What Catholics can learn during Islam’s holy month
7/20/12
www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20120720.htm#head7
VATICAN CITY (Catholic News Service) — The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which started July 20 in many countries, is a time of fasting, prayer and repentance, when Muslims distance themselves from worldly activities in an effort to align their lives more closely with God and his laws. According to the Vatican’s point man for dialogue with Islam, Ramadan is also an opportunity for Catholics to learn from Muslims’ example of obedience to the Almighty — and thereby strengthen their own Catholic faith. Msgr. Khaled Akasheh runs the section for relations with Muslims at the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, an office founded by Pope Paul VI in 1964, during the Second Vatican Council. One of the most important aspects of Vatican II, Msgr. Akasheh told Catholic News Service, was that “the church accepted all that is right and beautiful in religions.” The council thus fostered a culture in which theological disagreement did not mean disrespect for what others hold sacred. Even half a century later, however, many Catholics perceive a tension between the need to respect other religious traditions and Christ’s call to bring his truth to all people. “Managing mission and dialogue is perhaps the major theological challenge” in communicating with other faiths, Msgr. Akasheh said. Catholic experts engaged in dialogue do not make any “explicit appeal to others to embrace our religion, but this doesn’t mean that we are not faithful to our faith and our mission, because in dialogue we say what we are,” he said.
Saudi Arabia to non-Muslims: Respect Ramadan or else
Posted by Robert on July 20, 2012
www.jihadwatch.org/2012/07/saudi-arabia-to-non-muslims-respect-ramadan-or-else.html
Remember: in Muslim countries, you must respect Islamic practices and sensitivities. And in non-Muslim countries, you must respect Islamic practices and sensitivities. Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: “Saudi warns non-Muslims: respect Ramadan or else,” from The Associated Press, July 20 ( seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2018729457_apmlsaudiramadan.html ):
Here yet again, for AP you’re “ultraconservative” if you want to impose Sharia and “ultraconservative” if you oppose Sharia.
Ramadan seems to have originated as an imitation of the Christian Lent. If we learn anything from the Muslims’ observance of Ramadan, we are essentially learning from our own traditions, which we have largely abandoned.
This is an awesome sermon, for those who haven’t listened to it. Father goes over the past Christian practice of Lent and how it was relaxed over the centuries and compares it to the observance of Ramadan. www.audiosancto.org/sermon/20030103-Lent-Fasting-Abstinence-and-Penance.html
This is insane. There is only one true God, Jesus Christ, and only one true Religion, the Catholic Religion. Muslims reject both. Remember Our Lord’s words: “No one comes to the Father but through Me.” It is not a matter of accomodation; it is a matter of conversion. Concerning muslims, for them it’s either christian conversion or satanic damnation.
Let me be more specific.
I want to remind everybody that there is only one true God, Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father from whom both The Holy Spirit Proceeds, and only one true Religion, the Catholic Religion left us by Pius XII. Remember Our Lord’s words: “No one comes to the Father but through Me.” And no one comes to Jesus Christ but through His Mother the Ever Virgin Mary. It is not a matter of accommodation; it is a matter of conversion. Concerning Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Pagans, Heathens et al., for them it’s either Christian conversion or satanic damnation. Any other way of looking at life and the Mystery of Salvation or Eternal rejection of our soul is utter insane madness. Woe to those who reject these truths!