jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2013
Catholic Moral Theology
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We are a group of North American Catholic moral theologians who come together in friendship to engage each other in theological discussion, to aid one another in our common search for wisdom, and to help one another live lives of discipleship, all in service to the reign of God.
We understand our role as scholars and teachers to be a vocation rooted in the Church and so we seek to place the fruits of our training at the service of the Church, as well as the academy and the world.
We recognize that we as a group will have disagreements, but want to avoid the standard “liberal /conservative” divide that often characterizes contemporary conversation, as well as the bitterly divisive tone of so much ethical discussion (particularly on the internet).
We therefore endeavor to converse with each other and others in a spirit of respect, charity, and humility.
Muerte digna
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Soy Luis de Moya y ofrezco en estas páginas argumentos en defensa de la vida humana digna del enfermo y del anciano en sus momentos finales. No matar es tan decisivo para la humanidad que, aparte de ser un imperativo naturalmente impreso en nuestro ser, constituye desde siempre un precepto que exigen médicos, juristas, filósofos, moralistas, personas corrientes con sentido común y que el testimonio de muchos que saben vivir con dignidad en situaciones difíciles, exige que sea adecuadamente garantizado.
Vida digna
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El Área de Trabajo VIDAdigna de Profesionales por la Ética surge como respuesta a la pretensión de abordar la legalización de la eutanasia y el suicidio asistido; nuestra misión es la defensa de una ViDA DIGNA para todos hasta el final y la propuesta de alternativas multidisciplinares verdaderamente humanizadoras del dolor y el sufrimiento.
OBJETIVOS
Informar y sensibilizar a la opinión pública y a los profesionales sanitarios y sociales sobre las implicaciones de la cultura de la vida ante enfermedades terminales y situaciones difíciles desde el punto de vista de la salud.
Proponer y articular alternativas viables a la eutanasia, dirigidas, de manera particular, a la extensión de los cuidados paliativos y al desarrollo de una cultura de “la buena muerte”.
Movilizar a la sociedad española ante las medidas legislativas y acciones políticas de la administración a favor la legalización de la eutanasia como muerte intencionada de personas enfermas.
Generar un debate permanente e informado sobre la eutanasia y ejercer presión social para que se mantenga la plena protección de la vida, hasta la muerte natural, en la legislación penal española.
Con dignidad
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Ante el actual debate público sobre la eutanasia, un grupo de profesionales (médicos, juristas, psicólogos, enfermeros, expertos en ética, periodistas, etc.) hemos puesto en marcha esta web como instrumento de reflexión, con sentido positivo.
Son todavía muchas las personas que se encuentran en una grave situación de sufrimiento o dependencia, y que no reciben la atención precisa ni los cuidados adecuados. Pensamos que, para ayudar a esas personas, hay alternativas más dignas y creativas que la eutanasia. Consideramos que una persona no pierde su dignidad aunque padezca una discapacidad o su cuerpo esté deteriorado por la enfermedad: en esa situación tiene un verdadero derecho a ser tratada de una manera digna y a recibir toda la ayuda que necesite.
Nos preocupa, y no nos parece razonable, que se valore la posibilidad de legalizar la eutanasia cuando hay todavía muchos enfermos que no tienen acceso a unos Cuidados Paliativos de calidad.
Con un abordaje interdisciplinar, procuraremos ir creando un fondo documental que proporcione argumentos para una reflexión serena.
ADEC, The Thanatology Association
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About ADEC
The Association for Death Education and Counseling®, The Thanatology Association®, is one of the oldest interdisciplinary organizations in the field of dying, death and bereavement. Its nearly 2,000 members include a wide array of mental and medical health personnel, educators, clergy, funeral directors and volunteers.
ADEC offers numerous educational opportunities through its annual conference, courses and workshops, its certification program, and via its acclaimed publication, The Forum.
Vision Statement
The Association for Death Education and Counseling® envisions a world in which dying, death, and bereavement are recognized as fundamental and significant aspects of the human experience. Therefore, the Association, ever committed to being on the forefront of thanatology (the study of death and dying), will provide a home for professionals from diverse backgrounds to advance the body of knowledge and to promote practical applications of research and theory.
Salesian Lay Missioners, Finding Christ in the Face of a Child
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About
The Salesian Lay Missioner (SLM) program traces its roots back to 1981, when Fr. Dominic DeBlase, SDB asked Fr. A. Joseph Louis, SDB to study the feasibility of beginning a lay volunteer program to help the Salesians in their various works throughout the world. The idea was to have lay people work alongside Salesians teaching in their schools, oratories, youth centers, and orphanages. Several international site visits, various interviews, and two years later, Fr. Louis sent out the first SLM to Colombia to work with the street children.
Since that time, more than 350 men and women have been sent to over 20 countries to work on projects ranging from youth ministry to agriculture and nursing.
Each year the SLM program expands to serve more of the world’s underprivileged youth. As times change, so do the needs and the site placements. We are asked by Salesian communities on a yearly basis to send volunteers to places all over the world: from the jungles of Papua New Guinea to the frozen lands of Mongolia.
And each year we carefully look at the sites to see where the most needs are.
Confraternity of Penitents
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Confraternity of Penitents Catholic Lay Association of the Faithful: Living St. Francis' Original Rule of Life for Lay People in Modern Times
The Confraternity of Penitents is an international, non-profit, tax exempt private association of the Roman Catholic faithful laity, with commendation, under the Bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne/South Bend, Indiana, USA. Its original foundation had been in the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1990's.
Confraternity members live, within their own homes, modern constitutions to the original rule for penitent lay people which Saint Francis of Assisi gave to the men and women of his time in the year 1221. Today a few other groups are also living expressions of this Rule of 1221 for the laity. However, the Confraternity of Penitents (CFP) differs from these few others in that the Confraternity's Vision is "TO LIVE THE RULE OF 1221 AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE TO ITS ORIGINAL INTENT." That intent was to have the penitent laity focus on surrender to God through faith, prayer, fasting and abstinence, simplicity of dress, and works of mercy. Might this be what you are seeking?
The CFP Constitutions adapt the Rule to modern times so that penitents do not appear singular or novel in modern society just as they did not appear singular or novel in their own society of 1221, while still requiring clothing parameters as did the original Rule The CFP members follow the same days of fast and abstinence, pray the same prayers, hold the same sorts of communal gatherings, and participate in works of mercy just as did the penitents of Saint Francis's time. Can you picture yourself living your life in this peaceful, joyful, and organized way?
Is it possible today to live an 800 year old Rule of Life, that spawned many saints, in one's own home? Our nearly thirty professed members prove that it is! Come and see what the Confraternity of Penitents has to offer! You may be surprised that a life of penance (conversion) will be your joyful path to surrender to God and holiness!
Marist Laity in the United States
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Marists are people who are called to do the work of Mary in her name and with her spirit. We are members of the Society of Mary, a family of many branches-priests, brothers, sisters and lay people.
Lay Missionaries of Charity
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Who We Are!
The Movement known as the Lay Missionaries of Charity (LMC) is an International Association of Lay people: married and single who adhering to the Spirit and Charism of the M.C. Family make private (juridically) vows of Chastity (conjugal), Poverty, Obedience and the fourth vow of Whole-Hearted Free Service to the poorest of the poor beginning with the members of one's own family. Remaining in the heart of the world, the LMCs consecrate the world itself to God everywhere offering worship by the holiness of their lives expressed through prayer, penance and works of mercy, after the example of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
Formación Pastoral para Laicos
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¿QUIENES SOMOS?
El Equipo Editor es dirigido por el P. José Ramón Martínez Galdeano, S.J. y es integrado por laicos de la Parroquia San Pedro, Lima - Perú, que a través de este blog queremos contribuir en la formación pastoral para laicos, es decir formación en varios aspectos de la vida cristiana, dando a conocer el mensaje de Cristo para que cada uno haga de él guía de su propia vida.
El blog es también una respuesta que damos ante el llamado de ser discípulos y misioneros de Jesucristo que conlleva a seguirlo, vivir en intimidad con él e imitar su ejemplo, y en especial a dar testimonio.
Asimismo este blog responde a la invitación que Su Santidad Benedicto XVI realizó en su discurso inaugural en Aparecida, con respecto a los medios para dar a conocer el mensaje de Cristo “En esta campo no hay que limitarse sólo a las homilías, conferencias, cursos de Biblia o teología, sino que se ha de recurrir también a los medios de comunicación: prensa, radio y televisión, sitios de internet, foros y tantos otros sistemas para comunicar eficazmente el mensaje de Cristo a un gran número de personas.”
Nos identificamos con la propuesta de Aparecida al disponernos a emprender esta nueva aventura de apostolado a través de este medio declarándonos en misión permanente, asumiendo el compromiso de ir alimentando el blog periódicamente y progresivamente.
De la misma manera nos sentimos parte de la Gran Misión Continental convocada en Aparecida, compartimos la alegría de difundir el mensaje de Cristo a quienes no lo han hecho vida en la Iglesia universal, de tal modo que formemos con todos nuestros hermanos y hermanas la comunidad de amor de nuestro Padre Dios.
Para cumplir con nuestra labor contamos con la generosa y entusiasta colaboración de padres jesuitas quienes nos comparten sus artículos que con frecuencia publicamos y que enriquecen el blog, quienes han venido colaborando con el blog son los padres Antonio González Callizo, Adolfo Franco, Fernando Martínez, Ignacio Garro, Miguel Girón, Guillermo Villalobos y Enrique Rodríguez. El P. Vicente Gallo, S.J.†, nos acompañó desde nuestros inicios con los temas dirigidos a matrimonios y parejas, hasta su partida a la Casa del Padre en julio del 2012. A todos ellos les damos las gracias y con ellos queremos compartir este apostolado porque el blog es de todos aquellos que lo hacen parte de su labor pastoral.
Invocamos a Dios a que nos guíe en este caminar, de tal manera que lo que podamos ofrecer responda a las necesidades de nuestros hermanos y hermanas y pedimos a María, Madre de Dios y Madre nuestra a que nos acompañe e interceda por esta pequeña labor apostólica.
Comunidad de Vida Cristiana, CVX Colombia
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Comunidad de Vida Cristiana Católica con espiritualidad ignaciana. Somos un conjunto de cristianos de todas las condiciones sociales, que deseamos seguir más de cerca a Jesucristo. Nuestro propósito es llegar a ser cristianos comprometidos, dando testimonio en la sociedad y teniendo una opción preferencial por los pobres.
Christian Life Community of the USA
Our Community
Christian Life Community (CLC) is an international association of men and women who desire to follow Jesus Christ more closely and work with Him to build a world of justice and peace. A lay pupblic institute with pontifical right, it works in close collaboration with the Society of Jesus and is animated by the spirituality of its founder, St. Ignatius Loyola. CLC bears witness to human and Gospel values within the Church and society, in the concreteness of the time and place where we live, which affect the dignity of the human person, the welfare of the family, and the integrity of creation.
CLC is a vocation that calls us both as individuals and as communities to integrate our experience of Ignatian spirituality with Christian community and Gospel mission. This integration is the charism of CLC – a living sacrament of the present moment.
The mission of American Christian Life Communities is to live the Ignatian vision in the Church and culture of the United States of America, and it extends to family, work, society, town, Church and nation. The CLC mission is identified with Christ’s mission of bringing the Good News to all, especially the poor, of opening hearts to conversion, and struggling to change oppressive structures.
CLC spirituality is deeply rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Through Ignatian spirituality, members of Christian Life Communities share in this gift and spirit.
CLC today is comprised of some sixty national communities around the world. India, Madagascar and Lebanon have significantly larger memberships. In CLC-USA there are more than 2,000 adult members representing various cultural backgrounds and age groups just like the country itself. Over the past ten years CLC-USA has become a microcosm of the world community, being multi-cultural and multi-linguistic across an age span from teen to senior citizen.
Camino Neocatecumenal
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El Camino Neocatecumenal
§ 1. La naturaleza del camino neocatecumenal es definida de S:S: Juan Pablo II cuando escribe: " Reconozco el Camino Neocatecumenal como un itinerario de formaciòn catolica, valida para la sociedad y para los tiempos modernos"
§ 2. El Camino Neocatecumenal está al servicio del Obispo como una de las modalidades de la actuaciòn diocesana de la iniciación cristiana y de la educación permanente a la fe.
§ 3. El Camino Neocatecumenal, dotado de personalidad juridica pública, consta de un conjunto de bienes espirituales:
El "Neocatecumenado" , o catecumenado post-bautismal;
La educación permanente a la fe;
El catecumenado;
El servicio de la catequesis.
En la Iglesia primitiva. Cuando el mundo era pagano, el que quería hacerse cristiano debía iniciar un "catecumenado" , que era un itinerario de formación para prepararse al Bautismo. Hoy el proceso de secularización ha llevado tantas personas a abandonar la fe y la Iglesia: por esto es necesario un itinerario de formación al cristianismo.
El Camino Neocatecumenal no es un movimiento o una asociaciòn, sino un instrumento en las parroquias al servicio de los Obispos para conducir a la fe tantas personas que la han abandonado. Iniciado en los años '60 en una de los suburbios mas pobres de Madrid por Kiko Arguello y Carmen Hernandez, fue bienvenido por el entonces Arzobispo de Madrid, Casimiro Morcillo, que reconoció en aquel primer grupo un descubrimiento de la Palabra de Dios y una actuación práctica de la renovación litúrgica promovida en aquellos años del Concilio.
Constatada la positiva experiencia en las parroquias de Madrid, en el 1974 la Congregación para el Culto Divino elige el nombre de Camino Neocatecumenal para esta experiencia. Se trata de un camino de conversión a través del cual se pueden descubrir las riquezas del Evangelio.
En estos años el Camino se ha extendido por más de 900 Diócesis de 105 Naciones, con más de 20 mil comunidades en 6.000 parroquias. En el 1987 se abrió en Roma el Seminario Misionario Internacional "Redemptoris Mater" que aloja jóvenes que han madurado sus vocaciones en una comunidad neocatecumenal y que están dispuestos a ir por todo el mundo.
Sucesivamente muchos Obispos han seguido la experiencia de Roma y hoy en el mundo son más de 70 seminarios diocesanos misionarios "Redemptoris Mater" donde se están formando màs de mil seminaristas.
Recientemente, en respuesta a la llamada del Papa a la nueva evangelización, muchas familias que han recorrido el Camino, se han ofrecido para ayudar la misión de la Iglesia yendo a vivir en las zonas más secularizadas y descristianizadas del mundo, preparando el nacimiento de nuevas parroquias misionarias.
The Brothers and Sisters of Penance
The Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis is a private Association of the Catholic Church whose members strive to model their lives according to the Rule and Statutes of the Primitive Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, which was written for lay people in 1221 at the request of St. Francis of Assisi.
Here is what history says: "…the men and women of that village wanted to follow St. Francis…and to abandon their village. But St. Francis did not leave them, saying to them: 'Don't be in a hurry, and don't leave, for I will arrange what you should do for the salvation of your souls', and he planned the Third Order of the Continent for the salvation of all people everywhere." (Little Flowers of St. Francis)
The Association was born from the original Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis as contained in the Franciscan Omnibus of Sources and the resultant Stella Matutina movement in the Secular Franciscan Order in Minnesota in the late 1980's under the guidance of Father Valerius Messerich O.F.M.. It was formally recognized in 1996 in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis with the blessing, encouragement and support of Archbishop Harry J. Flynn. The Archbishop further honored the Association by accepting the first formal professions of the first members who completed formation in Minnesota in 2003. Now both the Association and the Rule of life have been informally approved by several bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in various dioceses across the United States, and other countries. Every bishop who has been introduced to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance has supported the movement as a definitive return to the Gospel life.
As an Association The Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis is open to all Catholics including Third Order members, oblates, and members of other Catholic lay movements and Associations. We draw no lines on membership. However, although our vision, mission, spirituality and formation is deeply founded in the mystery and beauty of the life of St. Francis, the Association is not connected to the Franciscan Orders in any formal way.
Our members must adhere to all the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and the magisterium. They live the life of penance of the Rule of 1221 in their own homes, as that is how St. Francis wanted it. Archbishop Roger Schwietz of Anchorage, when first exposed to the movement, said "this is good and holy". No one has ever said it was easy. It is a demanding lifestyle, of prayer, penance, and increasing simplicity and poverty, but the rewards are sweet, vast, and eternal for those who persist. It is a gift we bring to God.
The life of penance is to be lived quietly, so as to be virtually invisible to those around us. However, it is lived and shared in the faithful community of members in this Association. Chapters of members can form in any community, and with the communication systems of today it is intended that there be no isolated members in the Association.
With God, there are no coincidences. God has brought you to this site. Review the site prayerfully, and seek an answer in your heart to the Lord's call, as He made to his first disciples', "Come after me…" (Matt. 4:21). He calls us all. Perhaps He wishes to use your interest in this Association to draw you into a deeper union with Himself. Spend time at this web site, read our Rule and Statutes, and ask God to guide you into His perfect plan for your life.
Olive Leaf Journal, A Lay Catholic Perspective
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Welcome to the Olive Leaf Journal
THIS WEBSITE is maintained by members of A People of Peace Community, Inc. We are largely a group of lay Catholics who, for over 30 years, have chosen to share our lives together in a common effort to respond to the gift of God’s love.
We are ordinary people touched by extraordinary grace. We have jobs and many of us are married with children and grandchildren; we have all the joys and struggles of ordinary life. We strive to be faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church because that is the vehicle our Father uses to touch us, love us, form us, support us and commission us. Our response is that of the laity, which is reflected in this Journal.
While we believe that the fullness of God’s revelation is contained within the Catholic Church, we also understand that we are still growing into that revelation and, as we grow, so may our understanding deepen.
The first Olive Leaf was a print periodical made available in the parishes of the Archdiocèse de Saint-Boniface www.archsaintboniface.ca and the Archdiocese of Winnipeg www.archwinnipeg.ca at the invitation of the pastor. Its purpose was to edify, inform and support the laity. Olive Leaf was distributed without charge for several years. This website was originally established as an adjunct of the print journal.
We have seen that, while people have many reasons for coming here, there are a number of questions which keep coming up. In response, we have decided to answer them as best we can and broaden the website so that it points the way to additional resources.
WELCOME to the Olive Leaf Journal. We hope and pray that it will help deepen your experience of our Father’s love for you.
miércoles, 25 de septiembre de 2013
Quiero ser santo
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Programa alegre y dinámico de variedades destinado a los jóvenes. Con secciones de eventos interesantes, conexiones con los reporteros qss, Ilusionismo, humor, reportajes, y un sin fin de videos propios que harán muy ameno y cercano este original programa presentado por Marta Rodríguez y el Padre Sergio en el que tratarán de animarnos a todos a ser santos.
National Association of Catholic Youth Ministry Leaders
2012 NACYML Leadership TeamNACYML, a service of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry, promotes the profession and practice of Catholic youth ministry.
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