Bishop van Mostar over Medjugorje (2009)

Finally, a word or two on our local situation. From the 17^th to the 24^th of January this year I was in Rome and had the opportunity to first of all greet the Holy Father during his General Audience and ask for his blessing for our entire Church in Herzegovina. I also visited the superiors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and thanked them in particular for informing the bishops of the region of Toscana, in Italy, who had asked the Congregation during their “ad limina” visit what position to take regarding the phenomenon of Medjugorje. The then Secretary of the Congregation, Archbishop Angelo Amato recommended that the bishops convey to the priests and faithful of their dioceses the homily that was given here in Medjugorje during the rite of Confirmation, on the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ in the year 2006, which they then did. Cardinal William Levada, the current Prefect of the Congregation then told me: “We advise this to everyone who asks us about Medjugorje”. During my visit I could see that the competent Congregation as well as the Secretariat of State are closely following our local events in Herzegovina and we are most grateful to Pope Benedict XVI and the Apostolic See for their charity and concern.

            I therefore stand by everything I said and dutifully demanded from this very place three years ago: from the Franciscan fathers who are the pastoral ministers of this parish, from the parishioners and other faithful, as well as from the so-called seers; that the presumed daily apparitions, known as the “phenomenon of Medjugorje”, have not been declared as authentic by the Church. Not even after the investigations of various commissions nor after 28 years of media hype. Therefore, brothers and sisters, we cannot behave as if these “apparitions” are authentic and approved. If as Catholics, loyal sons and daughters of the Church, we wish to live according to Church norms and teachings, glorifying the Holy Trinity, venerating the B. V. Mary ever Virgin, the Immaculate Conception, the Mother of God who was Assumed in heaven and wish to confess all that the Church teaches us in the Creed, then we need not search for alternative “apparitions” and “messages” whose character the Church has not acknowledged as supernatural!

            Dear candidates, I implore you to hold strong the gifts of the Holy Spirit which you will sacramentally receive today, as St. Paul held very dearly the gifts and inspirations of the Holy Spirit in his preaching of the Gospels and in bearing witness for Christ the Lord. May your parents, sponsors and the entire parish community help you in your efforts!

            And in order to assess how much we are in possession of the Holy Spirit, the best person to help us is the holy Doctor of the Church St. Augustine, who once wrote: “A person has as much of the Holy Spirit as is his love for the Church of Christ” (PL 35,646).

            Let us not allow ourselves to be outdone in our love towards Christ and the Church, which is “the body of Christ” (Eph 4:12).

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Wijsheid: Disable Caps Lock on Mac OS X

By far the most frustrating key on the keyboard has to be CAPS LOCK. Does any one ever use this key!? After many years of accidentally pressing it, I finally stumbled upon the way to disable it.

Go to the Keyboard & Mouse Preferences

Select Modifier Keys

And change Caps Lock Key to No Action

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Een snel koffie alarm via Dashboard (OS X) - sreencastje (zet fullscreen!)

De Belgen worden gecast in deze nieuwe song van Randy Newman. Lachen! Luister naar dit kort fragment. (werkt dit?)

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Bevatten winegums alcohol?

Geen 18? Terug die winegums!

KN

KN - 23-10-2009

Een Britse jongen mocht van een winkelier geen winegums
kopen omdat hij nog geen achttien is. “Kijk, er staat winegums op”, zei de
winkelier, “dus zit er wijn in. En wijn bevat alcohol.”

Er zat voor de verbijsterde Jaz Bhogal niets anders op dan
de bekende snoepjes terug te leggen in het schap. “Dat geloof je toch niet? Hij
vroeg mij hoe oud ik was en toen ik vijftien zei moest ik die snoepjes
terugleggen.” De verbaasde jongen kreeg direct zijn geld terug.

Winegums bevatten niet tegenstaande hun naam geen spoortje
alcohol.

Toen de winkelier zich zijn blunder realiseerde heeft hij de
jongen zijn excuses aangeboden. Ook mocht hij gratis wat snoep uitzoeken om het
goed te maken. Op voorwaarde zelfs dat er minstens één zakje winegums bij zit.
(KN/IOL)

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The Humans Are Dead (pretty funny) video

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Details about the new Compendium Eucharisticum

Some more detailed news about the new Compendium Eucharisticum:

Contrary to news reports the Compendium was published in Latin not Italian. Also, ...

1. It is divided into 3 sections: doctrinal, liturgical, and devotional. 


2. It has number of appendices: Book IV of the Imitation; section of 1983 Latin Code; section of 1990 Eastern Code on the Eucharist.


3. The preface is by the Prefect of the Cong. for Divine Worship, Card. Canizares.  It clearly speaks of both forms of the Roman Rite being of equal importance.


4. The doctrinal section contains excerpts from the the decree of the Council of Trent on the Eucharist; Vatican II; the Compendium of the Catechism on the Eucharist; a commentary on the Four Eucharist prayers.


5. The liturgical section contains the Ordo Missae of the Novus Ordo; the Ordo Missae of the 1962 Missale Romanum; the Office of Corpus Christi from the Liturgia Horarum; the complete Office for Coprus Christi from the 1961 Breviarium Romanum; two Votive Masses of the Holy Eucharist; the Order of Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament; 7 Litanies; and a number of Eucharistic hymns.


6. The devotional part contains the prayers before Mass, the prayers after Mass, vesting prayers for the priest and for the bishop, and other devotional prayers.

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Details about the new Compendium Eucharisticum

Some more detailed news about the new Compendium Eucharisticum:

Contrary to news reports the Compendium was published in Latin not Italian. 



Also, ...

1. It is divided into 3 sections: doctrinal, liturgical, and devotional. 
2. It has number of appendices: Book IV of the Imitation; section of 1983 Latin Code; section of 1990 Eastern Code on the Eucharist.
3. The preface is by the Prefect of the Cong. for Divine Worship, Card. Canizares.  It clearly speaks of both forms of the Roman Rite being of equal importance.
4. The doctrinal section contains excerpts from the the decree of the Council of Trent on the Eucharist; Vatican II; the Compendium of the Catechism on the Eucharist; a commentary on the Four Eucharist prayers.
5. The liturgical section contains the Ordo Missae of the Novus Ordo; the Ordo Missae of the 1962 Missale Romanum; the Office of Corpus Christi from the Liturgia Horarum; the complete Office for Coprus Christi from the 1961 Breviarium Romanum; two Votive Masses of the Holy Eucharist; the Order of Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament; 7 Litanies; and a number of Eucharistic hymns.
6. The devotional part contains the prayers before Mass, the prayers after Mass, vesting prayers for the priest and for the bishop, and other devotional prayers.

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handige Backup.app tip (OS X)

By default, the application will wait for 2 minutes before starting. While it waits, it bounces in the dock. I find this to be a huge annoyance, so I tracked down a hidden preference which will reduce that to one second (and one bounce). Launch the Terminal.app and paste in this line:

defaults write com.apple.Backup 'Backup Timer' -int '1'

You can change the 1 to however many seconds you want it to wait. If you are thinking about choosing zero, please note that will actually disable the backup from running. One second is as low as you can go. 120 is the default.

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Probeer eens plaatsvervangende schaamte: Windows 7 Launch Partys (video)