That’s an interesting passage, Mtierney. In Tahara (the rites to prepare a body for burial), we don’t tie or bind hands or feet. There may be a small cloth placed over the face, the size of a lady’ handkerchief, but it would fall off if the person moved at all. Tahara hasn’t really changed since at least the early Middle Ages, when the man who wrote the current manual had it printed for the first time. (Before then it was carefully handwritten, and passed on orally)
Given the team are from New York, I’m fairly sure it’s being covered in your media too. (Is the plural of mongoose ‘mongooses’?) The emphasis on rams’ heads leaps out to the reader, among all the other exotic fauna, all aligned in such stately ceremonial precision… a bit like the Chinese statue army.
Mtierney, it’s not trolling. Catholic Church comes from Paul. Greek Orthodox Church comes from James, Jesus’ brother. Same age, same instruction from Jesus, different history. Would help if modern monastic study remembered what their forebears wrote just a couple of hundred years ago.
Mtierney, it’s not trolling. Catholic Church comes from Paul. Greek Orthodox Church comes from James, Jesus’ brother. Same age, same instruction from Jesus, different history. Would help if modern monastic study remembered what their forebears wrote just a couple of hundred years ago.
when a comment comes from our resident troll, it is trolling!
Isn’t this the season for forgiveness? I thought that was the central message in most of the gospel readings leading the Easter? Not every post from any usually difficult quarter needs to be perceived as ‘yet more poking & stirring’. Mum and Dad taught me to see history from many angles, and to appreciate different views. They said it’s most important ‘when you’re feeling irritated or misunderstood. You’ll see’.
Oh, Mtierney - I thought of you today when having coffee with my friend H, at our local mall. It’s next to a river, and we were on the deck. All of a sudden, a graceful black swan sailed elegantly past and nodded to us! H is 95years, and this made her day! Swan continued upstream a bit then stepped onto a bit of beach to groom her feathers, walked a bit then swam away.
Isn’t this the season for forgiveness? I thought that was the central message in most of the gospel readings leading the Easter? Not every post from any usually difficult quarter needs to be perceived as ‘yet more poking & stirring’. Mum and Dad taught me to see history from many angles, and to appreciate different views. They said it’s most important ‘when you’re feeling irritated or misunderstood. You’ll see’.
I think these posts are more of a warning about the trolling mtierney is about to engage in than anything anyone else may have posted.
when a comment comes from our resident troll, it is trolling!
A convenient way to avoid inconvenient facts.
Again, the Catholic Church is simply not the only Church that goes back to the time of Christ. To say so is to engage in falsehood, perhaps unknowingly on your part but certainly purposefully in the case of Mr. Sheen.
Again, the Catholic Church is simply not the only Church that goes back to the time of Christ. To say so is to engage in falsehood, perhaps unknowingly on your part but certainly purposefully in the case of Mr. Sheen.
You’re making a funny with the picture of Charlie Sheen, but as it happens his father, Martin Sheen, was born Ramón Estevez and to come up with his stage name used (no kidding) the last name of the TV bishop.
You’re making a funny with the picture of Charlie Sheen, but as it happens his father, Martin Sheen, was born Ramón Estevez and to come up with his stage name used (no kidding) the last name of the TV bishop.
Indeed, I was aware of that. It's a sad story, Ramon Estevez, like many Americans with Hispanic surnames, was forced to take a "white" name to get ahead in an intolerant US. Ironically, though, that makes Charlie something like Fulton's spiritual wayward grandson. I am sure Fulton would be thrilled.
From a cinematic point of view, I have always preferred Emilio Estevez.
The whole thing is strange. Martin Sheen, who's father was born in Spain, was starting out at the same time that other guys with southern European surnames like Pacino and DeNiro were taking opportunities under their own names. I suspect that a Spanish last name still carried the taint of association with Mexico, while Italian names were emerging from he shadow of oppression.
Now days, we have almost the opposite phenomenon with white anglo saxons like Alec Baldwin's wife falsely claiming Spanish heritage.
"Following is the text of the joint Catholic-Orthodox declaration, approved by Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, read simultaneously (Dec. 7) at a public meeting of the ecumenical council in Rome and at a special ceremony in Istanbul. The declaration concerns the Catholic-Orthodox exchange of excommunications in 1054."
"Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I with his synod, in common agreement, declare that:
"A. They regret the offensive words, the reproaches without foundation, and the reprehensible gestures which, on both sides, have marked or accompanied the sad events of this period.
"B. They likewise regret and remove both from memory and from the midst of the Church the sentences of excommunication which followed these events, the memory of which has influenced actions up to our day and has hindered closer relations in charity; and they commit these excommunications to oblivion."
I doubt that.