sense of the sacred: Philippines: Last Nation Standing

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Philippines: Last Nation Standing

"A new intolerance is spreading...When for example, in the name of non-descrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women (or divorce), then that means that SHE IS NO LONGER ALLOWED TO LIVE OUT HER OWN IDENTITY AND THAT, INSTEAD, AN ABSTRACT, NEGATIVE RELIGION IS BEING MADE INTO A TYRANNICAL STANDARD THAT EVERYONE MUST FOLLOW." (Benedict XVI, Light of the World: A Conversation With Peter Seewald, 52.)

May God preserve the Philippines from a Divorce Law!

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PHL now only nation in the world without divorce; Malta gives in - World - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News

1 comment:

CrusadersJune 2, 2011 at 12:26 AM
one cannot be a Catholic if u dont follow the 2,000 years old teaching. we will never conform to liberalism, we will fight to the end
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We ought to get back the dimension of the sacred in the liturgy. The liturgy is not a festivity; it is not a meeting for the purpose of having a good time. It is of no importance that the parish priest has cudgeled his brains to come up with suggestive ideas or imaginative novelties. The liturgy is what makes the Thrice-Holy God present amongst us; it is the burning bush; it is the Alliance of God with man in Jesus Christ, who has died and risen again. The grandeur of the liturgy does not rest upon the fact that it offers an interesting entertainment, but in rendering tangible the Totally Other, whom we are not capable of summoning. He comes because He wills. In other words, the essential in the liturgy is the mystery, which is realized in the common ritual of the Church; all the rest diminishes it. Men experiment with it in lively fashion, and find themselves deceived, when the mystery is transformed into distraction, when the chief actor in the liturgy is not the Living God but the priest or the liturgical director. - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Chile, 1988)

Do we still need sacred space, sacred time, mediating symbols? Yes, we do need them, precisely so that, through the "image," through the sign, we learn to see the openness of heaven. We need them to give us the capacity to know the mystery of God in the pierced heart of the Crucified. - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Spirit of the Liturgy )