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Well, another Cardinal has come out with a, shall we say, puzzling take on evangelization.
A few years ago, Cardinal Américo Aguiar, at the time auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, said that he and the other organizers of World Youth Day in his hometown had no interest in converting anyone to Christ.
Now Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco of Algeria has opined that “the Church is not there to convert” and “Christians should approach other religions through fraternity rather than seeking conversions.”
Excuse me, but…what?
Last time I checked, the Founder said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Sure sounds like conversion to me.
When St. Paul came to Corinth or Athens or Thessalonica, his purpose was not to listen or to form a discussion group but rather to declare an unnerving message: the euangelion (glad tidings) that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
So impassioned is he for this work that he says, “I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:22); and “If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16)!
Moreover, the entire thrust of the Second Vatican Council was toward bringing the Light of Christ to the peoples of the world (Lumen Gentium). And this missionary élan has given rise in the last few decades to the idea of a “new evangelization,” which is to say, a fresh declaration of the Lordship of Christ.
Quite obviously, no one thinks that this work of evangelization should be done in a brow-beating, overbearing, or disrespectful manner (proselytization), but for God’s sake, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If I really thought that the Church does not exist to bring people to Christ, then I would resign and get an honest job.
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In 1997, Jesuit priest Fr. John Hardon issued a sobering warning about Communion in the hand.
Speaking at the Call to Holiness Conference in Detroit, he stated:
“Behind Communion in the hand — I wish to repeat and make as plain as I can — is a weakening, a conscious, deliberate weakening of faith in the Real Presence.”
He concluded his remarks with this appeal:
“Whatever you can do to stop Communion in the hand will be blessed by God.”
For Fr. Hardon, this was not merely a debate over liturgical preferences. It was a battle over belief in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
When reverence for the Eucharist is lost, belief in the Real Presence soon follows.
Servant of God, Fr. John A Hardon, pray for us.
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"If the eye is clouded by resentment, it no longer sees what is just and what is unjust." (St. Alphonsus Liguori)
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Prayer to St. Peregrine, suitable for cancer patients, including those on the path of recovery. Therefore, it is appropriate in any case—regardless of the precise diagnosis, which is currently unknown to us—to also be prayed for the Holy Father.
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Estos días estaré bastante ocupado con el trabajo y el inicio de unos nuevos estudios profesionales —además del estudio teológico—, así que no podré tuitear tanto.
Sin embargo, quiero aprovechar para compartirles esta enseñanza de San Basilio Magno especialmente valiosa para quienes tenemos que compaginar oración, estudio y trabajo.
En sus Reglas mayores enseña que la oración no debe convertirse en excusa para abandonar nuestras obligaciones: mientras las manos trabajan, el corazón puede permanecer vuelto hacia Dios. Incluso da gracias por «la fuerza de nuestras manos» y por la capacidad de nuestra inteligencia para adquirir conocimiento (𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘦, 37).
Es una buena regla también fuera del monasterio. Estudiar bien, trabajar con diligencia y cumplir nuestros deberes no son interrupciones de la vida espiritual cuando todo se ofrece a Dios y se realiza para su gloria.
También es importante aplicarlo 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰 y comprender que las obligaciones tampoco deben impedirnos dedicar tiempo a la oración.
No se trata, por tanto, de elegir entre rezar o cumplir nuestras obligaciones, sino de aprender a santificar también aquello que debemos hacer cada día.
Que Dios les bendiga a todos.
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“Al conocerte a ti mismo, te humillarás al darte cuenta de que, por ti mismo, no eres nada”
~Santa Catalina de Siena, Doctora de la Iglesia
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«La naturaleza no es nuestra madre: es nuestra hermana. Podemos admirar sus bellezas, no arrodillarnos ante ella. La hermana es a la vez bella y frágil, y puede necesitar de nuestra defensa. La idea de la naturaleza como madre termina en una especie de panteísmo»
~Chesterton
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>Be a priest
>Get seated next to an end times crazy who hates Catholicism
>Have him start nagging you about the identity of the antiChrist.
>Say "I don't know."
>Go to sleep.
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The good man is never sure he is good because he measures himself by the Perfect;
the evil man is quite sure he is good because he measures himself by himself.
—Bl. Fulton Sheen
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The Anti-Modernist Oath was a formal profession of faith required by Pope Pius X. He instituted it on September 1, 1910, in the motu proprio Sacrorum antistitum to combat the theological movement called Modernism, which he had already condemned as heretical in 1907.
It had to be sworn by all clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries.
The oath affirmed that God can be known by natural reason from creation, that miracles and prophecies prove revelation, that the Church was founded by the historical Christ on Peter, that dogmas do not evolve in meaning, that faith is an intellectual assent to external truth, and that sacred tradition is divine rather than a merely human historical development. It also required full acceptance of the condemnations in the encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis (on the doctrine of the modernists) and Lamentabili sane exitu (which condemned specific modernist propositions).
The oath remained in force until 1967, when the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Pope Paul VI replaced it with a revised profession of faith.
Link to the full text of the Oath Against Modernism: papalencyclicals.net/pius10/…
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"The devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."
— St. Jean Marie Vianney
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👑«LETANÍAS AL SANTO NOMBRE DE JESÚS EN LATÍN»
Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, eleison.
Kyrie, eleison.
Iesu, audi nos.
Iesu, exaudi nos.
Pater de caelis, Deus, «MISERE NOBIS»
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus,
Spiritus Sancte, Deus,
Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus,
Iesu, Fili Dei vivi
Iesu, splendor Patris,
Iesu, candor lucis aeternae,
Iesu, rex gloriae,
Iesu, sol iustitiae,
Iesu, Fili Mariae Virginis,
Iesu, amabilis,
Iesu, admirabilis,
Iesu, Deus fortis,
Iesu, pater futuri saeculi,
Iesu, magni consilii angele,
Iesu potentissime,
Iesu patientissime,
Iesu obedientissime,
Iesu, mitis et humilis corde,
Iesu, amator castitatis,
Iesu, amator noster,
Iesu, Deus pacis,
Iesu, auctor vitae,
Iesu, exemplar virtutum,
Iesu, zelator animarum,
Iesu, Deus noster,
Iesu, refugium nostrum,
Iesu, pater pauperum,
Iesu, thesaure fidelium,
Iesu, bone pastor,
Iesu, lux vera,
Iesu, sapientia aeternae,
Iesu, bonitas infinita,
Iesu, via et vita nostra,
Iesu, gaudium Angelorum,
Iesu, rex Patriarcharum,
Iesu, magister Apostolorum,
Iesu, doctor Evangelistarum,
Iesu, fortitudo Martyrum,
Iesu, lumen Confessorum,
Iesu, puritas Virginum,
Iesu, corona Sanctorum omnium,
Propitius esto, parce nobis, Iesu.
Propitius esto, exaudi nos, Iesu.
Ab omni malo, «LIBERA NOS, IESU»
Ab omni peccato
Ab ira tua,
Ab insidias diaboli,
A spiritu fornicationis,
A morte perpetua,
A neglectu inspirationeum tuarum,
Per mysterium sanctae Incarnationis tuae,
Per nativitatem tuam,
Per infantiam tuam,
Per divinissimam vitam tuam,
Per labores tuos,
Per agoniam et passionem tuam,
Per crucem et derelictionem tuam,
Per languores tuos, Per mortem et sepulturam tuam,
Per resurrectionem tuam,
Per ascensionem tuam,
Per sanctissimae Eucharistiae institutionem tuam,
Per gaudia tua,
Per gloriam tuam,
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
parce nobis, Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
exaudi nos, Iesu.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis, Iesu.
Iesu, audi nos.
Iesu, exaudi nos.
Oremus: Domine Iesu Chiristi, qui dixisti: Petite, et accipietis; quaeriti, et invenietis; pulsate et aperietur
vobis; quesumus da nobis, petentibus,divinissimi tui amoris affectum, ut te todo corde, ore et opere
diligamus et a tua nunquam laude cessemus. Sancti nominis tui, Domine, timorem pariter et amorem
facnos habere perpetuum. quia nunquan tua gubernatione destituis,quos in soliditare tuae dilectionis
instituis. Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum.
Amén.
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"Cada pasión se ha de corregir por su contrario: la vanidad con la seria reflexión sobre las miserias de la vida; la cólera pensando en las ventajas que trae la dulzura; y así en las demás".
~San Francisco de Sales✨
