Sorry to Rock the Boat & Roll the Apple Cart….But These Spanish Bishops are Wrong! 😆
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/260752/intergenerational-healing-has-no-basis-in-catholic-doctrine-spanish-bishops-affirm?utm_campaign=CNA%20Daily&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_WPtlCcwDShF75sGy2cfLiRFARJpNYZsXKanKU6QVrxhzQAnVXTlbsRWyM-B0_7zoT1VDPCUsKOcF-1xEefOWHwVzUQA&_hsmi=336228368&utm_content=336228368&utm_source=hs_email Commentary Not all that long ago, a report came out (see above), stating that a certain cohort of bishops from Spain had banded together to formally oppose what they claim is a 'doctrinal error', namely that of believing in generationally caused or inherited problems. It is here that I intend to contest that assertion…
Again, I’m Blown Away….
Again, I'm blown away how amazingly similar alot of what I am discovering through reading Pope Francis' Dilexit Nos ¹ is thematically, to much of what I have so far discovered about Paul Tournier's beautiful masterpiece The Gift of Feeling. ² Just take a look at this, in paragraph 20, the Holy Father states: "In…
Bring Back Fish on Fridays!
https://www.ncregister.com/news/some-bishops-propose-the-return-of-the-friday-meat-fast?utm_campaign=NCR&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9mDmAM0vEr5zeB4RmVuxOKFhdoomWghmtfEJhNThVxu8aZObuw2EnwujUHKfQl9pDTnjmsTvm69iGnvbayAEuUtM50jA&_hsmi=335068882&utm_content=335068882&utm_source=hs_email Great initiative and sorely needed. A large part of the reason why there has been so much falling away, so much secularization of Catholics generally whereby they have turned from being true, passionate & authentic into feebly nominal Catholics, not to mention Sunday pew-warmers at best! - has to do with the abandonment of…
The Crux of the Matter
This is it....right here: If we devalue the heart, we also devalue what it means to speak from the heart, to act with the heart, to cultivate and heal the heart. If we fail to appreciate the specificity of the heart, we miss the messages that the mind alone cannot communicate; we miss out on…
Not What I Was Hoping
https://saintmartinsacademy.org Commentary I thought this was a primer in monastic formation somewhat like the Cistercian charism....but I took a look at the website and was shocked to see the word "softness" being equated with "sloth"! For goodness' sake, what are you trying to do?? Re-create a cultish boys club based on principles that have more…
Dilexit Nos – An Indictment Against Worldliness
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/world/europe/pope-francis-encyclical.html I would first like to introduce the topic according to the thematics raised in another reflection I wrote a little while back which ponders the significance of the literal meaning of Pope Francis' new encyclical's title Dilexit Nos - He First Loved Us . For Jesus was generous with His love and readiness to…
On Authentic Pastoral Care & Responsibility
*https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-belgium-promises-abuse-victims-after-hearing-trauma-114313630 Care needs to be the bedrock of responsibility thereby giving responsibility its proper place as love-bound duty with its substance being the integral care of the whole person. Therefore, the most authentic type of pastoral care & responsibility is supposed to be of the "fertile nurturing" kind rather than coldly officious and administrative. This…
Bread Given for the Life of the World
Even as we reach the end of another week, it is good to be reminded of the reverberating significance of the Gospel message from last Sunday. I had been subliminally ruminating on the meat in this beautiful sandwich all week only to be consciously met with the timeliness of it's underlying message at quite a…
Pope Leo XIII, St Don Bosco and the End of the Age
No doubt we are living in these times - and at such a time as this, never before have we perhaps seen so much intra-Church conflict since maybe the Great Schism of 1054! If that sounds to you like it is an over-statement, one that's more than just a wee bit far fetched then think…
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