SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

New Age and Hinduisation – the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master

I visitedGuru Yesu Bhavan, the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master (PDDM) centre on St Mark’s Road, Bangalore, on August 18, 2017. See the report with pictures on the following pages.

The Archdiocese of Bangalore under Archbishop Bernard Moras is, along with the Archdiocese of Bombay under Cardinal Oswald Gracias, leads the Church in institutionalized New Age.

The late Fr. Ronnie Prabhu, former Jesuit Provincial, is a classic example of religious syncretism.

Over a decade ago, I had reported that the Brothers of the Holy Cross on St. Mark’s Road had a huge banner advertising for Yoga classes.

While preparing for this report, I received an email from a concerned parent with a child in a lower class that Yoga is compulsory for children in Sophia High School, Palace Road, Bangalore, from Class V and she sought my advice on what to do.

I received another email that reports that the Jesuit-run Indian Social Institute (ISI) in Benson Town offers Yoga. He adds, “Paalana Bhavana just behind Bishop's House also conducts Yoga classes, so also Good Shepherd's Girls School for the children. The Principal proudly proclaimed this as an achievement in the yearly address.”Paalana Bhavana is the Archdiocesan Pastoral Centre!

The writer continues, “St Anthony Friary, Franciscans, carry out Yoga training. Last Sunday after Mass I got hold of the priest who announced this. He also invited all other religion people to participate in the Mass. I questioned him about how he'll distinguish between a Catholic& non Catholic at Communion. He had no answer.”

St. Anthony’s Friary is a popular Franciscan parish on Hosur Road.

In late 2000, I had reported in a handwritten letter to Archbishop Ignatius Pinto the incidence of a major New Age offensive by an international group on Catholic institutions in Bangalore.

The Archbishop called me up on the night of the day that he received my letter and assured me that he intended to personal visit the heads of the institutions (like Crist College, St. Joseph’s College) to ensure that the New Age group was kept out and that the Church did not participate.

On the other hand, the present Archbishop of Bangalore Bernard Moras simply sits back and ignores all correspondence* on the subject while New Age takes over his parishes and religious institutions.

I am certain that if I spend more time in Bangalore, I would have much, much more to report.

What amazes me is that all of these Catholic new age centres are frequented by the top echelons of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal -- who do… absolutely nothing about it.

As I stood at the gate of the sisters’ compound, a young man emerged from prayer before the Blessed Sacrament at the chapel. I engaged him (name withheld) in conversation and shared with him my feelings about what I had just observed at Ashirvad**, etc. It turned out that he was from the Bread of Life charismatic prayer group that meets Thursdays, with around 130-150 attending.

He listened attentively, would not commit himself and took my card. And that was it.

If he ever shared with any of his leaders about our meeting, he would have been cautioned to stay away from me as is almost always the case. Most charismatics blindly follow the instructions without bothering to ascertain why. I get to know about this when some of them eventually come to appreciate this ministry. This ministry gets a bad name from the leaders of the Renewalsimply for writing and exposing these things which endanger the souls of Catholics and thus showing them up for their unprophetic leadership and sugar-coated preaching.

The dome of the PDDM nuns’ chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for veneration is in what appears to be the form of a lotus-like kalasam (pot in which temple deities reportedly reside) surmounted by a cross. If it is indeed not a kalasam, the architecture is still Hindu, not Catholic.

To the right of the chapel, we have an image of Mother Mary depicted as a yogini! A first for me!!

In the chapel one finds a “resurrexifix,” the image of the risen Christ on a cross.

In this is how the PDDM nuns at Guru Yesu Bhavan celebrate Holy Mass:

Icons and images of Jesus the Yogi and Resurrexifixes at the Liturgical Centre of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master nuns in the Cathedral of St. Thomas in Madras-Mylapore

SOME RELATED FILES

JESUS THE YOGI AND RESURREXIFIXES AT PDDMLITURGICAL CENTRE OF CATHEDRAL OF ST THOMAS

JESUS THE YOGI AND THE DANCING JESUS

THE RISEN CHRIST ON A CROSS (RESURREXIFIX)

QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 35-RESURREXIFIXES AND A STRANGE CROZIER

# 62 of the Encyclical Mediator Dei of Pope Pius XII of November 20, 1947:

Assuredly it is a wise and most laudable thing to return in spirit and affection to the sources of the sacred liturgy. For research in this field of study, by tracing it back to its origins, contributes valuable assistance towards a more thorough and careful investigation of the significance of feast-days, and of the meaning of the texts and sacred ceremonies employed on their occasion. But it is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by every possible device. Thus, to cite some instances, one would be straying from the straight path were he to wish the altar restored to its primitive tableform; were he to want black excluded as a color for the liturgical vestments; were he to forbid the use of sacred images and statues in Churches;were he to order the crucifix so designed that the divine Redeemer's body shows no trace of His cruel sufferings; and lastly were he to disdain and reject polyphonic music or singing in parts, even where it conforms to regulations issued by the Holy See.

The PDDM nuns promote a range of New Age therapies (several of which are explicitly identified in the February 2003 Vatican Document on the New Age)at their Asirbhavan, Bangalore centre:

SOME RELATED FILES

REIKI AND HOLISTIC HEALING

BIOFEEDBACK-DR EDWIN A NOYES

APPLIED KINESIOLOGY MUSCLE TESTING TOUCH FOR HEALTH THERAPEUTIC TOUCH-SUSAN BRINKMANN

APPLIED KINESIOLOGY, THERAPEUTIC TOUCH, TOUCH FOR HEALTH AND MUSCLE TESTING

POLARITY THERAPY

REFLEXOLOGY AND OTHERENERGY BALANCINGTHERAPIES-DR EDWIN A NOYES

ACUPUNCTURE ACUPRESSURE SHIATSU REFLEXOLOGY-SUSAN BRINKMANN

ACUPUNCTURE, ACUPRESSURE, SHIATSU AND REFLEXOLOGY (AND SU JOK)

WATER MAGNETIC FAR-INFRA-RED NEW AGE WELLNESS THERAPIES-SUSAN BRINKMANN

SOME BANGALORE ARCHDIOCESE-RELATED FILES

FR RONNIE PRABHU-NEW AGE PRIEST

FR RONNIE PRABHU-PROPHECY FULFILLED

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

*ARCHBISHOP OF BANGALORE-LETTERS FROM THIS MINISTRY 6 AUGUST 2007/UPDATED DECEMBER 2009

[NO RESPONSE TO 14 LETTERS AND 8 REMINDERS ON 12 DIFFERENT ISSUES CONCERNING NEW AGE ETC. IN BANGALORE ARCHDIOCESE]

ARCHBISHOP OF BANGALORE-LETTERS FROM THIS MINISTRY

JYOTI SAHI AND HIS NEW AGE ART ASHRAM IN BANGALORE

PRANIC HEALING CONVENTION AT CHRIST COLLEGE BANGALORE

**NEW AGE COURSES AT ASHIRVAD-THE JESUIT CENTRE IN BANGALORE

CHRISTOPHER CORREYA AIMS AT THIS MINISTRY AND SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE FOOT