http://en.gloria.tv/?feed=atom http://www.gloria.tv/ www.gloria.tv Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:53:37 GMT www.gloria.tv http://www.gloria.tv/ http://www.gloria.tv/image/logofeed-144x44.png 144 44 Thomas von Aquin (1225-1274) Tantum ergo sacramentum veneremur cernui, et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui. praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui. Michel-René Landry http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461453 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461453 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:20:23 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:09:01 GMT Tantum ergo Sacramentum Thomas von Aquin (1225-1274) Tantum ergo sacramentum veneremur cernui, et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui. praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui. Michel-René Landry Fr. Joachim on the life of the monk St. Romauld who founded the Camaldolese Benedictines. Ave Maria! Mass: St. Romuald - Opt Mem - Form:OF Readings:Wednesday 11th Week of Ordinary Time 1st: 2co 9:6-11 Resp: psa 112:1-2, 3-4, 9 Gsp: mat 6:1-6, 16-18 Also on http://airmaria.com?p=36773 AirMaria.com http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461438 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461438 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:45:12 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:19:01 GMT Jun 19 - Homily: St. Romauld Founder Camaldolese Fr. Joachim on the life of the monk St. Romauld who founded the Camaldolese Benedictines. Ave Maria! Mass: St. Romuald - Opt Mem - Form:OF Readings:Wednesday 11th Week of Ordinary Time 1st: 2co 9:6-11 Resp: psa 112:1-2, 3-4, 9 Gsp: mat 6:1-6, 16-18 Also on http://airmaria.com?p=36773 AirMaria.com Manuel Capetillo nos habla de su conversion y de como Dios y la Sma. Virgen lo han acompañado en su travesia, de actor de television a catolico entregado a la evangelizacion y enseñanza de los demas. Un excelente testimonio para ver. tearlach http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461434 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461434 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:41:48 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:53:01 GMT Manuel Capetillo Testimonio de Conversion en Medjugorje Manuel Capetillo nos habla de su conversion y de como Dios y la Sma. Virgen lo han acompañado en su travesia, de actor de television a catolico entregado a la evangelizacion y enseñanza de los demas. Un excelente testimonio para ver. tearlach Father Odon's homily for the 11th Ordinary Sunday 2013 - How to make an act of faith kimtaegon http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461432 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461432 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:38:33 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:48:01 GMT Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time Father Odon's homily for the 11th Ordinary Sunday 2013 - How to make an act of faith kimtaegon By ANDREW HIGGINS BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Stanislav Zvolensky, the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Slovak capital here, was thrilled when he was invited to Brussels three years ago to discuss the fight against poverty with the insistently secular bureaucracy of the European Union. “They let me in wearing my cross,” the archbishop recalled. It therefore came as a rude surprise when, late last year, the National Bank of Slovakia announced that the European Commission, the union’s executive arm, had ordered it to remove halos and crosses from special commemorative euro coins due to be minted this summer. The coins, designed by a local artist, were intended to celebrate the 1,150th anniversary of Christianity’s arrival in Slovak lands but have instead become tokens of the faith’s retreat from contemporary Europe. They featured two evangelizing Byzantine monks, Cyril and Methodius, their heads crowned by halos and one’s robe decorated with crosses, which fell foul of European diversity rules that ban any tilt toward a single faith. “There is a movement in the European Union that wants total religious neutrality and can’t accept our Christian traditions,” said Archbishop Zvolensky, bemoaning what he sees as rising a tide of militant secularism at a time when Europe is struggling to forge a common identity. In a continent divided by many languages, vast differences of culture and economic gaps, the archbishop said that centuries of Christianity provide a rare element shared by all of the soon-to-be 28 members of the fractious union. Croatia, a mostly Catholic nation like Slovakia, joins next month. Yet at a time when Europe needs solidarity and a unified sense of purpose to grapple with its seemingly endless economic crisis, religion has instead become yet another a source of discord. It divides mostly secular Western Europe from profoundly religious nations in the east like Poland and those in between both in geography and in faith like Slovakia. In nearly all of Europe, assertive secularists and beleaguered believers battle to make their voices heard. All of which leaves the European Commission, in charge of shaping Europe’s common aspirations, under attack from all sides, denounced by atheists for even its timid engagement with religion and by nationalist Christian fundamentalists as an agent of Satan. Asked about such criticism, Katharina von Schnurbein, the commission official responsible for outreach to both religious and secular groups, smiled and said, “I can assure you that the European Commission is not the Antichrist.” Europe is suffused with Christianity, or at least memories of its past influence. The landscape is dotted with churches, now mostly empty, and monasteries, its ancient universities are rooted in medieval religious scholarship, and many of its national crests and anthems pay homage to God. Even the European Union’s flag — a circle of 12 yellow stars on a blue background — has a coded Christian message. Arsène Heitz, a French Catholic who designed the flag in 1955, drew inspiration from Christian iconography of the Virgin Mary wearing a crown with 12 stars. The same 12 stars appear on all euro coins. The very idea that Europe should unite began with efforts to rally Christendom in the ninth century by Charlemagne, the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. Throughout its modern history, however, the “European project,” as the Continent’s current faltering push for unity is known, has sought to keep religion and the unruly passions it can stir at arm’s length. The 1957 Treaty of Rome and other founding texts of what is today the European Union make no mention of God or Christianity. The Brussels bureaucracy, in its official account of Mr. Heitz’s religion-tinged flag, ignores the Virgin Mary, stating instead that the 12 stars “symbolize the ideal of unity, solidarity and harmony among the people of Europe.” “There is a general suspicion of anything religious, a view that faith should be kept out of the public sphere,” said Gudrun Kugler, director of the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians, a Vienna-based research and lobbying group. “There is a very strong current of radical secularism,” she said, adding that this affects all religions but is particularly strong against Christianity because of a view that “Christianity dominated unfairly for centuries” and needs to be put in its place. Ms. von Schnurbein dismissed accusations of an anti-Christian agenda. The European Union, she said, “is often seen as trying to eliminate religion, but that is really not the case.” She added, “We deal with people of faith and also people of no faith.” Obliged by treaty to consult with religious and secular groups, the European Commission, said Ms. von Schnurbein, attaches “great importance” to this dialogue, which she described as “unique” for an international body. The commission’s monetary and economic affairs department that ordered Slovakia to redesign its commemorative … Irapuato http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461420 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461420 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:52:16 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:52:01 GMT Photo ~ Christian denominational positions on homosexuality (RNS) Gay Americans are much less religious than the general U.S. population, and about three in 10 of them say they have felt unwelcome in a house of worship, a new study shows. The Pew Research Center’s study, released Thursday (June 13), details how gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans view many of the country’s prominent faiths: in a word, unfriendly. The vast majority said Islam (84 percent); the Mormon church (83 percent); the Roman Catholic Church (79 percent); and evangelical churches (73 percent) were unfriendly. Jews and nonevangelical Protestants drew a more mixed reaction, with more than 40 percent considering them either unfriendly or neutral about gays and lesbians. Almost 50 percent of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender adults say they have no religious affiliation, compared to 20 percent of the general population. One-third of religiously affiliated gay and lesbian adults say there is a conflict between their faith beliefs and their sexual orientation or gender identity. Although many gay Americans seem to eschew faith, the majority of those who are religiously affiliated are Christian – 42 percent. Two percent are Jewish and 8 percent belong to another non-Christian faith. Just like the general public, younger gays and lesbians are less likely to have religious ties. But while nearly one-third of 18- to 29-year-olds in the general public are not affiliated with a religion, almost double that share – 60 percent – of gays and lesbians in that age group are unaffiliated. Gloria.TV – News Briefs http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461415 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461415 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:37:41 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:37:01 GMT We meditate on loving Jesus in the Eucharist and in our visit to Mary we meditate on the what to do once we find Jesus after having sensed that we lost Him. Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary from the two books: 'Real Presence' by St Peter Julian Eymard and 'The Imitation of Mary' by Fr. Alexander De Rouville Ave Maria! Also on http://airmaria.com?p=36755 AirMaria.com http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461411 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461411 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:31:30 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:10:01 GMT Finding Jesus - 2 Pillars Jun 17 We meditate on loving Jesus in the Eucharist and in our visit to Mary we meditate on the what to do once we find Jesus after having sensed that we lost Him. Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary from the two books: 'Real Presence' by St Peter Julian Eymard and 'The Imitation of Mary' by Fr. Alexander De Rouville Ave Maria! Also on http://airmaria.com?p=36755 AirMaria.com Photo ~ Dr. Linda Brunton A Tennessee community college professor ordered her students to wear ribbons in support of gay rights and said those who supported the traditional definition of marriage are just “uneducated bigots” who “attack homosexuals with hate,” according to a legal firm representing several of the students in the class. Students in a general psychology class at Columbia State Community College were directed by their professor to wear “Rainbow Coalition” ribbons for an entire day and express their support for the homosexual community, said Travis Barham, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom. Barham is calling for the college to punish Dr. Linda Brunton and order her to apologize to the students whose constitutional rights he believes were violated, according to a letter he sent to the community college president. “Dr. Brunton essentially turned her General Psychology class into a semester-long clinic on the demands of the homosexual movement,” Barham said. The students were also barred from defending or explaining any other views regarding homosexual conduct, dismissing such arguments as “throwing Bible verses” at her,” the attorney said. “When students objected to how she was pushing her personal views on the class, she explained that it is her job ‘to educate the ignorant and uneducated elements of society,’ that oppose this movement’s demands and to correct their ‘hateful and close-minded’ views” Barham said. Read more Here. Gloria.TV – News Briefs http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461409 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461409 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:28:43 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:28:01 GMT Entrevista en España de Manuel Capetillo junto con su testimonio de conversion, habla de la importancia del Santo Rosario, de conversiones, del Santo Rosario, es una pelicula excelente para aprender y comprender la importancia de rezar el Santo Rosario. tearlach http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461401 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461401 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:20:57 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:41:01 GMT EL PODER DEL SANTO ROSARIO (Manuel capetillo) Entrevista en España Entrevista en España de Manuel Capetillo junto con su testimonio de conversion, habla de la importancia del Santo Rosario, de conversiones, del Santo Rosario, es una pelicula excelente para aprender y comprender la importancia de rezar el Santo Rosario. tearlach Photo ~ Patriarch Kirill sees Putin as a "gift from heaven" How to leave the world The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged monks not to use cellphones to access the Internet in order to avoid temptation. “Now the Internet appears to be a great temptation,” Patriarch Kirill said during a trip to the Zograf monastery in Greece, according to a transcript of his remarks posted on the church’s website. “Many monks act, in my view, quite unreasonably. On the one hand, (monks) leave the world in order to create favorable conditions for salvation, and on the other hand, they take their mobile telephone and start to enter the Internet where, we know, there is a large number of sinful and tempting things.” The monastic tradition is by definition strict and does not need to adapt to modern conditions, he said. Kirill has in the past warned against “manipulation” on the Internet but an Orthodox Church official, speaking on condition of anonymity, has said the patriarch does use it himself to seek out information. Gloria.TV – News Briefs http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461403 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461403 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:20:21 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:20:58 GMT Photo ~ Islamic Terror Attacks on Christians (Since 9/11) Vatican City, Jun 18, 2013 (CatholicNewsAgency).- Pope Francis tackled Jesus’ teaching that Christians must love their enemies by asking a series of provocative questions, such as, how can we love those who “bomb and kill so many people?” How can we love those who decide to “bomb and kill so many people?” How can we “love those who out of their for love money prevent the elderly from accessing the necessary medicine and leave them to die?” Pope Francis told the congregation that there are two ways that Christians should love their enemies and they are both contained in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. The first way is to look to the Father who “makes the sun rise on evil and good” and “rain fall on the just and unjust.” God “loves everyone.” The pontiff added, Jesus “forgive his enemies” and “does everything to forgive them.” Taking revenge, on the other hand, is not Christian, he warned. The second thing that Christians should do to love their enemies is to pray for them. “When we pray for what makes us suffer, it is as if the Lord comes with oil and prepares our hearts for peace,” he remarked. “Pray! This is what Jesus advises us: ‘Pray for your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!’ Pray! “And say to God: ‘Change their hearts. They have a heart of stone, but change it, give them a heart of flesh, so that they may feel relief and love. Gloria.TV – News Briefs http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461395 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461395 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:08:50 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:10:08 GMT This medieval chandelier or corona of light, which would have burnt over an Altar, was made during the time of Bishop Hezilon (1054-1079). It is currently in the St Godehard Basilica in Hildesheim. Source: Lawrence OP on Flickr LawrenceOP-Fan http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461394 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461394 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:00:12 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:03:01 GMT Hildesheim Corona This medieval chandelier or corona of light, which would have burnt over an Altar, was made during the time of Bishop Hezilon (1054-1079). It is currently in the St Godehard Basilica in Hildesheim. Source: Lawrence OP on Flickr LawrenceOP-Fan The name of St. Joseph will soon be included in all of the Eucharistic Prayers regularly used in the Latin rite. The Congregation for Divine Worship has issued a decree calling for the inclusion of St. Joseph in Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV. St. Joseph is already mentioned in Eucharistic Prayer I, the Roman Canon, as mandated by Blessed John XXIII. The decree from the Congregation for Divine Worship, formally dated May 1 (the feast of St. Joseph the Worker), provides the Latin wording for references to St. Joseph, which will follow immediately after mention of the Virgin Mary in the Eucharistic Prayers. The Vatican will soon provide official translations in other languages. Catholic Culture Org Gloria.TV – News Briefs http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461389 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461389 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:58:08 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:40 GMT "Older people, you're not doing it. If you don't do it, you'll be put out." Source: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com Sokrates http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461385 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461385 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:31:40 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:37:01 GMT Redemptorist in Ireland "Older people, you're not doing it. If you don't do it, you'll be put out." Source: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com Sokrates Mgr. Lucio Lemmo welcomed by a "river" of lilies P.Elia http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461371 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461371 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:40:52 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:29:01 GMT Mgr. Lucio Lemmo in the Temple of the Queen of the Lilies! Mgr. Lucio Lemmo welcomed by a "river" of lilies P.Elia Tamil sermon preached by Rev.Fr.A.Thomas, Parish Priest, Our Lady of Health Church, Ariankuppam, Pondicherry AnboliTV http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461365 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461365 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:57:02 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:24:01 GMT Tamil sermon preached on 19-06-2013 Tamil sermon preached by Rev.Fr.A.Thomas, Parish Priest, Our Lady of Health Church, Ariankuppam, Pondicherry AnboliTV Pastoral Visit to Lamezia Terme and Serra San Bruno (October 9, 2011) Visita Pastorale a Lamezia Terme e a Serra San Bruno (9 ottobre 2011) Liturgy of Vespers in the church of the Charterhouse of Serra San Bruno (October 9, 2011) Celebrazione dei Vespri nella Chiesa della Certosa di Serra San Bruno (9 ottobre 2011) PapalMusic http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461347 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461347 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:48:56 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:32:01 GMT Psalmus 111 - Confitebor (Vesperae in Serra San Bruno) Pastoral Visit to Lamezia Terme and Serra San Bruno (October 9, 2011) Visita Pastorale a Lamezia Terme e a Serra San Bruno (9 ottobre 2011) Liturgy of Vespers in the church of the Charterhouse of Serra San Bruno (October 9, 2011) Celebrazione dei Vespri nella Chiesa della Certosa di Serra San Bruno (9 ottobre 2011) PapalMusic At the age of 18, I was a high school dropout who robbed three banks, and was on his way to maximum-security prison. There didn’t seem to be much reason for hope. But ten years later, by excelling in academics after my release, I would begin my doctoral studies in political philosophy at the University of Michigan. On the surface it appeared like I was living the American dream: I had a good comeback story, a bright future, I was young and physically fit and I always had a girlfriend. By our cultures’ standards, I should have been happy. But I only loved and trusted myself. There was no room for God in my heart and in my understanding of the world, and so I was slowly dying from the inside out. And I knew it. Then one day in April 2007, while doing yard work, God reached down and reversed the course of my life with the resounding intervention: “I love you and I forgive you”—followed by an infusion of His divine love. From that moment on I set aside everything I thought I knew, and pursued this love. I was surprised to soon find that the source of this love was Jesus Christ, and that my home was the Roman Catholic Church. An Escape into Prison So let’s start with the obvious question: How does an eighteen year-old come to the shocking decision to rob banks? For it was a real decision, a decisive break that I carefully considered and turned over in my mind for months. So unlike many robbers, my crime was not a crime of opportunity or an immediate response to the ache of a drug addiction. But I suppose I robbed banks for the same reason that many poor souls turn to drugs or suicide: because I was without hope, saw no path forward and needed out. My mind had become uninhabitable to myself as I was deeply estranged from myself, from others and from God. At that time I thought I was at an impasse: I dropped out of high school after being suspended seven times my senior year, and I’d just quit my job because I couldn’t manage my anxiety amongst the ups and downs. I thought that robbing banks and the prospect of prison would be my escape—for I assumed that I would get caught since I knew that nine out of ten bank robbers end up in prison. I know it sounds crazy—a wild paradox—but I was making an escape into prison as a last attempt to salvage myself. And believe it or not it actually worked and exceeded all of my desperate hopes. But we’ll get to that later… Before I robbed banks I’d been committing an escalating series of petty crimes: vandalism, fistfights, and large and small thefts. I’d prowl about at all hours of the night with like-minded friends and seize opportunities to destroy or steal property from anonymous strangers. It was a very strange thing to do night after night, and so what was I up to here? On the one hand, the thrill of danger briefly made me feel alive and in control, and I knew that robbing banks would just ratchet up the thrill. On the other hand, I was striking out at the very anonymity of strangers—the fact that I was alienated and disassociated from others. They had their lives that were separate and totally unknown and unconnected to me, and I hated that separation. This view had its origins in the troubles in my home. When I was a child my home was marked by conflict and instability, and I felt isolated in my fear and helplessness. I always fantasized about escaping into the woods to live alone, but I knew that was impractical. And so I wanted someone to intervene—some neighbor or stranger—but no one ever did. And so I viewed that separation as a threat, a betrayal, a sign that notions of justice were a fiction since real justice depends upon the fact of interconnected lives—a genuine community. Since I had no hope that life was ultimately just, and found no consolation from others, I gradually retreated into myself as into a fortress. In this way, I responded to my experience of suffering and evil in the worst possible way: by recoiling in my pride, ashamed of my wounds and human weakness, by vowing never to be tread upon again, and by spreading my hidden pain. Shortly before I started robbing banks I had taken to heating up a knife on a stove and pressing it against my bare chest. I thought the searing burns would harden me and replace or cover my deeper pain. I had burns on both sides of my chest and I thought that they looked like a pair of wings, and that they were a promise of liberation—that I was freed from those past years of fear and helplessness. And so I liked the fact that the burns would bleed when I lifted weights, and coupled with the pounding of the barbells, it re-assured me of my own strength, and filled me with confidence. Not surprisingly, harming others and myself didn’t release me from my misery, but just deepened my sense of turmoil and despair. Finally, I became alienated in some deep sense from life itself, from existence, from the ultimate meaning of things. Of course now I know that all of these things add up to the fact that I was alienated from God … ScottWoltze http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461339 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461339 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:54:42 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:54:01 GMT Catechism of the Catholic Church 1360 The Eucharist is a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Father, a blessing by which the Church expresses her gratitude to God for all his benefits, for all that he has accomplished through creation, redemption, and sanctification. Eucharist means first of all "thanksgiving." Paz3 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461324 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461324 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:03:47 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:01:01 GMT The Eucharist Is A Sacrifice CCC 1360 Catechism of the Catholic Church 1360 The Eucharist is a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Father, a blessing by which the Church expresses her gratitude to God for all his benefits, for all that he has accomplished through creation, redemption, and sanctification. Eucharist means first of all "thanksgiving." Paz3 by catholictv on Jun 18, 2013 Irapuato http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461313 http://www.gloria.tv/?media=461313 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:24:38 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:36:29 GMT Newsbreak 6-18-13 | Pope says politics must serve people, Ken Hackett new ambassador to the Vatican by catholictv on Jun 18, 2013 Irapuato