In case some one thinks that I am playing lightly with the term "joy", let us turn to an extremely high class use of it, namely Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy", taken up by Beethoven for his 9th Symphony. I ask any reader first simply to listen in YouTube to the 23 minutes or so of this masterpiece and not worry about understanding the words. Feel the glory, joy, happiness, exhilertation, excitement and triumph (but neither contentment nor consolation) of the music. Then, without worrying about any translation, turn to Mozart's Requiem. Both pieces are marvels of music. But Mozart informed his Requiem with the solemnity of God transcending this world, for after all it is music for a mass. I have my doubts as to how appropiate it would be in practice as the churchgoer could easily begin just to listen. But just hearing it, well, that is the "divine" manfiesting the solemn, grave and somber, yet profound consolation of existence and death. Beethoven's joy simply overcomes such solemnity with a crescendo in exhileration of joy. Musically, we have two incompatible renderings of God and nature and life. Beethoven as many of his romantic contempories, was imbued with panentheism, i.e., God interpentrates nature in all aspects, yet is goes beyond. Pantheism itself treats God and nature as synonomous. Beethoven does not confront the death and destruction IN nature, in human nature, but exudes joyfullness at the intepentertration of God in nature and promising more. (Interestingly, Hitler in the decline of his empire switched from Wagner to Beethoven and listened to the 9th, not to a requiem.)

The reader can find in the internet a translation of Ode an die Freude as the Ode to Joy. I will cite here only a few lines that captureverbally the meaning of "joy":

Joy, beautiful spark of Gods.
Daugthers of Elysium,
We enter, fire-imbibied [= whooped up joy],
Heavenly, thy sanctuary.
Thy magic powers [not grace] re-unite
What custom's sword has divided,
Beggars become Princes' brothers,
Where thy gentle wing abides.

Be embraced, millions!
This kiss to the entire world!
...

Those who dwell in the great circle
Pay homage to sympathy!
It leads to the stars,
Where the Unknown [not the Trinity] reigns.

Joy all creatures drink
At nature's bosoms,
All, Just and Unjust!
....

Joy, joy moves the wheels
In the universal time machine.
....

Joyful, as His suns are flying,
...
Joyful, as a hero going to conquest,
...

The account of our misdeeds [not sins] be destroyed!
Reconciled the entire world!
...

Brother, drink and chime in,
All sinners shall be forgiven,
And hell shall be no more.

The ode to joy matches well the mood of the music, a mood that knows no sin needing tragic salvation from a Trinitarian God, but only affirmatin of the World. I suggest that the Cardinal is, nolens, volens, a panentheist in practice. The beautiful joy manifested by means of Beethoven incomparfable music is not Christian, but it does affirm this world! And "joy" is the secret of "evangelization"?????

Pardon, I pressed "Submit" by accident. So I will continue:

The first new point is: Walking recently through ,where many thousands of priests and protestant pastors were killed, I had a hard time imagining these men jumbing about in elation, excitement, cheerfulness, exhileration, etc. Indeed, if they had done so, I would have worried about their mental health or concluded that they were "high" on LSD. Dachau, that "little" elimination camp, was a place of sorrow, not jubilation. Nevertheless, there is a sort of "contentment" in one sense, namely that of "consolation" knowing that one's unspeakable pains, torture and coming murder can be redeemed after death through the sufferings and death of Christ. Indeed, one's own death can be in some way joined with that of Christ. That is serious tragedy, not hilarioius joy! The Latin Mass expressed the tragic moment of life in itself. The Mass gave consolation, not ha,ha-"joy". In the context of Dachau, a mood of pentecostal "whooping it up" hilarity would have been out of place, even for Pentecostals. Are the Christians in northern Iraq, under convert or die!, now being driven again from their homes, are they woefully failing the dictates of the Cardinal's "let's be rapturously excited" version of "joy"? They do not look at all joyful to me.

Inadvertently, the Cardinal has revealed what it means to "open the windows to the world" and affirm the world as the current Pope preaches. Tragedy, sorrow, suffering and death have to be excluded from religious life, only to be replaced by relentless "joy". No wonder "sin" must not be mentioned too much, it not "joyful". Alas, with such an exclusion, the death, torture and resurrection of Christ unto salvation beyond this life, all that loses any functional meaning. "Be happy, whoops, be full of joy", and go to a clown Mass (and they do happen) and get "joyed up".

The 1/2 point is the possible reference for the "anti-evangelizing campaign" mentioned by the Cardinal. This campaign cannot be pushed by those not yet accepting the invitation into the joy-community still called the Church. That makes no sense to me. If I am wrong, I ask that someone correct me here. The resistance to the so-called "evangelization" stems from those IN the Church, e.g., Gloria.tv!!!!!! "The well organized" are not the multitudes of non-Christians or non-Catholics. How can they be such when quite likely they are not familiar enough with the Gospel to oppose it? NO, the Cardinal, I suspect, is not referring to some vague, though "organized" group of people, rather to any and all Catholics who find fault and insatisfaction with the "joyous" (sic!) state of the Church today. When the Pope a few days ago apologized to Pentecostals in Italy apparently abused by Catholics, he referred to such abusers as possessed by the Devil. That is strong (and that is no charitable)!!! I suggest that the modernists coagulating behind Pope Francis (and including him) have started a well organized "campaign" against dissenters in the Church, indeed, seeking to demonize them. Beware!