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   Josh Lama Aug 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 am

   I felt that when you talked about the prodastant reformation you had a verry negitive view of this important event. Yes, I do realise that you are a catholic priest (Dah!) but you could have talked about this in more of a neutral view. This way, we can take your words and look at what from a trusted way. Also, this would take away some offence from the prodastant listeners (like me.)
   Joshua La MAcchia

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   Christian Aug 23rd, 2008 at 4:19 am

   Hi Josh! Let me build a little bridge to you.

   I am living in Germany, the country of Martin Luther. So, if you want to say so, I am living in the country of separation. Usually, over here it depends on the region, if you are a Protestant or a Catholic. I am a Catholic and during the last 10 years I became a “real” Catholic, not only by birth, as you could say, but because I found my true home in the Catholic church. I have many protestant friends, and 15 years ago in High School, a Catholic school that is, it was normal to have oecumenic masses.

   Fr. Roderick spoke about the separation as a bad thing in the sense that it was bad for the church. I have to agree. And my protestant friends agree, too. Bishop Erwin Huber, head of the Protestant church over here, agrees. All of those guys have on thing in common: they speak about separation, not about the reformation being a bad thing. Separation is always bad, it does not matter, if it is in our Religion or somewhere else. Martin Luther’s intention was to put reforms in place to renew the church. Unfortunately, a separation was the consequence. And today, everybody over here is looking and longing for the point that hopefully some day ecumenism will lead into a time, when there won’t be separation any more. It will be a long road to travel on, but there is one god, one Jesus. I think, we as human beings did a very poor job here on earth realizing that. The Vatican has a commission for

   Don’t you think that we all are on common grounds on that?

   Emotions aside, I think, Fr. Roderick did an excellent job about speaking about protestant reforms in the Netherlands. You should keep in mind that this was the background of his words.

   It is no surprise to me that he is reporting about that from the Catholic point of view. Because this is SQPN, a Catholic new media network that is very open-minded for everybody, also for Non-Catholics, I think.

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   Christian Aug 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 am

   Sorry, please ignore “The Vatican has a commission…” I wanted to talk about the Vatican’s view about ecumenism, but I don’t have any time left. Sorry.

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   Josh Lama Aug 27th, 2008 at 1:32 am

   @Christian.

   I totally agree. Separation is a bad thing for the church, and the worldly congregation of God people. (that’s us. Yay!) Recently the Anglican church has gone though a session where the Sydney Anglicans almost separated from the Anglican…Church of England thing. This was because of the Gay Ministers thing that was happening in the U.S. The pretty much there is this big conference called the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops that happens every 4 or so years. There were people invited who WEREN’T the Gay ministers but were related to, and supported the Gay’s. There were a group of people, including the Sydney Archbishop, who boycotted the Conference (for biblical reasons, read Romans 1) these bishops started a new conference, to meet in Jerusalem, called GAFCON. They didn’t want to split but were very close to doing this. They did say though during the conference…

   “…We cherish our Anglican heritage and the Anglican Communion and have no intention of departing from it…” (quote from Southern Cross Aug 2008

   During Lambeth, They came to the exact same conclusion about human sexuality. (Yay!)
   Splits are not good. It can damage everyone. What we need to do is to communicate. Have debates. Comment (like now ) do whatever we need to do to stop this ever again.

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   Kathy Aug 28th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   I first taught a catechist class for seven-year-olds last year in the Boston area, and this year I’m planning to teach a class for eight-year-olds. Last year, I found that it was a challenge to keep the kids focused on religion and not distracted by other things - what worked was involving them in reenactments of bible stories, crafts with specific bible themes (e.g. decorating a dozen eggs as the apostles; polishing pennies to demonstrate baptism), and even simply providing a word find & coloring page each week related to the theme of the week. We had a group prayer at the start and end of each class.

   But even with all this I was discouraged sometimes by their reactions to people in other classes in regards to the 5-6 class parties during the year - “our class got this and yours didn’t”. Many of these kids do not understand the concept of sacrifice, being grateful/thankful, appreciating what they have. Also it seems to me that when charity is mentioned around here it is always raising money or bring in canned goods or gifts - this involves the parents but not the kids - who never learn how they can be helpful independent of their parents.

   So this year I am going to try to add “volunteer” work for part of class time. I’m thinking once/month spending 1/2 hr of a class doing an activity for the parish - helping the choir put the chairs away, collect trash around the parish, clean up the “crying room”, collate paperwork for CCD, etc. And then another once/month doing something for the community - adopt an elderly/disabled person that we can make & send cards to every other month, visiting a nearby food pantry for the hungry and learn how it works, help stock shelves and hang clothes, make a soft pad for abandoned cats in a local shelter, I’m still looking for other ideas that we can do from our class location - not sure if they are coordinated enough to make rosaries.

   If anyone has any other ideas I would love to hear them.

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   Debra Sep 6th, 2008 at 10:52 am

   I attended a fantastic Catholic event this summer called Steubenville on the Bayou. The Franciscan University in Ohio puts on about 15 high school youth conferences in different US cities each summer. These conferences are a weekend focused on celebrating Jesus, living a Christian live, and witnessing to others about our Catholic faith. Our parish in south Texas took two buses of high school students and chaperones to Houma, LA. I think every single person was very moved and had a deepening of their faith. I think this is a great way to reach the youth and keep our Catholic faith alive.

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   Stan Sep 7th, 2008 at 2:24 am

   Father

   in the last couple of DBs you were mentioning your high school experiences several times.

   In found a pretty interesting article about “high school cliques”:

   http://midlifecrisis.honadvblogs.com/2008/07/30/high-school-cliques/

   Maybe we could follow up on that topic in the show ?

   Regards

   Stan

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