Posted on 08/21/2013 10:10:20 PM PDT by haffast
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Even before retired Pope Benedict XVI set up a pontifical council for new evangelization and convoked a world Synod of Bishops on the theme, a new group of Benedictine monks was using Latin and liturgy to reach out to those whose faith was weak or nonexistent.
Now they've added beer to the blend, and people are flocking to the monastery in Norcia, the birthplace of St. Benedict, about 70 miles northeast of Rome in the Umbrian countryside.
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""Weed" leads to a Higher Authority."
"Take a toke with da pope, meet Jesus".
"Just one hit and my child was heeEAled!"
It's the "new evangelization".
(Beats those cd and dvd sets sold on TV, they just get dusty.)
No, doing weed's a mortal sin. But Monks have been brewing beer for about 1500 years. Until the advent of the Puritans, temperance ladies, and PC police, beer, wine, and spirits in sociable quantities were recognized as part of a happy and healthy life.
These monks are reverent, conservative, and founded to save souls through work and prayer.
Meanwhile, some of us are duly mindful that Puritans are against adultery because it might lead to dancing.
Good beer and wine are NOT equivelents to marijuana, otherwise the Lord Jesus wouldn’t have drank wine, or established holy communion with wine and bread.
Your comments are bitter nonsense.
Puritans were never teetotalers—but enjoyed wine and beer in moderation—and usually had very large families too.
Intolerant anti-alcohol fanatics came with the 19th Century Victorians, and the “temperance” movement—which members, more often than not, were theologically opposed to Calvinism—which defined real Puritans.
Or made the stuff out of water, so people who were already drunk at a party could drink some more!
I thought it was a joke, and watched it expecting one, but it turned out to be extremely interesting.
You know, I wondered about the Puritans and beer, since I thought I remembered a mention of beer in the manifest of the Mayflower. Then I said to myself, "you mean, the people who sent troops into the streets of London in the 1640s on Christmas Day to confiscate illegal plum puddings being cooked by Londoners illegally celebrating the banned, Papist-Royalist holiday of Christmas? Brought beer? No way."
So I lumped them in with the others. Thanks for the heads-up.
Your comments are bitter nonsense."
Well have another drink my FRiend, you may develop a sense of humor.
Yes, Puritans did hate Christmas, and all other religious holidays—as they saw it as an excuse for drunken revelry....and, these celebrations were never called for in the Bible. (Of course the Jews celebrated all the noteable events in their history, every year—so Christians celebrating Christmas and Easter, along with other holidays unique to Christianity, is perfectly in accord with previous Jewish practices...but, I digress)
I certainly disagree with Puritan’s hate of holidays, but they were just being consistant to the “regulative principle” (if it’s not shown in the Bible you can’t do it). Conservative Presbyterians and Reformed types—while celebrating Christmas and Easter—still don’t do anything else in the Christian calendar, and many won’t have crosses or any art in their churches either. Some won’t even allow an organ or other musical instruments to be used in Church (as they aren’t mentioned in the New Testament). A rather bleak form of Christianity, I daresay.
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