CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD: SUN. NOV. 28, 2010

CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD: SUN. NOV. 28, 2010: HEADLINES-

VATICAN: POPE: MESSAGE FOR 1ST SUN. OF ADVENT

AMERICA: USA: PRIEST HANDS OUT MONEY TO POOR ON THANKSGIVING

EUROPE: NEW FILM ON ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: UNSEEN WORLD

ASIA: KOREA: PRAYERS FOR VICTIMS OF ATTACK

AUSTRALIA: PRIVATE SCHOOLS FIND FAULT WITH MY SCHOOL RESEARCH

AFRICA: UGANDA: ARCHBISHOP CAUTIONS PARTICIPANTS IN ELECTIONS

TODAY'S SAINT: NOV. 28: ST. JAMES OF THE MARCHES

TODAY'S MASS READINGS: 1ST SUN. OF ADVENT: NOV. 28

VATICAN: POPE: MESSAGE FOR 1ST SUN. OF ADVENT

RADIO VATICANA: Pope Benedict XVI: awaiting in joyful hope for the coming of the Saviour

“Our moral and spiritual stature can be measured by that, which we await, and that, in which we hope.”

These were some of the words of Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus prayer with the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square on the first Sunday of Advent.

Ushering in a new liturgical year, the Pope said that at this time we are to look at once to the first coming of the Son of God, when he was born of the Virgin Mary, and to His glorious return, when He comes ''to judge the living and the dead.”

Therefore, “The wait, and the act of waiting, is a dimension that runs through all of our personal, family and social life.” “You might say,” explained Pope Benedict, “that a man is alive so long as he awaits – as long as hope lives in his heart.” So it was for Mary: he said, “In her heart, the expectation of the Saviour was so great, her faith and hope so ardent, that He was able to find in her a worthy mother.”

“Let us learn from her,” exhorted Pope Benedict, “from the Woman of the Advent, to live our days in a new spirit of profound expectation, which only the coming of God can satisfy.”

After the Angelus, Pope Benedict greeted pilgrims in many languages, including English:

I offer a warm welcome to the English-speaking visitors gathered here today for this Angelus prayer. Today, Christians begin a new liturgical Year with the season of Advent, a time of preparation to celebrate the Mystery of the Incarnation. By the grace of God, may our prayer, penance and good works in this season make us truly ready to see the Lord face to face. Upon you and your families I invoke God’s gifts of wisdom, strength and peace!

http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=442785

AMERICA: USA: PRIEST HANDS OUT MONEY TO POOR ON THANKSGIVING

KTLA REPORT: Father Maurice Chase, known as "Father Dollar Bill," continued his Thanksgiving tradition Thursday by handing out thousands of dollars to the homeless and needy on Skid Row.

Father Maurice Chase, a.k.a. "Father Dollar Bill" (KTLA-TV)

Father Chase distributed $15,000 -- mostly in singles -- to grateful recipients outside the Salvation Army Mission at 5th Street and Sanford Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Many received blessings from the 91-year-old as well.
Some of the most needy were given $20 bills and even $100 bills.
Father Chase, a Catholic priest who works with the Skid Row Charity Fund, has been handing out cash every Thanksgiving for some 32 years.
He says the money comes from Mrs. Bob Hope, Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Bob Newhart, Eli Broad, Vin Scully and many others.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-father-dollar-bill-homeless-thanksgiving,0,6688615.story

EUROPE: NEW FILM ON ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: UNSEEN WORLD

ROME REPORTS: A new movie will show the life of John Henry Newman who was recently beatified in the Pope's recent visit to Great Britain in September.
Italian writer and director Liana Marabini brings us “The Unseen World,” which she says is a story of chastity and spirituality.
Liana Marabini
Director of “The Unseen World”
“Well it's a film that I dreamt about because I love so much Newman, I would like to share him with other people, with laypeople but also with priests. Because Newman was above all, a wonderful priest.”
It's a film that attracted actor Murray Abraham who won an Oscar for his role in the 1984 film “Amadeus.” It's also a film that focuses largely on the trials of the priesthood.
Director of “The Unseen World”
“The wonderful priests that during the history, during the centuries, make the Church a huge institution, a huge moral and spiritual institution.”

The title “The Unseen World” is meant to represent the metaphysical state of contact between man and God. Something that Newman often referred to in his writings.

Director of “The Unseen World”
“A film is a very good tool to have evangelize the culture and the world. It's exactly what we need now, we need God in our lives in order to live better, to be more successful, to be happier.”

“The Unseen World” is being filmed in Rome and England and is set to be released in mid-2011.

ASIA: KOREA: PRAYERS FOR VICTIMS OF ATTACK

ASIA NEWS REPORT: Military ordinariate bishop pays tribute to the two soldiers killed in North Korean attack against Yeonpyeong Island, urges everyone to pray for country and victims.

Seoul – In the tense atmosphere that has descended upon the Korean Peninsula, the Church prays for peace. This morning, the Most Rev Francis Xavier Yu Soo-il, bishop of the Military Ordinariate, visited the funeral chapel where the two soldiers killed in the North Korean attack against Yeonpyeong Island on Tuesday are laying in state.

“Their life was great,” the prelate said surrounded by their relatives. “I shall pray God to grant them his mercy and eternal peace for their souls.”

During his visit, Bishop Yu urged everyone to pray for peace in the Korea Peninsula, for the families of the four people killed as well as for the 15 people who were wounded in the attack, including four Catholics.

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Korean-Church-to-pray-for-peace-on-the-peninsula-20107.html

AUSTRALIA: PRIVATE SCHOOLS FIND FAULT WITH MY SCHOOL RESEARCH

Cath News report: Private schools are threatening court action to prevent the publication of information about their finances on the My School website, after previews that indicated the website is riddled with errors, said The Australian.

The schools fear that if the updated website goes live next month as planned, incorrect data could smash their reputations and lead parents to false conclusions about the value they are getting for their school fees.

And the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority - the government body responsible for the website - has conceded that data on about 300 schools is in dispute and that some could be excluded from the updated site when it goes live.

The opposition accused the Gillard government of attempting to engineer data to justify its "secret agenda" to slash funding to private schools, while the Australian Education Union accused private schools of attempting to avoid scrutiny after already having been given generous concessions on what data would be made public.

Independent Schools Victoria revealed yesterday that many of its 220 member schools had used the government's preview portal and discovered My School's assessment of their financial resources was wrong.

Chief executive Michelle Green told The Australian ACARA was using a formula to crunch figures to iron out differences in data between independent, Catholic and public schools.

But Ms Green said that one independent school had found the site overstated its income by $11 million, while another found three different assessments of its income on three consecutive days it checked the site.

Others using the portal, which closes on Tuesday, found the site had no data on their finances.

An ACARA spokesman said data from about 300 of the nation's 10,000 schools was in dispute and that the body was working with schools to adjust errors. The spokesman said the site was expected to go live next month but that if officials were not certain of the accuracy of data, some schools might be excluded and "asterixed" until the data was verified.

http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=24328

AFRICA: UGANDA: ARCHBISHOP CAUTIONS PARTICIPANTS IN ELECTIONS

ALL AFRICA REPORT: The Archbishop of Kampala diocese, Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, has cautioned Ugandans who are to participate in the forthcoming general elections against succumbing to politicians' lies.

"How many times do we hear politicians promising us heaven and earth and failing to fulfil their promises? Do not be deceived. Vote for only people who will steer development in our country."

Lwanga further cautioned Ugandans against turning sex into a recreation instead of having it for procreation. "Each organ on the human body was made for a purpose. You cannot use your nose to eat food. Likewise, sexuality was made for a certain purpose, not for recreation."

Lwanga, who had just arrived from Italy, was addressing a press conference at which a five-year advocacy campaign against domestic violence was launched, in partnership between the Irish government and the Catholic church.

Journalists who attended the press conference at his residence in Rubaga sought his reaction to recent remarks by Pope Benedict XVI, who accepted the use of condoms in certain circumstances.

Journalists also sought his thoughts on the heated political campaigns, which fuel domestic violence over political differences in homes.

Lwanga said, "The Catholic church in Uganda is waiting for an official communication from the Vatican on the Pope's alleged remarks. We cannot depend on media reports. But what I understood from what I read was that the Pope was saying that sexuality is for a purpose, not for recreation, as most people currently take it to be."

He regretted that often politicians buy their votes with cheap items like soap, sugar and salt.

"Good leaders do not lie. Do not risk your votes on liars," the Archbishop said.

He urged Ugandans to understand politics and negotiate it objectively to create peace and harmony. Lwanga noted that most African states misunderstand politics to mean creating enmity with people of divergent views, yet politics should be used to forge unity and development.

Lwanga said lack of transparency among couples was one of the major causes of domestic violence: "How many husbands are open to their wives on how much money they get and where it is kept and how it is spent? This applies to women too. How many women do not want to know their husbands' income?"

He amused journalists when he said that he had met a couple in Italy that told him that they have a joint account for all their income and they agree on how the money is to be spent.

SOURCE http://allafrica.com/stories/201011260608.html

TODAY'S SAINT: NOV. 28: ST. JAMES OF THE MARCHES

St. James of the Marches FRANCISCAN FRIAR AND MISSIONARY Feast: November 28 Information: Feast Day: November 28 Born: 1391, Monteprandone, Marche of Ancona, Italy Died: November 28, 1476 Canonized: 10 December 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII Major Shrine: Franciscan church of St. Maria la Nuova Patron of: Patron of the city of Naples, Italy Franciscan, b. of a poor family named Gangala, at Monteprandone, March of Ancona, Italy, 1391; d. at Naples, 28 Nov., 1476. He is generally represented holding in his right hand a chalice, out of which a snake is escaping --an allusion to some endeavours of heretics to poison him or, less likely, to the controversy about the Precious Blood. He began his studies at Offida under the guidance of his uncle, a priest, who soon afterwards put him to school at Ascoli. At the University of Perugia he took the degree of Doctor in Civil Law. After a short stay at Florence as tutor in a noble family, and as judge of sorcerers, James was received into the Order of the Friars Minor, in the chapel of the Portiuncula, Assisi, 26 July, 1416. Having finished his novitiate at the hermitage of the Carceri, near Assisi, he studied theology at Fiesole, near Florence, under St. Bernardine of Siena. On 13 June, 1420, be was ordained priest, and soon began to preach in Tuscany, in the Marches, and Umbria; for half a century he carried on his spiritual labours, remarkable for the miracles he performed and the numerous conversions he wrought. From 1427 James preached penance, combated heretic, and was on legations in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, and Bosnia. In the last-mentioned country he was also commissary of the Friars Minor. At the time of the Council of Basle he promoted the union of the moderate Hussites with the Church, and that of the Greeks it the Council of Ferrara-Florence. Against the Turk, he preached several crusades, and at the death of St. John Capistran, in 1456, James was sent to Hungary as his successor. In Italy he fought the Fraticelli, instituted several montes pietatis, and preached in all the greater cities; Milan offered him the bishopric in 1460, which he declined. St. James belonged to the Observant branch of the Friars Minor, then rapidly spreading and exciting much envy. How much he suffered on this account is shown in a letter written by him to St. John Capistran, published by Nic. Dal-Gal, O.F.M., in "Archivum Franciscanum Historicum", I (1908), 94-97. Under Callistus III, in 1455, he was appointed an arbiter on the questions at issue between Conventuals and Observants. His decision was published 2 Feb., 1456, in a papal Bull, which pleased neither part . A few years later, on Easter Monday, 1462, St. James, preaching at Brescia, uttered the opinion of some theologians, that the Precious Blood shed during the Passion was not united with the Divinity of Christ during the three days of His burial. The Dominican James of Brescia, inquisitor, immediately cited him to his tribunal. James refused to appear, and after some troubles appealed to the Holy See. The question was discussed at Rome, Christmas, 1462 (not 1463, as some have it), before Pius II and the cardinals, but no decision was given. James spent the last three years of his life at Naples, and was buried there in the Franciscan church of S. Maria la Nuova, where his body is still to be seen. Beatified by Urban VIII, 1624, he was canonized by Benedict XIII, 1726. Naples venerates him as one of its patron saints (feast, 28 Nov.). The works of St. James of the Marches have not as yet been collected. His library and autographs are preserved in part at the Municipio of Monteprandone (see Crivellucci, "I codici della libreria raccolta da S. Giacomo della Marca nel convento di S. Maria delle Grazie presso Monteprandone", Leghorn, 1889). He wrote "Dialogus contra Fraticellos" printed in Baluze-Mansi, "Miscellanea", II, Lucca, 1761, 595-610 (cf. Ehrle in "Archiv für Litt. u. Kirchengeschichte", IV, Freiburg im Br., 1888, 107-10). His numerous sermons are not edited. For some of them, and for his treatise on the "Miracles of the Name of Jesus", see Candido Mariotti, O.F.M., "Nome di Gesù ed i Francescani", Fano, 1909, 125-34. On his notebook, or "Itinerarium", See Luigi Tasso, O.F.M., in "Miscellanea Francescana", I (1886), 125-26: "Regula confitendi peccata" was several times edited in Latin and Italian during the fifteenth century. "De Sanguine Christi effuse" and some other treatises remained in manuscript. SOURCEhttp://www.ewtn.com/saintsHoly/saints/J/stjamesofthemarches.asp

TODAY'S MASS READINGS: 1ST SUN. OF ADVENT: NOV. 28

Isaiah 2: 1 - 5

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1The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.2It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,3and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.4He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.5O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Psalms 122: 1 - 9
1	I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD!"
2	Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!
3	Jerusalem, built as a city which is bound firmly together,
4	to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
5	There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
6	Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! "May they prosper who love you!
7	Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers!"
8	For my brethren and companions' sake I will say, "Peace be within you!"
9	For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.

Romans 13: 11 - 14
11	Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed;
12	the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;
13	let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.
14	But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. Matthew 24: 37 - 44 37 As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man. 40 Then two men will be in the field; one is taken and one is left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken and one is left. 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.