Mosaïque de la basilique Sainte-Sophie, à Constantinople/Istanbul, au dessus du choeur; Marie Theotokos.
Le titre de Théotokos (du grec Θεοτόκος, « qui a enfanté Dieu »), attribué à Marie, apparaît sous la plume d’Alexandre d’Alexandrie en 325, l’année du Premier concile de Nicée ; ensuite, longtemps avant celui d'Éphèse (431), il est très fréquent. Dans l'Église latine, le titre de Mère de Dieu est parfois rendu par deipare. 1:11:25 PM
The future Pope Francis recalls one day, while a student of chemistry at an industrial college..."It was September 21 – I always remember this – I went out for a walk with some friends and I passed the Iglesia de Flores. I went inside the church, I entered, I felt that I had to enter, there are things that you feel inside and you don’t really know what they are. I looked and it was dark, a September morning, and I saw a priest coming. I didn’t know him, he wasn’t from that church, and then he sat down in the last confessional, on the left, facing the alter, and then I don’t know what happened to me.”
Bergoglio continued: “I felt like somebody grabbed me from inside and took me to the confessional. I’m not sure what happened there, clearly I must have confessed, but I don’t know what happened, and when I finished confessing, I asked the priest where he was from, because I didn’t know him,” the future Pope recalled. “He said ‘I’m from Corrientes (an Argentine city near the border with Paraguay), and I am living near here, in the rectory, and I am going to lead mass here occasionally.’"
Bergoglio recalled that the priest was suffering from leukemia, and died the following year. "While I was there I felt that I had to become a priest, and I didn’t doubt it,” Bergoglio remembered. 9:12:30 AM
Le pape François a confirmé lundi un proche de son prédécesseur Benoît XVI, le cardinal canadien Marc Ouellet, cité comme papabile au dernier conclave, au poste clé de président de la Congrégation pour les évêques, a annoncé le Vatican. 11:03:50 AM
C’est l'introït du deuxième dimanche de l’Avent. Dans une toute nouvelle interprétation qui est proposée à notre écoute par les "Cantori Gregoriani" et par leur chef de chœur. 10:29:09 AM
Orthodox Churches in the Ukraine do not often understand why the Greek Catholic Church exists. They see us as a geopolitical project of the past. But there are some positive signs too. Many Christians are tired of divisions and are asking for unity. There is a growing ecumenism from the bottom up.” 6:30:11 AM
Journal Missa
Mardi le 3 décembre 2013
Sayings of the Desert Fathers Palladius said, "One day when I was suffering from boredom I went to Abba Macarius and said, "What shall I do? My thoughts afflict me, saying, you are not making any progress, go away from here. " He said to me, "Tell them, for Christ's sake, I am guarding the walls. " 8:52:02 PM
Alan Cox, surnommé Father, s'était donné pour mission d'aider les plus démunis de la société, mais surtout de préparer les jeunes aux réalités de la vie. 4:42:31 AM
Pour l'islam, Dieu est Dieu, il n’est pas père. Il n’est pas nommé ainsi : ce serait un anthropomorphisme coupable. Il ne requiert pas l’amour et ne le dispense pas. Alors que la foi chrétienne est : une révélation de la paternité amoureuse de Dieu. 4:32:18 AM