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Sunday Lectionary: Going up?
In addition to being the Seventh Sunday in Easter, this Sunday is also Ascension Sunday. This has been an insanely busy week – sorry I didn’t get this posted earlier.
Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord: 20th May, 2012
This Sunday we hear a glorious mystery! The Second Glorious Mystery to be precise! Yes, this Sunday we celebrate Jesus’ Ascension into Heaven.
In recent weeks, life among the Apostles had been, to put it mildly, a bit rocky (and not “rocky” in the good, “Peter” kind of way). In fact, things had been pretty awful. The Master had been betrayed, beaten and then killed on a cross. Dark times.
But then, something happened… He rose from the dead! For several weeks He had been appearing to His disciples! Life was good again! But then…what?…He left?
Huh? Things were finally starting to look up! Why did He leave? Did the Lord abandon His Church?
Competition Winners!
Last week I announced a competition to win one of three bumper stickers I had created:
And the winners chosen by Random.org are…
1. Mary Hunt
2. Fr. Donald (Don’t worry, if he hadn’t have won I would have sent him one anyway 😉 )
3. Rachel DiGiglio
I’ll be emailing the winners to organize postage/delivery 🙂
The Epistle of Joy – Episode #7 (Video)
Today we begin Chapter 2 of Philippians!
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. – Philippians 2:1-4
Here’s today’s video:
For an audio-only version of this video, please click here.
Vatican Website Updated!
*sigh*…the Vatican website has been updated again…and it’s still terrible.
Here’s a selection of my favourite comments about this that I’ve seen on Facebook:
At World Youth Day, Pope Francis did say, “Go, make a mess!”
The Vatican web-designers took him literally.
What the… Great, now I need to go to confession.
There are no ‘boing’ noises when I move the cursor to a hyperlink. Why are there no ‘boing’ noises?
I thought Lent was over? Why are we still being made to suffer?
The church should recognize that IE 6 makes Jesus cry.
Look, someone discovered how to use the <table> tag in HTML!
I’m not too keen on the Times Roman font. They really should be using Comic Sans!
You know, for an outfit that’s big on infallibility, this really doesn’t bolster their cred…
Meet the new website, same as the old website.
Maybe they used the folks who did the new translation of the roman missal.
Still Better Than Obamacare
At the close of the feast…
For those of you who exclusively use your guardian angels for when you go to the mall…
And one for the Catholic Whovians:
The article At the close of the feast… first appeared on RestlessPilgrim.net
Knowing when to walk away from an argument
A while ago I saw an article on Facebook which reported that Fr. Bourgeois, a priest who for many years publicly opposed the Catholic teaching of a male-only priesthood, had been dismissed from the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.
A friend of mine posted a link on Facebook to the article with the comment “Those bastards in the vatican!!!!”.
My friend has links to the Catholic Church and we have Catholic friends in common, but when I saw the article on his Facebook Timeline I noticed that not a single person had offered a defense of the Church’s actions.