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Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity 2005 January 18 through January 25, inclusive. "Christ, the one Foundation of the Church" (1 Cor 3:1-23).
This year, the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity begins Tuesday, January 18, and concludes Tuesday, January 25. This year's theme is from 1 Corinthians 3:1-23: "Christ, the one Foundation of the Church". The celebration of the Octave was begun in 1908 by the Society of the Atonement, an Episcopalian religious order founded in 1898 by Father Paul Wattson and Mother Lurana White, as related in this beautiful webpage (whence comes the image of the gorgeous triptych, above): .... Father Wattson made his profession of vows and took the name Paul; White also took vows but retained her birth name, Lurana. They now set about the task of reflecting upon and clarifying the purpose of their new Society. Clearly their church unity vocation was founded on the prayer of Jesus, "That all may be one". But this conviction would be shaped in a special way by both their understanding of church and by their pro-Roman beliefs. For Father Paul and Mother Lurana the one Church of Christ was constituted of the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and The Orthodox Church. Each was truly church and while each branch was a manifestation of Christ's one church, both the Anglican Communion and The Orthodox Church had suffered because of their break with the See of Rome. Indeed for Father Paul and Mother Lurana the Roman See was the divinely established center of Church unity.... Replying to the Reverend Jones on November 30, 1907, Father Paul wrote, "The 'Peter sermon' suggestion is fine.... In addition to that, what do you think of inaugurating a Church Unity Week beginning with St. Peter's Chair at Rome, January 18th, and ending with St. Paul's Day?" Without waiting for an answer from Jones, Father Paul began writing letters to clergy and friends of Graymoor, both Roman and Episcopal, asking them to participate in the Octave of Prayer for Unity. Over 2,000 persons agreed to do so in this first observance.... On October 30, 1909, the Society of the Atonement acted upon the advice given by the Episcopal Bishop of Delaware. On that day, Father Paul and Mother Lurana, along with another Friar, two Atonement Sisters, two novices, and ten lay associates made their unqualified submission to the Latin Church. Their profession of faith was received by Monsignor Joseph Conroy, Vicar General of the diocese of Ogdensburg, who was the personal representative of Archbishop John Farley. Due to the influence of Cardinal Merry del Val, who was a faithful reader of The Lamp and Secretary of State under Pius X, the Holy See was quite gracious in its reception of the small Community. It was accepted as a distinct Religious Community, allowed to keep its name, and encouraged to keep as its purpose prayer and work for Christian unity and mission. The corporate reception of the Friars and Sisters of the Atonement into the Roman Church was the first such occurrence since the Reformation....
These are traditional Catholic prayer intentions for each day in the Octave (as listed here):
These are traditional Anglican/Episcopalian prayer intentions for each day in the Octave (as listed here):
Here are lists of Epistles and Gospels from the Mass for Christian Unity in the Lectionary of the Roman Missal (Editio Typica Altera):
And here are some prayers suitable for use during the octave:
Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 01/17/05 07:11:01 PM |
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Newcomer Contra Pein Not even close. Dr. Joseph Newcomer responds to Corey Pein's travesty: I was both amused and dismayed at the recent article published in the Columbia Journalism Review. I was amused because it is, like most of the attempts to justify the "validity" of the CBS memos, completely ridiculous, and like most such articles, written by someone without the slightest qualification to actually make such an assessment. I was dismayed because it was published in what appears to be a legitimate publication, and as such reflects the "best thinking" that should be represented by such a journal. This is very sad. If we think Dan Rather's being hoaxed by an inept forgery is bad, just wait until the people with the apparent quality of journalistic training this article represents get out there. Apparently, critical thinking is not held in high esteem. The School of Journalism should find this article embarrassing. (If they do not, then the University should be deeply embarrassed to have such a school).... He also takes on Dr. David Hailey again. See also Smackdown! and Pseudo-Kerning. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 01/17/05 06:09:18 PM |
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Schwartenberg. Schwartenberg? Schwartenberg! So, maybe it wasn't de Gaulle after all. Apparently, we doubt the Esquire at our peril. According to Mona Charen, Jan. 14: Prince Felix Schwartenberg of Austria was asked in 1848 how his country would respond to Russia's help putting down a Hungarian insurrection. "Austria," he replied, "will astound the world with the magnitude of her ingratitude." .... Confer The Stunning French? Today [Nov. 23, 2004] is the birthday of Charles de Gaulle, the French general and president (1890-1970) who allegedly told Winston Churchill, regarding the aid and efforts that the Americans and British had provided for the liberation of France from her Nazi overlords: We shall stun you with our ingratitude. "But it sounds like De Gaulle." Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 01/17/05 05:37:44 PM |
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Dr. Mathew Manweller Remember him? He's got a new website: In October of 2004, I wrote an editorial concerning the presidential election. The essay was titled: "Election Determines Fate of Nation" This editorial was part of a series I write for The Daily Record, a local paper for Ellensburg, Washington. Typically, my essays are read by no more than 6000 residents. However, the October article was picked up by bloggers, email lists, and eventually, national radio talk show hosts. In response to the coverage the essay received, I have been swamped with email inquiries. Most people want a copy of the article and want to know if I have written anything else. I have chosen this site to post my monthly essays so that those interested (but do not live in Ellensburg) may access them. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 01/17/05 08:16:58 AM |
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"Myopic Zeal: CBS Needed a Prophet" Providing a wider perspective, a blog from Herb Ely: .... Institutions, just like persons, develop a view of reality and of themselves. This view can blind them to coming disaster. Last May I compared the phenomenon to the psychology of denial. It happens frequently.... Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 01/17/05 07:54:22 AM |
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More Responses to the CBSgate Glenn Garvin writes at the Miami Herald-Tribune, yesterday: The independent panel that investigated CBS News' botched report on President Bush's National Guard service spent an exhaustive four months on the job, interviewing 62 witnesses and reviewing thousands of pages of scripts, notes, e-mails, military records and press releases. Unfortunately, it seems to have neglected to read its own report — otherwise, it would never have concluded that political bias played no role in the fiasco. The evidence that reporters and producers working for CBS desperately wanted to land a knockout punch on the president's reelection campaign is right there in the panel's own 224-page review of how the Bush story went so grotesquely wrong. They wanted it so much that they ignored evidence that their story was wrong, not only in its details but also in its fundamental assumptions. They wanted it so much that they slandered anyone who challenged them and plotted a book deal for a key source. They wanted it so much that they lied on the air and in their press releases. And they wanted it so much that even now, when the story has been disproved as a tissue of fictions and falsehoods, they continue to insist it's true.... Likewise, the independent panel would have done CBS an immense favor by advising the network to take a hard look at itself. Former CBS correspondent Bernard Goldberg, in his book Bias, wrote that many newsrooms are locked in a collective groupthink that prevents them from noticing their political leanings any more than a fish notices water. It's not that there's a morning meeting where reporters and editors sit down to conspire against Bush or Republicans; rather, because they overwhelmingly share the same liberal ideology, what strikes outsiders as political bias simply seems common sense to them. If ''everybody knows'' that Bush is a liar, a coward and a spoiled rich kid, there's no need to spend a lot of time proving it. The independent panel came tantalizingly close to putting its finger on the problem when it said CBS pursued the Bush story with ''myopic zeal.'' But the panel attributed the myopia to competitive journalistic instincts, the drive to get a story first, rather than politics. After all, everybody knows there's no liberal bias in the news business. And Debra Saunders writes at the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 13: .... In 2000, Burkett had told an author and a blogger that he was sent to Panama as punishment for refusing to falsify records on Bush. Later he told the Houston Chronicle that wasn't accurate. In 2000, Burkett also spread the story that he had overheard a conference call on a speakerphone between National Guard brass and staff for then-Gov. George W. Bush about "scrubbing" Bush documents. In 2004, Burkett added a new twist when he told the Dallas Morning News that he saw Bush documents in a waste can. Think about his story: Guard brass and the Bushies were so dumb they left a door open during a speakerphone conference call as they planned a cover-up, and instead of shredding or burning the documents, they threw them in the trash. Somehow, none of those documents made the papers during the 2000 election. God works in mysterious ways. When Mapes and a colleague met with Burkett, he didn't hand them a smoking gun from the scrubbed documents. No, in a new twist, he handed them copies of documents written by a dead guy, the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Documents from a dead guy, not the official papers that first interested them — and Mapes and company still believed. Talk about faith. Burkett gave different explanations as to how he got the documents. No problem-o. All four experts hired to authenticate the documents refused to do so, although one authenticated Killian's signature. Two, however, warned that the documents had big problems. Mapes ignored them. She only saw her Holy Grail.... Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 01/17/05 07:39:32 AM |
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