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WCCM: Ecumenical-Buddhist-New Age “Christian Meditation” institutionalized in the Archdiocese of Bombay

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

 

WCCM: Ecumenical-Buddhist-New Age “Christian Meditation” institutionalized in the Archdiocese of Bombay

 



 

Registered Office: Mount Carmel Church, Bandra, Mumbai

 

The WCCM is the World Community for Christian Meditation. IT HAS NO CANONICAL RECOGNITION.

Further, according to an August 17, 2011 letter from the Benedictine Abbot Primate Dr. Notker Wolf OSB, its current leader Fr. Laurence Freeman is NO LONGER A BENEDICTINE
MONK though its Indian proponents Fr. Joe Pereira and Christopher Mendonca
continue to use his name with the OSB suffix.

Fr. Joe Pereira is the founder of an NGO called KRIPA Foundation that promotes yoga, a Hindu meditation system and other New Age stuff like Jungian psychology. Christopher Mendonca is its main spokesperson.

Fr. Joe Pereira is the Indian National Coordinator of the WCCM.

This so-called “Christian Meditation” is not Christian but Buddhist, ecumenical, and New Age.

The Examiner, the official weekly of the Archdiocese of Bombay, is the de facto mouthpiece of both KRIPA and WCCM. All archdiocesan facilites are at their disposal.

Two successive Cardinal Archbishops of Bombay have given full and open support to KRIPA/WCCM.

Since I have reported on it in great detail, especially the first in the list (see the list of files at the end of the present file), I will not go into much detail here on why “Christian Meditation” is New Age and not Catholic.

[Of course, as one will see, there are many other reports in the FR. JOE PEREIRA-KRIPA-WCCM series.]

Moreover, I have already, just yesterday, released a direct sequel to that report:

WCCM-NEW AGE CHRISTIAN MEDITATION INSTITUTIONALIZED IN BOMBAY ARCHDIOCESE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/WCCM-NEW_AGE_CHRISTIAN_MEDITATION_INSTITUTIONALIZED_IN_BOMBAY_ARCHDIOCESE.doc

The present report, part 2, (prepared with information retrieved from the Kripa Foundation blog), is a further update that continues to document that the WCCM-KRIPA combine is hopelessly New Age, Hinduised — apart from the images, I present a sampling of Fr. Joe Pereira’s “homilies” for the reader — and irretrievably associated with the heretical “Catholic” ashrams movement… and yet most shockingly is blessed and encouraged by the very Cardinals and bishops of Bombay Archdiocese, and many other archbishops, bishops, priests and nuns who should instead be warning the faithful against these spiritual dangers.

I have tried to present the information retrieved from the KRIPA blog in groups and in chronological order.

 

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Fr. Joe Pereira teaching yoga at the JDV Seminary, the Papal Athenaeum, Pune

Kripa Foundation Iyengar Yoga Intensive at Pune

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2011/02/kripafoundation-iyengar-yoga-intensive.html

February 26, 2011


 

Kripa Foundation Iyengar Yoga Intensive workshop with the students of the Bandra Iyengar Yoga community was held at Pune. A visit to Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar was the highlight of the workshop.

The beautiful new premises of the post graduate wing of JDV (Papal Athenaeum) offered an opportunity to try out standing Bhismasana too. The most Indian Chapel with the centre figure of a Dancing Jesus was ideal for including the Mass within the workshop.
The daily programme consisted of
three hours of Asanas, two hours of Pranayama and two hours of Meditation
.

NEW COMMUNITY BIBLE 02-THE PAPAL SEMINARY, PUNE, INDIAN THEOLOGIANS, AND THE CATHOLIC ASHRAMS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/NEW_COMMUNITY_BIBLE_02-THE_PAPAL_SEMINARY_PUNE_INDIAN_THEOLOGIANS_AND_THE_CATHOLIC_ASHRAMS.doc

 

Note the aberrations at this major Catholic seminary where Fr. Joe Pereira conducted his yoga workshop.

The tabernacle has been relegated to the side.

The mandatory crucifix is neither behind the altar large and visible to all nor on the altar at Mass.

Instead, to the side there is the oxymoron of a “risen Christ” or “resurrexifix” superimposed on a cross. The reminder of the salvific death of Jesus has been subtly eliminated. (See also page 9)

But that is the new norm in the post-Vatican II Church:

 

THE RISEN CHRIST ON A CROSS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/THE_RISEN_CHRIST_ON_A_CROSS.doc

THE CRUCIFIX IS GRADUALLY VANISHING FROM OUR CHURCHES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/THE_CRUCIFIX_IS_GRADUALLY_VANISHING_FROM_OUR_CHURCHES.doc

NO CRUCIFIX BEHIND ALTAR IN BISHOP THOMAS DABRES CHURCHES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/NO_CRUCIFIX_BEHIND_ALTAR_IN_BISHOP_THOMAS_DABRES_CHURCHES.doc

QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 35-RESURREXIFIXES AND A STRANGE CROZIER One of a series of four

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_35-RESURREXIFIXES_AND_A_STRANGE_CROZIER.doc

DISTORTED CRUCIFIX INSTALLED AT ST MARYS CHURCH DUBAI-02 One of a series of four

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/DISTORTED_CRUCIFIX_INSTALLED_AT_ST_MARYS_CHURCH_DUBAI-02.doc

 

Fr. Pereira’s squatting-Mass “table” with the idol of the Hindu deity Nataraja in the background

Fr. Joe conducts Intense Kripa Foundation Iyengar Yoga in Frieburg

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/06/fr-joe-conducts-intense-kripafoundation.html

June 8, 2014


 

 

“After Every Yoga Practice Fr. Joe celebrates The Eucharist with the Group. This Eucharistic celebration was in Frieburg.”

 


 

This is both blasphemous and sacrilegious. Here he is on his yoga mat prior to setting up the table for Mass on the same site. I can confidently suppose that, as personally witnessed by me at “Masses” in the Catholic Ashrams, anyone, regardless of their religious affiliation or spiritual condition, may receive Holy Communion at Fr. Pereira’s Masses just so long as they practise yoga under his tutelage.

 

Squatting Indian rite Mass where yoga mats are the new pews

Says Fr. Joe to Catholics in Brazil -” You don’t need to leave the church to practice yoga.”

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/10/says-fr-joe-to-catholics-in-brazil-you.html

October 17, 2014



 

WAS JESUS A YOGI? SYNCRETISM AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE-ERROL FERNANDES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/WAS_JESUS_A_YOGI_SYNCRETISM_AND_INTERRELIGIOUS_DIALOGUE-ERROL_FERNANDES.doc

 


 

NBCLC-HARBINGER OF THE INDIAN RITE MASS AND LITURGICAL ABUSE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/NBCLC-HARBINGER_OF_THE_INDIAN_RITE_MASS_AND_LITURGICAL_ABUSE.doc

THE TWELVE POINTS OF ADAPTATION FOR THE INDIAN RITE MASS-WAS A FRAUD PERPETRATED ON INDIAN CATHOLICS?

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/THE_TWELVE_POINTS_OF_ADAPTATION_FOR_THE_INDIAN_RITE_MASS-WAS_A_FRAUD_PERPETRATED_ON_INDIAN_CATHOLICS.doc

THE PAGANISATION OF THE LITURGY IN INDIA-C B ANDRADE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/THE_PAGANISATION_OF_THE_LITURGY_IN_INDIA-C_B_ANDRADE.doc

 

 

 

 

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Images of Fr. Joe doing what he does best (apart from consorting with celebrities):



 

Is Jesus Christ a yogi, even the Supreme Yogi? Fr. Joe repeatedly asserts that He is (previous page).

Christ the Supreme Yogi
Article by Fr Joe in Times of India on 10th April 2009

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2009/04/christ-supreme-yogi-article-by-fr-joe.html

April 12, 2009

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Christ-the-supreme-yogi/articleshow/4382443.cms

When an Indian reads the gospels for the first time, one is impressed by the energy that radiates from the person of Jesus. William Johnston in his Mystical Theology says that it is a reminder of the `ki’ the `chi’, the prana, the energy that forms the very basis of Asian Culture and religion. Energy goes out of Jesus when he heals the sick and casts out demons. Light, blinding light, radiates from his body and clothing when he is transfigured on Mount Tabor.
On Good Friday, as we recall his last days on earth, as he says, “I am” in response to those who came to arrest him, the crowd falls to the ground overpowered by his
magnetic presence. And finally with a burst of energy he dies as recorded by the evangelists, “crying out with a loud voice, he yielded up the Spirit” (Mark 15, 37).

Those Christians who practise Iyengar Yoga as a path way to God and as contemplative prayer, do consider Jesus as a supreme example of a Yogi who claims that the “Father and I are One” and prays that we may be one as he and the Father. This journey is absolutely yogic. For his call to discipleship is, “if you wish to be my disciple, deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me”. It is a lifelong process like the grain of wheat that falls into the ground and dies to bear much fruit. When Bill W, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous described addiction as “self-will running riot” he was referring to the third step of the Twelve Step programme which suggests, “to make one’s will and life over to the God of one’s understanding”. In the Garden of Gethsemane, the prayer of Jesus was, “Father if it is possible let this chalice of suffering pass away but not my will but thine be done.”

The Supreme Sadhana is a way of the Cross. Iyengar always repeats his own journey of Yoga as “Pain being my Master”. It is by dying to oneself that one is born to eternal life. This energy is at work in the world even today. In the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, it is said that, “Christ is now at work in the hearts of men and women through the energy of the Spirit. But the greatest energy and the greatest gift is love. For “greater love than this no one has than to lay down one’s life for one’s loved ones”. And again, “If I speak in the language of mortals and angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong and clanging cymbal” (I Cor, 13, 1). For as St John tells us, “God is love”.

In the process of dying to oneself lies the pathway of forgiveness. In the world of growing individualism and self-righteousness, the path of forgiveness demands a supreme act of surrender. To extend this love and understanding even to one’s enemies by finding an alternative to “a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye” demands a unique sense of transcendence into the realm of the ‘Purusha’. It is only from that realm can one interpret the words of the crucified Jesus, “Father forgive them for they know not what they are doing.” Only an act of total ‘Ishvara-pranidhana’, the final ‘Niyama’ can generate the energy to utter such words of love at the height of agony. Paradoxically as a supreme yogi, Christ had entered into the final state of ‘Anandamaya-kosha’ (the blissful body) for his cry of forgiveness itself was a cry of Joy and Resurrection at the victory over sin and death.

As Fr Tony D’Mello
(sic) who often spoke like a Sufi Mystic would say, “If you `look’ at the serene countenance of the crucified Saviour, you may see a `laughing Buddha’!”

Fr. Joe Pereira’s narrative is chock full of New Age-ese. The Vatican Document of February 3, 2003, on the New Age explains this concept of cosmic energy, chi, ki, as esoteric and occult. In explain Christ’s miracles in such terms, the priest is denying the divinity and power of the Son of God. He even trivializes the mystery of the Trinity. How do the bishops let him get away with it? Wait to read his “homilies”!

 

Jesus is not, never was, a yogi. Briefly, a yogi is one who strives through renouncing the world (yama, niyama), physical contortions (asanas) at times using mantras, breathing of prana (pranayama), going inward through meditation on nothing, and ascends three higher stages finally uniting with an impersonal “god” into which he merges, with the “enlightenment that he and god are one. Jesus did none of that.

Fr. Pereira is a liar. So are all who claim or depict Jesus as a yogi.

 

 

Jesuit Fr. Tony de Mello was a virtual Buddhist at the time of his sudden and premature death.

FR ANTHONY DE MELLO-WRITINGS BANNED BY THE CHURCH

FR ANTHONY DE MELLO-WRITINGS BANNED BY THE CHURCH

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_ANTHONY_DE_MELLO-WRITINGS_BANNED_BY_THE_CHURCH.doc

 

Meeting the World Community of Christian Meditation (WCCM), in Brazil

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2009/10/meeting-world-community-of-christian.html

October 8, 2009

This post is included only to document the close alliance between KRIPA and WCCM. In Pereira, they merge.

 

This blog post is an advertisement for a book:

The Journey of a Priest – Book by Fr Bill

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2010/05/journey-of-priest-book-by-fr-bill.html

May 4, 2010

“Fr Bill” is Fr. William Whittier. Who is he?

[http://www.kripafoundation.org/Newsroom_Events.html:

A 5-Day Intensive Voice Dialogue training program was held at Kripa Foundation – Vasai from 5th to 9th May 2008. This program was conducted by Rev. Fr. William Whittier, U.S.A.

The program was based on the teachings of Hal Stone PhD and Sidra L. Stone PhD, U.S.A and touches upon the different personalities that rule a person’s life.

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-01-25T21%3A44%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7

INTENSIVE VOICE DIALOGUE TRAINING PROGRAM

Intensive Voice Dialogue Training Program
Date:
5th to 9th May 2008
Venue:
Guruji B.K. Iyengar Hall, Kripa Foundation, Vasai
Resource Person:
Rev. Fr. William O. Whittier
Participants: Counselors and Staff of Kripa Foundation centres in the Western Region (Pune, Andheri, Bandra, Vasai, Mangalore and Goa), Delhi and Imphal … A similar program was held in Imphal in the month of April 2008, and attended by staff from North-Eastern region. […]
]

 

He is WCCM. From www.camaldoli.it the web site of the Camaldoli Benedictines who are 100% New Age:

Welcome To Fr. Bill Whittier's Global Website
						

A Tribute to Bede Griffiths

I write this to share in the 10th anniversary of Bede Griffiths’ death as celebrated by the World Community for Christian Meditation at the University of Reading, England this August 2003.

http://www.wccm.org/BedeGriffiths.html 
Bede Griffiths and my life journey
 

EXTRACT: Forty five years ago Bede Griffiths touched my life when I was a young seminarian at the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. I read and reread his autobiography, The Golden String. Little did I know or he know that my life journey would take me from his inspiration to being open to Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Teilhard de Chardin, John Main, Thomas Merton, Bill W. and AA Spirituality, Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone and many others of this caliber.

His broadness of vision opened me to the essential core of all world religions and to see the unity at that core, a God who is love poured forth in the Cave of our Heart by the Holy Spirit as Paul teaches in Romans 5. I put this truth in different terms coming from the Hindu tradition. In the Upanishads they speak of the spirit of the One who created the universe as dwelling in our heart. This same spirit is the One who in silence is loving us all…

-Fr. Bill Whittier, Written at Assumption College, Manila, Philippines, April 24, 2003

 

Now, we know. Fr. Bill Whittier is part of the WCCM organization, a “Christian Meditator”, a disciple not only of John Main and Bede Griffiths, but also influenced by the teachings of the
Zen Buddhist

Thich Nhat Hanh, the world’s leading New Ager Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
,
Trappist monk Thomas Merton who was actually a proponent and Master of Zen meditation,

etc.

This New Age priest is training KRIPA staff who then contaminate others whom they treat in their centres; his book is advertised for and sold through KRIPA/Fr. Joe Pereira.

 

WCCM website Launched

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2010/05/wccm-website-launched.html

May 20, 2010

This link is included only to document the close alliance between KRIPA and WCCM. In Pereira, they merge.

 

 

 

 

 

Lecture by Fr Joe at St. Mary’s University – Calgary

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2010/10/lecture-by-fr-joe-at-stmarys-university.html

October 6, 2010

Fr Joe illustrated through his presentation and lecture how Bede Griffiths pioneered this spirit which made the Church fully at home in India’s culture and ethos. He explored how Bede and Mother Teresa’s approaches complemented each other and impacted the masses through their unique blend of contemplation and selfless service. Fr Joe highlighted how Bede Griffiths fostered genuine interfaith dialogue and shared his own personal encounters with people from different faiths.

Fr. Bede Griffiths OSB, a Camaldoli Benedictine, pioneered the heretical, New Age “Catholic” ashrams movement in India. His Indian rite “Masses” were travesties of the Holy Mass. Western New Agers lived in his Shantivanam, Saccidananda Ashram and some wrote their theses there. His legacy lives on in the Hinduisation of the Indian Church and inspires many like Fr. Joe Pereira.

 


CATHOLIC ASHRAMS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CATHOLIC_ASHRAMS.doc

CATHOLIC ASHRAMS AND THE CAMALDOLI BENEDICTINES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CATHOLIC_ASHRAMS_AND_THE_CAMALDOLI_BENEDICTINES.doc

 

Fr. Joe Pereira celebrates the birthday of Krishna, the avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu:

Gokul Ashtami celebrated at Kripa Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2011/08/gokul-ashtami-celebrated-at-kripa-vasai.html

August 25, 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna_Janmashtami:

Krishna Janmashtami also known as Krishnashtami or Gokulashtami, or sometimes simply as Janmashtami, is an annual celebration of the birth of the Hindu deity Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. (See page 9)

 

EAST MEETS WEST- Fr Joe teaches yoga to exchange students from Germany

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/02/fr-joe-teaches-yoga-to-exchange.html

February 1, 2012

 


Fr. Joe Pereira sporting the Hindu “OM” while doing yoga (See pages 7, 10)

The group was accompanied by Fr. Anthony Fernandes, Director of Vocation and Youth, Archdiocese of Bombay.

 

CARDINAL OSWALD GRACIAS SAYS THAT CATHOLICS MAY NOT CHANT THE OM MANTRA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CARDINAL_OSWALD_GRACIAS_SAYS_THAT_CATHOLICS_MAY_NOT_CHANT_THE_OM_MANTRA.doc

MANTRAS, ‘OM’ OR ‘AUM’ AND THE GAYATRI MANTRA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MANTRAS_OM_OR_AUM_AND_THE_GAYATRI_MANTRA.doc

 

 

 

 

Fr. Joe Pereira performs Hindu pooja

THE FESTIVAL OF HOLI -CELEBRATED AT KRIPA VASAI

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/03/festival-of-holi-celebrated-at-kripa.html

March 8, 2012

On 7th March, being Holi eve, a traditional pooja
was performed and the lighting of the Holi fire, amidst a gathering of In-house clients & Staff of Kripa Vasai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puja_(Hinduism):

Pooja is a prayer ritual performed by Hindus to host, honour and worship one or more deities, or to spiritually celebrate an event.

MAY CATHOLICS CELEBRATE THE FESTIVAL OF HOLI?

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MAY_CATHOLICS_CELEBRATE_THE_FESTIVAL_OF_HOLI.doc

 

Under the shadow of the “OM” and the Hindu kuthuvilakku or nilavilakku

Fr. Joe conducts a Multi-Faith prayer meeting for boat disaster victims-Assam

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/05/fr-joe-conducts-multi-faith-prayer.html

May 21, 2012

 


 

WHAT DOES THE KUTHU VILAKKU OIL LAMP SIGNIFY?

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/WHAT_DOES_THE_KUTHU_VILAKKU_OIL_LAMP_SIGNIFY.doc

CHARISINDIA ERRORS-10
USE OF KUTHU VILAKKU AT NATIONAL CHARISMATIC CONVENTION

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CHARISINDIA_ERRORS-10.doc

 

Announcing another pooja with pride. A pooja is a dedication to or propitiation of a deity or the invocation of a deity for the success of a venture. This is what Fr. Pereira participated in.

Bhoomi Pooja by Shri Raju Patil-Mayor of Vasai-Virar and Fr. Joe of Kripa Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/11/bhoomi-pooja-by-shri-raju-patil-mayor.html

November 29, 2012

 




 

The date, November 25, 2012, will remain a major landmark in Kripa Foundation’s 31 year history: On this Sunday, the blessing of the foundation’s latest project of Kripa Vasai Convention Centre (KVCC), was held at a multi-religious ceremony held at the construction site. The Mayor of Vasai-Virar Municipality, Shri. Raju Patil, the first person to hold this post, participated in the traditional Hindu ritual of breaking a coconut and invoking prayers for a successful execution of the 1st Phase of Construction called “Kripa Pharma” of the KVCC project. Fr. Joseph H Pereira, Founder Trustee, Kripa, blessed the construction site by sprinkling Holy Water amongst chanting of prayers.

 

Training with New Age Jungian techniques. Jung is world leading New Ager number two:

Fr. Joe organises a video conference with Dr. Ashok Bedi-Carl S. Jung Centre, US – for All India staff meet in Kripa

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/12/fr-joe-organises-video-conference-with.html

December 20, 2012

 

 

Carl Jung Institute and Kripa to enhance mutual cooperation for patients’ benefit

Kripa has a tie-up with the Carl S. Jung Institute in US, through Mumbai Jung Centre, India for cooperation in advanced psychoanalysis aimed at improving recovery of substance addicts. Dr. Snehal Mehta, Medical Director-Psychiatry, Kripa also participated in the videoconference.

Let me quote from the Vatican Document on the New Age:

2.3.2. The essential matrix of New Age thinking

The essential matrix of New Age thinking is to be found in the esoteric-theosophical tradition which was fairly widely accepted in European intellectual circles in the 18th and 19th centuries. …

Marilyn Ferguson devoted a chapter of The Aquarian Conspiracy to the precursors of the Age of Aquarius, those who had woven the threads of a transforming vision based on the expansion of consciousness and the experience of self-transcendence. Two of those she mentioned were the American psychologist William James and the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. James defined religion as experience, not dogma, and he taught that human beings can change their mental attitudes in such a way that they are able to become architects of their own destiny. Jung emphasized the transcendent character of consciousness and introduced the idea of the collective unconscious, a kind of store for symbols and memories shared with people from various different ages and cultures. According to Wouter Hanegraaff, both of these men contributed to a “sacralisation of psychology”, something that has become an important element of New Age thought and practice. Jung, indeed, “not only psychologized esotericism but he also sacralized psychology, by filling it with the contents of esoteric speculation. The result was a body of theories which enabled people to talk about God while really meaning their own psyche, and about their own psyche while really meaning the divine. If the psyche is ‘mind’, and God is ‘mind’ as well, then to discuss one must mean to discuss the other”. His response to the accusation that he had “psychologised” Christianity was that “psychology is the modern myth and only in terms of the current myth can we understand the faith”. It is certainly true that Jung’s psychology sheds light on many aspects of the Christian faith, particularly on the need to face the reality of evil, but his religious convictions are so different at different stages of his life that one is left with a confused image of God. A central element in his thought is the cult of the sun, where God is the vital energy (libido) within a person.

As he himself said, “This comparison is no mere play of words”. This is “the god within” to which Jung refers, the essential divinity he believed to be in every human being. The path to the inner universe is through the unconscious. The inner world’s correspondence to the outer one is in the collective unconscious.

The tendency to interchange psychology and spirituality was firmly embedded in the Human Potential Movement as it developed towards the end of the 1960s at the Esalen Institute in California. Transpersonal psychology, strongly influenced by Eastern religions and by Jung, offers a contemplative journey where science meets mysticism. The stress laid on bodiliness, the search for ways of expanding consciousness and the cultivation of the myths of the collective unconscious were all encouragements to search for “the God within” oneself. To realise one’s potential, one had to go beyond one’s ego in order to become the god that one is, deep down. This could be done by choosing the appropriate therapy – meditation, parapsychological experiences, the use of hallucinogenic drugs. These were all ways of achieving “peak experiences”, “mystical” experiences of fusion with God and with the cosmos.

 

3.5. The “god within” and “theosis”

Here is a key point of contrast between New Age and Christianity. So much New Age literature is shot through with the conviction that there is no divine being “out there”, or in any real way distinct from the rest of reality. From Jung‘s time onwards there has been a stream of people professing belief in “the god within”. Our problem, in a New Age perspective, is our inability to recognise our own divinity, an inability which can be overcome with the help of guidance and the use of a whole variety of techniques for unlocking our hidden (divine) potential. The fundamental idea is that ‘God’ is deep within ourselves. We are gods, and we discover the unlimited power within us by peeling off layers of inauthenticity.

 

Notes

In late 1977, Marilyn Ferguson sent a questionnaire to 210 “persons engaged in social transformation”, whom she also calls “Aquarian Conspirators”. The following is interesting: “When respondents were asked to name individuals whose ideas had influenced them, either through personal contact or through their writings, those most often named, in order of frequency, were Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
C.G.
Jung

And yet Fr. Joe Pereira engages Dr. Ashok Bedi for KRIPA staff two or three times every year.

 

Ceremonial lighting of the Hindu kuthuvilakku or nilavilakku replaces good old Catholic prayer.

Fr. Joe along with Archbishop Dr. Felix Machado Bishop of Vasai at the opening ceremony of the Programme in Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/02/fr-joe-at-opening-of-advent-programmes.html

February 16, 2013

The programme which is being held from February 17th 2013 to 10thMarch 2013, commenced today with the lighting of the lamp by
Archbishop (Dr.) Felix Machado
and prominent personalities from the Vasai Diocese including Fr. Joe Pereira, Sr. Anita Chettiyar, Sr. Clara Gonsalvis and Rev. Fr. Francis De Britto.

 

 

 

 



 

Catholic Priest teaching Yog in St. Jacob’s Church Zurich: Fr. Joe

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/06/catholic-priest-teaching-yog-in-st.html

June 5, 2013

Every Year Fr Joe H Pereira of Kripa Foundation teaches yog in Europe and gives a special teaching on Kripa Foundation Iyengar Yoga in Zurich.  This year the event on the evening of Monday 3rd June drew in a record crowd of a hundred yog practitioners from all over Switzerland at St. Jacob’s Church.

Fr. Joe demonstrated from the front of the altar and explained how some postures help to bring the brain into the ‘Alpha’ state* so that one is able to contemplate with full attention.

It is most extraordinary that a Catholic Priest is allowed to do this programme year after year in a Church and all the offerings are given fully to Kripa Foundation.

*Hypnosis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A352496

Today, scientists have begun studying hypnosis again, under the name ‘The Alpha State’. By attaching wires to the head they have discovered that there is a definite change in the functions of the brain when someone is induced into this state. These differ from sleep patterns and they therefore concluded that there is scientific proof of its existence, although they cannot fully explain it or the reasons why the brain should act in this manner.

Little wonder that many people are confused as to what it really is. Most experts cannot fully agree and so there is very little hope for the individual to be given any certainty about the subject.

 

Fr. Joe felicitated at the biggest Dahi Handi Festival in Vasai Virar- India

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/08/fr-joe-felicitated-at-biggest-dahi.html

August 30, 2013


 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna_Janmashtami:

Krishna Janmashtami also known as Krishnashtami or Gokulashtami, or sometimes simply as Janmashtami, is an annual celebration of the birth of the Hindu deity Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.

The festival is celebrated on the eighth day (Ashtami) of the Krishna Paksha (dark fortnight) of the month of Shravana (August–September) in the Hindu calendar.
Rasa lila, dramatic enactments of the life of Krishna, are a special feature in regions of 
Mathura and Vrindavan, and regions following Vaishnavism in Manipur. While the Rasa lila re-creates the flirtatious aspects of Krishna’s youthful days, the Dahi Handi celebrate God’s playful and mischievous side, where teams of young men form human towers to reach a high-hanging pot of curd and break it. (See also page 6)

Fr. Pereira’s blog also cites Wikipedia!

 

Fr. Joe conducts a WCCM weekend retreat in Brazil

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/10/fr-joe-conducts-wccm-weekend-retreat-in.html

October 1, 2013 (The crucified Jesus substituted with a Risen Christ image, see also page 2. KRIPA=WCCM)

 

 


 

 

A Jungian Experience -The Wounded Healer and Emerging Frontiers in Alcohol and Drug Addictions – A workshop by Dr. Ashok Bedi, M.D. and Dr. Dinshah Gagrat, M.D. along with Fr. Joe H Pereira

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/02/the-wounded-healer-and-emerging.html

February 26, 2014

A very edifying and prolific workshop was organized by The Jung Center Mumbai, The Kripa Foundation and the USA India Jung Foundation on “Emerging Frontiers in Addiction Treatment” on the February 3 and 4, 2014. […]

I stop with just this one more instance (see page 8) of the priest’s training his people in the use of New Age Jungian techniques at least twice in a year.

 

Fr. Joe conducts Intense Iyengar Yoga at YogaWest –Perth

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/04/fr-joe-conducts-intense-iyenar-yoga-at.html

April 17, 2014


The priest in the shadow of the ubiquitous “OM” (See pages 6, 7)

 

Come Join my Party….Signed Jesus. – Fr. Joe at Maundy Thursday Service @ Kripa Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/04/come-join-my-partysigned-jesus-fr-joe.html

April 18, 2014

The commemoration of the Sacraments of Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders is, for Fr. Joe Pereira, a PARTY!

 

Denying Jesus. All Gods are one (“the god of your understanding”) for the KRIPA gang:

Jesus was a Yogi – Fr. Joe’s Yoga workshop in Polish Magazine

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/05/jesus-was-yogi-fr-joes-yoga-workshop-in.html

May 21, 2014

And after putting his hands together in Namaste at the beginning and at the end of the yoga practice has the courage to say “Bow your head before the God of your understanding“. And sing the “Sarma Dharma Prarthana” prayer with invocations to Jesus, Buddha, Vishnu, Jahve…

Each day during hours of yoga practice we had the possibility to experience the phenomenon Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar is talking about: “Your body is a temple and asanas are prayers“.

We felt and understood the meaning of a sattvic practice – a practice that is balanced and harmonious. Integration of male and female energy, Yin and Yang…

Apart from his oft-repeated lie about Jesus’ being a yogi, Fr. Joe often repeats his Hindu guru’s assertion that the asanas of Hindu yoga are “prayers”. Maybe they are… but to the gods of the pagans.

 

“There is no resurrection and ascension without crucifixion”* – Says Fr. Joe

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/06/there-is-no-resurrection-and-ascension.html

June 5, 2014

“There is no resurrection and ascension without crucifixion” the priest repeated (sic) quote Eckhart Tolle**.

What is your crucifixion? What needs to die in you so that you can become a resurrection and ascension into heaven? Each of the workshop participants had the opportunity to answer these questions in asana, meditation and pranayama. ***

 

 

*If he believes in that truth, why does he use/permit the use/not object to the use of the Risen Christ without the Cross? Or the “Resurrexifix”?

**Eckhart Tolle
is New Age.

He is the author of The Power of Now, A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment published by Yogi Impressions.

Eckhart Tolle, the prophet of “now” once said that everyone carries “‘The Truth’ inside — all the joy, creativity, energy, love they seek,” Tolle writes in The New Earth. “Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.”
Source: Susan Brinkmann, Catholic writer, http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=9585.

Also see
http://www.christiananswersforthenewage.org/Articles_NewEarth.html
and
http://www.christiananswersforthenewage.org/Articles_NewEarthSpirituallyElite.html

***The priest uses the Gospel for perverse ends.

 

Fr. Joe speaks to a packed audience on Meditation at a Church in Rzeszow, Poland

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/06/fr-joe-speaks-to-packed-audience-on.html

June 5, 2014


 

The crowds were mesmerized as Fr. Joe spoke on Christian Meditation at a church in Rzeszow, Poland. The Dominican Fathers were so touched that they have even ask Fr. Joe to start Kripa Foundation Iyengar Yoga @ their Parish. It was estimated that there was more than 2500 people who attended this Meditation Conference to witness Fr. Joe speak…

JESUS THE YOGI TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THE CRUCIFIX!

 

Guruji’s passing – “Only his body has ended” – by Larissa McGoldrick (NELIYI representative)

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/08/gurujis-only-his-body-has-ended-by.html

August 23, 2014


I did acupuncture volunteer work at Kripa in 2009 and 2011…

Acupuncture is a New Age therapy. Vatican Document on the New Age #2.2.3

ACUPUNCTURE ACUPRESSURE SHIATSU REFLEXOLOGY-SUSAN BRINKMANN

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/ACUPUNCTURE_ACUPRESSURE_SHIATSU_REFLEXOLOGY-SUSAN_BRINKMANN.doc

ACUPUNCTURE, ACUPRESSURE, SHIATSU AND REFLEXOLOGY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/ACUPUNCTURE_ACUPRESSURE_SHIATSU_AND_REFLEXOLOGY.doc

ACUPUNCTURE AND MARTIAL ARTS-DR EDWIN A NOYES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/ACUPUNCTURE_AND_MARTIAL_ARTS-DR_EDWIN_A_NOYES.doc

 

Fr. Joe Pereira extols the Hindu elephant-god Ganesha during his homily:

Fr. Joe Celebrates His Birthday Mass

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/09/fr-joe-celebrates-his-birthday-mass.html

September 6, 2014

An excerpt from his homily:

Lokmanya Tilak … encouraged and fostered this concept of a flesh and blood God in Ganesh…Ganapati. And we are having these days the celebration of this Ganapati. He went further and advised, that this Ganesh, a so called flesh and blood kind of statue should be ultimately immersed in the sea. It has to be put into the ocean of the absolute.

 

New Age Jungian trash and major errors in his homily:

Sunday reflection by Fr. Joe @ Kripa Foundation Vasai- His Homily at Sunday Mass in Kripa Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/09/sunday-reflection-by-fr-joe-kripa.html

September 8, 2014

The world today, is not believing, that there is a freedom from this satanic grip of alcohol. And the one who gave us this formula was none other than the leading psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. He described this statement of Jesus in the Gospel “Where two or three are gathered in my name. I am there.” That is what Carl Gustav Jung gave a scientific name for it. You know what he called that? He called it “collective consciousness.” … “collective consciousness.

 

 

20% of alcoholics get the desire to die, and 2% of alcoholics actually kill themselves. This is a disease of Necrophilia. Necrosis is death, and therefore Necrophilia is love for to die.

As a matter of fact, it is the “collective unconscious” and not the “collective conscious”, see page 8.

And, necrophilia is not “love for to die” (sic) but “Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia, is a sexual attraction or sexual act involving corpseshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia.

This shows the priest’s ignorance as also his lack of serious commitment to preparing his homilies.

 

A Rich Tribute by Fr. Joe to Late Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar in Kripa’ latest Newsletter

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/10/a-rich-tribute-by-fr-joe-to-late.html

October 20, 2014

 


The Hindu kuthuvilakku or nilavilakku

 

The priest wears the sacred Hindu Tilak mark on his forehead

A Tribute to Guruji B.K.S Iyengar – By Fr. Joe in the “Afternoon” -Mumbai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/12/a-tribute-to-guruji-bks-iyengar-by-fr.html

December 3, 2014 Hindu

To me he was like Mother Teresa my one dimension of my spirituality. Like the Yin and Yang, Guruji and Mother were my ‘Ida’ and ‘Pingala’ Nadis. Jesus being my ‘Sushumna’ Nadi.

The Ida and Pingala nadis are often seen as referring to the two hemispheres of the brain. Pingala is the extroverted, solar nadi, and corresponds to left hemisphere. Ida is the introverted, lunar nadi, and refers to the right hemisphere of the brain. The Sushumna connects the base chakra to the crown chakra.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadi_(yoga)

According to the yogic scriptures, there are 72,000 nadis, or energy channels. Among them, ida, pingala, and sushumna are the most important.

Source:
https://sites.google.com/site/swamiramateachings/swami-rama-sushumna

The nadis and the sushumna are occult esoteric energy channels in the purported subtle body of a person.

The sushumna is awakened so that pranic energy flows upwards from the lowest chakra to the crown chakra, when one attains yogic enlightenment and god-realisation.

 

 


http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/04/fr-joe-reaches-out-to-poorest-of-poor.html

At St. Joseph Seva Sanghs Yashoda English medium school, Dhamori, April 3, 2015

BINDI OR TILAK MARK ON THE FOREHEAD-INDIAN OR HINDU?

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/BINDI_OR_TILAK_MARK_ON_THE_FOREHEAD-INDIAN_OR_HINDU.doc

 

Ossie returns to Kripa……Warm welcome by Fr. Joe

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/04/ossie-returns-to-kripaa-home-coming.html

April 3, 2015

 

 

 

Ossie was given a warm welcome by Fr. Joe, Kripa staff and patients at Kripa Vasai by the staff performing the traditional aarti amongst singing of Bhajans. Indeed a real home coming after he had gone in 2002

ARATI IN THE LITURGY-INDIAN OR HINDU?

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/ARATI_IN_THE_LITURGY-INDIAN_OR_HINDU.doc

 

 

TWISTS OF FAITH – In Mumbai, Fr. Joe a Catholic priest-yogi attacks Western propaganda against yoga

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/04/twists-of-faith-in-mumbai-fr-joe.html

By Aarefa Johari, April 8, 2015

Anti-yoga propaganda, says Pereira, is the work of a specific lobby of fundamentalist, “born-again” Christians who he describes as “God addicts”.

That should include Cardinal Ratzinger, several Pontifical Councils, not a few exorcists and a number of Catholic ministries including EWTN. But Pereira goes instead for the Protestants:

“Jesus, for me, is the supreme yogi, because he spoke about being one with God,” said Pereira, who emphasizes that Iyengar yoga transcends all ideologies and philosophies with its ability to unite people. Just this year, Pereira published a book called Yoga for the Practice of Christian Meditation, connecting the practice of various yoga asanas to teachings from the Bible.

Christian denominations like the Pentecostals, the Southern Baptist churches in the US and various television evangelists – the groups that routinely oppose the practice of yoga – are highly fundamentalist “God addicts” who Pereira likens to the Hindutva Bajrang Dal or the Islamist Al-Qaeda. “All these groups preach the prosperity gospel – the idea that if you follow the gospel, you will prosper,” said Pereira. “They are only in it for the money and power.”

And he isn’t?

 

In June 5, 2014, it was YOGA (see page 11). A year later, it’s WCCM meditation.

Fr. Joe starts WCCM in Rzeszow Poland

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/05/fr-joe-starts-wccm-in-rzeszow-poland.html

May 20, 2015

During his visit in Poland, Fr. Joe started WCCM in Rzeszow. The demand to be at a WCCM was so high that there we people who came from far as Krakow and Wroclaw to attend and learn John Main teachings.

 

Fr. Joe’s Christmas Greetings to You in latest Kripa Newsletter

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/12/fr-joes-christmas-greetings-to-you-in.html

December 19, 2015



Traditional Ayurvedic treatment
is Hindu and New Age.

AYURVEDA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AYURVEDA.doc

AYURVEDA AND YOGA-DR EDWIN A NOYES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AYURVEDA_AND_YOGA-DR_EDWIN_A_NOYES.doc

AYUSH-THE NEW AGE DANGERS OF

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AYUSH_THE_NEW_AGE_DANGERS_OF.doc

AYURVEDIC REMEDIES CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR HEALTH

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AYURVEDIC_REMEDIES_CAN_BE_DANGEROUS_FOR_HEALTH.doc

AYURVEDIC REMEDIES CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR THE SOUL

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AYURVEDIC_REMEDIES_CAN_BE_DANGEROUS_FOR_THE_SOUL.doc

 

Fr. Joe brings color into their lives…@ Kripa on Holi – The festival of colors

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/03/fr-joe-brings-color-into-their-lives.html

March 6, 2015

 

 

 



See page 7.

Fr. Joe Pereira is careful not to get colour on himself.

 

Fr. Antonio Couto of St. Inez Church, Panjim, Goa

Fr. Joe conducts a WCCM meditation on Contemplative Prayer @ St, Inez church, Panjim, & 4 days Kripa Foundation Iyengar Yoga

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/03/fr-joe-conducts-wccm-meditation-on.html

March 21, 2015

KRIPA yoga complements WCCM meditation


At the end of the program the Parish priest Fr. Antonio Couto mentioned that till date he had a reservation on meditation and yoga, but after listening to Fr. Joe he says he would encourage his parishioners to practice and embrace the “Prayer of the Heart”. This outreach to the parishioners of St Inez could not be possible without the support of Fr. Antonio Couto.

 

There’s more in the above New Age-Hinduisation category in the file noted immediately below and also at FR JOE PEREIRA YOGA GURU CELEBRATES NAVRATRI AND GANESHOTSAV*. *See page 27

***

In the file WCCM-NEW AGE CHRISTIAN MEDITATION INSTITUTIONALIZED IN BOMBAY ARCHDIOCESE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/WCCM-NEW_AGE_CHRISTIAN_MEDITATION_INSTITUTIONALIZED_IN_BOMBAY_ARCHDIOCESE.doc, we have seen the names of around 90 individuals (Cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests and lay persons) who patronise Fr. Pereira, KRIPA and the WCCM. Here are several more (a few might be repeats) documented in the KRIPA blog:

 

Bishop Anthony Fernandes of Bareilly

Kripa turns gold and beyond

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2009/04/kripa-turns-gold-and-beyond.html

April 26, 2009


 

 

The 50th centre for Kripa Foundation was inaugurated by Rt. Rev. Bishop Anthony Fernandes on the 16th of April 2009 … which is being headed by Fr. Joseph Topno.

 

Papal Envoy Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Apostolic Nuncio Salvatore Pennacchio nuntius@apostolicnunciatureindia.com, Cardinal Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay

Papal Envoy Visit

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2011/02/papal-envoy-visit.html

February 7, 2011



On the occasion of the Papal envoy’s visit to Bandra, they were met by Msgr. Nereus Rodrigues, Rector of the Basilica (St. Mary’s) and Fr Joe.

 

Auxiliary Bishop Agnelo Gracias of Bombay

Thank You His Lordship Bishop Agnelo Gracias- A letter of appreciation

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2011/05/thank-you-his-lorship-bishop-agnelo.html

May 6, 2011


 

All the diocesan priests of India together

Fr. Joe receives CPCI National Excellence Award to Priest

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2011/12/fr-joe-receives-cpci-national.html

December 8, 2011

 

 


The Catholic Priests’ Conference of India, a voluntary association of diocesan priests in India, bestowed upon Fr. Joe H Pereira and 4 other priests from different dioceses of India the “National Excellence Award” at their Colloquium on “Good Governance, Corruption and Citizenry” headed by Justice N. Santosh Hegde on 30th November 2011 at Platinum Jubilee Hall Dolours’ Basilica (Puthenpali), Thrissur.

Fr. Jacob received the award on his behalf.

 

Bishop Anthony Fernandes of Bareilly

Fr. Joe and the Kripa Family sends Birthday greetings to Rt. Rev Bishop Anthony Fernandes

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/07/fr-joe-and-kripa-family-sends-birthday.html

July 6, 2012


 

Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes SJ of Gandhinagar

His Grace Most Rev. Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes visits Kripa Bandra

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/07/his-grace-most-rev-archbishop.html

July 6, 2012



His Grace Archbishop Most Rev. Stanislaus Fernandes of Gandhinagar, visited Fr. Joe on a stopover journey to Rome.

 

Fr. Norbert De Souza

Fr. Joe preaches for the youth of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Kalyan West-“Youth and the Church”

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/09/fr-joe-preaches-for-youth-of-our-lady.html

September 1, 2012

 


 

 

Fr. Vincent Vaz annesparish@gmail.com

Fr. Joe conducts a WCCM programme on Contemplative Prayer at St. Anne’s Church, Mazagaon, Mumbai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/12/fr-joe-conducts-on-contemplative-prayer.html

December 10, 2012


This man in civilian clothing at the ambo of St. Anne’s (fully vested priest in background) at Mass is parish priest Fr. Vincent Vaz

 

St. Anne’s Church in Mazagaon, Mumbai, will become the first church in the city to contemplative prayer, parish priest Fr. Vincent Vaz, SJ, said here on Saturday … At today’s programme, Fr. Joseph H. Pereira, National Coordinator, World Community of Christian Meditators (WCCM)
trained parishioners and clergymen on the teaching of Christian meditation.

[He] gave attendees a demo on chanting the word ‘Ma-ra-na-tha’. In his homily, Fr. Joe focused on the readings from the Biblical chapters, Baruch, Philippians and Luke while explaining the exact translation and meaning of the phrase ‘Metanoia’- which is composed of Greek words ‘Meta (beyond) and ‘Noia’ (Mind).

The event concluded with Fr. Vincent thanking Fr. Joe for sharing his valuable experience and time and later announced the introduction of Contemplative Prayer of WCCM at St. Anne Church when it reopens. The programme ended with Fr. Joe conducting a meditation session after the mass, sending the congregation home more enlightened about Christian Meditation.

 

Archbishop Felix Machado of Vasai

Fr. Joe host annual children party at Kripa Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/01/fr-joe-host-annual-children-party-at.html

January 9, 2013



 

Archbishop Felix Machado of Vasai

Fr. Joe along with Archbishop Dr. Felix Machado Bishop of Vasai at the opening ceremony of the Programme in Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/02/fr-joe-at-opening-of-advent-programmes.html

February 16, 2013

The programme which is being held from February 17th 2013 to 10thMarch 2013, commenced today with the lighting of the lamp by
Archbishop (Dr.) Felix Machado

 

Apostolic Nuncio Salvatore Pennacchio, Cardinal Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay

Fr. Joe at the Vatican Embassy – New Delhi

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/02/fr-joe-at-vatican-embassy-new-delhi.html

February 27, 2013




 

 

Archbishop Felix Machado of Vasai

Fr. Joe works with Persuasion and Compassion – Says Archbishop (Dr.) Felix Machado @ the release of the 24 hours a day book in Marathi

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/01/fr-joe-works-with-persuasion-and.html

January 3, 2014



(L) The book “24 Hours a Day” is a good book for alcoholics (R) The omnipresent Hindu kuthuvilakku lamp

 

Cardinal Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay

Breaking News – His Eminence Oswald Cardinal Gracias visits Kripa Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/04/breaking-news-his-emmence-oswald.html

April 21, 2014


 

Bishop Oswald Lewis of Jaipur cathdiocesejaipur@yahoo.in, bposwaldlewis@gmail.com

Rt. Rev. Bishop Oswald Joseph Lewis – Bishop of Jaipur Diocese Visits Fr. Joe and Kripa Mumbai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/05/rt-rev-bishop-oswald-joseph-lewis.html

May 5, 2014


 

Bishop Oswald Lewis of Jaipur

Walking Hand in Hand in the footsteps of the Lord

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/05/walking-hand-in-hand-in-footsteps-of.html

May 5, 2014

Rt. Rev Bishop Oswald Joseph Lewis celebrated the 6.30 am mass at Mount Carmel Church, Bandra Mumbai, concelebrated with Fr. William Athaide, Parish Priest Mount Carmel Church and Fr. Joe H Pereira, Founder Managing Trustee of Kripa Foundation

 

Bishop Oswald Lewis of Jaipur

Rt. Rev Bishop Oswald Joseph Lewis visits Fr. Joe and his work at Kripa Foundation Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/05/rt-rev-bishop-oswald-joseph-lewis_20.html

May 20, 2014

 


The Bishop, it appears, is never robed for his pastoral work (see also previous page)

 

Fr. William Athaide of Mount Carmel Church, Bandra

Fr. Joe felicitated by Mount Carmel Church – Bandra

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/07/fr-joe-felicitated-by-mount-carmel.html

July 5, 2014


Parish Priest Fr. William Athaide felicitating Fr. Joe Pereira

 

Fr. Barthol Baretto of Immaculate Conception Church, Borivili

Fr. Joe speaks to 168 Confirmation Students from the Church of Immaculate Conception, Borivili

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/08/fr-joe-speaks-to-168-confirmation.html

August 4, 2014


Parish Priest Fr. Barthol Baretto felicitating Fr. Joe Pereira

 

Bishop Valerian D’Souza (now emeritus) of Poona

Wishing Fr. Joe & Kripa Pune a Happy Anniversary – The Inauguration 15 years ago

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/08/wishing-fr-joe-kripa-pune-happy.html

August 23, 2014



 

 

View
Bishop John Rodrigues (Bishop-in-Charge of overseeing the work of the WCCM)
address @ Kripanite2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0iDvC461Ek&feature=youtu.be

September 1, 2014

 

Auxiliary Bishop John Rodrigues of Bombay

Celebrating 33 years of Kripa

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2014/09/celebrating-33-years-of-kripa.html

September 1, 2014


 

Archbishop Felix Machado of Vasai

Fr. Joe hosts the annual Christmas Party for Orphanage and Children Living with HIV/AIDS at Kripa Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/02/the-christmas-season-heralds-birth-of.html

February 16, 2015



 

Fr. Antonio Couto, Parish Priest of St. Inez Church, Panjim

Fr. Joe conducts a WCCM meditation on Contemplative Prayer @ St. Inez church, Panjim, & 4 days Kripa Foundation Iyengar Yoga

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/03/fr-joe-conducts-wccm-meditation-on.html

March 21, 2015


At the end of the program the Parish priest Fr. Antonio Couto mentioned that till date he had a reservation on meditation and yoga, but after listening to Fr. Joe he says he would encourage his parishioners to practice and embrace the “Prayer of the Heart”. This outreach to the parishioners of St Inez could not be possible without the support of Fr. Antonio Couto.

 

Bishop Ivan Pereira of Jammu-Srinagar bishopjammu@gmail.com, frivanp@gmail.com, frivanp@yahoo.co.in

Rt. Rev Bishop Ivan Pereira -Bishop of Jammu- Srinagar visits Kripa Vasai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/05/rt-rev-bishop-ivan-pereira-bishop-of.html

May 14, 2015


Yesterday Rt. Rev. Bishop Ivan Pereira, the 3rd Bishop of Jammu- Srinagar visited Kripa Vasai

 

Auxiliary Bishop Agnelo Gracias of Bombay

Kripafoundation Iyengar Yoga™ Celebrates Yoga for Addiction Recovery – by Fr. Joe

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/06/kripafoundation-iyengar-yoga-celebrates.html

June 28, 2015


Kripafoundation Iyengar Yoga™ of Kripa Foundation™ organised an evening of Celebrating Yoga for Addiction at St. Andrew’s auditorium, Bandra Mumbai on the 23rd of June 2015.

This was one of the continuous programs held by Fr. Joe to celebrate International Yoga Day. The program commenced with a prayer dance by Chaya Khanwate and troupe … this was followed by a brief address by Fr. Joe and later the keynote address by
chief guest Auxiliary Bishop Agnelo GraciasBishop Agnelo Gracias also released the book on yoga by Mariam (Mimi) Batlivala tilted “The Grace & Compassion of Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar”.

 

Bishop Aleixo das Neves Dias SFX of Port Blair portblaircathdiocese@gmail.com, aldasneves@gmail.com

Fr. Joe at the first catecheses in Rome. News desk

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2016/09/fr-joe-at-first-catechisis-in-rome.html

September 3, 2016


 

Auxiliary Bishop Agnelo Gracias of Bombay;

Fr. Cajetan Menezes,
Director of the Apostolate for the Family, Snehalaya, Mumbai

director@gmail.com; famco.bombay@gmail.com;

Fr. Joe awarded the Sr. Annunciata RGS Pro-life Award at the hands of Rt. Rev. Bishop Agnelo Gracias – Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/03/fr-joe-awarded-sr-anunciata-rgs-pro.html

March 23, 2013

 

 


 

The Diocesan Human Life Committee, which included Fr. Cajetan Menezes,
Managing Trustee of Snehalaya Family Service Centre, Mahim, Mumbai, actually bestowed on Fr. Joe Pereira a prestigious pro-life award “
in recognition of his commitment to the Gospel of Life and in appreciation of his uncompromising defense of the sacredness of human life“.

Fr. Cajetan Menezes was one of the seven Latin Rite participants at the 2014 Synod on the Family along with Cardinal Oswald Gracias!

Source: http://visnews-en.blogspot.in/2014/09/participants-in-synod.html

 

Fr. Cajetan Menezes, Director of the Archdiocesan Family Commission, Bombay



 

And he does not respond to correspondence addressed to him in his official capacity:

1. From: michaelprabhu@vsnl.net To: director@gmail.com

Subject: “Law of graduality: living with the imperfect” by Fr. Thomas Reese SJ.

Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:05:27 +0530

Dear Fr. Cajetan Menezes, Director, Snehalaya, Mumbai,
We are informed that in the Family Link, the bulletin of the Archdiocesan Family Commission, Mumbai, Vol. 13, no. 2 of December 2014, you have published an article titled “Law of graduality: living with the imperfect” by Fr. Thomas Reese SJ.

I am certain that you must be aware that Fr. Reese is a dissenting theologian who has had a run-in with Rome on a few occasions and he is in the “progressive” camp on the issues that have been and are to be taken up at the Synods on the Family (October 2014 and October 2015).

Since you are on the national level committee of five persons that has been constituted by the CCBI to gather information, feedback and responses to the Synod-related, Questionnaire from the faithful and religious, we were wondering if you had realized the consequences of the mal-influence that Fr. Reese’s article could have on individuals especially since his arguments in favour of the “Law of graduality” are not compatible with Catholic orthodoxy?

Since Family Link is the journal of the Bombay Archdiocesan Family Commission, does the inclusion of the article in its December issue mean that the Archdiocese of Bombay concurs with the liberal views of Fr. Reese?
I would like to hear your views on the matter.
Thanking you, Michael

2. From: michaelprabhu@vsnl.net
To: agnelorg@gmail.com; CC: director@gmail.com

Subject: Fw: “Law of graduality: living with the imperfect” by Fr. Thomas Reese SJ.

Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:11:56 +0530

Dear Bishop Agnelo,
Fr. Cajetan Menezes has not deigned to respond to the clarification sought by me in my communication of 5 days ago, see below.

 

 

From my enquiries, I understand that you are the publisher of Family Link and
Fr. Menezes heads the Family Link team.
I hope that you will clarify both, Family Link’s and the Bombay Archdiocese’s stand on the matter.
Michael Prabhu

 

To: famco.bombay@gmail.com, agnelorg@gmail.com, director@gmail.com

Subject: MY THIRD LETTER, SECOND REMINDER PLEASE: “Law of graduality: living with the imperfect” by Fr. Thomas Reese SJ. Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:06:29 +0530

Dear Bishop Agnelo and Fr. Cajetan Menezes,
Kindly respond.
Michael Prabhu

 

Another incident concerning Fr. Cajetan Menezes:

From: zeziesodder@hotmail.com Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:39:17 +0000

Subject: FW: YOUR EMINENCE HAS THE SEAL OF CONFESSION BEEN BROKEN?

YOUR EMINENCE CARDINAL OSWALD GRACIAS,

I AM FORWARDING YOU AN ARTICLE THAT APPEARED IN THE MUMBAI MIRROR, COULD YOU ADVISE ME IF THE SEAL OF CONFESSION HAS BEEN BROKEN.

IF IT WAS BROKEN WILL YOU TRANSFER THE CONCERNED PRIEST IMMEDIATELY, SO IT SETS AN EXAMPLE TO OTHER PRIESTS THAT THE ARCHDIOCESE BELIEVES IN NO NONSENSE AND THAT YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE.

JOSEPH SODDER, Advocate, Mumbai

 

From:
zeziesodder@hotmail.com
To:
Cardinal Ivan Dias
servus@urbaniana.edu, etc. Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:35:48 +0000
Subject: YOUR EMINENCE HAS THE SEAL OF CONFESSION BEEN BROKEN?
Has the seal of the confessional been broken?

Posted on March 21, 2015
by The Voice Of Bombay’s Catholic Laity

Most boys saw pornography first in class V – Mumbai Mirror –

And most schoolgirls saw porn first in class VII. The survey covered 16 of the city’s parishes and 7 colleges.

The Snehalaya Family Service Centre of the Archdiocese of Bombay under its director Fr. Cajetan Menezes conducted a survey of the porn viewing habits of two groups of people in 16 of the city’s parishes and seven of its colleges said the Mumbai Mirror of 20th March, 2015. 

Does the Cardinal approve of such a survey being made public and thus exposing the young Catholic boys and girls to suspicion and stalking from people of other communities? Our community has been made vulnerable for personal gain and media attention! 

Has not Fr. Cajetan Menezes acted ultra vires and thus abused his powers as a priest and made use of a church institution to seek out information that are meant for the confessional and made it public in the secular media? 

How many years has he completed in Snehalaya FSC and why has he been encouraged for so long in this position?  Will the Bishops act against such abuse? 

Many have called up to say that they can no longer trust the priests now to keep things secret: how did Nisha D’Costa as quoted by the Mumbai Mirror, come to know that faithful are seeking forgiveness in confession? “According to her (i.e. Nisha D’Costa), the exercise was prompted by, among other reasons, increasing instances of the faithful seeking forgiveness in the confessional for having watched porn on mobile phones or computers” – quote from Mumbai Mirror  

The buck may stop at you Cardinal Oswald Gracias, because in your recent statement on the rape, in the 1.36th minute you spoke about giving women equal opportunities in position of responsibility: “Could it be that under the garb of research you are allowing women to sit in the confessionals or could this be the beginning of the abuse” 

Fr.  Conrad Saldanha has already pointed out about how an attempt was made to break the seal of confession.
It is high time action is taken on such serious issues otherwise people will lose faith.

A. M. Sodder, Advocate, Mumbai

 

IS YOGA BEING TAUGHT AND ACCEPTED BY THE CHURCH IN MUMBAI?

By The Voice Of Bombay’s Catholic Laity, November 14, 2011 at 1:49 am

Is yoga being taught and accepted by the Church in Mumbai?

Is Yoga taught and also encouraged as a way of life for the priesthood?

Are there priest staff members who are deeply into yoga and have been often found frequenting a Buddhist centre at Igatpuri for Vipassana where one is not allowed to say the daily mass, or recite any Christian prayer or practice any devotion and where carrying of any form of spiritual articles is discouraged?

 

Are seminarians hoarded together under compulsion to such programmes in the name of retreats?

There are priests who even teach yoga in parishes, like Fr. Vincent Pereira at Amboli. It is gathered that there are some who go to the USA to regularly for conducting yoga classes. Fr. Evan D’Souza, Fr. Patrick D’Mello, Fr Felix Rebello from Panvel, Fr. Rudolph Andrades, are priests who promote the cause of yoga and vipassana and other New Age methodologies. Some are even earning dollars and rupees from yoga.

A priest-run foundation* is heavily intoxicated with yoga. The said priest claims BKS Iyengar to be his Guru rather than Jesus. The Archdiocese has done nothing to rein in this priest all because there has been a nexus between the Bishops and him. *Fr. Joe Pereira, Kripa Foundation**

The ultimate question is this:

1) What is lacking in Catholic spirituality that we are finding solace in these spiritualities?

2) Are we ordaining priests to promote yoga and eastern techniques or to proclaim the Gospel?

The most notorious are the Jesuits and SVD religious orders who have been unrestrictedly promoting them.

Priests who have opposed such contamination are marked out and isolated without any dialogue while on the other hand the Church has been promoting such syncretism in the name of dialogue.

The following is the list of visiting professors at the St. Pius Seminary Goregaon from its official website.

VISITING PROFESSORS

(The list of visiting professors contains 55 names, 8 of who are associated with KRIPA/WCCM. That’s an astounding 14%. They are🙂

Fr. Joseph H. Pereira: Counselling

Bishop Agnelo Gracias: Systematic Theology

Fr. Nigel Barrett: Communication Media
Fr. Barthol Barretto: Spiritual Direction & Homiletics
Fr. Anthony Charanghat: Mass Media Communications
Mr. Joe Cordo: Mass Media Communications (He produces films on Fr. Joe Pereira. See further below.)
Fr. Anthony J. Fernandes: Pastoral Ministry (Youth Animation), Director of Vocation and Youths, Archdiocese of Bombay
Fr. Cajetan Menezes*: Pastoral Counselling
*Fr. Cajetan Menezes is on the “guiding board” of Kripa Foundation of Fr. Joe Pereira.

Source: http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/04/fr-joe-announces-new-guiding-board-of.html

 

Just for the record, at least two more of the “visiting professors” are yoga gurus:

Fr. Patrick D’Mello: Inter-Personal Skills, Pastoral Ministry (SCCs & BHCs)

Ms. Juliet D’Souza: Yoga

 

The entire system of the Catholic Church in India is rotten — with yoga – and Fr. Joe Pereira plays a leading role in it in the Archdiocese of Bombay, in Vasai… and beyond.

 

****

 

Fr. Joe speaking about Yoga – A Film by Joe Cordo

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/06/fr-joe-speaking-about-yoga-flim-by-joe.html

http://youtu.be/wL1Jr4ZyECo

June 20, 2015

In the film, Fr. Joe Pereira speaks of “oneness with the Originating Principle. You can call it god, here it is their True Self.” 02:38

When you find yourself, you find god. 03:55

 

More videos that throw insight into Fr. Joe Pereira and his belief system

Guruji B.K.S Iyengar on Kripa Foundation and Fr. Joe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIA8XDVs1eA

September 10, 2011

 

Fr. Joe’s 71st Birthday Celebration at Mount Carmel Church Hall, Bandra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXocWWR7qoc

September 13, 2013

One can see that Fr. Joe Pereira is literally worshipped by Catholic laity. People stoop to touch his feet.

 

Fr. Joe Live on CNN IBN TV News Channel

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/07/fr-joe-live-on-cnn-ibn-tv-news-channel.html

www.kripafoundation.org/frjoecnnibn.avi

 

*****

Remembering Fr. Laurence Freeman OSB on his Birthday- Fr. Joe & the WCCM Community in India

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/07/fr-joe-and-wccm-india-remembering-fr.html

July 17, 2013


 

A Tribute to Fr. John Main OSB – A report by Fr Laurence Freeman OSB

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2012/12/tribute-to-fr-john-main-osb-report-by.html

December 31, 2012

 

Fr. Laurence Freeman OSB visits Fr. Joe & Kripa Mumbai

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2013/01/fr-laurence-freeman-osb-visits-fr-joe.html

January 9, 2013

Dom Laurence Freeman
OSB
is a monk of the Olivetan Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto Maggiore and Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation … He is the Director of the WCCM Benedictine Oblate Community.

 



In the violet-coloured shirt is one
Fr. Terrance Murray. In blue is Fr. Freeman. Notice that most of the priests whose photographs are copied in this file do not wear their clerical dress.

 

Fr. Joe with the WCCM Krakow, Poland- Community Post Conference

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/05/fr-joe-with-wccm-karkow-poland.html

May 22, 2015

At the recently concluded conference, the community was filled and soaked with the teaching of John Main OSB and Fr. Laurence Freeman OSB.

 

As I mentioned on page 1, according to an August 17, 2011 letter from the Benedictine Abbot Primate Dr. Notker Wolf OSB, the current leader Fr. Laurence Freeman of the WCCM is NO LONGER A BENEDICTINE
MONK though Fr. Joe Pereira and Christopher Mendonca
continue to use his name with the OSB suffix.

 

 

 

Our work in the field of Addiction says it all. Fr Joe clears misconceptions about Yoga. In The Examiner & Mi Marathi Newspaper

http://kripafoundation.blogspot.in/2015/06/our-work-in-field-of-addiction-says-it.html
EXTRACT

June 20, 2015

Through the practice of Christian Meditation, the special book and DVD of Yoga for the practice of Christian Meditation is now in over 120 countries. The Catholic Church in India has always used this ancient science for prayer and Meditation. Just as while adopting the Pentecostal renewal the Catholic Church maintains certain cautions, in a similar way we must use our discretion in not identifying the therapeutic use of yoga with a whole lot of misguided use of this ancient practice.

Lies! Fabrication!

The Church has never “used this ancient science for prayer and Meditation“.

The Church has never “adopt(ed) the Pentecostal renewal“. It was a spontaneous occurrence. One can adopt a ritual or observance but not a spiritual practice that often is accompanied by scientifically inexplicable phenomena.

In and through the body the addict is made to live the teaching of Jesus that true discipleship is a matter of “denying one’s self”, taking up the cross of Reality and being faithful in following the programme one day at a time.

A distortion of Jesus’ exhortation to take up one’s cross of suffering and follow Him.

 

I have read as well as heard several of Fr. Joe Pereira’s homilies. They sicken me. He can rarely if ever deliver a homily, no matter what the readings and Gospel of the day are, without bringing in his Hindu yoga guru Iyengar and or Mother Teresa (ad nauseam is the correct expression; he likes to point out that she died on September 5, 1997, a few hours before the day of his birth anniversary), referring to leading New Ager Carl Jung or Hinduist theologians like Raimundo Panikkar and the like. There is very little, if at all, mention of Christ and the True Gospel. If there is such, it is grossly distorted and misinterpreted to bolster his pet themes of yoga spirituality, charismatic-bashing, the alleged sanction in Vatican Council II Documents of the need to adopt and adapt from other spiritualities, and the great importance of liberating people from drugs and alcohol abuse. While one cannot but agree that he the priest is doing a commendable thing in combating substance abuse, the end does not justify the means. I have never once heard him say or write a word about the eternal salvation of the souls for which Jesus suffered horribly and died on the cross. He simply cannot do that because he is so preoccupied with presenting Jesus as the “Supreme Yogi” or preaching on the god within, by whichever name we may want to call it (this is so as not to offend his clientele who are mostly Western pagans and ignorant, lapsed or syncretized Catholics.)

Fr. Joe Pereira is by far the most highly decorated and awarded Indian priest by the Government of India, by the Church in India, and in the West. He was awarded the fourth highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri, in 2009, “for his contributions to society”.

But it all comes to nothing if his name is not inscribed in the Book of Life (Revelation 3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12, 20:15, 21:27, etc.)

The alternative is… THE LAKE OF FIRE!

Those who encourage, endorse, felicitate and facilitate the errors of Fr. Joe Pereira, the WCCM and KRIPA might do well to seriously meditate (and that’s not intended to be a pun!) on that.

 

RELATED FILES

FR JOE PEREIRA-KRIPA FOUNDATIONWORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION
OCTOBER 2005/SEPTEMBER 2007/AUGUST 2009/JULY/OCTOBER 2012/JULY 2013

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA-KRIPA_FOUNDATION-WORLD_COMMUNITY_FOR_CHRISTIAN_MEDITATION.doc

FR JOE PEREIRA-KRIPA FOUNDATIONWORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION-LETTERS TO THE BISHOPS AND THEIR RESPONSES MAY 2009

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA-KRIPA_FOUNDATION-WORLD_COMMUNITY_FOR_CHRISTIAN_MEDITATION-LETTERS_TO_THE_BISHOPS_AND_THEIR_RESPONSES.doc

FR JOE PEREIRA-KRIPA FOUNDATION/WCCM-NEW AGE ENDORSED BY THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOMBAY AND THE CBCI 28 NOVEMBER 2013

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA-KRIPA_FOUNDATION-NEW_AGE_ENDORSED_BY_THE_ARCHDIOCESE_OF_BOMBAY_AND_THE_CBCI.doc

INSTITUTIONALIZED NEW AGE IN BOMBAY ARCHDIOCESE-HOMOEOPATHY, YOGA AND KRIPA FOUNDATION
11
JULY 2014

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/INSTITUTIONALIZED_NEW_AGE_IN_BOMBAY_ARCHDIOCESE-HOMOEOPATHY_YOGA_AND_KRIPA_FOUNDATION.doc

MANTRAS YOGA WCCM CHRISTIAN MEDITATION ETC-EDDIE RUSSELL FEBRUARY 2015

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MANTRAS_YOGA_WCCM_CHRISTIAN_MEDITATION_ETC-EDDIE_RUSSELL.doc

 

 

 

WORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION-A. I.
18 NOVEMBER 2015

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/WORLD_COMMUNITY_FOR_CHRISTIAN_MEDITATION-A_I.doc

WCCM-NEW AGE CHRISTIAN MEDITATION INSTITUTIONALIZED IN BOMBAY ARCHDIOCESE 20 SEPTEMBER 2016

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/WCCM-NEW_AGE_CHRISTIAN_MEDITATION_INSTITUTIONALIZED_IN_BOMBAY_ARCHDIOCESE.doc

 

FR JOE PEREIRA SUPPORTED BY HIS BISHOPS CONTINUES TO MOCK AT CATHOLICS
APRIL 2015

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA_SUPPORTED_BY_HIS_BISHOPS_CONTINUES_TO_MOCK_AT_CATHOLICS.doc

FR JOE PEREIRA-PLANS YOGA EVENT SPARKS DEBATE
16 JUNE/23 JULY 2015

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA-PLANS_YOGA_EVENT_SPARKS_DEBATE.doc

FR JOE PEREIRA YOGA GURU CONCELEBRATES AT MOTHER TERESAS CANONIZATION MASS 8 SEPTEMBER 2016

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA_YOGA_GURU_CONCELEBRATES_AT_MOTHER_TERESAS_CANONIZATION_MASS.doc

*FR JOE PEREIRA YOGA GURU CELEBRATES NAVRATRI AND GANESHOTSAV 8 SEPTEMBER 2016 (see page
14)

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA_YOGA_GURU_CELEBRATES_NAVRATRI_AND_GANESHOTSAV.doc

FR JOE PEREIRA INTRODUCES MOTHER TERESAS MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY TO YOGA
8 SEPTEMBER 2016

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA_INTRODUCES_MOTHER_TERESAS_MISSIONARIES_OF_CHARITY_TO_YOGA.doc

 

CATHOLIC ASHRAMS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CATHOLIC_ASHRAMS.doc

LOTUS AND THE CROSS-THE HINDUISATION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN INDIA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/LOTUS_AND_THE_CROSS-THE_HINDUISATION_OF_THE_CATHOLIC_CHURCH_IN_INDIA.doc

 

CENTERING PRAYER

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CENTERING_PRAYER.doc

CENTERING PRAYER-SUSAN BRINKMANN

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CENTERING_PRAYER-SUSAN_BRINKMANN.doc

REIKI YOGA AND CENTERING PRAYER

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/REIKI_YOGA_AND_CENTERING_PRAYER.doc

 

YOGA-02
27
NOVEMBER 2013 526 pages. See pages 63-65, 133-134 for Kripa Foundation and Fr. Joe Pereira

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-02.doc

 

LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON SOME ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN MEDITATION CDF/CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER 15 OCTOBER 1989

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/LETTER_TO_THE_BISHOPS_OF_THE_CATHOLIC_CHURCH_ON_SOME_ASPECTS_OF_CHRISTIAN_MEDITATION.doc

JESUS CHRIST THE BEARER OF THE WATER OF LIFE, A CHRISTIAN REFLECTION ON THE NEW AGE COMBINED VATICAN DICASTERIES FEBRUARY 3, 2003

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/JESUS_CHRIST_THE_BEARER_OF_THE_WATER_OF_LIFE_A_CHRISTIAN_REFLECTION_ON_THE_NEW_AGE.doc

 

CATHOLIC MEDITATION
18 JANUARY 2016

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CATHOLIC_MEDITATION.doc

MEDITATION CAN BE VERY HARMFUL TO YOU
31 JULY 2015/7 JANUARY 2016

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MEDITATION_CAN_BE_VERY_HARMFUL_TO_YOU.doc

MEDITATION-EDDIE RUSSELL FEBRUARY 2015

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MEDITATION-EDDIE_RUSSELL.doc

MEDITATION-JESSICA SMITH 18 NOVEMBER 2015

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MEDITATION-JESSICA_SMITH.doc

MEDITATION-SUSAN BRINKMANN 18 NOVEMBER 2015

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MEDITATION-SUSAN_BRINKMANN.doc

 

CHANTING OF MANTRAS
APRIL 2011

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CHANTING_OF_MANTRAS.doc

MANDALAS-OCCULT VISUAL MANTRAS USED IN MEDITATION
23 APRIL

2016

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MANDALAS-OCCULT_VISUAL_MANTRAS_USED_IN_MEDITATION.doc

 

 

EXORCISTS WARN AGAINST USE OF YOGA MANTRAS
26 NOVEMBER 2014

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/EXORCISTS_WARN_AGAINST_USE_OF_YOGA_MANTRAS.doc

MANTRAS, ‘OM’ OR ‘AUM’ AND THE GAYATRI MANTRA
JULY 2010

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MANTRAS_OM_OR_AUM_AND_THE_GAYATRI_MANTRA.doc

 

YOGA REPORTS

BANGALORE DELIVERANCE MINISTRY LEADER OBJECTS TO PRIEST’S CRITICISM OF YOGA-ENDORSING BISHOP THOMAS DABRE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/BANGALORE_DELIVERANCE_MINISTRY_LEADER_OBJECTS_TO_PRIESTS_CRITICISM_OF_YOGA-ENDORSING_BISHOP_THOMAS_DABRE.doc

BISHOP THOMAS DABRE BRAZENLY LIES IN PRINT AND INTERNET MEDIA ABOUT THE CHURCH POSITION ON YOGA http://ephesians-511.net/docs/BISHOP_THOMAS_DABRE_BRAZENLY_LIES_IN_PRINT_AND_ON_SOCIAL_MEDIA_ABOUT_THE_CHURCH_POSITION_ON_YOGA.doc

BRAHMA KUMARIS WORLD SPIRITUAL UNIVERSITY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/BRAHMA_KUMARIS_WORLD_SPIRITUAL_UNIVERSITY.doc

CARDINAL OSWALD GRACIAS ENDORSES YOGA FOR CATHOLICS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CARDINAL_OSWALD_GRACIAS_ENDORSES_YOGA_FOR_CATHOLICS.doc

CARDINAL OSWALD GRACIAS INFORMS PRAKASH LASRADO THAT HE USES YOGA TO PRAY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CARDINAL_OSWALD_GRACIAS_INFORMS_PRAKASH_LASRADO_THAT_HE_USES_YOGA_TO_PRAY.doc

CATHOLIC YOGA HAS ARRIVED

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CATHOLIC_YOGA_HAS_ARRIVED.doc

CHURCH MOUTHPIECE THE EXAMINER ACCUSED OF PROMOTING HERESY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/CHURCH_MOUTHPIECE_THE EXAMINER_ACCUSED_OF_PROMOTING_HERESY.doc

DIVINE RETREAT CENTRE ERRORS-05
YOGA PROMOTED

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/DIVINE_RETREAT_CENTRE_ERRORS-05.doc

EXORCISTS WARN AGAINST USE OF YOGA MANTRAS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/EXORCISTS_WARN_AGAINST_USE_OF_YOGA_MANTRAS.doc

FORMER YOGI REJECTS A CHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE TO YOGA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FORMER_YOGI_REJECTS_A_CHRISTIAN_ALTERNATIVE_TO_YOGA.doc

FR ADRIAN MASCARENHAS-YOGA AT ST PATRICK’S CHURCH BANGALORE 

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_ADRIAN_MASCARENHAS-YOGA_AT_ST_PATRICKS_CHURCH_BANGALORE.doc

FR JOHN FERREIRA-YOGA, SURYANAMASKAR AT ST. PETER’S COLLEGE, AGRA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOHN_FERREIRA-YOGA_SURYANAMASKAR_AT_ST_PETERS_COLLEGE_AGRA.doc

FR JOHN VALDARIS-NEW AGE CURES FOR CANCER

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOHN_VALDARIS-NEW_AGE_CURES_FOR_CANCER.doc

INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/INTERNATIONAL_YOGA_DAY.doc

IS BISHOP DABRE FORMER CHAIRMAN DOCTRINAL COMMISSION A PROPONENT OF YOGA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/IS_BISHOP_DABRE_FORMER_CHAIRMAN_DOCTRINAL_COMMISSION_A_PROPONENT_OF_YOGA.doc

NARENDRA MODI SEEKS TO INTRODUCE YOGA IN ALL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/NARENDRA_MODI_SEEKS_TO_INTRODUCE_YOGA_IN_ALL_EDUCATIONAL_INSTITUTIONS.doc

NARENDRA MODI SEEKS TO INTRODUCE YOGA IN UNIVERSITIES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/NARENDRA_MODI_SEEKS_TO_INTRODUCE_YOGA_IN_UNIVERSITIES.doc

NEW AGE GURUS 01-SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR-THE ‘ART OF LIVING’

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/NEW_AGE_GURUS_01-SRI_SRI_RAVI_SHANKAR-THE_ART_OF_LIVING.doc

PAPAL CANDIDATE OSWALD CARDINAL GRACIAS ENDORSES YOGA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/PAPAL_CANDIDATE_OSWALD_CARDINAL_GRACIAS_ENDORSES_YOGA.doc

PILAR PRIESTS CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY-GOA ARCHBISHOP ENDORSES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/PILAR_PRIESTS_CELEBRATE_INTERNATIONAL_YOGA_DAY-GOA_ARCHBISHOP_ENDORSES.doc

SEXUAL PREDATORS MORE PREVALENT AMONG RABBIS PASTORS YOGIS THAN AMONG PRIESTS http://ephesians-511.net/docs/SEXUAL_PREDATORS_MORE_PREVALENT_AMONG_RABBIS_PASTORS_YOGIS_THAN_AMONG_PRIESTS.doc

U.S. CATHOLIC MAGAZINE ENDORSES NEW AGE-REIKI, YOGA AND ZEN

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/U_S_CATHOLIC_MAGAZINE_ENDORSES_NEW_AGE-REIKI_YOGA_AND_ZEN.doc

VISHAL JAGRITI MAGAZINE PULLS YOGA SERIES OF FR FRANCIS CLOONEY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/VISHAL_JAGRITI_MAGAZINE_PULLS_YOGA_SERIES_OF_FR_FRANCIS_CLOONEY.doc

 

 

 

YOGA-FATIMA CHURCH IN MADRAS-MYLAPORE ARCHDIOCESE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-FATIMA_CHURCH_IN_MADRAS-MYLAPORE_ARCHDIOCESE.doc

YOGA AND THE BRAHMA KUMARIS AT A CATHOLIC COLLEGE IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOMBAY
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_AND_THE_BRAHMA_KUMARIS_
AT_A_CATHOLIC_COLLEGE_IN_THE_ARCHDIOCESE_OF_BOMBAY.doc

YOGA AT ST STANISLAUS HIGH SCHOOL ARCHDIOCESE OF BOMBAY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_AT_ST_STANISLAUS_HIGH_SCHOOL_ARCHDIOCESE_OF_BOMBAY.doc

YOGA CAMP FOR CHILDREN AT OUR LADY OF GUIDANCE CHURCH

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_CAMP_FOR_CHILDREN_AT_OUR_LADY_OF_GUIDANCE_CHURCH.doc

YOGA IN THE DIOCESE OF MANGALORE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_IN_THE_DIOCESE_OF_MANGALORE.doc

YOGA, SURYANAMASKAR, GAYATRI MANTRA, PRANAYAMA TO BE MADE COMPULSORY IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_SURYANAMASKAR_GAYATRI_MANTRA_PRANAYAMA_TO_BE_MADE_COMPULSORY_IN_EDUCATIONAL_INSTITUTIONS.doc

 

YOGA ARTICLES/COLLATIONS

AYUSH-THE NEW AGE DANGERS OF

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AYUSH_THE_NEW_AGE_DANGERS_OF.doc

A CATHOLIC ALTERNATIVE TO YOGA-PIETRA FITNESS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/A_CATHOLIC_ALTERNATIVE_TO_YOGA-PIETRA_FITNESS.doc

AN INDIAN CATHOLIC’S PROBLEMS WITH THE CONDEMNATION OF YOGA ARE ADDRESSED

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AN_INDIAN_CATHOLICS_PROBLEMS_WITH_THE_CONDEMNATION_OF_YOGA_ARE_ADDRESSED.doc

AUM SHINRIKYO YOGA CULT

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AUM_SHINRIKYO_YOGA_CULT.doc

AYURVEDA AND YOGA-DR EDWIN A NOYES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AYURVEDA_AND_YOGA-DR_EDWIN_A_NOYES.doc

DANGERS OF AWAKENING THE KUNDALINI IN YOGA-LIFE POSITIVE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/DANGERS_OF_AWAKENING_THE_KUNDALINI_IN_YOGA-LIFE_POSITIVE.doc

DEATH OF A GURU

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/DEATH_OF_A_GURU.doc

MANTRAS YOGA WCCM CHRISTIAN MEDITATION ETC-EDDIE RUSSELL

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/MANTRAS_YOGA_WCCM_CHRISTIAN_MEDITATION_ETC-EDDIE_RUSSELL.doc

PRANAYAMA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/PRANAYAMA.doc

REIKI YOGA AND CENTERING PRAYER

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/REIKI_YOGA_AND_CENTERING_PRAYER.doc

ROME WARNS CATHOLICS ABOUT YOGA AND ZEN MEDITATION SYSTEMS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/ROME_WARNS_CATHOLICS_ABOUT_YOGA_AND_ZEN_MEDITATION_SYSTEMS.doc

THE TRUE STORY OF A CATHOLIC VICTIM OF YOGA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/THE_TRUE_STORY_OF_A_CATHOLIC_VICTIM_OF_YOGA.doc

TRUTH, LIES AND YOGA-ERROL FERNANDES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TRUTH_LIES_AND_YOGA-ERROL_FERNANDES.rtf

WAS JESUS A YOGI? SYNCRETISM AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE-ERROL FERNANDES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/WAS_JESUS_A_YOGI_SYNCRETISM_AND_INTERRELIGIOUS_DIALOGUE-ERROL_FERNANDES.doc

YOGA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA.doc

YOGA-03

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-03.doc

YOGA-A.I

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-A_I.doc

YOGA CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR YOU

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_CAN_BE_DANGEROUS_FOR_YOU.doc

YOGA CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR YOUR PHYSICAL HEALTH

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_CAN_BE_DANGEROUS_FOR_YOUR_PHYSICAL_HEALTH.doc

YOGA AND CHRISTIANITY-ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_AND_CHRISTIANITY-ARE_THEY_COMPATIBLE.doc

YOGA AND DELIVERANCE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_AND_DELIVERANCE.doc

 

 

 

YOGA IS SATANIC-EXORCIST FR GABRIELE AMORTH

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_IS_SATANIC-EXORCIST_FR_GABRIELE_AMORTH.doc

YOGA-A PATH TO GOD-FR LOUIS HUGHES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-A_PATH_TO_GOD-FR_LOUIS_HUGHES.doc

YOGA-BRO IGNATIUS MARY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-BRO_IGNATIUS_MARY.doc

YOGA-ERIKA GIBELLO

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-ERIKA_GIBELLO.doc

YOGA-FR EZRA SULLIVAN

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-FR_EZRA_SULLIVAN.doc

YOGA-MARTA ALVES

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-MARTA_ALVES.doc

YOGA-MIKE SHREVE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-MIKE_SHREVE.doc

YOGA-REV DR ED HIRD

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-REV_DR_ED_HIRD.doc

YOGA-SUMMARY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-SUMMARY.doc

YOGA-SUSAN BRINKMANN

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-SUSAN_BRINKMANN.doc

YOGA-THE DECEPTION-FR CONRAD SALDANHA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-THE_DECEPTION-FR_CONRAD_SALDANHA.doc

YOGA-VISHAL MANGALWADI

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-VISHAL_MANGALWADI.doc

YOGA-WHAT DOES THE CATHOLIC CATECHISM SAY ABOUT IT

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-WHAT_DOES_THE_CATHOLIC_CATECHISM_SAY_ABOUT_IT.doc

YOGA-WHAT DOES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAY ABOUT IT?

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA-WHAT_DOES_THE_CATHOLIC_CHURCH_SAY_ABOUT_IT.doc

 

27 YOGA TESTIMONIES

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-01
MIKE SHREVE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-01.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-02
TERRY JUSTISON

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-02.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-03
KENT SULLIVAN

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-03.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-04
MICHAEL GRAHAM

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-04.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-05
BRAD SCOTT

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-05.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-06
JANICE CLEARY

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-06.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-07
CARL FAFORD

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-07.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-08
ANONYMOUS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-08.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-09
DEBORAH HOLT

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-09.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-10
DANION VASILE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-10.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-11
MICHAEL COUGHLIN

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-11.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-12
LAURETTE WILLIS

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-12.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-13
KEITH AGAIN

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-13.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-14 VIRGO HANDOJO

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-14.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-15 PURVI

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-15.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-16
PRISCILLA DE GEORGE

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-16.doc

 

 

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-17
SARAH

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-17.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-18
BRANDY BORDEN SMITH

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-18.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-19
CONNIE J. FAIT

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-19.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-20
LOSANA BOYD

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-20.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-21
FR. PARESH PARMAR, CATHOLIC PRIEST

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-21.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-22
GINA

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-22.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-23
JESSICA SMITH

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-23.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-24
MARY GARDEN

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-23.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-25
DANIEL SHAW

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-25.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-26
REV. DR. ED HIRD, ANGLICAN CHARISMATIC PASTOR

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-26.doc

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER YOGI-27
CARMEN CASTIELLA SANCHEZ-OSTIZ

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-27.doc


 



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