Published: 25 September 2011 By: Elizabeth Harrington
http://www.catholicleader.com.au/news.php/liturgy-news/real-story-of-the-revised-translation_76366
I HAVE been asked to elaborate on my statement in last week’s column that the process used in producing the new English-language Missal was “less than just and edifying”.
I have made brief mention of some aspects of the process before; this week and next I will give some more details.
Published: 2 October 2011 By: Elizabeth Harrington
CONCERNS about the new instructions for translating liturgical texts enshrined in Liturgiam Authenticam were not limited to the fact that it in effect changed the rules in the middle of the game.
The genesis of this document was questionable, to say the least.
A 90-year-old man goes to his doctor for a physical. All of his tests come back with normal results.
The doctor says, ‘George, everything looks great. How are you doing mentally and emotionally? Are you at peace with God?’
George replies, ‘God and I are tight. He knows I have poor eyesight, so he’s fixed it so that when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, poof! The light goes on. When I’m done, poof! The light goes off.’
‘Wow, that’s incredible,’ the doctor exclaims.
Later that day, the Doctor calls George’s wife.
by Rumi
On Resurrection Day God will say, “What did you do with
the strength and energy
your food I gave you on earth? How did you use your eyes?
What did you make with
| Friday, 16 September 2011 Produced by Michele Harris | Story audio |
 Brisbane-based Micah Projects “50 Companies, 50 Lives” campaign hopes to enlist local businesses to finance supportive housing projects among Brisbane’s homeless.The campaign builds on the organisation’s successful “50 Lives, 50 Homes” project, launched in 2010, which resulted in the housing of 91 chronically homeless people. With Centrelink payments often insufficient to enable set up and ongoing living costs, Micah Projects Helen Styles hopes for a positive response from local businesses. Image courtesy of Monkwhy.
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TO GET inside the mind of a genius, you have to pin her down. The jam-packed visit to Brisbane of Rosanne Haggerty (pictured) – talking to a sell-out black-tie dinner, drinks, meetings and collaborations – means grabbing a moment isn’t easy.
Nine year old Joey was asked by his mother what he had learned in Sunday School ‘Well, Mum, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he had his army build a pontoon bridge and all the people walked across safely. Then he radioed headquarters for reinforcements. They sent bombers to blow up the bridge and all the Israelites were saved. “now, Joey, is that really what your teacher taught you?” his mother asked. ‘Well, no, Mum. But if I told you the way the teacher did, you’d never believe it!’
Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, gave an address on ‘Authentic Catholicism vs Cafeteria Catholicism’ at the Catholic Voice Annual Dinner in Cork on 29th July. The following is the text of the address (slightly edited) from the current issue of the Catholic Voice newspaper.
Where Have All the Fighters Gone?
NEW HOPE: Formerly homeless person Michelle Wilson is happy in her new digs. Picture: Tim Marsden Source: The Courier-Mail
WHEN the January flood destroyed the Toowong rental unit she called home, 55-year-old mother-of-three Michelle Wilson was flung into an eight-week downward spiral that saw her sleeping nights beneath the awning of a Queen Street Mall strip joint.
Australian comedian Judith Lucy grew up so heavily Catholic that she wanted to become a nun. By the time she left school, she was a committed atheist. Now she’s convinced there must be something in between those two extremes … she just doesn’t have a clue what it is. Her quest to discover something to believe in brought her to St Mary’s in Exile as part of the series Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey
To view the homily that Judith gave at St Mary’s in Exile, cut and paste this address onto your URL
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/judithlucy/extras.htm
