{"id":656,"date":"2007-08-20T06:53:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T06:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=656"},"modified":"2007-08-20T06:53:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T06:53:44","slug":"come-and-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Come and Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"
I<\/span>t would appear that the Redfern Neocats have started recruiting in earnest. Just how this is meant to be compatible or consistent with the Archdiocese\u2019s assurances that St Vincent\u2019s is not a Neocatechumenate parish remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

About 2 weeks ago posters and cards were distributed around parts of Redfern, and a small band of self-styled Neocat troubadours, led by a guitar strumming parish priest, processed through the streets, luring the odd unsuspecting local (and quite a few more of the less na\u00efve who were simply interested in a free feed) to a barbecue in Redfern park to launch a \u201cCatechesis for adults\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n

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T<\/span>he invitation, in the form of a greeting card, is clearly intended to present the \u201cCatechesis\u201d as nothing other than a regular Catholic Church thing. The \u201cN\u201d word may not appear anywhere, but the Kiko Madonna on the front of the card is a sure sign that The Way has something to do with it. <\/p>\n
\u201cChrist really loves you,
\nHe died on the Cross for you,
\nwhen you were wicked and a sinner.
\nChrist rose from death,
\nHe is the Lord
\nHe will come again and take us with him.\u201d<\/div>\n

Did St Paul really say these words? How might the answer to that bear on what the invitation offers?<\/p>\n

PS<\/strong>
\nDespite trying to reverse an attempt to obliterate the words following \u201cSt Paul\u201d on the card reproduced above, the Church Mouse (who can hardly claim to be a serious scripture scholar, but does have some ways with search engines) has been unable to pinpoint the source of the quotation attributed to St Paul. So keen is the Mouse to establish that the quotation is not a fabrication that cheese will be offered to the first reader who can identify chapter and verse. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would appear that the Redfern Neocats have started recruiting in earnest. Just how this is meant to be compatible or consistent with the Archdiocese\u2019s assurances that St Vincent\u2019s is not a Neocatechumenate parish remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

About 2 weeks ago posters and cards were distributed around parts of Redfern, and a small band of self-styled Neocat troubadours, led by a guitar strumming parish priest, processed through the streets, luring the odd unsuspecting local (and quite a few more of the less na\u00efve who were simply interested in a free feed) to a barbecue in Redfern park to launch … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-pastors-appointed-by-george-pell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}