After the 12 Apostles have gone out... to teach, to heal, to cast out many devils ...
after they have performed well their "weekly-mission-work" (Mk 6.7-13)
they rejoin Jesus... and they gave him somehow an activity-report (Mk 6.30).
The following Invitation "to rest for a while" is like a spiritual retreat to go to the base.
Until today the Apostles and all Missionaries have - from time to time, in favour of a healthy
message - to reflect the "things" [hidden from the learned and clever] "revealed to mere children" (Mt 11.25).
The basic revelation given first to the mere children into their experience consists of:
a) life is a game (of the forces)
b) life is given (as a gift or as a fate)
c) life is dependency (the balance of dependencies)
d) life is swimming in the womb (of the mother, the nature, the humanity, the universe)
For a Catholic believer it's more than important not to loose these basic experiences -
it means to fill up again and again the heart and the brain with these child-experiences.
We all play the given life in mutual dependencies within the womb of our world.
I wish all of you a favourable place for this joyful rest for a wile; why not choose the Cty-Eucharist to become such a "holy place" ?
Situation at the Cath. St. Anthony-Church in
Otjiwa Sun 01.07.2018 / 09h:
Entrance + church: closed! Why? No Info!
(why not an info-paper on the entrance-door?)
It was announced in the Church and in WhatsApp:
There will be Holy Service; and Vic. Hs. Leu
has declared to be ready for the Holy Mass.
People, ready for the Holy Service, have asked me:
Why all is closed ???
The reality:
a) The Namibian-Diocesan-Priests had the annual spiritual retreat in Pastoral-Centre
of Otjiwa Mon 26. - Sun 01.07.2018 / 29 participants.
b) Against the announcement the rumour came up: Sun 09h in Assunta Hight-Holy-Mass
Con-Celebration of all the priests.
c) In reality it means : 28 Communities are on Sun 01.07.2018 deprived of the
Community-Eucharist-Celebration (Cty-Eu-C). Did you realise that ?
Why not high-holy-mass-con-celebration on Saturday or on Monday?
Consideration:
a) It seems there is no much planning in the Parish and therefore INFO is nearly
impossible if not contradictory.
b) If there is "high-level-mass-con-celebration" - priests like it very much, as a chance
for "presentation of the priesthood" esp. after spiritual retreat or on the ordination of
a new priest... or for a jubilee... but why at the expense of so many Cty-Eu-C?
Is this not "clericalism"? You cannot preach priest-spirituality and deny the Cty the Eu-C !
c) In Namibia - if 29 priests on Sunday present a high-Con-Celebration... we have to
discover the fact, that on this Sunday 28 Communities are without Cty-Eu-C.
And everybody knows many Cty's in Namibia are on Sundays again and again
without the Cty-Eu-C.
d) If the Cty-Eu-C is of no value... the "fact / 01072018" doesn't matter.
If the Cty-Eu-C is of high value... the "fact / 01072018" couldn't happen.
The Parish-Priest would send two priests to every Cty and 'lend-out" the other priests
to the neighbouring Parishes for the Cty-Eu-C.
Note: the 2. Vatic. Council says: Eucharist is officially recognised as
"the source and the summit of the spiritual life". ("I belief in the holy catholic Church")
Therefore Catholics are required to attend Holy Mass on Sundays.
Logic: the retreat would be terminated better on Sat 13h.
e) The Arch-Diocesan-Pastoral-Council will do the same "fact"; a lot of priests have to
go there (Windhoek / Doebra) and the ADPC will end an Sun 02.09.2018 after the
high holy mass-con-celebration - it means again: a lot of Cty's are deprived of the
Cty-Eu-C and the experience shows: there are many more excuses to cancel the
Cty-Eu-C... sorry! (bc: "I don't belief in the Church")
Maybe: "it doesn't matter" or the 2. Vatic. Council is not recognised.
f) Now we have to aks: For what do we have the ordination of priests if not for:
"at disposal of Cty-Eu-C" ? And why is Cty-Eu-C so important ???
1. it's the best way to build up Cty's. 2. Vatic,. Council says: "No Christian Community
can be built up unless it has its basis and centre in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist".
2. It's the best medicine for the healing-process to become in fact a "true-chirstian-believer".
3. It's a precondition for the call:
"The Church must be - a sign of Life - a Community serving Humanity".
4. But most of all: The Cty-Eu-C is the highest way to accept the Mystery of God,
to follow Jesus Christ and to embody the Holy Spirit.
Conclusion:
In my view: something is wrong with the leadership of the Church, with the formation of the priests, with the valuation of the Cty-Eu-C (on both side: clergy + lay-people). Something is wrong with the practice of the Catholic-value-scale.
If something has gone wrong, we can do better... and if I am wrong: pls correct me...
at least the 2. Vatic. Council told us: "the source and summit of the spiritual life" is the
Cty-Eu-C". What we now urgently need:
A course: How to build up Cty by celebrating Holy Mass?
How to bring value to the Celebration of Holy Mass?
What is priestly Spirituality for a Diocesan Priest of today?
Is this not a nice fraternal correction for the month of priest's care?
NO FAITH
The GOSPELS show: For the Apostles, the disciples, for the believers
(until today): JESUS (Mk 6.1-6) is a special phaenomenon, sure an Epiphany.
Everybody is asking: "From where did the man get all this?"
(wisdom, courage, clear vocation, sensitive responsibility, strong bearing,
strange behaviour, miracle-strength, relationship-capacity, empathy,
healing power, faith etc... etc... )
Is there any explication for the phaenomenon "JESUS" ?
The mk JESUS knows:
a) It's not the family and the blood-line
(He is only the carpenter, only the son of Mary; the brothers (4) and the sisters
we know as normal people... nothing special...)
b) It's not the image or the story of the home-town Nazareth / Bethlehem
(He is not from Jerusalem)
but it seems for the mk JESUS,
there is a clear new explication of this phaenomenon:
look at Nazareth: where there is no faith
there is no miracles, no wisdom, no resurrection...
You see this every day: where there is no faith in each other, no faithful
relationship: there is no healing, no liberating unity, no mutual love...
The great Q: Why was there no faith - in Nazareth ?
Why is here + now no faith - in my own village, family, Parish ???
