April, Sunday 21st., 2019
"Nationalism", "Populism","Gladiators" and all that jazz...!
Now we dub Catholicism ''Judaeo-Christian West''?! We are called to embrace the whole ''mechanism'' as if they were an innocent newborn baby and allow the West to ''engage'' them and ''be engaged'' by them, thus involving the whole Globe in the project , ignoring the humongous, Humanity insulting facts-events-statistics of inadequacy, criminal activity and behaviour, judicially and historically proved in the societal, economic, diplomatic, scientific, international fields, throughout the centuries?!
Is then this ''Judaeo-Christian West'' supposed/expected to function versus a ''Judaeo-Christian East''? Really?!
Or rather to start an intra-negotiation :''Ah! Brother East, you take this portion of the sheeple and this percentage of their lands and wealth!''... ''Oh No! Brother West,You take this and this but I want what you hide in your hand...''And so on and so forth ad infinitum! Boooring!Ratée! Dépassé!
"Nationalism", "Populism","Gladiators" and all that jazz...!
Now we dub Catholicism ''Judaeo-Christian West''?! We are called to embrace the whole ''mechanism'' as if they were an innocent newborn baby and allow the West to ''engage'' them and ''be engaged'' by them, thus involving the whole Globe in the project , ignoring the humongous, Humanity insulting facts-events-statistics of inadequacy, criminal activity and behaviour, judicially and historically proved in the societal, economic, diplomatic, scientific, international fields, throughout the centuries?!
Is then this ''Judaeo-Christian West'' supposed/expected to function versus a ''Judaeo-Christian East''? Really?!
Or rather to start an intra-negotiation :''Ah! Brother East, you take this portion of the sheeple and this percentage of their lands and wealth!''... ''Oh No! Brother West,You take this and this but I want what you hide in your hand...''And so on and so forth ad infinitum! Boooring!Ratée! Dépassé!
And then both of them, or each of them separately, versus the Pope Francis' recent morphoma of ''Judaeo-Christian Islamism'' ushered out, escorted, supported and inspired by the other half of monks and clerics, along with the politicians and minions supporting this most special choice for Humanity's soup-ification, vilification, decimation, serf-hood?!
Then what?
Then what?
Are we to consent and approve the false necessity for a IVth WW?!The WWIII obviously been this malignant economic-hybrid-terrorist-invader war we are experiencing in this first Quarter of the 21st Century!
Are we to be taught to become good gladiators, to be readied for the Gog versus Magog hostilities and the subsequent annihilation?How very uninspiring !And deadly!Why should we accept this fallacy?!
Are we to be taught to become good gladiators, to be readied for the Gog versus Magog hostilities and the subsequent annihilation?How very uninspiring !And deadly!Why should we accept this fallacy?!
In addition to the above, the words "populism" "nationalism" are so heavily burdened by the historical past...here in Europe! They carry all sorts of very painful, dangerous and negative "...isms" in their gnostic body.Why should we bother?!
Yet, they were practically, literally, successfully and brilliantly activated when used recently, judging by the 2016 USA Elections' gladsome for Humanity's Tomorrow, results !
But now, Today, we need unifying and not dividing, brave, loving words and projects to encourage, accompany, uphold and upkeep our fresh steps.The alternative media are thriving with creative, true zeitgeist-y words, meanings, definitions. Great truths have marked their appearance in our perception concept and physicality.
Why should the most splendid of society's forefront vanguardia adhere to the wooden, discoloured expressions , ways and means of the recent and distant past?!
Unity in Respect, Freshness, Truth, are the real, honest, effective tractors.
Unity in Respect, Freshness, Truth, are the real, honest, effective tractors.
A March to Harmony! To Humanity's Flourishing by utilizing the already disclosed and available potentialities!
Maria L. Pelekanaki
Interview with Archbishop Raymond Burke
AHC Interview with Archbishop Raymond L. Burke,
Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
AHC President David Moss interviewed Archbishop (now Cardinal)
Raymond L Burke in La Crosse, Wisconsin on Aug 5, 2010, on the topic of
the election and vocation of the Jewish people within the Catholic
Church. The recorded interview was shown at the first AHC Conference,
"You Shall Be My Witnesses: Hebrew Catholics and the Mission of the
Church" in St. Louis on Oct 1-3, 2010.
AHC Interview of Archbishop Raymond L. Burke. #1 of 5
Part 1: The first question concerns the continuing election of Jewish people who are baptized and enter the Catholic Church.
We are honored and blessed to be able to address some of the most basic questions to a man of deep faith and great love for Christ and His Church, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke. In 2006, Archbishop Burke of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, welcomed the relocation of the AHC to St. Louis. Then in 2008, His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, appointed Archbishop Burke Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. Now residing in Rome, Archbishop Burke is also a member of five congregations, is the founder of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the International Director of the Marian Catechists apostolate. We are most grateful to be given the gift of this interview.
Archbishop Burke: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Almighty God, we ask You to bless us as we celebrate the great gift of Your covenant of faithful and enduring love with us, first given through Your chosen people, and through them, given to all the nations. We ask You in a very special way to bless the members of the Association of Hebrew Catholics, and to give them the grace of a strong witness to Your faithful and enduring love in the world, most perfectly manifested in the incarnation of Your only begotten Son, through His taking of our human nature in the womb of the Virgin Mary. Finally, we ask through her intercession that all of us may be ever more faithful witnesses to the great gift of Your love given to us in Your holy Church. We ask this through Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
David: Before we begin, your Excellency, I just want to convey the love and the good wishes of your many friends in St. Louis and around the world. I promised them I would do that.
Archbishop Burke: Well, thank you, and I have to say that St. Louis is always in my heart and in my daily prayers and the many wonderful people that I met in St. Louis and with whom I was privileged to work, including the Association of Hebrew Catholics.
David: Thank you, your Excellency.
1. David: This first question concerns the continuing election of Jewish people who are baptized and enter the Catholic Church.
In the Old Testament, the People Israel are called an elect people, chosen by God to be a holy people, to give witness to the one true God and His revelation, to be a light and a blessing to the nations, and to prepare for the Messiah.
Fr. Elias Friedman OCD, founder of the Association of Hebrew Catholics, believed " that the purpose of the Election was to give the world both Jesus and his prolongation in the Church." (cf. Jewish Identity, pg 96)
Additionally, Father believed that "The final aim of the Election is the vocation of Israel to bear collective witness to the Messiah." (cf. Jewish Identity, pg 83)
However, objections to the ongoing election of the People Israel (i.e., the Jewish people) have been raised.
Some have argued that after the Messiah came, the election of Israel was fulfilled and therefore came to an end, having no further reason to exist.
Others have argued that the election of the People Israel is absorbed in the general election of all who believe and who are baptized in Christ. Thus, they argue that there is no longer anything distinctive about the election of the People Israel and that their calling, as a People, has ceased to exist.
[Question] Would you explain the Church's view of the election for Jews who have been baptized into Christ and His Church?
Archbishop Burke: (I'm) very happy to respond to the question. First of all, I think we need to set the response of the question within the context of the historic nature of our Catholic faith. God has indeed entered into time. God the Son, the second Person of the Holy Trinity, has taken our human flesh, has taken a human heart under the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and entered into history. That coming of the Messiah, that coming of the Savior, was prepared by the Jewish people and was entrusted by God the Father to the Jewish people, His chosen people. (They were) as the Scriptures say, a small nation but chosen by God for this most important task, that is, to present the Messiah to the world. That can never change.
Our faith is historical. Once our Lord enters into history and acts on our behalf, that becomes something for us that is forever treasured. We can never say, "Well, now that the Messiah has come, this great gift given to the Jewish people no longer has significance. It has even more significance because we recognize in the coming of Christ the great gift of God's love, and it increases in us, as Pope Pius XI said, a great love for the Jewish people, who brought Christ to the world, (who) presented Christ to the world.
We needn't [even] say that our Lord Himself was a member of the chosen people. His mother in the human flesh, the Blessed Virgin Mary, was a devout member of the chosen people. So that election is not ended. This remains always the great vocation of the Jewish people, to present the Messiah to the world. As St. Paul reminds us, once God has chosen us for some particular mission, He doesn't change His mind. In other words, this is part of His eternal plan for our salvation and is the particular, distinctive role of the chosen people, the Jewish people, in the work of salvation. That, for us as Roman Catholics, creates a most special bond always with the people of the Jewish faith because we are, again as Pope Pius XI said, "We are all spiritual semites." We are the sons and daughters of Abraham, and we feel the closest bond with the Jewish people.
When Christ came, he made it very clear in the Sermon on the Mount that He did not come to abolish the law and the prophets. He did not come in some way to repudiate all that God had done in the history of the Jewish people, but he had come to bring it to fulfillment. So all of that is treasured in the Old Testament, and it remains treasured by us in our time. One excellent example, I always think, is the privileged place that the Psalms have in the Catholic liturgy and in the daily prayer of the Catholic. These are the great prayers of King David so dear to the Jewish people, and also to us. That to me is one of the great signs of the bond that exists between us.
So to sum up, I would say simply this. Once God made that election of the Hebrew nation, of the Jewish people, to be the light to the nations and to be the instrument by which all peoples would be welcomed into the household of God, He never turns back from that election. It remains today as treasured in the Church as it has been from the beginning of that election. So, a Hebrew Catholic has a very distinctive witness to give in the Church, and we ought to recognize that. All of us who come from different backgrounds give a distinctive witness in the Church, and this is how God works. But the witness of a Hebrew Catholic is particularly treasured by the Church because of the rich heritage which they bring to the Catholic faith and this mission of presenting the Messiah to the world.
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