Happy Rosh ha Shanah 2013
This is a great clip with Menachem Herman a Breslover Hasid. Rosh ha Shanah (Jewish New Year) starts on Wednesday evening September 4 2013. May you all be inscribed for an absolutely fabulous year.For...
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Reflection on Levinas, Stein and the Shoah
by Brother Gilbert BloomerThis reflection is my response to my reading in Pastoral theology. I have chosen three readings that seem to be connected for me. I read them in the light of the teachings of...
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Messiah, Levinas and Mitzvot: A Reflection on Three Readings
The first reading I have chosen is “Theology in Rabbinic Stories” by Chaim Pearl. Pearl discusses some of the stories in Jewish writings and then interprets them from a practical theological aspect....
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Raza d’Razin: Storytelling, Mystery and Kingdom
The first four weeks of “Mystery of Christ 4: Church and Sacraments” seems to focus on the wider historical and theological setting of a discussion of the Sacraments and sacramental theology. There is...
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A Jewish and Marian reading of St John of the Cross
St John of the Cross was one of the greatest spiritual writers and mystics of the Catholic Church as well as a great reformer (in association with St Teresa of Avila) of the Carmelite Order. In my...
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Father Pat in the Record
Father Patrick Barry (APA)There was an article on our priest Father Patrick Barry in the Perth Archdiocesan newspaper last year on my birthday. Father Patrick is an amazing man and no article could do...
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Prayer For the Queen and Royal Family at Synagogue
Sketch of the East Melbourne SynagogueThe first time I attended synagogue was in 1985 in Melbourne at the old East Melbourne Synagogue when I was 21. At Melbourne University I had become friends with a...
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Hebrew Catholic Priest in Marseille: Father Michel Marie
Father Michel Marie in his famous black CassockRecently "Chiesa" website carried an article about a French priest who was Jewish through his mother and the wonderful renewal he is leading in his parish...
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Are the English-speaking Catholic Bishops Anti-semites?
It is rather shocking and disturbing when one tries to do the daily "Divine Office" of the Church when ones reads the translation of Ephesians 2:15 as "He abolished the Jewish Law with its commandments...
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Miriam Queen of the Jews Calling to her People
Our Lady Miriam ha Kedosha the Queen of Zion and Jerusalem is reaching out to her own people the Jews. In the locutions to the visionary promoted by Monsignor Esseff, her message of concern about...
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Lightning Strikes St Peter's Dome
The Daily Mail writes how lightning struck St Peter's Dome hours after the Pope's announcement of his abdication/ resignation. The article also mentions how many see a more sinister reason behind the...
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The Future Marian Pope: Ennio Antonelli ???
In the "Locutions to the World" the Catholic visionary speaks of the Election of a new Pope after Pope Benedict who will eventually leave Rome and go to Jerusalem and be martyr there on behalf of the...
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Ayn Rand and Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel LevinasFor a number of years I have known a number of people who have been fans of Ayn Rand and her novels. Certain aspects of what they told me seemed attractive but it was only when last...
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The New Pope and the Cardinal Messenger
In a previous blog I have speculated that Cardinal Ennio Antonelli may be the next Pope. However I may be very wrong. In the more recent "Locutions to the World" they seem to speak about a messenger...
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The Powerless Pope and the Resignation
I have been saying for quite awhile now that Pope Benedict XVI was powerless in the Vatican and that other forces had taken over the political Centre of the Church. In fact I wrote about it in 2011 in...
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New Pope will be a Marian Prophet
In the latest locution from the "Locutions to the World" Jesus and Mary announced that the new Pope who will be elected will not only be Marian but he will be a Prophet as well. They also told of signs...
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Come Away O Human Child
Some days I feel like running away to the "waters and the wild" as expressed by WB Yeats in his famous poem "Stolen Child". There on some enchanted island to dance and frolick wildly and freely....
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A Religion without Mystics is a Philosophy.
Pope Francis recently said in an interview that the role of mystics in the church is fundamental and that a religion without mystics is a philosophy. He also said in the same interview:"I love the...
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Alternative History of Ancient Australia
History is not always what one has been taught to believe has happened in the past. Emmanuel Velikovsky demonstrated this point convincingly in his numerous works. Australia’s history before British...
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