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Sunday, April 19, 2015

The Ressurection Fact - By Rev.Bishop D. Fernando Rifan

In the Easter Edition of Brazilian Weekly Magazine "Veja" (April, the 8th) it has brought an interesting article on the Resurrection of Jesus, "the great dogma of Christianity", pointing out that the celebration of Easter Sunday reaffirms the power of faith in the Ressurection of the Son of God, who died on on the Cross, a "statement", noted by reporter, "that is strengthened with the passage of millennium." And asks, "why, after a little less than 2000 years, the belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, one of the most extraordinary mysteries of faith, still has an effect as sweeping" and also notes that if nothing had happened at Easter that year, i.e., if the Lord's Resurrection was not an extraordinary certificate and proven fact, It could not explain the miraculous and extraordinary expansion of Christianity in the face of so many opposing forces of paganism.

There were modern attempts to deny the resurrection of Jesus as a historical fact. According to some of these theories, Jesus had risen "within the kerygma", according to the formula of Rudolf Bultmann, famous Protestant theologian, that is, the resurrection would mean only that the disciples had recognized that "the cause of Jesus continues"! Therefore, it is very instructive for us the thesis Heinrich Schlier, disciple of Bultmann, on the Resurrection of Jesus, proving the historical fact, the basis of Christian faith.

Heinrich Schelier was Lutheran pastor, professor of exegesis in Germany, and then was part of the "Confessing Church", i.e. the part of the German evangelical community trying to safeguard the Christian substance of Lutheranism, but it was not accepted that He disintegrated the movement supporting the Nazism. After the war, he taught New Testament and Church History at the Bonn Evangelical Theological College. In 1953, for surprise of his master Bultmann, He converted to the Catholic Church, saying said that his conversion happened in a completely Protestant way, he meant, from his relationship with the scripture, fact revealed by Ratzinger. On October 24, 1953, He was received into the Catholic Church. The next day, received his First Communion and then Sacrament of Confirmation. He wrote numerous theological works, especially the one about the Resurrection of Jesus, prefaced by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

Based on history and Scripture, Schelier shows that "the Primitive Church did not preach of the resurrection of Jesus Christ with detachment and in a uncompromising way, but with emotion and in with act of faith profession". And he argues that this is an indisputable fact, although it retains its mystery character. He said the New Testament texts understand the Resurrection as an event, a concrete historical event. The Resurrection did not come preaching, but preaching came from the fact of the Resurrection. And the Resurrection derives the logical conclusion that He is the Lord, as we read in the speech of St. Peter to the Jews: "In fact, God raised that same Jesus, and that we are all witnesses ... So that all people of Israel to recognize with full assurance: God has made Lord and Christ this Jesus whom you crucified "(Acts 2: 32-36).

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PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA - Century XV: on display at the Museo Civico of Sansepolcro, Italy Why, after a little less than 2000 years, the belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, one of the most extraordinary mysteries of faith, still exerts such sweeping effect ? Said the ap ...

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Prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel

“Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel – Be our constant hope. Mary, perfect disciple of the Lord – Make us also faithful to him. Mary, Flower of Carmel – Fill us with your joy. Virgin Mary, Beauty of Carmel – Smile upon your family Sweet Mother of Carmel – Accept me as your child. Holy, Mother beyond compare – Remember your children forever. Holy Virgin, Star of the Sea – Be our beacon of Light. Protecting Veil – Shelter us in the mantle of your love. Mary, conceived without sin – pray for us who have recourse to you.”

Prayer to Saint John Mary Vianney for the Religious Vocations

Almighty and merciful God, who didst make Saint John Marie Vianney admirable in his pastoral zeal and in his constant love of penance, grant us the grace, we implore Thee, to win for Christ, by his example and intercession, the souls of our brethren, and to attain with them everlasting glory—O, Saint John Marie Vianney, incomparable laborer in the field confided to thee, obtain for the Church the realization of Jesus’ desire. The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few. Pray to the Master of the harvest to send faithful laborers into His vineyard. O, Saint John Marie Vianney ! Intercede for the clergy. May thy patronage, and thy prayer multiply the real vocations to the priesthood. May the Holy Ghost grant thee emulators; may He give us Saints! Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

SEVERAL TIMES we have suggested that the reader might be surprised at the great emphasis given to a devotion as apparently simple as the Brown Scapular. But one of the most interesting testimonies to the importance of the Scapular devotion today has so far been scarcely mentioned. In the pages of an ancient history of the Carmelite Order (written in mediaeval Latin by a forgotten writer named Ventimiglia) the author of this book found the following account: Three famous men of God met on a street corner in Rome. They were Friar Dominic, busy gathering recruits to a new Religious Order of Preachers; Brother Francis, the friend of birds and beasts and especially dear to the poor; and Angelus, who had been invited to Rome from Mount Carmel, in Palestine, because of his fame as a preacher. At their chance meeting, by the light of the Holy Spirit each of the three men recognized each other and, in the course of their conversation (as recorded by various followers who were present), they made prophecies to each other. Saint Angelus foretold the stigmata of Saint Francis, and Saint Dominic said: "One day, Brother Angelus, to your Order of Carmel the Most Blessed Virgin Mary will give a devotion to be known as the Brown Scapular, and to my Order of Preachers she will give a devotion to be known as the Rosary. AND ONE DAY, THROUGH THE ROSARY AND THE SCAPULAR, SHE WILL SAVE THE WORLD." Since he was gathering material for a book on the Scapular Devotion, the present writer was deeply impressed on finding this story in Ventimiglia's History . . . and he was especially impressed by the prophecy of St. Dominic. Yet that prophecy appears nowhere in the past sixteen chapters which (with the exception of Chapter Fifteen and a few paragraphs referring to Fatima) were for thirteen years the total of this book . . . unchanged through several printings totaling more than 70,000 copies. St. Dominic's "prophecy" was omitted repeatedly, through all those printings and years, despite the fact that the author came later to know that today a Chapel, on that very street comer in Rome, commemorates the meeting of St. Dominic, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Angelus as described by Ventimiglia. Therefore, why the omission? Why were not the words "Through the Rosary and the Scapular She will save the world" (Taken from the Book The Sign of Her Heart by John M. Haffert)