Springtime in South Korea
Our gathering is done and was, i think, very fruitful. I'll blog about it a bit later. Right now, I must finish tweaking Making Disciples - that is the task of the weekend. I will blog sporadically as "quickies" come to my attention - but anything that requires thought will have to wait!
But I wanted to share this interesting piece on a veteran Franciscan missionary in South Korea and how his work has been integral to the remarkable growth of the Catholic Church there."In 1958", observes Giancarlo, "in (South) Korea there were no more than 800,000 Catholics. Now there are almost 5 million. More than half of these received baptism as adults".
posted by Sherry W @ 7:50 AM
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Not sure if this is appropriate to cross post here (yet "Asia, our common task for the Third Millenium" was JPII's motto right?) so here goes:
further to the "Lakeland" postings at Amy's and my curt remarks about history in the region I thought in honor of 5-25 you'd be interested in this 2004 talk by Christopher Cook and Marjorie Trusted from the V&A in London on a statue that celebrates East meets West (carved by a Chinese artisan from African ivory):
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/sculpture/audio_proms_talk/index.html
oops my bad Sunday is Domingo so its 5-24 for MadreDeus right?
Here's Cadinal Zen's reflections
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12336&size=A
And here's some links from an American Catholic in Korea's blog of before and after photos of the earthquake's damage to Pengzhou Seminary in Sichuan province
http://orientem.blogspot.com/2008/05/pengzhou-catholic-seminary.html
so sad...
And Mark Shea's ~200 commenters thread reminds us that US atomic bombs wiped out 2/3 of Japan's Catholics
http://markshea.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#647104308491419258
The other thing that helps with young adults is the advanced state of most RC parishes web savvy adoption of enabling technology, see the grey box on the home page at the newly built St. John's in Seongnam? That's the BBS entries for this weeks events and the comboxes of parishioners blogging about them! We can only dream of such marvels here...
http://www.john.or.kr/
where salvation history lines the tiled spiral hallwall leading to the choir:
http://eye4insanity.blogspot.com/2007/05/st-johns-cathedral-pieta-replica-and.html
I heard that a Korean Catholic donor helped finance the Vatican website makeover (or was it Vatican Radio? I'm not sure which one, they are managed separately). As a recovering corporate techie myself I stand in awe, but would so wish there was some co-ordination of best practices, businesses would never be excused the proflgate waste in resources the Church permits on these sorts of things... with some standardization and templates exchanged everyone can stay on message without spending a penny!
May I permit myself to attempt to display my avatar (and see if my techy street cred is still watertight?) using my OpenID? Its not for vanity's sake, I just thought its friendlier when folks can see the person they're engaged in dailog with, do you agree?
Clare:
I am famous for my technical anti-charism so I can freely say that I don't know what your OpenID is.
And I can humbly confess that my 'cred is shredded! I have been intrigued at the little snapshots folks use to express their temperament [or mask their temperament, maybe?] in the online world, and thought mine would show-up in blogger if I posted using it (I normally just post using my name @ email).
But it didn't work! So back to the drawing board for me, and you can rest assured your charisms are charming just the way they are!
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