Friday, 20 February 2015
POPE FRANCIS RESPONSE TO MARRIED PRIEST.
While addressing the priests of the Diocese of Rome on Thursday, Pope Francis also responded to a question about married priests, underscoring that the Church has great concern for priests who leave ministry to get married and later want to return, but that on the other hand he does not know if the Church can find a way for this to happen.
SULI BREAKS TALKS ON LEADERSHIP: FOLLOW THE LEADER
But in school we were thought to always follow a certain method or rule.
Follow the leader
Follow the System
Follow the Religion or Tradition
But in his own opinion the world do not need new leaders.
the world need new ideas.
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
The Good Fight: Battles of the Flesh
Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses (1 Timothy 6:12).
It is heartbreaking to hear the countless stories of family wreckages due to sins of the flesh. It is tragic to see the wounds of young men and women who first experienced pornographic material and/or sexual abuse in their own homes.
A PRESIDENTS DAY REMINDER: LINK BETWEEN GOD AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
Past presidents have seen God and religion as an inherent part of Americans’ rights and freedoms, according to a Presidents Day commercial from the Knights of Columbus.
“The idea that our rights come from God and that religion has a role to play in our nation’s public life is not partisan or sectarian, it is quintessentially American,” Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, said Feb. 16.
“Presidents Day is an excellent opportunity to remind Americans that God is – and has always been – foundational to this country and to our system of ordered liberty.”
The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal society with over 1.8 million members worldwide, originally released the commercial in 2012.
The ad includes comments from several presidents regarding the link between God and human rights.
“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom,” Abraham Lincoln said his Gettysburg Address.
Thomas Jefferson’s words from his “Notes on the State of Virginia,” as abbreviated on the Jefferson Memorial, are also cited. The second U.S. president asked rhetorically: “Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are of the gift of God?”
John F. Kennedy, in his inaugural address of 1961, declared, “The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.”
The quotations also include George Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796, in which the first president said: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
The source of rights has become controversial in recent decades.
Chris Cuomo, the co-host of the CNN show “New Day,” recently denied that the rights recognized by the United States come from God.
“Our rights do not come from God. That’s your faith. That’s my faith, but not our country. Our laws come from the collective agreement and compromise,” he told interviewee Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore during a Feb. 12 conversation about a federal ruling on “gay marriage.”
“It’s not a matter of faith, sir,” Moore replied, citing the Declaration of Independence’s assertion of rights endowed by God.
“The government starts taking those rights away from us, then it’s not securing and it is defiling the whole purpose of government,” Moore said.
Other presidents cited in the Knights of Columbus ad include Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
The ad closes with the phrase from the Pledge of Allegiance: “One nation, under God, indivisible.”
“The idea that our rights come from God and that religion has a role to play in our nation’s public life is not partisan or sectarian, it is quintessentially American,” Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, said Feb. 16.
“Presidents Day is an excellent opportunity to remind Americans that God is – and has always been – foundational to this country and to our system of ordered liberty.”
The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal society with over 1.8 million members worldwide, originally released the commercial in 2012.
The ad includes comments from several presidents regarding the link between God and human rights.
“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom,” Abraham Lincoln said his Gettysburg Address.
Thomas Jefferson’s words from his “Notes on the State of Virginia,” as abbreviated on the Jefferson Memorial, are also cited. The second U.S. president asked rhetorically: “Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are of the gift of God?”
John F. Kennedy, in his inaugural address of 1961, declared, “The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.”
The quotations also include George Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796, in which the first president said: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
The source of rights has become controversial in recent decades.
Chris Cuomo, the co-host of the CNN show “New Day,” recently denied that the rights recognized by the United States come from God.
“Our rights do not come from God. That’s your faith. That’s my faith, but not our country. Our laws come from the collective agreement and compromise,” he told interviewee Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore during a Feb. 12 conversation about a federal ruling on “gay marriage.”
“It’s not a matter of faith, sir,” Moore replied, citing the Declaration of Independence’s assertion of rights endowed by God.
“The government starts taking those rights away from us, then it’s not securing and it is defiling the whole purpose of government,” Moore said.
Other presidents cited in the Knights of Columbus ad include Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
The ad closes with the phrase from the Pledge of Allegiance: “One nation, under God, indivisible.”
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Pope: God is not found in computers or encyclopedias, but restless hearts, We should seek the face of God, a face we will one day see.
In his homily Tuesday, Pope Francis said that Christians must have a certain “restlessness” if they want to know God, who is not found by staring at a computer, but rather by going outside of oneself.
“Sedentary Christians, lethargic Christians will not know the face of God: They do not know Him,” the Pope told attendees of his Feb. 10 daily Mass, which took place in the chapel of the Vatican’s Saint Martha guesthouse.
“You need a certain restlessness to set out on this path, the same restlessness that God placed in each of our hearts and that brings us forward in search of Him.”
Pope Francis launched his reflections by turning to the day’s first reading from Genesis, which recounts God’s creation of Adam and Eve, whom he made in his image and likeness.
The Pope spoke of the right and wrong paths that Christians can take when searching for the origins of their own identity. When looking, it is important to note that the image of God cannot be found “on a computer, or in encyclopedias,” he said.
Rather, the only way to find the image of God and understand one’s own identity is to “set out on a journey,” Francis said.
Of course beginning this journey and allowing God to test us will always involve risks, he said, but pointed out that this is what all the major biblical figures, such as Elijah, Jeremiah and Job, did by allowing themselves to face difficulties and feel defeated.
The Pope contrasted the witness of these biblical figures with those in the Gospel who are stationary and falsify their search for God.
The Pharisees, who confront Jesus and ask why his disciples eat without performing the normal purification rituals, “are afraid to set out on the path (in search of their identity),” he said.
Instead of searching for God, the Pharisees are content “with a caricature of God. It is a fake ID. These lethargic people have silenced the restlessness of their heart, they depict God with commandments and forget God.”
By telling Jesus’ disciples that they are neglecting God’s law and are therefore following the tradition of man, the Pharisees themselves turn away from God and when they are insecure, “they invent or make up another commandment,” Pope Francis said.
He then turned to the day’s liturgy, saying that the day’s readings provide two “identity cards” that every Christian has.
The first is a card that tells us to go out in search of God, and that by doing so, “you will discover your identity, because you are the image of God.”
“Get up and seek God,” he said, noting that the second identity card the readings provide is that of fulfilling the commandments, because they show us the face of God.
The Pope concluded his homily by praying that the Lord give all “the grace of courage to always set out on the path, to seek the Lord's face, the face that one day we will see, but which we must seek here on Earth.”
“Sedentary Christians, lethargic Christians will not know the face of God: They do not know Him,” the Pope told attendees of his Feb. 10 daily Mass, which took place in the chapel of the Vatican’s Saint Martha guesthouse.
“You need a certain restlessness to set out on this path, the same restlessness that God placed in each of our hearts and that brings us forward in search of Him.”
Pope Francis launched his reflections by turning to the day’s first reading from Genesis, which recounts God’s creation of Adam and Eve, whom he made in his image and likeness.
The Pope spoke of the right and wrong paths that Christians can take when searching for the origins of their own identity. When looking, it is important to note that the image of God cannot be found “on a computer, or in encyclopedias,” he said.
Rather, the only way to find the image of God and understand one’s own identity is to “set out on a journey,” Francis said.
Of course beginning this journey and allowing God to test us will always involve risks, he said, but pointed out that this is what all the major biblical figures, such as Elijah, Jeremiah and Job, did by allowing themselves to face difficulties and feel defeated.
The Pope contrasted the witness of these biblical figures with those in the Gospel who are stationary and falsify their search for God.
The Pharisees, who confront Jesus and ask why his disciples eat without performing the normal purification rituals, “are afraid to set out on the path (in search of their identity),” he said.
Instead of searching for God, the Pharisees are content “with a caricature of God. It is a fake ID. These lethargic people have silenced the restlessness of their heart, they depict God with commandments and forget God.”
By telling Jesus’ disciples that they are neglecting God’s law and are therefore following the tradition of man, the Pharisees themselves turn away from God and when they are insecure, “they invent or make up another commandment,” Pope Francis said.
He then turned to the day’s liturgy, saying that the day’s readings provide two “identity cards” that every Christian has.
The first is a card that tells us to go out in search of God, and that by doing so, “you will discover your identity, because you are the image of God.”
“Get up and seek God,” he said, noting that the second identity card the readings provide is that of fulfilling the commandments, because they show us the face of God.
The Pope concluded his homily by praying that the Lord give all “the grace of courage to always set out on the path, to seek the Lord's face, the face that one day we will see, but which we must seek here on Earth.”
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
CHRISTIANS IN INDIA WHO WERE PARTICIPATING IN A PEACEFUL PROTESTS WAS ARRESTED BY POLICE OFFICERS.
Christians in India were arrested on Thursday 5th of February during a peaceful protests demanding that government should take action following a series of attack on Churches in New Delhi India national Capital.
Government and the world leaders who preach of human right, freedom of worship and equal right and justice should all come together and tackle the religious crisis in the whole world before it gets out of hand.
To my fellow Christians let us always be in prayer for all our suffering brother who are been drag to prison or been pursue out of there homes by force. PEACE.
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
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