A Fallacy for Some of the Pious

Or, attributable to others by them - denying the antecedent?

An example:
kneeling --> showing reverence
not kneeling --> not showing reverence

I say it is attributable to others, those they wish to protect from liturgical changes, because it may be that even though this is fallacious reasoning, some of the "simple faithful" may erroneously infer that because we do not need to kneel because of a bishop's directive, that no sign of reverence is necessary and that the Divine Liturgy is wholly "horizontal" rather than "vertical" in orientation.

Rome Reports via Vatican Insider: Delegation from the Orthodox Church meets with Pope

Chant Cafe: CNS Interview with Cardinal Ranjith at Sacra Liturgia Conference

Eastern Christian Books: Developments in Byzantine Chant

I don't think I will change all of the "chant" tags to "plainchant" even though it would be better to do so... removing tags used to be easier.

Anyone Know Ukrainian?

An essay by an Ukrainian [Catholic] bishop emeritus "On Uniatism" - ЄПИСКОП ВАСИЛЬ ЛОСТЕН. ПРОБЛЕМА "УНІАТИЗМУ"

Zenit: Pope's Address on 50th Anniversary of Paul VI's Election
"Jesus is more necessary than ever for the man of today"

NLM: Do the Clothes Make the Priest? Some Debate on Clerical Garb in Greece

Ascending Mount Carmel: The Greatest Forgotten Catholic Theologian of the 20th Century

Dom Alcuin Reid on Sacra Liturgia

Vatican Radio: Liturgy Conference opens in Rome (mp3)

Sandro Magister: The Hundred Days of Francis and the Enigma of the Empty Chair
His sudden refusal to listen to the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven offered for the Year of Faith is the seal on the beginning of a pontificate that is difficult to decipher. The success that he enjoys in the media has a reason and a cost: his silence on the crucial political questions of abortion, euthanasia, homosexual marriage

The Catholic Apologetics Academy turned out to be more enjoyable and educational than I had expected, and it was definitely a good opportunity for Catholics to meet and socialize with other similar-minded Catholics living in the Bay Area. I wish I had taken greater advantage of that opportunity. There were a few parents there who were aware of the state of Catholic schools in the diocese of San Jose. May they receive wisdom and strength as they seek to bring about change. The talks by Ken Hensley on sola fide and sola scriptura were very informative. He doesn't write much as he prefers teaching (live); his contrast between the two models of faith was one I had not heard before.

faith-->obedience-->blessing (a pattern found in the OT and repeated in the preaching of the NT) [the Catholic model]
faith-->blessing-->obedience [the Protestant model]

Luther, A Nominalist?

Luther’s Doctrine of Imputation: Nominalism vs. Aristotelian Realism by Joshua Price

Or Voluntarist?

Related:
MARTIN LUTHER AND SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY
Is Luther's Doctrine of Justification Compatible with Orthodox Catholic Theology?
Was there a Lutheran Metaphysics?

Attending the Catholic Apologetics Academy put on by the Envoy Institute. It will probably do a good job of covering some of the basics, but I wonder if the 3-day program isn't a bit ambitious.

Cult? Or the Legitimate Preferences of the Founder?

Creating his own "brand."

Chiesa: Kiko Argüello, Painter, Musician, Architect

Liturgy Doesn’t Mean Work of the People by Richard Barrett

Chiesa: Benedict Wanted a "Poor" Church, Too

Latin Mass Study - Fr Justin Nolan, FSSP

How Accurate Will the History Be?

Ecumenical, but truthful? Or will it obfuscate in the interests of being "nice"? Lutherans and Catholics agree to a common narrative on the Reformation

Stratford Caldecott recommends this new book from Angelico Press: The Power of Four, written by Eduardo P. Olaguer, Jr.

Press Conference with Marcel Peres

From April 2013: 11 MARCEL PERES καλλιτεχνικός διευθυνής Ensemble Organum & CIRMA .


The info for this clip says it's Ensemble Organum singing; I have not heard it before.

Fr. Elias Rafaj on Reconciliation

Rorate Caeli: Mystici Corporis at 70 - I
The true Church of Christ is the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church

Yesterday's Address at the General Audience

On the People of God
Pope Francis: Christ Calls you to be the People of God
Pope Francis Says Upcoming Encyclical on Faith is Nearly Complete

Pope Francis: Only the Holy Spirit leads us forward


Pope at Mass: The grace not to speak ill of others

Vatican News: Cardinal Koch in Ukraine: Goal of Ecumenism "Visible Communion"

(Vatican Radio)The President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, gave a lecture at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, on June 10 on “Prospects of the Ecumenical Dialogue Between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches."

According to the Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU), Cardinal Kurt Koch focused on the discussion of one of the most painful and key issues of Orthodox-Catholic relations – the primacy of the bishop of Rome.Cardinal Koch explained that "from the Orthodox point of view, the church is present in every local church that celebrates the Eucharist, so each Eucharistic community is a complete church. Instead, from the Catholic point of view, a separate Eucharistic community is not a complete church. Therefore, a basis of the Catholic Church is the unity of separate Eucharistic communities with each other and the bishop of Rome. That is, the Catholic Church lives in the mutual intersection of local churches in one universal church.”

According to the cardinal, “the most important thing is not to lose sight of the goal of ecumenical dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, which, at least from the Catholic point of view, can consist only in the restoration of a visible communion of churches.”

Two Perspectives on Rights

Cardinal Angelo Scola: Rights-in-Relation by Stratford Caldecott

Thomas Jefferson on Rights and Duties by Paul Crimley Kuntz

Fr. Cessario to Be Conferred With the Degree of Master of Sacred Theology

Along with two other Dominicans - MASTERS OF SACRED THEOLOGY by Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P.

Cappella Romana - First Ode of the Canon - LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople To California

Romeyka, A Dialect of Greek

Endangered language opens window on to past (w/ Video)

Dr Ioanna Sitaridou - Cambridge - Language Sciences



Related:
How correct is this presentation?


Part 2

The author's website.
Amazon page.

The World: Chanting in Bodbe, Georgia

Byzantine Sacred Architecture

Nicholas Patricios, The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium: Art, Liturgy and Symbolism in Early Christian Churches (I.B. Tauris, September 2013), 384pp. (via Eastern Christian Books)

Vatican Diary / The scourge of divorce between bishop and diocese

Can't a case be made that much of this careerism (and the possibility of transfer upon which it relies) is due to the centralization of the Western Patriarchate?

Vatican Insider: Claire, the woman who became a Christian in Pol Pot’s Cambodian killing fields


The book about the story of the Cambodian exile is being presented at the Vicenza Bible Festival

Some relative inexpensive copies (less than $50) of Fr. Taft's Divine Liturgies: Human Problems in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and Palestine (Hardback) available through ABE.

The Light of the Desert (Documentary on St Macarius Monastery, Egypt)

A Pricey Volume

113 pounds

I had forgotten that there was a Centre for Eastern Christian Studies at the International Theological Institute. I was looking through the news section and found this from From February of last year:

On 16th February the Eastern Centre hosted Dr Judith Ryder of Wolfson College, Oxford. She addressed the ITI and a number of other visitors from the wider academic and ecclesiastical communities on the topic 'Demetrius Kydones: Statesman and Thomist in the Twilight of Byzantium'. Demetrius Kydones and his brother Prochorus were amongst the most prominent of the Byzantine Thomists of the fourteenth century. Kydones also served as Mesazōn (Prime Minister) to three Byzantine Emperors. Personally in communion with theHoly See, he worked to accomplish the (canonical and intellectual) reunification of Byzantium and Rome and to obtain the assistance of a Crusade for the Empire ever more threatened by the rise of the Ottoman Turks. Dr Ryder persuasively argued that for Kydones the key to his task was the effort toconvince his fellow Byzantines that they must remain in dialogue not just with each other but with both the Latin Fathers and their Western contemporaries. Dr Ryder is currently working on eleventh century Byzantium. Her study of Kydones "The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones" (2010) is published by Brill.

Has anyone done a review of her book on Demetrius Kydones?

The Installation of Bishop Borys Gudziak

From February 2012:

Rome Reports: Benedict XVI: 'I'm fine. I live like a monk'

Rome Reports: Pope Francis: Idolatry is dangerous. God is the one true Lord

Thomistica.net: Taparelli's magnum opus available from La Civiltà Cattolica

Taparelli is perhaps best remembered (if at all) for his contribution to the concept of subsidiarity and for coining the term “social justice” (giustizia sociale). His understanding of social justice is not exactly the same as our contemporary notion of it. Thomas Burke (one of the few people who write about Taparelli in English — Thomas Behr is another) has this to say about Taparellian social justice:

It is one of the ironies of history that the quintessentially “liberal” idea of “social justice,” as it was to become (in American terminology), should have been originated by an ardent conservative … Unlike the conception of social justice generally accepted in our society at the present time, which is socialist and difficult, if not impossible, to harmonize with our ordinary conception of justice, Taparelli’s conception 1) is simply the ordinary and traditional conception of justice applied in a new area, namely the constitutional arrangements of society, 2) does not apply to states of affairs in society that could exist independently of human actions, 3) constitutes a defense of societal inequality, and 4) is conservative.

I will have to read Thomas Burke's paper.

Communio: Milan Lach nominated auxiliary bishop of Presov

Some photos of the ordination: Vysviacka pomocného biskupa Milana Lacha.

I am curious as to what Anthony Rizzi does with Newtonian Mechanics in his textbook but as it is priced like a textbook I won't find out for a while.

Turns out he was on Coast to Coast AM back in 2004.

An Interview with Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk

From 2012: The B.C. Catholic interviews Major Archbishop Shevchuk

Something at Zenit.

A liturgy from last year, I believe:

Nothing new at Four Causes, the blog for the Society for Thomistic Natural Philosophy.

But there is the 2013 West Coast Meeting of the Society for Aristotelian-Thomistic Studies being held at TAC on June 13 and 14. The organization's website has a new look and all of the materials are probably accessible to members only, as I don't see them on the website. It's been a while since I paid membership dues, as very little was being done with the website.

Pope Francis on the Culture of Waste

Today's General Audience - Asia News: Pope: counter the culture of waste, man not money must "cultivate and care” for Creation
Vatican Radio
Zenit text.

Rome Reports:

Another Book from Matt Levering

A Sure Guide to St. Augustine’s Thought and Theology by Jared Ortiz
A review of Matthew Levering’s new book, The Theology of Augustine: An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works

(via Insight Scoop)

Inertia

Had a brief discussion about physics and science with a "professional" phyisicist yesterday on Facebook; I had to dust off the cobwebs in the attic of my mind. I was thinking about inertia (especially as formulated by Newton). How would one go about questioning or even refuting it as a postulate or axiom? By looking at the explanation of change? Does anything non-living move itself? And should we not take into consideration natural versus violent motion?

If simple bodies do not move themselves but are moved by another... and if it is the First Mover that moves them when the motion is natural, then the end or purpose of that motion is determined by the First Mover as a part of their nature.

It may be natural for some things to persist in changing place (locomotion) until they come to rest for some reason. But is it possible for other things to be in perpetual motion for a reason that we cannot readily discern? The end of motion is not rest but some perfection extrinsic to the thing? (example: the celestial bodies? - motion in a 'circular' path) At the moment I cannot think of a reason to rule out this possibility outright.

On the other hand, I do not have any a priori reason yet to claim either that all instances of natural locomotion must be of the second kind either. (As the principle of inertia would seem to entail.)

[Various forms of 'rectilinear' motion are due to attractions proper to the natures of certain things? Are there any exceptions?]

One who has been instructed in modern physics will assume inertia is an uncontroversial or evident truth, on par with the fact of the earth being round. How would awaken him from such a dogmatic slumber? (He did subscribe to a form of scientism, saying that the only valid knowledge of physical reality was obtained through the scientific method. And he claimed that teleology was pseudoscience.)

Mass of Ordination & Installation of Michael Barber - 5th Bishop of Oakland

Saint Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church: Sham El Neseem Liturgy & New Deacon Ordination

Saint Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church
Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States

Stanford University: Vatican II: Catholicism Meets Modernity

Led by Paul Crowley, SJ - you can find videos for the course here.

Upholding the Legacy...

Pope Francis remembers Bl Pope John XXIII (full text)

Asia News: Pope: John XXIII, the good pope's daily abandonment to God's will is a lesson for the Church of our time
John XXIII’s providential decision to hold Vatican II is hailed as a milestone in the Catholic Church

Healing in the Parish and the World: Let Us Go Forth in Peace by Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)

Notre Dame: Cardinal Dolan delivers the Commencement Address

Zenit transcript

Misc.
Catholic Vote: SIX GREAT GIFTS FOR THE NEWLY ORDAINED. (AND FIVE THINGS TO SHY AWAY FROM.)

Modern Questions, Ancient Answers: Defining and Defending Human Dignity in Our Time

Prostopinije

The plainchant of the Ruthenians; according to the wiki entry, it is closely related to Znamenny chant. I've heard some Znamenny; the two forms of plainchant don't sound that similar. Maybe it's because the Znamenny I've heard primarily comes from Valaam, and I haven't really heard pure Znamenny. (Or is it because it's an all-male group?)


Paschal Ode 1 - Prostopinije








Palm Sunday Vespers 2011

Znamenny Chant?
Valaam - this example seems to be more like a mix of Byzantine and Znamenny - Valaam chant?




In English:




Not Valaam:











Related:
The Znamenny Chant of the Russian Church--Part I; Part 2 [alt]
Church of the Nativity page
Znamenny Chant by Fr. Simon Pimen Pt.1 (Parts 2 and 3)

Cappella Romana has a blog.