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firesetter news: October 2013
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In All Things Give Thanks. 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time - C. Readings: 2 Kgs 5:14-17; Ps 98:1,2-3,3-4; 2 Tim 2:8-13; Lk 17:11-19. The Gospel passage this Sunday is about Jesus healing ten lepers and how only one went back to Him to give thanks. This prompted Jesus to observe: "Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God? To answer these questions, I would like to propose that we look at gratitude on three levels. A deeper level of...
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firesetter news: March 2015
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The last shall be first. This much I know – the last shall be first,. The angry ones need love the most,. And the bigot, to be heard and understood. Share joy with the joyful,. Be there for the sorrowful,. And sometimes just let the lost be. The helper first needs to learn. The poor already want to help themselves,. And victims wish they could but couldn’t. That there is no single rule,. No silver bullet, no theory of everything;. Only one way, certain and narrow. Links to this post. Fuel to the Fire.
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firesetter news: April 2015
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The Pact of the Catacombs. Shortly before the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. We will try to live according to the ordinary manner of our people in all that concerns housing, food, means of transport, and related matters. See Matthew 5,3; 6,33ff; 8,20. As far as possible we will entrust the financial and material running of our diocese to a commission of competent lay persons who are aware of their apostolic role, so that we can be less administrators and more pastors and apostles. See Matt...
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firesetter news: The Pact of the Catacombs
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The Pact of the Catacombs. Shortly before the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. We will try to live according to the ordinary manner of our people in all that concerns housing, food, means of transport, and related matters. See Matthew 5,3; 6,33ff; 8,20. As far as possible we will entrust the financial and material running of our diocese to a commission of competent lay persons who are aware of their apostolic role, so that we can be less administrators and more pastors and apostles. See Matt...
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firesetter news: September 2013
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A Lesson in Humility. 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – C – 1 September 2013. Readings: Sir 3,17-18,20,28-29; Ps 68,4-5,6-7,10-11; Heb 12,18-19,22-24a; Mt 11,29ab. What does it mean to be humble, and how important is this virtue in Christian life? 1 To be humble means to keep ourselves grounded. The root of the word comes from the Latin humus. When Jesus cautioned his audience about reserving for themselves places of honor at the banquet table, he was not merely taking about table etiquette. He was talk...
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firesetter news: January 2014
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Prophets of a Future Not Our Own. It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
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firesetter news: November 2012
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Who's Afraid of the End Times? 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - 18 November 2012. Readings: Dn 12:1-3; Ps 16:5,8,9-10,11; Heb 10:11-14,18; Mk 13:24-32. The end of days has captured the imagination of many Christians through the centuries, especially those who choose to interpret the Bible in mostly literal sense. A slew of vocabularies were built up around this imagination: rapture, Armageddon, anti-Christ, millennialism, etc. 1 We believe in the second coming of Christ as an article of faith. In the Creed...
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firesetter news: September 2012
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What can you do for the Church? Transcript of the interview done with the late Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini on 8 August 2012, his last interview before his death. The interview was conducted by a fellow Jesuit, Fr. Georg Sporschill, SJ, and freelance writer Federica Radice, and published in the Italian paper Corriere della Sera. This particular translation was done by Fr. Joseph Komonchak from dotCommonweal. How do you see the situation of the Church? Where among us are heroes to inspire us? Fr Karl Rahn...
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firesetter news: Prophets of a Future Not Our Own
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Prophets of a Future Not Our Own. It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
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firesetter news: The last shall be first
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The last shall be first. This much I know – the last shall be first,. The angry ones need love the most,. And the bigot, to be heard and understood. Share joy with the joyful,. Be there for the sorrowful,. And sometimes just let the lost be. The helper first needs to learn. The poor already want to help themselves,. And victims wish they could but couldn’t. That there is no single rule,. No silver bullet, no theory of everything;. Only one way, certain and narrow. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
