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The Spirit in the World—III—Ad Lucem
Authors: Lushington Claude 
Published: August 2024

There is a growing appreciation among the Catholic laity that their task in the world is the doing of God's work in and through the work of the world. In other words Christ's life must be actualised by the members of his body through a full participation in the life of the world. The constant narrowing of distance, wider horizons and the increasing independence of former dependant peoples are giving worldwide dimensions not only to problems of politics, economics and sociology, but also to the life of the Church.Nearly thirty years ago the founders of Ad Lucem were already thinking along these lines. They saw the needs of the under-developed countries of the world, which includes two-thirds of its peoples, and they wanted desperately to help these areas in some way. This was long before current international thinking had begun; long before the idea of the United Nations Organization, and the world's consciousness of to the poverty of the under-developed countries.
Changes in the Liturgy: Cri de Coeur
Authors: Ward Maisie 
Published: August 2024

Orate fratres, say the priest — ‘Pray brethren, that this sacrifice which is Mine and your my be acceptable'. So the congregation is offering the Sacrifice of the mass with the priest. We are not simply there, we are taking part. Our part is subsidiary, certainly, but it is not just a fiction or a facade, it is real. Therefore, we should think about it and utter ow. thoughts. We have a subsidiary part in the offering, we should make our subsidiary contribution to the discussion of the mass which is now everywhere being carried on. We have been co-offering, sub offering, for nineteen hundred years. I have sometimes asked myself ‘Doesn't anybody wonder what we think?’ And now an editor has asked me.It may seem surprising that the liturgical education of my childhood was as good as it was—for my first eleven years belong to that very unliturgical period, the nineteenth century.
The Death of a Christian—I: The Objective Fact
Authors: Schillebeeckx E. H. 
Published: August 2024

Throughout the course of the growing development of the kingdom of God, the death of a Christian has taken a well-defined and importan place. The ending of the earthly life of a Christian man is an essential phase in the coming of the kingdom of God. What I propose to do in these articles is to analyse the meaning of this phase placed in the whole of Christian eschatology or expectation of the future. I shall first examine death as an objective occurrence in Christian saving history, and then in a subsequent article show how we Christians should personally experience the event of death in an eschatological attitude of mind: in other words what the answer of our life to death will be.In the Dominican rite of interment, we sing ‘let us be glad and rejoice on this wonderful day God has made, on which he has called one of our loved ones to himself'.
A Notable Tercentenary
Authors: Battersby W. J. 
Published: August 2024

Centenaries are interesting events for they show that, if we give time time, it performs a double function. In the first place, the lapse of a lengthy period acts like a sieve, eliminating the dross and allowing only the finest to survive. Then a distance of time acts also like a distance in space; it enables us to view in perspective that which is too big to be seen close up.For the proper appreciation of a man like St De La Salle, a hundred years was a minimum. In fact, it is only now, as the tercentenary of his birth approaches, that he is really coming into his own. The cloud of brilliant nonentities who crowded the fore-front of the stage in his day has disappeared, and he is beginning to emerge so that we can see him in his true proportions.
Easter Sunday
Authors: White Victor 
Published: August 2024

Easter Sunday is not a feast day standing by itself. It is the culmination of a celebration which may be said to begin on Palm Sunday and which continues through Low Sunday and beyond to Ascension Day, and even to Whit Sunday and its octave. All this is the Pasch or Passover, which we call Easter. It is the Spring Festival, in a sense the New Year—the New Year not of our arbitrary calendars but of nature and of life, vegetable, animal, human and divine.Easter is the centre and climax of the whole Christian year. But in a sense it is not only a Christian feast, nor does it originate with Christ or in Christendom. We know that the word Pasch or Passover is not a Christian name, nor originally it was a Christian feast: it is a Jewish name and a Jewish feast. By the time of Christ it had come to mean for the Jews principally a commemoration of their passage from the slavery of Egypt to the Promised Land ‘flowing with milk and honey'.
The Spirit in the World—VII A Catholic Home of Rest
Authors: Hope Wingfield 
Published: August 2024

In my recent book, Each His Own Tyrant, I introduced a Catholic Home of Rest where a young postulant was helped to understand her own neurosis, and to work free from it. My postulant (Alice) was fictitious, but not so the Home. And I have been asked to write a little more about it here, chiefly in connection with its work for nuns.First, a brief description of the background. The Home is in a beautiful part of England. It consists of a number of houses and cottages, each in charge of a housemother—the Principal being in close touch with these groups, which are like small families within a larger one. (There is also a house for men, with its own farm, but as this works separately, I shall not describe it here.)
The Church and Charity
Authors: Ple Albert 
Published: August 2024

The Church and Charity are two realities which are intimately connected with one another: the community (koinonia) which is the Church is grounded in a loving union (agape) and the union which is charity (agape) is in turn based on a communion (koinonia). To state more precisely the relationship existing between the Church and charity will be our concern in what follows.Of the many references in Holy Scripture to the bond which exists between the Church and charity the most notable is that of Ephesians 4, 15-16: ‘Rather we should hold the truth in charity, and grow in all things into him who is the head, Christ. From him the whole body, welded and compacted together by means of every joint of the system, part working in harmony with part—from him the body deriveth its increase, unto the building up of itself in charity.’
'Duc Nos Quo Tendimus'
Authors: Martindale C. C. 
Published: August 2024

There are two Feasts which, maybe, can be celebrated with special unselfishness—that of the Immaculate Conception, and that of the Assumption. We must not feel it wrong if we keep the great feasts of our Lord with a certain consciousness of ourself, for after all, the Incarnation and all that it made possible—the Passion and the Resurrection itself—were ordained propter nos homines; for the sake of us men and our salvation. Even the Ascension, which can indeed be celebrated most unselfishly’ as the feast of our Lord's glorification, yet reminds us that as we are co-risen, so we are to be co-glorified.Of course, since all the perfections of our Lady were granted to her in view of her Son—Christus cogitabatur—she too can be thought °f as existing ultimately for our sake. But I should find it difficult to see how the Assumption can be regarded otherwise than as something for our Lady's own sake, and for the glory of God.
The Followers Of Foucauld
Authors: Sheppard L. C. 
Published: August 2024

It seems to be the lot of some of the servants of God that they begin to exert a powerful influence only after their death. One such case, of course, was Soeur Thérèse of Lisieux, unknown at death, of world-wide renown within twenty years afterwards (before her beatification). Such too seems to be the case with Fr Charles of Jesus-Charles de Foucauld, the missionary monk and hermit of the Sahara.His way of life can have but a limited attraction though his teaching and methods have anything but a restricted application. It is perhaps the very relevance of his method of apostolate that is drawing men to study what he did, and in some cases to imitate him, with the necessary adaptations of course, in the task of pro-claiming the Gospel by their life. Crier l'Evangile par toute ma vie was his watchword; if it were indeed done by all Christians how quickly would the world be conquered for Christ.
A Parish Priest on Liturgical Devotion
Authors: Valentin Arthur 
Published: August 2024

The subject of Liturgy is so vast that only a few can command a deep knowledge of its history, but there is one aspect which does not call for high scholarship, and that is the pastoral—the Liturgy as its affects the average Catholic, especially as his normal means of instruction.By general agreement these days in which we live have witnessed a general falling away from Bible reading amongst non-Catholics, whilst that practice has not been a strong point amongst English Catholics; then, too, only a small fraction of our people ever hear a sermon, for most come only once to church on a Sunday, and then to a Low Mass, at which they hear only the usual notices. Few in proportion to the sum total study Catholic books on religion, and so thousands have starved minds, a condition responsible in large measure for so much apathy. Apathy is the inevitable prostration of will which follows on after a long period of mental starvation. Now, in the Liturgy, and I am here using that term as equalling the Mass, we have an unequalled book of instruction, and the finest comment ever produced on the meaning of Holy Scripture.
The Way of Perfection in the English Mystics
Authors: Pepler Conrad 
Published: August 2024

Before proceeding to a detailed discussion of the English spiritual authors, some explanation is required of the order and design of the treatment. For we do not intend to follow a chronological order and indeed we have included the Ancren Riwle which is outside our period, as also William Langland who scarcely deserves the name of mystic though he was a great poet and the mystic is often, if not always, a poet too.Our plan is to climb up the scale, the ladder of perfection, from the lowest rungs to the topmost, where, like Jacob’s ladder, they disappear into heaven. The theme of this essay has been adopted from Père Garrigou-Lagrange’s now celebrated thesis that the highest flights of infused contemplation and mystical union are on the royal road to holiness open to all. A scheme therefore of tEe normal growth of the generous soul cooperating to the full with the graces offered her, will begin with the first conversion and end with the heights of union described in different terminology by St John of the Cross, Mother Julian, and the author of the Cloud of Unknowing.
The Rule of St Augustine: A Modern Rendering
Authors: Bullough Sebastian 
Published: August 2024

Our chief concern, brethren (sisters), is the love of God; and after this the love of our neighbour, for these are the two greatest commandments. To these ends we give the following directions for the regulation of monastic life.The first aim of community life is the ideal of unity in community—all our thoughts and desires united and centred on God.
The Sweep of Praise in the Apocalypse
Authors: Potter Roland 
Published: August 2024

A total view of Scripture shows that Genesis tells of the emanation of all, of the Fall and the Promise; the apostolic writings speak of Redemptive Incarnation as relevant to all; now there remains the Apocalypse to throw light on the return of all, as it now is, and as it will be, fulfilled. Too often the prophecy is inadequately appreciated, precisely because of its apocalyptic character and the difficulty of its imagery. The difficulty of the book is lessened by a triumph of Catholic exegesis; its inner lessons are indispensable. Despite its utterly judaistic dress and a riot of oriental imagery, it is intensely realist in its deep doctrinal content, which is no less than Jésus-Christ vu et écouté dans sa gloire. It is a fifth gospel.'…Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God in the blooo out of every tribe and tongue, and people, and nation, and hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall reign on earth.’
Secular Institutes and the Life of Mary
Authors: Graef H.C. 
Published: August 2024

The stimulating article of Fr Oswin Magrath's on Contemplative Secular Institutes has raised issues which must have been in many minds since the publication of the Constitution Provida Mater Ecclesia. After the priest and religious has spoken, a lay-person may perhaps be allowed to present the same idea from a different angle.It was surely not without a special significance that the Constitution was issued on the Feast of the Purification of our Lady, and there can, indeed, be no better guide for ‘contemplatives in the world’ than she, who led the sublimest life of contemplation in the most humble circumstances, as what seemed to her neighbours a carpenter's wife in a small town. The Queen of contemplatives had no need to cut herself off from her fellow creatures in order to enjoy an unbroken communion with her Creator.
Lux Mundi
Authors: Tauler John 
Published: August 2024

The Gospel of this (Laetare) Sunday is tlie one which tells of Our Lord's feeding five thousand men with five barley loaves: John 6.Ego sum lux mundi—I am the light of the world (John 8)When our Lord addressed these and similar words to the Jews, he was contradicted and attacked by his hearers. They said, he is a Samaritan, he has a devil. In today's Gospel, on the contrary, it is recorded that after our Lord had miraculously fed the crowd with five loaves and two fishes, he was surrounded by the Jews who were enraptured with the great miracle, and they said: ‘This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world'.It has seemed to us opportune to speak briefly of that light which our Lord claimed to be. That light has enlightened all created lights. The sun, moon, stars, man's bodily senses, the intellectual light of reasonable creatures, in other words reason and intelligence draw their brilliance from it; by that light, all creatures are led and brought back to their origin. And if they did not. return to it, considered on their own without this true and essential light, they would assuredly be but thick darkness. Again our Lord said to every faithful soul: Give up your own light for my sake; compared to my light it is but darkness, the very opposite of my splendour.
The interaction of oxytocin and nicotine addiction on psychosocial stress: an fMRI study
Authors: Ren Jiecheng , Zhang Yuting , Song Hongwen , Gou Huixing , Zhao Qian , Hong Wei , Piao Yi , Chen Yucan , Chen Yijun , Wen Shilin , Du Zhangxin , Li Chuanfu , Qiu Bensheng , Ma Yina , Zhang Xiaochu , Wei Zhengde 
Published: August 2024

AbstractThe anxiolytic effect of oxytocin (OXT) on psychosocial stress has been well documented, but the effectiveness under the interference of other factors still requires in-depth research. Previous studies have shown that nicotine addiction interacts with OXT on psychosocial stress on the behavioral level. However, the underlying neural mechanism of interaction between OXT and nicotine addiction on psychosocial stress has not been examined, and we conducted two experiments to reveal it. Firstly, after intranasal administration of randomized OXT or placebo (saline), a group of healthy participants (n = 27) and a group of smokers (n = 26) completed the Montreal Imaging Stress Task (MIST) in an MRI scanner. Secondly, a group of smokers (n = 22) was recruited to complete a transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) experiment, in which anodal tDCS was applied on subjects’ anterior right superior temporal gyrus (rSTG). In both experiment, subjective stress ratings, salivary cortisol samples and the amount of daily cigarette consumption were obtained from each participant. Analysis of variance were applied on both behavioral and neural data to examine the effects of OXT and nicotine addiction, and correlation analysis were used to examine relationships between neural and behavioral data. In first fMRI experiment, analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed an interaction of OXT and nicotine addiction on subjective stress. In smokers, OXT failed to suppress the elevation of subjective stress and craving ratings after psychosocial stress. A voxel-wise ANOVA of fMRI data identified an interaction between OXT and nicotine addiction in anterior rSTG, and its functional connectivity with right middle frontal gyrus. Correlations between this functional connectivity and subjective psychosocial stress were also found abnormal in smokers. In second tDCS experiment, we found that under tDCS, OXT successfully suppressed the elevation of subjective stress and craving ratings after stress. In summary, we found that nicotine addiction blocked OXT’s anxiolytic on psychosocial stress, which was related to abnormalities in anterior rSTG. By applying anodal tDCS on anterior rSTG, OXT’s anxiolytic effect was restored in smokers. These findings will support further development on oxytocin’s intervention of psychosocial stress in nicotine addiction, and provides essential information for indicating OXT’s effectiveness.
Ion occupancy of the selectivity filter controls opening of a cytoplasmic gate in the K2P channel TALK-2
Authors: Neelsen Lea C. , Riel Elena B. , Rinné Susanne , Schmid Freya-Rebecca , Jürs Björn C. , Bedoya Mauricio , Langer Jan P. , Eymsh Bisher , Kiper Aytug K. , Cordeiro Sönke , Decher Niels , Baukrowitz Thomas , Schewe Marcus 
Published: August 2024

AbstractTwo-pore domain K+ (K2P) channel activity was previously thought to be controlled primarily via a selectivity filter (SF) gate. However, recent crystal structures of TASK-1 and TASK-2 revealed a lower gate at the cytoplasmic pore entrance. Here, we report functional evidence of such a lower gate in the K2P channel K2P17.1 (TALK-2, TASK-4). We identified compounds (drugs and lipids) and mutations that opened the lower gate allowing the fast modification of pore cysteine residues. Surprisingly, stimuli that directly target the SF gate (i.e., pHe., Rb+ permeation, membrane depolarization) also opened the cytoplasmic gate. Reciprocally, opening of the lower gate reduced the electric work to open the SF via voltage driven ion binding. Therefore, it appears that the SF is so rigidly locked into the TALK-2 protein structure that changes in ion occupancy can pry open a distant lower gate and, vice versa, opening of the lower gate concurrently promote SF gate opening. This concept might extent to other K+ channels that contain two gates (e.g., voltage-gated K+ channels) for which such a positive gate coupling has been suggested, but so far not directly demonstrated.
Limits of pre-endoscopic scoring systems in geriatric patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding
Authors: Di Gioia Giuseppe , Sangineto Moris , Paglia Annalisa , Cornacchia Maria Giulia , Parente Fernando , Serviddio Gaetano , Romano Antonino Davide , Villani Rosanna 
Published: August 2024

AbstractUpper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a common cause of hospital admission worldwide and several risk scores have been developed to predict clinically relevant outcomes. Despite the geriatric population being a high-risk group, age is often overlooked in the assessment of many risk scores. In this study we aimed to compare the predictive accuracy of six pre-endoscopic risk scoring systems in a geriatric population hospitalised with UGIB. We conducted a multi-center cross-sectional study and recruited 136 patients, 67 of these were 65–81.9 years old (“< 82 years”), 69 were 82–100 years old (“≥ 82 years”). We performed six pre-endoscopic risk scores very commonly used in clinical practice (i.e. Glasgow-Blatchford Bleeding and its modified version, T-score, MAP(ASH), Canada–United Kingdom–Adelaide, AIMS65) in both age cohorts and compared their accuracy in relevant outcomes predictions: 30-days mortality since hospitalization, a composite outcome (need of red blood transfusions, endoscopic treatment, rebleeding) and length of hospital stay. T-score showed a significantly worse performance in mortality prediction in the “≥ 82 years” group (AUROC 0.53, 95% CI 0.27–0.75) compared to “< 82 years” group (AUROC 0.88, 95% CI 0.77–0.99). In the composite outcome prediction, except for T-score, younger participants had higher sensitivities than those in the “≥ 82 years” group. All risk scores showed low performances in the prediction of length of stay (AUROCs ≤ 0.70), and, except for CANUKA score, there was a significant difference in terms of accuracy among age cohorts. Most used UGIB risk scores have a low accuracy in the prediction of clinically relevant outcomes in the geriatric population; hence novel scores should account for age or advanced age in their assessment.
Directional discontinuities in the inner heliosphere from Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter observations
Authors: Madar A. , Opitz A. , Erdos G. , Timar A. , Biro N. , Koban G. , Szabo A. , Nemeth Z. 
Published: August 2024

Context. Directional discontinuities (DDs) are common structures in the solar wind plasma and are among the most important discontinuities besides shock waves. The Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter spacecraft currently provide whole new insight into the inner heliosphere in spatial coverage and timescales.
Aims. We search for DDs and classify them into subgroups of tangential (TD) and rotational (RD) discontinuities. The analysis of the DD thicknesses allows us to test different theories about their origin and evolution.
Methods. We applied an automatic algorithm to select discontinuities between heliocentric distances of 0.06–1.01 AU. The method uses the spatial rotation of the magnetic field to identify the DDs and minimum variance analysis to determine the normal vector of the discontinuity surface. A classification into TDs and RDs was carried out using the magnetic field data and the Walén test in both the spacecraft and the deHoffmann–Teller frame.
Results. With strict conditions, we found more than 140 000 DDs in the time intervals. We find that the spatial density of DDs decreases with increasing radial distance from the Sun in the innermost heliosphere. The comprehensive analysis revealed that most of the DD, for which the normal component of the magnetic field is small are in fact TDs, regardless of the jump in field magnitude. After the classification, we were able to determine the radial thickness evolution for the TDs and RDs separately. We found that the thickness of RDs decreases from 0.06 to 0.30 AU, and beyond this (0.30–1.01 AU) it increases with the local ion inertial length. This characteristic scaling is present for TDs throughout between 0.06 and 1.01 AU.
Conclusions. Our results give us a simple classification tool for future studies of DDs, that is based only on magnetic field measurements. After we analyzed the DD thickness, we observationally confirmed that RDs are produced by Alfvén-wave steepening, while the TDs are most likely the boundaries of flux tubes.