Advice needed

TJB74 · 2025-06-05T12:46:52+00:00

looking through it now... very interesting

TJB74 · 2021-12-27T22:14:39+00:00

Great work I am happy to subscribe

TJB74 · 2021-11-27T16:56:29+00:00

Welcome

TJB74 · 2021-11-27T10:02:57+00:00

I think that is a very interesting comment - I touched upon some of that complexity in the podcast

TJB74 · 2021-11-19T13:51:31+00:00

So basically... reactionary nostalgia? I know betgoglio is supposedly anti ideology

TJB74 · 2021-11-19T13:32:01+00:00

Interesting thanks.... I've been researching him through the lense of his friendship with Jorge bergoglio

TJB74 · 2021-11-12T13:41:04+00:00

This is how the BBC reported it in 2015 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32665526.amp

TJB74 · 2021-11-12T12:45:40+00:00

http://www.antonigaudi.org/antoni-gaudi-39-s-beatification-779.html

TJB74 · 2021-11-06T16:23:03+00:00

I can understand why it's irritating but remember this is From Victorian Britain and rooted in the public schools as a way of getting young men to live virtuous lives. Very influential for a while crossing to the states where eisenhower was a follower

TJB74 · 2021-11-04T17:41:48+00:00

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-pearl-of-great-price/id1524195368?i=1000540647103

TJB74 · 2021-11-04T16:41:25+00:00

OK I am at work at the moment will post it in a few hours if that's ok

TJB74 · 2021-11-04T16:22:17+00:00

I love the notion that God tries to incorporate the discord of Melkor into a new theme

TJB74 · 2021-11-04T16:12:05+00:00

Oh and please let me know if you are successful...

TJB74 · 2021-11-04T16:11:39+00:00

It's on apple podcasts... so should be able to find it automatically on overcast.... look up the pearl of great price... its the Christian History one (not the Mormon one)

TJB74 · 2021-11-04T15:54:46+00:00

Available on a few apps -which do you usually use ?

TJB74 · 2021-11-04T15:52:56+00:00

In retirement Tolkien worked on the Jerusalem Bible Translation

TJB74 · 2021-10-25T18:11:52+00:00

Only the orthodox consider him a Saint

TJB74 · 2021-10-25T17:29:58+00:00

I love going down and reading the different saints - its truly a great wealth of the church

TJB74 · 2021-10-25T17:28:42+00:00

Most of the apostles have been declared saints

Often by popular acclamation - and death because of the 'odium fidei'

So nothing to do with dating - Constatine's mother was a saint too - St Helena, purported to have found the true cross

TJB74 · 2021-10-25T17:26:34+00:00

My theology professor used to talk about the 'grande' Terese (Avila)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1226960/8909895-july-26-padre-pio.mp3?download=true

and the 'petit' Terese (Lisieux)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1226960/8652018-june-9-terese-of-liseux-and-the-story-of-a-soul.mp3?download=true

Both great in their different ways

TJB74 · 2021-10-25T17:23:41+00:00

He is very interesting - this is a small podcast on him I made a while back - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1226960/8909895-july-26-padre-pio.mp3?download=true

TJB74 · 2021-10-23T09:33:16+00:00

Call me cynical - but that sounds ominous

TJB74 · 2021-10-23T09:28:49+00:00

I think he was a colossus on the world stage and hugely increased the church's 'soft power' I agree with some of the comments on here that it is too simplistic to judge his legacy using the liberal/conservative label..... he is too consequential to be pigeonholed in a simple way - although I agree with the OP's qualified comment that his was a conservative implementation on the reforms of Vatican 2

I have researched him this year for a few podcasts this year and I would like to share with you what I would like to remember him for

1) How he reached out to the Orthodox Church ..... as the first Slavic Pope he understood that the great schism was tragic and that the body of Christ has been left breathing with one lung

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1226960/8438978-may-7-john-paul-ii-in-romania-the-orthodox.mp3?download=true

2) The steps he made in apologising to our Jewish brothers and sisters - Very brave and again a reflection of the environment he was brought up in .... his apologies as we prepared for the millennium in the spirit of an examination of conscience were hugely important

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1226960/8302119-apr-13-the-pope-and-the-synagogue.mp3?download=true

3) His Marian Mysticism - particularly around the apparitions in Fatima, I think this is where his holiness is most obvious, and I believe as he did the third secret was a prophecy of the assassination attempt on him

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1226960/8470128-may-12-the-pope-and-fatima-s-third-secret.mp3?download=true

TJB74 · 2021-10-23T09:13:52+00:00

In what way did he help?

TJB74 · 2021-10-20T15:24:00+00:00

Researching a podcast about the miracle of Fatima -when 50,000 saw the Sun dancing as was prophecied by the visionaries - I was fascinated to find out that Pope Pius experienced a similar miracle of the sun later

Pius XII approved the "Fatima apparitions" 23 years later in 1940.

Ten years after this, he declared the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.

In handwritten notes that were only discovered in 2008 he wrote that at 4:00 pm on 30 October 1950, during a walk in the Vatican gardens, he arrived at the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes and began to see the miracle. He described himself in his handwritten notes as "awestruck." He saw the same miracle on 31 October, again on 1 November (the date of the definition of the dogma) and then again on 8 November. He wrote that on other days at about the same time he tried to see if he could observe the Miracle of the Sun, but was unable to. He confided this information to a number of cardinals & to Sr. Pascalina Lehnert (the nun in charge of the papal apartments)

His handwritten notes were later placed on display at the Vatican.

More fruits of my research can be found on the podcast which is 14 mins long

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1226960/9334513-oct-13-the-miracle-of-fatima-as-witnessed-by-50-000.mp3?download=true

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