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Jul
26
Matthew 13:16-17
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16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
17 Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
Jul
26
Co-Workers of the Truth 7/26
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Journalism is meaningful only when it helps us to learn the truth. It can be a genuine calling only when there is a truth that is good. Then it is right and necessary to help this truth to find its proper expression. The fundamental certainty that Good does exist and that we are created for it is not an obstacle to the work of the journalist, but rather makes it possible. It must be the first pillar of genuine journalistic ethics. Non-Christians, too, can find this fundamental certainty. We must admit, to our shame, that today it is often more alive and less impaired among non-Christians than in nations that were formerly Christian. But it finds its deepest foundation and its greatest affirmation in the Person of Jesus Christ. It is he who gives us a certainty. God loves us so much that he himself became one of us.
The ecce homo, which today shows primarily the dregs of humanity, receives from him its true meaning. Ecce homo- today, for the most part, that means: Behold, here is yet another specimen of this miserable humanity. Even Pilate, the sceptic, wanted to say something of this kind. But without intending it, he revealed to us something quite different: man is such that God’s presence among us shines always in this disfigured countenance. Hence we must always try to see humanity, not through the eyes of Pilate, but through the eyes of Jesus himself. Then we serve truth. Then we serve humanity, the humanness of man as such. Granted, we always stand in need of the courage to criticize abuses openly in order that they may be remedied. But today we have almost more need of the courage to make visible the goodness that resides in humanity and in the world. Only in that way can we restore to humanity the courage to be itself, the courage to exist, without which all other courage falls into a vacuum.
From: L’Osservatore Romano 14, no.6 (1984), p. 5
Jul
26
St Alphonsus Liguori
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We must mortify our tongue. An impure word spoken in jest may prove a scandal to others, and sometimes a word of double meaning, said in a witty way, does more harm than a word openly impure.
– St Alphonsus Liguori
Jul
25
Co-Workers of the Truth 7/25
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There is no such thing as a purely objective news report. Even photography, in which the possibility of pure objectivity was apparently found in the exclusion of every trace of a representational subject, contains a modicum of interpretation even if we leave out of consideration the manifold opportunitites it offers for manipulation. It is always, in one way or another, an arrangement of objects, a choice, an excerpt, an elucidation, and consequently an iterpretation.
Our reporting always means a selecting. Therefore every report is an interpretation, even if only because of what is not reported, what is not said. But this means that the technology of reporting without the ethics of reporting is inhuman and we must ask ourselves if we have not become on the one hand, giants of technology, but on the other hand infants in the matter of ethics in general and of the ethics of reporting in particular.
It is precisely in this context, I think, that the particular task of the Catholic news agency becomes clear. Not only does it bring the vast realm of Church news into contact with the realm of human debate and make it comprehensible, but it exists precisely to develop and put into practice the ethics of reporting.
From: Ordinariatskorrespondenz, 11/15/1977
Jul
25
Apostolist Events
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Jul
25
Matthew 20: 20 - 28
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20 Then the mother of the sons of Zeb’edee came up to him, with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something.
21 And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”
22 But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”
23 He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
24 And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers.
25 But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.
26 It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant,
27 and whoever would be first among you must be your slave;
28 even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Jul
25
St. Augustine
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If you should ask me what is the way of God, I would tell you that it is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
— St. Augustine
Jul
24
Co-Workers of the Truth 7/24
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“Let us make mankind in our own image, according to our likeness” (Gen 1:26). God wills the existence of human beings. Like everything else in the universe, they exist, not by mere chance or by a mere act or by mere power, but by a word that is love, truth, and meaning. God has a purpose for us and this purpose is our prime origin. This gives rise to the question: What is that purpose?
One answer might be: He has his own concept of each person; each one is something special, not just one example of a product that has been produced a millionfold.
Some years ago, there appeared a volume of photographs by a well-known master photographer that bore the title “TheImage of God”. It contained photographs of human beings, whom it pictured in all their potentialities and lack of potentialities: poor and rich, young and old, well and ill, ordinary, intimidated, tormented, exultant, proud, important. But when one leafed through the book, always with the title “The Image of God”, ”The Image of God”, in heart and mind, one became very uneasy; one set the book aside in deep depression and asked oneself: What kind of God looks at me from these pictures?
At the very least, a God who is self-contradictory, or one who is powerless, or even one in whom an evil power resides unseen. But when one regarded the photographs more closely, it became clear: God cannot be photographed, not even by photographing human beings. The himan being is the image of God; but photographs of human beings are not photgraphs of God. He is not easily seen.
From: Unpublished homily given at the 88th Deutschen Latholikentag, July 5, 1984
Jul
24
Matthew 13: 10 - 17
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10 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
11 And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
12 For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
14 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: `You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive.
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
17 Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
Jul
24
St. Ephraem the Syrian
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In this day in which the Rich became poor for our sakes, let the rich man make the poor man share with him at his table. On this day came forth to us the Gift, even though we had not asked for it! Let us therefore bestow alms on those who cry and beg from us.
– St. Ephraem the Syrian
