Fr. Joseph Komonchak to Speak in Berkeley Tomorrow

At the Newman Hall (still run by the Paulists?) at 7:30 P.M., as a part of this series.

Given that I disagree with him on ecclesiology and the council, plus the late notice, I doubt I'll attend.

FB event
Vatican II and Parish Life
Faculty profile.
He has a blog.

Novelty in Continuity
Benedict XVI and the Interpretation of Vatican II

Rorate Caeli: FIUV PP: Latin in Seminaries

Kristine Kalanges on William Cavanaugh

From State Soteriology to Eucharistic Anarchism: Cavanaugh’s “True Peace” (via MOJ)

Mount Lebanon Choir of Byzantine Music

The Divine Liturgy of the Greek Orthodox Church in English

Scaling for a Christian Community

Fr. Bouyer contrasted in his The Church of God two ideals of ecclesial "membership," the Church of believers and the Church of numbers. Might it be that the Church can be both, if we observed the proper scale to the local Churches (and parishes)? What is the ideal size of a [neighborhood] parish? How many people can a priest be a spiritual father to? Should he not be able to remember the names of all his spiritual children? How many Sunday liturgies can be said in a temple? Can we eventually achieve the Eastern ideal of one? (Given the time necessary to train priests, it seems that celebrating more than one Sunday liturgy at the [main] altar of a temple is a pastoral necessity.

How big should a local Church [diocese] be, in terms of both members and size? In the Western patriarchate at least, auxiliary bishops are given titles to dioceses that do not really exist any longer. What if, instead, the archdiocese was broken up? What if we had more bishops, instead of auxiliary/titular bishops, and more metropolitans (and provinces)? (Is attendance at an ecumenical council limited to metropolitans, in practice or in law?)

What is the basis for the inequality in status (and power?) between the metropolitan and the suffragan bishops, besides the link between his diocese and the political capital? I need to read up more on Church governance and the sacrament of Holy Orders.

Iconostasis and Ciborium

Excellent!


St. George

It is true that the iconostasis is less "solid" than traditional ones.

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev at Mount Athos

From earlier this week: Metropolitan Hilarion arrives in Athos
Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates at the Russian Monastery on Mount Athos

St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral

Светлая Суббота 2012 г. Bright Saturday 2012


I didn't have the opportunity to visit the cathedral when I was in NYC in August, so I am glad to see its interior in the video. A little too westernized, the icons?

Another video

CWR: History’s View of Vatican II by Michael J. Miller (via Insight Scoop)
The who, what, where, when, and why of the Council

The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten Story by Roberto de Mattei - it is supposed to be published by Loreto? I don't see it in the catalog.

Over at Chiesa:
The Five "Conciliar" Days of the Pope
With six statements on Vatican II, fifty years after its beginning. Followed by a commentary by Pietro De Marco on the "external paradigm" that influences the interpretation and reception of that event

Eastern Catholic Churches Encounter 2012

website - Main West Conference is coming up, November 2-4.






Traditions of the Eastern Catholic Church
Eastern Catholic Theology PART 1 with Fr. Abbot Nicholas of Holy Resurrection Monastery
Part 2

Greek Byzantine Choir - The Beatitudes (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)


So has the singing of the Beatitudes been restored to the Greek rite?

Pope Benedict's Homily at Opening Mass of the Year of Faith

Zenit: Pope Benedict's Homily at Opening Mass of the Year of Faith
"Through Christ, God is the Principal Subject of Evangelization in the World"

Greeting by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
"We Join in the Hope that the Barrier Dividing the Eastern Church and the Western Church Will be Removed" [2012-10-11]

Rome Reports


Bartholomew I recognizes before the Pope the capacity of uniting of the Second Vatican Council

Dr. Shinya Yamanaka

Great news about the Nobel Prize
Vindication for Opponents of Embryo-Destructive Research
Stem Cell Scientists Gurdon and Yamanaka Win Nobel Prize in Medicine


Gladstone Institutes

Do we care what Mayor Ed Lee and the City of San Francisco think? Everyone wants to claim a winner as one of their own.

Teacher of Teachers: Blessed John Henry Newman by Christopher Blum

Byzantine, Texas: The Liturgy in 13th century Constantinople

The chanting is splendid, but are the vestments accurate? I'm not understanding the headgear. I think that is supposed to be the emperor, rather than the bishop? NO barrier or ciborium or altar?

Misc.
Cultural Identity and Dress: The Case of Late Byzantine Court Costume

The Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute (PAOI)

Installation Mass of Archbishop Cordileone

Last Thursday.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Mass of Installation Video
San Francisco's new archbishop seeks to rebuild God's house

Archbishop is 'collaborator' in helping lead the faithful to holiness

Archbishop Cordileone: 'Francis, rebuild my house'
In homily, Archbishop Cordileone calls for 'rebuilding from within'
More from Catholic SF.

NC Reporter: Cordileone's installation in San Francisco includes demonstrations

ΧΟΡΩΔΙΑ ΘΡΑΣΥΒΟΥΛΟΥ ΣΤΑΝΙΤΣΑ - ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥΠΟΛΗ

More from the Holy Father on the Liturgy

Zenit: ON THE ECCLESIAL NATURE OF LITURGICAL PRAYER
The Liturgy is the Act Whereby We Enter Into Contact with God

(The previous audience: On the Sacred Liturgy as a School of Prayer.)

From 2003:

Two New Doctors of the Church

Rome Reports: St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. John of Avila are now Doctors of the Church. Pope also welcomes the Synod of Bishops



Zenit:
POPE BENEDICT XVI'S HOMILY AT OPENING MASS OF SYNOD OF BISHOPS
"The Holy Spirit Has Nurtured in the Church a New Effort to Announce the Good News"

DECREE GRANTING PLENARY INDULGENCE FOR YEAR OF FAITH

SPECIALIST IN DOGMATIC THEOLOGY PROMOTES PASTORAL OF "AUTO-EVANGELIZATION"
Father Antonio Aranda Lomena Set to Attend Synod on the New Evangelization