Mozart at a monastery on a Greek island, a striking setting despite the blustering wind audible in the video. With the monks of Toplou monastery in Crete in attendance among the capacity audience, Greek soprano Christina Poulitsi and Placido Domingo charmed with their duet from "Don Giovanni" on a summer night three years ago today.
“Fornicator I always was; heretic I never was”, the last words of St. Andrew Wouters, a priest who was a known womanizer, that had fathered many children, but was martyred by Calvinists for refusing to renounce the Catholic faith, on this day in 1572.
In a July 6 InfoVaticana.com opinion piece ("Tribune"), Pedro Gómez Carrizo argues that decades of doctrinal and disciplinary drift have hollowed out the Church's authority. He writes that Leo XIV demands obedience from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X. after years of treating other disputes as negotiable, contextual, or exempt. Leo XIV' Priorities Exposed Rome has tolerated what Carrizo considers far more serious ruptures than the episcopal consecration of the FSSPX: - Germany's Synodal Way, which has drifted toward schism without consequence. - Episcopal appointments negotiated with China's Communist Party. - Blessings of homosexual couples. - Liturgical experimentation. - Synodality, which has repackaged old heresies as "innovation". The willingness to make exceptions in many controversial areas while drawing an absolute line at Écône, Carrizo contends, exposes the pope’s priorities rather than his strength. "The Signature Is Tucho's; the Failure Is Leo XIV's" Carrizo portrays …More
Hosea 14:2-10 “Return to the Lord.” Let us return to peace; the Lord is here. Matthew 10:16-23 “It will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.” To make God’s love known is to sow the seeds of God’s presence, his joy, in people’s hearts. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
Autistic boy who needs a care worker to go everywhere with him,failed capacity tests and the NHS STILL removed his genitals. People should be in prison.
Tibetan Rituals in a U.S. Church. Worse than Germany: On Monday, more than 60 Tibetans gathered at Most Holy Redeemer Church in Hadley, Massachusetts, to celebrate the Dalai Lama's 91st birthday and mark the conclusion of the "Year of Compassion," an initiative of the Central Tibetan Administration. The event opened with a ritual in which participants chanted "Om" three times and tossed tsampa (barley flour) into the air. Attendees also made mandala offerings by bowing and placing a white ceremonial scarf before a photo of the Dalai Lama. The celebration continued with speeches, traditional Tibetan songs and dances, and performances by students from a local Tibetan Sunday school.
"Members of the Tibetan community celebrate the Dalai Lama's 91st birthday during the Year of Compassion at Most Holy Redeemer Church in Hadley", Massachusetts