“A genuinely good heart is a heart that is open and alight with understanding. It listens to the sorrows of the world. Our society is wrong to think that happiness depends on fulfilling one's own wants and desires. That is why our society is so miserable...” (Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Into the Heart of Life, Snow Lion: 2011, Chapter 9 ‘Practicing the good heart’)
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giussepe Roncalli) - 1881-1963
There was a man
sent from God
whose name was John,
he was fat
and kind.
We found that very intriguing,
not so much the being fat
but the being kind.
(Brother Denis Wiseman, O.P.)
2 comments:
John-Julian, OJN
said...
It is one of the prime glories of my long life: that Angelo Giussepe Roncalli and I walked on the earth at the same time! He may be the greatest pope since Gregory the Great and possibly tied with ++Desmond Tutu as the greatest human of the 20th century. The brutality is that the glory of this man's life and the values he promoted have been repudiated and invalidated by both popes who followed him.
"He may be the greatest Pope since Gregory the Great"? Seriously? I think you are forgetting Nicholas the Great, Innocent III, St. Pius V, St. Pius X, and Pius XII to name just a few! And tied with Desmond Tutu as the greatest human of the 20th century? Not only are you forgetting other Popes, but saint and martyrs who died for the Catholic faith. I think they come befor a protestant bishop!
2 comments:
It is one of the prime glories of my long life: that Angelo Giussepe Roncalli and I walked on the earth at the same time! He may be the greatest pope since Gregory the Great and possibly tied with ++Desmond Tutu as the greatest human of the 20th century.
The brutality is that the glory of this man's life and the values he promoted have been repudiated and invalidated by both popes who followed him.
"He may be the greatest Pope since Gregory the Great"? Seriously? I think you are forgetting Nicholas the Great, Innocent III, St. Pius V, St. Pius X, and Pius XII to name just a few! And tied with Desmond Tutu as the greatest human of the 20th century? Not only are you forgetting other Popes, but saint and martyrs who died for the Catholic faith. I think they come befor a protestant bishop!
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