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Updated: November 14, 2003
AAFRICA Along with Asia and the Americas, Africa is one of the three primary sub-sections of this website, in addition to being a major continent! Much of the content for this section is contributed or coordinated by Fr. Joe Healy, MM, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Click here: AFRICA
ASIA
Along with Africa and the Americas, Asia is one of the three primary sub-sections of this website, in addition to being a major continent! Click here: ASIA
Authority
 BBAPTISM - Response to Conversion"For Christians, God's call to conversion is made clear and precise through baptism. Baptism makes us members of the church and makes us, therefore, responsible for the mission of the church in the world. The mission of the church in the world is precisely the mission of Jesus. Jesus came to give life, and Jesus sent out his disciples -- who became church -- to give life to all people. Similarly, baptism calls all Christians to become life-givers and lovers. As members of the church, we are charged by baptism with the task of building up the body of Christ to the perfection of Jesus himself. Even more, by baptism we have been made into a people charged with spreading the good news of God's love for all people. It is as simple as that."
CCELAM
Cambodia CARITAS International
Celebration
There are a lot of people who think that if it is enjoyable, it is automatically wrong, or sinful, or increases the cholesterol count, or something just as bad. Some form or other of Jansenism or Puritanism has always held strong sway in all religions. The "do-gooders'' and the "doom-sayers'', those who would regulate the conduct of all other people according to their distorted notions of God, are always with us. And they do lots of harm. I personally
think that their problem is, more often than not, a matter of
glands and hormones, or of some kind of rejection or other that
only healthy therapy would deal with."
Communion
Community
CUBA
DDittmeier, Rev. Charles R.A priest of the Archdiocese of Louisville, working with Maryknoll in Cambodia, Fr. Charlie Dittmeier is a co-conspirator with Dan Onley and Fr. Joe Healy in the founding of this PWB website.
Dualism
EEducation (Mission) - There are some excellent and FREE Mission Education Resources out there. Click and see!
FFaith"Faith comes from God through the human experiences we share. Some of us received faith through our parents. Others through life-giving parishes in which we grew up. Still others of us caught it only lately through people who have become very special in our lives.
"The energy of faith is horizontal as well as vertical. It goes from flesh to flesh. The faith of our children depends on the life-giving energy we share in our homes, schools and churches. The future of the world depends on the energy of our faith. It rests on our openness to God right here and now."
GGathering Song"The opening song is really a GATHERING song. It is not a 'traveling song.' Its purpose is not to cover the time it takes the procession to arrive at the altar. Its purpose is to offer the assembly its first opportunity to open their hearts and voices in praise of God.
The length of the song should be determined by the song itself.
If the hymn has four stanzas, and they are appropriate, then sing four stanzas. If it has a trinitarian form, don't throw the Spirit out the window just because the presider gets there first. If it has twenty-four stanzas, sing four stanzas."
Global2000 - Original (1997-1999) name for this PWB website and associated email discussion list.
Global Solidarity - See Called to Global Solidarity above
HHealey, Rev. Joseph, M.M.The very existence of the Parish-Without-Borders website is due in large measure to the persistence, zeal, work and encouragement of Fr. Joe Healey, M.M. This Maryknoll priest's ministry is currently in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and he is moderator of the AFRICA section of the PWB site.
Hospitality
Gracious hospitality generates a form of healing that no one can ever estimate. We will never know how much it can mean to a person, beaten down by God knows what kind of distress, to have someone take the trouble to let that person know that we care. If we are really serious about healing of any kind, start here with the the simple stuff. Leave the big and sensational stuff to others."
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JJesuit Relieve Services
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MMacEoin, GaryGary MacEoin, 94, the noted reporter, author, editor and human rights activist who specialized in the politics and poverty of the Third World, especially Latin America, died of cardiac arrest on July 9, 2003. The National Catholic Reporter continues to update a major tribute to him, including archive links to over a hundred articles. 'I don't know of a single human being who has been so outspoken for so long on the needs of the poor.' -- Tom Fox, NCR publisher.
Ministry MISNA - Missionary Service News Agency
Mission Education - see Education, Mission, above
Mission Sunday
NNGO - "Non-governmental OrganizationIn most developing or recovering countries, there are two kinds of NGO's: international and national. Any useful international NGO such as Catholic Relief Services or other Catholic outreach highlighted on this website is in any country primarily to support or enable the local NGO to carry on. The international NGO cooperates with government agencies and employs local people as much as possible. The role of NGO's is vital because the government can provide very minimal social services.
OOnley, Dan F.Designer/co-founder/editor/whatever of this website, founder of PAA. Was director of publications for NALR (North American Liturgy Resources), now a part of Oregon Catholic Press.
P, QPAA - Pastoral Arts Associates of North AmericaA publishing ministry founded in 1977 by Dan Onley, coordinator and designer of this PWB website. See paa.genewalsh.com Prayer "For me, prayer is a victory hard won. To get there I fought dragons and witch doctors, my best friends and some of the most respected people around. I was enticed by mystical mumbo-jumbo and waylaid by all kinds of well-meaning characters. I bought lots of snake oil. I met my Budda along the way and killed him. I was seduced by the siren-call of self-appointed gurus into many a barren desert. How I escaped it all and found my way into the healthy world of the bible I will never know. It is a journey like my own that makes me believe fervently in the power of the Spirit."
RReconciliationSomeday I hope to be part of a community celebration of reconciliation that is bathed in light and alive with confident song. I want to see the faces of my brothers and sisters and I want to shout out my joy. Please, let's not make a permanent pattern of dim shadows, flickering candle light and sweet penitential music. Let's remember: we sin in the dark. We are forgiven in the light.
"Many church people, at every ecclesiastical level, still think that a rubrically correct celebration is all that is required to make an effective liturgy. Even though they do not state this kind of theology explicitly, they show it in their manner of celebration."
SSacraments"Sacraments are not things, but the personal actions of ALL who celebrate. We no longer think in terms of "giving and receiving sacraments'' All give, all receive, all celebrate."
Sex
Sin
TTheology of Liberation
Tradition . . . and traditions
Turf
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VVaticanVietnam
WWALSH, Father Eugene A., S.S. (1911-1989) Fr. "Gene" or "Geno" Walsh was a Sulpician priest who taught in seminaries from ordination until the 1970's when he began a second "active retirement" career of visiting parishes and dioceses to inspire renewal (of ecclesiology and vision as well as litugical practice). His numerous writings were first published by PAA, with current editions published by Oregon Catholic Press. The inclusion of some of his pithy sayings in this PWB A-Z feature began as an accident in that I borrowed matrix or basic format of the page from "Geno from A to Z" on the Genewalsh.com website which I also maintain. As I began to delete Gene's stuff from the page to make room for "mission stuff," I could almost hear Gene scream that missioners too might welcome a few reminders about good liturgy and healthy theology!
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