Katholisch Leben!

Schoepfung

In Markus 4,31 steht,dass das Senfkorn der kleinste Samen auf Erden ist. Es gibt aber noch kleinere, z.b. den der Orchidee. Kennt Jesus sich in der Natur nicht aus?

Jesus ging es wohl weniger darum, ein naturwissenschaftliches Statement für die gesamte Welt abzugeben, sondern Er versuchte, Bilder zu verwenden, die dem Kenntnisstand der damaligen Menschen entsprachen. Für die mag das das kleinste Samenkorn gewesen sein. Außerdem grenzte Er die Samenkörner ja auch ein: Es ging um die Samenkörner, die man in die Erde sät (also etwa um später Früchte zu ernten).

Und genau hier sind wir am Punkt.

Senf wuchs in ganz Palästina (wohl auch heute noch). In der westlichen Welt wird er teilweise als Unkraut gesehen. Er kann bis zu 2,4 Meter hoch werden - und das in einer Jahreszeit! Seine Samen sind aber ungewöhnlich klein (siehe auch Matt. 13,31-32; 17,20; Markus 4,30-32;Lukas 17,6)

Jesus vergleicht dies mit dem Reich Gottes, das zwar erst einmal als kleine Saat gesät wird, dann aber aufgeht und alle anderen Pflanzen übersteigt, sodass die Vögel des Himmels darin nisten können, wie es in Vers 32 heisst.

Wer etwas Englisch kann, dem empfehle ich zum Nachschlagen das "Catholic Bible Dictionary" von Scott Hahn, erschienen bei Doubleday Religion.

United States

Obama Highlights Emerging Impacts of Climate Change, Calls for Energy Transformation and for Community Climate Preparedness

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:49 +0000

In his State of the Union address last night (12 February 2013), President Obama said that "for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change." He pledged to "come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy." He said that "if Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will." Lou Leonard, WWF’s head of climate change, responded: "It was encouraging to see President Obama connect the dots between extreme weather and dirty energy, and to be clear that he won't wait for Congress to act. Cities and towns on the front lines of extreme weather can't afford more excuses from Washington."

In his Second Inaugural Address, President Obama says "We will respond to the threat of climate change"

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:21:05 +0000

In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama said today (21 January 2013) at the Capitol in Washington, DC: "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations." Lou Leonard, head of WWF’s climate change program, is heartened by the President's statement, saying that "it is an important first step for using the power of the Presidency to spur a practical national conversation on climate change. The importance of the President regularly raising his voice on this issue cannot be overstated. But a sustained national conversation isn’t enough. The President should lay out the steps he can and will take to clean up our energy system, help communities prepare for climate disruption and encourage the rest of the world to ramp up action."

Chicago, Cincinnati, San Francisco Recognized for Citywide Efforts to Address Climate Change

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:56:30 +0000

Chicago, Cincinnati and San Francisco have been selected as U.S. finalists in World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour City Challenge, a year-long challenge rewarding cities that are preparing for increasingly extreme weather and promoting renewable energy. Both Chicago and Cincinnati experienced their warmest years on record in 2012.

2012: The Year Climate Change Got Real for Americans (Video)

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:38:55 +0000

In the latest in his “Climate Denial Crock of the Week" video series, Peter Sinclair provides an overview of the climate extremes in 2012 that battered the U.S. The conditions have helped shift public opinion and elevate the public debate around climate change.

With High Hopes for the Future: Obama's Moral Imperative to Address Climate Change

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:36:39 +0000

"I wager," says WWF President and CEO Carter Roberts in this Huffington Post piece, "that like Lincoln, President Obama will be remembered most for what he does to address the existential threat that history has presented on his watch: the breakdown of our planet's natural systems upon which all life depends, and specifically human-caused climate change."

Release of National Climate Assessment Public Review Draft: 11 January 2013

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:11:46 +0000

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Celebrating Women in Fairtrade

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:17:00 +0100March 8 marks International Womenâ€™s Day, and throughout Fairtrade we honour the hard-working women.The most recent Fairtrade monitoring report indicates that women represent 20 percent of all farmers and 47 percent of hired workers in Fairtrade. Taken together, one in four Fairtrade producers are women. Women are active in all aspects of Fairtrade, from farming to processing, and in some cases, management of producer organisations and cooperatives.The dedication of the passionate and...

In Memory of a True Fair Trader

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:03:00 +0100On 13 February RaÃºl del Ãguila, a Fairtrade producer and dedicated Fair Trader, passed away in Nuremberg, Germany, where he was attending a trade fair. As a strong leader in the global Fair Trade movement, RaÃºlâ€™s network was wide and the effect of his lifeâ€™s work touched everyone working for trade justice.As Manager of COCLA, one of Peruâ€™s largest coffee cooperatives, RaÃºl was dedicated to serve the interests of â€˜pequeÃ±os productores,â€™ the small producers, and made sure their voice was heard...

En memoria de un verdadero embajador del comercio justo

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:01:00 +0100RaÃºl del Ãguila, un productor Fairtrade y un dedicado embajador del comercio justo, falleciÃ³ el 13 de febrero en Nuremberg, Alemania, en donde se encontraba visitando una feria comercial. Siendo un fuerte lÃder del movimiento global del comercio justo, la red de amigos y colegas de RaÃºl es amplia y los efectos del trabajo desempeÃ±ado toda su vida han conmovido a todos los que trabajan por la equidad comercial. Como gerente general de COCLA, una de las cooperativas de cafÃ© mÃ¡s grandes de PerÃº,...

Fairtrade Announces Three-Year Global Strategy to â€˜Unlock the Power of the Manyâ€™

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:57:00 +0100Fairtrade International (FLO) CEO Harriet Lamb announced Fairtradeâ€™s new global three-year strategic framework today at BioFach, the worldâ€™s largest organic trade fair in Nuremburg.â€œWith our 2013-2015 strategy â€˜Unlocking the Power of the Manyâ€™ we seek to be at the cutting edge of reforming global trade in favour of justice, unlocking the power of disadvantaged farmers and workers and the consumers who support them,â€ says Lamb.Fairtradeâ€™s new strategy seeks to intensify work with...

Fairtrade Access Fund's first loan to COPROCAEL co-op in Honduras

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:40:00 +0100The Fairtrade Access Fund provided its first loan to COPROCAEL in Honduras. The new fund, run by Fairtrade International, Incofin Investment Management and Grameen Foundation, is offering a range of loans and technical assistance to Fairtrade certified farmersâ€™ organizations.Cooperativa De Productores De CafÃ© "EncarnaciÃ³n" Limitada (COPROCAEL) in Honduras received a trade finance loan of US$ 570,000 to purchase the coffee of its 170 member farmers during the harvest season. The...

Stand and be counted

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:02:00 +0100As sales of Fairtrade products continue to grow around the world, the need for understanding the impact increases. Today Fairtrade International (FLO) releases â€˜Monitoring the Scope and Benefits of Fairtrade 2012â€™, a compendium of data and summaries of key research exploring the impacts of Fairtrade. Click here for the full report and other Fairtrade research. â€œFairtrade is making a difference for over a million farmers and workers and their families, as this report shows,â€ said Harriet Lamb,...

Fairtrade International News

Celebrating Women in Fairtrade

In Memory of a True Fair Trader

En memoria de un verdadero embajador del comercio justo

Fairtrade Announces Three-Year Global Strategy to â€˜Unlock the Power of the Manyâ€™

Fairtrade Access Fund's first loan to COPROCAEL co-op in Honduras

Stand and be counted

Fairtrade International News

Celebrating Women in Fairtrade

In Memory of a True Fair Trader

En memoria de un verdadero embajador del comercio justo

Fairtrade Announces Three-Year Global Strategy to â€˜Unlock the Power of the Manyâ€™

Fairtrade Access Fund's first loan to COPROCAEL co-op in Honduras

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Katholiken und Kreationismus

Katholiken stehen dem Kreationismus (also der wörtlichen Auslegung des Schöpfungsberichts im Gegensatz zur Evolutionstheorie) in der Regel ablehnend gegenüber - vor allem auf ofizieller Basis. Dies aber vor allem deshalb, weil sie vom Kreationismus nur das wissen, was ihnen andere erzählt oder was sie irgendwo gelesen haben. Sie selbst haben oft nur unklare Vorstellungen davon, wie sich wissenschaftliche Theorien mit dem Glauben an Gott vereinbaren lassen (bestenfalls wird davon ausgegangen, dass Gott alles ins Rollen gebracht hat und seitdem alles seinen wissenschaftlichen Lauf folgt - was aber wenig wissenschaftlich ist). Das Problem hierbei: Wenn man schon das Fundament der gesamten weiteren Bibel (auch Jesus nimmt darauf Bezug!) relativiert, darf man sich nicht wundern, wenn einem die jungen Menschen weglaufen, da sie auch den ganzen Rest relativieren!

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Seek Me!

Jeremiah 29:13

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"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."

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The Great Commandment

Matthew 22:36-40

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36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Apologetik

Diese Seite hat sich der Apologetik verschrieben, also der Verteidigung und Begründung des Katholischen Glaubens. Es sollen zum einen Katholikinnen und Katholiken das nötige Handwerkszeug bekommen, um ihren Glauben kennen zu lernen (wir können ja letztlich nur lieben, was wir auch kennen), diesen sich selbst gegenüber begründen zu können (Glaube und Vernunft gehen Hand in Hand), aber auch um in der Lage zu sein, den katholischen Glauben gegen Angriffe verteidigen zu können. Andererseits aber möchten wir all denen, die meinen, sie lehnen die Katholische Kirche ab - aber tatsächlich nur das ablehnen, was sie dafür halten - in Liebe begegnen und ihnen unsere Glaubensgrundsätze vermitteln. Schließlich richtet sich diese Homepage respekt- und liebevoll an all die, die meinen, sie wären "bibeltreue Christinnen und Christen" und die Katholische Kirche hätte ihre biblische Grundlage schon lange aufgegeben - wenn sie diese denn überhaupt je hatte. Hier soll vermittelt werden, dass unser Glaube sich sehr wohl auf die Bibel stützt. Wir möchten ihnen in Demut und geschwisterlicher Liebe zeigen, warum wir glauben, was wir glauben.

Letztlich geht es bei diesem Projekt auch und vor allem darum, Jesus und die frohe Botschaft - das Königreich Gottes - zu verkünden und Menschen zu Jüngern Jesu zu machen. Hier soll also nicht auf Biegen und Brechen ein von Gott losgelöst betrachtetes Bollwerk verteidigt werden, sondern anhand unseres eigenen Beispiels anderen Menschen gezeigt werden, was es heisst, einander zu lieben und Jesus nachzufolgen.

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Father Joseph Ratzinger 1969 Prediction of the Future of the Church

In a 1969 German radio broadcast, Father Joseph Ratzinger offered this prediction of the future of the Church:

“The future of the Church can and will issue from those whose roots are deep and who live from the pure fullness of their faith. It will not issue from those who accommodate themselves merely to the passing moment or from those who merely criticize others and assume that they themselves are infallible measuring rods; nor will it issue from those who take the easier road, who sidestep the passion of faith, declaring false and obsolete, tyrannous and legalistic, all that makes demands upon men, that hurts them and compels them to sacrifice themselves.

To put this more positively: The future of the Church, once again as always, will be reshaped by saints, by men, that is, whose minds probe deeper than the slogans of the day, who see more than others see, because their lives embrace a wider reality. Unselfishness, which makes men free, is attained only through the patience of small daily acts of self-denial. By this daily passion, which alone reveals to a man in how many ways he is enslaved by his own ego, by this daily passion and by it alone, a man’s eyes are slowly opened. He sees only to the extent that he has lived and suffered.

If today we are scarcely able any longer to become aware of God, that is because we find it so easy to evade ourselves, to flee from the depths of our being by means of the narcotic of some pleasure or other. Thus our own interior depths remain closed to us. If it is true that a man can see only with his heart, then how blind we are!

How does all this affect the problem we are examining? It means that the big talk of those who prophesy a Church without God and without faith is all empty chatter. We have no need of a Church that celebrates the cult of action in political prayers. It is utterly superfluous. Therefore, it will destroy itself. What will remain is the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church that believes in the God who has become man and promises us life beyond death. The kind of priest who is no more than a social worker can be replaced by the psychotherapist and other specialists; but the priest who is no specialist, who does not stand on the [sidelines], watching the game, giving official advice, but in the name of God places himself at the disposal of man, who is beside them in their sorrows, in their joys, in their hope and in their fear, such a priest will certainly be needed in the future.

Let us go a step farther. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, it will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only by free decision. As a small society, it will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members. Undoubtedly it will discover new forms of ministry and will ordain to the priesthood approved Christians who pursue some profession. In many smaller congregations or in self-contained social groups, pastoral care will normally be provided in this fashion. Along-side this, the full-time ministry of the priesthood will be indispensable as formerly. But in all of the changes at which one might guess, the Church will find her essence afresh and with full conviction in that which was always at her center: faith in the triune God, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, in the presence of the Spirit until the end of the world. In faith and prayer she will again recognize the sacraments as the worship of God and not as a subject for liturgical scholarship.

The Church will be a more spiritual Church, not presuming upon a political mandate, flirting as little with the Left as with the Right. It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek. The process will be all the more arduous, for sectarian narrow-mindedness as well as pompous self-will will have to be shed. One may predict that all of this will take time. The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution — when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain — to the renewal of the nineteenth century.

But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.

And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith. It may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but it will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.”

https://www.romancatholicman.com/father-joseph-ratzinger-1969-prediction-future-church/

Beitrag von Evangelical Catholics.

Michael Card: "Why?"

Why did it have to be a friend who chose to betray the Lord?

and why did he use a kiss to show them, that's not what a kiss is for?

Only a friend can betray a friend, a stranger has nothing to gain.

and only a friend comes close enough to ever cause so much pain.

Why did it have to be a thorny crown place upon his head?

It should have been a royal one, made of jewels and gold instead.

It had to be a crown of thorns, because in this world that we live,

all that would seek to love a thorn is all the world has to give.

Why did it have to be a heavy cross he was made to bear?

and why did they nail His feet and hands; His love would have held him there.

It was a cross for on a cross, a thief was supposed to pay.

and Jesus had come into the world to steal every heart away.

Yes, Jesus had come into the world to steal every heart away.

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"Interesting that they call it "gay pride" because pride is the worst of sins and the root of all other sins - in essence a stubborn rebellion against God and his commandments. This parade in Tel Aviv is awful and shameful not only because Israel promotes sexual perversion and the distortion of God's purpose for the human person, but it's even worse because they celebrate it with "pride". Remember that God will extend His protection upon you, Israel, only to the extent that you keep his commandments. In other words, you are inviting disaster upon your nation. Repent!"

Andre Villeneuve on the Gay Pride in Israel

“We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.”

― G.K. Chesterton

If the Church becomes more and more like the world, why would we need the Church then anymore? The world does what the world does - and it can do that way better than Church people will ever be able to. If we don't have more than this, if we are no different than anybody else, what's the point of being a follower of Jesus Christ?

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

Wisdom of the ancients:
"Should we look to kings and princes to put right the inequalities between rich and poor? Should we require soldiers to come and seize the rich person's gold and distribute it among his destitute neighbors? Should we beg the emporer to impose a tax on the rich so great that it reduces them to the level of the poor and then to share the proceeds of that tax among everyone? Equality imposed by force would achieve nothing, and do much harm. Those who combined both cruel hearts and sharp minds would soon find ways of making themselves rich again. Worse still, the rich whose gold was taken away would feel bitter and resentful; while the poor who received the gold from the hands of soldiers would feel no gratitude, because no generosity would have prompted the gift. Far from bringing moral benefit to society, it would actually do moral harm. Material justice cannot be accomplished by compulsion, a change of heart will not follow. The only way to achieve true justice is to change people's hearts first - and then they will joyfully share their wealth."
-- St. John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople (died in 407 A.D.)

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Wetter München

"But do you and I realize what we are doing at this point? We are molding Jesus into our image. He is beginning to look a lot like us because, after all, that is whom we are most comfortable with. And the danger now is that when we gather in our church building to sing and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshiping the Jesus of the Bible. Instead we may be worshiping ourselves"

David Platt

Hat immer ein offenes Ohr für Besucher - unser Kollege am Empfang. #Caritas #München #Oberbayern

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Caritas München und Freising (@caritasmuc) am Aug 16, 2018 um 6:42 PDT

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Katholisch Leben!

Den katholischen Glauben kennen, leben, lieben & verteidigen!

Schoepfung

In Markus 4,31 steht,dass das Senfkorn der kleinste Samen auf Erden ist. Es gibt aber noch kleinere, z.b. den der Orchidee. Kennt Jesus sich in der Natur nicht aus?

Katholiken und Kreationismus

Seek Me!

The Great Commandment

Apologetik

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Moralistic Therapeutic Deism