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Subject: Re: POPE JOHN'S REVOLUTION

Author: Mike O'Shea

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 06:05:24 05/16/03 Fri In reply to: Sean 's message, "Re: POPE JOHN'S REVOLUTION" on 07:07:36 12/07/02 Sat The inference of all of this is that John XXIII made a mistake, that without his knowledge he became the agent of Satan (allowing the smoke of evil into the church). Most people inside and outside the church would not agree. John XXIII is one of the few people in the world whom I most admire. He opened a fossilised church to a new wind of healthy change, to freedom of discussion, to church services in the vernacular (which we can actually UNDERSTAND!). I rejoice that this is so, that I have the freedom within the church that Jesus our Lord promised to all men - that He died for, including the great gift of eternal life. I really do not understand how hanging onto Latin services would better the universal church. I get the impression that people who think along these lines worship a language rather than the God Who has created us, look for a physical, natural security rather than the wonderful, amazing security of knowing and loving God and our neighbour in the astounding mystery of the Holy Spirit. Such an obsession with language is as irrational as wishing that all services should be conducted in Aramaic - after all, this is the language that Jesus actually spoke, not a language that an imperial power foisted upon the then known world. Lighten up lads and lassies! Live in the real world of love and language. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Re: POPE JOHN'S REVOLUTION	Sean	08:35:13 05/16/03 Fri