Being at home, I don't get to the internet as much. Also, I forgot to bring my computer back, and being in the process of getting a new one, I haven't had much of a chance to update anything.
In the past week, our most Holy Father has told us that a tiny camera was inserted into a casket believed to contain the holy relics of Saint Paul, in the major basilica bearing his name on the outskirts of Rome. He said the bones were confirmed to probably belong to someone of the first century, and that the remains were clothes in precious vestments.
This is good to know. With this announcement, the year of St Paul concluded.
Flapping over the tail end of this memorial year, is the year of the priest. We give thanks for all our priests - and pray for more of them - as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of St John Mary Vianney on 4th August.
Today is the feast day of St Thomas the Apostle. He is known as Doubting Thomas, though I find this a bit of an unfair label. He doubted a bit - as we all do - but in the end, he did believe. So happy feast day, Believing Thomas. Of course, it is perhaps through moments of doubt that the truth becomes ever more enlightened for us. Today's Gospel scene is shown on my panel on the right hand side to remind me of this, and to confirm my suspicion that it is always good to ask questions. Incidently, a pious tradition says that St Thomas was the only witness to the Assumption of Our Lady, catching her girdle as he was whisked up to heaven. The other apostles didn't believe him until he showed them the rope. His feast is kept today, the date not of his traditional martyrdom, but the date of the translation of his relics to the sea town of Ortona in eastern Italy.
In the mean time, apologies for my internet absence, but brace yourself for my Top Ten Most Beautiful Churches visited by yours truly, which is in the pipeline for the next week.
3 comments:
Why should anyone care about this fake discovery when a much more important holy relic has already been discovered in Stephan Huller's book, the Real Messiah:
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Messiah-Throne-Origins-Christianity/dp/1906787123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246539906&sr=8-1
Huller went to Venice and proved that the Throne of St. Mark in the Basilica San Marco dates to the beginning of Christianity. It proves that Christianity started in Egypt rather than Rome (the title 'Pope' or Papa is universally acknowledged to have been appropriated from Alexandria).
Huller's throne is a real historical object, i.e. it is not a fake. You can see it with your own two eyes the next time you go to Italy. It is also being made into a TV documentary for a US Cable network.
Again, why waste your time with this nonsense about 'bones of St. Paul' (the authoritative canon does not specify a location for Paul's death); it is completely fake.
You don't have to buy Huller's book. Go to his blog instead wwww.stephanhuller.blogspot.com.
Jacob
So, Stephen Huller believes that St Mark was the 'original Messiah of Christianity,' and that 'the Western Churches' are responsible for the erroneous doctrine that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah. This truth has come to light by the work of a twentieth-first century academic whose work cracking ancient codes he continually compares to the 'Da Vinci Code' story. That the truth of divine revelation should be committed to so precarious a means of transmission is even more unbelievable than the Protestant belief that it is 'left behind' in a book.
It's a good job I base my religion on internet assembled science and US cable TV... oops, I don't.
Thanks, Stephen Huller, but I'm hedging my bets with Holy Mother Church and her 2,000 years of Sacred Tradition.
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