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Mystical Geekery for March 2012
Between checking papers and finalizing the grades of my students, I was able to squeeze in five posts. The article on the Paschal Mystery was written in line with a BEC recollection we have planned for Holy Tuesday. The articles on the NABRe and an Augustinian Youth gathering memento were unplanned; this latter was pure serendipity. The articles posted on March 3 and 12 were for the first and second Sundays of Lent.
- Paschal Mystery in the Catechism (March 31)
- A survey of the occurrences of the phrase in the Catechism.
- Thoughts From A Twenty-Year Old Memento (March 27)
- I received it during a youth gathering in Cartoceto, Italy some twenty-years ago. This memento speaks of the life and inspiration of Augustinians
- I Finally Got It! (March 24)
- I have been waiting for the NABRe to be made available in the Philippines. I finally got my copy during a trip to St. Paul’s.
- Jesus Cleanses the Temple (March 12)
- Another one of those “konek-konek” articles.
- Leo the Great and Augustine on the Transfiguration (March 3)
- Sermons of Leo I and Augustine of Hippo for our series called “Symposium with the Fathers”. These are examples of how the Fathers open up the Scriptures and show us that the sacred page contains nothing but Christ and His Church.
- Records of an Ecclesial Experiment II February 24
- Links to Mystical Geek articles containing records pertaining to the BEC Project of the Mother of Good Counsel Parish, Laguna.
- Let’s Get Cuaresmatic! February 22
- My offering for Ash Wednesday. The article contains links to Mystical Geek articles that are thematically “cuaresma-tic” in content.
- St. Valentine and His Dublin Shrine February 13
- An article for Valentine’s Day. St. Valentine of Rome is just one of three Valentines mentioned in martyrologies related to February 14. A tinge of his blood is enshrined in a Dublin Carmelite Church along Whitefriars St.
- Jesus’ Cry on the Cross February 10
- A treatment of Mark 15:34 in three publications made by three different person.
- Even God Can Be Silent February 9
- My translation of Gianfranco Ravasi’s commentary on the topic of God’s silence mentioned in Benedict XVI’s message for World Communications Day 2012
- How Do You Konek-konek IV? Pro-Life Sunday February 5
- Fourth article on the “Konek-konek” series. It illustrates how Scriptural resonances and connections are found in a pastoral letter like the one Bishop Gabriel Reyes sent out for Pro-Life Sunday this year.
Mystical Geek and Bible Workshop Updates
“Let’s Get Cuaresma-tic” is my post for Ash Wednesday. It is a collection of links to Mystical Geek posts on topics that are “lenten” in spirit. Records of an Ecclesial Experiment II are links to articles that document the BEC Project in our parish since 2008.
The Bible Workshop now has resources from the first to the fifth Sunday of Lent. One can find them on the Bible Workshop homepage here.
New Posts
The Pope’s Lenten Message for this year is now available. You may have an overview of it in the article “Be Concerned for One Another…”
As promised, Gianfranco Ravasi’s commentary on the Silence of God — an idea that Benedict XVI broached in his Message for World Day of Communications — is now available at the Mystical Geek.
Papal Messages
Don’t miss my posts about two messages from Benedict XVI. One is for February 11, 2012. The clergy of our diocese were given copies of it for our homily on that day. Personally, I think that the message is for priests and their commitment towards the suffering. You can find my article here.
The other papal message is for World Communications Day, that is, the Feast of the Ascension for us. Interesting is the Pope’s insistence on the importance of silence in communication. The idea is that communication is not words interrupted by silence, but rather, silence interrupted by words. In other words, there is a need of more interiority in a world that has become too “verbal”. In that message, the Pope writes that even God speaks in silence. The idea has provoked an exegete, now a Cardinal, Gianfranco Ravasi, to write an article providing scriptural references to God’s pregnant silence (this will be the subject of a future post). My post is found here.
Mystical Geek’s January Postings
Before these articles are pushed down by automatic reposts, I am providing a link to the Mystical Geek’s posts for the month of January.
- Encountering the Lord in the Midst of Life’s Upheavals II posted January 27
- A follow-up for one of the more read articles at the Mystical Geek. In these times of difficulty, Augustine tells us that “kapit sa patalim” is not viable choice for one who is seriously a Christian.
- 50 Years and Looking Forward to Fifty More Years posted January 20
- Some notes on my fiftieth birthday.
- Catholic Bible Helps posted January 4
- Scott Hahn’s Catholic Bible Dictionary and the Lectio Divina Bible (NRSV) are described.
- National Bible Week 2012 posted January 2
- A description of this year’s Bible Week activities.
AgustinongPinoy Updates
The fact that the first page of this website does not change does not mean that I’ve given up on the web. In fact, if you have been looking at the linked items to the right of your screen, you would have found out that the RSS Feeds of three other AgustinongPinoy websites are quite dynamic. The Bible Workshop and Res Biblica are updated frequently. The Mystical Geek which functions almost like a journal gets updated several times a month. At the moment, these are the three websites that I am concentrating on. So if you are a frequent visitor here, check out the RSS feeds of those three websites and you’d get the latest pages from my keyboard.
Read more about the most read topics at the Mystical Geek here.
AgustinongPinoy Turns Twelve!
From August 28, 1999 to the present, AgustinongPinoy has been serving webpages on topics ranging from Catholicism, Catholic Education, Augustinian Spirituality, Life in the Philippines, Internet and Web Design. It was and continues to be a labor of love by a Filipino Augustinian friar who, from the time he logged onto the web in an Iloilo Internet Cafe in 1998 has never ceased to believe that the Church cannot do without the Internet in its evangelizing work.
Read more about it here.
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