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Saturday, December 17, Third Week of Advent

The raising of Lazarus from the dead has been a popular subject for painters through the ages, Top panel, from left - Giotto, 1304; Duccio, 1319, Sebastiano del Piombo, 1517; a Greek icon; a Russian icon.
Bottom panel, from left - Caravaggio, 1609; Rembrandt, 1630; Van Gogh, 1898; Ian Pollock, 2000; and the tomb of Lazarus.

ST. LAZARUS OF BETHANY, Friend of Jesus, Brother of Martha and Mary
The Jews said of him, "See how much he loved him", after Jesus raised him back to life in their sight. Legends abound of what happened to Lazarus after the death and resurrection of Christ. most claiming that he and his sisters ended up in Europe (Cyprus or Gaul) where he served as bishop until he died. Today, the 'tomb of Lazarus'(extreme right photo, bottom panel) continues to be a pilgrimage place on the West Bank, on the site of the historical Bethany.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/121711.cfm



AT THE VATICAN TODAY

The Holy Father met with

- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops (weekly meeting)

- Five bishops from Oceania (South Pacific Islands, Fiji, Cook Islands, Tarawa and Nauru, Tonga)
on ad-limina visit

- All the bishops of New Zealand and Oceania on ad-limina visit. Address in French and English.

The Vatican also released the video-message of the Holy Father yesterday evening for the conclusion
of a special jubilee year in the Archdiocese of Naples. The message was played after the Mass celebrated
in the Cathedral of Naples by Cardinal Crescencio Sepe, Archbishop of Naples.




The Holy Father made a number of membership appointments to various dicasteries of the Roman Curia, and named
two ranking officials:

- Fr. Serge Thomas Bonino, O.P., professor of theology from Toulouse (France) as secretary-general of the
International Theological Commission, He replaces Fr. Charles Morerod, also a Dominican, whom the Holy Father
named last month as Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg.

- Sr. Nicoletta Vittoria Spezzati of the Adoratrices Sanguinis Christi congregation as under-secretary
of the Congregation for the Institutes of Apostolic Life.


THE POPE'S CHRISTMAS CARD IN ITALIAN

Thanks to Rome Reports, an 'integral' photo of Benedict XVI's 2011 Christmas card, except this is in Italian.
I earlier posted the German version, taken from BILD, which however cropped the message part. The message is,
of course, identical:

'Come to save us!'
(Liturgy of the Hours)
BENEDICTUS XVI
On the Nativity of the Lord 2011

The fine print identifies the illustration as The Nativity from the Fountain of St. Joseph found in the Vatican Gardens.




There may be archeological proof for
what the Bible says about
the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah



Tell al-Hamman is the archeological site in Jordan where the remains of Sodom and Gomorrah have been excavated.

Father Z, in calling attention to this item, prefaces it with this reading from Genesis:

Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But Lot’s wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD; and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. (Gen 19,24-28)

He then goes on to cite a 12/9/11 item written by John Bergsma on the blog THE SACRED PAGE('Blogging and Podcasting about Catholic Biblical Theology"):

Sodom and Gomorrah Excavated

By far the most interesting session at the recent Society of Biblical Literature Congress in San Francisco was one I wandered into by chance. I am always curious about what is going on in biblical archeology, so one afternoon I decided to...go hear about the excavations at a certain site called Tell-el-Hammam... After about five minutes into the session, I realized that the archeological team assigned to this dig was convinced that they had found the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. After another half-hour, it seemed they had most of the participants convinced as well.

The sites fit the geographical and temporal context into which Sodom and Gomorrah are placed in the biblical texts. The cities at the site were suddenly and completely wiped out in the Late Bronze Age, which makes a reasonably good fit with the biblical accounts of Abraham and Lot. The entire presentation was very convincing, but never once did they deal with the "elephant in the room": what caused the sites to be suddenly abandoned?

As soon as the session was over, I was the first to raise my hand. "Did you find any arrow heads? Signs of invasion? What happened to them?"

The lead archeologist paused for a moment. "I didn't want to go there," he said. Another pause. "I'm preparing material for publication." Pause. "All I want to say on camera is, they appear to have been wiped out in a 'heat event'... If you want to know more, I'll talk after the session off the record."

I wish I could divulge what he said to a small group of us clustered around the podium after the session was over, but it would break confidence. We'll have to wait for the official peer-reviewed publications.


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