like fb_iframe_widget" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: bottom; width: 76px;"></span></div></div></li></ul></div><div style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 558.906px;"><cite class="byline" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by CARDINAL RAYMOND BURKE</cite></div><div style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 558.906px;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 558.906px;">In the Nov. 28 issue of<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> La Civiltà Cattolica</em>, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, director of the journal and a synod father, presents a <a href="http://www.laciviltacattolica.it/articoli_download/extra/SINODOXIV.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">summary</a> of the work of the 14th Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, dedicated to the vocation and mission of the family (pp. 372-391).</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;">Although the author makes various affirmations about the nature and work of the Synod of Bishops, which demand critical comment in a longer study, one affirmation which necessitates immediate comment is summarized thus by the author:</div><blockquote style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px;">The synod has also desired to touch wounded persons and couples to accompany them and heal them in a process of integration and reconciliation without barriers. Concerning access to the sacraments for those divorced and remarried civilly, the synod has formulated the way of discernment and of the “internal forum,” laying the foundations and opening a door which, on the contrary, had remained closed in the preceding synod.</blockquote></blockquote><span>Read more: <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-truth-about-the-14th-ordinary-assembly-of-the-synod-of-bishops/#ixzz3tDMB7PKW" style="border: 0px; color: #003399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-truth-about-the-14th-ordinary-assembly-of-the-synod-of-bishops/#ixzz3tDMB7PKW</a></span><br /><div style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 558.906px;"><cite class="byline" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></cite></div><div style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 558.906px;"></div>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Pope_Francis_at_the_general_audience_in_St_Peters_Square_on_Nov_4_2015_Credit_Daniel_Ibanez_CNA_11_4_15.jpg" /><p>Vatican City, Dec 2, 2015 / 05:24 pm (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- Four alleged terrorist sympathizers who made internet threats against Pope Francis have been arrested. While Italian authorities described them as “highly dangerous,” they said they did not appear to be involved in any specific plot.<br />
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“They were threatening the Pope, celebrating the recent attacks in Paris and threatening the former U.S. ambassador to Kosovo,” said Carmine Esposito, a police chief in the northern Italian city of Brescia.<br />
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They were arrested on suspicion of “condoning terrorism” and inciting racial hatred, Reuters reports. Their online threats included claims that Francis will be the last Pope.<br />
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Four people with citizenship in the Balkan country of Kosovo were arrested Dec. 1 in Italy and Kosovo. Italian police carried out raids in the cities of Brescia, Vicenza and Perugia, the Italian newspaper The Local reports.<br />
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Two of the suspects will be expelled from Italy, while a third will be placed under special surveillance. The alleged group leader arrested in Kosovo had combat experience outside the country.<br />
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Police said that the alleged terrorist team was a “highly dangerous group” that “propagated the ideology of jihad through social networks.” The team allegedly has links to jihadists in Syria.<br />
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The arrests followed a tip from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.<br />
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In the wake of the Islamic State group’s Nov. 13 attacks in Paris which killed over 120 people, the U.S. Embassy in Rome on Nov. 18 warned that St. Peter’s Basilica, Milan’s cathedral, and other prominent locations were potential targets for attack.<br />
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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, told French daily La Croix that the Vatican could be a target of attacks because of its religious significance and that it was capable of increasing its security.<br />
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In the interview, published Nov. 15, Cardinal Parolin also said: “we will not let ourselves be paralyzed by fear.”<br /><br /></p><div class="feedflare">
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<td><a href="http://www.ccwatershed.org/blog/feed/">Corpus Christi Watershed news</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/">Creative Minority Report</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://cristiandad.orlandis.org">CRISTIANDAD</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://cumlazaro.blogspot.com/">Cum Lazaro</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://davidscottwritings.com">David Scott Writings</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://denzinger-katholik.blogspot.com/">Denzinger-Katholik</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://initium-sapientiae.blogspot.com/">Diligite iustitiam</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://nunraw.blogspot.com/">Dom Donald's Blog</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.dominicanajournal.org">Dominicana</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.dominicanajournal.org/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://hughosb.wordpress.com">Dominus mihi adjutor</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://hughosb.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://dprice.blogspot.com/">Dyspeptic Mutterings</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://easternchristianbooks.blogspot.com/">Eastern Christian Books</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://easternchristianbooks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://edinburghhousewife.blogspot.com/">Edinburgh Housewife</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/">Edward Feser</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://etnunc.blogspot.com/">et nunc</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://ethikapolitika.org">Ethika Politika</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://ethikapolitika.org/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://cistercium.blogspot.com/">EUCist News</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.faithfulanswers.com">Faithful Answers</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://sdcojai.wordpress.com">For the Queen</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://sdcojai.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/">Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/">Fr Ray Blake's Blog</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog">Fr. Z's Blog</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://galileowaswrong.com">Galileo Was Wrong</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://gratiasupernaturam.blogspot.com/">Gratia Super Naturam</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://historyofinterpretation.wordpress.com">History of Interpretation</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td>https://creamcitycatholic.com/feed/</td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/simchafisher">I Have to Sit Down</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.ibenedictines.org">iBenedictines</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/">IDLE SPECULATIONS</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/Uocyk">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://ignatiushisconclave.org">ignatius his conclave</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://ilblogdiraffaella.blogspot.com/">Il Blog di Raffaella. I Papi, il Vaticano e la Chiesa Cattolica</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com">In the Light of the Law</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://incarnationandmodernity.wordpress.com">Incarnation and Modernity</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://infallible-catholic.blogspot.com/">Infallible Catholic</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://infallible-catholic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://angeluspress.org/blog">Instaurare Omnia in Christo - The Blog</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://jimmyakin.com">Jimmy Akin</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://jimmyakin.com/feed">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://johngbrungardt.com">John G. Brungardt, Ph.L.</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://johnvgerardi.wordpress.com">John V. Gerardi</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://johnvgerardi.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://thomism.wordpress.com">Just Thomism</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://thomism.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://katholon.de">katholon</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://katholon.de/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://korrektivpress.com">Korrektiv</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://korrektivpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://exlaodicea.wordpress.com">Laodicea</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://exlaodicea.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/">Laudator Temporis Acti</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com/">Le blog d'Yves Daoudal</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://benedict-iana.blogspot.com/">Lectio Divina Notes</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://benedict-iana.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/">LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://lexchristianorum.blogspot.com/">Lex Christianorum</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://lexchristianorum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.leynatural.es">Ley Natural</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.leynatural.es/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://littleflowerfarmcsa.blogspot.com/">Little Flower Farm</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://littleflowerfarmcsa.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/">LMS Chairman</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.lmschairman.org/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://lovedasif.com">Loved As If</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://lovedasif.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.marcpuck.com/">marcpuck</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.marcpuck.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://maryvictrix.com">Mary Victrix</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://maryvictrix.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://mathias-von-gersdorff.blogspot.com/">Mathias von Gersdorff</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://pblosser.blogspot.com/">Musings of a Pertinacious Papist</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/">New Liturgical Movement</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://culbreath.wordpress.com">New Sherwood</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://culbreath.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://drandmrsholmes.com">New Song</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://drandmrsholmes.com/?feed=rss2">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://thomistica.net/news/">News - thomistica</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://catholicnick.blogspot.com/">NICK'S CATHOLIC BLOG</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://catholicnick.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/index.htm">Novus Ordo Wire | Blog, News Archive at NOVUS ORDO WATCH</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/index.xml">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://onemadmomblog.wordpress.com">One Mad Mom</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://onemadmomblog.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com">OnePeterFive</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://opuspublicum.com">Opus Publicum</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://otritt.wordpress.com">Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://otritt.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://ozconservative.blogspot.com/">Oz Conservative</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog">Paths of Love</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://psallamdomino.blogspot.com/">Psallam Domino</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/">RORATE CÆLI</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://undergroundthomist.org/rss">RSS</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com">Sancrucensis</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://scholastiker.blogspot.com/">Scholastiker</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://scholastiker.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://semiduplex.com">Semiduplex</a></td>
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<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-25.html">25</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-10-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">September 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-06.html">06</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-13.html">13</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-20.html">20</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-27.html">27</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-09-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">August 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-02.html">02</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-09.html">09</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-16.html">16</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-23.html">23</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-30.html">30</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">July 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day">12</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-19.html">19</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-26.html">26</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-14.html">14</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-21.html">21</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-28.html">28</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">May 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-03.html">03</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-17.html">17</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-24.html">24</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-31.html">31</a></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">April 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-05.html">05</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-12.html">12</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-19.html">19</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-26.html">26</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">23</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">24</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">25</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-01.html">01</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-15.html">15</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-22.html">22</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-29.html">29</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">February 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-15.html">15</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">January 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-25.html">25</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-07.html">07</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-14.html">14</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-21.html">21</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-28.html">28</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-16.html">16</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">October 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-05.html">05</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-12.html">12</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">September 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-14.html">14</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">August 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-03.html">03</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-31.html">31</a></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">July 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-13.html">13</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-06-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-06-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">May 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">April 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-04-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-04-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-04-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">24</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">25</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">February 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-09.html">09</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-16.html">16</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">January 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-26.html">26</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">25</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-22.html">22</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-10.html">10</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">October 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-20.html">20</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-27.html">27</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">August 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-08-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">July 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-07-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-07-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-06-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">May 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-05-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-05-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-05-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">April 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-04-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">25</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-10.html">10</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-24.html">24</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">February 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-24.html">24</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">January 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-01-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-01-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-09.html">09</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-11.html">11</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">October 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">September 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-30.html">30</a></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-06-17.html">17</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">May 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-05-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-03-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-03-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-03-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">February 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-02-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-12-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-11-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">July 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-07-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-07-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">April 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-04-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-04-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-03-20.html">20</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2010</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-11-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">August 2010</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-08-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2010</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-06-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-06-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-06-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-06-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">January 2010</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-01-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-01-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-01-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2009</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-20.html">20</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2009</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-11-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
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