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PROMOTING AUTHENTIC EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

VATICAN CITY, 13 MAR 2009 (VIS) – At midday today, the Holy Father received participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, who have been meeting to consider the question of Eucharistic adoration.

The Pope expressed the hope that collegial reflection upon this theme “may help to clarify, within the limits of the dicastery’s remit, the liturgical and pastoral means by which the Church of our time can promote faith in the real presence of the Lord in the Blessed Eucharist, and to ensure that the celebration of Mass fully incorporates the aspect of adoration”.

“The doctrine of the transubstantiation of the bread and wine, and of the real presence, are a truth of faith, already evident in Holy Scripture and later confirmed by the Fathers of the Church”, said Benedict XVI.

After then explaining that, “in the Eucharist, adoration must become union: union with the living Lord and with His mystical Body”, the Pope recalled words he had pronounced at World Youth Day 2005 in the German city of Cologne : “God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in Him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outwards to others until it fills the world, so that His love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.

“On that occasion”, he added, “I also reminded young people that in the Eucharist we experience the fundamental transformation of violence into love, of death into life. This brings other changes in its wake”.

The Pope highlighted the importance of a renewal of Eucharistic adoration. This, he said, “will only be possible through a greater awareness of the mystery in complete faithfulness to Sacred Tradition, and by enhancing liturgical life within our communities”. In this context, he also expressed his appreciation at the fact that the plenary had examined the question of “the formation of all the People of God in the faith, with particular concern for seminarians, favouring their development in a spirit of authentic Eucharistic adoration”.

“Recalling three penitential practices particularly dear to biblical and Christian tradition (prayer, almsgiving and fasting)”, he concluded, “let us encourage one another to rediscover and practice fasting with renewed fervour, not only as a form of asceticism but also as a preparation for the Eucharist and as a spiritual weapon to fight against any disordered attachment to ourselves”.

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I wish I had this tool when I worked on the foreign language companion sites at Thomson/Heinle, and often had to get an “a grave” or “e acute” at a moment’s notice.  Now that I’m using a large screen to work on, I can open up this site as a new window and keep it going whenever I need to get a character.

This seems to be a new brand of web site – no navigation or hierarchy, just a single point on the Internet that you can pull up and use as a useful tool.

The site is provided by Konst & Teknik, which have a very interesting site of their own.  I like the way their site seems more web-based than print – no primary nav (save for the bottom) and no three column layout messing up the works.  The simple “Sorted by” in the lower left is my favorite part – you have to play around with it to realize that it changes the list to match your desired sort order, but once you understand the function it’s easy to manipulate.

The whole site has that aesthetic – exploring the (pretty simple) navigation leads to hidden wonders and neat little surprises.  I didn’t even know who they were until I clicked on Contact, and found that they are a two-person agency based in Sweden.

Real estate sources said the Southport, Conn., developer reportedly has a 120,000-square-foot lease deal with Cengage Learning, a developer of educational technologies and support products that previously operated as Thomson Learning. Cengage will be the first office tenant in the redeveloped Channel Center complex in South Boston.

More at: Cengage Learning lease is a lift for Channel Center

A quick Google search for Channel Center Boston brought up a few pics. Looks like a nice new home for the merged Thomson Learning and Houghton Mifflin.

The Google map below shows that the new digs (B) are only a short walk from the old digs (A). Not that far to move, though it’ll be a brisk walk back to Flour and Lucky’s.

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Good luck to all Cengagers involved in the move!

London from above, at night

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I am slightly agog at this functionality, having spent 2-3 hours setting up a similar form at www.altarserverappreciation.org that just records info in a database.  Took about 15 minutes to set up a test on Google Forms.

This is a good night to play around with technology – seeing what’s out there on the web.  I am constantly amazed at the amount of free, reliable tools out there waiting to be used.

I’ve wandered into an alternative universe, and I’m trying to decide if I want to stay. The setting is the lovely, old-fashioned library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, in midtown Manhattan. The event is a gathering called “SPLAT! A Graphic Novel Symposium.” I’m here because the organizers have promised to lay out, in the course of a single day, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Graphic Novels.”

What I want to know is: How did this formerly ghettoized medium became one of the rare publishing categories that’s actually expanding these days?

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