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A lily heat-inducible multi-protein bridging factor, LlMBF1c, plays a crucial role in plant thermotolerance
Authors: Xiang Jun , Wu Ze , Ding Liping , Zhang Yinyi , Teng Nianjun 
Published: August 2024

AbstractLily (Lilium spp.) is popular for its colorful flowers and exquisite scents. Nonetheless, high temperatures often severely reduce its yield production and quality. The implementation of biotechnological approaches to manipulate the expression of key heat-resistant genes is an effective way to improve the thermotolerance of plants. Here, we isolated a gene encoding for a multi-protein bridging factor 1c (MBF1c) from L. longiflorum 'White Heaven' (LlMBF1c), which was highly similar to MBF1c from Elaeis guineensis (EgMBF1c). LlMBF1c harbors conserved MBF1 and helix-turn-helix (HTH) domains. Moreover, the expression of LlMBF1c and its promoter activity were enhanced under high-temperature conditions. Further analysis indicated that LlMBF1c is a transcriptional repressor in both yeast and Nicotiana benthamiana. Its protein was located in the nucleus and cytoplasm of N. benthamiana leaf cells. Overexpression of LlMBF1c in lily and Arabidopsis resulted in enhanced thermotolerance in these plants. By contrast, silencing LlMBF1c reduced the thermotolerance of lily. Our results identified an important candidate gene that can be utilized to develop thermotolerant lily germplasm.
Urgent MRI: when, what, and why—a single Italian center experience
Authors: De Lucia Diletta , D’Apolito Gabriella , Grimaldi Alessandro , Calandrelli Rosalinda , Gaudino Simona 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Purpose
The aim of our study is to provide a list of clinical situations that might justify the performance of an urgent MRI (uMRI) based on clinical relevance, correlating the MRI findings with the clinical indications and the urgent management of patients.

Methods
We reviewed all uMRI scans of brain (buMRI) and spine (suMRI) performed in our Department from August 2020 to February 2024. We analyzed the main clinical indications, the neuroradiological findings, and the relevance of these results in the therapeutic decisions.

Results
The main indication for buMRI was the evaluation of ischemic stroke detected at preliminary CT scan followed by coma, status epilepticus, suspected acute inflammatory diseases, trauma, suspicious of infective diseases, and pre-surgical evaluation of cerebral tumors. The main findings were: ischemia, acute inflammatory conditions, post-traumatic and post-ictal alterations, venous thrombosis, infective diseases, and cerebral tumors. 65% of patients underwent an urgent therapeutic intervention. The main indications for suMRI were clinical suspicion of myelopathy and radiculopathy including cauda equina syndrome secondary to trauma, neoplasms, inflammatory and infective diseases, degenerative changes, surgery, and vascular diseases. The main findings were: post-traumatic, degenerative and neoplastic myelopathy or radiculopathy, inflammatory and infective changes of the spinal cord, post-surgical fluid collections, and vascular diseases. About 77% of suMRI was followed by an urgent surgery.

Conclusions
Our study showed an overall good correlation between buMRI-suMRI findings and the clinical indications for the examinations. Also, uMRI affected the urgent management in a good percentage of patients, proving the significance of uMRI findings.
The Trinity and our Society
Authors: Dawson Clare 
Published: August 2024

To say that the being of God is the basis of human society may seem to anyone who believes in the procession of creatures from the divine, mind, conceived by his thought, made actual by his will, a statement of the obvious; indeed any theist would be likely to agree that since nature of ultimate truth must be the source of all truth and being, whatever theory of creation is held, it is from God that the shape of what concerns human destiny must descend. Any real belief in God affects our ideas about man and human society, but the Christian belief in the Trinity most profoundly tempers the structure of our thought.The idea of society (as an unspecified notion, not tied down to this society or that, in one age or another), and of man's life in common is closely related to the mystery of divine society. It could hardly be otherwise since the fundamental doctrine of Christianity shows God knowing and loving, having within his essential unity true interchange and the mutual give-and-take indispensable to the concept of community or society.
The Place of the Father in Religious Education
Authors: Pratt Oliver , Pratt Ianthe 
Published: August 2024

‘You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of the darkness into his marvellous light’ (I Pet. 2.9). This priesthood of all the faithful is the basis of the lay apostolate. Parents have a particular apostolic responsibility and need to understand the nature of their priesthood if they are fruitfully to fulfill their role.Throughout the scriptures the role of a priest is to offer a gift to God in an effort to get into a right relation to him. The gift that is offered may take the form of Old Testament ritual sacrifices, of the spiritual sacrifice of a holy life, or of the sharing in the one effective sacrifice ot Christ through baptism and the eucharist.
Experience and Expression in Christian Education
Authors: Haughton Rosemary 
Published: August 2024

It is necessary nowadays for Christians to re-think all manner of things that were formerly taken for granted. ’Our world is a world in a continuous state of becoming, a state in which everything is questioned’, writes Cardinal Suenens in a book bulging with new insights and ideas. ‘We no longer live in an age where daily lives were solidly framed in tradition, and institutions were there to safeguard values that were never called in question’.In attempting to understand what has happened and what the happenings mean for us, one historical fact takes on importance for all concerned with Christian education. In the disintegration of traditional ideas the way people lived Christian ideas and the forms in which these ideas were expressed fell apart.
American Convert Work
Authors: McGinn John T. 
Published: August 2024

EACH year in the United States 150,000 converts enter the Catholic Church. Considered by itself, this is a rather impressive figure. But when we consider that ours is a nation of some 170 million people (well over 100 million of them still outside the Church) and when we remember that there are some 40 million potential Catholic apostles, these convert statistics leave us little cause for complacency. The trial balance is even less encouraging when we recall that a considerable number of Catholics lapse from the Church every year. ‘But as far as conversions are concerned', says Fr Sheerin in The Catholic World, ‘Catholicism and Protestantism in America are like two great forces that have reached a stalemate in competing for the minds of Americans. Neither side is making any great gains.'But the prospect of a nation's conversion must go beyond mere statistics. The mysterious workings of God's grace must be taken into account.
The Conversion of Charles De Foucauld
Authors: Six Jean-Fr 
Published: August 2024

In a jotting he made in 1821J. H. Newman wrote: ‘I speak of conversion with great diffidence, being obliged to adopt the language of books. For my feelings, as far as I remember, were so different from any account I have ever read, that I dare not go by what may be an individual case.'The abbé Huvelin, who was to be God's principal instrument in the conversion of Charles de Foucauld, felt the same difficulty. 'The story of a conversion', he wrote, ‘even of one's own, is something that can never be fully understood. You can see the stages that have led up to it, but that is all. Our Lord acts in such a variety of ways.’ In this article we will sketch the story of such stages, and investigate as delicately as possible their convergence on the focal-point which constitutes de Foucauld's conversion.
Psychology of Humility, Basis of All True Spiritual and Mental Health
Authors: O'Brien Terence 
Published: August 2024

Christianity has produced without any doubt men and women who have fulfilled in themselves the greatest potentiality of the human personality. In all the centuries of the Christian era there stand out men and women, and no small number of them, whom everyone felt were fully developed and integrated and whom mankind could take as patterns of the mature and develped personality. This has been more so than in any other period of history.It is very true that it is the triumph of the life of Christ in these men and women that has brought them to holiness, maturity and integration; but in the process their psychological development has taken place. The life of grace does not by-pass nature but adds to it, and lifts it on to another plane.
Hope–The Advent Virtue
Authors: McDermott Timothy 
Published: August 2024

Occasionally in books of art reproductions you will come across a large picture of a nose, or waving hand, or something similar; and perhaps you will be taken aback by the peculiar choice of subject until you glance at the caption: ‘Detail from somebody or other's Adoration of the Magi'. And then if you turn back a few pages you will find the full picture of the Adoration of the Magi and be able to spend several exciting minutes identifying which particular nose has been magnified on the later page. For the first time you will understand why the nose is pointed in the direction it is, why it is painted such a peculiar colour: for you will see it in its context.A theological article on hope is like that nose. Since it is to be theological it cannot be about hope, it must be about God.
The Use of Mime in Scripture Teaching
Authors: Heddon Rosemary 
Published: August 2024

This is the account of an experiment. While the need for the teaching of the Old Testament in Catholic schools is gradually becoming more widely recognized, our children do not, in general, have that familiarity with the language of the Old Testament which is so often found among Christians brought up in other surroundings. While this is neither the time nor the place to discuss the pros and cons of a vernacular liturgy, it is obvious that a child who hears some portion of the Scriptures read at the daily Assembly will acquire a familiarity with the language and images employed therein. To attempt to teach the New Testament without a good grounding in the Old, is to deprive it of considerable significance, and it is in the Junior School that such a foundation can be laid.While there are many collections of Bible stories (and nowadays even strip-cartoons) for children, the real value of all these attractive aids should be to lead the child to a desire for the real thing: the inspired word of God.
Missions in the Life of the Church
Authors: Magrath Oswin 
Published: August 2024

Missions are the Church in a state of growth. They are not merely an outside activity by which external additions are made to the Church, nor are they just the geographical expansion of the Church as it is. They involve a real growth and development of the whole Church, of doctrines, practices and life, and of every individual who shares in that life. For missions are the development of the catholicity of the Church.Catholicity is of the very nature of the Church. It is the property by which it is able to adapt itself to every human group and incorporates all genuine human values, while remaining one and transcendent. Being of the nature of the Church, it tends to realize itself as fully as possible, until the whole of humanity has been gathered up.Until the Church has in fact incorporated every human group, and established itself in every nation, its catholicity is undeveloped, though complete as a power.
Galilee
Authors: Phillips G. H. 
Published: August 2024

It is a common mistake to visualize Galilee as a small area of country bordering on a lake. In fact it is one of the largest regions of Israel. For travellers who have arrived at Haifa by boat, the first introduction to Galilee will probably be Nazareth. This is a pity because Nazareth is the one black spot in the whole district. Commercialism has reached such heights there that the street vendors have degenerated from nuisance to menace.Inside the Franciscan enclosure, however, all is well, and the pilgrim kneeling in the grotto of the annunciation forgets any rabble outside. Two pillars mark the places where our Lady and the angel Gabriel stood, and beside the altar of the tiny chapel is a grille through which the rest of the primitive house can be seen.
Ways Many and Various
Authors: Potter Roland 
Published: August 2024

God who spoke to our forefathers, through the prophets, in ways many and various, has at last, in these days, spoken to us through his Son…(Hebr. i, 1).With these impressive words begins the epistle to the Hebrews, and we are taught that God it is who commands all history, and God who reveals himself by speaking through all the sacred history of Israel as also to the new Israel of God or body of Christ. The stress in the text is first of all on God who has all the initiative, and who brings about a continuity in old and new testament covenants because the same loving God brought all essential history to its real conclusion in the revelation of a Saviour who is Lord of all.Our text also speaks of ways many and various. Two points are made: the frequency of God's utterance, and the variety of ways in which his message comes to the world. Let us try to illustrate that frequency and the many ways and modes.
St Ambrose, a Contemplative
Authors: Pax  
Published: August 2024

I can never quite forgive St Jerome for being so cutting about St Ambrose's Latin. It seems to my ignorant mind that his Latin is only the shell of the kernel of the good nut within. Take at random, the homily for the sixth Sunday after Pentecost, almost at once, one finds this: ‘The food of heavenly grace is given, not to the idle, not in the city or to those accustomed to worldly dignity, but in desert places, to those who seek Christ. For Christ receives the humble, and the word of God speaks with them, not of worldly things, but of the kingdom of God.'How wonderful is the next passage as a preparation for confession, for communion, or for, perhaps, a near-convert on the threshold of the Church: ‘None receives the food of Christ unless he be first healed, and those who are invited are healed by the ‘ very call.
St Augustine's Picture of the Church
Authors: Hill Edmund 
Published: August 2024

The title of The City of God is taken by St Augustine from that verse of Ps. 86 (87), which is paraphrased by the wellknown hymn, ‘Glorious things of thee are spoken, Sion city of our God'. Is this city, in his mind, a picture of the Church? Clearly yes, but of the Church in its widest, its cosmic dimensions, the Church which is the heavenly Jerusalem of the Apocalypse, that Jerusalem which is above, which is our mother (Gal. iv, 26), of which the earthly Jerusalem is the type and figure. We attain some apprehension of this city of God by contrasting it with another city, the city of confusion, the diabolical city, of which the archetype is Babel, Babylon.These two cities are cosmic because their history begins with the creation and ends with the end of the world. In their beginning and end they are clearly distinct—distinct in the holy angels and the fallen angels at the beginning of creation, distinct in the company of the blessed and the company of the damned at the end. The Church as it will be in the resurrection is the society of the just, and of the just alone.
Silence
Authors: Hibbert Giles 
Published: August 2024

It is in the stillness of our hearts and in the stillness of our minds, in a perfect presence to ourselves, that we rise up—not of ourselves, but through him to whom alone we say, ‘Raise us, Lord, that we may see’. This rise of ours is ‘offering’, achieved in understanding and in loving; we do not rise in any simple way outside our normal selves, but remaining within and yet increasing, growing, rise up upon ourselves to know and see, as yet however darkly, God present in our souls, from whom we have our all; our being, life and understanding; our own true actuality.If, then, we recognize the tumult of the shifting nature of our thoughts, the milling crowds of our conflicting fantasies, by calming and by ordering these which hold us down we may proceed and may attain to that pure silence of the spirit, where in the rise upon itself of understanding we will see and know and feel, though fleetingly, the presence of him alone who is. ‘Be still and know that I am God.’
The Person and the Place—I: Abbot Suger
Authors: Webb Geoffrey 
Published: August 2024

It has been concluded, on the evidence of the verses that Suger wrote to celebrate his new basilica, that he looked upon it mainly as a monument to his own greatness. But although one admits that he was not without his streak of vanity, this particular manifestation of what at first glance appears to be mere complacency is worth examining more closely. His verses are not simply tombstone bombast; on the contrary, each one has a definite message to convey. It becomes clear that they were written for a purpose more interesting than that of Suger's selfaggrandizement. They were meant, in fact, to provide a commentary on the whole conception and undertaking of the new St Denis, his opus nobile, as he calls it.It is, of course, not easy for us to imagine why Gothic architecture and traditional Christian iconography should require any explanation. It requires a real effort to imagine St Denis making the sort of impact on Suger's contemporaries that Ronchamp makes on ours.
Therapeutic and Pastoral Work
Authors: Godin André 
Published: August 2024

The title of this article seems to imply a dichotomy. First, let me affirm that man, as a living being, and still more as a spiritual being, is a unity, a whole, that cannot be split into two parts.This may seem obvious when it is question of a normal, balanced, adult man; one who does not need psychotherapy, but only pastoral guidance. On the other hand, when we are talking of a neurotic, we make use of numerous expressions, or ways of speaking which introduce a dichotomy, not in the way in which the neurotic is approached, but in the subject himself. For instance, we make a distinction in his psychology between a healthy part and a part which is diseased. We say that the therapist must ally himself with the healthy part in order to fight, with the sufferer, against the diseased part.
From Synagogue to Early Christian Assembly: I
Authors: Guillet J. 
Published: August 2024

The purpose of this paper is to show how the Synagogue as an institution, as it was organized by the Jews on their return from the Exile in Babylon, not only provided the early Christian Church with a whole set of services, customs and ritual laws, but also supplied a certain kind of atmosphere which played an important part in the development of early Christianity.This appears at the very beginning, when we find our Lord Jesus Christ himself using the institution and attending the Synagogue. It was in the Synagogue at Nazareth that Jesus first proclaimed himself the Messias, when he read from ‘the book of baias the prophet: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me … “ and added, ‘This day is fulfilled this Scripture in your ears'.
Antonio Rosmini on the Magnificat
Authors: Sencourt Robert 
Published: August 2024

In 1955 Italy in general and the provine of Novara in particular have been celebrating the Centenary of the death of Antonio Rosmini. While some point to his sagacious views on the Risorgimento, and others turn back to his philosophy which anticipated the revival of Thomism, others venerate him as the founder of the Institute of Charity and a master of spiritual life.His work in this direction was indeed inspiring: and one could hardly find a better example of it than what he wrote on the Magnificat for his Convent at Domodossola, that the nuns might recite it with fuller attention, deeper faith and fuller joy. The essay gains in interest when we know that he wrote it in 1849 after he had failed in a negotiation with Pius IX who had felt compelled to flee from Rome and who then turned against the conciliatory policy he had shared with Rosmini, allowed his works to be attacked, and refused the Cardinalate he had previously offered. None of these disappointments shook the profound spiritual life of Rosmini.
'My World From Within'
Authors: Bell Irene 
Published: August 2024

'The woman who is abreast of current thought, who knows the topics of the moment, religious and secular, and who follows her daily Mass in her Missal, and the news of the world in her morning paper …'. These words might be a self-portrait of Mrs Boland, the efficient boxtender who organised the sale of pamphlets in Westminster Cathedral from 1912 onwards and who in 1924 founded the Boxtenders’ Association.Nowadays we are familiar with the Catholic Truth Society cases in our churches, and are inclined to take this contribution to present-day propaganda for granted. The origins of the C.T.S. go as far back as 1884—there were various developments—the first meeting was convened in the house of Lady Herbert of Lea, under the chairmanslaip of Dr Herbert Vaughan, then Bishop of Salford, who had already started a similar project in his own diocese. The date of the foundation meeting was carefully chosen—the fifth of November. This is no place to deal with the history of the C.T.S., it suffices to say that the scheme withstood the consequences of two major wars.
Being Objective about Neurosis
Authors: Scott Murdoch 
Published: August 2024

In a recent issue of The Life of the Spirit a question of the utmost importance was raised in a letter about neurosis. And among other points that of having an objective view about neurotic illness is worth serious consideration.In a neurosis there arc two factors to be considered: the fundamental disorder of the psychic structure—the unhealthy psychic tensions which are die source of further trouble (the so-called ‘nerves’ of the ‘highly strung’ person)—and the consequent result of this psychic tension in terms of the reaction to life and its problems. The fundamental inner tension is not a single, definite fear of some evil, but rather a general, unspecified fearful attitude. And although this psychic tension is to be found in both introvert and extravert personalities its result in terms of adaptation to the demands of life is different in each type of temperament. The introvert whose psychological constitution is of a generally fearful kind tends to develop an illness which is itself a psychic disorder— Repression, anxiety, morbid fear—and so is called a psychological illness.
Saint Hilary
Authors: Suzanne  
Published: August 2024

St Irenaeus, with whom Hilary of Poitiers has much in common, says: ‘No doubt there are many tongues spoken throughout the world, but the strength of tradition is one and the same … for as one and the same sun, created by God, shines throughout the world, so the light of truth shines everywhere, enlightening all who wish to know it'. St Hilary is one of the first saints in the calendar on January 14th, perhaps because his very name is in keeping with the joy of that season of the year, reflected from the coming of Christ anew each Christmas.He can be a model for Christians of whatever kind. He was a married Man, yet his life was as austere as a monk's. He was a bishop and champion of truth, an exile and refugee, a writer and theologian; active all his life, yet deeply contemplative.