COVID-19 Adjustments Elsewhere

CNA/CWR: Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Ukraine consider how to distribute Communion

St. Gregory Palamas on Theosis

St. Gregory Deification (Theosis)

We Are Partakers of the Divine: Sermon on the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
The goal of the striving of fasting, the striving of all our struggles – of repentance, prayer, and our entreaties – is to aspire toward the unveiling in us of the image of God inscribed in our nature and essence by the hand of God the Creator Himself. It becomes easier to breathe, life becomes better, and we become purer when we see where we are going, why we are going, and what we should ask God for.
Archpriest Vsevolod Shpiller (+1984)

The Teaching of St Gregory Palamas: Theosis is Possible Through the Uncreated Energies Of God

St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers by Fr. George Florovsky

An Exaggeration?

The Byzantine emphasis on monasteries is historical. But is it warranted? Prayer is important for all Christians, that is true at least.

I have seen critiques of "gerondism" here and there but I don't know if the critiques are correct.

Don’t Look for New Ideals. The Monastic Life Has Always Been an Example for the Laity

Related:
“Let’s be Christians Twenty-Four Hours a Day”: A Conversation with an Athonite Ascetic by Hieroschemamonk Ștefan Nuțescu

God Is Not Nice

Authenticity

What Is Going on at Bose?

Sandro Magister: Mystery in Bose. Pope’s Inspectors at the Monastery of Br. Enzo Bianchi

What Is an Icon?

Some Latin Traditionalists Would Probably Oppose This Too

"If there is a pastoral need for this, we can have prayers said after Mass by the people."



NLM

What Is Baptism without Chrismation?

The unanswered question Western Christians should be asking.

What Is Baptism? by Peter J. Leithart

Shaun Blanchard on "Jansenism"

Church Life: From Jansenism to Humanae Vitae: The Long History of Catholic Dissent by Shaun Blanchard

The Acta of Vatican II

NLM

What Is Matter?

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon on the Parable of the Prodigal Son

American Eastern Catholic Bishops

"The Synodal Way"

CWR Dispatch: New President of the German Bishops’ Conference speaks about the “German” Church by Martin Lohmann
Bishop Georg Bätzing makes no secret of his enthusiasm for the so-called Synodal Way. He mentions it repeatedly. Again and again.

"although the day before the Bishops’ Conference met the rumor could be heard that he was the clear favorite, especially of the bishops from Southern Germany."

The churches in Southern Germany must be in worse shape than I thought.

Related:
CNA/CWR: Women deacons possible after ‘Synodal Way,’ says German bishops’ chairman

Eastern Christian Books: Deification Through the Cross

Eastern Christian Books: Deification Through the Cross

Eerdmans: Deification through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation by Khaled Anatolios

Anatolios uses the phrase “doxological contrition” to suggest that the truth of salvation is found both in Jesus’s perfect glorification of God and in his representative repentance for humanity’s sinful rejection of its original calling to participate in the life of the Holy Trinity.

I personally don't see the need to combine Byzantine and Latin views of soteriology in this way but apparently Anatolios does.

50+ Years of the Pauline Reform

Translation of the liturgy into the vernacular, etc. and we still have devotions like this that are gaining to popularity, which have replaced a proper understanding of our adoption by the Father as sons in Christ. The Holy Family has supplanted the Trinity.

CNA/CWR: Why a new consecration to St. Joseph is spreading like wildfire

CHE COSA E' L'UOMO? UN ITINERARIO DI ANTROPOLOGIA BIBLICA

Sandro Magister: The Most Beautiful Document of This Pontificate. Which Almost Nobody Has Read

LEV

A Confusion Regarding the Christian Priesthood

What Catholic clergy and laity have in common: a Gospel mission

There are also important distinctions in the priesthood of all baptized Christians and those who are priests and bishops by virtue of sacramental ordination. The hierarchical priesthood is not simply “more of the same priesthood that the baptized have,” he added. “It’s not a super priesthood somehow completing, displacing or superseding the common priesthood.”

At the same time, there is a “priesthood which marks the whole Church as a priestly people.” This does not imply “that there is an ‘inner Church’ of ‘super Christians’ and that that is the hierarchy,” because that falls into the error of clericalism.

“if baptism confers a priesthood, it means it confers a participation in the sacrifice of Christ which, made present in the Eucharist, makes the Church,” Cavadini said.

“The exercise of this priesthood, then is ordered towards communion, and evangelization, if it is truly an exercise of the baptismal priesthood, is intended to bring people to the encounter with the Risen Lord, which is the incorporation into the eucharistic body, through configuration to Christ’s sacrifice.”

McGrath Center

What would Latins know about synodality at this point?

CNA/CWR: Pope Francis announces a 2022 synod on synodality

Related: Eastern Christian Books: Shaun Blanchard on Jansenism, Pistoia, and Catholic Historiography