Cardinal Newman Catechist
Consultants — 25th January, 2017 — HANDOUTS n. 140
“Clear, brief and easily assimilated by all”
Christians — “In this Si†gn, conquer” 2017 for Christ
These words accompanied by the vision of a cross were
given to Constantine to end the persecution of Christians in the Roman
Empire in A.D. 313
— cf. “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in
heaven” (Matthew 24:30)
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A.D. 2017 will be crucial for the
apostolate:
In Christ’s Name, we uphold His Gospel of Life:
·
the life-giving family, hence marriage,
·
the life-giving Church, hence priesthood.
In Christ’s Name, we oppose Satan’s death plans:
·
contraception & divorce;
·
perversion & pornography;
·
abortion & euthanasia & other murders.
WITHOUT A VISION THE PEOPLE PERISH
We need the seven spiritual senses:
·
a sense of faith and a sense of compassion;
·
sense of The Sacred and a sense of humour,
·
a sense of the apostolate and a sense of history,
·
and a sense of urgency.
What is most needed in the world
today is to have in each parish a group of laity who are at the same
time virtuous, enlightened, determined and really apostolic.
St Pius X
The times are very evil and no one
speaks against them. There are some who rest their divine mission on
their own unsupported assertion; others on their popularity; others on
their success; and others on their temporal distinctions. I fear we
have neglected the real ground on which our authority is built — our
apostolic descent.
Blessed John Henry Newman, Tracts
for the Times. 1833
Our values are under attack and our
catechesis, far from strengthening them, serves only to weaken them
further.
Brother Christian Moe, FSC
For news and encouragement,
contact the Cardinal Newman Faith Resources Inc.:
* phone 02 9673 2235;
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* write to PO Box 359, St Marys NSW 1790;
* visit 15-21 Collins Street, St
Marys NSW 2760 (easy access from the freeway and lots of parking).
Sydney Mass for Ordinariate
·
WHO
FOR? All Catholics can participate in liturgies of the Ordinariate (a
non-territorial diocese) of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, and
communicate at its Masses — it’s a new branch of the Roman Rite (see Handouts n. 134).
·
WHEN?
Sunday 5th February, 2017, at 12 noon, and
hence weekly. Veni et vidi: Come and See !
·
WHERE?
Parish church of St Thomas a’Becket at Lewisham located next to
Lewisham railway station.
N.B. — Don’t confuse with
Immaculate Heart Chapel.
·
PRIEST:
Father Richard Waddell VG, JCL, pastor of this Sydney community, lives
at the Presbytery, 2 Halley Street, Five Dock NSW 2046, phone 02 9713
7960, email vp@ordinariate.org.au .
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PARKING?
Ample.
BATTLE FIELDS in 2017
SAFE SCHOOLS COALITION
Both Federal and State Governments are pouring taxpayers
money into promoting sexual immorality, i.e. child abuse, from
pre-school and all K-12.
SAME SEX UNIONS
The proposed legislation for same-sex “marriages”
contradicts God’s plan and is quite immoral. Even when discussing the
proposals, free speech is restricted and rights of assembly and
religion threatened. The verbal engineering and anti-discrimination
tribunals are a foretaste of the persecutions to come.
New books for the coming battles of 2017 and suitable as
presents for loved ones in their lay apostolate are so potent that, as
soon as CNFRI listed them, a hacker slew our website, but it is now
Providentially resuscitated:
STEALING FROM A CHILD, The Injustice of ‘Marriage
Equality’, June
2016, by Dr David Van Gend, Queensland family doctor. This is essential
reading for Christians in Australia. 273 pp $29.95.
LGBTQ activists (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transsexual-Queer) felt so threatened by this book
that, the day before the book launch, the original printer refused the
job, so the heroic publisher Connor Court had to find another printer
at the last moment.
THE GLOBAL SEXUAL REVOLUTION, The Destruction of Freedom
in the Name of Freedom by Gabriele Kuby, who is a convert, a mother and a sociologist:
original German edition, 2012, of which Pope Benedict XVI wrote,
“Mrs Kuby is a brave warrior against ideologies that ultimately result
in the destruction of man.” English translation, 2015, 283 pp $28.95.
Our local battles against same-sex “marriages” and Safe
Schools Coalition immorality are against Satan’s world-wide strategy.
And our problems are not yet as bad as overseas.
STRAINED RELATIONS, The Challenge of Homosexuality by Bill Muehlenberg 2011/2014
(4“' printing). He documents its health hazards, its impermanence and
infidelities, whereas marriage is healthy, “for life” and “to the
exclusion of all others”: 256 pp.
The quote on p. 5 from a quite unexpected source is
refreshingly startling and will surprise the reader:
Even in purely non-religious terms, homosexuality
represents a misuse of the sexual faculty and, in the words of one
educator, of ‘human construction.’ It is a pathetic little second-rate
substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life. As such, it
deserves fairness, compassion, understanding, and, when possible,
treatment. But it deserves no encouragement, no glamorization, no
rationalization, no fake status as a minority martyrdom...
And the author of this statement?
Fred Nile? Jerry Faldwell? No. It was uttered by Time magazine
on January 21, 1966. Would Time magazine ever dare to utter
such comments today? Of course not.
RECONSTRUCTION after deconstructionism
Reconstruction starts with an old principle: Quidquid
recipitur per modum recipentis recipitur, “Whatever is received is
received according to the measure of the recipient.”
Now embellish this with a new principle: “Whatever is
uttered is uttered according to the mindset of the utterer.”
In other words, when journalists, politicians, judges and
academics are atheists, unsympathetic to religion or morality, they
prove less capable of fair treatment. Schools, universities and media
have wrecked them.
This becomes evident in Royal Commissions and
Discrimination Tribunals, so don’t expect justice.
Deconstruction
is a modern
“Politically Correct” philosophy of many academics in our universities.
It deconstructs literary works of history and
fiction, and their authors and ideas, with a ruthless skepticism
grounded in its fundamental “truth” that there is no truth, nor
could truth be known even if it exists. There’s no room for morality
except what each makes up for himself.
In other words, it’s founded on a contradiction, and is
illogical and impractical, and has nothing to offer anyone, but
skepticism, doubt, depression, despair- and ultimately suicide:
Everyone hates me, nobody loves me,
Think I’ll go and eat worms...
Deconstruction is a half-truth: it
often does make a difference to know who said what; what
authority he or it has; what are the circumstances and the author’s
background. After all, nihil eligitur nisi sub specie boni,
“nothing is chosen except under the species of good”.
Deconstruction collapses like a balloon with:
·
argumentum ad hominem, “arguing to the man” by deconstructing him:
Did he have an unhappy childhood with an absent father? etc.
·
re duetto ad absurd tun, by “reduction to an absurdity” of
his propositions. The rude put-down is, “You’ve just proved nothing can
be known, so there’s no point in me listening to you, and so you’d
better shut-up.”
Calling all lay apostles, priests and bishops:
For a bishop, as God’s steward,
must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a
drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of
goodness, master of himself, upright, holy, and self-controlled; he
must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to
give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who
contradict it. For there are many insubordinate men, empty talkers and
deceivers, especially the circumcision party; they must be silenced,
since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for base gain what
they have no right to teach. One of themselves, a prophet of their own,
said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This
testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be
sound in the faith,
Titus 1:7-13
“Cretans are always liars” means that if someone says, “I
am a Cretan,” he must be lying, but if he is not a Cretan, he is
certainly telling the truth.
Verbal tricks with ‘always’ and ‘only’ give philosophy a
bad name, which it does not deserve, because good philosophy soon
demolishes rubbish. However, our aim is less to convince an opponent
and more to protect his listeners.
“WE MUST OBEY GOD rather than men.”
Acts 5:29
Render therefore to Caesar the
things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s
Matthew 22:17-22
History is now being repeated, here
and overseas: Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the
golden image which I have set up? Now if you are ready when you hear
the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every
kind of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made,
well and good; but if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast
into a burning fiery furnace; and who is the god that will deliver you
out of my hands?”
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the long, “O
Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If it be
so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery
furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not,
be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship
the golden image which you have set up.” Then Nebuchadnezzar was full
of fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more
than it was wont to be heated...
Daniel 3:14-19
This a scenario we Christians in Australia can expect from
ISIS and the Communists and even the local Greens if and when they come
to power.
Other issues over which we might expect a showdown: Homeschooling, Euthanasia, Abortion, Compulsory
Contraception for population control.
Behold, I send you out as sheep in
the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Matthew 10:16
Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand
alone.
Dare to have a purpose true And
dare to make it known.
Sunday School chorus
BE OF GOOD HEART
MY LIFE’S WORK, now drawing ever closer to the
finishing line, climaxed in the Catholic Family Catechism, the
Cardinal Newman Catechist Centre (now Faith Resources), and the Bush
Boys’ series. The focus has been the “faith once delivered to the
saints” by God-Incarnate, Whose priest I am.
My creative work in old age usually amounts to less than
two hours daily, what with answering letters, faxes and phone calls and
their exhausting of my dwindling inspiration and energy.
However, I am working on a third edition of the prayer
book, Heart Speaks to Heart, to be subtitled the Millennium
Edition. It will have some new prayers, plus upgrades of others.
NEW BOYS GO BUSH AGAIN, the long delayed sequel to New Boys in the Bush
is a FREE DOWNLOAD of 512 pages (with many pictures) and includes 78 pp
of Appendices (with many diagrams): now at www.cardinalnewman.com.au . Hopefully, it will soon be
printed as a book.
Father James Tierney
© The Rev. B.J.H. Tierney. Handouts
are free and may be copied for any non-profit teaching
purpose. However, donations to defray costs are welcome and should be
made to the publisher and distributor, the Cardinal Newman Faith
Resources Inc. PO Box 359, St Marys NSW 1790; phone 02 9673 2235; fax
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