Sunday, May 10, 2015
Blessed Repose...
Memory eternal! Seraphim reflects on the lives and legacies of Fr. Roman, Fr. Thomas, and Fr. Matthew.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Saturday, May 2, 2015
Related:
“What is a merciful heart? It is a heart on fire for the whole of creation, for humanity, for the birds, for the...
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, May 8, 2015
Caption this photo!
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, May 8, 2015
In loving memory of Fr. William Chiganos, who recently fell asleep in the Lord, we have an excerpt from a sermon Fr. William gave in 2009 on the Rich Young Ruler’s question to Christ regarding salvation.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, May 8, 2015
Appointments to the CDF
The Holy Father has appointed our brother, Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP, to serve as a member of the Congregation for...
Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Pope Francis has named two new members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Wednesday, May 6, 2015
On Wednesday, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Roland Minnerath of Dijon, France and Archbishop Anthony Colin Fisher OP...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Thursday, May 7, 2015
Christian Vocations
Can you compare the two? Each of these two great callings can be a pathway to God, and both are holy and sacred.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Sunday, May 10, 2015
Saturday, May 09, 2015
Friday, May 08, 2015
Thursday, May 07, 2015
Discussion of Bishop Larry Silva's decision on confirmation at Pray Tell: Bishop Restores the Traditional Order of the Sacraments of Initiation
Sobor Uspenia Pressvjatoy Bogorodici
This is beautiful! Sent to us from a follower, this is Sobor Uspenia Pressvjatoy Bogorodici in Kolomna, Moscow Region, Russia.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Christian Joy
Our paschal demeanor and worldview should never end! Amen?
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Doing Coffee Hour Right
Charging for lunch after you fast all morning? Christina writes that this can be extremely harmful and makes some suggestions for moving forward.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, May 7, 2015
Ugly Ecclesial Politics?
“The Ukrainian Orthodox Church does not just seek peace in Ukraine. We call upon the conflicting parties to see in each...
Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Thursday, May 7, 2015
His Beatitude Onufry, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, arrived in Varna on May 1, 2015, at the invitation of His...
Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
FATHER ROMAN BRAGA – MEMORY ETERNAL
Father Roman Braga: May his memory be eternal!
By Dr. Dan Hinshaw
(via Mere Comments)
Father Roman Braga: May his memory be eternal!
By Dr. Dan Hinshaw
(via Mere Comments)
Still Not Hagia Sophia
Saint Sophia Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral will be consecrated this month by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios. What is a consecration and why does it take place? Find out!
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Notes on the Formal Cause of Political Community
Re: De Regno, even if we accept its authenticity, Aquinas does not explicitly claim that political authority/government is the formal cause of political community.
Government is a function/act proper to some or all of the material elements of political community, it is not identical to the material elements in themselves .
As for what makes a community, it is custom taken in a broad sense, encompassing law (and not just civil law), culture, and also the recognition that one is a member of such a community (what falls under the subjective conception of group identity) both by one's self and by others.
Coming to a proper understanding of political community and society will not be easy for most of us as we have become habituated to living in degenerate forms of community (to the point at which they cease being communities properly speaking).
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Government is a function/act proper to some or all of the material elements of political community, it is not identical to the material elements in themselves .
As for what makes a community, it is custom taken in a broad sense, encompassing law (and not just civil law), culture, and also the recognition that one is a member of such a community (what falls under the subjective conception of group identity) both by one's self and by others.
Coming to a proper understanding of political community and society will not be easy for most of us as we have become habituated to living in degenerate forms of community (to the point at which they cease being communities properly speaking).
pl
Tuesday, May 05, 2015
Monday, May 04, 2015
Sunday, May 03, 2015
Jeff Mirus on Henri de Lubac's Vatican Council Notebooks, Vol. 1
Henri de Lubac's fascinating notes on Vatican II By Dr. Jeff Mirus
How good is this generalization?
(Ignatius Press)
How good is this generalization?
A more immediate historical influence might be attributed to the two world wars of the twentieth century. Throughout the West, people came to have a profound respect for military precision and obedience, and all the habits of thought associated with soldiering. Those who can remember the 1950s will remember a society still interested in precise dress, short military hair cuts, and punctilious manners when it came to rank, not to mention the need to concern oneself primarily with one’s own duties, while accepting unquestionably the larger decisions of authority. This lent the entire culture a quality of systemic formalism.
(Ignatius Press)
Saturday, May 02, 2015
An Impractical Patriotism
A Catholic Patriotism by James Kalb
America is not a system of beliefs but millions of people living together, so rejecting some beliefs now treated as official is not rejecting America
James Kalb is a good tradcon fighting the good fight but he's missing the problem of scale, too.
America is not a system of beliefs but millions of people living together, so rejecting some beliefs now treated as official is not rejecting America
James Kalb is a good tradcon fighting the good fight but he's missing the problem of scale, too.
The Battle for the Extraordinary Synod
Between the Synods: Testing the Catholicity of our Faith by Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD
What will be the outcome of the Synod? There are signs both positive and disquieting.
Related:
Sodomy Synod
What will be the outcome of the Synod? There are signs both positive and disquieting.
Related:
Sodomy Synod
Two from Fr. Schall
The Reasonable Character of the Credibility of the Christian Faith
The Church understands that it needs thinkers to examine and explain why arguments are leveled against it and whether or not these arguments are valid
On Pope Francis and Understanding Theology
The world is like a school that the students refuse to attend because they do not want to know what they need to know to be saved
The Church understands that it needs thinkers to examine and explain why arguments are leveled against it and whether or not these arguments are valid
On Pope Francis and Understanding Theology
The world is like a school that the students refuse to attend because they do not want to know what they need to know to be saved
More Common Good Rhetoric
Pope to Community of Christian Life: 'Devote Yourselves to the Common Good'Meets with Ignatian Movement Ahead of May 3rd Conference in Frascati
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Friday, May 1, 2015
Christian Social Order by Brian Mullady, OP
Fr. Brian Mullady, OP, has published a new book--Christian Social Order--on the social teachings of the Church. Order...
Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Wednesday, April 29, 2015
800 Years of the Order of Preachers
Teaser
The Order of Preachers is getting ready to celebrate our 800th Jubilee! Check out this video and visit six key places where our founder St. Dominic established the beginnings of Dominican life.
Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Thursday, April 23, 2015
Friday, May 01, 2015
Trinitarian Image of the Marital Embrace
Not synchronicity, but juxtaposed with the child who is the fruit of that union.
Revelation and Discovery of the Nuptial Meaning of the Body
A Brief Explanation of the Nuptial Meaning of the Body.
Revelation and Discovery of the Nuptial Meaning of the Body
A Brief Explanation of the Nuptial Meaning of the Body.
Humility and Apatheia
Think about these words from Abba Isaac: "A humble man is never rushed, hasty, or agitated, never has any hot or...
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, May 1, 2015
Beauty Will Save the World
Beauty and Tradition in the “Church of the Poor” by Benjamin Mann and Abbot Nicholas Zachariadis (via NLM)
Fr. Roman Braga
Memory Eternal, Fr. Roman Braga! You can read about his incredible life here: http://bit.ly/1GKoB3u
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, April 30, 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Institute for Priestly Formation
A Church that Was Never Militant Enough
The Latin churches in the United States from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. After assimilating neo-Yankee values and the gospel of progress and wealth (while maintaining ethnic enclaves for newcomers), is it surprising that they failed?
Mirror of Justice: Father Robert Henle, S.J., and the Crisis in Catholicism
Mirror of Justice: Father Robert Henle, S.J., and the Crisis in Catholicism
Memory Eternal
Dumnezeu sa'l ierte!
Posted by SAINT GEORGE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL of Greater Detroit on Wednesday, April 29, 2015
obituary
Metropolitan Nikolaos on the Holy Mount
This is a really cool article about the spiritual influence of the Holy Mountain. Let us know what you think!
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, April 29, 2015
John 13:35
The early church was an incredibly loving community. Let us reflect on our own lives and that of the early church and decide which path we will walk.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Fr. Fessio Taking the Minority View?
Contraception and Abortion. Which Is the Greater Evil by Sandro Magister
The first withholds life from one who could be born. The second takes it from one who is already alive. A back-and-forth between two theologians, on a question that remains open to free discussion
The first withholds life from one who could be born. The second takes it from one who is already alive. A back-and-forth between two theologians, on a question that remains open to free discussion
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Icon of Noah's Ark
Fr. Noah explains the icon of Noah's Ark and why it is placed where it is in the church. Listen to Fr Noah here: http://tinyurl.com/nefdsc5
Posted by Ancient Faith Radio on Friday, April 24, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Communio in Christo
Recently, the German-based “Communio in Christo” community held an international conference for various priests,...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 27, 2015
Pope Francis at the UN
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Tuesday before going on to...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, April 28, 2015
In Need of Clarification
Francis: Priests are shepherds, not managers
Pope Francis
Pope Francis
Pope Francis has made clear that priests cannot refuse baptism to anyone who asks for the sacrament. The pontiff also reiterated that priests should think only of helping Catholics in their care, not of their own ambitions
Pope Francis
Pope Francis
Pope Francis has made clear that priests cannot refuse baptism to anyone who asks for the sacrament. The pontiff also reiterated that priests should think only of helping Catholics in their care, not of their own ambitions
Pope Francis presided over the ordinations of priests for the diocese of Rome in Saint Peter’s Basilica.Go the link...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, April 26, 2015
Pope Francis recited the Regina Coeli on Sunday, joined by two of the priests he ordained earlier tin the morning.See...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, April 26, 2015
On Sunday, Pope Francis presided over the ordinations of priests for the diocese of Rome in Saint Peter’s Basilica, reminding them they are ministers of unity in the Church.
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, April 26, 2015
Creeds
What is The Creed? What do we mean when we say that The Creed is the standard of faith? In what way is The Creed relevant to us today?Listen here: http://tinyurl.com/mz77j3u
Posted by Ancient Faith Radio on Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Saint John the Dwarf
What has a man whose obedience once caused a barren stick to blossom forth a tree in the desert to tell us today about...
Posted by Ancient Faith Radio on Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The Icon of the Good Shepherd
Cynthia explains how the icon of the Good Shepherd best describes her journey to Orthodoxy. Check it out!
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015
Defending Marriage as from God
An open letter entitled “The Defense of Marriage and the Right of Religious Freedom: Reaffirming a Shared Witness” was issued to all in positions of public service on April 23.
Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Monday, April 27, 2015
Politicians, Take Heed
The duty of the Bishop is to reprimand the faithful!
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Saturday, April 25, 2015
Church of Life-Giving Spring
Read about the history of the Monastery of the Mother of God at the Spring.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 27, 2015
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Library
Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Library To Be Opened in RomeLibrary Is Dedicated Entirely to the Life and Thought of German Pontiff as Scholar and Pope
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Interesting Choice of an Accompanying Photo
Happy Name-Day, Pope Francis!
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Thursday, April 23, 2015
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
Saw a Freeway Billboard Reminding Drivers of the Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
There are always two genocides. The first is the physical act and the second is the denial.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, April 24, 2015
Thursday, April 23, 2015
The Glory of God
Explore beautiful Hubble Space Telescope images from each year the telescope has been in orbit: http://go.nasa.gov/1zQf6bb #Hubble25
Posted by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Thursday, April 23, 2015
Man, know your limits. The Lord created all of this to express His glory and to remind you that despite your greatness in His material creation, there are still boundaries which you cannot pass.
Dreams of interstellar space travel, Babeilian pride and man's desire to ascend to the heavens by his own power.
The Resurrection of Christ
We are each connected to Christ's resurrection. And that is good news!
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Feast of St. George
You were bound for good deeds, O martyr of Christ: George; / by faith you conquered the torturer’s godlessness. / You...
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, April 23, 2015
"Kalimera! As today is the eve of the feast of St George I thought it appropriate to search out my photos of our...
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Photos of Metropolitan Hilarion
МИТРОПОЛИТ ИЛАРИОН СОВЕРШИЛ ЛИТУРГИЮ ДРЕВНЕРУССКИМ ЧИНОМ В МОСКОВСКОМ ХРАМЕ ПОКРОВА ПРЕСВЯТОЙ БОГОРОДИЦЫ В РУБЦОВЕ18 а...
Posted by Митрополит Иларион Алфеев (Metropolitan Hilarion) on Monday, April 20, 2015
Related:
МИТРОПОЛИТ ИЛАРИОН: В ПАСХАЛЬНОМ ПРИВЕТСТВИИ «ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕСЕ!» ВЫРАЖАЕТСЯ ГЛАВНАЯ РАДОСТЬ И НАДЕЖДА ВСЕЙ НАШЕЙ ЖИЗНИ...
Posted by Митрополит Иларион Алфеев (Metropolitan Hilarion) on Monday, April 20, 2015
St Sergius of Radonezh and St. Benedict of Nursia
"At the Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary Conference on St Sergius of Radonezh, John Martin (HTOS, 5th year) reflected in his paper on the similarities between St Sergius’ life and the life of the sixth century Western monastic founder, St Benedict of Nursia. He noted a number of thought-provoking parallels and showed how these similarities were rooted in a common monastic tradition."
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Not Sure How I Missed This Book When It Was First Published
I'll have to obtain a copy.
Edit. Come to think of it, I may have a copy but in storage...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Count on the Dominicans...
Vatican Insider: Does the Successor of Peter need “theological structuring”?
Interview with Fr. Benoît-Dominique de La Soujeole, O.P.
Interview with Fr. Benoît-Dominique de La Soujeole, O.P.
Turning point?
Jewish Catholic relations were under the spotlight in the Vatican on Monday as Pope Francis met with a delegation from...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 20, 2015
Vatopaidi on Mt. Athos
"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in...
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 20, 2015
Related:
A little about Athonite obediences. Check it out!
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 20, 2015
I Think I've Posted a Link to This Article Before
First step: set up a prayer corner. The next step is even more important: actually using the space regularly for prayer.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 20, 2015
Spring 2015 Issue of Sacred Music
NLM
I'm actually interested in this piece: "Twentieth-Century Reform and the Transition from a “Parallel” to a “Sequential” Liturgical Model: Implications for the Inherited Choral Repertoire and Future Liturgical Compositions" by Jared Ostermann
But this should be good: "Contributions of Pope Benedict XVI to the Continuing Liturgical Reforms" by Edward Schaefer
Then there's "A Charter for the New Liturgical Movement" by Peter Kwasniewski
I'm actually interested in this piece: "Twentieth-Century Reform and the Transition from a “Parallel” to a “Sequential” Liturgical Model: Implications for the Inherited Choral Repertoire and Future Liturgical Compositions" by Jared Ostermann
But this should be good: "Contributions of Pope Benedict XVI to the Continuing Liturgical Reforms" by Edward Schaefer
Then there's "A Charter for the New Liturgical Movement" by Peter Kwasniewski
In Defense of Historical Truth
A First for Francis. With the Ottoman Enemy by Sandro Magister
In two years as pope, he had never been attacked so harshly as he is now by Turkey, for his denunciation of the Armenian genocide. A turning point in the pontificate
In two years as pope, he had never been attacked so harshly as he is now by Turkey, for his denunciation of the Armenian genocide. A turning point in the pontificate
Debate
I remember trying out for the debate society one year and how I didn't like the exercise of finding the arguments necessary to win, rather than practicing arguments for the sake of the truth. The problem was that I looked at it as an exercise of dialectic, rather than that of rhetoric. Unfortunately, the debate society would not have been a good way of learning classical rhetoric, either...
"The Augustinian Roots of Thomistic Deification"
Christendom College: Author Fr. David Meconi to Deliver Annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture - itunes
I did not know he had taken over editing of HPR from Fr. Baker. Something he wrote for Christmas: Why God Becomes Human
I did not know he had taken over editing of HPR from Fr. Baker. Something he wrote for Christmas: Why God Becomes Human
Monday, April 20, 2015
James Chastek on CST
Social Teaching: "In other words, it rejects both Adam Smith and Karl Marx; both individualism and collectivism. In explaining this to the class, it became clear that this was, in effect, to reject the ideals of the left, right and center. The class ended with no one in the room having any idea what the Church thought a just regime would look like."
Still a work in progress... though it does assume the work of the medieval scholastics but it has not critically reappropriated it.
Still a work in progress... though it does assume the work of the medieval scholastics but it has not critically reappropriated it.
A Melkite Wedding
The Deacon's Bench Roman Catholic Dn. Greg Kandra experiences his first Crowning, in Jordan. You can also read about...
Posted by Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church on Sunday, April 19, 2015
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Thomas Sunday, Julian Calendar
Everywhere there are souls turning to the Lord, and they see and feel Him, for which reason they are a hundred-times...
Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Sunday, April 19, 2015
More on Soteriology
The Cause of Our Salvation: Soteriological Causality According to Some Modern British Theologians 19898-1998 by Eamonn Mulcahy
Atonement as Gift: Re-Imagining the Cross for the Church and the World by Katie M. Heffelfinger and Patrick McGlinchey
Atonement as Gift: Re-Imagining the Cross for the Church and the World by Katie M. Heffelfinger and Patrick McGlinchey
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Ratzinger on Sacrifice
He is fundamentally in agreement with Bouyer -- cf. Introduction to Christianity, p. 214ff.
Ratzinger on Love and Redemption
Related:
Pope Ratzinger's manifesto: "In this way the transformation of the world can begin to take place"
Cardinal Ratzinger v. Catholic Encyclopedia: Did humanity owe a debt?
CONSCIENCE AND TRUTH by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Reading the Gospels with Benedict XVI
The Master Key: Pope Benedict XVI's Theology of Covenant
FishEaters
The Mystery at the Center of Our Faith | Hans Urs von Balthasar
Anselm's return: more thoughts on the doctrine of the atonement
Ratzinger on Love and Redemption
Related:
Pope Ratzinger's manifesto: "In this way the transformation of the world can begin to take place"
Cardinal Ratzinger v. Catholic Encyclopedia: Did humanity owe a debt?
CONSCIENCE AND TRUTH by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Reading the Gospels with Benedict XVI
The Master Key: Pope Benedict XVI's Theology of Covenant
FishEaters
The Mystery at the Center of Our Faith | Hans Urs von Balthasar
Anselm's return: more thoughts on the doctrine of the atonement
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