Friday 8 April 2016
Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia - Meaning "The Joy of Love,"
Wednesday 6 April 2016
BREAKING NEWS ON APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION - Pope encourages not just a 'renewal' but even more, a real 'conversion' of language."
Taken from author:- http://www.ncronline.org/authors/joshua-j-mcelwee
VATICAN CITY - A Vatican reading guide sent to Catholic bishops globally ahead of the release of Pope Francis' widely anticipated document on family life says the pontiff wants the church to adopt a new stance of inclusion towards society and to ensure its doctrines are: "at the service of the pastoral mission." The Vatican reading guide came to bishops alongside a letter signed by Cardinal Lorenzo Baldiserri, the head of the Vatican Synod office. The cardinal’s letter tells bishops that the exhortation is:- "first and foremost a pastoral teaching." The reading guide says Francis "wants to express himself in language that truly reaches the audience -- and this implies discernment and dialogue." Discernment, it says, "avoids taking truths and choices for granted; it has us examine and consciously adopt our formulations of truths and the choices."
McElwee concludes by quoting the summary document:-
"The Pope's concern is therefore to re-contextualize doctrine at the service of the pastoral mission of the Church," it states. Using a Greek word for the proclamation of salvation through Jesus, it states: "Doctrine should be interpreted in relation to the heart of the Christian kerygma and in the light of the pastoral context in which it will be applied."
http://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/vatican-guide-says-francis-family-document-puts-doctrine-service-pastoral-mission
VATICAN CITY - A Vatican reading guide sent to Catholic bishops globally ahead of the release of Pope Francis' widely anticipated document on family life says the pontiff wants the church to adopt a new stance of inclusion towards society and to ensure its doctrines are: "at the service of the pastoral mission." The Vatican reading guide came to bishops alongside a letter signed by Cardinal Lorenzo Baldiserri, the head of the Vatican Synod office. The cardinal’s letter tells bishops that the exhortation is:- "first and foremost a pastoral teaching." The reading guide says Francis "wants to express himself in language that truly reaches the audience -- and this implies discernment and dialogue." Discernment, it says, "avoids taking truths and choices for granted; it has us examine and consciously adopt our formulations of truths and the choices."
McElwee concludes by quoting the summary document:-
"The Pope's concern is therefore to re-contextualize doctrine at the service of the pastoral mission of the Church," it states. Using a Greek word for the proclamation of salvation through Jesus, it states: "Doctrine should be interpreted in relation to the heart of the Christian kerygma and in the light of the pastoral context in which it will be applied."
http://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/vatican-guide-says-francis-family-document-puts-doctrine-service-pastoral-mission
Friday 1 April 2016
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Asks To Be Reinstated As Pope
VATICAN–According to reports today, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is seeking the chair of his pontificate months after his resignation. The news has sent shock waves around the world.
Vatican spokesman Fr. Vitateli Devitiamani told EOTT that, “He came for a dinner as scheduled and then proceeded to return to his old living quarters. That wouldn’t be a problem, since His Holiness Pope Francis chose to live elsewhere, the room is open. However, once we asked him where he was going, he simply said, ‘I’m back,’ then proceeded to put his sunglasses on even though we were inside.”
Sources say that the next morning, he walked down the hall asking for his valet and his red....shoes, and was overheard asking an adviser to “get Burke on the line.”
H/t to Eye of the Tiber on 1st April 2016.
Wednesday 9 March 2016
Young Catholic Adults and WAF Marian Day - on 9th April between 11:30 - 2pm at St. Gregory's Cheltenham
The Parish of St. Gregory the Great (10 St James Square, Cheltenham, GL50 3PR) will be hosting a
Marian event on April 9th 2016 11:30 - c.2pm. It will start with a Rosary at
11:30am followed a procession around the Church.
There will be a presentation on Fatima by Donal Foley, the
Secretary of the World Apostolate of Fatima, England and Wales, which will
start at 12:15pm in the Old Priory and finish by c.2pm. It will include a DVD
and a PowerPoint presentation, as well as time for refreshments and questions
and answers. Books, booklets and DVDs will be available for sale. The focus of
the presentation is the importance of the Rosary and the Five First Saturdays
devotion, and how they can revitalise our own spiritual lives, the parish, and
the Church generally.
This event is organised by Cheltenham YCA and the World
Apostolate of Fatima and is for ALL AGES. There is a suggested donation of £5 – please bring a packed lunch.
Thursday 3 March 2016
The Devil Hates Latin!
By David Clayton.
I just attended a talk by the exorcist for diocese of San Jose, Fr Gary Thomas. He is the subject of a book and a film called The Rite, starring Anthony Hopkins. (The talk was organized by a group called Catholics at Work.)
First, he was a great speaker. He described how almost by accident, and
after 20 years as a parish priest, he found himself sent to Rome to
learn how to perform the Rite of Exorcism. He was very clear in saying
that, in his opinion, the recent rise in interest in (the) New Age....
has opened the door to adherence to the occult for greater numbers of
people than before, which in turn opens the way to diabolical
possession. He has always been inundated with requests, even before the
publicity.
The fact that he described these things pretty much in the same
straightforward, matter-of-fact way that one might describe what goes on
in a marriage or baptism in a parish RCIA class only served to
reinforce the truth of it all for me. And I would say that if anything
is to increase your faith, it is listening to accounts of how the Church
overcomes the effects of possession by the devil and demons, and the
suffering of those poor people who are affected by them.
I wanted to pass on one little comment that he made almost in passing. I
do not know where he stands liturgically in regard to the Mass - there
was nothing in what he said that led me to believe that he celebrates
the Latin Mass, for example. However, he did explain that the Rite of
Exorcism is only said in Latin. One reason is practical - there is no
approved translation in English as yet. He gave another reason why he
was so strongly in favor of the use of Latin in the Rite of Exorcism:
“The Devil hates Latin, it is the universal language of the Church.” I
asked him about this afterwards, and he repeated it, saying that his
personal experiences as an exorcist who has performed many, many
exorcisms have convinced him of this. He told me he had heard from
exorcists who did exorcisms in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (the only
approved vernaculars for this Rite) that Latin was the most effective
language.
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