Keep
your eyes open!...
November 26, 2013
THE TRIB TIMES WILL RETURN NEXT
WEEK, GOD WILLING (James 4:15). HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
(Zec 9:9) Rejoice
greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem:
BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor,
and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.
VATICAN.VA: APOSTOLIC
EXHORTATION EVANGELII GAUDIUM OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS TO THE
BISHOPS, CLERGY, CONSECRATED PERSONS AND THE LAY FAITHFUL ON THE
PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL IN TODAY’S WORLD
POPE FRANCIS: "While
all the others treat Jesus with disdain – 'If you are the Christ, the
Messiah King, save yourself by coming down from the cross!'– the thief
who went astray in his life but now repents, clinging to the crucified
Jesus, begs him: “Remember me, when you come into your kingdom” (Lk
23:42). And Jesus promises him: “Today you will be with me in paradise”
(v. 43). Jesus speaks only a word of forgiveness, not of condemnation;
whenever anyone finds the courage to ask for this forgiveness, the Lord
does not let such a petition go unheard. Jesus’ promise to the good
thief gives us great hope: it tells us that God’s grace is always
greater than the prayer which sought it. The Lord always grants more
than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings
you into his Kingdom!"
MSGR. CHARLES POPE: King of the Universe and King of Thieves? A Homily for the Feast of Christ the King
MEDITATION: Christ: A King Hanging from a Cross 
DFWCATHOLIC.ORG: Christ the King: an 8th century fresco
Christ is the Crucified, and a King. He is robed in majesty; He is
fastened to the Cross. He wears the royal purple robes with which His
scorners intended to mock Him, but He, Alpha and Omega, the first and
last Word, the Primogenitor of those who are being saved, confers His
own divine dignity onto the very idea of kingship. He wears the glory
that inspired the good thief to plead for his salvation, with the
confidence of the One whose Sonship makes that salvation possible.
In our era, when people tend to separate the glorious from the
salvific, it helps to look back and see a time in the Church
when robes of glory and the will to save were not thought to be at
odds. In fact, it is His very royalty that opens the doors of heaven
for us, and gives us hope that our pleas will be heard by One who is
not only ineffably kind, but infinitely strong.
MEDITATION: Thoughts
by St Theophan (1815-1894)
[I Thess. 1:1-5; Luke 10:22-24]
No man knoweth... who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the
Son will reveal him. The Son was on the earth and revealed everything
necessary for us Himself and through the Holy Spirit which acted in the
apostles. Consequently, what you find in the Gospels and the apostolic
writings is all you will and can know about the Father and Godly
things. Do not seek more than this, and do not think to find apart from
this anywhere else the truth about God and God's plans. What a great
treasure we possess!... Everything has been said already.
Do not rack your brains, just accept with faith what has been revealed.
It has been revealed that God is one in essence and triune in persons —
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; accept this with faith and uphold it.
It has been revealed that the thrice-hypostatical God created all
through the word, preserves all in His right hand, and is providential
toward everything; accept this with faith and uphold it. It has been
revealed that we were in a blessed state and fell, and that for our
restoration and redemption the Son of God, the second person of the
Most Holy Trinity, was incarnate, suffered, died on the cross, was
resurrected and ascended into heaven — accept this with faith and
uphold it. It has been revealed that one who desires to be saved must
believe in the Lord, and accepting divine grace in the holy mysteries,
live, with its help, according to the Lord's commandments, struggling
with the passions and lusts, by means of corresponding spiritual
endeavours — accept this with faith and do it. It has been revealed
that whosoever lives according to God's direction enters after their
death into bright dwelling places, the pre-beginning of eternal bliss;
while whosoever does not live thus, upon death will pre-begin to
experience the torments of hell — accept this [revelation] with faith
and thus give yourself understanding, and inspire yourself for good and
spiritual endeavours.
Thus accept all with faith and keep it faithfully. There is no need to
rack your brains over your own invented things. Do not listen to those
who show off their intelligence — they do not know where they are going.
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
49. He also said, 'The monk who cannot control his tongue when he is angry, will not control his passions at other times.'
November 22, 2013
(Mat 26:26-28) And
whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and
gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my body. And
taking the chalice, he gave thanks and gave to them, saying: Drink ye
all of this. For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be
shed for many unto remission of sins.
PETER KREEFT:
Adoration means especially Eucharistic adoration. In that silence there
is a power greater than a thousand nuclear bombs, greater than the sun,
greater than the Big Bang. It is the power of God, released when the
atom of the Trinity was split on the Cross and the explosion of
redeeming blood came out.
TRACT: Value of Sacrifice: The Eucharist & Adoration
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EXCERPT CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS: The Eucharist and Silence
The link between the Eucharist and the way we live is crucial to any
understanding or experience of its meaning and value. If we celebrate
the Eucharist only as an ecclesial obligation or as a folksy get
together it will have little influence upon better conforming our lives
to the Gospel. Unless we have come together at a deep level in its
celebration the closing words “Go in peace” will mean we go in pieces,
just as we probably arrived. Silence allows the full meaning of the
Eucharist at its deepest, post-verbal levels of sacramental efficacy,
to unfold in our lives. This means that we will know that having shared
the fruits of the earth symbolically together we can better serve the
Kingdom of justice in our lives and work. We all took the same amount
of bread and wine. There was enough to go round for everybody – if the
sacristan did his job properly. Therefore if our lives are to be
Eucharistic should we not work for the just distribution of wealth, the
relief of the oppressed and care for the marginalized? The mystical
depth of the Eucharist has direct political implications. Were not
Thomas a Becket and Oscar Romero assassinated at the silent moment of
consecration? Pope John Paul’s last public teaching and blessing from
his Vatican window was silent.
So the implications of silence in the Eucharist take us to the heart of
our faith and to the cutting edge of contemporary evangelization. It is
not just about what happens at Mass times. It is about expressing what
is real at the core of our being and in the fabric of our daily life
and work. This I think must be why Pope John Paul linked the experience
of liturgical silence to the contemplative renewal of the church. In a
world increasingly fractured and frazzled by noise and stress, he
recognized the necessity for the church to draw on its deepest
contemplative traditions and to teach from these ways of contemplative
prayer. It is vital to rediscover the value of silence, he said. John
Main, who died in 1982, saw this too: the greatest challenge to modern
people, he said, is to rediscover the value and meaning of silence.
John Main in his writings on the Eucharist also saw that for modern
people, recovering the contemplative dimension of prayer is necessary
for experiencing the full meaning of the sacraments.
The teaching of contemplative prayer at the parish and diocesan level
is a natural and perhaps inevitable corollary to liturgical silence. We
have to start somewhere – with silence after communion or with
meditation groups in the parish. The church being a living Body with a
spiritual life, her pastors don’t have to be too preoccupied with
systems analysis. They simply have to pray and encourage people to pray
ever more deeply. It may be more daring in our time to apply this to
the religious education and spiritual formation of children and young
people.
A living silence after the readings, homily and communion will arouse
or, better perhaps, identify the deeper hunger that is at the heart of
our church and our world. Learning to pray at the contemplative level
will teach us to live better in the spirit, because the way we pray is
the way we live and the way we pray is the way we celebrate the
Eucharist. This hunger for contemplation, then, is our greatest hope.
It is vital to rediscover the value of silence.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: The Eucharist: Sacrament and Sacrifice
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
48. He also said,
'The chaste monk shall be honoured on earth, and in heaven he will be crowned in the presence of the Most High.'
November 21, 2013
(1Ma 1:62-63) But
many in Israel were determined and resolved in their hearts not to eat
anything unclean;they preferred to die rather than to be defiled with
unclean food or to profane the holy covenant; and they did die.
Terrible affliction was upon Israel.
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FR. PAUL NICHOLSON EXCERPT:
But take away faith ... faith in Jesus Christ, faith in His Church and
what do you have? You have the maniacal madness of the first reading (1
Maccabees 1:10-15,41-43, 54-57, 62-63) in which humanity renounces the
truth and the only truth it will accept is power and force. And in the
absence of this light ... it is impossible to tell good from evil.
It is true that we can know right from wrong without the light of faith
... but it is extremelly difficult due to the disorder in our fallen
human nature. Blindness is made more terrible when we are convinced we
can actually see.
Once the light of faith is extinguished, so too is the smaller light of
reason. This idea come from Lumen Fidei, the enclycical on faith,
written by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and our Holy Father Francis.
From the book of Maccabees we read about the terrible affliction that
fell upon Israel in the empire of the Greeks. Every generation of the
human family has seen upstarts like Antiochus Epiphanes ... who
brutally and savagely invade the sanctuary of conscience. Under the
name of progress, countless dictators have come and gone ... advocating
liberation from faith and a rebirth of knowlege only to replace it with
the idolatry of the imperial will and the slavery of ignorance.
MYSTICS OF THE CHURCH: The great Purification that is (soon) to come for all of humanity
FROM THE MAILBAG
VIA Reader: The Feeling That Something Big Is About To Happen
Many people have told me that they have an ever increasing feeling that
something big is about to happen. I too sense it. In fact,
I would say that the words “sense it” are far too mild. What I
feel is an incredibly strong feeling that strikes to my very core.
We have been flooded with signs that we are now in the very last of the
“last days.” It is not just the freakish weather. It is not
just the tetrads of blood moons repeatedly falling on Jewish feast days
or the timing of comet Ison and its potential to be the most
spectacular of all time. It is also the supernatural hatred of
anything Christian in both our government and in the world. It is
the direction world politics has taken, the political collapse that is
occurring in our own nation, the faltering of the world economy, the
increase in earthquakes and volcanic activity, the wildfires, the mass
die-offs of the animals, the strange and eerie sounds being heard all
over the world, the ever unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan, the
crumbling of Christian fundamentals and the apostasy, the apparent
fulfillment of St. Malachy’s prophecy of the popes, the rise of
worldwide homosexuality and other sexual perversions, the wars and
rumors of war, the urgent push to disarm the American public, the ever
increasing signs of sinister government conspiracies, the rabid
fanaticism of our government to build a file of information of every
person, the looming threat of worldwide hunger, the increase of both
disease and pestilence, the advances in technology which defy the
limits God has set for mankind, and even all that is happening to
Israel at this very moment.
There is something more than this going on right now and I can feel
it. So can many others out there. It is an almost
overwhelming feeling that keeps growing in intensity,
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
46. He also said,
'Fasting is the monk's control over sin. The man who stops fasting is
like a stallion who lusts the moment he sees a mare.'
November 19, 2013
(Mat 10:34-37) Do
not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send
peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law
against her mother in law. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own
household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy
of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy
of me.
MSGR. CHARLES POPE: A Reflection on the Modern Error of Preaching Mercy without Repentance
CRISIS MAGAZINE: Advice for Preachers on Sin and Satan
VATICAN RADIO EXCERPT: Pope: Lord save us from the subtle conspiracies of worldliness
During his homily, Pope Francis warned the faithful against what he
described as a “globalized uniformity” which is the result of secular
worldliness.
Often he said, the people of God prefer to distance themselves from the
Lord in favour of worldly proposals. He said worldliness is the root of
evil and it can lead us to abandon our traditions and negotiate our
loyalty to God who is always faithful. This – the Pope admonished – is
called apostasy, which he said is a form of “adultery” which takes
place when we negotiate the essence of our being: loyalty to the Lord.
And he spoke of the contradiction that is inherent in the fact that we
are not ready to negotiate values, but we negotiate loyalty. This
attitude – he said – “is a fruit of the devil who makes his way forward
with the spirit of secular worldliness”.
And referring again to the passage in the Book of Maccabees, in which
all nations conformed to the king’s decree and adopted customs foreign
to their culture, the Pope pointed out that this “is not the beautiful
globalization, unity of all nations, each with their own customs but
united, but the uniformity of hegemonic globalization, it is – he said
- the single thought: the result of secular worldliness”
And Pope Francis warned that this happens today. Moved by the spirit of
worldliness, people negotiate their fidelity to the Lord, they
negotiate their identity, and they negotiate their belonging to a
people that God loves.
FROM THE MAILBAG
VIA Jim McCrea: The Error of This-Worldliness by Dietrich von Hildebrand
There is a deep link between the disastrous desacralization of the holy
humanity of Christ (which, as emphasized above, goes together with
hatred of the holy and of miracles) and "this-worldliness" - that is,
the transfer of the center of gravity from eternity to this world.
The glorification of God through our personal sanctification, and -
what is more surprising - the salvation of our souls in eternity, is
neglected in favor of improving the world and fighting poverty and war.
This tendency is especially dangerous and pernicious because, first, it
is the basis of many grave errors, and secondly, because it does not
come forth, as other heresies did, as an explicitly formulated thesis,
but as a tacit assumption - as an inner attitude, a shift of emphasis.
As a result, many of the faithful do not detect its incompatibility
with the Revelation of Christ and the teaching of the Church. Many
Catholics with a deep faith are unwittingly drawn into the this-worldly
attitude, and they just as unwittingly accept the errors which follow
from it.
No one presents this-worldliness, and all the errors deriving from it,
as a contradiction of the official teaching of the Church. Unlike Karl
Rahner's theories on theological pluralism, and Schillebeeckx's denial
of any difference between body and soul, these errors are not
necessarily linked with an explicit denial of any of the dogmas - and
precisely this makes them much more dangerous.
If so many Catholics do not recognize even flagrant contradictions of
the teaching of the Church, do not see that clearly irreconcilable
things cannot be reconciled, it is not so surprising that they do not
see the contradiction to the Church's teaching which lies in tendencies
and errors which are not openly proclaimed as incompatible with the
dogmas of the Church, but which undermine them mainly by placing a
greater emphasis on this world. In this book we mainly want to
investigate the tendency in the Church to transfer the center of
gravity to this world, as well as the errors connected with this
tendency and rooted in it.
The this-worldly tendency can be detected in various pastoral letters,
and above all in countless sermons. One speaks more about the fight
against poverty and for social justice and world peace - in a word,
more about improving the world - than about offending God by our sins,
sanctifying the individual, about heaven and hell, eternity and the
hope of eternal union with God in the beatific vision.
The this-worldly tendency emphasizes the earthly future more than
eternity, and this is an unfortunate heritage of the evolutionism of
Teilhard de Chardin. The sanctification of the individual soul and the
eternal salvation of the individual is pushed aside to make room for
the evolution of mankind on earth, for progress in what concerns man's
earthly existence. Against this error we might recall the striking
remark of Gustave Thibon: "I prefer and eternity without future to a
future without eternity."
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
45. Hyperichius said, 'Donkeys are terrified of a lion. So temptations to concupiscence are terrified of an experienced monk.'
November 15, 2013
(Mat 25:44-46) Then
they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry
or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not
minister to thee? Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen: I say to
you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you
do it to me. And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the
just, into life everlasting.
CNA: Filipino priest returns home to aid in relief efforts
FROM THE MAILBAG
VIA CARMELITE SISTERS OF OUR LADY:
Letter from Sr Baybeth Andaya
Carmelite Missionary Sisters of Our Lady in the Philippines
Re: Post Typhoon Status
November 13, 2013
Hi Friends – Just so you know that I am safe, my community and family
and most of the sisters and their family are safe too.. My city
(Dumaguete) was least affected from the ruthless typhoon Yolanda
(Haiyan). I am pretty sure you had seen the devastated pictures of the
provinces of Leyte, Samar, Cebu, and Aklan rampaged by the super
typhoon. It is beyond words. Personally, my stomach is pinching and
twisting as if someone is trying to hit and tie my guts.
The whole country is in mourning and moaning. It has been five days
now. We have families of Sister Amor and Sister Lurian in Baybay, Leyte
whose houses - roofing and walls are gone . We have our convent in
Bantayan Island, northern Cebu that completely collapsed that Friday
morning along with the other houses in the Island. Good thing the two
sisters had evacuated already when it happened. A parent-family from
school is housing them now. We have relatives and friends, all of them
lost their homes and crops and most of them lost members of their
families. My good friend and her family who lives in Palo,Leyte near
the Cathedral are still missing or cannot be located... i pray that
they survived. There is no way to call, communication system broke down
as cell-sites collapsed. The major telephone companies are trying to
set up temporary calling areas for free. We heard from the news that it
will take at least three months to restore the power so it is so dark
at night.And it will be a dark Christmas for most of these towns.
Yesterday, in Dumaguete we experienced a very heavy downpour with the
onset of low pressure Zoraida travelling around Cagaya de Oro, Bohol,
Siquijor and Negros Oriental. People were just simply scared even if it
was a much weaker one... There were no winds but rained so hard for
almost twelve hours...
What can we do? I deeply know we have a God looking after us. That even
bad things happen to good people. So many mass goers are asking the big
- WHY? All I know is that we have a God loving us more than we love
ourselves. I know this is difficult to accept during this time of
mourning and utter grief. As we moan and mourn we move on with our pain
and grief keeping our faith and hope alive. That God's love is way way
bigger than our pains.
So many countries responded and sent their aids. God bless them. At our
place in Fatima Village, we do our little share. We are appealing to
our mass goers for any help in kind or in cash - we set up the big
square boxes in the chapel for in-kind donations and a box for cash
donations. The novices went "house to house" donation campaign today
around the village. The victims practically need everything from food,
clothing and shelter. We also realize that in situations like this not
everyone gets the help they need from the different government agencies
and non-government organizations. Our plan B is to directly give our
donations to families we know (families, relatives and friends of the
sisters) and to the rebuilding of our convent in Bantayan Island in
northern Cebu. There are also school families needing help. This is
also to make sure that donations are truly given to the right families.
You cannot blame us for being skeptical especially with the ongoing
plunder court hearings of corrupt politicians. Can you believe it? Even
the climate, the weather - we didn't see the bright sun yesterday and
today, people in general is deeply saddened and depressed.... outside,
you hardly see faces smiling and people are teary-eyed when we talked
about the devastation... the whole country is in agony, in pain Yet,
God is with us, the Emmanuel.
Guess, I just want to share this thoughts to someone. Thanks for being there. Take care yourself and stay safe.
Best regards.
Sr. Baybeth Andaya
How To Help
Dear dear Friends, Thank you so much for thinking of me, of my
community and the sisters, of us all, of my country and people and for
being one with us - accompanying us in thoughts, in love, in prayer. As
we face the dark reality of rebuilding (the survivors do not even know
where to begin; local government officials cried on screen utterly
helpless where to start) we lean into your heartfelt support. A lot of
you are asking how you and your friends can help and where you can send
your donations. My community is initiating a donation campaign around
our village, and in the neighboring towns and cities in the province.
The novices in two's went "house to house" donation campaign today at
Fatima Village. We believe in the multiplication of what people are
able to share. A single peso put together with other pesos can go a
long way.... There are two ways you can send your donations to us. If
in cash, you may send it through "bank-to-bank" transaction or through
any Western Union. Whatever is convenient for you. Although the Western
Union is a lot faster. Our bank account is BPI Dumaguete Branch, Dollar
Account #1084-0111-65, Account name: Carmelite Sisters of Our Lady. If
you send cash through Western Union, you may send it to me and please
email to me the tracking number. We will send to you in return an
official receipt for tax deduction purposes.
Sr. Baybeth Marie Andaya or Sr. Flor Pauline Duran
Fatima Village, Piapi
6200 Dumaguete City
PHILIPPINES (6335) 4225414
http://www.ocarm.org/en/content/carmelite-sisters-our-lady
If you send used clothing and other personal and household stuff, you
can send it through a door-to-door cargo company called LBC, or Atlas
group which you can find in all Seafood City, among others. Our sisters
in West Seattle (206 933 6439) can give you more information how to do
this. The survivors need clothes, bed linens, towels, underwears,
slippers, school bags, school supplies, rice, canned goods, bottled
water, coffee, slippers, etc etc- practically almost everything a
family needs to start living, and of course a house to stay. Right now
they are staying in make-shift tents and partly open shantys.
Yes, we are deeply saddened but we are also deeply touched by your
concern and support. We feel the collective love and comfort from all
four corners of the world. Indeed, God's love is all around us. Thank
you so much.
With deep gratitude -
Sr. Baybeth
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
43. She also said,
'The pleasures and riches of the world must not attract you as if they
were of any use to you. Because of its pleasure the art of cooking is
respected, but by rigoruous fasting you should trample on that
pleasure. Never have enough bread to satisfy you and do not long for
wine.'
November 14, 2013
(2Co 4:17-18) For that which is at present momentary and light of our
tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight
of glory. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal:
but the things which are not seen, are eternal.
MARK MALLET BLOG: Give Me Hope!
NEWS AND PHOTO: Jesus statue unscathed by Typhoon Haiyan
NCR: Bringing Hope and God’s Presence to the Philippines Apocalypse
Hundreds of thousands in the Philippines are fighting for survival
after their world came to an abrupt end when Super Typhoon Haiyan
caused a swathe of death and destruction. The Catholic Church is
stepping into the wasteland to help wage a battle for the island nation
now faced with starvation, disease, and despair.
Few Americans can picture the total devastation — one’s home broken to
pieces, their neighborhoods flattened, their loved ones and neighbors
lying cold and still in the streets. Some officials have estimated at
least 10,000 persons may be dead, while the official actual body count
has exceeded 2,200, and continues to rise.
But the large-scale disaster also is showing the universality of the
Church in action. International Catholic relief organizations,
including the U.S. bishops’ own Catholic Relief Services, are working closely with the local Church to bring relief and the presence of God to those most in need.
“We are going to the areas hardest hit by the typhoon,” Father Edwin Gariguez, executive secretary of CBCP Caritas Filipinas Foundation,
told the Register. “We are first setting up a staging area in a
neighboring province, and then we will deliver supplies to our area
Church network.”
Eoghan Rice, a communication officer with Trocaire
(the Irish bishops’ Caritas), was accompanying Father Gariguez to the
island of Cebu. Just before boarding his plane, he explained that the
Caritas network is “in full operation here,” but it is only as
communication lines start to be restored that they are “starting to get
a full picture of what the situation really is.”
“There are areas where 80% of the houses were destroyed,” he said.
Super Typhoon Haiyan may go down in the history books as the strongest
storm ever recorded. Haiyan sustained winds of 190 miles per hour, and
whipped up a storm surge of 20 feet high when it made landfall in the
central Philippines.
“Caritas organizations are responding through the local organization
here, and also through agencies such as CRS,” he said. “It’s through
these local structures that we can get aid it. The local partners and
local knowledge are proving critical to getting aid in quickly.”
RESOURCE: How to help Typhoon Haiyan survivors
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The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
42. Syncletica said,
'Bodily poison is cured by still stronger antidotes; so fasting
and prayer drive sordid temptation from us.'
November 13, 2013
(Luk 21:25) 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:
POPE FRANCIS:
"I ask all of you to join me in prayer for the victims of Typhoon
Haiyan / Yolanda especially those in the beloved islands of the
Philippines".
VATICAN RADIO: Bishops call for prayer, aid for Philippines
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THE TABLET: Church rushes aid to regions devastated by Philippines typhoon
Church aid agencies are battling to reach the hundreds of thousands of
victims of the devastating typhoon that struck the Philippines on
Friday, amid warnings that people in remote regions are dying because
they lack food and water.
More than 10,000 people were killed when Typhoon Haiyan, one of the
strongest storms ever to make landfall, devastated six central
Philippine islands, causing tidal surges that completely destroyed a
number of cities including Tacloban in Leyte province.
Some 9.5 million people urgently need aid and 600,000 have been made
homeless in the disaster, the Catholic aid agency Caritas
Internationalis warned. Caritas said that much of the country's
infrastructure has been destroyed, making delivering aid to remote
areas difficult.
NEWS REPORT: Typhoon Haiyan crushed town 'like giant hand from the sky'
ICN: Philippines: 'It looks as if nuclear bombs were dropped'
One of CAFOD’s Caritas partners Rey Barnido has arrived in Tacloban
from Bohol to help with the emergency efforts alongside other Caritas
aid workers in Tacloban. He got this message out via text: "Patients
are overflowing from the regional hospital in Tacloban. There are dead
people everywhere. There is no water or power. Volunteers are trying to
manage the disaster. It looks as if nuclear bombs were dropped."
CAFOD Director Chris Bain said: “…we cannot waste time on despair or
shock – not when there are still lives to be saved, and communities in
such desperate need of help…”
The Catholic Church in the Philippines is playing a vital role in
responding to the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan. The so-called
“super-typhoon” has been described as the most powerful storm ever to
make landfall, striking the central Philippines on Friday 8 November
with sustained winds of 235 kph.
With power lines and phone lines down, the full impact of the typhoon
is not yet known, but it is clear that it is had a catastrophic impact
on the lives of millions of people. An estimated 10,000 people have
been killed in Tacloban city alone. Hundreds have been killed
elsewhere, and there has widespread destruction of homes, schools and
roads.
In a country which is 80 per cent Catholic, the Church is playing a
vital role in providing emergency relief to those in need, and CAFOD –
the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales –
has launched an urgent appeal for funds to support the work of its
church partners in the country.
CAFOD is working with Caritas Philippines and its American sister
charity, Catholic Relief Services, to provide the most urgently needed
aid: food, emergency shelter and essential household goods –– like
pots, pans, blankets and cooking equipment – for people who have lost
everything. With water supplies disrupted in many areas, the agency
also planning to provide clean water and sanitation to prevent the
spread of disease.
In the longer term, CAFOD will help people to rebuild their homes and
to make a living again. Because of the scale of the flooding and
because roads have been blocked, some parts of the country remain
difficult to reach – but the agency’s Church partners are rapidly
reaching out to the worst hit and most remote areas affected.
CAFOD Director Chris Bain said: “We are launching our emergency appeal
in response to the hundreds of schools, parishes and individuals up and
down the country who have contacted us to ask: ‘What can we do?’,
showing the generosity and compassion that is always the hallmark of
the Catholic community in times of crisis.
“The best way we can all help is by supporting the charities and church
groups who are already operating in the worst hit areas, responding to
their immediate needs for food, water and shelter, beginning the hard
work of rebuilding the communities that have lost everything, and
keeping them constantly in our prayers. Together, we can bring new hope
to those who today face utter desolation.”
To donate to CAFOD's Typhoon Haiyan appeal see: www.cafod.org.uk
MORE: Typhoon relief efforts
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Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
39. Sisois once said
with confidence, 'For thirty years I have not prayed to God without
sin. When I pray, I say "Lord Jesus Christ, protect me from my tongue."
Even now, it causes me to fall every day.'
November 11, 2013
(Rom 5:20-21) Now
the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace
did more abound. That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might
reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
POPE FRANCIS: "Pray
for the dear nation of Iraq, unfortunately stricken daily by tragic
episodes of violence, so that she may find the way of reconciliation,
peace, unity and stability”.
ARCHBISHOP CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. CAP.: Remembering those who suffer for the love of Jesus Christ
ACN: Faith in the Time of Persecution -A letter from Iraq to Christians in the West by Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona
How can we live our faith in a time of great difficulty? What can we do
for those who are persecuted because of their faith? To ask these
questions means above all questioning ourselves about the meaning of
our faith. In order to be able to speak about the time of persecution,
Christians must really know their own faith.
In 2010, when I was appointed Chaldean bishop of Mosul, I knew that I
would be coming to a city facing an extremely critical situation with
regard to security. Many Christians had already been killed, and many
had been forced to leave the diocese. Brutal violence took the life of
a priest, as well as that of a bishop, my predecessor: Both were
murdered in extremely gruesome fashion.
I came to Mosul on January 16, 2010. The very next day, a series of
reprisal murders of Christians began, starting with the killing of the
father of a young man who was praying with me in church. For more than
ten days, extremists continued to kill, one or two people each day. The
faithful left the city to seek refuge in the small towns and villages
nearby, or in the monasteries.
Since then almost half of the faithful have returned. What can we do
for these people? What can one do for those who are living the
difficult life of persecution?
These questions tormented me, forcing me to reflect on the right path
to follow so I could fulfill my mission of service. I found the answer
in the motto of my episcopate — namely, hope. I came to this
conclusion: During a time of crisis and persecution, we must remain
full of hope. And so I remained in the city, strengthened in hope, in
order to give hope to the many persecuted faithful who likewise
continued to live here.
Is this enough? No. To remain with the faithful in hope is a crucial
start, but it is not enough — there has to be something more. Saint
Paul reminds us that hope is linked to love, and love to faith. To
remain with those who are persecuted is to give them a hope founded in
love and faith. What can we do to build up this faith? I began to ask
myself how our faithful were living out their faith, how they were
practicing it in the difficult circumstances of their lives every day.
I realized that, above all — in the face of suffering and persecution —
a true knowledge of our own faith and the cause of our persecution is
of fundamental importance.
By deepening our sense of what it means to be Christians, we discover
ways to give meaning to this life of persecution and find the necessary
strength to endure it. To know that we may be killed at any moment, at
home, in the street, at work, and yet despite all this to retain a
living and active faith — this is the true challenge.
From the moment when we are waiting for death, under threat from
someone who may shoot us at any time, we need to know how to live well.
The greatest challenge in facing death because of our faith is to
continue to know this faith in such a way as to live it constantly and
fully — even in that very brief moment that separates us from death.
My goal in all this is to reinforce the fact that the Christian faith
is not an abstract, rational theory, remote from actual, everyday life
but a means of discovering its deepest meaning, its highest expression
as revealed by the Incarnation. When the individual discovers this
possibility, he or she will be willing to endure absolutely anything
and will do everything to safeguard this discovery — even if this means
having to die in its cause.
Many people living in freedom from persecution, in countries without
problems like ours, ask me what they can do for us, how they can help
us in our situation. First of all, anyone who wants to do something for
us should make an effort to live out his or her own faith in a more
profound manner, embracing the life of faith in daily practice. For us
the greatest gift is to know that our situation is helping others to
live out their own faith with greater strength, joy, and fidelity.
Strength in daily life; joy in everything we encounter along the path
of life; confidence that the Christian faith holds the answer to all
the fundamental questions of life, as well as helping us cope with all
the relatively minor incidents we confront along our way. This must be
the overriding objective for all of us. And to know that there are
people in this world who are persecuted because of their faith should
be a warning — to you who live in freedom — to become better, stronger
Christians, and a spur to demonstrating your own faith as you confront
the difficulties of your own society, as well as to the recognition
that you too are confronted with a certain degree of persecution
because of your faith, even in the West.
Anyone who wishes to respond to this emergency can help those who are
persecuted both materially and spiritually. Help bring our situation to
the notice of the world — you are our voice. Spiritually, you can help
us by making our life and our suffering the stimulus for the promotion
of unity among all Christians. The most powerful thing you can do in
response to our situation is to rediscover and forge unity — personally
and as a community — and to work for the good of your own societies.
They are in great need of the witness of Christians who live out their
faith with a strength and joy that can give others the courage of faith.
We are victims, and we suffer at the hands of fundamentalists coming
from distant countries to fight against those whom they consider to be
the infidels (us Christians), using as an excuse that their brothers
are being persecuted in various countries. Their reaction is to kill
others. Our reaction to persecution must be that of becoming more
loving, more united, ever stronger in showing the world the true image
of life, as taught us by Jesus Christ.
The Christian world defends its persecuted faithful through the
revelation, the realization, and the strength of the love that is the
foundation of faith and that embraces everyone — even our persecutors.
There is a great temptation to which persecuted Christians can fall
victim, and which I myself never tire of warning against: namely, that
because of being persecuted, we can, with the passing of time, end up
becoming persecutors ourselves — turning to violence in our way of
thinking, in treating our neighbor, in our way of living.
This temptation is very powerful: The sentiments that we develop in a
climate of persecution can change our way of living — rejecting the
Christian way, which is imbued with love — to a manner similar to that
of those who demand and speak of justice only, but never of love. Let
us be very careful not to live out our faith feebly, because other
Christians are suffering. The difficulties of Christians should be a
prompting to demonstrate true faith.
When Christians are persecuted, we should take on more firmly the
responsibility of our own faith to joyfully give expression to love,
fidelity, and justice. If there are Christians in trouble, I should
love my neighbor still more; I should be more positive in my way of
looking at the business of life, in order to show those suffering the
strength of my own faith.
You in the West are living in a way that persecuted Christians cannot.
Since they do not have freedom, you must live out the true meaning of
freedom; since they cannot publicly celebrate their faith, you must
give public witness of your faith in your own societies; since the
women in our countries do not have the possibility of freely choosing
to go outside their houses, women in the West should become witnesses
to true Christian freedom.
Still, we are happy, because we have the opportunity to reflect on our
choice to be Christians. We are happy because we have the opportunity
to make our freedom concrete — by defending with love the one who
attacks us with rancor and hatred. Ultimately, persecution cannot make
us sad or despairing, because we believe that human life deserves to be
always embraced in a perfect manner, as Jesus showed us — even if death
stares us in the face and we have no more than a minute left in this
world.
Saint Paul says that “where sin abounded, grace did still more abound”
(Rom. 5:20). With him, we may also say that wherever there is
persecution, there too will be the grace of a strong faith — and
therein lies our salvation.
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
28. Macarius the
Great said, 'If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove
someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in
order to save another.'
November 7, 2013
(1Co 11:23-26) For I have received of the Lord that which also I
delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was
betrayed, took bread, And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and
eat: This is my body, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the
commemoration of me. In like manner also the chalice, after he had
supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do
ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me. For as
often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice, you shall shew
the death of the Lord, until he come.
VIDEO: "Our Lady And The Eucharist" by Fr J. Seddon OSB.
EWTN: Eucharistic Piety: A Strong Recommendation by Fr. Regis Scanlon, O.F.M., Cap.
CATHOLIC EXCHANGE: Nine Ways the Eucharist Is Hidden in the Old Testament
MEDITATION: Thoughts
by St Theophan (1815-1894)
Friday. [Col. 2:1-7; Luke 9:12-18]
The miraculous filling of the
multitude in the desert is an image of the filling of the faithful in
holy communion with the Most Pure Body and Most Pure Blood of the Lord.
The Lord is sitting apart; the multitude is made to sit in groups; the
apostles are intermediaries — they receive the bread and give it out.
So it is now: believers are all divided into groups — small individual
churches in which the Lord, invisibly present, gives out His Body and
Blood through the apostolic successors. As He did to the apostles then,
so now to their successors does He say, Give ye them to eat. As then,
so now do the believing multitudes stand steadfastly before the Lord in
fasting, hearing the word, and a prayerful desire be healed from sins
as they prepare to approach the Divine Mysteries.
Thus the mystery begun by the
Lord's appearance continues until now and will continue until the end
of the world. And in the world to come there will be a communion of its
own sort, for the Lord promises to give to eat of the hidden manna and
of the tree of life (Rev. 2:7,17). Our forefathers' own mystical
communion was also arranged in the earthly paradise — eating from the
tree of life. In the Old Testament Church its image is the eating of
the paschal lamb. Thus, mystical communion began with the human race,
was and will be with it until eternal ages, in various forms, but in
the one meaning of the most true communion with the Lord; for In Him
was life; and the life was the light of men (John 1:4). It is fitting
for those who are created according to the image of God to be in such
communion with Him, Who being the brightness of his glory, and the
express image of his person (Heb. 1:3).
CATHOLIC WEEKLY: Another Eucharistic miracle by Fr John Flader
Q: I read with
great interest your column on the Eucharistic miracle that Pope Francis
approved when he was a bishop in Buenos Aires in 1996. Now a friend
tells me there has been another miracle in Poland with similar
scientific findings. Do you know anything about it?
A: The miracle took place in
2008 in the town of Sokołka, near Bialystok on the border with Belarus.
Australian lawyer Ron Tesoriero, who spoke with the people involved,
relates the facts in his new book Unseen, published in 2013.
On 12 October, 2008, in the church of St Anthony of Padua, a young
assistant priest, Fr Jacek Ingielewicz, accidentally dropped a
consecrated host during Mass. He picked it up and, since it was soiled,
placed it in a vessel of water and put it in the tabernacle. After Mass
the parish priest, Fr Stanislaw Gniedziejko, asked the sacristan, Sr
Julia, to place the host and water in a glass bowl and put it in the
safe in the sacristy.
A week later, on 19 October, Fr Stanislaw asked the sacristan if the
host had dissolved and when Sr Julia opened the safe she discovered
that there was a red stain on the host which looked like blood.
She called Fr Stanislaw, who was very moved when he saw it, and
informed his superior, Archbishop Edward Ozorowski. A few days later
the archbishop went with his chancellor to see the host and on 29
October he asked Fr Stanislaw to take the host out of the water and lay
it on a linen corporal, which he then placed in the tabernacle of the
chapel in the priests’ house.
The archbishop appointed a special commission to investigate the
matter, with the aim of determining whether anyone had interfered with
the host. On 5 January, 2009, he asked two pathomorphologists from the
Medical University of Bialystok to conduct a scientific examination of
the host.
The two, Professor Sobaniec-Lotowska and Professor Sulkowski, hold
chairs in different departments of the university and have published
widely in their fields, having worked as specialists for more than 30
years.
In the presence of the chancellor, Fr Andrew Kakareka, and others Prof
Sobaniec-Lotowska removed a small piece of the host, about a square
centimetre in size. She reported that it was brittle, brownish in
colour and with remains of the communion host attached.
After analysing the material under an electron microscope the two
professors reported that it consisted entirely of cardiac tissue.
Various aspects of the material made them certain that it was indeed
heart muscle tissue. Professor Sobaniec-Lotowska described the sample
as heart muscle, “just before death. It is in agony, a moribund
condition, caused by great stress.
This is proved by the presentation of a very strong phenomenon of
‘segmentation’ or damage to myocardial fibres at the site of the
intercalated discs, which does not occur after death. Such changes can
be observed only in living fibres and they show evidence of rapid
spasms of the heart muscle in the period just before death”.
In a later interview on 13 August, 2010, Prof Sobaniec-Lotowska
elaborated on this finding: “The cardiac impact had been recent. The
heart was alive, just before death. The sample analysed was not from a
dead person. The person was alive. There was one square centimetre of
heart. A fragment of muscle. If one had to remove it from a person, he
would die.”
Pointing to a photograph of the tissue she repeated her amazement that
even though it had been in water for weeks the cardiac tissue was still
visible. She said that if it had been in water even for one week it
would not be visible.
The professors were also amazed that there had been no autolysis, the
process whereby a cell is destroyed by its own enzymes when the
organism is injured or dying. In their opinion there was no scientific
explanation for this phenomenon.
“What is even more difficult to comprehend”, Prof Sulkowski said, “is
that the tissue, which appeared in the host, was closely bound to it,
to the host that is, penetrating the base on which it appeared. Please
believe me that even if someone intended to tamper with the sample, it
would be impossible to bind the two pieces of matter in such an
indissoluble way”.
So once again a communion host has been miraculously transformed into
living heart tissue, readily identifiable under an electron microscope,
and the tissue shows signs of great stress. God is obviously going to
great lengths to confirm the truth of the Real Presence of Christ in
the Eucharist.
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Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
22. One of the
brothers asked Isidore, the priest of Scetis, 'Why are the demons so
afraid of you?' He said, 'Ever since I became a monk, I have been
trying not to let anger rise as far as my mouth.'
November 6, 2013
(1Co 2:9) But,
as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath
it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for
them that love him.
ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT: The meaning of sainthood: To be fully alive in Jesus Christ
EXCERPT MSGR. CHARLES POPE: Ho Hum on Heaven? Not only have many lost a proper fear of Hell, but also a deep longing for Heaven.
Many years ago I was taught that the essence of heaven is the Beatific
Vision. That is, one will look upon the glorious and radiant face of
God, and find in that look the fulfillment of all desires, and a joy
(beatus) beyond all telling.
And surely this description remains both true and worth repeating.
However, I have noticed that some get stuck on the the word “vision”
and to some extent on the word “face,” and tend to reduce the
experience to a kind of “static” (unchanging) vision.
For our experience of the “face” of another is that it does not change. And we are further taught that God does not change.
And thus, in being asked to consider heaven as a beatific vision (or
beholding) of God’s face, some struggle to imagine what one might do
after about twenty minutes, let alone for all eternity. Therefore,
people often shift their thinking about heaven to playing golf, being
reunited with loved ones, walking streets of gold, and having mansions.
I have quoted Pope Benedict regarding this problem before, but his statement of the problem is worth repeating:
Perhaps many
people reject the faith today simply because they do not find the
prospect of eternal life attractive….To continue living for ever
—endlessly—appears more like a curse than a gift….to live always,
without end—this, all things considered, can only be monotonous and
ultimately unbearable…. The term “eternal life” is intended to give a
name to this known “unknown”. Inevitably it is an inadequate term that
creates confusion. “Eternal”, in fact, suggests to us the idea of
something interminable, and this frightens us; “life” makes us think of
the life that we know…[which] very often it brings more toil than
satisfaction, so that while on the one hand we desire it, on the other
hand we do not want it. (Spe Salvi, 10, 12).
So, a lot of our terminology, though biblical and correct, is lost to
modern ears and the modern imagination. It needs greater explanation,
even among believers who are often very vague about the contours and
promises of heaven.
I have articulated before that somehow we must communicate that the
“eternal” in “eternal life” is not a reference only to the length of
life, but to the fulness of life. To be in heaven is not merely to live
forever, but to be fully and gloriously alive in a manner which we can
barely even imagine now. It is to have all our gifts, and every aspect
of who we are, gloriously perfected, with a God-like glory.
St. Ireneus says that the Glory of God is man fully alive. The Lord
told St. Catherine of Siena that if she were ever to see a soul
glorified in heaven, “You would fall down and worship because you would
think you were looking at me.”
This is our glory and this is our dignity, to one day have a God like
perfection and glory, and to become fully alive in an unimaginable and
powerful way.
MEDITATION: Thoughts
by St Theophan (1815-1894)
[Phil. 2:24-30; Luke 6:46-7:1]
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and
do not the things which I say? Why do they call Him Lord, but do not do
the Lord's will; that is, why do they not acknowledge His lordship in
their deeds? Because they only call with their tongue, and not with
their heart. If their heart were to utter: “Lord, Thou art my Lord,”
then complete readiness would abide in it to submit to the one whom
they confess as their Lord. But since they do not have this, their
deeds do not match their tongue; whereas deeds always match the heart.
All right, so there is no point in
calling: “Lord, Lord”? No, not so. But it is necessary to make the
external word match the inner word, which is the feeling and
disposition of the heart. Sit and reflect upon the Lord and yourself:
what is the Lord and what are you? Think about what the Lord has done
and still does for you, why you live and how it will end. You
immediately will come to the conviction that there is no other way than
to steadfastly fulfil the Lord's entire will; there is no other path
for us. This conviction gives birth to a readiness to fulfil in deed
what is expressed by the word “Lord.” With such readiness a need for
help from above will be awakened, and from it the prayer: “Lord, Lord!
Help me and give me strength to walk in Thy will.” And this call will
be pleasing to the Lord.
CRISIS MAGAZINE: It’s Time to Get “Obsessed” About Opposing Today’s Moral Evils
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
19. John the Short
said, 'If a king wants to take a city filled with his enemies, he first
captures their food and water, and when they are starving he subdues
them. So it is with gluttony. If a man is sincere about fasting and is
hungry, the enemies that trouble his soul will grow weak.'
November 4, 2013
(Joh 15:19-21) If you had been of the
world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the
world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world
hateth you. Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not
greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also
persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because
they know not him that sent me.
AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED REPORT: Persecuted and Forgotten?
PATRIARCH GREGORIOUS III
(On Syria): “You may think that it is safe here or unsafe there, but at
any moment you may be killed by bomb, missile or bullet, not to mention
being kidnapped or taken hostage for ransom, or murdered.”
OP ED: Syria’s Christian Community Cries Out For Help
The Vatican news agency Fides reports that two new mass graves
containing a total of 30 bodies were found in Sadad, an ancient
Christian town of some 15,000 people between Damascus and Homs,
bringing to 45 the number of residents killed there by Islamist
militias since October 21.
Surviving relatives and friends uncovered the graves after government
forces recently recaptured the town from rebels. Those killed were
reported by the local Syriac Orthodox metropolitan, who presided over
30 of their funerals this week, to be Christian civilians, including
women and children. A list of their names was provided to the Catholic
press.
The Islamist rebel militias of Al Nusra Front and Daash were identified by eyewitnesses as responsible for this war crime.
The battle also resulted in the destruction and looting of the town,
including its homes, hospitals, schools, government buildings and
electrical, telephone, and water capabilities. St. Theodore’s Syriac
Orthodox Church and a number of the 4,000-year-old Assyrian town’s 14
other churches and a monastery have been desecrated.
Some 2,500 Sadad families have fled so far and ten others are missing.
Syriac Orthodox archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh remarked that this
was the deadliest single attack against Syria’s Christian community of
the civil war and ranks close to the massacre at Baghdad’s Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Catholic church by jihadists during Sunday Mass on
October 31, 2010, when 58 were killed.
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Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Self-Control
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