The Holy Father’s Intentions for May
May 4, 2008
General
That Christians may use literature, art, and the media to greater advantage to favor a culture which defends and promotes the values of the human person.
Mission
That just as she accompanied the Apostles in the early stages of the Church, may the Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of Evangelization and Queen of the Apostles, continue to guide missionaries throughout the world with maternal affection.
It’s All About “Feelings”
May 4, 2008
Remember, it’s all about “feelings.”
Calgary Woman Becoming Priest [sic]
Campaign for reform feels ‘prophetic’
by Graeme Morton | Calgary Herald
On May 29, Monica Kilburn Smith of Calgary will be welcomed into the small worldwide community of female Roman Catholic priests.
Her ordination ceremony will take place in a United Church in Victoria and, of course, will not be recognized by the global Roman Catholic Church. However, Kilburn Smith and local supporters of major reform within the world’s largest Christian church say it will be one more small step in a campaign to bring up questions, start discussion, open eyes and, eventually, win hearts.
“Many Catholics, both women and men, have been working for change within the church for centuries,” says Kilburn Smith, a chaplain with the Calgary Health Region…
Remember May Crownings?
May 4, 2008
1953 | Somewhere in the UK
Italian Action
May 4, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing to the faithful as he leaves St. Peter’s square at the Vatican, Sunday, May 4, 2008. The pontiff greeted and blessed members of the ‘Azione Cattolica’ (Italian Catholic Action) on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of it’s foundation.
Is Liberal Catholicism Dead?
May 4, 2008
Hope so!
Time Magazine’s commentary on Papal visit:
He may not have been thinking about it at the time, but Pope Benedict, in the course of his recent U.S. visit may have dealt a knockout blow to the liberal American Catholicism that has challenged Rome since the early 1960s. He did so by speaking frankly and forcefully of his “deep shame” during his meeting with victims of the Church’s sex-abuse scandal. By demonstrating that he “gets” this most visceral of issues, the pontiff may have successfully mollified a good many alienated believers — and in the process, neutralized the last great rallying point for what was once a feisty and optimistic style of progressivism.
He Was Lifted Up
May 4, 2008
In the first book, Theophilus,
I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught
until the day he was taken up,
after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit
to the apostles whom he had chosen.
He presented himself alive to them
by many proofs after he had suffered,
appearing to them during forty days
and speaking about the kingdom of God.
While meeting with them,
he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem,
but to wait for “the promise of the Father
about which you have heard me speak;
for John baptized with water,
but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
When they had gathered together they asked him,
“Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons
that the Father has established by his own authority.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
throughout Judea and Samaria,
and to the ends of the earth.”
When he had said this, as they were looking on,
he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight.
While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going,
suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them.
They said, “Men of Galilee,
why are you standing there looking at the sky?
This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven
will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.
“We love ourselves and we form community”
May 4, 2008
I just ran across a brilliant post from Father John Speekman (the image is his also.) Please pay him a visit for keen insight into his ministry in Australia.