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Notes for today's sermon
We are by nature sleepers, snoring away, living in a wold of dream and fantasy and occasionally nightmare. Sometimes our sleep resembles death
Christ calls us to awake, to arise, to come to life, to come out of the Tomb!
He says, "I come that you might have Life and have it to the full".
Irenaeus of Lyons writing just less than a century and half after the Lord's Resurrection says, "The Glory of God is Man fully alive".
How do we live if we are fully alive?
We live according to the Gospel.
If you read the Sermon on the Mount, the standards of Christ are more demanding than those of the past, think of what he says about looking at someone lustfully, about marriage, it is all much, much more demanding than what Moses taught.
We are afraid to wake to come to life, to give up sin, yet Christ doesn't imposse burdens on us but give us strength and power.
St Augustine hears the call of Christ and puts it off, "Lord make chaste and continent, but not today!"
What changed for Augustine?
The realisation that following Christ is about a relationship.
Relationships, not rules or even Catechisms, change us and bring us to alive.
Being in love changes us, having a child changes us, truly encountering Christ changes us and causes us to awake.
Our relationship with Christ changes us and causes us to rise from our beds, from our graves even.
The Power and Might of the Holy Spirit in Confirmation causes us to awake, to come to Life.
The Blood poured out on us in the Holy Eucharist causes us to awake, to come to Life.
The healing love we encounter in Confession causes us to awake to come, to come to Life.
See the lives of the Saints, these are men and women, and children Awake and Alive in Christ.
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1st Vespers of Advent
Annuntiate populis et dicite: Ecce Deus salvator noster veniet.
Ecce Dominus veniet, et omnes sancti eius cum eo, et erit in die illa lux magna, alleluia.
Veniet Dominus in potestaste magna, et videbit omnis caro.
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Mele a friend of one of our parishioners took a series of photographic sketches that we will eventually put up on a website. The grainey black and white seem to work better than the colour ones.
I think it is interesting what a non-Catholic found interesting in our worship.
Croziers
I thought you might like to see these, they are medieval but an Italian company called Tridentinum who say they are able to reproduce them within a couple of months. I would almost disbelieve it, except they have recently made vestments for the Papal Sacristy.
I don't want a crozier but has anyone commissioned anything from them?
And from Our Rome Correspondent
Though the weather is dull, today in Rome "in" people are mostly buying Rose, in the Roman style.
This was taken by our Rome correspondent this morning, who can be plainly seen in reflection in the window, is that a purple flash?
Reprieved until Christmas
The big dip in the stats reminded me that it was Thanksgiving in the USA, so a belated:
Happy Thanksgiving Day!!!
As someone who hates eating turkey, my commiserations especially if you have plenty leftover. Having the ugly dry bird twice in 30 days must be a great penance, offer it up!
To those turkeys on deathrow who think they have been spared, eat, drink and be merry, for the time being!
St. Josemaria Escriva: On Purity
"Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility."
"'Purity?' they ask. And they smile. They are the ones who go on to marriage with worn-out bodies and disillusioned souls."
"There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work."
"Many live like angels in the middle of the world. You, … why not you?"
"When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph."
"Don't be such as coward as to be 'brave.' Flee! [temptation]"
"When you have sought the company of a sensual satisfaction, what loneliness afterward!"
"To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thornbush, Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond . . . You . . . what have you done?"
"Don't say, 'That's the way I am—its my character.' It's your lack of character. Esto vir!—Be a man!"
"As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace."
"Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves."
Orbis Factor
Last Sunday for the first for twenty years or so we had the Orbis Factor. Except in Lent and Easter we normally have Missa di Angelis. I am not one of those snobs who mutter: it is so late that it can't be considered chant, but I do think it does go on a bit especially during the Sanctus and Agnus Dei. A friend of mine likens it to knotweed, once it is in your garden it is almost impossible to get rid of it. Purists will be shocked but it is Orbis Fasctor until Christmas.
I love certainty of this music, the certainty of Divine mercy, the sense of the weight of the reception of Gods mercy. The word "eleison" has a connection with olive oil, the sinuous melody seems to be like thick olive oil penetrating into the soul, healing and cleansing. The rise on the last syllable of Christe seems to be about a drenching in the oil of mercy.
One of the nice things about the Traditional Rite of course is the Penitential Rite and absolution is a private affair, for the priest and server at the foot of the altar, a preparation for Mass, so the Kyrie becomes a triumphant proclamation in which the Christian prays and as he prays, he receives. The priest might mutter about his sinfulness under his breath but in the "congregation of the Redeemed" he and the congregation proclaims God's mercy. In the Novus Ordo the Penitential Rite, is the first part of Mass, when priest introduces it in his own words, it can become downright tedious, almost Pelagian.
Cardinal: put sacred art back in Church
According to the Times, The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said that The Baptism of Christ, painted in the 1450s by Piero della Francesca, should be taken out of the National Gallery and placed in a religious setting such as Westminster Cathedral.
"I would like to see this painting taken down from the walls of the National Gallery and placed in a Catholic church in London because it is a mistake to treat it as a work of art: it is a work of faith and piety, an expression of the Church's life and a way into prayer."
I presume His Eminence was being deliberately provocative.
His point, I presume, was that taken out of the context of faith, works like "The Baptism" loose their meaning. An altarpiece only really comes to life when it is set over an altar and Mass is celebrated before it.
Jan van Eyck's, The Adoration of the Lamb only makes sense and comes to life when a priest is elevating the Sacred Host or Chalice before the lower panel. It is designed for that. When I last saw it in a glass box in the crypt of Ghent Cathedral, separated from its altar and the Mass, as beautiful as it was, it seemed like a suit of dead men's clothes.
Art created for worship becomes a mere relic of a half remembered past when it is removed from its context.
The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, the Medieval Galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum, are really little different from an Albanian Museum of Atheism; out of context paintings, chalices, relics even, become mere artifacts, which as the Cardinal points out was never the intention behind their creation.
That being said, the Church itself can't be without criticism. Westminster Cathedral itself came back to life during the celebration of Mass by Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos earlier this year. For the fist time I saw the Benson altar "alive", rather than treated as something to be ignored or seen as an embarrassment.
In the last 40 years we have seen the Church turning its back on its artistic heritage. Ancient rites have been swept away, the orientation of prayer changed, that which which was held sacred has been dismissed as irrelevant and a great deal that was regarded as precious has either been consigned to the museum or the rubbish dump. Statues has become merely decorative, even chant is more likely to be heard at some New Age workshop or polyphony at a secular concert, albeit in a Church, with singers obscuring the altar rather than in the context of worship. The Church in recent years, by quite often literally turn its back on the sacred has been one of the greatest promoters of secularisation of Europe.
Forbidden to say...
One of our more elderly parishioners, "B", had to fly from Gatwick to the north, she was stopped for a random bag search and made to turn out her handbag, after which the young woman inspected each and every item meticulously, then she said she was going to get the device for checking for explosives. "B" was commanded to wait, she was rather afraid and muttered, "But I am not a terrorist, dear".
"You can't say that", said the young woman.
"What can't I say?" asked "B" a little confused.
"You can't say that word, you are not allowed to use that word, it is forbidden!"
"B" said she was too afraid to ask who had forbidden the use of the word "terrorist", but another passenger, presumably to comfort her said, "If you had said the word, "bomb", they would have called the police.
This is absolute madness, especially as "a bearded young man of middle eastern appearance", had set off the scanner 5 times before being waived through.
Quite extraordinary, what are we coming to, were even words are prohibited?
Document from Marriage and Family Life Project Office
A new document entitled
What is life like if you or someone in your family is gay or lesbian in their sexual orientation? ...and what can your parish family do to make a difference?
Marriage and Family Life Project Office
Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales
39 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1BX
There are lots of references to various documents, mainly from US Bishops, ones which have come in for serious criticism by different Roman Congregations, and some which the US Bishops themselves have replaced.
As priest in Brighton I spend quite a bit of time trying to help people make sense of their sexual attraction, I really find this document troubling. We used to speak alot about "meeting people where they are at" which is fine, Christ does that but he calls us break from sin and to live a new Life in him.
As this document is issued by the Bishop Conference, one of course accepts that there is great eagerness to pass on the Catholic faith whole and entire, here there seems to be something missing, no-one is well served by partial truths. This document is aimed at supporting families with "gay or lesbian" members, but we are called to much more than that.
Article 2358 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church says,
"The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition."
There is a great deal about "acceptance" of gay people in this document but nothing about Christ's radical call to "unite to the sacrifice of the [his] Cross", nor is there any teaching about the sinfulness of genital acts outside of marriage despite the fact that this document comes from the "Marriage and Family Life Project".
Compare and contrast this document this little document with Cardinal Biffi's radical vision which I linked to yesterday. It seems to lack something important, could it be a relationship with the person of Jesus Christ?
LMS Requiem
Latin Mass Society's Annual Requiem Mass in Westminster Cathedral
Father Antony Conlon, National Chaplain of the Latin Mass Society, celebrated a High Mass of Requiem in in Westminster Cathedral on Saturday 22 November. Father Tim Finigan was Deacon and the Sub-deacon was Fr Patrick Hayward. Gordon Dimon of the LMS was MC.
A congregation of about 600 heard the men of the Cathedral Choir sing traditional plainchant.
For the first time in many years, the Mass was followed by the traditional ceremonies of Absolutions at the Catafalque. Many in the congregation said afterwards how pleased they were that this ceremony had been reinstated.
Before Mass, a wreath was laid by Julian Chadwick, Chairman of the LMS, and other LMS Committee members on the grave of Cardinal Heenan in the cathedral nave in thanksgiving for the Cardinal's efforts to preserve the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Father Antony Conlon read prayers for the occasion.
John Medlin, General Manager of the LMS, said afterwards: "The LMS is grateful to Canon Christopher Tuckwell, the Cathedral Administrator, for his friendly help in organising our ceremonies. We feel that the Extraordinary Form now has a settled part to play in the life of Westminster Cathedral and we shall be putting some ideas regarding improved provision to Canon Tuckwell soon."
Santo Caliz of Valencia
The Santo Caliz of Valencia has an interesting history, the cup appears to date from the first century, and is possibly of Jewish origin.
The legend says it was brought to Rome by St Peter and sent to Valencia for safety by Saint Lawrence, a native of that city.
It is important to be skeptical about relics, but this chalice has a richly documented history that reaches into the first millenium.
Research into the shroud, the titulus of the Cross, the house of St Peter in Capernium, indicate that we can be too skeptical.
A conference on the Santo Caliz has just ended in Valencia.
I have just found myself quoted on the Muniment Room.
Fr Ray wrote: "I really do feel for people who have to put up with this type of nonsense week after week. The rubrics, the Liturgical Law is to protect people's faith. I really do wonder if my faith would be strong enough to endure onslaughts of this kind of abuse week after week after week."
Ttony then goes on to tell a story of being liturgical abused, what should he do?
The teaching of the great spiritual masters is that we should stand and fight against sin, ignorance, heresy, oppression everything infact, except in two cases:
Against attacks on purity, it which case we should flee to the Cross.
Against attacks on the faith, in which case we should flee to the Magisterium.
Ttony says if he didn't go to his parish church he would have to travel half an hour. If it was just him I would say travel, but he mentions a young daughter, he also has a duty her, sand a lesser duty to other parishioners, and the priest himself.
Now I know some of my brother priests will hate me for saying this, but...
If the priest is not being faithful to the Church, poor old Ttony has a duty first of all gently and with as much tact as possible to point out the problems to the priest, if this doesn't work the Gospels say he should take some other members of the community along with him and try again. If that doesn't work then obviously he has to take the matter to his bishop, if the bishop doesn't act and enforce the Church's Laws, "and all the trees have been cut down", then Ttony must go, or at least write, to Rome.
Priests have a duty, for which they are answerable before God himself, to preach the Catholic faith whole and entire, this includes the proper celebration of the Sacred Liturgy, I would prefer to be corrected by my parishioners or bishop, than punished by God.
Having said that, it is important to remember priests can have a bad day, or occasionally just be plain stupid or ignorant of Liturgical Law, or even be overworked and depressed, an increasing feature of many UK dioceses. Sometimes there can just be a clash of personalities or legitimate theologies, so it is always useful to check out one's own feelings with someone wise and gentle in the congregation.
Remember too that more flies are caught with a teaspoon full of honey than a barrel full of vinegar, priests have a right to expect mercy from their congregations.
Cardinal Giacomo Biffi on Chastity
Sandro Magister has a few extracts from Cardinal Biffi's new book "Sheep and Shepherds", even these little bits on Chastity are a must read and re-read and meditate a re-read again.
Another shot in the arm for radical orthodoxy and a shot across the bow of latter day Arianism.
We support Outlaws
I met a woman, an illegal immigrant with a young daughter of primary school age who for the last three or four years has been homeless. She has been staying with friends, acquaintances anybody who will put her up, two or three nights here, a week at the most there. Nowhere in the last three years has she spent longer than a month under the same roof.
Her psychological state now is fragile, her life revolves around her dauighter being able to go to the same school. This women is not quite typical but her story is not unusual amongst asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
The Home Office rules forbid them to work, even doing voluntary work to fill empty hours is problematic. Officially unable to work, it means people who are often the victims of violence, even of torture or of rape in their home country are forced into the dark recesses of our city. Suicide and self harm are not unusual. Vulnerable women sell the only thing they have left, young men get sucked into drug dealing and petty crime. Ill equipped with language, clothing and survival skills they are left to shift for themselves, in practice they are outlaws, afraid of deportation they rarely seek the protection of the Law.
We do our little bit Brighton Voices in Exile work out of my presbytery, each week they give food for a week to 40 homeless asylum seekers, there is a waiting list to get onto the list of the lucky 40, if you can help, please do.
I was pleased to read this, as mild as it is:
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has appealed for long-term immigrants should be given British citizenship.
Speaking on the BBC Sunday programme yesterday, Cardinal Cormac said there was a responsibility for the country to welcome immigrants to "appreciate the gifts that they bring and also make sure that in some way they are supported. A lot of the people who come are quite vulnerable and can easily be threatened and exploited. But I think also there is a point here about some migrants who come here and are here for years and they are undocumented."
He added: "After a certain time, a way should be given for them to receive citizenship here and so get the benefits of that."
The Cardinal;s comments came after the Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced that advisers were studying the potential benefits of an amnesty for the UK's estimated 700,000 illegal immigrants. He said that allowing long-term illegal immigrants to earn the right to stay in Britain would see "hugely increased" tax revenues.
However, immigration minister Phil Woolas has said any amnesty could lead to more people being exploited by traffickers. And Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said an amnesty would cost the taxpayer at least £500 million in extra benefit payments.
As others see us
We used to have people like Chesterton and Belloc coming here when they were in Brighton, Lord Alfred Douglass was a parishioner here in his old age. Today we had Amy Welborn the American Catholic writer and commentator, in transit from the USA to see family in Rome.
I just found this on Amy Wellborn's blog, this morning was a bit chaotic, the first time we did Orbis Factor and half our servers were away. I was a bit anxious about Amy getting back to Gatwick.
When I cooked up this little layover side trip, I had hoped to have time to run down and wave to the English Channel. But no, I didn't get down there soon enough, I was pressed for time afterwards, and besides before Mass…it was cold! Afterwards, it was markedly more pleasant, despite a scattering of rain.
The ride down was pleasant, complete with sheep-in-field sightings and English-people-taking-walkies-in-the-field-with-their-dogs-in-the-morning-mist sightings as well.
So, Fr. Ray Blake's parish, St. Mary Magdalene, is about a 5-minute taxi ride from the train station and about a 12-minute walk. (I know - I did both!). Brighton certainly seems like an intereting place - what little I saw of it. It's a gorgeous little stone Gothic church, chock full of statues and art and just a strong sense of connectedness to the truth, to the Communion of Saints, to beauty. The congregation was diverse - young and old, babies, various ethnicities. The music was led by an energetic and quite capable schola that sang quite a bit of Latin, including the Introit of the day. The congregation joined in much of it, as well.
To me, it was a fascinating mix of the deeply, and deeply-felt tradition. There was precision, but no fussiness, great care with the ritual, which was expressive of deep prayer. There was incense. There were servers, young and old. People came and went. I have to say, there was almost an Eastern Catholic feel about it, of deep, prayerful worship which is active and engaged. It's hard to explain - how can something be solemn yet lively, invigorating and energetic? That's what happened here. Kudos to what seems like a wonderful parish, complete with the hospitality of coffee afterwards, which I was sorry not to be able to enjoy…
because I had not noted when I left the station what time the next train back up to Gatwick was, and had a 2pm flight to catch. As it turned out, I got there right in time (accompanined on the walk back to the station by a very nice fellow named John who chatted with me about the global financial situation. We agreed it's not looking good.) - right on time for a train just about to pull out, the first of two times I would get that lucky break on Sunday…
I don't know if this authentic St Thomas or the fruit of te mind of the script writer of the Man for All Seasons.
More: And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down (and you're just the man to do it!), do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
The Church's liturgy is planted thick with Laws, they guarantee authenticity. A woman was telling me recently about a celebration of Mass where the National Anthem was substituted for the Creed, I don't know if the last verse as included!
God save our gracious Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.
O Lord, our God, arise,
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall.
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On thee our hopes we fix:
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign:
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
Not in this land alone,
But be God's mercies known,
From shore to shore!
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be,
And form one family,
The wide world ov'er.
From every latent foe,
From the assassins blow
O'er her thine arm extend,
For Britain's sake defend,
Our mother, prince, and friend,
Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush.
I really do feel for people who have to put up with this type of nonsense week after week. The rubrics, the Liturgical Law is to protect people's faith. I really do wonder if my faith would be strong enough to endure onslaughts of this kind of abuse week after week after week.
Rumours, rumours
The Times has a bit on the Westminster succession, it is obviously important for the Church in England and Wales. I have even had a couple of journalist ring up to ask my opinion, I am not sure what value that is.
The latest rumour is a Scot, the Bishop of Paisley, the Right Rev Philip Tartaglia, former Rector of the Scots College in Rome. We have a Scot as Prime Minister, the former PM was one, more heavily diguised, it is slightly less likely than Australian, though I wouldn't put money on it, a bit too much like colonisation.
The reference in the article to "international experience" is important; remember the Ratzinger/Kaspar debate over emphasis on the universal versus local Church before the Pope's election. Ratzinger seems to have won that one. The Pope seems to look for a sense of the Universal nature of the Church in future Cardinals. I think the reference in the last few paragraphs are worth taking seriously.
St Cecelia's Day
Today, our choir and guests had a day with Jeremy Satge, it was a good way to spend St Cecilia's Day. They ended up by singing the first Mass of Christ the King, a splendid Christus Vincit to start, Orbis Factor, a responsorial psalm, Alleluia and an Anima Christi by Jeremy.
It was good to see people unused to singing in parts gradually understanding how to do so, so good not to have De Angeles or XVII.
Music, the right music, is so important to Catholic worship it leads us to grasp something of the ineffable, it is necessary for worship.
Battle for conscience
from Fr Tim and Fr Z.
Americans are campaigning to defend conscience in the face of the President Elect's intention to introduce the Freedom of Choice Act, which look as though it will remove the freedom of choice of medical professional not to take part in abortions.
Strange how the liberal left always wants to restrict conscience.
I am annoyed
Some blackguard has been using my "homepage" to post comments on WordPress sites. This has happened before, I find it highly irritating.
If it is you stop it!
I hate anonymity on the net, I use my name use yours!
Wet liberal that I am...
Wet liberal that I am, I am a little confused by the enforcement of morality. Abortion is the greatest moral evil of our age. Divorce and remarriage is pretty ghastly too, civil partnerships are pretty damaging to marriage, fornication does not do it much good either.
As a wet liberal what do I do about it? I can rage about it in the pulpit, I can repeat the Church's teaching and refer to the Gospel, talk about how it damages society. I must admit I was a little shocked by some US clergy who were reported to ban Obhama voters from Holy Communion. The more nuanced reports of course were saying, "if you voted for him because he was pro-abortion".
Most of the women who have spoken to me about having had an abortion do so because they were so terrified, often after rape. Divorce and remarriage are so much part of the warp and weft of society, and again often the marriages that fail are built on foundations of sand, and are possibly capable of annulment. One or two of my parishioners have undertaken a civil partnership, and when I have stated my displeasure they assure me the relationship is one of companionship, inheritance and care in old age rather than genital activity. Fornication doesn't seem to be a serious issue for most of the graduates of our Secondary Schools, the vast majority of those who I have married in this parish were living at the same address, it could be only the dirty minded might imagine a premarital sexual relationship.
What do I do, what does the Church do?
The penance in the Orthodox Diocese of Athens for an abortion is a 7 years bar from Holy Communion, this is the canonical penance, and the confessor would also apply a salutary penance like fasting for an extended time, or some daily corporal penance.
Other Orthodox Churches would apply a penance of a year or a few months away from communion for fornication or homosexual acts.
Obviously we wouldn't want to apply this type of regime in the Latin Church, though I cannot think it fair to leave people confused as they obviously are.
Pope Predicted Financial Crisis
from the Bloomberg Financial Post
Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system, a "prophesy" dating to a paper he wrote when he was a cardinal, Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said.
"The prediction that an undisciplined economy would collapse by its own rules can be found" in an article written by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became pope in April 2005, Tremonti said yesterday at Milan's Cattolica University.
German-born Ratzinger in 1985 presented a paper entitled "Market Economy and Ethics" at a Rome event dedicated to the Church and the economy. The future pope said a decline in ethics "can actually cause the laws of the market to collapse."
Pope Benedict in an Oct. 7 speech reflected on crashing markets and concluded that "money vanishes, it is nothing" and warned that "the only solid reality is the word of God."
The Vatican's official newspaper, l'Osservatore Romano, on the same day criticized the free-market model for having "grown too much and badly in the past two decades."
Presentation of the Virgin
The Holy of Holies enters the Temple, the God-bearer enters the Tent of Meeting.
She who weas purified before her conception ascend the steps to the place which will be purified by scourges.
So teaching: a Prince of the Church
Adam Stephen Cardinal Sapieha, in 1948
So Teaching: a great big mitre
I think it is one of Pio xii's
So Teaching saying the Office in the street
So Teaching
A Quebec priest in the 1950s taking Holy Communion to the sick.
I have never been escorted by a boy with bell -yet
Westminster Wish List
I have had a number of priest friends dropping round recently. One was Westminster priest, we were chatting about who might be good to replace Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, despite being "rabidly orthodox" and deeply pro-life this was his list, and interestingly these were the qualities a Middlesbrough priest ascribed to his own bishop.
When the Cardinal was our bishop, I thought he had most of these qualities:
Enjoys being a priest
Likes his priest
Supports his priests
Works with his priests
Is willing to spend time with his priests
Listens to his priests and answers their concerns
Cares about his priests
Realises his priests are his co-workers
Encourages vocations to the priesthood
Gives hope to his priests
We priests are easily satisfied.
Document from Marriage and Family Life Project Off...
Schönborn's Spokesman to Zhulsdorf
PO'D does it again
Chant Workshop
Brothers of St John in a parish near us
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn
Of your Charity
On the Family
If it is worth doing...
By the way....
Is it full moon?
FSSP Rome Requiem Mass: absolution at the catafalq...
Tee hee, P. Neri
Mrs Lula da Silva stands behind husband
Lula meets Pope
To change is to become perfect
The Opposition
In Tempore Belli
On "ad Orientem" again
EF and Holy Days
Fight at the Holy Sepulchre
Bishop McMahon & Celibacy
Are Saints Perfect?
St John Lateran - Mother of All Churches
Demographic Winter
Why the Difference?
Christians and Jews stood out
Obama's Lure of the Religious Vote
A Day with the Architect
I am on Gloria TV
"Yes we can"
...And you will live long in the land
Congratulations Mr President-Elect
Newman Relics
Pecking Preference in Domestic Chicks
Too Rigid, Too Pious
In Paradisum deducant te Angeli
Altar for Holy Souls
My Will: Black Shot through with Gold
Psychological Assessment of Seminarians


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This is the first article in the series on Image Comparison using Local Binary Patterns.
We will start off by looking at different methods of comparing histograms.
All our operations will be performed on 8bpp(bits per pixel) images anything that is not in that format will be up and down converted accordingly.
Model representation is very simple it contains nothing more than a simple array of bins that will contain our histogram data. As we build the system the model might change.
Our model will contain 256 bins each bin representing gray intensity in 8 bpp image with 0 being black and 255 being white.
This is the basic method of comparing two histograms. The idea here is to take the minimum value of the two bins.
Complete equation with branchless execution and normalization. Branchless execution can provide us with two benefits first there is no IF condition checking so we could gain performance but not necessarily, second it prevents timing attack analysis. Here we are only interested in performance. We will take a look at the generated assembly down the road and do quick performance analysis of our algorithm.
Here we have couple examples of how this calculation was actually performed. This has been copied from the excel spreadsheet which can be found in the git repo.
In this example bin[b] has couple different values but it is still pretty close.
Here our histograms are quite different so our similarity is very low.


Dr. Donald Sull is a global expert on strategy and execution in turbulent markets. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches courses on Competitive Strategy and Strategy Execution in Volatile Markets. He was formerly a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Harvard and the London Business School, winning teaching awards at both universities.
He earned his bachelors, masters, and doctorate at Harvard University.
Sull has published five books and over 100 case studies and articles. 10 Harvard Business Review articles have been bestsellers. His book, Made in China: What Western managers can learn from trail-blazing Chinese entrepreneurs, (2005) was named one of the top eight business books of 2005 by the Financial Times. His book, Why Good Companies go Bad (2005) was a finalist for the Academy of Management's Outstanding Management Book Award and translated into eight languages.
Sull has been named an"up and coming business thinker" by The Financial Times and identified as one of the next generation of management gurus.
Sull's academic research awards include the Dively Award for outstanding dissertation and the Newcomen Prize for the best business history article.
Prior to academia, Prof Sull worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and as a management-investor with the leveraged buyout firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
As a consultant and management educator, Sull has worked with companies including Mars, Oracle, PIMCO, Royal Bank of Canada, Standard Chartered Bank, Emirates Airline, Baker & McKenzie, Burberry, and Schneider Electric. He speaks regularly at leading management conferences, such as Microsoft's CEO Summit and the McKinsey Strategy Summit.


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About Jessica Pinkley
Jessica Pinkley - Owner & Editor in Chief
Owner, Editor and Author of The Pinkley Press, Jessica has created a space where real talk and honesty take precedence over all other writing. From a very young age she has worked consistently to hone her voice and support the voices of those around her.
When her nose isn't buried in a book or writing a new essay she is obsessing over her dog/child Oliver.
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Laura Ohlmann's poetry has appeared in Cake and online for the 2016 Wild Ekphrastic Contest. She was born in Cooper City, Florida and is currently an MFA student at the University of Central Florida. She resides in Orlando with her dog, Lady and her human, Jon.
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Tara Mayer (@taramaysu) is a writer and editor, specializing in essay and memoir. Her work explores mental illness, body image, and queerness through atypical perspectives. She is currently working on a collection of essays about disordered eating and the body while pursuing an MFA at the University of Central Florida. When not reading or writing she can be found listening to David Bowie while smothering her cat with unwanted affection.
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I was born in Queensland Australia and continued to live there until I was 8 years old. My family and I then made the long journey from Queensland to my new home in Tasmania. I continued living in that beautiful island home up until moving to Japan with my older sister.
I have travelled to many places, such as Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, New Zealand and now Japan. Japan has offered me the chance to stay and learn about its wonderful culture. I am very much enjoying meeting new people and seeing as much of this country as I can.
Thankfully Kitty International School has given me the greatest opportunity of teaching English to children living in Japan. I have always wanted to educate children and I was working in an educational role back in Australia but now I have the chance of expanding my teaching to children who don't have English as their first language.
My time at Kitty International School has been exciting and full of enjoyment. I am so impressed by the efforts of all the children and their determination in learning and speaking English. The children at Kitty bring a smile to my face and I am so proud to have a part in teaching them English.
I am greatly looking forward to the rest of my time teaching at Kitty.
I was born on October 16th, 1987. My mother was worried because if I was in her belly any longer, I would have the same birthday as my father, he was born on the 17th.
I am the youngest in my family and I have an older brother and sister. I was loved very much, especially by my grandparents and I grew up to be like them. I used to go to my grandparents when my mother scolded me.
I am from Jyoetsu-shi, Niigata and my parents run an inn at our house. I used to help out at the inn everyday during the summer vacation, as the house is on the seaside and we always had a lot of visitors from the beach. I still go swimming in the sea every year and I really enjoy being at the beach. Watching the sunset while swimming in the sea is the best!
I have always liked animals. I used to go and see rabbits and guinea pigs during the noon recess in elementary school. I kept a cockerel, big bird, and carps as pets. I really wanted a dog but my mother said "No" because our house is an inn. However, I bought a rabbit home from elementary school when it was born. The rabbit, at my parents house now, is my third and its name is 'Usako'.
In junior high school, I belonged to the tennis club. I actually wanted to play badminton but there was only a tennis club and volleyball club available, as my school only had a few students, so I went into the table tennis club reluctantly. The river near my junior high school is famous for salmon and I made smoked salmon when I was in junior high school. I tried casting the net and filleting the salmon, which is a fun memory.
In high school I finally joined the badminton club, but we were not able to use the gymnasium very much, because the muscle training club and running club, also used it. We were serious but the club was also a lot of fun, we were all friends and tried hard to do our best together as a team.
When deciding what to do after graduation from high school, I decided I would like to be a veterinarian, because I like animals. However, my mother told me it is as difficult as becoming a doctor, so I gave up. In the end I chose to go to vocational school to study childcare as I love children and wanted to make use of my ability to play the piano. I went to vocational school in Niigata-shi for three years and qualified as a childcare worker, kindergarten teacher and a social welfare director.
During vocational school, I traveled to Denmark and Sweden for a working holiday. Later I also had the opportunity to go to Canada. Canada was very fun and stimulating, I met many people from foreign countries, even Japanese people of different ages, who had grown up in a completely different environment than me. I learned that there are many ways of thinking and feeling when I talked with them.
In Vancouver, I gained an elementary school English teaching license and got experience working as a house keeper, dog walker and in a laundromat. I felt a difference in culture again in the laundromat, as customers bring all their clothes to wash, including underwear. I had never heard of that happening in Japan.
After coming back, I worked as a childcare worker in a nursery school in Niigata and took charge of the two year old children class. In the nursery school, I came into contact with children everyday, although there were difficult things to do, the children's growth could be felt everyday. I feel there are many things we can learn from children.
I'm working at Kitty Club now. I can use my experience in childcare and also English skill. I enjoy helping children grow up and I always have a great time with them at Kitty. I think children who come to Kitty are very lucky as they get to learn English from a very young age and become fluent. A graduate of Kitty can be so many things when they grow up, such as a flight attendant, a writer, an actor or singer overseas.
I have great hopes for the future of the children at Kitty!
I would like to learn not only English but also about foreign cultures and grow along with the Kitty students!


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California student test scores rise
By Will Kane and Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writers
SAN FRANCISCO -- California's public schools must be doing something right.
For nine straight years, standardized test scores have gone up across the state, with 54 percent of the 4.7 million test takers showing grade-level proficiency in English and 50 percent earning a proficient rating in math, according to the most recent round of results released Monday.
It was the first time that at least half of California's elementary and high school students reached proficiency in each subject.
"The significant and sustained improvements we've seen for nine consecutive years prove how hard teachers, school employees, administrators and parents are working to help students achieve despite budget cuts that have affected our schools," said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, in a statement. "Their heroic teamwork is paying off for California."
A 50 percent proficiency rate may not sound great, but it's a vast improvement over the state's starting point in 2003, when just 35 percent of students were performing at grade level in English and math.
Still, the results could complicate the argument put forward by teachers unions and school officials that persistent cuts to K-12 education have harmed student performance.
"I believe that if we fund education properly, that we will get to the 60 percent proficiency and then the 70 percent proficiency level," Torlakson said in an interview. "That's our goal."
The test results also found an increase in the number of students taking and testing proficient in high-level math and science courses, including Algebra II, biology, chemistry and physics.
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Inequality in an "Unequal" Community
July 11, 2019 Blogs
Grindr is a well known dating/hookup app in the LGBTQIA+ community. In a country where identifying as a sexual minority is still a taboo to a large extent, social apps such as Grindr/ Tinder/ Blued/ Romeo, etc offer a convenient medium for getting in touch with people sharing a similiar sexual orientation. Several such apps have started occupying real estate on our smartphones in the past few years. But this is not an article to promote such apps; the issue I am trying to explore is about the expectations of the LGBTQIA+ community from those of their own kind and the consequences of their choices.
Try this for a minute. Just do it honestly. I am simply asking for 60 seconds of your time. Open your Grindr app and check out as many random profiles as you can in 60 seconds. No filters to exclude anyone, no favorite users, no known friends. Just a few random profiles. The objective here is not to see the profile pics but to read the profile descriptions….. Time's up! What did you read? Did you find any trend? Was there something that disturbed you? I'll tell you what makes me squirm in my seat when I do the same exercise.
"Girlish stay away", "no above 30", "only teens and twinks message, uncles will be blocked", "only handsome guys", "no CD /trans allowed", "only gym-fit bods"… it's not a very big list. The irony is that such a list also includes another oft repeated phrase: "only straight-acting please!" Just a handful of such phrases are likely to be present in most of the profiles you encountered.
It makes me wonder and it also raises some uncomfortable questions. We are a minority community that has an ongoing, well-documented and inspiring struggle across the globe, spanning several decades. A powerful, yet an incomplete movement, to gain respect, equality and non-discriminatory behaviour from the majority 'straight' heterosexual world. Doesn't it feel hypocritical to demand such rights, when the root cause of discrimination and inequality breeds within us? Do we have the moral authority to expect such rights to be granted to us? Can we realistically expect the world to accept our views, when we don't accord the same privilege to normal people of all alternative sexualities, behaviours and physical appearances within ourselves? We display huge posters in gay pride walks proclaiming that "Gay rights are human rights". Really? What about the humane rights of those within us? Is it too much for those excluded from our own community to expect non-discrimination, equality, respect or even an acknowledgement from those who count among their own?
Diversity and inclusion are demanded from the corporate world today by historically marginalised women and LGBTQIA+ groups. But diversity and inclusion cannot go hand in hand with a culture of socially exclusionary outlooks.
Doesn't it feel hypocritical to demand such rights, when the root cause of discrimination and inequality breeds within us?
A lot of us in our community have an inclination for good looks even when making friends on these social apps. The contrary viewpoint is that apps such as Grindr are dating/hookup apps, after all. Isn't it natural to have preferences for the people you want to hook up with? Sure, it is. Everyone has a 'type' of person they are attracted to or want to have sex with. Gays don't find every guy on the road sexy, so it's perfectly fine to have preferences for the type of person you want to sleep around with. But there is a real world that exists outside the boundaries of our smartphone apps. We need friends in that world to lead a fulfilling life. The best people to understand what we go through in life are those from within our own community, who can empathize better with us because our stories, our lives, our experiences are relatable to them on a personal and an emotional level. But we create limits and boundaries to the kind of friends we want to have, even within our own small community, thereby narrowing our choices. We allow our prejudices to create a limited group of people to bond with, instead of the potential pool of vastly diverse outlooks, behaviours and minds.
Time ages us all. Spare a thought about the single seniors in our community. Those who stand up to societal and family pressure and refuse a heterosexual marriage to live a life on their own terms, probably end up the loneliest. They find it difficult to find a soulmate or even someone to have sex with from within the LGBTQIA+ community by the time they enter late 30s. After all, after this age they tend to be categorised as "uncles" or "aunties" on such dating apps and we already know there is a bias for hooking up with "good looking youngsters" on such apps.
Yes, it's natural to have preferences for a life partner and a soul mate. But the same preferences may not be necessary simply for getting to know others, their experiences, striking up friendships or simply for companionship and hanging out together. A lot of middle aged, unmarried, single people (or those who divorced their heterosexual spouses), find it difficult to look forward to the rest of their lives with any meaningful positivity because of this attitude in a community that they are a part of. What hurts them is not any hate from their own, but rather the indifference. Slowly their loneliness begins to overpower them and they start giving up on dreams, aspirations and even hope. A person can lose a lot of things in life and still survive but once he loses hope, what inevitably follows are mental health issues such as depression and suicidal thoughts.
Surprisingly, despite being at the receiving end of such exclusionary behaviour, a lot of such "ostracised" people follow the same behaviour when they are looking around for contacts in social apps. For example, a cursory review on some Grindr profiles of "uncles" show a preference for youngsters. It's difficult to comprehend why those who are discriminated against choose to follow the same attitudes exercised by those who excluded them. Internal beauty of the heart is sacrificed at the altar of external looks and style.
Today, we are at a turning point in our nation's movement towards acceptance of alternative sexualities, after the Section 377 verdict. Our Supreme Court has empowered and emboldened several people to come out of the closet and to educate others that their sexual orientations are simply a part of their identity and their personalities are much more than just their sexualities. More people now realize that being different does not mean being unnatural. We were all created as equals. But we still lag behind in accepting some of our own as equals. They are "unequal" when it comes to our accepting them as friends, to chat or bond with them or to hold hands with them while walking down a path. One may feel awkward to meet an openly gender fluid person in public, who likes to dress up and apply makeup, another youngster may hesitate to reach out to a senior simply to chat up and know their experiences, yet another may even feel disgusted to talk to a person who may be dark-skinned and not endowed with conventional good looks. Some of us may not even empathise with the plight of such "outcasts", not realizing that their own good looks, age or even bodies that they pride upon, will not serve them well when the clock of time turns it's gaze on them.
We are shouting from the rooftops for the world to accept us as equals, as normal, as natural. But we may be overlooking the hypocrisy amongst ourselves when we look within. While we work towards convincing the world to accept us, we need to strive even more towards accepting our own, by reducing discrimination and inequality to make a strong, free and equal LGBTQIA+ community.
Internal beauty of the heart is sacrificed at the altar of external looks and style
Finally, let me take you back for a moment from where we started. We need to do the same exercise that we did a few minutes ago. But with a slight difference. Just give me 60 seconds more of your time. I promise you it will take much less than that. Your time starts now… Open your Grindr app. But this time, instead of checking out any random profiles, take this time to check out your own profile description. Did you find any one of the same phrases I mentioned earlier? If you did and you realize that now, it means my objective to make you introspect has been successful. Believe me, I looked at my own profile too and I didn't like what I saw. I was never a saint, but I do not want to end up as a sinner, either.
Don't try to change your community. Simply try to change yourself and the community will take care of itself… one person at a time. It takes time to change your own self, but half the battle is won when we accept that we are flawed and make a promise not to anyone else, but to our own self… to change. After this acceptance, comes a realization that there is a long, difficult road ahead, but a journey always begins with a single step. As Robert Frost, so eloquently put it: "I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep…and miles to go before I sleep".
Mai tum jaisa he hoon
Kyon mujhe nazarandaz karte ho
Hum sabke haqq ke liye ladte ho
Fir kyun mujhe bhul jaate ho
Main bhi hissa hun tum logon ka
Mujhe bhi hai tumhari zaroorat
Mat karo mujhse aisi nafrat
Waqt jab badlega, na ho tumhari bhi aisi aafat
(I too am like you
Why do you ignore me
We fight for everyone's rights
Then why do you forget me
I too am a apart of you all
I too need you
Don't hate me
When time changes, you too shouldn't face the same difficulties)
Amit Rai
Amit Rai identifies as a proud gay man, being partly out (it's a process!) to his family and friends. He is introverted, loves to write and dreams of travelling to several places while sitting on his couch. He can usually be found at a corner of his house adding things to his ever growing bucket list and wondering when he would get to do those. At other times, he can be found playing strategy games like Clash of clans. He is fiercely political and vocal about his beliefs on social media. He is an also an equal rights supporter. He is currently working on his dream to be an author and is writing his first book (Hindi, fiction) that will be out soon.
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Best Small Business Credit Cards of 2019 | SuperMoney!
Credit cards are an excellent financing tool for startups and small businesses. They offer a fast source of credit, generous reward rates, and large sign-up bonuses. Business credit cards can also help you build your company's credit and solve cash flow problems. However, there are hundreds of small business cards to choose from. Which are the best small business credit cards?
Before we dive into our top picks, let's cover the basics every business owner should know about credit cards.
What are small-business credit cards?
Small-business credit cards are cards that are marketed particularly for small companies. Credit card companies don't have fixed rules on what qualifies as a small company. They do look at revenue, the number of employees and years in business to determine eligibility, but even a sole proprietorship — the simplest and most common business structure — with one employee can qualify for a business credit card.
The Small Business Administration does set standards on what qualifies as a small business, but these don't apply to business credit cards.
What's the difference between personal and business credit cards?
Personal and business credit cards may look similar, but there are important differences to consider.
Credit card companies don't have to follow the same rules when dealing with businesses. The Credit Card Act of 2009 granted consumers important protections, such as a limit on fees and restrictions on interest rate hikes. In most cases, credit card issues offer the same protections to businesses as a courtesy. However, it's worth checking the small print as these provisions don't always apply to business credit cards.
Business credit cards report your activity to commercial credit bureaus. Some credit card companies, such as American Express® and Capital One, will also report to both consumer and business credit bureaus.
Credit limits for business credit cards tend to be larger than personal credit cards. This can help business owners build their personal credit score, as some credit bureaus – such as Experian and Equifax – consider your business line of credit when calculating your personal as well as your business' credit score. In the case of your FICO score, 30% of your credit score depends on your credit utilization ratio (amounts owed).
In most cases, credit card companies require business owners to sign a personal guarantee and provide their Social Security number. If you do this, you are promising to pay the credit card debt if your business doesn't.
Read the small print in your credit card agreement. If you had to agree to a personal guarantee or a "joint and several liability" when applying for the card, you're personally liable for your business' credit card debt.
Typically, only the owners of larger companies who apply for corporate cards with commercial liability are off the hook if their business is unable to repay its credit card debts.
Here are SuperMoney's Best Small Business Credit Cards for 2019. We have focused on credit cards with low annual fees that still offer high reward rates and generous perks.
The Chase Ink Cash It has no annual fee but it gives you a long 0% intro APR on balance transfers and purchases, a $300 signup bonus cash back, and reward rates of up to 5%. The 0% intro APR is a lifesaver for small companies looking for and interest-free loan for large purchases. The Ink Cash also comes with prime perks, such as extended warranty protection, auto rental collision damage waiver, and purchase protection. You don't have to be a big or established company either. Even micro-businesses with one or two employees can qualify.
How does a signup bonus of 50,000 miles sound? If your business spends $4,500 on purchases in the first three months, Capital One Spark Miles gives you that as a sign-up bonus. Add to that 2x miles for every $1 you spend on all purchases with no limits and you'll be on your next and you can see why this is one of our favorite business travel cards. It only has a $59 annual fee (waived the first year), which makes it perfect for small business.
Thera are no foreign transaction fees and extra employee cards don't cost you a dime. The card also includes auto collision damage waiver, travel and emergency assistance services, purchase security, and extended warranty protection. You (or your accountant) will appreciate how Capital One sends quarterly itemized reports of credit card spending.
The Capital One Spark Classic is the ideal card for business owners that don't have great credit and don't want to spend money on annual fees. If your personal credit history is not good, you will struggle to qualify for most business credit cards. The reward rates are low, just 1% cash back. But you get valuable perks and there is no limit to how much cash back your can earn. There's no extra cost for additional cards. Capital One also offers itemized statements every quarter to help with tax preparation with this card.
This card does not include 0% APR periods and the interest rates are high. However, it is a great way to build your business' credit history while you earn rewards on your business purchases.
How to find the best card for your small business?
Still looking for a card that fits your needs? No problem. SuperMoney has reviews and customer comments on hundreds of credit cards. SuperMoney's credit cards database allows you to filter credit cards by the features that matter the most to you.


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Reflections after a decade at the University of Papua New Guinea
by Patrick Kaiku
The first graduating cohort from UPNG in 1968	(ANU)
Written by	Patrick Kaiku
This year, 2021, marks ten years since I started teaching at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG).
Regardless of what kind of state it is in today, UPNG's history and continuity fascinates me. As a student of politics, I look to the institutions of PNG when trying to understand the process of nation-building. National institutions and landmarks are permanent fixtures in national narratives and tangible realities to all generations.
Several years ago, a commentator on one of PNG's popular Facebook discussion groups posted an anecdotal survey. He requested respondents to rank in importance PNG's celebrated national icons. What he had in mind were PNG's famous political leaders. His list comprised current Members of Parliament, former prime ministers, and past statesmen. For me, this is an erroneous way of celebrating our collective national memory. Human personalities, with their imperfections, are not the appropriate embodiment of any national narrative. Their deeds may be exaggerated and future generations may end up with misconceived notions of the actual lives of these characters.
Think about the controversies surrounding some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Thomas Jefferson may be an American icon, but to millions of American citizens of African descent, he was a slave-owner, who did not practice the high ideals he wrote about.
For this country, UPNG is an enduring institution. Countless generations of Papua New Guineans will continue to use it. Their knowledge and appreciation of the university will depend on their receptiveness to its history and place in our nation. This is the very same space that was once graced by the likes of Narokobi, Kiki, Jawaodimbari, Kaputin – some of the brilliant minds and architects of the nation. The university has a long tradition of infusing critical voices into national discourse and protesting unpopular government decisions.
For instance, the popular Waigani Seminar series was truly regional and global in its appeal. Student-led movements in the university also reflected a growing consciousness of PNG's place in the region and beyond. A case in point was the nuclear free Pacific and decolonisation agenda of the Melanesian Solidarity movement. Much as it has since its inception, the university must continue to play its nation-building role, a constant physical reminder to future generations of where we came from and where we are headed as a nation.
The creation of UPNG was a result of a series of recommendations contained in the so-called Currie Report of 1964. The nation's first university was to facilitate the localisation process of Papua New Guineans in public service. More importantly, the university became a space for young Papua New Guineans to interact.
From the far-flung corners of the soon-to-be-independent nation, young Papua New Guineans converged onto campus, staying for extended periods of time away from their communities, building relationships that became important cornerstones of the early leadership of this country. Some of the first students at this university had barely been out of their villages or provinces of origin.
UPNG was not only the hub of intellectual pursuit, but earlier on it became the mediator of PNG's socio-cultural diversity. In the infamous Port Moresby riots of July 1973, where the ugly face of inter-territorial antagonism between New Guineans and Papuans was witnessed, UPNG students became mediators in the riots when they created the Melanesian Action Front and staged a "peace and unity" march through the streets of the capital.
At a personal level, the university is the place where my parents first met. From different provinces in PNG, my parents came to study at UPNG, and ended up marrying, resulting in me being born. For many Papua New Guineans, UPNG is intertwined in their own personal life stories.
Commentators continuously make the case that the process of nation-building remain a challenge in PNG. Hugh White and Elsina Wainwright observed a while back that "the absence of a sense of nationhood is the foundation of many of Papua New Guinea's problems". Sinclair Dinnen has also argued that PNG's law and order problems are in part a result of the lack of any "sense of common identity", in a country that had a "relatively short and uneven experience of central administration". We are said to possess linguistic and socio-cultural complexities, even the absence of any shared pre-colonial history or mythology.
To deal with this dilemma, White and Wainwright even suggested that nationalism be fostered through having a national rugby league team in the Australian National Rugby League. Knowing Papua New Guineans' passion for the sport of rugby league, a national team would instil national pride and nationalism – so the argument goes. But is a rugby league team the best medium for communicating the nation's narratives across generations?
A program aimed at documenting and restoring our foundational national institutions and landmarks is important for education purposes. There are success stories in the restoration of national icons and institutions of value to PNG. The National Museum and Art Gallery (NMAG), with support from Australian aid, successfully initiated a refurbishment exercise in 2018. According to its Director, Dr Andrew Moutu, the "NMAG remains a source of national pride for Papua New Guineans as the country's leading cultural institution". Other examples of national institutions with enduring relevance include the PNG Institute of Public Administration (Administrative College), Sogeri National High, Sir Hubert Murray Stadium and others.
The challenges facing UPNG are well-documented, and the divisive elements of regionalism or provincialism constantly threaten to destroy its reputation as a national "melting pot". But if it is to remain relevant, the university should be treated, and should treat itself, as a national asset worth protecting, and not just some milking cow, employer of convenience or a place for the mass-production of degree qualifications. The university's national significance makes its reform and restoration all the more urgent.
This research was undertaken with the support of the ANU-UPNG Partnership, an initiative of the PNG-Australia Partnership. The views represent those of the author only.
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Тетрахлорэтилен (перхлорэтилен) — бесцветная жидкость с резким запахом, хлорорганический растворитель. Широкое применение находит в химчистке и обезжиривании металлов.

Получение
Впервые тетрахлорэтилен был получен М. Фарадеем при термическом разложении гексахлорэтана.

В промышленности тетрахлорэтилен получают несколькими способами. Первый метод, игравший важное промышленное значение в прошлом, заключается в получении тетрахлорэтилена из ацетилена через трихлорэтилен. Хлорирование трихлорэтилена в жидкой фазе при температуре 70—110 °С в присутствии FeCl3 (0,1—1% масс.) даёт пентахлорэтан, который затем подвергают жидкофазному (80—120 °С, Ca(OH)2) или каталитическому термическому крекингу (170—330 °С, активированный уголь). Общий выход достигает 90—94% по ацетилену. Однако после повышения цен на ацетилен этот метод  утратил своё значение.

Главным методом получения тетрахлорэтилена является окислительное хлорирование этилена или 1,2-дихлорэтана. Субстрат, кислород и хлор реагируют в присутствии катализатора (хлорид калия, хлорид меди(II) на силикагеле) при 420—460 °С. В результате серии реакций происходит образование трихлорэтилена и тетрахлорэтилена. Выход по хлору составляет 90—98%. Побочным процессом является окисление этилена до оксидов углерода, который ускоряется при превышении оптимальной температуры процесса. Продукты разделяются и очищаются перегонкой. Соотношение продуктов можно регулировать соотношением реагентов.

Высокотемпературное хлорирование углеводородов C1—C3 или их хлорпроизводных является вторым по важности источником тетрахлорэтилена. Он не требует чистого сырья и позволяет использовать отходы производства.

В 1985 году производство тетрахлорэтилена в США составило 380 тыс. тонн, в Европе — 450 тыс. тонн. Из-за оптимизации процесса химчистки и уменьшения выбросов вещества в атмосферу, а также по причине ужесточающихся экологических требований производство тетрахлорэтилена сокращалось с конца 1970-х годов. Уже в 1993 году объёмы производства в США оценивались в 123 тыс. тонн в год и 74 тыс. тонн в ФРГ.

Физические свойства
Тетрахлорэтилен негорюч, невзрывоопасен и не самовоспламеняется. Он смешивается с большинством органических растворителей. С некоторыми растворителями тетрахлорэтилен образует азеотропные смеси.

Химические свойства
Тетрахлорэтилен является самым устойчивым соединением из всех хлорпроизводных этана и этилена. Он устойчив к гидролизу и меньше способствует коррозии, чем другие хлорсодержащие растворители.

Окисление
Окисление тетрахлорэтилена на воздухе даёт трихлорацетилхлорид и фосген, процесс протекает под действием УФ-излучения:

Этот процесс может быть замедлен при использовании аминов и фенолов в качестве стабилизаторов (обычно применяют N-метилпиррол и N-метилморфолин). Процесс, однако, может использоваться для производства трихлорацетилхлорида.

Хлорирование
При реакции тетрахлорэтилена с хлором в присутствии небольшого количества хлорида железа(III) FeCl3 (0,1 %) в качестве катализатора при 50-80 °С образуется гексахлорэтан:

По реакции тетрахлорэтилена с хлором и HF в присутствии SbF5 синтезируют фреон-113.

Гидролиз
Происходит  только при нагревании в кислой среде (лучше всего с серной кислотой):

при этом образуется трихлоруксусная кислота.

Восстановление
Тетрахлорэтилен может быть частично или полностью восстановлен в газовой фазе в присутствии таких катализаторов как: никель, палладий, платиновая чернь и др.:

Применение

Около 60 % всего расходуемого тетрахлорэтилена находит применение как растворитель в химчистке. Тетрахлорэтилен заменил все другие растворители в этой области, поскольку он не горюч и может быть безопасно использован без особых мер предосторожности. Из-за своей устойчивости тетрахлорэтилен содержит низкий процент стабилизаторов и по этой же причине используется наряду с трихлорэтиленом и 1,1,1-трихлорэтаном для обезжиривания металлов, особенно, алюминия. В меньших количествах тетрахлорэтилен применяется в текстильной промышленности и производстве фреона-113.

В нефтепереработке тетрахлорэтилен наряду с дихлорэтаном применяется в процессе оксихлорирования (для восстановления активности) биметаллических катализаторов на установках каталитического риформинга и низкотемпературной изомеризации.

Токсичность
Перхлорэтилен токсичен. При незначительном вдыхании паров перхлорэтилена появляется головокружение, после чего могут возникнуть признаки тошноты, склонность ко сну, падение артериального давление видимая припухлость надбровных дуг и щек, першение в горле, общая усталость, мнимое ощущение нехватки воздуха. При длительном воздействии паров перхлорэтилена возможен обморок. При попадании на кожу перхлорэтилен оставляет ожог, и возникают трещины на месте воздействия, при длительном воздействии может развиться атопический дерматит. При попадании в глаза необходимо промыть водой и обратиться в токсикологический центр.

Концентрация паров перхлорэтилена так же влияет на вкусовые рецепторы.

А так же, запрещено принимать пищу, держать продукты в непосредственной близости от источника, так как они могут пропитаться парами растворителя.

Примечания

Литература

Хлорорганические соединения
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