Archive for April, 2006

Catholic Church

Monday, April 17th, 2006

040905_1135Regarding some roumers that said that catholic church’s in Vietnam are an "underground" church that haven’t acknowledge by Vatican… I’m curious about this issue until last easter, I Incidentally met an Indonesian missionary (pasteur) here in HCMC, He ha sbeen posted here for the last 3 month. So i asked him about this particular issue…

Here’s the answer: It’s not true! catholic church’s in Vietnam are acknowledge by Vatican in fact they do have a cardinal here in Vietnam named Cardinal Pham Minh Man which apointed by the Pope himself and approved by the Vietnamese goverment. But all the foreign missionary in Vietnam are not acknowledge by the Vietnamese goverment.

But there’s still a debate and some issues regarding to the catholic church’s in China. They are seperated into two. One is the "underground" church and the other one is the "nationalist" church. Both are catholic churchs, but they do have some problems between them, they do hate each other and both of them claims to be the original catholic church… which both haven’t acknowledged by the vatican. The Nationalist church is the church that are devoted to the Chinese goverment even during the "communism era" on the other hand, the underground church are the one who claims to stick to the vatican rules and declines communism. Till now, the Vatican still haven’t decide which one to be ackowledged… until then… all the church in China are not the "real" catholic church.

Cannonball

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
Still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
Still a little hard to say what’s going on

Still a little bit of your ghost, your witness
Still a little bit of your face I haven’t kissed
You step a little closer each day
That I can’t say what’s going on

Stones taught me to fly
Love,it taught me to lie
Life, it taught me to die
So it’s not hard to fall
When you float like a cannonball

Still a little bit of your song in my ear
Still a little bit of your words I long to hear
You step a little closer to me
So close that I can’t see what’s going on

Stones taught me to fly
Love, it taught me to lie
Life taught me to die
So it’s not hard to fall
When you float like a cannon..
Stones taught me to fly
Love, it taught me to cry
So come on courage
Teach me to be shy
‘Cause it’s not hard to fall
And I don’t wanna scare her
It’s not hard to fall
And I don’t wanna lose
It’s not hard to grow
When you know that you just don’t know