'Dominus Jesus' reaffirms Catholic Church's claims to truth

Saint Peter insists to be crucified upside down , because he is not worthy to die like his Saviour Jesus the Christ.

Establishment of the Catholic Church ,

"And I say to you , you are Peter , and upon this rock I shall build my church , and the gates of the Netherworld shall not prevail agianst it." Mt. 16:18

'Dominus Jesus' reaffirms Catholic Church's claims to truth: "Dominus Jesus asserts in Chapter One that the 'full revelation of divine truth' comes through Jesus Christ and His Church. Thus it is wrong to suggest that the Catholic Church is 'complementary' to other religions, while Chapter Two refutes the views of theologians who say that the Holy Spirit has 'a more universal breadth' than the Church. Citing the teachings of Vatican II, Dominus Jesus points out that that there is only one economy of salvation, and 'the action of the Spirit is not outside or parallel to the action of Christ.'
In the fourth and fifth Chapters, Dominus Jesus notes that the salvation promised by Jesus Christ comes through the Catholic Church, his 'bride' and Mystical Body. The Catholic Church - defined as the Church that has maintained apostolic succession - is the one true Church.

While the document acknowledges that some Orthodox churches, which have maintained apostolic succession, although they do not accept the primacy of Peter, represent the true Church, other Christian bodies do not enjoy the same status. Through Baptism, it says, the members of these Christian ecclesial bodies are 'incorporated in Christ' and maintain 'a certain communion, albeit imperfect,' with the Church."

The four marks of the Catholic Church are One , Holy , Catholic and Apostolic.

Christianity timeline

Christianity timeline

Most Holy Family Monastery

"Quote of the Day

Spirituality

St. Francis of Assisi (+ c. 1210): [To the Muslims] “We have come to preach faith in Jesus Christ to you, that you will renounce Mohammad, that wicked slave of the Devil, and obtain everlasting life like us.” (St. Francis of Assisi, A Biography, by Omer Englebert, 1979, pp. 178-179)"

Family photo`s

My Mother , sister and nephew with Willie and Toni in Abenberg Germany.





My Mother with her Tante Maria in Abenberg Germany.





My Uncle Phil and my Dad in a 1981 photo taken in Clarksville Tennessee .

Purple Dream

O God , you are my God , for you I long ;

for you my soul is thirsting ,

My body pines for you

like a dry , weary land without water.

So I gaze on you in sanctuary

to see your strength and your glory.

Psalm 62



Photo taken in the late 1970`s with magnifying filters.

Houston - We`ve landed on Mars

We`ve landed on the Moon , and now we have landed on Mars and discovered life. Really !

Saint Maximillian Kolbe

A Psalm for Saint Maximillian I cry out to Yahweh ; he answers from his holy mountain. Psalm 3:4

SAINT of the MONTH: "Maximillian Kolbe

14th August

Christian witness amidst 20th century suffering



Some people's lives seem to epitomise the suffering of millions, but also to shine with a Christian response to it. One such person was Maximilian Kolbe, 1894 - 1941, a Franciscan priest of Poland, and publisher extraordinary.

Maximilian was born at Zdunska Wola, near Lodz, where his parents, devout Christians, worked in a cottage weaving industry. Like thousands of others at the time, the family and their village was ground into poverty by Russian exploitation. In 1910 Maximilian entered the Franciscan Order, and studied at Rome. After his ordination in 1919, Maximilian returned to Poland, where he was sent to teach church history in a seminary. But a new factor had entered his life: he diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Living in post-war Poland was difficult enough, but with tuberculosis as well - most people would have quietly withered away. Not Maximilian Kolbe. Instead, the tuberculosis gave Maximilian a sense of urgency - a sense of the brief transitoriness of this life. He knew his time was slipping away. Instead of teaching history, he determined to do something to help the Christians living in Poland now, in the tatters of Europe after the First World War. And so he founded a magazine for Christian readers in Cracow, who badly needed effective apologetics to help them hold to their faith in a chaotic world.

Soon, the obsolete printing presses (which were operated by Maximilian's fellow priests and lay brothers) were working overtime - the magazine's circulation had leapt to 45,000. Then the printing presses were moved to a town near Warsaw, Niepokalanow, where Maximilian now founded a Franciscan community which combined prayer w"

Tree Lines

Lines of life

The Magnificat

And Mary said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour. Luke 1 : 46 - 47

Love Circle Park

Love Circle Park in Nashville Tennessee is 744 feet above sea level, and it is also a great skyline of Nashville.

Running around Love Circle is refreshing and quiet.

Atkinson's 'Soul Searching' follows Merton's journey

Oh, Father Louie , though you left this life to soon you have touched so many lives, lost souls, people of different beliefs and non - believers in Christ.

Anthony Palevo

Atkinson's 'Soul Searching' follows Merton's journey: "The short life and spiritual exploration of Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton is the subject of a new documentary by Louisvillian Morgan Atkinson, whose previous film, 'Gethsemani,' looked inside the Kentucky abbey where Merton lived for 27 years.
'Soul Searching, the Journey of Thomas Merton' relies on interviews and Merton's journals to provide details about the Catholic monk's early life in New York, his spiritual awakening, a midlife crisis involving his love for a beautiful nurse and his accidental death by electrocution while attending a 1968 conference in Bangkok.


Atkinson will discuss the hour-long film at a 7 p.m. screening next Monday at the Clifton Center Theater, 2117 Payne St. The program is sponsored by the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living, which is at the Clifton Center. Admission is free, but a $10 donation toward the Merton Institute is suggested.
The documentary, produced for about $150,000, will be broadcast on KET in the spring. It is the seventh film by Atkinson to be shown on the public TV network. Other works aired on KET include 'Gethsemani'; 'Metro, Act One,' about Louisville's merged government; and 'A Way of Life: Basketball in Kentucky.'
Funding for the new film was provided by KET, the Kentucky Humanities Council, the Louisville Institute, the Kentucky Arts Council and more than 75 individuals. Steve Staley of Louisville served as director of photography, and jazz musician Dick Sisto, who was a friend of Merton's, composed the music.
To make the film about the author of the autobiographical best-seller 'The Seven Storey Mountain,' Atkinson traveled to New York City, New Mexico, the redwood forests of Northern California and to the Abbey of Gethsem"

"GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES, BAPTIZING THEM …" - (Matthew 28:19) - John Piper

"Jesus came and said to them, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." Matthew 28:19

~ Christ ~

Yesterday , Today and forever.

BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS

Words of wisdom from Thomas Merton

BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS " The Psalms acquire, for those who know how to enter into them, a surprising depth, a marvelous and inexhaustible actuality. They are bread, miraculously provided by Christ, to feed those who have followed Him into the wilderness. I use this symbol advisedly. The miracle of the multiplication of the loaves usually suggests the Sacrament of the Eucharist, which it foreshadowed: but the reality which nourishes us in the Psalms is the same reality which nourishes us in the Eucharist, though in a far different form. In either case, we are fed by the Word of God. In the Blessed Sacrament, 'His flesh is food indeed.' In the Scriptures, the Word is incarnate not in flesh but in human words. But man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. "

Diverse lines

First Communion

The memory of Jesus is sweet
giving true joys to the heart;
but sweeter than honey and all things is His sweet presense.

My sister Isabella receives her First Holy Communion .

Earth Day Eucharist

God indeed hears our prayers even though God is silent.

Earth Day Eucharist: "Earth Day Eucharist
Compiled and designed by the Reverend Gregory Peters for Earth Day 2002.
A Litany of Penance
Lord, we pray for this world you have made. We ask your blessing on earth, wind, and water. Preserve this sweet place in its course through the cosmos.
Lord, in your mercy,
hear our prayer.
Lord, we pray for the community of living creatures. Guide us in our works and ways, that every being may praise with its life and serve you all of its days.
Lord, in your mercy,
hear our prayer.
Lord, we pray for our human family. You named us stewards of this Earth, and we want to tend it and care for it. Teach us to live in harmony together, so we can live in harmony with Earth.
Lord, in your mercy,
hear our prayer.
Lord, again and again we seek what is good and do what is bad. We stand in the rubble of many bad choices. We have been forgetful and willful tenants since you first put us in the Garden. Give us strength and courage to change our ways, so this Earth may flourish under our care.
Lord, in your mercy,
hear our prayer.
Lord, at the end of all things you will bring us into your household, to make community with you forever. Fill us with your Spirit now, in our days on this Earth, so we may be fit and ready for the new heaven and the new Earth you promise.
Lord, in your mercy,
hear our prayer.
Lord, you have called us to be stewards of this wonderful Earth. Guide our efforts: refresh the ground and the sea, let the air be soft and sweet. Teach us to care for your Earth, as you care for us. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.
(Episcopal Peace and Justice Ministries Jubilee "

Thanksgiving Day ~ A day to receive the bread and wine of life. The Eucharist

The Three Amigo`s

Zafar Amed , Anthony Palevo and Greg Palevo in a picture taken in the early 80`s.

Benedict`s Way

To their fellow monks they show the pure love of brothers. ~ RB 72:8

Institution of the Eucharist

Then he took bread , and when he had given thanks , he broke and gave it to them , saying , ` this is my body given for you ; do this in remembrance of me.` He did the same with the cup after the supper , and said , ` This cup is the new covenant in my blood poured out for you.

Luke 22 -19 ~ 20

Now as they were eating , Jesus took bread , and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples. `Take this and eat it , he said ` , `this is my body.` Then he took a cup , and when given thanks he handed it to them, saying, ` Drink from this , all of you , for this is my blood , the blood of the covenant , poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Matthew 26 : 26 ~28 Transubstantiation ~ The Body and Blood along with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus , and , therefore, the whole Christ is truly and really present and substantially contained.

Origins of faith groups

Origins of faith groups: "Faith GroupFounderDate (CE)Location

Roman CatholicJesus, Paul 1Circa 30 1Palestine

Orthodox churchesJesus, Paul 2Circa 30 2Palestine

LutheranismMartin Luther1517Germany

MennonitesNo single founder1525Switzerland

Anglican CommunionKing Henry 81534England

PresbyterianismJohn Knox1560Scotland

Baptist ChurchesJohn Smyth1605Holland

Dutch ReformedMichaelis Jones1628Netherlands

AmishJakob Ammann1693Switzerland

MethodismJohn Wesley1739England

QuakersGeorge Fox1647England

MoraviansCount Zinendorf1727Germany

CongregationalismJohn & Charles Wesley1744England

SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborg1747Sweden

BrethrenJohn Darby1828England

Latter-day SaintsJoseph Smith1830NY, USA

Seventh Day AdventistsEllen White1860NH, USA

Salvation ArmyWilliam Booth1865England

Jehovah's WitnessesCharles Russell1870PA, USA

Christian ScienceMary Baker Eddy1879Pleasant View, near Bow, NH, USA

PentecostalismCharles Parham1900CA, USA

Unification ChurchSun Myung Moon1954South Korea


Notes:
Beliefs concerning the origin of the Roman Catholic Church differ:The church teaches that it was founded by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, some 50 days after Jesus' execution by the Roman Army, circa 30-APR CE. Peter is believed to have moved to Rome, been regarded as the first pope by Christians generally, and followed by a continuous succession of popes up to the present day.
Many liberal theologians and historians believe that Peter never moved to Rome. They credit Paul as being the actual founder of what is now Christianity. They assert that centralization of church power in Rome did not occur until perhaps the mid 5th century CE. Pope Leo I, who reigned from 440 to 461 CE, claimed that the Bishop of Rome was highest ranking bishop. That time period could be considered a"