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Nostra aetate (6) ... two recent popes

Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment - Tue, 01/19/2038 - 04:14
In 1980, addressing a Jewish gathering in Germany, B John Paul II said (I extract this from a long sentence): " ... dialogue; that is, the meeting between the people of the Old Covenant (never revoked by God, cf Romans 11:29) and that of the New Covenant, is at the same time ..." In 2013, Pope Francis, in the course of his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium, also referred to the Old Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com10
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Nostra aetate (5): the recent Papal Magisterium

Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment - Tue, 01/19/2038 - 04:14
The sort of people who would violently reject the points I am making are the sort of people who would not be impressed by the the Council of Florence. So I am going to confine myself to the Magisterium from the time of Pius XII ... since it is increasingly coming to be realised that the continuum of processes which we associate with the Conciliar and post-Conciliar period was already in operationFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com0
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Nostra Aetate (4): Is the Two Covenant Theory a necessary revolution?

Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment - Tue, 01/19/2038 - 04:14
We have seen that the Two Covenant Theory, the idea that Jewry alone is guaranteed Salvation without any need to convert to Christ, is repugnant to Scripture, to the Fathers, even to the post-Conciliar liturgy of the Catholic Church. It is also subversive of the basic grammar of the relationship between the Old and the New Testaments. Throughout  two millennia, in Scripture, in Liturgy, in her Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com7
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Nostra Aetate (3): the post-Conciliar liturgical Magisterium

Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment - Tue, 01/19/2038 - 04:14
Lex orandi lex credendi. I have been examining the Two Covenant Dogma: the fashionable error that God's First Covenant, with the Jews, is still fully and salvifically valid, so that the call to saving faith in Christ Jesus is not made to them. The 'New' Covenant, it is claimed, is now only for Gentiles. I want to draw attention at this point to the witness of the post-Conciliar Magisterium of theFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com13
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Nostra Aetate (2): S Paul and his sungeneis

Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment - Tue, 01/19/2038 - 04:14
S Paul loved his fellow Jews, his 'kinsmen' and believed "the gifts and call of God are irrevocable". He believed that at the End, those among them who had rejected Christ would be brought in to the chosen people. He believed that they were like olive branches which had been cut off so that the Gentiles, wild olive branches, could be grafted in. But, when the fulness of the Gentiles had entered Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com3
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Nostra Aetate (1)

Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment - Tue, 01/19/2038 - 04:14
Since the Council, an idea has been spreading that Judaism is not superseded by the New Covenant of Jesus Christ; that Jews still have available to them the Covenant of the old Law, by which they can be saved. It is therefore unnecessary for them to turn to Christ; unnecessary for anybody to convert them to faith in Christ. Indeed, attempting to do so is an act of aggression not dissimilar to theFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com11
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Why the Rich Feel So Poor

Henrymakow.com - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 20:50
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During a trip to Hong Kong, the billionaire duo decided to grab lunch at McDonald's. To Gates' amusement, when Buffett offered to pay, he pulled out a handful of coupons.
 


Warren Buffett is a billionaire. He gets his meaning from making or saving a dime. Most of the super-rich suffer from spiritual poverty.




Whether we are poor or rich, money holds us prisoner. The rich feel poor because of GREED. No matter how much they have, their identity ("feeling good, important, secure") was forged by a society dedicated to making and spending more money. 



Money is supposed to free us from material concerns. Paradoxically it does the opposite. We become its prisoners.





"Enough is a little more than one has."    Samuel Butler


Updated from May 4, 2022 and Oct. 6 2023
by Henry Makow PhD

 
Few people take a rational approach to money. 

This would involve calculating how much money they need in relation to how much money they have, and how much money they make.

Rather, people tend to focus on their last 2%. Did their "net worth" increase or derease on a given day?

Depending on their tax bracket, this may involve their last $100, $1000, $10,000, $10 million or $10 billion. They ignore their big bank balance or stock portfolio. They always feel poor. 

Money is supposed to free us from material concerns. Paradoxically it does the opposite. We become its prisoners.

We are satanically possessed. This means we identify with money rather than our Divine soul. We are money rather than God's personal representative on earth. The more money we have, the bigger and better we feel. These values are inculcated by our satanist-controlled mass media.

I am addressing the roughly 50% of my readers who, according to my Gab poll, have enough or more money than they need. I don't fault the other 50% who don't have enough or are broke for feeling oppressed.

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Paradoxically the rich suffer from a spiritual impoverishment.

The more they identify with their money, the smaller they are. The more money they have, the smaller they are.

In the case of the Illuminati bankers, this inner poverty is toxic. They are a cancer that threatens to destroy mankind.

They want to "absorb" (their word) all the world's wealth leaving nothing to support humanity. They want it all!

We're indoctrinated to seek money. Within limits, money is a great motivator and measure.

I know someone who doesn't have to work. He works because he has nothing else to do, and it makes him feel productive and rewarded.

Another friend is independently wealthy from investments. He retired a couple of years ago but is returning to his old profession out of sheer boredom.

PERSONAL

I am as satanically possessed as anyone. I have had a lifelong struggle with greed. At age 74, I am just starting to master this demon.

Recently I did the calculation above and realized that I have more money than I'll ever spend.

My spending habits were formed during eight years as a graduate student living on roughly $10,000 per year. I really don't need or care about material things.

Paradoxically, this lack of concern for money did NOT stop me from developing a gambling addiction. When I didn't have much money, I didn't care about it. When I sold Scruples to Hasbro in 1986, I became a money manager and thought my game smarts would extend to the stock market. MISTAKE.

Scruples had been a labor of love. I did it because It was a workshop on everyday morality.

After my windfall, I became satanically possessed (i.e. GREED.)  If someone asked how I was, I said, "I'll ask my broker."  

We have to be on guard constantly because the voice in our head often is the devil!

Then another voice arises from our soul and says, "Cool it, you greedy moron."


You gamble with money you'll never spend. More or Less. What is the point? You don't even know your balance.

We have a Mexican cleaning woman who supports an extended family. I have never met a woman whose smile exudes such warmth.

Surely, these human qualities represent our true riches.

Money is the lowest common denominator. People today are consumed by money. They are charmless. 

YouTube is packed full of "how I got rich" stories.

While the world descends into Communist tyranny or faces a nuclear catastrophe,  they act like money will save them.

For people who have enough, freedom lies in eschewing money. Just not caring about it.

Can you do that?

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Humble Access

Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment - 1 hour 56 min ago
"We do not presume to come to this thy table (o mercifull lord) trusting in our owne righteousnes, but in thy manifold and great mercies: we be not woorthie so much as to gather up the cromes under thy table: but thou art the same lorde whose propertie is alwayes to haue mercie: Graunt us therefore (gracious lorde) so to eate the fleshe of thy dere sonne Jesus Christ, and to drynke his bloud in Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com0
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Slavery to Sin Becomes Broken Bonds in Tradition

Padre Peregrino - 2 hours 6 min ago
When your son asks you in time to come, "What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?" then you shall say to your son, "We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. [...]
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YIKES!

southern orders - 2 hours 26 min ago

 Yikes! Holy Thursday’s Chrism Mass with the pope at St. Peter’s Basilica. Bernini’s baldachin over the main altar is undergoing restoration. This structure and the papal altar are directly above St. Peter’s Crypt containing his bones…





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Christ Calls for the Conversion of—Not Collaboration With—the Marxist and Masonic Enemies of His Church 

Crisis Magazine - 2 hours 56 min ago

Duly reported by now was the Vatican’s hosting of a Marxist-Christian dialogue in January, earlier this year. Pope Francis freely encouraged the interaction while, moreover, conspicuously neglecting to mention Christ, Christianity, or the fact that the Catholic Church has a long history of decided condemnation of Marxist Communism. Similar disconcerting dealings include Cardinal Francesco…

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Kyrgyzstan to reform education system

AsiaNews.it - 2 hours 57 min ago
Biškek has announced the activation of a project entitled 'Contemporary Teacher' and implemented in cooperation with the international NGOs of the Teach for All network. The project will start in the Čuj region, the northernmost and most backward in the country, betting on creativity.
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Japan: More victims from toxic food supplement

AsiaNews.it - 3 hours 1 min ago
Today's news: Xiaomi will also enter the electric car market; Indonesian parliament votes law to keep Indonesia's economic heartland in Jakarta after capital's move to Nusantara;Phone conversation between Putin and Vietnamese Communist Party Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng;In Mohammad bin Salman's 'new course' Saudi Arabia will participate in Miss Universe.
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Christian Nationalists: In the Crosshairs

Crisis Magazine - 3 hours 6 min ago

Why another article about Christian nationalism? I assert that there is a program afoot targeting Catholics under the tag “Christian nationalists,” and it can be defeated if we know how it works. Let’s start with a couple of jokes. Last month saw the release of Rob Reiner’s new movie, God & Country, which affects concern for the well-being of Christianity. Reiner is an avowed atheist and a…

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Assessing ‘Fiducia supplicans’: the first 100 days

The Catholic Thing - 8 hours 2 min ago

The controversy it stirred in the Church in the West by the DDF’s “blessings” document has somewhat abated, but opposition to it and how it was implemented continues apace. Even some supporters of the Vatican document are disappointed that it seemed to lack synodality, in that it “appeared to circumvent the entire synodal process,” suddenly handing down the declaration “from above.” One Jesuit notes the document’s “Jesuitical” trait of forbidding the blessing of a union while at the same time approving “a joint blessing of a couple in that same union.” 

 

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Prayer for Holy Week

The Catholic Thing - 8 hours 2 min ago

Love me in my willingness to suffer
Love me in the gifts I wish to offer
Teach me how you love and have to die
And I will try
Somehow to forget myself and give
Life and joy so dead things start to live.
Let me show now an untrammelled joy,
Gold without alloy.

You know I have no cross but want to learn,
How to change and to the poor world turn.
I can almost worship stars and moon
And the sun at noon

But when I’m low I only beg you to
Ask me anything, I’ll try to do
What you need. I trust your energy.
Share it then with me.

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Archdiocese of Baltimore ministers to Key Bridge collapse crew

The Catholic Thing - 8 hours 2 min ago

The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Apostleship of the Sea will minister to the crew of the Dali. The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed at about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday after the Dali, a 900-foot container ship, collided with one of its major support pilings. Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori said he was saddened by the loss of life and asked for prayers for all involved. Apostleship volunteers, many of whom are Knights of Columbus, visit merchant ships at the Port of Baltimore Monday through Saturday, dropping off rosaries, scapulars, and prayer cards.

 

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The case against the abortion pill

The Catholic Thing - 8 hours 3 min ago

Abortion advocates tell us that abortion is safe. By becoming legal, so the story goes, hidden violence is made safe, and it must be protected because, without abortion access, women will die. But medical abortions (the abortion pill) induce an unnatural process, one in which up to 20 percent of women experience a complication – four times the complication rate of surgical abortion.
 

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Maltese cardinal “over the rainbow” for synodality

The Catholic Thing - 8 hours 3 min ago

Cardinal Mario Grech, the Secretary General of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops, used an interview with a Swiss newspaper last week to lay out a vision for the Church. He believes synodality can help the Church move from “uniformity of thought” to “unity in difference,” while reshaping the exercise of authority within global Catholicism. “I always imagine the Church as a rainbow, with the colors that are not excluded but, together, create harmony.”
 

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‘But the Beholder Wanting’

The Catholic Thing - 8 hours 3 min ago

One of Saint John Henry Newman’s best-known sermons is entitled “The Invisible World.” In it he articulates one of the core convictions of his life and thought. He says of this invisible world: “though unseen, it is present; present, not future; it is now and here; the kingdom of God is among us.” Unseen, yet present, because intimations of this other dimension abound everywhere. Indeed, in his Apologia, he speaks of the “sacramental principle,” “the doctrine that material phenomena are both the types and instruments of real things unseen.”

Nowhere is this truth more actual than in the sacraments themselves, and, to a surpassing degree, in the Eucharist, “the sacrament of sacraments.” Here the gifts of earth and the work of human hands are not spurned much less annihilated, but are transformed, transubstantiated into the very body and blood of the Son of God. In its unduly neglected “Decree on the Life and Ministry of Priests,” the Second Vatican Council proclaims the Church’s rich Eucharistic faith:

The other sacraments, as well as every ministry of the Church and every work of the apostolate, are joined with the Eucharist and are directed toward it. For the Holy Eucharist contains the entire spiritual treasure of the Church that is, Christ himself, our passover and living bread. Christ, through his flesh, made alive and life-giving by the Holy Spirit, offers life to men and women who are thus invited and led to offer themselves, their labors, indeed all created things, in union with Christ. Hence, the Eucharist shows itself to be the font and the goal of all preaching of the Gospel. (no. 5).

Yet, one of the sad marks of our secular age is a paradoxical double loss. Not only do we struggle to find access to the other dimension, that is, the spiritual, but we also seem impervious to the true sense of the material. Our sacramental sense has atrophied. Indeed, these two losses may be intricately connected.

Charles Taylor, whose A Secular Age magisterially traced its emergence and accomplishments, has also diagnosed its perils. He speaks tellingly of the constricted horizon of its “immanent frame” – absent any sense of transcendence. He goes beyond detached analysis to lament “buffered selves” who flee community and relational commitment to one another.

But Taylor also employs another term, even more suggestive and troubling: excarnation. To a great extent secular men and women, for all their surface materialism, live deeply disembodied, disincarnate lives. They often disdain the very tradition that bore them. They disaffiliate from communities that nourished them. They fantasize in the virtual sphere of the Internet, rather than risk face-to-face bodily encounters that alone can foster fulfillment. And, finally, in a last desperate attempt at excarnation, they strive to marginalize vulnerability and death to the point of destroying the body by drugs or suicide.

Then, venturing beyond the philosopher’s ordinary purview, Taylor recommends to his fellow Christians the one true remedy. He writes: “[I]n a world where objectification and excarnation reign, where death undermines meaning. . .we have to struggle to recover a sense of what the Incarnation can mean.”

To recover the true sense of the spiritual, we must rediscover the mystery of the material, its sacramental reality. It may be our failure to enter deeply and respectfully into the material that inhibits our discernment of the spiritual. For, as Tertullian taught centuries ago: “caro salutis cardo” – salvation hinges on the flesh. The only salvation from ex-carnation is in-carnation.

Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio, 1606 [Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan]

In the final chapter of his book, significantly entitled “Conversions,” Taylor celebrates those “pioneers” who discovered new paths to transcendence beyond modernity’s stunted imagination. Among them is Gerard Manley Hopkins, priest and poet, whom Newman himself had received into the Church. Hopkins’s poetry is a sustained paean to the multi-dimensional richness of concrete particulars. Without once devaluing their material grandeur, he records the signals of transcendence they emanate, he espies the intimations of the Creator their very being broadcasts.

His poem, “Hurrahing in Harvest,” recapitulates his intense appropriation of Newman’s sacramental principle:

I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;
And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a
Rapturous love’s greeting of realer, of rounder replies?

And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder
Majestic – as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet! –
These things, these things were here and but the beholder
Wanting; which two when they once meet,
The heart rears wings bold and bolder
And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.

In Luke’s account of the encounter of the two disciples with the risen, but unrecognized Lord, the revelatory actions are all bodily. Jesus walks with them, he incorporates them into the history of their people, he transforms their fear of bodily suffering and sits with them in fellowship. Then “he took bread and blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.” (Luke 24:30) And, only at this supreme sign of incarnational communion, were “their eyes opened.” (24:31) At the end of a long mystagogy, no longer is the beholder wanting.

Perhaps today we need to behold yet more boldly, cast our gaze even farther. The sacramental reach of the Eucharist extends beyond even Hopkins’ imaginative powers. Its scope is caught by Pope Francis towards the conclusion of his encyclical Laudato si’. Francis confesses:

It is in the Eucharist that all that has been created finds its greatest exaltation. Grace, which tends to manifest itself tangibly, found unsurpassable expression when God himself became man and gave himself as food for his creatures. The Lord, in the culmination of the mystery of the Incarnation, chose to reach our intimate depths through a fragment of matter. He comes not from above, but from within, he comes that we might find him in this world of ours. In the Eucharist, fullness is already achieved; it is the living center of the universe, the overflowing core of love and of inexhaustible life. Joined to the incarnate Son, present in the Eucharist, the whole cosmos gives thanks to God (236).

No hint of excarnation here.

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