tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4520201001865625271..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: More on the Abortive Pastoral. HELP!!Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-28836777303172634742021-05-24T01:01:21.801+01:002021-05-24T01:01:21.801+01:00The Scottish bishops have produced their own lette...The Scottish bishops have produced their own letter. Here is the link:<br /><br />https://www.bcos.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/Pastoral%20Letter%20on%20Care%20of%20Creation%20Pentecost%20Sunday%202021.pdf<br /><br />It has footnotes; some of which do not cite Pope Francis. In many a place it raises an eyebrow, beginning with the opening statement, ‘God’s creation is a great gift to all humanity.’ Chrysologoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00624964206160523196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-91643431740659504492021-05-23T15:43:45.825+01:002021-05-23T15:43:45.825+01:00It was read in our church, after a brief reference...It was read in our church, after a brief reference to the Sequence having been composed by Stephen Langton. It was read without comment beyond 'There is a pastoral letter ', just the text as published, so no attribution, or the usual date and signature.<br />Liverpool's Archdiocesan 'Home Page' invites us to :-<br />"Read, listen, download<br />Archbishop Malcolm's<E sapelionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09886268559214926797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-54970358736326567032021-05-23T12:55:49.561+01:002021-05-23T12:55:49.561+01:00Checked two parishes in Northampton Diocese. One n...Checked two parishes in Northampton Diocese. One no mention of PL other did not read it out but the full letter is highlighted in the online newsletter.Budhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14338620413089889861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-64519623842148604562021-05-23T11:15:24.749+01:002021-05-23T11:15:24.749+01:00I heard the Pastoral Letter read out in a church i...I heard the Pastoral Letter read out in a church in Wiltshire today. I was constantly trying to make a connection between the torrent of clichés it contained - I recall the dreaded phrase 'Build Back Better' - and the Feast of Pentecost. But in the end I gave up.<br />The priest retrieved the situation somewhat by delivering an excellent short homily during his parish announcements at theCompton Pauncefoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07074781415142746220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-71818426310103415602021-05-23T10:10:39.130+01:002021-05-23T10:10:39.130+01:00Here in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, the weekly ...Here in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, the weekly newsletter of my parish refers to the Pastoral Letter, saying that copies are available at the back of the church, as indeed there are.Simon Cottonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00067246172213711263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-28086436634640634682021-05-21T11:20:10.521+01:002021-05-21T11:20:10.521+01:00An earlier monument to the same tradition is the e...An earlier monument to the same tradition is the encyclical on the Holy Spirit, Divinum Illud Munus, by Leo XIII of happy memory. Besides its depth and authority, it would be remarkable by today's standards for its brevity: it is commendably short and to the point.PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29072229062912291772021-05-21T10:13:48.100+01:002021-05-21T10:13:48.100+01:00From this week's London Oratory newsletter on ...From this week's London Oratory newsletter on their website for Pentecost Sunday:<br /><br />PASTORAL LETTER<br />There is a Pastoral Letter from our Cardinal-Archbishop for Pentecost about our care for the created world. The letter addresses this very public theme from the perspective of the Catholic faith. Please take a copy of the letter, which will be available at the back of the church. Dave Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09219185138674832801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-13854290199385998002021-05-20T16:26:25.178+01:002021-05-20T16:26:25.178+01:00I do not anticipate hearing this 'pastoral'...I do not anticipate hearing this 'pastoral'. Just as I have not heard anything from the parish about the 'Novena on the Care of Creation' we were offered by some group/committee for our use between Ascension and PentecostE sapelionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09886268559214926797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-90556412638482533842021-05-20T14:41:04.776+01:002021-05-20T14:41:04.776+01:00Definitely not ordered to be read in our diocese. ...Definitely <i>not</i> ordered to be read in our diocese. But then, this is the diocese overseen by the Footnoting Bishop of your previous post, so it's about as likely as Pope Francis celebrating an Ordinariate Mass in St Agatha's, Portsmouth.Sue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976537787708670241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-47244859451480377052021-05-20T12:09:26.257+01:002021-05-20T12:09:26.257+01:00Dear Father. It was Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope John ...Dear Father. It was Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope John Paul's choice to head the CDF, who initiated this subversive ideology when in reference to earlier Papal Encyclicals (The Nature and Mission of Theology)he claimed <i>“perhaps for the first time” the Church is now stating that there are magisterial decisions Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.com