FRIDAY CHURCH NEWS NOTES - Way of Life Literature
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VOLUME 13, ISSUE 42 WAY OF LIFE OCTOBER 19, 2012<br />
<br />
Several have asked for my<br />
opinion in regard to hymnals. I<br />
recently examined Living<br />
Hymns (second edition) and<br />
find a lot to like. It was first<br />
published by Al Smith in 1972<br />
and is still copyrighted by Al<br />
Smith Ministries. The latest<br />
edition is distributed by Striving<br />
Together Ministries and Paul<br />
Chappell and Cary Schmidt<br />
were on the editorial team. It<br />
has a large selection, with 887<br />
songs and hymns, which I<br />
appreciate. There is no author<br />
index, but I have looked at the<br />
author <strong>of</strong> every song. There are two<br />
by the Gaithers but none by any <strong>of</strong> the contemporary worship<br />
artists, as far as I can tell. It has hymns that are rarely seen,<br />
such as Charles Weigle’s “No One Ever Cared for Me Like<br />
Jesus.” There are some little-known hymns by old-time<br />
fundamentalists such as R.A. Torrey, James Gray, and Lewis<br />
Sperry Chafer. Thousands upon thousands <strong>of</strong> sound sacred<br />
songs and hymns have been written just in the last couple <strong>of</strong><br />
centuries, so any hymnal is just a sampling, and no one<br />
hymnal will meet every church’s needs, but Living Hymns<br />
seems to be a good all-around English hymnal. It’s too bad<br />
that Lancaster Baptist Church isn’t content with the nearly<br />
900 psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs in their own hymnal<br />
and feel the need to mess around with contemporary worship.<br />
<br />
<br />
The following is excerpted from <strong>Life</strong>News, Oct. 12,<br />
2012: “Deaths from ‘voluntary euthanasia’ in Belgium<br />
are approximated at 2 percent – 2,000 annually. At a<br />
recent conference in Brussels, a Belgian<br />
doctor reported that organ transplants are<br />
being done on euthanized patients and that<br />
Belgium leads in this practice. ... Families<br />
<strong>of</strong> hospitalized patients in Belgium<br />
should take notice <strong>of</strong> this practice.<br />
In 2010 a study revealed that<br />
nurses in Belgium admitted to<br />
terminating patients without<br />
their consent. ‘The<br />
researchers found that a fifth<br />
<strong>of</strong> nurses admitted being<br />
involved in the assisted<br />
suicide <strong>of</strong> a patient. But<br />
nearly half <strong>of</strong> these – 120 <strong>of</strong><br />
248 – also said there was no<br />
consent.’”<br />
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<br />
E d m u n d M a z z a ,<br />
o r g a n i z e r o f a n<br />
ecumenical<br />
c o n f e r e n c e h e l d<br />
O c t o b e r 4 - 5 i n<br />
Rome, says, “No<br />
Mary, no Jesus; know<br />
Mary, know Jesus.”<br />
The event was a twoday<br />
symposium entitled<br />
Edmund Mazza<br />
“Mary, Sign <strong>of</strong> Faith (and<br />
Only Hope),” held at the Centro Russia<br />
Ecumenica in Rome in response to Pope<br />
Benedict XVI’s call for Marian conferences.<br />
Mazza, who is history pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Azusa<br />
Pacific University in Los Angeles, California,<br />
also said, “It's very important that we turn to<br />
Mary because as Louis de Montfort, the great<br />
doctor <strong>of</strong> the Church once said, it’s through<br />
Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it’s<br />
through Mary that Jesus will reign in the<br />
world. ... Whenever God wants to renew the<br />
world, He does it through Mary” (“International<br />
Symposium on Mary,” Zenit, Oct. 4, 2012).<br />
Mary is seen as central to Rome’s New<br />
Evangelization program, which seeks to recover<br />
lapsed Catholics and foster interfaith unity. The<br />
late John Paul II was a great Mary venerator. He<br />
had the words “Totus Tuus” (totally yours)<br />
embroidered on his robes to signify his<br />
complete devotion to Mary, and he credited<br />
Mary with saving his life when he was shot in<br />
St. Peter’s Square in 1981.<br />
Centro Russia Ecumenica in Rome<br />
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