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[holysaintscathedral]

Rev. Fr. Martin Joseph "Joe" O'Looney (1918-2006)

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[rjchang122]

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[paulistfathers]

#Paulist Fr. Bud Kieser (1929 - 2000) was founder of @PaulistProductions and producer of the #EmmyAward-winning television anthology series "Insight." This new #documentary about his life received the 2022 Gabriel Award for #BestDocumentary. To watch, please visit: https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/hp-bustedhalo As your "ticket price," please consider making a contribution to our media ministry @BustedHalo. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg4NW6Kr22J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[edpor68]

Happy Friday! Another clip from the Insight episode “A Box for Mr Lipton”- Pattye as Ellen Lipton- absolutely adorable… #patriciamattick #pattyemattick #insight #1972tv #Aboxformrlipton #adorable #youtube

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[horizongazing]

The End of the Year

The End of the Year

Readings for the Solemnity of Christ the King, Lord of the Universe from the USCCB website: When my mother was still very young, my grandparents lived just outside of New York City and they had some people over for dinner that my grandfather had met at work. They were having drinks after dinner and one of the guests started telling this story of how he’d been on a sales trip way up in the wilds…

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#Catholic homily #Paulist Fathers #Sunday Homily #Sunday Mass

[cathnews]

New bishop replaces priests who have run ministry for 65 years

New bishop replaces priests who have run ministry for 65 years

A group of priests who have run the Catholic ministry at Ohio State University for 65 years will depart at the end of July following a decision by the new bishop of the Diocese of Columbus. Bishop Earl Fernandes, who was installed on May 31, is the Catholic Church’s first Indian-American bishop. Fernandes advised the Paulist fathers on 12 July that, effective from 31 July, Rev. Adam…

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#Bishop Earl Fernandes #Diocese of Columbus #Paulist Fathers #Rev Rene Constanza

[tamamita]

Christianity anon from a couple of minutes ago:

Yeah, I agree that Judaism and Islam are the true Abrahamic religions, but I also like to eat shellfish, so…

Pathetic Paulist, go eat a mollusk

[give-me-a-movie-camera]

GIVE ME A MOVIE CAMERA

· 12 June 2021 ·

Jim Nabors rehearsing ‘’Panis Angelicus,’’ Latin for the ‘bread of the angels’ in the Roman Catholic Mission Church of St Jude in Sylacauga, Alabama. Courtesy of TV Radio Mirror. © Macfadden-Bartell Corporation, September 1966. From personal collection.

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A devout Roman Catholic until the day he died, Jim Nabors had always been God-fearing but, ‘Jim had drifted away from his faith at some point in his adolescence,’ so reported TV Radio Mirror, September 1966. He stopped attending church services and wandered about aimlessly through his teen years without any religious affiliation. Guilt-stricken for having turned his back on his parents’ sacrifices, he wanted so desperately to find God, but could not find Him within the walls of Protestant Christianity, of which he obtained no immediate spiritual satisfaction. His parents, who believed in the importance of weekly church attendance but did not believe in imposing a particular faith upon their children so long as they maintained a sense of God in their lives, readily blessed him to carve his own path, to let him find God through his independent and trying spiritual journey, apart from Methodism. ‘Yet, a grim depression gripped him… His heart was empty, too, with an emptiness that needed more than human love and fulfilment.’

His eldest sister, Freddie, was the first in her family to convert to Roman Catholicism when she married into an Italian-American family. His sister’s conversion only mildly influenced his decision—his sister, who was a member of Sylacauga’s then-only Catholic church, encouraged him to sing in the choir for a Christmas pageant during one cathartic holiday. ‘I’m not Catholic,’ he hesitated, but the local Catholic priest eased his worries by welcoming him with open arms. That priest was the son of a Syrian Jewish father and a Lebanese Christian mother, also a former Methodist, Father Mac Paul Abraham. Nabors cited, ‘He changed my life.’

Upon his return to Sylacauga one winter evening, Nabors quietly approached Father Abraham with a special request to convert him. The Father strongly advised he take instruction in Roman Catholic studies. Through sheer dogged determination to welcome God back into his life, he completed weeks of instruction during breaks from filming The Andy Griffith Show, attending Bible study, and taking up night courses in scripture and Latin, too. Some would say he studied to such a degree of obsession that it’s a wonder he didn’t quit acting to become a priest. In the mid-’60s, during a show hiatus from Gomer Pyle, Nabors wanted to be closer to God, and closer still. He found Him again in a Catholic Church in California. ‘For from another direction life suddenly took on meaning,’ he relayed. ‘I’d taken to slipping into the back of St Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in Hollywood, just to listen to the Mass.’ Ultimately, it was the prolific Los Angeles Reverend, Paulist Father Ellwood ‘Bud’ Keiser who converted him. Now spiritually uplifted and purified, he felt one step closer to God, and more loved and accepted than he ever felt before. ‘I repented and if my heart was truly contrite, He showered me with mercy and love and forgiveness. God set me free.’

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#my edit #photo from personal collection #old hollywood #1960s #p: jim nabors #Happy Holidays

[alpaca-clouds]

Something that irks me about religion

Let me talk about something, that irks me about religion. Mostly about Christianity, but I am rather sure that it is true for many others as well, though maybe not quite to the same degree as it is with Christians.

Now, if you follow me a bit longer, you know that I am all about accepting people of different religions and faiths and that I am annoyed by the general atheist movement acting all enlightened because they do not believe in any god.

But... at the same time there is also the tendency of religious people to just fucking cherry pick their religious texts, ignoring both the textual context and the historical context.

Again, speaking about the bible because I think it for one is one of the most extreme examples of this - and also because I know most about it. Oh, and also because it has been most used in terms of colonization and supressing other people.

A lot of the people preaching hate with the use of the bible will just ignore the core message of the thing. They will be all about Jesus, but just ignore Jesus's teachings. Because Jesus, the man, did not talk about the gays at all. But he was very big on the entire "love thy neighbour" thing - and on the "rich people are bad, actually" thing as well. He did defend prostitutes, adulterers, and yes, also people who were probably read as gay at the time. But he raised his hand against the rich people, who would not share. Yet, that context is completely ignored, when it comes to those people. Rather they will stick to the two mentions (one in the letters of Paul and one in the old testament) of gay being bad and ignore most of the things Jesus has said.

I grew up in a very, very sternly catholic environment. And I have read the bible. Several times. And even as a teenager I joked, that a lot of Christians should call themselves Paulians, because they sure give a lot more meaning to what Paul is writing in his letters, than what Jesus is actually saying in the gospels.

But especially with the bible, there is another thing that people keep ignoring:

The translation

The choice of books to be included

See, the bible was originally written in Hebrew (though of some parts we only have Greek manuscripts surviving). From which it was translated into Latin with the Latin version being the one that was around for the longest time. Modern translations in some cases build on the Hebrew original - in some cases on the Latin version, though.

So, even if you do unquestioningly believe that the bible is the Word of God... The translation ain't. And we do know that there are things that were mistranslated. Some probably accidentally, while others have probably been mistranslated to further a political agender.

One of those accidental mistranslations is the eagle that was mentioned several times, while it was originally a vulture.

One of the very non-accidental mistranslations is Eva being created out of Adam's rip. But in the Hebrew version it actually just says she was made of "a part" of Adam, with the word implying that she was mde of his half. Making her much more equal than the "rip" translation.

And stuff like that is very common. Especially with the old testament.

Meanwhile with the new testament... Well, if you have ever read Dan Brown or listened to any conspiracy theories at all, you will know that there are actually way more than four gospels. And while I do not necessarily think that this is a big conspiracy or anything... All the stuff that is in the new conspiracy - and all the stuff that was left out - was chosen as such by bishops in the 4th century. They were the ones who canonized what we know as the bible today. And yes, part of that happened for political reasons.

Let's come back to my entire thing about the Paulists. Paul played a large role in establishing Christianity in Rome and all of that, yes. But technically... He never met Jesus and he also was not a prophet or anything. For the most part he is a historical figure, not a religious one. Yet, not only are all his letters part of the New Testament, a lot of religious violence and persecution is justified through them, even though his words are not Words of God. Even Paul never claims that they are. They are just the words of some dude who converted to Christianity early after having a supposed encounter with Jesus' ghost.

And, you know, having all of that in there... it is most certainly a choice. And just refering to that, rather than what Jesus actually says, is too.

And there are many things like this. Things that get left out or ignored or are never questioned.

I mean, just look at the thing about pork. Christians still have the old testament saying that animals with parted hooves are impure. But in ONE of the four gospels Jesus says "Yeah, no, actually, go ahead, eat 'em pigs!" But, again, those gospels were just four of many. And it is not said in the other gospels. So... Did Jesus really say it or was it just put in there, because it made it easier in marketing the religion to Europeans, who sure loved their pork?

I know a lot of people are told how they are supposed to read their holy texts. And, heck, a lot of religions (not only Christianity) has a whole lot of issues going on about who gets to interpret those religious texts. But... I really wished a lot of people would interact with them more critically.

I do not have a problem with any religion per se. I think there are a lot of valuable lessons you can get from any holy text. And if the text to you is the Word of God, I am totally fine with that.

But I really do wish people would just see, that even if it is the Word of God, it got still delivered to us through human hands. Be it through those translators - or through those who taught it to us. And I feel we really need to do better with questioning their agenda.

Just a thought.

#philosophy #history #religion #christianity #bible scripture #jesus was kinda cool #paul was not though #religious history

[holysaintscathedral]

Some Paulist priests.

#hierophilia #priest kink #priestkink #priests #vintage photography #catholic aesthetic

[hardoncaulfield]

Mechtild of Magdeburg rocking my entire world

[Mechtild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, trans. Frank Tobin (New York: Paulist Press, 1998)]

#mysticism #readings #soliloquy #free of HESITATION !

[meltorights]

trappists > paulists > jesuits > augustinians = benedictines = franciscans > cistercians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dominicans

#the extreme diversity of Kinds of benedictine and franciscan makes this hard #de profundis

[paulistfathers]

Today, the Church celebrates the Memorial of #StKateriTekakwitha. Here is a depiction of St. Kateri created by #Paulist Fr. @fpsabatte. (The original of this image is in our chapel at St. Mary's of the Lake at #LakeGeorge at the base of the #Adirondacks in New York State.) (at St. Mary's of the Lake) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAVv62LYYc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#stkateritekakwitha #paulist #lakegeorge #adirondacks

[jordi-gali]

Au début des années 1950, dans un contexte culturel d’enthousiasme en faveur du progrès industriel, la scène artistique brésilienne est dominée par l’art concret – mouvement abstractionniste, proche du Bauhaus, de De Stijl, du suprématisme et du constructivisme soviétique. Le groupe d’art concret Frente à Rio de Janeiro est la première filiation artistique de Lygia Pape, alors jeune disciple de Fayga Ostrower, à l’école du musée d’Art moderne de Rio. Ainsi, sa série de xylogravures Tecelares [tissages], réalisée entre 1955 et 1959, respecte le programme concret dans son esprit de rapprochement de la pratique artistique avec le travail industriel, et dans la conception de l’objet d’art comme un agencement d’éléments plastiques – plans, couleurs, formes géométriques –, qui se veut auto-expressif et indépendant de toute ambition symbolique ou représentative. Cependant, vers la fin des années 1950, l’art concret de Rio s’éloigne du versant « pauliste » (celui de São Paulo, plus cérébral) du mouvement et oppose au formalisme géométrique dogmatique de ce dernier, une volonté d’ouvrir le travail à un maximum de dimensions vitales.

#lygia pape #Instagram

[puutterings]

a kind of daft doing the dishes

  ...to see the priest as a kind of daft housewife, overdressed for the kitchen, in bulky robes, puttering about the altar, washing up after having served so great a meal to so many people. It brought the mass home to me and gave it meaning... This was my first image of the mass, my door in, as it were, and it has served me well for years.

Kathleen Norris. The Quotidian Mysteries : Laundry, Liturgy and “Women’s Work”. “1998 Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality” (Paulist Press, 1998) : 3 : link

Kathleen Norris (1947- ), poet, essayist. wikipedia : link  

#1998 #Kathleen Norris #Quotidian Mysteries #housewife