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- Records of an Ecclesial Experiment
- The BEC Project at the MGCP is progressing. Since the last time I wrote about it (three months ago) we have begun holding training sessions for our BEC leaders regularly. We have more than ten cell leaders under advanced training now coming from four areas of the parish and three more under basic training. The BEC Training modules were developed from the seminars we have been holding since 2005. Below are BEC-related posts in this site; they are also records of what we are doing at the parish. There are others, but the ones below are representative and carry links to the other articles. I am posting this here as a record for those who are interested to find out about this ongoing experiment.
- Read the article here...
- Where is "Ten Augustinian Values"?
- "Where is the site for Ten Augustinian Values?" I've been asked this question several times and in several ways for the past few months. The reason is that the website that used to house the article called "Ten Augustinian Values" yields an empty directory. This is because I stopped paying the hosting services for AngFrayle.Net . After Yahoo ownership changed, the hosting services became so expensive for me that I simply had to stop using it. So I transferred the article "Ten Augustinian Values" to AgustinongPinoy (http://www.agustinongpinoy.net/values) where it can be accessed now.
- Read the article here...
- The Lord's Supper and the Passover Meal (Jewish Seder)
- While I was writing a Bible Workshop article for the Feast of Corpus Christi, I came across certain blogs written by Jewish Rabbis on the Last Supper. I was searching the web for articles on the Passover meal as Jesus and his companions would have had it, and I did find one: a reconstruction based on the Pesachim and -- get this -- performed by a congregation of Christians.
- Read the article here...
- He is Seated at the Right Hand of God
- From the depths of Hades, the Lord moved upwards to the land of the living and beyond that to the right hand of the Father where He is now seated in glory "far above the principalities and powers", as Paul would say. "From there, He will come again to judge the living and the dead", we say as we profess the Creed. The Ascension of the Lord makes us look forward to His second coming and assures us of the glory that awaits us. In sum, we are already winners. That thought should make us more generous, more loving and caring in a world that gives us more reason to be selfish, unloving and uncaring. We know that the world is passing, that it does not have the last word. The last word belongs to the Lord; and He does not lie.
- Read the article here...
- Cartoons and the Bible
- Cartoons can be a great way to bring across the message of the Scriptures. This it does through a rereading of the Biblical message and present it to a "visual" generation in an attractive way. But there is also a price to be paid, since "rereadings" can distort rather than enhance. "The Flying House" is a cartoon series intended to bring the Bible closer to a generation that is attracted to cartoons. In this particular sequence on the Temptation of Eve, Genesis 3:1-24 is rendered into a cartoon with Tim Curry playing the role of the Snake.
- Read it here.
- Sentence Flows - Making Sense Of It
- The most recent addition to AgustinongPinoy is a website that extends Res Biblica. It is called The Bible Workshop. It was created to meet the needs of some of our parishioners who are engaged in the biblical apostolate. It has articles on the Sunday Gospels written in the form of a how-to. The method of study that underlies these "how-tos" is exegetical diagramming called "the Sentence Flow." The Sentence Flow is not original to me. In fact, others have written about it. We have applied the method to the gospels since it is easier to use on narratives. But it can work well with discourses too, like the letters of Paul.
- Read it here.
- Research With Biblioscape
- Just after writing the article on note-taking, I found a software application that can help one take, organize and process notes with a computer. I have discussed some information managers in this website but not one of these come close to Biblioscape which started out as an organizer for bibliographical references. Biblioscape version 8 has a text editor, a very simple graphics editor (for creating charts) and in the Professional and Librarian editions can also function as a draft outliner with word processing functionalities.
- Read it here.
- Augustinian Friars in the News
- The Lancaster Diocese has a new bishop, and he is an Augustinian Friar: the Rev. Michael Campbell, OSA. He has been coadjutor bishop for the Diocese since March 2008. He takes over from Bishop Patrick O'Donohue who has retired. More news from a Zenit press release here.
- Read it here.
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