A Step Forward for Full Communion?

Armenian Catholics and Orthodox seek unity their martyrs enjoy by Cindy Wooden

The Pope, Turks & Armenians: A Lesson for America by Stephen Masty
Rod Dreher

On Divine Mercy Sunday, the Second Sunday of Easter, Pope Francis celebrated Solemn Mass for the Centenary of the Armenian Martyrdom.

Posted by Beauty of Catholicism on Sunday, April 12, 2015

Accepting Fr. Bouyer for What He Says

And not trying to turn him into a Latin traditionalist.

John Pepino teaches at Our Lady of Guadalupe Semnary; he probably either is a Latin traditionalists or a sympathizer, but he does not use Bouyer to serve an agenda regarding what language should be used for the Roman rite, recognizing that Fr. Bouyer was not a Latin absolutist (nor a vernacular absolutist):

For Bouyer, it goes without saying that the instructional parts of the Mass (the lessons) must be proclaimed in such a way as to be understood of the people. Yet he immediately adds that one should not thereby suppose that the vernacular should be put in just anywhere, or that such an introduction would suffice to make the Mass perfectly comprehensible.In the first place there has to be a standard Latin text that can be used as it is: Luther and his Swedish followers held their services in Latin in university settings (for the benefit of candidates to the ministry in particular), and Cranmer "produced a standard edition of his prayer book in traditional Latin." Furthermore the abandonment of Latin would be a severe loss for priests as it would alienate them from all the sources of Western Christian culture. But even at the parish level, the following must be maintained in Latin according to Bouyer: first, the great Latin Eucharistic Prayer, so that we may follow the very terms used by our ancestors in the faith; secondly, the five stable parts of the ordinary, which everybody can learn by heart and sing (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei). Above all one ought not, under pretext of avoiding archaism, impose a straitjacket of linguistic contemporariness. The liturgy our Lord and the Apostles knew was in Aramaic--their vernacular--but also in Hebrew, their sacred language. This phobia of Latin seems to stem from the naive hypothesis that Latin is the only obstacle to a full understanding of the liturgy while in fact, it is ignorance of Sacred Scripture that is the greatest obstacle. For this reason the Council envisages more room for the Bible, and asks preachers to give homilies explaining its meaning.

"Cassandra's Curse: Louis Bouyer, the Liturgical Movement, and the Post-Conciliar Reform of the Mass," Antiphon, vol 18, no. 3 (2014), 288-89.

[Too lazy to look for a respectable format for the endnote.]

Professor Pepino has lectured on Fr. Bouyer in front of an audience that probably included a few Latin traditionalists. How did they receive Fr. Bouyer?

Ninth Meeting Begins

Ninth Meeting of Council of Cardinals Begins"Council of Nine" Continues Work of Curial Reform

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Monday, April 13, 2015

Pope Francis to Religious Formators

Pope: 'If There Is No Witness, No Coherence, There Will Be No Vocations'Francis Tells Religious Formators to Go Ahead With Joy

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Monday, April 13, 2015

Honorary Degrees for the Founders of the Neocatechumenal Way

Catholic University of America Confers Honorary Degree on Initiators of the Neocatechumenal WayKiko Argüello and Carmen Hernandez To Receive Honoris Causa from Pontifical University on May 16th

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Curial Appointments

Pope Francis has named several of the Cardinals created on February 14th members to various Dicasteries of the Roman Curia.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 13, 2015

Where the Classical Orans Gesture Has Not Been Lost

The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has spoken to Vatican Radio upon his return from Erbil, the...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 13, 2015

Archbishop Gänswein on Benedict XVI

The Prefect of the Papal Household and private secretary to Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, has...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Related:

Here is a photo taken on Saturday of Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI and seminarians from the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Pascha 2105 at Most Holy Theotokos

website

Shurishkan Gospel

Lifesite News: Cardinal Brandmüller: Advocates for changing Catholic teaching on marriage are ‘heretics’ – even if they are bishops

Lifesite (via Fr. Z)

Notes on Divine Righteousness, Satisfaction and Atonement

St. Thomas, ST III 46, 2 obj. 3

Further, God's justice required that Christ should satisfy by the Passion in order that man might be delivered from sin. But Christ cannot let His justice pass; for it is written (2 Timothy 2:13): "If we believe not, He continueth faithful, He cannot deny Himself." But He would deny Himself were He to deny His justice, since He is justice itself. It seems impossible, then, for man to be delivered otherwise than by Christ's Passion.

ST III 46, 2 ad 3:

Even this justice depends on the Divine will, requiring satisfaction for sin from the human race. But if He had willed to free man from sin without any satisfaction, He would not have acted against justice. For a judge, while preserving justice, cannot pardon fault without penalty, if he must visit fault committed against another--for instance, against another man, or against the State, or any Prince in higher authority. But God has no one higher than Himself, for He is the sovereign and common good of the whole universe. Consequently, if He forgive sin, which has the formality of fault in that it is committed against Himself, He wrongs no one: just as anyone else, overlooking a personal trespass, without satisfaction, acts mercifully and not unjustly. And so David exclaimed when he sought mercy: "To Thee only have I sinned" (Psalm 50:6), as if to say: "Thou canst pardon me without injustice."

One can say that Christ's human acts are meritorious and that His life, that in which we participate through the holy mysteries/the sacraments, provides the template for our deification. This much can be harmonized with Christus Victor theories .

Beyond this, the problem arises when Aquinas writes (ST III 48, 2): "He properly satisfies for an offense who offers something which the offended one loves equally, or even more than he detested the offense."

Usually it is understood as a form of quantitative equalizing, the "accounting ledger." It might be possible to make Aquinas here verbally agree with a Christus Victor theory of atonement, Christ satisfies Divine Righteousness for the sin of Adam (and our sins) by doing what Adam failed to do and thus countering his sin and fall, taking upon the condition of fallen man and healing him, etc..

But St. Thomas continues in III 48, 2: "But by suffering out of love and obedience, Christ gave more to God than was required to compensate for the offense of the whole human race."

The language still remains that of measuring or "accounting, as given in the language of the third objection, "Further, atonement implies equality with the trespass, since it is an act of justice," which Aquinas does not deny in his response.

Similarly, forcing an interpretation of justice as Divine Righteousness (in its wholly holy sense) could be done for ST III 46, 1 ad 3 but it would notbe a good fit :

That man should be delivered by Christ's Passion was in keeping with both His mercy and His justice. With His justice, because by His Passion Christ made satisfaction for the sin of the human race; and so man was set free by Christ's justice: and with His mercy, for since man of himself could not satisfy for the sin of all human nature, as was said above (Question 1, Article 2), God gave him His Son to satisfy for him, according to Romans 3:24-25: "Being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in His blood." And this came of more copious mercy than if He had forgiven sins without satisfaction. Hence it is said (Ephesians 2:4): "God, who is rich in mercy, for His exceeding charity wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ."

The article from the new Catholic Encyclopedia may be an attempt at a corrective to "A rigorously juridical concept of satisfaction [that] can suggest an exchange governed by commutative justice. Excessive humanization of the Creator-creature relationship can effect the theological discussion of whether or not Christ's payment of satisfaction in mankind's name was in the strictest sense a work of justice."

It goes a way to try to return to Christus Victor theories of atonement and return to a fuller sense of Divine Righteosness, but it also takes steps back as soon as it advances. For example:

The Prophets and the Psalmist appeal to the justice of god when yearning for deliverance. Goodness, mercy, fidelity, constancy—all these are aspects of the Biblical notion of God's justice. When Saint Thomas speaks of "the severity of God" that was "unwilling to forgive sin without punishment," he rightly couples this immediately with "His goodness" in giving mankind one who could adequately satisfy in behalf of all those who deserved punishment (Summa theologiae 3a, 47.3 ad 1).

[Hampered by too much attachment to Aquinas.]

And: "The word propitiation reminds one that Christ's suffering and death were an expiation for an offense or an appeasement of an offended God."

And yet what follows does not support this as the explanation of propitiation, but rather propitiation as understood in Christus Victor theories : "Though God's loving justice was not punishing His innocent Son, He did so plan the redemptive Passion as to enable Jesus to express His filial love through experiences that came to mankind historically as punishments for sin, namely, suffering and death "

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Axios!

Congratulations to Fr. Ankido Sipo and Fr. Simon Esshaki, who were ordained to the priesthood last Friday. As...

Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Monday, April 13, 2015

The Christian Mystery and Sacrifice

Posted by Louis Bouyer on Tuesday, April 14, 2015

What sort of spirituality?

Imbuing the Ordinary Form with Extraordinary Form Spirituality by Peter Kwasniewski

While the author claims that such changes will be beneficial to the people (and there are spiritual benefits to the people for a reverent celebration of the Divine Liturgy), the article is mostly centered on the clerics. There is very little about fostering an authentic liturgical spirituality in the Christian faithful in general.

Christos Anesti! (Julian calendar)

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tomb bestowing life!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Sunday, April 12, 2015

Got my back issues of Antiphon yesterday afternoon; will enjoy reading more about Fr. Bouyer.

Consecrated Life

Religious formators gathered in Rome for a seminar on fashioning new vocations in contemporary society – a task the Vatican’s point man for consecrated life says is not easy, but still full of hope.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, April 10, 2015

Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, April 10, 2015

A Scientist Talks about the First Draft of Interstellar

AICN: Copernicus: Science vs. INTERSTELLAR, Part 2!!

Cappella Romana on Millenium of Music

Thanks to Millennium of Music Radio for featuring our Good Friday In Jerusalem CD on their Easter 2015 Program!

Posted by Cappella Romana on Thursday, April 9, 2015

Hymn of Cassia

The Hymn of Cassia, a great hymn sung at Matins and Presanctified Liturgy of Holy Wednesday. This arrangement adapted...

Posted by Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church on Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Holy Friday on the New Julian Calendar

Today, based on information gleaned from studying the Shroud of Turin, we can say that flogging consisted of thirty-nine...

Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Friday, April 10, 2015

Ciboria and Tabernacles

More Byzantine temples should have ciboria within them!

Posted by Orthodox Arts Journal on Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Great Thursday

Every time Liturgy is served, when the Eucharist is performed, God calls us “with uplifted minds” to ascend the mountain...

Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Thursday, April 9, 2015

Is Pretending the Same as Lying?

People who pretended to be insane to hide their holiness. Crazy!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 6, 2015

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Saint John—NB, Canada

Fr. Andrew writes: Here are some photos from our Nymphios service at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Saint John—NB, Canada

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, April 7, 2015

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More on Fr. Bouyer

Written last year on the anniversary of his death: Louis Bouyer, teologo da romanzo

OR: Parresia di un teologo scomodo: Le memorie di Louis Bouyer (Republished here.)·

St Stephanos Greek Orthodox Church, Hurlstone Park, Sydney Australia

"Hi. Here are some photos from Palm Sunday 2015 and the Bridegroom Service at the Greek Orthodox Parish of St Stephanos Hurlstone Park, Sydney Australia."

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, April 8, 2015

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Gothic + Byzantine

Wow! "Palm Sunday in England. Above the icon of the raising of Lazarus on the right is a stone from his tomb."

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 6, 2015

Holy Week in Jerusalem

Another great thing to watch in preparation for Pascha!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Anunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Winston-Salem, NC

"My name is George, a Greek Orthodox Christian living and working in Houston, Texas. This year, I spent Palm Sunday in...

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, April 8, 2015

website

Virtual Choir

AMAZING!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Laudable, But Does the Need for the CDF Speak Against Certain Claims Regarding the Papacy?

The pope as universal teacher?

Vatican Insider: Müller suggests new task for Congregation for Doctrine of Faith

In an interview with French Catholic newspaper La Croix, the German cardinal stated: “The arrival of a theologian like Benedict XVI in the Chair of St. Peter was no doubt an exception. But John XXIII was not a professional theologian. Pope Francis is also more pastoral and our mission at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is to provide the theological structure of a pontificate.” So according to Müller’s statement, the former Holy Office must “theologically structure” Pope Francis’ pontificate. And this is probably the reason why the Prefect gives public statements on such a frequent basis, like never before.

The Angel Cried Out

NLM: “The Angel Cried Out” - The Byzantine Easter Hymn to the Virgin by Gregory DiPippo

A Jesuit Making Peace with Opus Dei?

From last year: Pope Francis’ Letter on Beatification of Alvaro del Portillo
Pope Francis’ letter to Bishop Javier Echevarría, Prelate of Opus Dei, for the beatification of Alvaro del Portillo. Dated June 26, 2014.





Highlights of his beatification.
Blessed Alvaro del Portillo
website for his beatification

Regarding devotion to the Holy Family, I came across this interesting point in Bouyer's The Invisible Father last weekend:

As for the Latin formulas, they are even worse: as if an abstract Godhead only took on a genuinely personal appearance in God-made-man. And it is best to pass over those deformations so justly stigmatized by Thomas Mozley, and which seem to suggest that the Trinity adored in practice by Western Catholics is not that of the heavenly Father, the Son and the Spirit, but that of the Mother, Child and Foster-father!

The Invisible Father (Petersham, MA: St. Bede's Publications, 1976), 240.

Watered-Down Adopted Sonship?

Opus Dei: Message

Divine filiation. “Divine filiation is the foundation of the spirit of Opus Dei,” said its founder, St. Josemaría Escrivá. The Christian is a child of God by virtue of baptism. Thus the formation provided by the Prelature seeks to foster among the Christian faithful a deep awareness of their being children of God, and helps them act accordingly. It fosters confidence in divine providence, simplicity in their dialogue with God, a deep awareness of the dignity of each human being and of the need for fraternity among all people, a truly Christian love for the world and for all human realities created by God, and a sense of calm and optimism.

Sounds like the watered-down version of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, rather than a robust understanding of deification.

Pascha Divine Liturgies

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Easter Badarak 2015

A Worthy Heir to Bouyer?

Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, Institute for Church Life -- Oblation: Liturgy and Life

Troparion Paskah

Troparion Paskah dalam berbagai macam bahasa:Bahasa Yunani: Christos anesti ek nekron, thanato thanaton patisas, ke...

Posted by Mengenal Gereja Katolik Melkit on Saturday, April 4, 2015

Fr. Cantalamessa's Good Friday Homily

Father Cantalamessa's Good Friday Homily"Ecce Homo"

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Friday, April 3, 2015

Fr Cantalamessa: All of Us, Our Institutions Have Risk of Being Like Pilate, Washing Our HandsReflects in Good Friday Homily on How What God Requests of Us Is Not Impossible

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Friday, April 3, 2015

Entering the Mystery

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 6, 2015

Pope Francis recited the Regina Coeli on Easter Monday, leading the pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square in a rousing chant of “Christ is risen!”
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 6, 2015

International Conference on Digital Media and Orthodox Pastorla Care

Wow! 75 experts in Orthodoxy & Digital Media from all over the world will be in Athens this May for a conference co-sponsored by OCN. We're looking forward to it!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 6, 2015

Paschal Homilies, Part 2

Chiesa

On the Orthodox Dating of Easter

Why Orthodox Christian Easter Is Later than the Catholic One(via Byz TX)

Ferrara's Critique of Karl Keating's Book on Geocentrism

See this post regarding Keating's book.

To Discredit the Traditionalist Movement: What Really Motivates the Neo-Catholic Witch Hunters

2000 Interview with Fr. Aidan Nichols

Touchstone

Missed These Articles

Fr. Bouyer's memoirs hold high praise for Joseph Ratzinger, Magister noted, and Fr. Bouyer in turn was highly regarded...

Posted by Catholic News Agency on Saturday, September 20, 2014

His memoirs.
L'histoire secrète de l'Eglise au XXème siècle
La Croix article

So there was a colloquium held last year on his work... great!

A Facebook page in his honor.

Orthodox Palm Sunday

Edit.

Fr. Nichols Should Write an Book on Byzantine Theology

if he hasn't already...

A Catholic View of Orthodoxy by Aidan Nichols OP

Rome and the Eastern Churches

Iso maran m'siha

A review of the CD.

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Χριστός ἀνέστη!

The Paschal troparion.

The Central Mystery of Christianity

From 2013: Into the Heart of the Liturgy

Oikonomia

“Better Marry Than Burn.” In Second Marriages, Too by Sandro Magister
The Orthodox Churches apply the apostle Paul’s saying to the divorced. And there are those who also want to introduce this practice into the Catholic Church. Including a theologian of the diocese of Bologna, the same of Cardinal Caffarra

Intro to Mysterium Paschale

Balthasar, his Christology, and the Mystery of Easter | Aidan Nichols OP | Introduction to Hans Urs von Balthasar's Mysterium Paschale

Degenerate neo-Thomism?

Is it the case that some Thomist philosophers think they can do theology because they've read the theological works of St. Thomas, relying upon him alone without consulting Sacred Scripture and the Fathers, and thus reducing theology to some version of philosophical theology (or metaphysical theology, as it is styled by some Orthodox)? They may give attention to conciliar documents and papal statements as boundaries for speculation, but that isn't enough.

Holy Thursday- Establishment of the Sacrament of Communion

The "Old Rite"

of Russian Orthodoxy...

The commission which will consider the possibility of recognizing the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church took place in Moscows.

Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Friday, April 3, 2015

Another Catholic Convert

The abbot of the High Monastery of St. Peter in Moscow, Hegumen Peter (Yeremeyev), tonsured the priest Constantine...

Posted by Holy Cross Orthodox Monastery on Thursday, April 2, 2015

Cappella Romana Sings Steinberg's Passion Week

Cappella Romana - Steinberg's Passion Week (LIVE)

Wanna hear Cappella Romana's world premiere recording of Steinberg's Passion Week on #TheChoralStream? Tune in on Good Friday (4.3.15) at 2pm CDT.Listen Here ----> http://bit.ly/SteinbergPassion

Posted by Choral Music from Classical MPR on Thursday, April 2, 2015

Dying with Christ

We will soon enter quite profoundly into the mystery of our salvation in as we journey with Christ from the raising of...

Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Thursday, April 2, 2015

Leopold Kohr

Leopold Kohr: Prophet of a Coming Decentralization? by Steven Yates

Flick for Aidan Hart Icons

Here

Defending the Sufficiency of the Use of Hand Missals

Coming Clean About My Latin Problem by Steve Skojec

Related:
Spiritual Renewal Paul VI Spoke of Has Not Yet Materialized by Christian Browne

Cappella Romana for Holy Week

"Good Friday in Jerusalem" featured prominently this week on the Harmonia Early Music radio show.

Posted by Cappella Romana on Monday, March 30, 2015

Ever been curious about spending a weekend on tour with Cappella Romana? Here's your chance to see behind the scenes!

Posted by Cappella Romana on Saturday, March 21, 2015

10 Suggestions for Liturgical Renewal from Bishop Schneider

Bishop Schneider: 10 Elements of Renewal in the Liturgy

St. Maria Skobtsova of Paris

Today is the 70th anniversary of the martyrdom on St Maria of Paris. Elizaveta Pilenko, now known as Saint Maria...

Posted by Jim Forest on Tuesday, March 31, 2015

ECB: Mother, Martyr, Saint: On the Death of Maria Skobtsova

Feser on Denys Turner's Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait

Was Aquinas a Materialist?

I was thinking of buying the book but now I've lowered its priority on the wish list.

Archbishop Chaput on Religious Liberty

Religious Liberty 50 Years After Dignitatis Humanae by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

Maronite Divine Liturgy for the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of St. Teresa of Avila 28 March 2015

Would Like to Read This

From Potlucks, Eucharist, and Ecumenical Dialogue by Nicholas Denysenko:

"In the January 2015 issue of Worship, Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, S.J., appealed to Catholic and Orthodox Christians to reinvigorate efforts for an authentic restoration of ecclesial intercommunion between the two Churches."

Didn't know Fr. Denysenko wrote for Pray Tell.

Holy Week Homilies from Benedict XVI

Chiesa: Paschal Homilies by Sandro Magister
Exercises on liturgical preaching for Holy Week. From the archive of Benedict XVI

Feast of the Commemoration of St. Gregory the Illuminator's torture and commitment to the pit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-EQp8zh8pFk#t=0

МИТРОПОЛИТ ВОЛОКОЛАМСКИЙ ИЛАРИОН ПОСЕТИЛ КАЗАНСКУЮ ДУХОВНУЮ СЕМИНАРИЮ

МИТРОПОЛИТ ВОЛОКОЛАМСКИЙ ИЛАРИОН ПОСЕТИЛ КАЗАНСКУЮ ДУХОВНУЮ СЕМИНАРИЮ28 марта 2015 года председатель Отдела внешних це...

Posted by Митрополит Иларион Алфеев (Metropolitan Hilarion) on Monday, March 30, 2015

More on Blessed Bishop Budka

Posted by Risu English on Friday, March 27, 2015

5th Lenten Sermon of Fr. Cantalamessa

Fr. Cantalamessa's 5th Lenten Homily 2015East and West Before the Mystery of Salvation

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Friday, March 27, 2015

Of course, he has some positive words about the Catholic Charismatic movement.

"The Catholic charismatic movement is one of the many fruits of the Second Vatican Council, which, like a new Pentecost, led to an extraordinary flourishing in the Church's life of groups and movements particularly sensitive to the action of the Spirit. . . . How many lay faithful—men, women, young people, adults and the elderly—have been able to experience in their own lives the amazing power of the Spirit and his gifts! How many people have rediscovered the faith, the joy of prayer, the power and beauty of the Word of God, translating all this into generous service in the Church’s mission! How many lives have been profoundly changed!"

His second and third sermons of Lent this year.

Archbishop Ganswein on Pope Francis

Archbishop Georg Ganswein: 'Pope Francis is Full of Surprises'In Interview with La Nacion's Elisabetta Pique, Prefect of the Pontifical Household Says Benedict XVI "Impressed" By Successor

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Monday, March 30, 2015

Pope Francis on St. Teresa of Avila

Pope Francis said the life of St Teresa of Avila, characterized by “total self-giving to God,” is a “great treasure”...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, March 28, 2015

Pope: Saint Teresa of Avila is "A Teacher of Prayer"Sends Message to Discalced Carmelites for the Fifth Centenary of Spanish Mystic's Birth

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Monday, March 30, 2015

Pope Begins 'Prayer for Peace With Saint Teresa'Address Letter to Order of Discalced Carmelites That Will Be Published on March 28th

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Thursday, March 26, 2015

God’s Martyr, History’s Witness by Father Athanasius McVay

Kyiv-Halych was present for the book launch, along with Bishop Borys Gudziak of Paris and Bishop Hlib Lonchyna of...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, March 28, 2015

Dr. Marshner on The Journey Home

From 2014

Divine Liturgy 150330

Palm Sunday with the Bishop of Rome

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, March 29, 2015

Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square.His homily is at the link: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/03/29/pope_francis_palm_sunday_homily/1133038
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, March 29, 2015

St. Mary of Egypt

Each of you knows that when we do not have any particular needs, when everything is just fine, our prayer begins to grow...

Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Sunday, March 29, 2015

If we were in that mood we would, when we come to the doors of the church, be, however little, like Mary of Egypt. We...

Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Sunday, March 29, 2015

Pope Francis on Mar Dinkha IV

Pope Francis has sent his condolences upon learning of the death of the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Dinkha IV.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, March 28, 2015

The Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV, died on Thursday at the age of 79.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, March 27, 2015

Assyrian Patriarch Passes Away in MinnesotaIraq Native Patriarch Dinkha IV Brought Stability, Peace to a Church in Turmoil

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Friday, March 27, 2015

Update:

Pope Francis Sends Condolences for Death of Assyrian Patriarch of the EastRecalls His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV's Enduring Commitment to Improving Relations Among Christians

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Monday, March 30, 2015

A Discussion of Iconographic Tradition

Posted by Orthodox Arts Journal on Thursday, March 26, 2015

Ressourcement

While in the past I may have been wary of the nouvelle théologie to one degree or another, their attempt to re-engage with the Church Fathers was praiseworth in intent, if not in execution. In the last year I've gradually drifted away from "Thomism of Strict Observance," not that I ever really considered myself a member of that school of Thomistic theology, though I was willing to read its texts. Having had a chance to delve into the Church Fathers more in the last year, it may be time for me to re-evaluate nouvelle théologie the 20th century Ressourcement movement and its members. (I have been a fan of Fr. Bouyer for quite some time, so I am thinking more of the Jesuits.)

Ressourcement theology, aggiornamento, and the hermeneutics of tradition by Marcellino D'Ambrosio

“Ressourcement,” “Aggiornamento,” and Vatican II in Ecumenical Perspective by Eduardo Echeverria

Related:
A Theologian for Our Times – Rediscovering Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange

I didn't know the Salve Regina website is associated with the FSSP, though I had been aware of the website's existence not too long after it was created. "It figures."

Fourth Lenten Sermon of Fr. Cantalamessa

On Friday morning Pope Francis attended the Lenten sermon of the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Franciscan Father...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, March 27, 2015

On Friday morning the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Franciscan Father Raniero Cantalamessa gave his fourth Lenten sermon in the Mater Redemptoris chapel in the Vatican.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, March 27, 2015

Santa Teresa de Jesús

Rorate Caeli: On the 5th Centenary of the Birth of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Catholic Reformer - Guest-post by Don Pietro Leone

Vida, Obra, Oración

More icons of the Carmelite saints would be beneficial for the West.

St. John Chrysostom Church, York, PA

Brandon writes: I thought I would share a couple pictures from my home parish in Pennsylvania! I always love seeing...

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, March 27, 2015

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New Syro-Malankara Eparchies

Pope Francis on Thursday erected the new Eparchy (diocese) of St John Chrysostom of Gurgaon and a new Apostolic...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Thursday, March 26, 2015

A New Dominican Saint

A new Dominican saint . . . Praised be Jesus Christ!

Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Tuesday, March 24, 2015

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The student brothers of the Provinces of France and England meet at Oxford. Please pray for Dominican vocations and for all our brothers in formation throughout the world.

Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Vocation Directors, Novice Masters, and Student Masters from the four U.S. Provinces, England, Ireland, and...

Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Sunday, March 22, 2015

Vocation Directors of the four U.S. Provinces and the Provinces of England, Ireland and Argentina at the Interprovincial Formators' Meeting.

Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Friday, March 20, 2015

Η προσευχή και η νηστεία απαραίτητα στοιχεία, εφόδια στην πνευματική πορεία μας προς την Βασιλεία του Θεού.

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Help my unbelief.

I believe, help my disbelief! Lord have mercy on me!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, March 25, 2015

60 Minutes Story on Christian Persecution

The persecution of Christians is compared to the Holocaust. How long will the persecution of Christians in the Middle East continue?

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, March 26, 2015

Gossip? Someone Needs to Squelch the Cardinals, Then.

GENERAL AUDIENCE: On Praying for the Synod on the Family"All the Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, priests, men and women...

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Pope At General Audience: Synod of Bishops Needs Prayers, Not GossipLeads Faithful in Prayer for Synod on the Family in...

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Another icon of the Holy Family, "Byzantinized" with the Greek--

Here is the prayer recited by Pope Francis at today's General Audience for the Synod on the Family.

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The Feast of the Annunciation

A New Sui Iuris Church

Post by Magyarországi Görögkatolikus Egyház.

Post by Magyarországi Görögkatolikus Egyház.

Post by Magyarországi Görögkatolikus Egyház.

Another Western Saint in Need of an Icon Depiction?

Quote for March 24th"He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things."- St Alphonsus Liguori

Posted by Zenit News Agency on Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Also to be published by CUA Press in April 2015

Knowing the Natural Law: From Precepts and Inclinations to Deriving Oughts
Steven Jensen

The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology
Thomas Joseph White, OP

Keith Lemna

He has written on Fr. Bouyer; perhaps he would be interested in a conference on Bouyer?

faculty page

Related:
Rev. Louis Bouyer: A Theological Giant | An Interview with Dr. Keith Lemna

"Perhaps the most fruitful terrain for future study of his thought at this point would be in comparing his work with Newman, say, or with that of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Balthasar, near the end of his life, placed his own thought in the "school" of Bouyer and the biblical scholars Heinz SchŸrmann and Heinrich Schlier. He distinguished this "school," all of whose adherents were rooted in biblical theology, from Henri de Lubac's ressourcement theology, with which Balthasar has generally been associated. The coherence between Bouyer's thinking and Newman's is worthy of its own special study. Moreover, only Pope Benedict XVI rivals Bouyer in being both a theologian and a scholar of liturgy. There is much that needs to be said regarding the uniquely liturgical theologies of both of these great men of the Church."

philpapers: "Louis bouyer's sophiology: A balthasarian retrieval," Heythrop Journal 52 (4):628-642 (2011)