About

   This blog will help us become 21st century, American expressions of Christ, in and for today's society.

   Our church teaches that God speaks to everyone of us.  God does not give the truth to the pope, who gives it to the bishops, who give it to a passive laity. God gives the truth to the whole church.  We reach a clear and ever growing understanding of the truth through open communication among the laity, theologians and the bishops and pope.  Then all the people of the church participate and collaborate so that the Magisterium can then teach authentically. (1)

   The church also teaches that the laity are spiritually empowered and responsible to act, on their own initiative, within our rich faith, to uplift and correct today's society and culture in the saving grace of Christ. This is especially true concerning the laity's use of their gifts, talents, possibilities and opportunities, namely, their personal vocation and interests, e.g., marriage, education, work and professions, politics, business, economics, science, the arts, etc. (2)

   Even though these teachings are in the Catechism, they have never been fully implemented. One result is that for the past half century, the church's spiritual influence in our society and culture has been diminishing.  In very important areas such as today's radical individualism and killing competition, political and economic justice, war and peace, women's rights, gay rights, religious freedom, etc., we are walking our way in Christ without spiritual clarity or credible leadership.  

   Our society and culture are suffering.  Waiting is not an option.  We can help one another right now.    

   I invite all Catholics, especially the disaffected and young, to whom much spiritual power is given, along with all others of good will, to join in and walk our contemporary way in Christ together. (3)

 Anthony T. Massimini
Massimini7@gmail.com

(1)  Vatican II, The Church, No. 12, Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) No. 91-95
(2)  Vatican II, The Church in the Modern World, No. 12; The Church No. 33, 35, 37.
           CCC 899-913 .
(3)  Of course, people from other countries will show the features of Christ's face in their particular way

About Me

 Anthony T. Massimini

Ordained for Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Rome, 1959

Attended first session of Vatican II, 1962

Doctorate in Spiritual Theology, Gregorian University, Rome, 1963

Certificate in Psychiatry, Hahnemann Medical School, 1970

Taught Latin, Greek, Spirituality, Theology, and Philosophy at Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, and various colleges and universities in the Phila. area 

Assistant at Newman Hall, University of Pennsylvania 1966-70
Dispensed by Pope Paul VI and returned to the laity, 1971
Married in 1972

Member of staff and faculty, Thomas Jefferson Medical University, Phila., PA 1971-80

Administrator and Psychotherapist, CATCH Community Mental Health Center, Phila. 
   1980-88
Wrote Educational Vision for ChARTerTECH High School, Somers Point, NJ 1998
Member and theologian for Voice of the Faithful 2002-2006
Lived among the Amish people in Lancaster County, PA 1988-2007

Adjunct Instructor in Philosophy and Ethics, and Student Counselor,  PA College of Art & Design, in Lancaster, PA 2002-7

Lecturer in contemporary spirituality

Author:   
   The New Dance of Christ--Discovering Our Spiritual Self in a New, Evolving World, 
Xlibris Publishers, 2000  
  Running Into Infinity, 2012, E-Novel Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, et al.

To contact me:  Massimini7@gmail.com