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| A Priest\'s Stuff |
| This blog site is about a young Filipino Roman Catholic priest\'s journey in life; the stuff he needs and uses for liturgical, para-liturgical and personal endeavors; the challenges he faces; the adventures he has undergone; his opinions on certain issues; anecdotes; and some other cool stuff that might be unconventional for a priest yet beneficial for his life and ministry. |
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| Top 10 Monsters in the Bible |
| 2012-05-02 01:39:00 |
Source: http://www.toptenz.net/
Whether you believe it's God’s word, a historical relic, or a load of hogwash, there’s no doubt that the Bible contains some interesting stuff. Like monsters, for example. All sorts of terrible creatures and mythical beasts can be found in its pages. Like…
10. The BehemothIn Job, one of the Bible’s oldest books, the Behemoth is described as a gigantic, powerful creature that can only be tamed by God. His tail is so large that it ‘moves like a cedar.’ This description has led some Creationists to claim that Behemoth was in fact a Biblical-era dinosaur. However, carbon dating aside, the creature is mentioned as having a navel, which would rule it out as an egg-hatched lizard. In Jewish tradition, the Behemoth is a primal earth-monster, a symbol of chaos. Less imaginative scholars have suggested that the Behemoth is simply a poetic description of a real giant creature, like a hippopotamus.
9. The First BeastIf there’s one place that’s good ...
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| Belief in God grows as mortality nears, survey says |
| 2012-04-18 19:18:00 |
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Belief in God is highest among older people and increases with age, perhaps due to the growing realization that death is coming closer, University of Chicago researchers said on Wednesday.
Summarizing data from surveys performed in 1991, 1998 and 2008 in 30 countries from Chile to Japan, the university's National Opinion Research Center found that, on average, 43 percent of those aged 68 and older were certain that God exists.
By comparison, an average of 23 percent of people aged 27 and younger were firm believers in God, according to the report, which gathered data from the International Social Survey Program, a consortium of the world's leading opinion survey organizations.
"Looking at differences among age groups, the largest increases in belief in God most often occur among those 58 years of age and older. This suggests that belief in God is especially likely to increase among the oldest groups, perhaps in response to the increasing anticipation of mortality," ...
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| Anti-Catholicism and the Titanic |
| 2012-04-18 19:05:00 |
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KERRY O’SHEA, Irish Central Staff Writer
Divine intervention has long been a blamed by some for playing a role in the sinking of the Titanic during its maiden voyage in 1912.
Harland and Wolff, the East Belfast shipyard where the ship was manufactured, was notorious for not hiring Catholics.In the 1900’s the workforce was entirely Protestant and virulently anti -Catholic.
“At Harland and Wolff it was not unknown for workers to paint on the sides of ships under construction the words “NO POPE” in letters ten feet high or more,” writes naval historian David Allen Butler.
There were widespread stories that each rivet hammered into the Titanic was accompanied by a ‘f.. the pope epithet
Any Catholics who were hired were subject to blatant discrimination.Some had hammers dropped on them from above and the atmosphere against Catholics was described as “poisonous”
The author and historian Daniel Allen Butler writes about a how anti-Catholic sentiment in North...
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| The Priests of the Titanic |
| 2012-04-18 18:53:00 |
Priests of the Titanicby Donald R. McClarey
One hundred years ago, Father Thomas Byles was journeying to New York City aboard the RMS Titanic to say the Mass at his brother William’s wedding.
Born on February 26, 1870, he was the eldest of seven children of a Congregationalist minister. While attending Oxford, from which he graduated in 1894, he converted to Catholicism. Ordained a priest in 1902, he was assigned to be the parish priest at Saint Helen’s in Ongar, Essex in 1905. The parish was poor and had few parishioners, but Father Byles was devoted to them and labored mightily for them until 1912 when he left to answer the call of his brother to celebrate his marriage.
Father Byles did not view his trip on the Titanic as a vacation from his priestly duties. He spent Saturday April 13, hearing confessions, and on Sunday April 14, he said two masses for the second and third class passengers.
When the Titanic struck the iceberg, Father Byles was walking on the upper deck readi...
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| St. Anthony Preaches to the Fishes |
| 2012-03-21 16:26:00 |
Christ, the blessed one, was pleased to show forth the great sanctity of his most faithful servant St Anthony, and how men ought devoutly to listen to his preaching, be means of creatures without reason. On one occasion, amongst others, he made use of fish to reprove the folly of faithless heretics: even as we read in the Old Testament that in ancient times he reproved the ignorance of Balaam by the mouth of an ass.
St Anthony being at one time at Rimini, where there were a great number of heretics, and wishing to lead them by the light of faith into the way of truth, preached to them for several days, and reasoned with them on the faith of Christ and on the Holy Scriptures. They not only resisted his words, but were hardened and obstinate, refusing to listen to him.
At last St Anthony, inspired by God, went down to the sea-shore, where the river runs into the sea, and having placed himself on a bank between the river and the sea, he began to speak to the fishes as if the L...
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| Veronica wipes Jesus' face: A Reflection |
| 2012-03-15 07:51:00 |
While witnessing Jesus’ death march to Golgotha, it would have been easier to remain static and indifferent than to be moved by charity. It would have been less dangerous to just sob within than to cry aloud. It would take more than an ounce of courage to be near the convicted Jesus in the presence of the Roman soldiers. However, a pious woman from Jerusalem dared to step out from the crowd and gave Jesus her veil to wipe His Holy Face. By the time Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, Peter denied Him and most of the apostles faded away; Veronica dared to manifest her faith.
She felt helpless and couldn’t even find a way to alleviate Jesus from suffering. She had nothing to offer but her love and a simple cloth to clear out the spittle, blood and sweat from His face. Veronica’s simple gesture of love was authentic, selfless and unconditional. Then, the Lord returned her cloth and His image was impressed on it.
Miracles do happen when we dare to love. Our expression of ...
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| Paschalis Sollemnitatis |
| 2012-03-13 21:07:00 |
Circular Letter Concerning the Preparation and Celebration of the Easter Feasts
by the Congregation for Divine Worship
The following circular letter (Prot. N. 120/88) was published by the Congregation for Divine Worship on Saturday, 20 February 1988.
PREFACE
1. The Easter Solemnity, revised and restored by Pius XII in 1951 and then the Order of Holy Week in 1955 were favourably received by the Church of the Roman Rite. (1)
The Second Vatican Council, especially in the Constitution on the sacred Liturgy, repeatedly drawing upon tradition called attention to Christ's paschal mystery and pointed out that it is the fount from which all sacraments and sacramentals draw their power. (2)
2. Just as the week has its beginning and climax in the celebration of Sunday, which always has a paschal character, so the summit of the whole liturgical year is in the sacred Easter Triduum of the Passion and Resurrection of the Lord, (3) which is prepared for by the period of Lent and prolonged for fif...
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| Cardinal’s dying wish: More men would join priesthood |
| 2012-03-10 14:38:00 |
A news article by Philip C. Tubeza from the Philippine Daily Inquirer/ March 11, 2012
Having served as the Catholic Church’s point-man for diocesan priests around the world, the late Jose Cardinal Sanchez had one dying wish—that more men join the priesthood.
His nephew Manolo Sanchez said on Saturday that even on his deathbed, his uncle urged those close to him to make donations to help seminarians finish their schooling.
“He was always praying for more priests. He would always say that. He said we should donate instead to those who wanted to become priests because when he was in the Vatican, he looked after priests around the world,” Manolo said.
Cardinal Sanchez served from 1991 to 1996 as prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, the office in charge of diocesan priests and catechists.
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Manolo said the cardinal put up a P3-million trust fund in his home province of Catanduanes for those who want to become priests.
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| Jose Cardinal Sanchez is Home |
| 2012-03-08 17:58:00 |
I’d been trying to find time in my four-year stay in Rome to have an encounter with his eminence, Jose Cardinal Sanchez. Rome became his home for 25 years. But we never met in Rome because on December 2010, he decided to go home to the Philippines to boost the campaign against the Reproductive Health bill. He could not just sit back while watching his fellow bishops fight the passage of the measure.
“I’m 91 years old already but I said I want to go home to the Philippines and somehow use my voice in the pastoral life of the church," he said in a statement posted on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) website.
He said that the bill, which requires the government to make a comprehensive range of contraceptives more widely available to the public, is the beginning of the “destruction of Christian family." Furthermore, he firmly believed that once it is formally legislated, it would be the head start of more “immoral and anti-Christian laws."
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| Prayer for Priests |
| 2012-03-04 13:44:00 |
Keep them, I pray Thee, dearest Lord,Keep them, for they are Thine Thy priests whose lives burn out beforeThy consecrated shrine.Keep them, for they are in the world,Though from the world apart;When earthly pleasures tempt, allure, Shelter them in Thy heart.Keep them, and comfort them in hoursOf loneliness and pain,When all their life of sacrificeFor souls seems but in vain.Keep them, and O remember, Lord,They have no one but Thee,Yet they have only human hearts,With human frailty.Keep them as spotless as the Host,that daily they caress;Their every thought and word and deed,Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.
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