Pope Francis I: Overhead Sacristy: Fortnight for Freedom Begins

viernes, 21 de junio de 2013

Overhead Sacristy: Fortnight for Freedom Begins

by Fr LW Gonzales via Overheard in the Sacristy

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Briefcase21 de junio de 2013, 11:55
Religious liberty, as natural as it seems to us westerners today, is an alien concept to many cultures and won't be easily accepted by them. Even in Europe such liberty is a very new phenomenon: just over 200 years ago, becoming a Catholic was a capital crime in Sweden, now such a liberal place. In Victorian times, European women had about as much liberty as Saudi Arabian women today. Religious and moral coercion is a powerful and tempting tool for every authoritarian government.

In a few short years, Christians will be persecuted as potential terrorists not just in Muslim, pagan, and atheist countries, but by their own elected authorities in democratic places like Europe. Will Catholics be among those persecuted, or will they watch it happening, thinking themselves lucky not to be involved? The thought of not being targeted should be a sobering wake-up call for every Christian, because it would also mean not being part of God's kingdom.

What needs to happen within the Church between now and then? Read my free (pseudonymous) e-book Walkabout: The Story of a Brief Century to find out.

Blessings,

Robert
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Prayer

O most holy angel of God, appointed by God to be my guardian, I give you thanks for all the benefits which you have ever bestowed on me in body and in soul. I praise and glorify you that you condescended to assist me with such patient fidelity, and to defend me against all the assaults of my enemies. Blessed be the hour in which you were assigned me for my guardian, my defender and my patron. In acknowledgement and return for all your loving ministries to me, I offer you the infinitely precious and noble heart of Jesus, and firmly purpose to obey you henceforward, and most faithfully to serve my God. Amen.

Popes

The best-known title, that of "Pope", does not appear in the official list, but is commonly used in the titles of documents, and appears, in abbreviated form, in their signatures. Thus Pope Paul VI signed as "Paulus PP. VI", the "PP." standing for "Papa" ("Pope").[94][95][96][97][98] The title "Pope" was from the early 3rd century an honorific designation used for any bishop in the West.[99] In the East it was used only for the Bishop of Alexandria.[99] Pope Marcellinus (d. 304) is the first Bishop of Rome shown in sources to have had the title "Pope" used of him. From the 6th century, the imperial chancery of Constantinople normally reserved this designation for the Bishop of Rome.[99] From the early 6th century, it began to be confined in the West to the Bishop of Rome, a practice that was firmly in place by the 11th century,[99] when Pope Gregory VII declared it reserved for the Bishop of Rome. In Eastern Christianity, where the title "Pope" is used also of the Bishop of Alexandria, the Bishop of Rome is often referred to as the "Pope of Rome", regardless of whether the speaker or writer is in communion with Rome or not.

viernes, 21 de junio de 2013

Overhead Sacristy: Fortnight for Freedom Begins

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