The Ministry of Reconciliation - exchange 2

Dear William,
Thank you.
For the moment I look to Biblos, as below table
"be you reconciled" Greek KJV

καταλλάγητε

katallagēte

2644

V-2APM-2P

be you reconciled

And even clearer in the Vulgate
pro Christo ergo legationem fungimur tamquam Deo exhortante per nos obsecramus pro Christo reconciliamini Deo.


In Dno Donald

<< 2 Corinthians 5:20 >>

2 Corinthians 5:20 Greek Study Bible (Apostolic / Interlinear) Ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ οὖν πρεσβεύομεν ὡς τοῦ θεοῦ παρακαλοῦντος δι’ ἡμῶν·δεόμεθα ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ, καταλλάγητε τῷ θεῷ. KJV with Strong's  Now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we prayyou in Christ's stead be ye reconciled to God Greek Transliteration Strong's Morphology English Ὑπὲρ uper 5228 PREP on behalf Χριστοῦ christou 5547 N-GSM of anointed οὖν oun 3767 CONJ therefore πρεσβεύομεν presbeuomen 4243 V-PAI-1P we are ambassadors ὡς ōs 5613 ADV as though τοῦ tou 3588 T-GSM θεοῦ theou 2316 N-GSM God παρακαλοῦντος parakalountos 3870 V-PAP-GSM beseech δι’ di 1223 PREP through ἡμῶν ēmōn 2257 P-1GP us δεόμεθα deometha 1189 V-PMI-1P we plead ὑπὲρ uper 5228 PREP on behalf Χριστοῦ christou 5547 N-GSM of anointed καταλλάγητε katallagēte 2644 V-2APM-2P be you reconciled τῷ tō 3588 T-DSM to θεῷ theō 2316 N-DSM God ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΟΥΣ Β΄ 5:20 Greek NT: Westcott/Hort with DiacriticsὙπὲρ Χριστοῦ οὖν πρεσβεύομεν ὡς τοῦ θεοῦ παρακαλοῦντος δι’ ἡμῶν· δεόμεθα ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ, καταλλάγητε τῷ θεῷ.ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΟΥΣ Β΄ 5:20 Greek NT: Greek Orthodox ChurchὙπὲρ Χριστοῦ οὖν πρεσβεύομεν ὡς τοῦ Θεοῦ παρακαλοῦντος δι’ ἡμῶν· δεόμεθα ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ, καταλλάγητε τῷ Θεῷ· ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΟΥΣ Β΄ 5:20 Greek NT: Tischendorf 8th Ed. with Diacriticsὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ οὖν πρεσβεύομεν ὡς τοῦ θεοῦ παρακαλοῦντος δι’ ἡμῶν· δεόμεθα ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ, καταλλάγητε τῷ θεῷ. ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΟΥΣ Β΄ 5:20 Greek NT: Stephanus Textus Receptus (1550, with accents)ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ οὖν πρεσβεύομεν ὡς τοῦ θεοῦ παρακαλοῦντος δι' ἡμῶν· δεόμεθα ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ καταλλάγητε τῷ θεῷ ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΟΥΣ Β΄ 5:20 Greek NT: Byzantine/Majority Text (2000)υπερ χριστου ουν πρεσβευομεν ως του θεου παρακαλουντος δι ημων δεομεθα υπερ χριστου καταλλαγητε τω θεω ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΟΥΣ Β΄ 5:20 Greek NT: Textus Receptus (1894)υπερ χριστου ουν πρεσβευομεν ως του θεου παρακαλουντος δι ημων δεομεθα υπερ χριστου καταλλαγητε τω θεω 2 Corinthians 5:20 Hebrew Bibleלכן מליצי המשיח אנחנו וכאלו האלהים מזהיר אתכם על ידנו נבקש מכם בעד המשיח התרצו נא אל האלהים׃ 2 Corinthians 5:20 Aramaic NT: Peshittaܐܝܙܓܕܐ ܚܢܢ ܗܟܝܠ ܚܠܦ ܡܫܝܚܐ ܘܐܝܟ ܗܘ ܕܐܠܗܐ ܒܥܐ ܡܢܟܘܢ ܒܐܝܕܢ ܚܠܦ ܡܫܝܚܐ ܗܟܝܠ ܒܥܝܢܢ ܐܬܪܥܘ ܠܐܠܗܐ ܀ Latin: Biblia Sacra Vulgatapro Christo ergo legationem fungimur tamquam Deo exhortante per nos obsecramus pro Christo reconciliamini Deo Ambassadors Appeal Beg Behalf Beseech Beseeching Calling Christ Christ's Embassadors Entreat EntreatingEntreaty Implore Lips Making Peace Reconciled Representatives Request Stead Though

The Ministry of Reconciliation - exchange 1

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Donald Nunraw
To: William J Wardle
Sent: Fri, 22 July, 2011 17:12:11
Subject: Fw: Lost in translation? be you reconciled

Dear William,

Thank you.

Beautifully daunting. (needs my CCC formation). 

Leads powerfully to the reconciliation sacrament. 

For the moment from Biblos, as below table

"be you reconciled" Greek KJV

καταλλάγητε

katallagēte

2644

V-2APM-2P

be you reconciled

And even clearer in the Vulgate

pro Christo ergo legationem fungimur tamquam Deo exhortante per nos obsecramus pro Christo reconciliamini Deo.

Yours
 Donald    

PS. The Amplified Bible translation illuminating.  

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: William J . . . .
To: Donald . . .
Sent: Fri, 22 July, 2011 14:41:10
Subject: Lost in translation?

Dear Father Donald,

We are coming to the close of RCIA sessions with the subject "The Practice of Confession". The Church bemoans the fact that the faithful seem to disregard it. Having prepared for the session (just as a sponsor) and become familiar with the Catechism's references to the "ministry of reconciliation" (2 Cor 5), I was perplexed at the translation being used (coincidently) in the breviary's Office of Readings this week.

The translation selected is taken from the [TEV] Today's English Version (now known as the [GNT] Good News Translation) which has substituted the word 'reconciliation' with 'become the friends of God'. Jesus indeed called his own disciples 'friends', as opposed to 'servants' (Jn 15:14/15), but doesn't such friendship follow 'reconciliation'?

I have concern at what I sense / fear to be a 'dilution' of the sacrament that is - thus - presented in the breviary, andcannot help asking myself, has reconciliation (therefore the practice of confession) been lost in translation?

With my love in Our Lord, William.

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From the Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

1424. It is called the sacrament ofReconciliation, because it imparts to the sinner the life of God who reconciles: "Be reconciled to God." (2 Cor 5:20).

1442. Christ has willed that in her prayer and life and action his whole Church should be the sign and instrument of the forgiveness and reconciliation that he acquired for us at the price of his blood. But he entrusted the exercise of the power of absolution to the apostolic ministry which he charged with the "ministry of reconciliation." (2 Cor 5:18). The apostle is sent out "on behalf of Christ" with "God making his appeal" through him and pleading: "Be reconciled to God." (2 Cor 5:20).

[NRSV] - traditional

2 Corinthians 5: 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 18 All this is from God, whoreconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. 20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, bereconciled to God.

[TEV / GNT] - as in the Divine Office

2 Corinthians 5: 17 Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come. 18 All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also. 19Our message is that God was making all human beings his friends through Christ.God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends. 20Here we are, then, speaking for Christ, as though God himself were making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ's behalf: let God change you from enemies into his friends!

Comments

Thank you.

The Atlas Monks PPs, Subject: TIBHIRINE.fr.pps, has reached through the Emails. I am glad you found it show.

Unfortunately, only some succeed to down loading the slideshow on the Blog.

Yours,

D.

---- Forwarded Message ----
From: Sr. Peter
To: DONALD . . .
Sent: Mon, 18 July, 2011 18:55:04
Subject: Our Monks

Dear D.D.

What a beautiful presentation...I have played it twice

and hope to get the tech wizard here to download

it so we can play it for all the sisters....it really is

lovely and gave me a better idea of what the

monastery really looked like...in that respect, the

film, although impressive, gave a false impression.

A thousand thanks for thinking to forward it....so

much appreciated.

…

….

. . . yours in the Lord

Peter

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----- Forwarded Message ----
From: WILLIAM
To: Donald . . . .
Sent: Mon, 18 July, 2011 9:15:51
Subject: Re: TIBHIRINE.fr.pps

Dear Father Donald,

Thank you so very much for copying the PPpresentation to me.

I find it very moving and I will always treasure it.

. . . in Our Lord,

William

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Subject: TIBHIRINE.fr.pps

St. Bridget of Sweden (1304-1373)

St. Brigid of Sweden

Saturday, 23 July 2011

Saturday of the Sixteenth week in Ordinary Time

Feast of the Church : In Europe: SAINT BRIDGET OF SWEDEN, co-patroness of Europe - Feast

 Mass Introduction (Celebrant; Cardinal of Armagh)

Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Brigid of Sweden. Wife – mother – Religious and more recent times declared one of the Patron Saints of Europe.

In her life story we read that despite the fact that she had her problems with some of her children – NOT all of them were saints. Nevertheless Brigid always had a smiling face.

It was the sign that the Joy of Christ was in her soul and that the Joy  was complete as Jesus promised it would be.

It was a joy that came from her knowing that she was loved by God and united to his Son Jesus Christ as Branches are united to the Vine.

It was a joy that came from her allowing her life to be cleansed and so pruned by The Teaching of Jesus so that she could bear fruit that endures – for the glory of God -  the fruit of doing good works for the service of others.

It was a joy that came from knowing that she could ask from the Father and that her prayer would be heard.

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Lord – We have sometimes forgotten that you love us and that you are present with us and that you are present with us and within us and so we have become discouraged and disheartened –
Lord have mercy ...

Lord – We have sometimes overlooked the fact that each and every one an neighbour is made in your image and likeness. So we sometimes judged them unjustly and spoken hardly of them -
Christ have mercy ...

Lord – We have sometimes allowed ourselves to be so preoccupied and obsessed with our feelings and needs that we have overlooked the needs of others -
Lord have mercy . . .

Saint Mary Magdalene 22nd July

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Mark . . .
Sent: Fri, 22 July, 2011 16:18:49
Subject: Mary Magdalene

Mass

Introduction                                            Mary Magdalene (22 July, 2011)

From the gospel we can see that Mary Magdalene loved Jesus very deeply; so much so that her grief at his death blinded her when he spoke to her after his resurrection. Naturally she didn’t expect to see Jesus alive and so imagined thought that he was someone else.

Introduction to Mass                               Mary Magdalene (22 July, 2011)

As we honour Mary Magdalene today, we recognise that we, too, can fail to see Jesus in moments of stress or crisis.  The risen Jesus is fully alive for us and calls each of us by our name.

1.      Lord Jesus, you are risen and you continue to reach out to us in our need.                                          Lord, have mercy.

2.     Risen Jesus, you remain near to us especially in times of darkness and uncertainty.                Christ, have mercy.

3.     Lord Jesus, through your Spirit you lead us into all truth and love.
                                                            Lord, have mercy.

 

Prayer of Faithful: 

God our Father, hear us as we pray for all our
                                    needs.  May the great love of Mary Magdalene
                                    increase our faith in you.  We ask this through your
                                    risen Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.   

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Thanks to Editor.
MAGNIFICAT Missalette cover & commentary.

http://www.magnificat.net/english/popup_couv.asp 

Saint Mary Magdalene

For she loved much…

Artwork of the front cover: Mary Magdalene, Antonio Veneziano (14th century), Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City. © Photo Scala, Florence.

In contemplating this “portrait” of Mary Magdalene by Antonio Veneziano, one discerns how, in the crucible of the Most Serene Republic, the Italian genius ushered in the art of the Renaissance via a subtle alchemy of influences. Through the reception of French Gothic art of great originality he transmuted the ossified Byzantine forms of the Orient into an innovative rediscovery of ancient art.
Here we see “the sinner of love” represented not as a penitent overwhelmed with remorse, but radiant in the charm of her liberated and redeemed beauty. In her left hand she holds the Gospel, the book of the Good News of salvation, source of the profound joy that illuminates her face. With her right hand, as if bearing a monstrance, she presents the vessel which contained the precious nard that served in advance for the embalming of the Body of Christ. Her free-flowing hair attests that, as a daughter of Eve, she has renounced none of her feminine splendor. Nevertheless it ripples down her shoulders in six tresses, the number which signifies imperfection and the limits of human nature. These locks, well disciplined, as if guided by superior standards of fashion, are arranged upon a dress that borrows its color from the rosa mystica. One seeks in vain for the expression of a more fervent desire and a more vibrant love, now reoriented because healed from the fatal poison of concupiscence.     

■ Pierre-Marie Varenn     

Matthew 13:10-17 Parables

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Nivard . . .
Sent: Wed, 20 July, 2011 19:10:55
Subject: They see but do not understand

16 Thursday (21 July 2011): 

"Many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see and hear what you hear" Matthew 13:10-17

 

There is only one thing that can open a closed, confused, and divided mind – a broken heart and humble spirit! The word disciple means one who is willing to learn and ready to submit to the wisdom and truth which comes from God. Psalm 119 expresses the joy and delight of a disciple who loves God's word and who embraces it with trust and obedience. "Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation." (Psalm 119:97-99)

 

Father, may our hearts never grow dull and may our ears never tire of listening to the voice of Christ our Lord.

 

God can only reveal the secrets of his kingdom to the humble and trusting person who acknowledges their need for God and for his truth. The parables of Jesus will enlighten us if we approach them with an open mind and heart, ready to let them challenge us. If we approach God's word with indifference, skepticism, and disbelief, then we, too, may "hear but not understand" and "see but not perceive." God's word can only take root in a receptive heart that is ready to believe and willing to submit. If we want to hear and to understand God's word, we must listen with reverence and faith. Do you believe God's word and do you submit to it with trust and reverence?

Jerome, an early church bible scholar who lived between 342-419 AD, wrote: "You are reading [the scriptures]? No.Your betrothed is talking to you. It is your betrothed, that is, Christ, who is united with you. He tears you away from the solitude of the desert and brings you into his home, saying to you, 'Enter into the joy of your Master.'"

 

Father, may your Holy Spirit, be our teacher and guide. Open my ears to hear God's word and open my eyes to understand God's action in my life. May our hearts never grow dull and may our ears never tire of listening to the voice of Christ our Lord.

 Daily Scripture Reading    http://www.rc.net/wcc/readings/index.html

Pope Matthew 13 on Parables

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20MATTHEW 13:1-9 It was an entry to the Mass this morning, Fr. T. reminded us of the theme on the PARABLES, Matt 13 1:9, repeat as from the Sunday of 10th July.
The thoughts of Pope at Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo range in his fresh reflection on the Parables.
Benedict XVI in Jesus of Nazareth Vol 2 offers  even deeper study on the Parables.

http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2011/07/god-attracts-us-with-goodness-of-his.html

ANGELUS: RECOGNISING THE PRIMACY OF GOD THE FATHER

VATICAN CITY, 17 JUL 2011 (VIS) - At midday today Benedict XVI appeared at the balcony overlooking the inner courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo, to pray the Angelus with faithful gathered there.

  Commenting, as he does every Sunday, on that morning's Gospel reading, the Pope explained how the parables are "brief narratives which Jesus uses to announce the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven. Using images and situations taken from everyday life, the Lord wishes to show us the true foundation of all things. He shows us ... the God Who acts, Who enters our daily lives".

  Using these narratives, "the divine Master invites us to recognise, first and foremost, the primacy of God the Father. Where He is not present, nothing good can exist. He is a decisive priority in all things. The Kingdom of heaven means, in fact, the lordship of God; in other words, His will must be assumed as the criterion-guide for our existence".

  In today's Gospel Jesus compares heaven to a field of wheat, "in order to help us understand that something small and hidden, but possessing an irrepressible life force, is sown within us. Despite all the obstacles, the seed will develop and the fruit ripen, but the fruit will be good only if the terrain of life has been cultivated in accordance with the divine will.

  "For this reason", the Pope added, "in the parable of the weeds among the wheat Christ warns us that, after the master had sown his seed, 'while everybody was asleep an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat'. The meaning of this is that we must be ready to protect the grace we received on the day of Baptism, continuing to nourish faith in the Lord, which prevents evil from taking root".

  Finally, the Pope turned his attention to the first reading of this morning's Mass, a passage from the Book of Wisdom underscoring the mercy and power of God. "If, then, we are all children of such a great and good Father", he said, "let us seek to resemble Him. This was the goal Jesus set Himself with His preaching, when He told His hearers: ''Be perfect ... as your heavenly Father is perfect".
ANG/                                    VIS 20110718 (380) 

Sunday, 17 July 2011 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Gladioli alias Glad!
in the sanctuary 

  http://www.simnet.is/e.booth/english/16Sund11.htm

Fr. Edward OP
Homily

16 Sunday 2011

•                The parable of the tares sown amongst the wheat, as also the sequel of the woman introducing leaven into the bread-dough follow on naturally from the parable of the sower. One feels the presence of the tidy mind of Matthew bringing them together as thematically linked.
•                The problem of finding tares sown amongst wheat is a more complex problem than those with the terrain. Wind-blown tare seed must be a common hazard, but more intense when some farmers seek to keep their fields in cultivation when a neighbouring field has been neglected after cultivation in it ceased. I am always conscious of the close and luxuriant growth of very large weeds together in the patch of land just under the hotel here, as one turns towards the swimming pool. I believe that with genuine tares it is not immediately evident what they are as they germinate along with the wheat. The lack of experience and intelligence of the labourers is very evident as they propose to pull and dig out the weeds immediately. That would have meant the impossible task of separating out the root systems, with the consequent halting of growth for the wheat. The field-owner had much more experience, and rightly rejected their suggestion instantaneously. Let them grow together and separate the tares from the wheat at the harvest-time, before the tare-seeds had fallen and, like the wheat-seeds, were still on the stem. They can be burnt. They would add a little potash to the soil to increase its fertility. And so a toleration of the presence of weeds as an everyday phenomenon, gains a universal knowledge of a much more significant field of human action which is the need under certain circumstances to tolerate the presence and even the development of evil in the short term, with extension into practical ergonomics in the area of the economising of human effort. Actually the amount of more than common sense which is called for to solve the questions is virtually zero.
•                But the consequences can be extrapolated to the divine tolerance of evil, and the divine power of bringing good out of evil. But in dealing with evil from a divine point of view there must be more than abstract principles. There must be a connaturality with the divine as such which has grown with that special activation of spiritual gifts rising to the contemplation of God which is the heart, the source, the appropriate atmosphere which is better when the contemplative atmosphere is widespread, leading to the gaining of perhaps only a little of the immense wisdom of God.
•                Then Our Lord contemplates the incredible energies present in the growth of a mustard seed, leaving us with the birds, whose song delights us, feeling secure in the nests which they build amongst the foliage of its branches. That the woman bakes her own bread coincides with a present day trend for people who are rightly suspicious of the use of low quality ingredients. In previous times bakers have been described as the most honest of men. According to a shrewd Catholic writer, half- English and half-French, it is because they have to get up earlier than other men and so they can contemplate the beauty of a slow sunrise which other  men miss as they swallow a little unnourishing breakfast, and then are subjected to the stress of road traffic, or hide themselves behind the pages of the early editions of the newspapers  in their stop-start commuter trains and buses, arriving in no fit state to apply their tired judgements to a pile of routine work.
•                Again Our Lord says nothing extraordinary. But his own contemplative capacities were enormous, and through these lines the contemplative search is passed on to us as listeners or readers. There is a repetition of the allusion to the "mysteries of the Kingdom" as it is found in the parable of the sower. He says "I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." The secret of tare-growth and its treatment? The growth of the mustard tree? The introduction of yeast to bread-dough - when he has omitted the addition of warm sugar solution which can spur the yeast-growth to a far higher degree?
•                But when these images are applied with a sensitive and experienced knowledge of what is obtained in prayer, then curtains are drawn and closed doors are opened, as the cutting-edge of the mind is applied both to the mind itself and through the mind itself cuts through to the knowledge of the Tri-une God at its enormous depth, working always at its own rate, with defined purposes, as it removes the rust in our own souls, renewing us through and through. Amen.

Atlas Monks PPs

Many Links appreciated, amount to strong Chain of this Presentation of the Account of the Monks of Our Lady of Atlas, Tibhirine.

Thank you.

Donald

July 2011 entrance Nunraw Church

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----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Sr. Christina     
To: Donald . . .
Cc: Nivard Mc. Glynn
Sent: Sun, 17 July, 2011 1:18:51
Subject: Fw: Fw : Tr : tr: TIBHIRINE.fr.pps

Dear Donald,

Another very moving presentation of the Martyrs of Tibherine.  

Sr. Bridget Pereira sent it to me.

. . ., lots of love and prayer.

Xris

PS. An inspiring true Story. Bridget