{"id":48242,"date":"2021-02-23T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/xxviii-the-word-of-god\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T11:19:41","slug":"xxviii-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/xxviii-the-word-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"XXVIII The Word of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<< XXVII Grandchildren<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In faith Godfried finds peace of mind. Every week he goes to the Church of Our Lady in Aarschot<\/strong>. Godfried commissions the painter Jos Tysmans (1893-1974), originally from Houthalen, to make this painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since the move to the Averbode area, churchgoer Godfried goes with his children to the hamlet of Ter Hoeve Testelt. <\/strong>The priest is a former teacher of the Sint-Michielscollege in Brasschaat. The pastor gives Frie a step up from the temporal to the divine by letting him hand out the hosts. Godfried helps with dignity, solemnly, with deeply serious eyes. The people of Ter Hoeve have always felt a little misunderstood, so that a great sense of solidarity arose. (1971) More than 150 men and women worked together to build their church by their own efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The servant of God continues to Mass in the Saint Anthony\u2019s Church of Wolfsdonk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and the Norbertine abbey of Averbode, which is twinned with the Sint-Michielscollege in Brasschaat where Godfried boarded. Godfried maintains good contacts with Abbot Koenraad Stappers (1922-1999)<\/strong> or less good ones with a former teacher, a prelate, by whom he was wrongly punished as a pupil; the white-robed canon gets to hear: \u201cMy dear fellow, you have always been a bad little rascal, you will certainly not end up in heaven.\u201d A Latinist, Frie sings along with the Gregorian chants. After Mass Pieter may each time choose a cassette of classical music in the abbey shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab\u00a0Adversae res admonent religionem\u00a0\u00bb
\u201cAdversity spurs us on to religion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rik Torfs does not understand the Church\u2019s attitude towards homosexual relationships: \u201cA large majority of cardinals is homosexual\u201d Rik Torfs is a Belgian professor at KU Leuven, canon lawyer, media figure, honorary rector of KU Leuven. Canon lawyer Rik Torfs sees a striking field of tension in the Vatican when it comes to homosexuality. \u201cIt remains a double situation: on the one hand, homosexual relationships are labelled sinful, but on the other hand a significant percentage – perhaps the majority – of the cardinals are themselves homosexual,\u201d says Torfs. (Vrt canvas, 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By means of images on \u2018Wedgwood\u2019 bowls and plates the children become acquainted with the French language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the meal, God is spoken to: \u201cHail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, full of grace, pray for us poor sinners. Now and at the hour of our death, amen.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n