Jubilee Years Research Articles

John Henry Newman and the Roman Oratory

[It is with great regret the journal records the death, in his ninetieth year, of the longest-serving Vice-President of the Catholic Record Society. Bishop Brian Foley, D.Litt., became Vice-President in 1978 after fourteen years as President. Throughout his priestly life he was a keen supporter of the historical enterprize of the CRS. His most recent book was a study of the Jubilee Years from 1300 to 1975, published in anticipation of the Great Jubilee of the millennium. In tribute to Bishop Foley, Recusant History reissues an article by him that first appeared in the Venerabile in 1989 (vol.29, no.3). Acknowledgement is made to the Rector of the English College in Rome and to the editor of the Venerabile for their kind permission to reproduce the article in its original form.]

John Hope Franklin: And the Year of Jubilee

Debra Newman Ham [*] Leviticus 25:8-10 reads: And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. God intended the fiftieth year to be a very special time for the children of Israel. It was a time for healing, restitution, reparation, rest and atonement. It was a time when justice should shine forth in every segment of the land and every strata of society from the rich to the poor, the merchant to the slave. Congratulations to John Hope Franklin and Alfred Moss during this great year of jubilee for the celebrated text, From Slavery to Freedom. [1] This book has been the instrument of liberation for many who have read it. Was our history lost, stolen, or strayed? [2] We did not know. Too many of us did not realize how much of our possession we had lost before we opened up the pages of this book. In my personal world of ideas only the Bible has been more crucial to my personal development than From Slavery to Freedom. This is why. Growing up in York, Pennsylvania, I knew nothing about African-American history. If I had to be of African descent, I claimed a legacy only from Egypt rather than subsaharan Africa. I learned that slaves were docile beings who sang and danced. I suffered under the shame of their cowardice. Mercifully, a mentor, horrified to find that I was culturally white, took me to a homecoming weekend at Cheyney State [3] while I was in high school. I was instantly enchanted with a world of blackness unlike any I had known before. Cheyney did not offer the program I wanted so I opted for Howard University, a school I had not heard of before although I knew about Vassar, Swarthmore, and many others. As a student at Howard in the late sixties I heard interesting talk about slave revolts, black empowerment, and African beauty. Such talk rendered me jubilant. To my mother's dismay within two semesters I cut off my hair to wear short natural, and asked her to destroy or paint all the images of white folks in our home. With juicy bits of information from campus leaders, great speakers such as Stokely Carmichael and Ron Karenga who visited the campus, and books about Malcolm X and others, I became an instant expert in black history and culture. Like many who learn just a bit about their heritage and become instantaneous authorities, I joined the ranks of the rowdy militants who disrupted classes and disrespected teachers in order to pontificate about my new-found historical knowledge of the race. My main thesis was that no generation before ours had accomplished anything. Period. All of our forebears were handkerchief heads and Uncle Toms who did nothing. In contrast our generation was turning the world around with sit-ins, freedom rides, non-violent demonstrations of all sorts, and riots. While mouthing off in this vein for the umpteenth time in Olive Taylor's United States history class, that elegant sister forthrightly challenged my ignorance saying something like this: Miss Newman, you know nothing about black history. You may not speak in my class again until you read one of the black history surveys in the syllabus. Undaunted, I marched off to Founders Library, checked out a book on the list called From Slavery to Freedom by some author I had never heard of before -- John Hope Franklin. I returned to Truth Hall -- named for some lady I had never heard of before -- and spent the weekend getting to know history through the eyes of John Hope. …

The Doris Sym Memorial Lecture: Developing a Philosophy of Occupation for Health

The Third Caledonian Health Lecture, held on 3 March 1999, was dedicated to the memory of Doris Sym. MBE, Fellow of Glasgow Caledonian University, and founder and first Principal of the Glasgow School of Occupational Therapy. Professor Gordon Dickson, Dean of the Faculty of Health at Glasgow Caledonian University, hosted the event, which was attended by a wide range of people including Doris's family, friends, ex-colleagues, practising occupational therapists, retired occupational therapists and academics from other disciplines within the Faculty of Health. In 1997, the year of the diamond jubilee of occupational therapy education in Scotland. I had the honour of presenting Doris Sym for the award of honorary fellow of Glasgow Caledonian University. Resplendent in her academic robes, Doris gave a feisty speech recalling the challenges involved in setting up a new educational establishment and looking forward to her future participation in University events. Her death early in 1998 came as a shock to us all. The University was pleased and honoured to welcome Dr Ann Wilcock, founding editor of the Journal of Occupational Science: Australia and historian of the College of Occupational Therapists, to give her lecture — ‘Developing a philosophy of occupation for health’ — in memory of a pioneer and visionary woman who led the development of her profession and established the school teaching it in the West of Scotland. Ann Carnduff, Head. Division of Occupational Therapy, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Et rodfæstet menneske og en hellig digter

Et rodfæstet menneske og en hellig digter

Die diens aan die agtergeblewenes ’n Perspektief op die wette van ou Israel

This article examines the validity of the laws on setting a Hebrew man or woman free and the cancellation of debts in the seventh or sabbatical year and the year of jubilee as these laws are manifested in the Pentateuch. After the relevant laws have been compared, they are tested in a broader Biblical context. Although no practical means or ways can be prescribed, the final result verifies the principle of restitution or affirmation.

Grundtvig i guldalderens København

Grundtvig i guldalderens København

The Great Patriotic War of 1812

The War of 1812 is the brightest page in the military history of our motherland before the October Revolution. That war has been the subject of more study than any other event in the thousand-year history of prerevolutionary Russia. A complete bibliography of the literature on the War of 1812 is yet to appear. Information compiled by Soviet historians, who accounted for 2,500 books and articles published before 1917,1 is far from complete. I. Kh. Kolodeev's bibliography covering the years before 1904 contains more than 5,000 books alone.2 N.M. Zatvornitskii recorded 3,122 articles published before 1915 in just a small portion of Russian periodical publications, which he intended but was never able to examine.3 Hence, the number of books and articles about the War of 1812 published prior to the October Revolution can be set, at minimum, at 10,000 to 15,000. Soviet literature on our subject, which virtually exploded in the jubilee years of 1962 and 1987, is only slightly less than Russian prerevolutionary literature. Moreover, this does not take into account the great number of works appearing in world literature concerning Napoleon and his times. By 1908 these included 200,000 titles4 and the number has grown considerably since then.

Rome as the centre of the universe: papal grace and music patronage

In 1450 Giovanni Rucellai, a Florentine visitor to Rome, counted 1022 inns ‘with signboards’, and a quantity of other hostelries. For centuries, Rome had been a magnet that drew the faithful by the tens of thousands to its venerable walls. The reason, of course, was that it was the ancestral home of the Holy See – the centre of the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Although urbs Roma could not boast of this honour throughout the entire Middle Ages, by the middle of the fifteenth century, with the reign of Nicholas V, the Holy See was securely re-established at Rome, never to depart again.The flood of religious pilgrims to the Holy City, during Jubilee years and at other times, certainly accounted for a large part of the crowds of visitors to Rome. It is not, however, the Rome of the pilgrim that will concern us here, but the city that housed the papal Curia, the vast bureaucracy established to assist the pontiff with the temporal and spiritual responsibilities of his office. Thousands of petitioners came to Rome not to seek plenary indulgence but to secure for themselves a particular and specific papal Grace.

Seeking the Glory of Him who sent us

The English Dominican Father Romuald Horn, who here, on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, reflects on what the priesthood means for him, spent many years of his life as a priest in the once famous parish of St Dominic’s, Newcastle upon Tyne (which in his early days contained some of the most deprived parts of Tyneside.) He is now a confessor at the Basilica of St Mary Major, Rome.A golden jubilee is not an occasion for argument. If fifty years are not reason enough, it would seem useless to look further. For one can speak with the tongue, and one can say a word with one’s whole life. Even to change one’s mind after so long a time, impressive as it may be, doesn’t get rid of fifty years easily. In particular the golden jubilee of a priest contains a whole life, and a long one, because ordination comes at the beginning of maturity. Argument is still more out of place, because the priest is a minister, a servant. It is for his Lord to judge, not for himself. This is the true judgment, which the Lord will deliver at his own chosen time, a judgement which may not be anticipated. It remains for the minister to pass judgment on his ministry from his own point of view, as servants may compare one master with another, and one condition of service with alternative employment. This is what I am endeavouring to do now in this year of my golden jubilee, 1985.

Sabbatical and Jubilee years of the jews

Sabbatical and Jubilee years of the jews

Subbatical and Jubilee Years of the jews

Subbatical and Jubilee Years of the jews Get access Hipparchus Hipparchus 1Limehouse Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s1-III, Issue 80, 10 May 1851, Page 373, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s1-III.80.373g Published: 10 May 1851