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Two From Sandro Magister

Francis Has an Offer in Store for China: A New Blessed
It will be the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, one of the very few Westerners honored by the Chinese communist authorities. But the thaw between Beijing and the Church of Rome still seems to be a long way off

The Third Asian Voyage for Francis Will Be to Japan
Bergoglio has dreamed of this destination since his youth. And now he will go there as pope, at the invitation of the Japanese government. As revealed and explained by a former ambassador to the Holy See, Kagefumi Ueno

Asia Times: Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi, two saints the Chinese Church deserves to venerate together
by Benoit Vermander

New EWTN series on the Martyrs of China

Insight Scoop: EWTN series, "Saints of China", offers personal view of Catholicism, Catholic saints in China

It is hosted by Anthony E. Clark, who has spoken on Matteo Ricci. His most recent book.

Art of Manliness: Classical Rhetoric 101: The Five Canons of Rhetoric- Memory

The method of loci memory technique was first described in written form in a Roman treatise on rhetoric called ad Herennium, but it also made appearances in treatises by Cicero and Quintilian. It’s an extremely effective mnemonic device and is still used by memory champions like Joshua Foer, author of the recent book, Moonwalking With Einstein.

To use the method of loci, the speaker concentrates on the layout of a building or home that he’s familiar with. He then takes a mental walk through each room in the building and commits an engaging visual representation of a part of his speech to each room. So, for example, let’s say the first part of your speech is about the history of the Third Punic War. You can imagine Hannibal and Scipio Africanus duking it out in your living room. You could get more specific and put different parts of the battles of the Third Punic War into different rooms. The method of loci memory technique is powerful because it’s so flexible.

When you deliver your speech, you mentally walk through your “memory house” in order to retrieve the information you’re supposed to deliver. Some wordsmiths believe that the common English phrase “in the first place” came from the method of loci technique. A speaker using the technique might say, “In the first place,” in reference to the fact that the first part of his speech was in the first place or loci in his memory house. Fascinating, isn’t it?

This reminds me of what Jonathan Spence wrote on the same sort of mnemonic techniques in The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.

The original post has links to the previous parts in the series.

First Things: Thomas Merton and Confucianism by Wm. Theodore de Bary
Why the contemplative never got the religion quite right

Sandro Magister on Matteo Ricci, S.J.

A Ratzinger from Four Centuries Ago. In Beijing

The remarkable resemblance between the missionary method of Matteo Ricci in seventeenth-century China and the dialogue between Christianity and cultures proposed today by Benedict XVI

Rod Dreher, Wendell Berry, American Confucius

A comment on this post tells me that the video for the Saint Anthony of Padua Institute lecture on Matteo Ricci is now online--

Conflict and Accommodation: Matteo Riccis Approach to Catholic Evangelization in China


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Shanghai Diocese opens Matteo Ricci Year

Zenit: Matteo Ricci Year Opens in Shanghai
Shanghai diocese puts Ricci in focus for year | UCA News
Shanghai launches 'Year of Matteo Ricci' | CathNews Asia
Xu-Ricci Institute of Dialogue opens in Shanghai
Spero News
上海教区开启“利玛窦年" - 中文天主教门户网站

From Dec. 2009: Shanghai Catholics should walk on the footsteps of Matteo Ricci, Msgr Jin Luxian says


Diocese of Shanghai
沈阳天主教神学院博客
China Catholic
Associazione Matteo Ricci
"Found in Translation": Matteo Ricci's lexographic inheritance is alive (pdf)
Fudan University
哲学学院

Misc:
eRenLai
The Macau Ricci Institute - Newsletter
Orthodox Diocese of Shanghai
SJCCC

Celledoor Miscellany: The Evangelization of Matteo Ricci

Celledoor Miscellany: The Evangelization of Matteo Ricci

Since I'm driving my mom to the airport I won't be able to make it to the Manhattan Forum lecture today. Just a reminder:

The Manhattan Forum Presents
"Conflict and Accommodation:
Matteo Ricci’s Approach to
Catholic Evangelization in China"
Anthony E. Clark, PhD
Saturday, May 8th at 3:00 PM

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The lecture will be in the parish hall for St. Margaret Mary Church.

Matteo Ricci lecture, May 8, 2010

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St. Anthony of Padua Institute: The First Father Matthias Lu Memorial Lecture and a Manhattan Forum lecture: "Confict and Accomodation: Matteor Ricci's Approach to Catholic Evangelization in China," by Dr. Anthony E. Clark

Saturday, May 8, 2010 at Father Kozina Hal, St. Margaret Mary Church

In hindsight which was the more feasible approach, evangelizing the literati or the masses? And what sort of cultural, social, or political obstaces to evangelization existed in imperial China that did not exist in imperial Rome?

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A portrait of Fr. Ricci.

On Fr. Matthias Lu:
The Catholic Voice
De La Salle Institute District of San Francisco