Orthodox Readings of Aquinas

Looks good.

Orthodox Readings of Aquinas by Marcus Plested (OUP US)

Via the FB page for the Fr. Georges Florovsky Orthodox Christian Theological Society

Vindictive Versus Rehabilitative

Vatican Insider: Pope: “Justice fails if prison fails to re-educate”

Should a punishment itself be meant to be rehabilitative? (In so far as it may be the occassion of repentence.) One must prepare the offender or criminal for reintegration into society, and supply the moral formation that he may not have received. But I would not consider this to be a part of the punishment itself, but a necessary supplement required by civic friendship and social justice.

Akathist of Thanksgiving

Dr. Glen Coughlin on Time

“Musings on Time”

New City Press

I was looking at the New City Press website since the company is the publisher of two books, one of which I mentioned on this blog. St. Augustine is prominent. There's another book from New City Press in which I am interested, but I can't remember the title - I think it is on economics. I'll have to look it up at the OLOP gift store. Anyway, I didn't know the company is associated with Focolare.

Orthodoxy by Paul Evdokimov

Focolare US
You Are Peter by Olivier Clément on sale now.

Rome Reports: Pope's book on the infancy of Jesus released

Eastern Christian Books: Bill Mills on Alexander Schemannn (via NLM)

Tracey Rowland on the Importance of Karol Wojtyla

Vatican II: A Hermeneutic of Continuity or Reform? by Tracey Rowland

One of the many areas which underwent a much-needed reform was that of the understanding of marriage and family life. This was in no small measure due to the interventions of the young Bishop Wojtyła from Cracow. He understood that the Church needed to develop a theology of marriage that went beyond the formulae of the scholastic marriage manuals that were widely used before the Second Vatican Council. He wanted to inject some of the insights from personalist philosophy into the Church’s teaching in this area. In other words, he wanted to draw into the Church’s theology of marriage ideas that are now presented to the world under the label of “Lublin Thomism.”

Did the vocation to the married life need to be clarified and explained for the laity? Perhaps, with the continuing onslaught by the modern state and the economic and political powers on Catholics and family life. Is theology of the body the best solution? I still have doubts. Love is the foundation of all Christian living, but in marriage one should not neglect the differences in function, psychology, or attraction that are rooted in sex differences, or overly-spiritualize conjugal love and married friendship. Perhaps the original theology of the body does not do that, but one also needs to take into account what else John Paul II said about relations between men and women and the role of women in society. Can the modern state be a proper starting point for an explication on the role of women? Or does a dialectical examination of the history of the modern state and social trends reveal that what we see cannot be purged of the influence of "liberalism" or "feminism" or some other error?

Alasdair MacIntyre's Presentation at the 13th Annual Fall Conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.

Alasdair MacIntyre "Catholic Instead of What?" Response by Sean Kelsey

Tracey Rowland on the New Latin Academy

The New Pontifical Academy for Latin by Tracey Rowland

Enthronement Liturgy of H.H. Pope Tawadros II

The Beatitudes (Pärt) — Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Who Supervises "Catholic" Universities?

The Upside-Down World of Catholic Higher Education by Anne Hendershott (via Insight Scoop)

The Principles of Theology

Dominicana: St. Thomas the Supernaturalist

Fr Peter Galadza on the Married Priesthood

Vatican Radio: Optional celibacy in the Eastern Catholic Church - mp3

More regarding the subject of this post.

Two videos for the Magnificat Day of Faith 2012

Ordo Praedicatorum

William Oddie Responds to Eamon Duffy

William Oddie: Eamon Duffy talks of ‘the Sovietisation of Catholic intellectual life’ and quotes Newman in defence of Tina Beattie: Newman would disagree

Related:
Another example of liberal panic
On Being a Catholic Academic
Prof. Tina Beattie’s US lectures cancelled because of her public dissent from Church’s moral teaching

Archbishop Di Noia on the New Evangelization

Athenaeum
Ordo Praedicatorum

Discussion Panel of the Third Volume of Joseph Ratzinger's Jesus of Nazareth

At the DSPT: Finally the Beginning: Reflections on the Final Volume of Pope Benedict XVI's "Jesus of Nazareth"

Wednesday, December 12, 7.30 pm

The momentous third and final volume in the Pope's international bestselling Jesus of Nazareth series, The Infancy Narratives , details the stories of Jesus' infancy and boyhood, and how they are relevant in the modern world. Our panel will engage and reflect on this final work as we prepare for the coming of Jesus at Christmas.

The event is free and open to all.

PANELISTS:
Thomas Cattoi, PhD, Associate Professor of Christology and Cultures, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley

Fr. Bryan Kromholtz, OP, Assistant Professor of Theology, DSPT

Fr. Anselm Ramelow, OP, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department Chair of Philosophy, DSPT

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Eastern Catholics explain tradition, value of married priests (viz Byzantine, Texas)


Related:
The Deacon's Bench
St. Elias Today!
Orthocath

Fr. C. Smith on the New Pontifical Academy

Pontificia Academia Latinitatis

Primates of Orthodox Church of Jerusalem and Russian Orthodox Church celebrate Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - more photos

Rome Reports: New Coptic pope talks about the situation of Christians in Egypt

Rome Reports: Kiko Argüello from the Neocatecumenal Way talks about plans for the Year of Faith


The local Church needs to "outcult the cults," addressing through cells of prayer, fellowship and action those human inclinations which ecclesial movements have been successful in satisfying but at the risk of distortion in doctrine, the order of charity, or praxis (or liturgical practice).

Alumni Philosophers Present at National Conference

"Latin? We don't need no..."

Rorate Caeli: Motu Proprio "Latina Lingua", establishing the Pontifical Latin Academy

St. Thérèse's True Teaching on Deification

The real Thérèse of Lisieux and those letters that were tampered with by ANDREA TORNIELLI

It is a story of true holiness and manipulated documents that told by Gianni Gennari in his new book “Teresa di Lisieux, il fascino della santità. I segreti di una “dottrina” ritrovata” (Thérèse of Lisieux, The appeal of Sainthood. The secrets of a rediscovered “doctrine” – Lindau publishers, 616 pages, 38 Euros). And one recounted in meticulous detail and inspired by documents that remained unpublished until now. The volume reconstructs the life of an extraordinary woman. Saint Thérèse of the Child of Jesus is remembered by faithful as the “little saint” and is identified with the “spiritual infancy” described in Matthew’s Gospel: “If you do not change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

And yet Thérèse Françoise Marie Martin who died in the Carmel of Lisieux at the tender age of 24 in September 1897 and was canonised by Pius XI in 1925, never used the expression “spiritual infancy” in her original writings.

The book demonstrates very clearly that the doctrine of “spiritual infancy” was the brainchild of Thérèse’s sisters who were disciples of the Jesuit, Almire Pichon. Gennari writes that for fifty years, the sisters led everyone, including the Popes, to see in her the prefect embodiment of the teachings of their spiritual director. And they managed this on their own.” They did so by spreading their faith, by presenting Thérèse’s writings, which were often altered and manipulated, and also through their testimonies and the correspondence they exchanged with the Holy See when Popes needed to prepare speeches on the saint.

Interesting - an even better Catholic spirituality, grounded in divinization or theosis.

Psalm 33 - Greek Byzantine Music by NEKTARIA KARANTZI

Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville

Byzantine, TX: Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville) in dire financial straits

Arvo Pärt, "Passio"

Hierarchical Divine Liturgy- Kazan Icon- Казанской иконы Богоматерь (November 4, 2012)

Compostela ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi

Zenit: Between Tradition and the Modern World
An Introduction to the Thought of Fr. Bernard Lonergan

Chiesa: The "Credo" Against False Gods

This is the overriding objective of the year of faith desired by Benedict XVI. To bring men back to the one true God. And to depose from their thrones the false divinities that dominate the world

by Sandro Magister


Vatican Diary / What remains of the synod

Related: XIII Ordinary General Assembly

ordopraedicatorum: The Risk of Faith: The Example of the Saints

Fr. Lazarus El Anthony

A Monk's Life


Other parts can be found at these channels:
Coptic Youth Channel
tamav333

The Last Anchorite


Part 2

New Coptic Pope Elected

In pictures: Coptic pope chosen
New Coptic Pope is chosen in Egypt (Video)

Related links:
Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate
Coptic Church
Coptic Orthodox Church Network
Encyclopedia Coptica

More videos:

Valaam Monastery - Beatitudes

A summary of a paper given by Laura Hohman at the Charles Homer Haskins Society conference at BC: Christian Living Explained: Alcuin’s De virtutibus et vitiis liber in a Carolingian Instructional Manual

David Clayton

Divna Ljubojevic - We magnify Thee

DSPT Aquinas Lecture 2012- Dr. Michael Tkacz: Albert the Great and the New Aristotelianism

While I had blogged the announcement of the lecture, I apparently had not posted the archived video for it, so here it is:

DSPT Aquinas Lecture 2012- Dr. Michael Tkacz: Albert the Great and the New Aristotelianism from DSPT on Vimeo.

Requiem - Thomas Luis de Victoria

Some Familiar Names

TAC: Alumni Launch “The Charles De Koninck Project”

Zenit: ON THE ECCLESIAL NATURE OF FAITH
No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother.

Edward Feser, Hey kids! Free casuistry!

Byzantine, Texas: A new book on the theology of Alexander Schmemann

"Eucharist: A Prayer For Unity"

Archimandrite Robert Taft, S.J.


Parts 2, 3, 6 (4?)

Robert Louis Wilken's New Book

Yale University Press: The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity

Robert Louis Wilken's New Book

Yale University Press: The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity

The Cornerstone #5: Bl. John Duns Scotus

The Cornerstone #5: Bl. John Duns Scotus by AirMaria

K. Whitehead on the Common Good and the Federal Government

Does Paul Ryan Threaten the Common Good? by Kenneth D. Whitehead

Robert Spaemann on the Council

Spaemann: Konzil hat Niedergang der Kirche eingeleitet (via Eponymous Flower)

Some Videos With Roberto De Mattei

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Roberto De Mattei - Presentazione libro "Il concilio Vaticano II" 1 parte (Parts 2 and 3 and 4)

Monsignor Gheradini on Vatican II

Some links to articles on Monsignor Brunero Gherardini.

Obtaining a copy of the English translation of his book appears to be difficult. I hope there is a second printing.

ON THE PASTORAL NATURE OF VATICAN II: AN EVALUATION

Ο ύμνος της αγάπης

Al Kimel, formerly of Pontifications, doesn't really talk about his conversion to Orthodoxy but gives his view of Orthodoxy and Orthodox theology, while mentioning some personal tragedies: Why Eclectic?

Kyrie eleison.

Retreats at Holy Resurrection Monastery

Retreats at HRM 2012-2013

These two are of interest:

April 12-14, 2013, The Mass, East and West

• Presenter: Abbot Nicholas

How can we serve the New Evangelization through our liturgical treasures? This retreat will help the Mass come alive for you in new ways.

May 24-26, 2013, The Jesus Prayer

• Presenter: Father Maximos

How can we “rejoice always and pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-17)? This retreat will be a practical introduction to prayer of the heart for lay people.

But the monastery is now located in Wisconsin... if I ever visit WI, I'd try to visit Providence Academy and the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe as well.

Novices (OP West): Ephrem the Syrian, Proto-Dominican

Vatican Insider: Russia: The Orthodox spring

Sarge and others are skeptical, but we should pray for rejuvenated local churches there (and the restoration of communion with the Bishop of Rome).

Thomistica.net: Weisheipl's Commentary on the Posterior Analytics Online

Ed Feser: The Charles De Koninck Project - the website.

Married Priests in the Roman Rite?

First Thoughts: UPDATED: John Haldane Calls for Married Priests

Despite the long history of the discipline of clerical celibacy in the Roman rite, I am not so attached to it. I would not be bothered if the rule was changed so that married men could be ordained to the priesthood. An increase in the number of smaller neighborhood communities (and their temples) would probably require an increase in the number of priests, and it is doubtful whether this would be financially viable for many urban areas in the United States. There would have to be a core group of members who could provide financial support for the community.

Is such a change necessary to increase the number of candidates to the priesthood? There is in the Western Patriarchate (or in the United States, at least) a crisis in authority rooted in a crisis in masculinity - admitting older married candidates may help alleviate certain problems in the exercise of authority and pastoral care, provided that they have the leadership qualities that the younger men lack (along with many bishops). Do we have a shortage of manly Catholic fathers?

Two on Natural Law

Thomistica.net: de lege naturae by Michael Pakaluk
Natural Law Ain’t About Falling Apples by Andrew Haines

"Eastern Catholicism," with Abbot Nicholas Zachariadis

Catholic Answers: (mp3)

Pope awards the 'Ratzinger Prize,' considered the Nobel of Theology

Pope on seven new saints: Their lives speak to the Universal Church


Pope's Homily on Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Saint



NLM: The Return of the Papal Fanon


The occasion did help me think of a birthday present for my niece.

Joint Liturgy of the Eastern American Diocese and Moscow Patriarchate (Oct. 13, 2012) - PREVIEW

Modernist architecture done right... because there is no bare space on the inside...

Μεθ ημών ο Θεός - Kabarnos Νικόδημος

Agni Parthene (Complete) - Simonopetra Monastery

Living Tradition No. 152: A CANONICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE TEACHING IN HUMANAE VITAE by Andrew Kong

ΚΥΡΙΕ ΕΚΕΚΡΑΞΑ ΠΡΟΣ ΣΕ - Lord I have cried to You

Mospat: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Pope Benedict XVI

The Next Dumb Ox Event

At the DSPT, October 30 at 8 P.M.: Fr. Hilary Martin, OP - Does Theology Change Anything?

Money matters, but does theology? Power matters, but does theology? Fr. Yves Congar, OP matters. Fr. Yves Congar, a French Dominican spent his life working with theology. Before, during and after Vatican II he worked on the Faith and how to get it across to people. He was not a bishop at the Second Vatican Council, only a Peritus, but had a hand in a lot that went on there. His Journal, or Daybook, shows how deep a hand he had.

Are we different from the way we were, and the way we were from the way we are now?

The Morality of Dr. Yamanaka's Research

Why are Catholics Praising the Nobel Prize Stem Cell Technology? (via Fr. Z)

Archbishop Cordileone on World Over

The Synod of Bishops and Such

Zenit: Benedict XVI's Address To Second Vatican Council Fathers [2012-10-14]
Christianity Must not be Considered as 'Something of the Past'

Pope's Address at Luncheon with Synod Fathers and Bishops Who Participated in Vatican II
"The Lord Will Also Help us to Move Forward Exteriorly"

Pope Benedict XVI Gives Exclusive Interview for Documentary
"Bells of Europe" Highlights the History between Christianity and Europe

On Wealth
"The Church's History is Full of Examples of Rich People Who Used their Possessions in an Evangelical Way"

Kiko Argüello: 'We Are Spectators of the Works of the Holy Spirit'
Initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way Speaks on the Ecclesial Reality's Role within the Church

Archbishop Pagla's Intervention at Synod of Bishops
"The Future of Evangelization Largely Depends on the Domestic Church"

More

MosPat: Metropolitan Hilarion’s greeting to the Synod of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church Rome, 16 October 2012

The Proper Interpretation of Vatican II

Dominicana: Conciliar Debates and the Desire for Unity

I received an e-mail from Loreto Publications that the translation of Roberto de Mattei's book on Vatican II is in the works, and it is hoped that it will be ready by the end of the year. If you are interested in purchasing a copy when it becomes available, please contact the publisher to let it know.

I still wonder, though, would it be necessary to force a reading of the documents that is orthodox and in harmony with Sacred Tradition if it were possible to admit that the documents are expressions of the Ordinary Magisterium, and hence not everything is on the same level, and that some tentative opinions were advanced which could be erroneous? An ecumenical council may be an "extraordinary act" as stated by the author of the above, but that does not mean that its documents necessary belong to the Sacred or Solemn Magisterium of the Church. If the second Vatican Council had not been so hyped, would we need to pay so much attention to it as a source of discord and division?

There is a video of the sedevecantist Fr. Cekada on the topic of the Ordinary Magisterium.

On the Hermeneutic of Continuity: Benedict XVI, the Reformer
See also The Five "Conciliar" Days of the Pope

Vatican Insider:
“Modifying the draft document on the divine Revelation”
"It taught us to live in a new world" by LUCA ROLANDI - Interview with Jesuit historian and theologian, John W. O’Malley

30 Giorni has had to suspend publication, with issue number 5. IN MEMORY OF DON GIACOMO TANTARDINI

Related:
Si Si No No: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE ORDINARY MAGISTERIUM Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize
Clear Ideas on the Pope's Infallible Magisterium

Rorate Caeli: International Theological Commission: Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Year of Faith

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

ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΗ ΣΥΝΑΥΛΙΑ ΒΡΥΞΕΛΛΩΝ - ΧΟΡΑΡΧΗΣ ΣΤΑΝΙΤΣΑΣ