dUSt Posted April 9, 2005 Author Share Posted April 9, 2005 HAHAHAHA!!! A dude says to Arinze, "people don't believe missing mass is a mortal sin". Arinze's reply, "Well, haha, if a car runs over you you may not believe it will kill you, but I would not like to go through that experience just because I don't believe it." Totally sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 9, 2005 Author Share Posted April 9, 2005 Arinze: "The tabernacle must be PROMINENT, DISTINCT and immediately identifiable." Guy: "Not stuck in a back room somewhere?" Arinze: "That would be wrong." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 9, 2005 Author Share Posted April 9, 2005 Dude. This man must be elected. He's got the likability of JPII and the discipline of Ratzinger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 9, 2005 Author Share Posted April 9, 2005 Arinze: "If there is no light, you don't solve it by condemning the darkness, you solve it by lighting a candle." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 9, 2005 Author Share Posted April 9, 2005 "Greet eachother outside of church. When you get inside church be silent." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 9, 2005 Author Share Posted April 9, 2005 "The church never said to remove the altar rails... If anyone can find me something where the church said to remove the altar rails I will give him a reward." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrndveritatis Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 [quote]Dude. This man must be elected. He's got the likability of JPII and the discipline of Ratzinger. [/quote] Exactly. Not to say that John Paul the Great had no discipline. Ratzinger just has the more prominent or public discipline because he was the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. But I think greatest thing about Arinze is that he would be awesome with young adults like us. That is what we need. John Paul is renewing the Church through the younger generations. Not that he abandoned the older ones, but they scoffed at him. The youth are our hope, and Arinze has the personality and character to continue to lead the youth to the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conservativecatholic Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 (edited) [quote name='dUSt' date='Apr 9 2005, 04:15 PM'] "The church never said to remove the altar rails... If anyone can find me something where the church said to remove the altar rails I will give him a reward." [/quote] Awesome! I never realized how traditional Arinze was. On the other hand, liturgical dancing is prevalent in Nigeria which prompts some concern with his supposed support for "traditional liturgical worship." Edited April 9, 2005 by conservativecatholic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Just Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 [quote name='dUSt' date='Apr 9 2005, 04:15 PM'] "The church never said to remove the altar rails... If anyone can find me something where the church said to remove the altar rails I will give him a reward." [/quote] LOL. Arinze has got to become Pope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eremite Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 [quote]Liturgical dancing is prevalent in Nigeria though.[/quote] It's very different though. I'm listening to the Arinze video right now, and he (humourously) noted that in America, dancing is associated with Saturday Night Disco. In Africa, it's always been a part of the religious culture, before they were a Christian. It's not just something people do for fun. Cardinal Ratzinger also makes the point in his book on the Liturgy that the "dancing" done in those countries where it is traditional is not really dancing, but more like rhythmic moving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrndveritatis Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 He is the head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, and everything that came out when he was head was solid. No move towards liturgical dancing. He was in charge of putting out Redemptionis Sacramentum, which tried to reign in the abuses in the Mass which the liberals brought in in the last thirty years. If you want to see how traditional he is, just read his commentaries at the site above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Just Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Dope Video!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Conquers Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Not to mention that the Pope asked him to revise the document and "tone it down"... hahaha, and people thought the current version was harsh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrndveritatis Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 "We are not the inventors of our Faith; we are its custodians." - Francis Cardinal Arinze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrndveritatis Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 [quote]Francis Cardinal Arinze: ARISE, REJOICE, GOD IS CALLING YOU (Commencement Address at Georgetown University, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 17, 2003) God be praised for this major event today in the life of Georgetown University. Nearly a thousand young people are graduating. To you, dear young friends, I say: Allow serious religion to lead you to lasting joy. Happy parents and friends surround their loved ones. With them I say: Let us thank God for the gift of the family. The Company of Jesus, the Jesuits, initiated and nourish this University. With them I rejoice at the patrimony of Saint Ignatius and especially that the Catholic Church is God's gift to the world. To all I say: Arise, rejoice, God is calling you. 1. Serious Religion leads to lasting Joy. My dear graduands, at this turning point in your lives, it is helpful to keep to essentials. One of them is to locate in what happiness consists. Everyone wants to be happy. Every human being desires lasting joy. True happiness does not consist in the accumulation of goods: money, cars, houses. Nor is it to be found in pleasure seeking: eating, drinking, sex. And humans do not attain lasting joy by power grabbing, dominating others, or heaping up public acclaim. These three things, good in themselves when properly sought, were not able to confer on Solomon, perfect happiness. And they will not be able to confer it on anyone else! (cf Eccles 1:2-3; II King 11:1-8; Mt 20:24-28; I Jn 2:15-16). Happiness is attained by achieving the purpose of our earthly existence. God made me to know Him, to love Him, to serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him forever in the next. Saint Augustine found this out in his later age after making many mistakes in his youth. He then cried out to God: "You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you" (St Aug. Conf. I, 1). My religion guides and helps me towards this. My Catholic faith puts me in contact with Jesus Christ who is the way, the truth and the life (cf Jn 14:6). God's grace helps me to live on earth in such a way as to attain the purpose of my earthly existence. My dear graduands, allow your religion to give your life its essential and major orientation. In our lives, religion is not something marginal, peripheral, additional, optional. My Catholic faith gives meaning and a sense of direction to my life. It gives it unity. Without it my life would be like an agglomeration of scattered mosaics. It is my religion, for example, that inspires my profession, that teaches me that there is more happiness in giving than in receiving (cf Acts 20:35), that helps me to appreciate that to reach the height of my growth potential, I must learn to give of myself to others as I practice my profession as lawyer, doctor, air hostess, congress member or priest (Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes, 24). Allow your religion to give life, joy, generosity and a sense of solidarity to your professional and social engagements. In a world of religious plurality, you will of course learn to cooperate with people of other religious convictions. True religion teaches not exclusion, rivalry, tension, conflict or violence, but rather openness, esteem, respect and harmony. At the same time you should keep intact your religious identity, your distinction as a witness of Jesus Christ. 2. Thank God for the Gift of the Family. As I see joy and just pride reflected on the faces of the parents and friends of these graduands, I think of God's goodness in giving the gift of the family to humanity. It is God himself who willed that a man and a woman should come to establish a permanent bond in marriage. Marriage gives rise to the family. In this fundamental cell of society, love grows. There the exercise of sexuality has its correct locus. There human maturity is nurtured. There new life utters its first cry and later smiles at the parents. There the child is first introduced to religion. Is it any wonder that the Second Vatican Council called the family "the church of the home" (cf. Lumen Gentium, 11)? In many parts of the world, the family is under siege. It is opposed by an anti-life mentality as is seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. It is scorned and banalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions and cut in two by divorce. ... This Church has inherited from Christ, the Apostles and her living tradition, a non-negotiable body of doctrine on faith and morals. The tenets of the Catholic faith do not change according to the play of market forces, majority votes or opinion polls. "Jesus Christ is the same today as He was yesterday and as He will be for ever" (Heb 13:8). This is the Church that Saint Ignatius invites all his spiritual children to love and cherish. This is the Church to which we have the joy to belong... FRANCIS CARDINAL ARINZE May 17, 2003[/quote] During this speech several faculty members walked out. Cardinal Arinze kept going. Excellent commencement address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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