What's left of him anyway...
If you are an English teacher or professor have your students read The Old Man and the Sea and watch the World Series--see if they can make the connections between big money and nature (the young Marlins).
From Hemmingway's The Old Man and the Sea:
"In the American League it is the Yankees as I said," the old man said happily.
"They lost today," the boy told him.
"That means nothing. The great DiMaggio is himself again."
Friday, October 17, 2003
Cardinal George Adds to Speculation
About the declining health of the Pope and specifically his lungs and ability to breathe.
From George saddened visit with pontiff 'might be the last':
"As the prince of the church bowed to kiss the hand of the old man who sits on the papal throne, he had a terrible thought.
'Is this the last time I'll see him?' Cardinal Francis George wondered.
'I've never seen him like this. It was touching,' Chicago's cardinal-archbishop said Thursday night a few minutes after the mass in St. Peter's Square celebrating Pope John Paul II's 25th anniversary as pontiff. 'I hadn't seen him in seven months or so, and when he tried to talk it was really sorrowful.'
Earlier in the day, George had greeted the 83-year-old pope personally in a meeting with about 150 other cardinals where John Paul II released a document about the ministry of bishops.
'If you can't walk, well, that's an inconvenience. Even if you can't express yourself, you could write. But if you can't breathe ...' the cardinal said, his thoughts drifting off as he chatted in a parlor of the Pontifical North American College on a hill above St. Peter's. As George talked about his latest encounter with the man the Italians know as 'Il Papa,' it seemed as if the cardinal was realizing that some of the rumors about his beloved pope's failing health, the ones that have been screaming across the headlines of newspapers around the world for the last year, may be true. Horribly true.
'There is reason to worry,' George said. 'He did take a turn for the worse, evidently, in the summer.'"
From George saddened visit with pontiff 'might be the last':
"As the prince of the church bowed to kiss the hand of the old man who sits on the papal throne, he had a terrible thought.
'Is this the last time I'll see him?' Cardinal Francis George wondered.
'I've never seen him like this. It was touching,' Chicago's cardinal-archbishop said Thursday night a few minutes after the mass in St. Peter's Square celebrating Pope John Paul II's 25th anniversary as pontiff. 'I hadn't seen him in seven months or so, and when he tried to talk it was really sorrowful.'
Earlier in the day, George had greeted the 83-year-old pope personally in a meeting with about 150 other cardinals where John Paul II released a document about the ministry of bishops.
'If you can't walk, well, that's an inconvenience. Even if you can't express yourself, you could write. But if you can't breathe ...' the cardinal said, his thoughts drifting off as he chatted in a parlor of the Pontifical North American College on a hill above St. Peter's. As George talked about his latest encounter with the man the Italians know as 'Il Papa,' it seemed as if the cardinal was realizing that some of the rumors about his beloved pope's failing health, the ones that have been screaming across the headlines of newspapers around the world for the last year, may be true. Horribly true.
'There is reason to worry,' George said. 'He did take a turn for the worse, evidently, in the summer.'"
Thursday, October 16, 2003
Happy Twenty-Fifth Annivesary to Pope John Paul II
To truly reflect on what a difference this pope has made to the world, pull out an atlas from 1978 and compare it to today. Countries under the former Soviet Union are free now and the Polish Cardinal who was elected twenty five years ago today has changed the face of the earth!
Thanks To Amy for Testing My Pope Knowledge
BBC NEWS | Europe | What do you know about the Pope?:
"You got 10 right!
Cannonisation beckons - as an inveterate creator of new saints the Pontiff may even have his sights set on you already "
I missed the language one--I picked 12...
"You got 10 right!
Cannonisation beckons - as an inveterate creator of new saints the Pontiff may even have his sights set on you already "
I missed the language one--I picked 12...
Pope Releases Apostolic Exhortation
On The Bishop, Servant of the Gospel of Jesus Christ For the Hope of the World...
There is great stress on bishops being proclaimers of the virtue of Hope, that they be prayerful and that they exercise their office by giving of themselves fully to the task at hand. In other words, imitate Pope John Paul II.
See Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Pastores gregis for the whole document.
There is great stress on bishops being proclaimers of the virtue of Hope, that they be prayerful and that they exercise their office by giving of themselves fully to the task at hand. In other words, imitate Pope John Paul II.
See Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Pastores gregis for the whole document.
Cardinal Arinze: Priests Should Not Inflict Themselves on Congregation!
From CNS NEWS BRIEFS Oct-15-2003:
"'The truth is that genuine inculturation has nothing to do with the product of the over-fertile imagination of an enthusiastic priest who concocts something on Saturday night and inflicts it on the innocent Sunday morning congregation now being used as a guinea pig,' he said. Cardinal Arinze was a keynote speaker at the Oct. 7-11 national meeting of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions. "<
"'The truth is that genuine inculturation has nothing to do with the product of the over-fertile imagination of an enthusiastic priest who concocts something on Saturday night and inflicts it on the innocent Sunday morning congregation now being used as a guinea pig,' he said. Cardinal Arinze was a keynote speaker at the Oct. 7-11 national meeting of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions. "<
Marlins Win! Marlins Win! Marlins Win!
Actually as Joe Angel used to say, "and the Marlins are in the win column!"
Turns out Billy the Marlin grew up a Cub's Fan!
Actually as Joe Angel used to say, "and the Marlins are in the win column!"
Turns out Billy the Marlin grew up a Cub's Fan!
I'll say this here before tonight's game...I told the Bishop of the Diocese of South Bend-Fort Wayne back in March that this was the year for the Boston Red Sox (he is a fellow New Englander and die hard Boston fan). He said he thought this would be a down year. I'm not even sure why I told him what I told him.
I grew up a Red Sox fan but after I moved from the New England my interest in baseball waned until the creation of the Florida Marlins in the 1990's. I was living in South Florida at the time and became a big Marlin's fan--and so I'd like to see them win no matter who they play but I have a feeling that if it is the Red Sox that their fate is already sealed. But if it is the Yankees the Marlins will win!
For those of you who are fair weather sports fans, pick up a copy of Hemmingway's "Old Man and the Sea" and learn about the origin of the name of the South Florida National League Champions.
I grew up a Red Sox fan but after I moved from the New England my interest in baseball waned until the creation of the Florida Marlins in the 1990's. I was living in South Florida at the time and became a big Marlin's fan--and so I'd like to see them win no matter who they play but I have a feeling that if it is the Red Sox that their fate is already sealed. But if it is the Yankees the Marlins will win!
For those of you who are fair weather sports fans, pick up a copy of Hemmingway's "Old Man and the Sea" and learn about the origin of the name of the South Florida National League Champions.
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