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| Topic Started: Friday, 9. May 2008, 20:11 (1,725 Views) | |
| Gerard | Monday, 12. May 2008, 16:54 Post #16 |
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(From an article in the Tablet in 2001) And then there is the family mission. In November in Rome, the Pope gave his blessing to more than 100 Neo-Catechumenate families who had volunteered to bring the gospel message to many different parts of the world. The Pope told them he was sending them out as models of the Holy Family of Nazareth. Wherever these families go, Neo-Catechumenate communities flourish and multiply. It's likely to happen in Brixton where the latest young family has settled. It has certainly happened in Peckham, where Lorenzo and Maurizia Lees arrived from Milan 14 years ago with their three children. There are now three communities there, numbering around 100 people and their children. The Lees volunteered to take part in a mission together with parishioners and local religious communities. They had learnt English at school but were hardly fluent at that time. Lorenzo left a lucrative job as a photographer in advertising and they moved into a dilapidated flat on the North Peckham Estate. Members of their community donated furniture and helped them find their feet. Lorenzo contacted 80 companies before he found a job. Despite the obvious hardship, they say they had the time of their lives. Very soon, the couple were out knocking on their neighbours' doors announcing the Good News. The Lees are powerful preachers who talk about their faith with an inspiring energy and spontaneity, and they say they found people who were hungry for spiritual food. |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 16. December 2010, 02:02 Post #17 |
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http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1005099.htm Pope meets with Japanese bishops to discuss Neocatechumenal Way
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| Gerard | Friday, 17. December 2010, 00:03 Post #18 |
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Did that seminary ever actually close? Gerry |
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| Rose of York | Friday, 17. December 2010, 00:24 Post #19 |
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In March 2009 the local bishop announced the closure, in a pastoral letter. http://www.takamatsu.catholic.ne.jp/doc/2009Lent_ToAllPriests_PastoralLetter.pdf The letter is very interesting, I found myself likening the situation then in the Diocese of Takamatsu to some dioceses here. Sad but true. |
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| Angus Toanimo | Friday, 17. December 2010, 00:30 Post #20 |
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Deo Gratias!
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 9. August 2011, 10:43 Post #21 |
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Some in Gerry's list are religious orders. Within parishes, why don't the parish priests just put in their newletters "Mass followed by prayer meeting"? People can turn up. If they like it they go again. If it does not suit them they don't go again. I used to live in a parish where the pressure to join one particular group was offensive. What exactly is the NeoCatechumenal Way? What do they do that is not done in your average parish? Yet another bishop, Anthony Sharma, the apostolic vicar of Nepal has banned them. http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=11296 |
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| Gerard | Tuesday, 9. August 2011, 10:52 Post #22 |
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From the website above:
How fair is that? Gerry |
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 9. August 2011, 10:55 Post #23 |
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Dictatorial. |
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| OsullivanB | Tuesday, 9. August 2011, 12:42 Post #24 |
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What's unfair/dictatorial? It doesn't say that the young people were forbidden to go - just that the bishop decided not to send youths - perhaps to spare the diocese (i.e. men/women in the pew) the expense of a pilgrimage holiday for a few. |
| "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer | |
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| Gerard | Tuesday, 9. August 2011, 12:48 Post #25 |
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and banned their movement for planning to go. Gerry |
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| OsullivanB | Tuesday, 9. August 2011, 13:05 Post #26 |
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That's not in the article. As I read it the movement is banned from activity within the diocese. It seems that some bishops are concerned about what the Neo-Cats do within their jurisdictions. But I don't see anything to suggest that the ban flowed from a decision by the NeoCats to send young people to the Congress. But again, what we see depends on where we stand. |
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| CARLO | Thursday, 11. August 2011, 21:20 Post #27 |
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Neo-cats are really old hat these days! They probably linger on in a few isolated enclaves! Libera nos Deliver us CARLO |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 11. August 2011, 21:55 Post #28 |
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No organisation gets banned for being old hat. In case you didn't know, in places where they were banned they did not linger, they were active enough for their bishops to take tough action on them, rightly or wrongly. CARLO are you able to tell us in all seriousness, without a mocking tone, what the bishops perceived to be wrong. |
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| CARLO | Saturday, 13. August 2011, 18:13 Post #29 |
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Rose I don't fully know but from what I have read the Bishops were concerned that the Neo-Cats were not conducive to unity - in other words a Church within a Church. The concern must have involved theological and doctrinal matters because as we all know there are many groups within the Church that e.g. have differing views about our liturgy. They don't get banned. Pax CARLO |
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| Rose of York | Saturday, 13. August 2011, 18:16 Post #30 |
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CARLO one thing I do know about the Neo-Catechumens is, they have their own separate Mass, did not join in with their fellow parishioners. Some bishops were far from happy about that. |
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