Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 3:43 AM By WOODY GUIDRY
WHILE SOME OF US GO WHERE JESUS WAS and are inspired, most of the others of us go where He IS. So much is missing in those who receive the Host and still find Him remote! I maintain that this is a defect which we can overcome; if we listen, converse, or are able to think and talk with him in the Blessed Sacrament, then we NEVER leave His presence.
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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 5:23 AM By Jon
How does Roger reconcile the beautiful churches he encounters on his travels with that thing he built in L.A.?
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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 6:36 AM By JLS
So, Cdl M is leading the Americans to Rome and the Holy Land to show us the politically correct attitude to have there.
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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 11:36 AM By marcum
Card. Mahoney from his LA perspective is immersed in the emphasis of how better to communicate the Word in the digital age by using more and more digital mediums as a key solution to serve the flock. This is most important to him in spite of the hunger and need for the opposite.
What is best for children, simply is as usual, tragically not a primary point of concern. A criticism of the increasing use of digital communications is that it dissables human behavior and rapidly influences many into a slavery of sinful indulgences. In this individual cyber world, human beings become conditioned to being divided from each other (the essense of digital is just that - division of the individual. If this is too sublime and complex - than so is cognitive studies in general.
Humans need human interaction. The digital modern age is divisively promoting radical independency of the individual without the need for any creator God. Who needs anyone local anymore when you can have it all on-line or in a game - broadcast environment? That's correct - who needs humans when the social order glorifies itself with the essense of machine-intelligence of the great digital age. I would hope that Catholic shepherds recognize this poverty of alienation in dealing with this utopian modern state. More cyber-space communication is not what is starving our children or the faithful adults in the need to more deeply grasp the mystery of Christ, the faith and our tradition.
Cast the nets deep and use the cyber tools for what they are- our creations to better glorify God.
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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 12:12 PM By John
Oh that the Cardinal would tell us who paid for his travels to Israel. Was he simply the "magnet" for building a sizeable tour group for some travel agency?
Although Cardinal Mahony has the largest single grave of American Holocaust victims in a cemtery in Whittier of Los Angeles County, not once has he ever visited there to pray in silence for those 43,000 victims of abortionists.
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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 12:53 PM By Dave N.
I think meeting with the Pope and visiting the Holy sites in Jerusalem and elsewhere will do him good.
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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 2:36 PM By Laurette Elsberry
I am reminded of a scene from the marvelous movie, "Fiddler on the Roof". With the Russian Jews suffering under the terrorism of the Csar on an increasing basis, one villager asks the Rabbi: "Is there a prayer for the Czar?" The Rabbi responds: "May the Lord keep the Czar --- far away from us"......May the Lord keep the Cardinal --- far away from us!
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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 3:33 PM By A Lady
The trip to the Holy Land was a pilgrimage for members of the Western Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. It was coordinated by a Catholic Travel Agency. I agree, the Cardinal should visit and pray at the cemetary in Whittier not only for the souls of those aborted but for the souls of those who committed the atrocious act of abortion and for those mothers who allowed this atrocity to be done to them and their children.
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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 4:57 PM By Bob
I ask us to reflect on the post to date. There is cynisism, feeling of disgust for someone taking a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, wonderment about who paid, etc. Where is the Love? Thanks to CCD, I was directed to the blog. It is wonderful. It is all about prayer, reflection on the time of Christ, Mass in several of the major churches of the area, etc. There is nothing about it that is anything but wonderful. The meeting with the Pope in Rome must have been a highlight for many of the travelers. Why is it so hard for some people to accept that a lot of people can experience good? Read the blog, then find a reason to be negative? Can't be done.
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Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:12 AM By Abeca Christian
Bob thank you good Christian, I agree. Actually it would be such a blessing to pilgrimage these other areas of the world. What a great experience. May the Lord bless this bishop as he pilgrimages these holy areas of the world and may our Lord's graces turn him around all for the honor and glory of our Lord.
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