Itinerant Convivience

The Itinerant Convivience will be taking place in Israel. Yes, you heard that correctly....Israel. The Itinerants in the United States and Guam will be in Israel. The parishes and the Archdiocese will not need to put in a single cent for those who are worried about the money they contributed to the parishes. 

Some may wonder why Israel, considering that the country is at war with Hamas. We can never understand why God chose for the itinerants to have a retreat in Israel. At any rate, we pray for the itinerants to have a safe travel to Israel and to always stay safe. Please pray for them.

Anniversary Death of Father Pius

 

The Complete Timeline

Those who have been reading my blog for a long time are aware of the circumstances surrounding Mother Dawn, the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Guam, and Archbishop Anthony Apuron. On November 15, 2016, Mother Dawn came out publicly and revealed the donor of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary and accused then Archbishop Apuron of not respecting the donor's wish to remain anonymous. According to KUAM news (the bold is mine):

In a rare press conference, Mother Dawn talked to local media to share her side of the story relating to the RMS property in Yona. You see, after years of speculation about who was the mystery $2 million benefactor that allowed for the archdiocese's acquisition of the RMS property.

he finally came out, saying all it took was a phone call to her Carmelite sisters in the US mainland. "There was no he, it was a she - and it was me," she said. "So the truth of where the money came from is as easy as that."

According to the mother superior, her wish to remain anonymous was not respected. 

The JungleWatch blog also had its own timeline regarding Mother Dawn, which you can find here. However, that timeline is incomplete. According to Rohr's post:

JAN 02, 2003: The Carmelite community in St. Louis, MO, agrees to lend Archdiocese of Agana the money to pay off the approximate 2 Million dollar mortgage note, interest free. (The offer of a loan eventually became a free and clear gift).

DEC 17, 2014: Mother Dawn Marie, on business for her Carmelite order, is in the office of the St. Louis Carmelite community when an email from Archbishop Apuron arrives addressed to the Prioress of the St. Louis community. In the email Apuron asks the St. Louis Prioress to sign a pre-written letter stating that the original intent of the 2003 donation was for the "purchase of the Accion Hotel for the Archdiocese of Agana for the purpose of housing the Redemptoris Mater Seminary and the Theological Institute for the formation of priests."

These are the facts: 

January 2, 2003: The Carmelite community in St. Louis, MO agrees to give the Archdiocese of Agana 2 million dollars to acquire the Redemptoris Mater Seminary. 

August 6, 2014: Mother Dawn contacted Tim Rohr and told him who the donor was. Tim published it in his blog, which you can see here. According to Tim Rohr dated August 6, 2014 (the bold is mine): 

The 2 million dollar gift to purchase the Yona property did not fall from heaven. Mother Dawn, because she is devoted to our Catholic Church, spearheaded the effort to find a donor through her order and specifically through her fellow Carmelites in St. Louis, Missouri. 

August 7, 2014: Patty Arroyo spoke with Mother Dawn. Mother Dawn also revealed who the donor was to Patty Arroyo. So, the news media already knew. Patty Arroyo made a comment in the jungle about her interview with Mother Dawn. According to her comment:

Patti ArroyoAugust 7, 2014 at 7:29 AM

I have spoken personally with Mother Dawn Marie on this. All reported above on the "deal" for Redemptoris Mater Seminary is true, especially the part about the notion that the Carmelites had an extra 2 million laying around. Because the conditions of the "gift", not loan were violated people think the Carmelites don't need help. In fact, they live on $30 each a day and Mother Dawn Marie is currently scouring the country for financial support. If anyone is interested in a solution...help the Carmelites. It's the most productive, personal effort you can make to help fix an otherwise out of control holy war.

December 17, 2014 (taken from Tim's own blog): Mother Dawn Marie, on business for her Carmelite order, is in the office of the St. Louis Carmelite community when an email from Archbishop Apuron arrives addressed to the Prioress of the St. Louis community. In the email Apuron asks the St. Louis Prioress to sign a pre-written letter stating that the original intent of the 2003 donation was for the "purchase of the Accion Hotel for the Archdiocese of Agana for the purpose of housing the Redemptoris Mater Seminary and the Theological Institute for the formation of priests."

November 15, 2016: Mother Dawn comes out publicly to blame Archbishop Apuron that the donor's wish to remain anonymous was not respected (See KUAM news.)

So, you see, it was never Bishop Apuron who revealed the donor's identity. It was Mother Dawn herself. She first revealed it to Tim Rohr who published it in his blog in August 6, 2014, two years before she came out public. The donor's identity was already published in a blog for the entire world to see before Bishop Apuron even sent his email. 

Why did I bring this up? Canon lawyers suspected that the guilty verdict of Bishop Apuron had nothing to do with child sexual abuse. In fact, many canon lawyers concluded that the guilty verdict must be something else. However, the Vatican never said what Apuron was guilty of nor did they mention what charges were brought against him. See the news report here. 

What I do know is that Bishop Apuron appealed the verdict against him after he was found guilty. Right after that, I received an email from Father Pius, asking me to email him the evidence that Mother Dawn revealed the donor's identity to Tim Rohr and that Rohr published it in his blog. Unfortunately, the verdict was upheld by the Vatican without even reviewing the evidence. So, the evidence was never presented.  

It is also possible that Rohr knew the identity of the donor since 2013 because of what he published in his blog. According to Rohr's post dated November 26, 2013 (the bold and underline is mine): 

However, even the extremely low price was still a lot of money for the archdiocese. Arrangements were made to purchase the property on terms, but the completion of the purchase was accelerated when the archdiocese received a large gift to assist in the purchase of the property through a religious order based in the states. 

The gift had the condition that the source remain absolutely anonymous. The condition of anonymity was critical because the donor did not want to hurt the religious order through which it came, and of which, there is a branch on Guam.

 So, the bottom line is that Bishop Apuron never revealed the identity of the donor as shown in my timeline. The donor was already revealed when it was published through the JungleWatch blog for the entire world to see.  

Correcting the Jungle Again

 From Rohr’s title in his post, So There Are Two Chosen People, he must believe that the Jews were replaced by the Christians as God’s chosen people. This belief is called “The Replacement Theory,” which was rejected by the Catholic Church (See the article on Catholic Answers, written by Jimmy Akin.)

Yes, there is a New Israel. And if there is a New Israel, that means there is also an Old Israel. There is a New Testament and an Old Testament. There is a New Covenant and an Old Covenant. There is a first Adam, and there is a second Adam. There is a first Eve and a New Eve. So, it only takes common sense that if there is a New Israel, there is also an Old Israel. The Jews are the Old Israel. However, the question is are the Jews still the chosen people of God? According to the Catholic Church, the answer is YES. So, who should you believe.. Rohr or the Catholic Church? According to an article in Catholic Answers, written by Jimmy Akin (the bold is mine):

The Church rejects the idea that the covenant with Israel has been nullified or revoked.

The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value, for the Old Covenant has never been revoked. (Catechism, 121)

While the role of preparing the world for the arrival of the messiah has been fulfilled by the Jewish people, they still are God’s chosen people whose fidelity to God remains a light to the nations. The Jewish people were called to a unique and special relationship to God that included preparing for the messiah but was not limited to that one role.

In addition, when asked if the Jews are still God's chosen people Cardinal Ratzinger responded: 

God has not, then, retracted his word that Israel is the chosen people?

No, because he is faithful. Of course, we can see that Israel still has some way to go. As Christians, we believe that they will in the end be together with us in Christ. But they are not simply done with and left out of God's plans; rather they still stand within the faithful covenant of God.

So, yes, the Jews are still God's chosen people, and this is what the Catholic Church teaches. Rohr's teaching is not Catholic. Jesus did not come down to invent a new religion. His purpose was to bring redemption to mankind. God remains faithful to Israel...to both the New Israel and the Old Israel, for both are His chosen people.  God is "the Judeo-Christian God" because the Jews and Christians are His chosen people who know His real name.

According to Tim Rohr: 

The DIANA, who claims to only speak for herself and not The Neocatechumenal Way (NCW) - which she constantly speaks for - says - within the current context of the Israel v Hamas conflict - that she "stands with Israel." 

Is Rohr calling me a liar when I stated the following? 

Although I walk in the Neocatechumenal Way, this is my blog and does not express the views of other members walking in the Way. Neocatechumenal Way, Insider's View is the view of only one person walking in the Way. My political views may be different from the others walking in the Way. Nevertheless, they are my political views and mine alone. 

The title of my blog is "Neocatechumenal Way - An Insider's View."  "An Insider's View" means exactly that, and it was written in the singular tense It is NOT The Insiders' Views (plural). It is the view or viewpoint of one person walking in the Way for several years. So, as one person asked me in my blog earler whether Spanish is being recited in our Eucharist, I answered that as far as I know, it is not. So, what part of "An Insider's View" does Rohr not understand?  

As for the Palestinians, have you ever wondered why the Arab neighbors closed their borders to the Palestinian refugees? When Russia attacked Ukraine, their European neighbors took in the Ukrainian refugees, which consist mostly of women, children and the elderly. But the Arab world closed their borders to the Palestinian refugees. The Arab world are aware that the majority of Palestinians elected Hamas whose goal is to murder all Jews and destroy the State of Israel and make it into an Islamic state.  This is a fact that many in the West chose to ignore. And today we see the reason why as antisemitism finally reared its ugly head in the western world. 

Celebration of the Three Kings

Yesterday, the NCW celebrated the Epiphany. The children with their families organized the celebration, and people were invited. Flyers were sent out to the communities regarding the celebration. It turned out to be a great success. Even the weather was sunny! 

I Stand With Israel

Although I walk in the Neocatechumenal Way, this is my blog and does not express the views of other members walking in the Way. Neocatechumenal Way, Insider's View is the view of only one person walking in the Way. My political views may be different from the others walking in the Way. Nevertheless, they are my political views and mine alone. 

God has promised the land to the Jewish people. God is truth and will always keep His promises. In addition to promising land, He also called the Jews His chosen people. It was through them that Christ was to be born. And today, they are still His chosen people for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. 

Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession. 

This truth is irrevocable. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 

CCC 839 ......To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ:, "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

The Land of Canaan was given to the Jews over 3000 years ago, but the Jewish people who inherited the land were not the Jews who were enslaved in Egypt. The Israelites who conquered the seven nations of Canaan were the descendants of those enslaved in Egypt. Even Moses never stepped on the Holy Land. He was only allowed to view it from afar.

Numbers: 14:22-23 not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice. They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated with contempt will ever see it. 

God was true to His word because He is the God of truth. None of the Israelite slaves in Egypt entered the land of milk and honey. It was their descendants who conquered the seven nations of Canaan and took the land. That land became Israel. 

Fast forward into the first century. Jesus was incarnated as a man. He was the Messiah whom God had promised to His chosen people, but many Jews did not recognize Him. Many rejected Christ as the Messiah. Many of the Jews believed in a political Messiah similar to Moses. Just as Moses rescued the Israelites from slavery and oppression in Egypt, the Jews believed that their Messiah would rescue them from Roman oppression. So, they waited for a political Messiah and did not recognize Jesus as their Messiah. 

In 70 A.D., the Romans destroyed the Jewish temple and scattered many of the Jews to Europe and other neighboring countries. The Romans renamed the land of Israel to "Palestine" because of their hatred of the Jewish people. The Romans wanted to wipe out the name of Israel out of hatred of the Jews. Yet, some believed that the Jews were driven from the Holy Land because they rejected Christ, the Messiah. In fact, some of the Traditional Jewish religious thought stated that the Jews had been exiled from their homeland as a punishment from God and could only return in Messianic times. Just as the original Israelites slaves did not inherit the land for their sins against God, so the Israelis were driven out of the land for their sins in rejecting Christ. 

During World War II, Nazi Germany persecuted many Jews. Approximately 6 millions Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany. And again, the Jews cried out to  God to save them just as they cried out to God to save them from Egyptian oppression. History repeats itself. Many of the Jews who returned to the Holy Land to escape death and persecution in Europe were the descendants of the Jews who were displaced after the Romans drove them out in 70 A.D. 

As more and more Jewish descendants returned to the Holy Land, they came into conflict with the Arabs who were also living there. The United Nations intervened and tried to resolve the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews by dividing the land of Israel (known as "Palestine"). In 1948, the Jewish people accepted the UN resolution, took their part of the land that was given to them by the UN, and declared their state "Israel." The Arabs could have also done the same thing. They could have taken the part that was given to them by the UN and declare their Palestine State, and a Palestine State would have existed in 1948. Instead, seven Arab nations attacked Israel in 1948. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia (under the Egyptian command), and Yemen attacked Israel. Israel won the 1948 war. More than 3000 years ago, the descendants of the Israelites fought against the seven nations of Canaan to establish Israel, and in 1948 the descendants of the Jews fought against seven Arab nations to restore Israel. Again, history repeats itself. God has not abandoned His chosen people. 

There may be some brothers who will argue that we Christians are now God's chosen people. Both the Jews and the Christians are His chosen people. The Jews are known as Old Israel, and Christians are the New Israel. Christianity came from Judaism, and our Founder Jesus Christ was Jewish. Therefore, we are also God's chosen people. Israel is here to stay. For 75 years, seven 2-State proposals were given to the Palestinian authority so that a Palestine State would exist alongside Israel. All seven proposals were rejected by the Palestinians. You would think that a 2-State proposal would be the solution to the conflict. Indeed it is. The problem, however, is that the Palestinian Authority never wanted a 2-State solution. They want only a Palestine State WITHOUT Israel. In other words, they do not want Israel to exist. So, I stand with Israel because they are fighting for their existence against a terror organization that wants to annihilate both the State of Israel and the Jewish people.

And for those who believe that Israel is the occupier, see the video below: 

                      

Happy New Year!

The year 2023 is finally gone! Goodbye 2023. Welcome 2024! We hope the new year will be better than the previous year in that we receive more blessings from God. We are also hoping and praying for an Archbishop. Hopefully, we will get one this year. The evangelization of the Pacific region still continues. We hope to add more brothers with us when it is time to participate in the 2027 World Youth Day in Seoul, South Korea. The NCW in South Korea must be excited to have the WYD in their country.