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Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Will democracy survive Islam?
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There are many people today wondering whether democracy will survive Islam. Check out this report made in June 2012 by CBN News (Christian Broadcasting Network) on the situation of democracy in Belgium. It begs the question why governments don't say or do anything to defend our democratic freedoms, the very freedoms radical Muslims employ to undermine western democracy in their conviction and dedication to win the entire planet Earth for Islam. Others ask why the Roman Catholic Church doesn't take a stronger position, especially Catholics from countries where the majority Muslim society persecutes them.
Muslims are right about one thing, that western society has become decadent, where people are free to resort to all manner of public indecency while at the same time eroding and taking away the freedom of religious belief, practice, and public manifestation of faith, and where even crucifixes are being removed because they are offensive to those who find Christian morality offensive.
The Crucifix depicts a man who is alone, abandoned, condemned, tortured, and dying, and yet whose dying words were "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." The selfless love depicted in Jesus on the Cross is indeed offensive to all those who want full freedom to exploit others, to behave without any regard for morality or respect for others, to trample the rights of others simply because one can, one has the power, influence, resources, and opportunity to do so, and let all those who cannot defend themselves be damned.
Why is God allowing Islam to spread into Western Civilization and undermine it from within? Perhaps it is as it was in the Old Testament or in the Jewish Scriptures when God allowed the Philistines to put Israel to the test because he had turned away from God. It was out of love that God put Israel to the test again and again. Perhaps in a similar way God has allowed Islam to grow and thrive and put the West to the test, to see whether we are willing to cling to our faith in God and obey his will even in the face of opposition, harassment, and persecution.
In the face of it all, can we find even a small part within us that is willing to accept and host the divine grace, the Presence of the divine Persons within us and bring us, like Jesus, to sincerely pray for our persecutors, to truly desire their good, and to ask God to "forgive them, for they know not what they do"? Only in this way can we give glory to God and increase his "reputation" in the world. Otherwise, we will continue to manifest the convictions, motives, and behaviors of Christians as totally depraved....
aborting our young, pursuing and defending unadulterated greed as the only foundation of our societies, continuing to exploit the peoples of the Earth and their nations for our advantage, profit, and "interests"... manipulating others to do our bidding, eliminating all those that oppose us, and basically taking the place of God as though we were gods ourselves, calling the shots and determining the destinies of others....
If we continue on this path, then we are all in for a very rude awakening.... Otherwise, we must do all we can to hold our leaders accountable.... The last time that democratic leaders showed moral courage and conviction was when it was evident that the majority or more of the citizens were themselves people of moral and religious conviction. Since then, we have all "lain down" and allowed only the "dissenters" to hog the microphone, to set the trends, and to intimidate us into submission, afraid to give witness to our own convictions and faith by threatening to brand us as enemies of democratic freedom should we show we believe anything that could be seen to oppose their own choices, convictions, or lifestyles.
We have all but become like the people of 1930's Germany who became afraid to "speak up" against what Hitler and his "brown shirts" were doing to Jews, the handicapped, and all and any who were deemed to be misfits or inconvenient to the "new order".
For a critique of Islam in its contempt for Christianity and Judaism and why majority Muslim societies persecute Christians and Jews, see "Islam Exposed: the Crescent in Light of the Cross" by Catholic Christian evangelist Tim Staples.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Violence in quiet Scarborough : We are all responsible
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It is a sick feeling of helplessness that comes over us each time such a tragedy occurs and life is lost, wounds and pain are endured, and our "social contract" is bruised or broken.... Like many perhaps, what really bothers me is how as people with responsibility, public office, or civic or neighborly sense, we are inclined to try to find satisfaction in some resolution of the hurt and damage and / or in finding and prosecuting and eventually punishing those who are "responsible" i.e. the perpetrators. All we ever get to do is "play catchup" but for all our efforts we don't get out of the "victimized" category, not unless we adopt a different outlook.
The so-called "perpetrators" for whatever limited awareness, conscience, and responsibility they probably do have for what they have done, are far from the only ones responsible for such tragedies. In a sense, we are all responsible for the world in which we live, for the conditions of the society in which we try to thrive, and for the atmosphere in which we live, day in and day out.
We cannot be unaffected by the rugged individualism of American society, where those in trouble are generally considered responsible for their state, just as those who are successful are inclined to attribute to themselves and their own efforts all their success, with of course some show of humility and gratitude to benefactors, as most Oscar winners try to do. Still, as Canadians, we do have, I believe, a more advanced sense of cohesiveness and social awareness and collective responsibility. There are plenty among us who are enthralled with the made in USA brand of individual responsibility, but then there are also the altruists who brought us Medicare and the other social programs that make our society so much safer and humane.
I've just finished reading and taking notes from a book which I believe is most pertinent to this most recent Metro Toronto and Canadian tragedy because in it she tries to address the suffering and pain of the children and youth themselves who are identified as misbehaving. She adopts a rather rare stance, that of the children and youth themselves, who in many ways are trying to display their protest of the life we are making or failing to make for them.
Mary Eberstadt published Home-Alone America in 2004 with Sentinel, by the Penguin Group. in which the author goes to that place none of us really wants to go, to some fundamental causes of all this social upheaval touching first and foremost our youth and our children. (See also The Mothers' Movement for a reaction from a mother posted on a site that reports for mothers and others who think about social change. She disagrees with the author and makes the point that these are complex issues.)
Mary reveals her thesis in the subtitle: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes. Thankfully, she is not one of those rabidly opinionated extremists out to condemn single parents and such public services as day care, but rather, she makes an appeal to all of us as a whole society to take back what we seem to have surrendered, without realizing it, namely, collective responsibility for the choices we have made or have had to make in recent decades that have brought us collectively to a situation where our new generations of children and youth are more parent-deprived than we or our parents' generations were.
I like the way she tries to give voice to these millions of children and youth of ours who for all their pain and suffering remain voiceless if only for the simple reason that we the adult generation have a lot invested in all that we have attained - unprecedented freedom to work, earn, save, spend, and live - and are unwilling or even afraid to consider what might be some consequences of these choices.
She very sensitively grants that many parents, especially single parents and poorer parents, really haven't had much choice but to be less present to their children because of their need to work, sometimes at multiple jobs, and that in the absence of extended family, single mothers in particular have had no choice but to rely on day care and other similar public services to mind their children while they work.
In the end, Mary makes an appeal to all of us to do all that we can to increase the presence of related adults most of all, but also of other caring and responsible adults, in the lives of our children and youth; so that they may be guided by us and disciplined as needed so that they eat more balanced meals, have supervision to help them avoid precocious sex and exposure to deadly STD's, and experience enough personal presence and caring to have no need to resort to the use of guns or violence.
She is particularly harsh though on public and medical officials who do all they can to put the blame for the troubles of children and youth on the children and youth themselves, looking for exotic causal explanations in brain deficiencies, chemical imbalances, psychological disorders, and so on, anything to avoid examining the environments in which our children and youth grow up... for fear of making parents and families uncomfortable and then angry with those who go there.
We still know so little about how - from the moment of conception onwards - the total environment impacts on a child that this reality, which is as close to the "front lines" as one can get; that it deserves, I believe, all of the attention and care that we can muster, again, not to assign any blame to parents especially, but rather, in the public interest, to put our shoulders together and have a good look at how much children and youth need to have close at hand, attentive, and caring for them first of all their related adults, and then in addition all the caring and responsible adults they can muster - beginning with extended family - and augmented by church and community volunteers and workers, all duly screened as much as possible of course.
We have taken decades, even generations, to slowly and incrementally by so many little decisions get to where we are now, we who number in the hundreds of millions in the Western world, with the unaccounted toll on our new generations; so we cannot expect any public agencies to unravel or resolve our situations for us. Each family is different, as each couple is unique and each child is unique and each home life is unique. However, there are enough signs and consistencies for us to intuit where we need to begin and what we can do to help one another, as neighbors, and as concerned citizens.
I applaud the Mothers' Movement, and anyone who can make good use of the means at their disposal to raise the level of public awareness to the real battleground, that of the home; so that by supporting one another - especially those with more freedom and means towards those with less - so that between us and with our collective efforts these children and young people can know that they are wanted, loved, and cared for, and that with their help we can all work together to help improve their lives and with our encouragement they can also help one another.
I hope these thoughts are helpful, and perhaps you the reader may find it opportune to share them with those whom they may encourage, and perhaps spark some creative thinking and collective cooperation for the improvement of the lives of suffering children and youth. No human being sets out in life thinking "I think I want to be violent when I grow up." The Creator doesn't make or evolve such defective creatures. They are the work of our hands, whether we want to face that or not, and by "our hands" I don't mean the parents alone, but all of us who contribute to the environment and life conditions in which all parents find themselves.
We are all, in truth, our brothers' and sisters' keepers. Those of us who have more access to the goods of the Earth intended by the Creator for all have more responsibility for their equitable distribution. Those of us who have been gifted with a "better nesting environment" from the moment of our conception have a responsibility to put ourselves at the service of those who have suffered a "less hospitable nesting environment". If we do not and choose rather to hoard our advantages for ourselves cannot avoid having the consequences of our decision find its way to our doorstep. Yes, parents too have their share of responsibility for the choices they make, but then, we all do.
Peace to you....
Gilles Surprenant
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
PRAYER - Fr Ron Rolheiser on Prayer - 4 part series
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Dear Reader, Merry Christmas!
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
America is out of control - its citizenry has been betrayed and given up to the "sharks" - money has substituted human life as the highest value
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So much is being made in the media of the wrangling by American legislators about their need to raise their debt ceiling that it is difficult to avoid making some comments and observations. It appears that America - the U.S.A., the United States of America - long deemed a great nation has become a nation careening out of control and destined for a crash, a very damaging collision with unchanging realities that seems unavoidable if they continue on their present course.
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Friday, July 02, 2010
To genuflect and bow or not to genuflect and bow
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The Sacred Liturgy – Reverent Gestures toward the Holy Eucharist
In various times and places it is said that the current standard for Liturgy would have minimal distractions during the Mass: hence no genuflections, crossings, etc. The context for this statement would have been the changes brought about in the Liturgy by Vatican II and the subsequent reforms in the Liturgy. In the Mass celebrated since
The truth is that the Latin Rite then was closer to the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic rites, which have always made a point of making the Blessed Trinity visible throughout the Divine Liturgy.
It is true that since Vatican II our Church did simplify the Liturgy, and what the priests and deacons are to do is spelled out in the relevant rituals and accompanying documents.
Another truth is that by simplifying the Liturgy and reducing the elements that spoke of the august Mystery of God present among us, we have widened the gap with the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Divine Liturgy and hence with those sisters and brothers, making their Liturgy even stranger and more incomprehensible intellectually. But the simple truth is that whenever we attend one of their Divine Liturgies, the visuals are so eloquent and the accompanying words so significant that it takes a hard heart or an extreme intellectual not to be moved to tears.
The fundamental principle governing the Roman Sacred Liturgy is the full and distinctive participation of all the members of the Body of Christ, each with his or her own particular part, without infringing on the parts of others; so that the variety, multiplicity, and distinctiveness of the roles during the Sacred Liturgy reflect the variety, multiplicity and distinctiveness of the members of the Body of Christ. It is in truth the Risen Christ Jesus who makes himself visible, speaking, and acting in varying degrees in each and every member of the sacred assembly.
You may or may not know this, dear Reader, but there are currents in the Church invoking Vatican II in order to promote agendas that are actually the opposite of the reform of the Liturgy as it has taken place, by people who are frustrated that the reforms did not go far enough, that is, did not incorporate changes they favor. These tendencies would reduce our Liturgy to something much closer to the sterile evangelistic worship service that is full of words and almost devoid of symbols and visuals as has been the case in many churches of the "Reform" over the past five centuries.
For example, Bishop De Roo of Victoria BC, now retired, almost forbade people kneeling at any time during the Mass, and would refuse permission for new churches to include kneelers in them, except when there was intense pressure of devotion from ethnic communities, but even for them he only allowed kneelers for pews in the first few rows. I know this from good friends who have lived in that diocese since the late 1980's or early 1990's.
That is an example of open rebellion, which is not too strong a term, given that the proper authority to interpret
The ritual itself is not open to interpretation or changes except by the proper authorities at the
There is nothing in the ritual itself about going to the Tabernacle, but this is not because nothing should be done but rather because it is considered so obvious that it need not be spelled out everywhere. What is spelled out is that those approaching or leaving the sanctuary at the beginning and end of Mass should genuflect at or towards the Tabernacle, depending on where it is situated; the only exception being in a large church such as St Peter's in Rome, where the Reserve of the Blessed Sacrament is nowhere in the church but deep in a side chapel beyond the pillars on the right side. Hence, the Real Presence is nowhere to be seen; so no genuflection.
Also, anyone passing by the Tabernacle is to genuflect at all times; however, this is generally meant for outside the Liturgy, since people generally don't pass by the Tabernacle during
The role of the pastor is to preserve and hand on the tradition and rituals, so if I have stood out like a sore thumb with these genuflections, it is not to be difficult or irk everyone or offend the pride of local tradition and practice, but all for the glory of the Lord and the growth in faith of the people. The Liturgy not only celebrates, it also teaches and forms.
Anyone going to the Tabernacle during the Mass, usually before and after Holy Communion, opens the Tabernacle door, genuflects, takes out ciboria, closes the Tabernacle door, brings the ciboria to the Altar.... then after Holy Communion, returns with the ciboria to the Tabernacle, opens the door, replaces the ciboria inside, genuflects, and closes the door.
These gestures are spelled out in the various rites related to the Holy Eucharist and generally contained in what is called the Roman Missal. In English until the Roman Missal comes out in Advent 2011 we only use what is called the Sacramentary, which is a partial extraction of whatever is needed from the Roman Missal for celebrating Mass in a Parish setting for all occasions.
The Sacramentary spells out what priests and deacons do. Some of the details are not in the Sacramentary but only explained in detail in the General Introduction to the Roman Missal.
The proper gestures when doing something at the Tabernacle are spelled out in the rite for Eucharistic Adoration, but are mostly taken for granted as standard practice and passed on. In a family, for example, when parents give specific task related instructions to their children, the fact that they omit reminding the children to say Please and Thank You does not annul those practices, because they are so common and obvious that they may be taken for granted. So it is with much that is traditional regarding the Liturgy and church Sanctuary.
It is traditional practice, which expresses our faith in the True Presence of Jesus, that anytime we approach the Tabernacle to extract the Body of Christ in one or more ciboria, one genuflects after opening the door - acknowledging Jesus and adoring Him - and again just before closing the door after having returned one or more ciboria to be reserved. This practice both expresses and teaches our faith in Jesus truly present in his risen Body and Blood in the Holy Eucharist and reserved in the Tabernacle.
It is an abuse of the respect, reverence, and obedience we owe to the Lord to deliberately refuse this practice or teach others to ignore it. To do so opens the door to the erosion of the faith and attacks against the faith by beliefs, ideas, and practices in the culture and society in every time and place that militate against the Lord and his presence, word, and work or salvation in the world.
There are those who would make the presence of Jesus in the whole assembly, with the Presider at the head, the exclusive point of focus, annulling any form of reverence for the Body and Blood of Christ either on the Altar or in the Tabernacle.
Reality is not so monolithic, but multifaceted. It is no contradiction to have the Presider genuflect at the Altar during the Singing of the Lamb of God as he says the relevant priest's prayers before Holy Communion, and simultaneously for a deacon or extraordinary minister of Holy Communion genuflect upon opening the door to the Tabernacle. On the contrary, this merely makes visible the many facets of Jesus' presence, word, and action among us.
None of this is open to interpretation or change, because no one but the bishops together with the Pope can make major changes, and the pertinent Congregation can give interpretations and publish duly designed and authorized reforms.
What we mean by authority is not power to impose in the midst of conflicted views, but rather faith in Jesus' ongoing presence among us, and in particular his own will to speak and act through the sacrament of Holy Orders in the roles and persons of the Pope and bishops, who are after all successors to the Apostles to whom Jesus entrusted all his authority. In order to respect the full magnitude of Jesus' presence, word, and action among us, we must respect them all.
That includes zealous attention to the rituals and other manifestations of our Church's traditions, the handing on of rituals, teachings, and practices of faith as handed on by our parents, teachers, catechists, and pastors, and as interpreted and corrected when necessary by the competent and pertinent authorities.
This entire network is Jesus speaking, acting, and present among us.
In view of the constant erosion factor from our culture, I'd love all of our collaborators at St Luke St-Luc to adopt with one mind and heart what I began over a year ago with regards to the Our Father sung in English, namely, regarding the 5 repetitions of Amen at the end and the related gestures. This is the only part that never made sense to me: the gesture for the 4th Amen is just a repetition of the 1st, i.e. a lifting up of the hands towards Heaven. It would make sense for the gesture accompanying the 4th Amen to point towards Jesus truly present in his Body and Blood on the Altar, which we are about to partake.
1st Amen - hands lifted up side by side and arms fully extended towards the heavens = Amen to You O Blessed Trinity!
2nd Amen - hands lowered to the horizontal and arms fully extended straight ahead, then fanning out on either side in a sweeping embrace and inclusion of of everyone = Amen to everyone here and in the world and all creatures in the universe!
3rd Amen - hands lowered to the ground and arms fully extended on either side = Amen to your presence in me, Lord!
4th Amen - hands and arms fully extended towards Jesus on the Altar = Amen to You Lord Jesus in the Holy Eucharist! 5th Amen - hands folding and joining at the chest in the traditional prayerful gesture = Amen to your holy will in all things Lord!
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
When friends feel they are losing their faith....
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When friends feel they are losing their faith... and they call upon you, trust in God, listen with great interest until they have poured out their heart, only then share from your mind and heart, and put your confidence in God to save them from their trouble and bless them through it.
Christ is Risen ! Alleluia ! Alleluia !
Christ est ressuscité ! Alléluia ! Alléluia !
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Sexual abuse - let's make room for the truth, all of it and avoid misdirected anger or rage
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The truth will better serve the safety of children and all those at risk from abuse of all kinds. Any children or anyone hurt by us priests or bishop need our immediate protection and help. Anyone responsible for hurting others must face the consequences, but they need help too, since most often such heinous acts are not only crimes, but they are also manifestations of profound psychological dysfunction and illness.If the media feeding frenzy turns its voracious appetite on people like Pope Benedict XVI, who is leading the way for us in dealing with sexual and other forms of abuse, it is not surprising. This time of year we commemorate and enter deeply and personally into the events surrounding Jesus of Nazareth, because through these events He has obtained for us salvation, rescue from our mortal human condition. The feeding frenzy existed then, as it will until the end of time, and though He was perfect, that did not deter the sharks from devouring Him. Once He was swallowed up by hatred, evil, sin, and death, He burst out and destroyed their hold of fear on us.
We must be wary. The unfettered frenzy with which we turn on others, at even the possibility they may be guilty, may be a function of our own fear of being caught, or if not guilty of the same thing, then of being found out to have at the very least thoughts and temptations of which we are not proud. The most likely person to accuse others is the one who refuses to accuse himself or herself. As Jesus himself said, our vision can only become clear enough to see the truth about the other once we have taken the log out of our own eye, that is, once we have admitted to ourselves and to others our own faults and sins.
Then beyond our actual sins, there is always the realization that in the end I am capable of doing much harm, and the only thing that saves me is opening myself up to the grace and mercy of God. You remember the saying, "There but for the grace of God go I"? Lord, have mercy on us, on our children, and on all those among us who carry from infancy or childhood hurts that twist our personalities out of shape and make us dangerous. As a Church, as a society, as a family, as parents, as pastors, as any with responsibility to care for others, open our eyes to see those around us in need of protection and in need of help, and those in need of careful, strong boundaries, for the safety of those in vulnerable states. In Jesus' Name we pray. Fr. Gilles
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Lord purify my heart to look upon all my sisters with pure, life-giving eyes! O may beautiful Spring not afflict us yet again with the perennial "parade of the flesh"....
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Spring is not yet here, but already the parade of flesh is beginning, and what about the heart that is behind my eyes? Is it Spring itself, are hormonal levels what they have always been, or then again, maybe it gets worse with aging? There are such days even for celibates when the mind plays games with one's inner peace....
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