Monday, May 22, 2017

World's Largest Mosaic arrives to decorate Belgrade's Cathedral

Icons of Sound Project - Trisagion



rehearsal

The Voice of Hagia Sophia

What would a female version of this sound like? Could someone even like Divna Ljubojević pull it off? Perhaps, but would it be as effective and awesome? I think I have heard women trying to hold a note for an extended period of time in Gregorian chant (maybe polyphony?)?

Orientale Lumen XXI

Next month.

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies



website

The Evangelical Importance of Great Vespers

Authentic Relationships





Misc.

I Should Have Waited Instead of Pre-Ordering

CWR Dispatch: Benedict XVI: "With Cardinal Sarah ... the liturgy is in good hands." by Carl E. Olson
A new essay by Benedict XVI will be included in future printings of Cardinal Sarah's new book "The Power of Silence" (Ignatius, 2017).



Benedict XVI's essay

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Understanding Pascha

Saturday, May 13, 2017

How much is tuition?

Chesterton Academy

CWR Dispatch: How do we teach beauty? by Dale Ahlquist
Chesterton says, “Wherever men are happy, they will build beautiful things.” The modern world is ugly because we are unhappy. The modern world is ugly because we do not love the modern world.

Interview with Tracey Rowland

CWR: Tracey Rowland's Guide Through the Catholic Academic "Zoo" by Carl E. Olson

"Theology is important because it is all about reasoning about the highest things. It is the one thing a person doesn’t want to get wrong in life because it affects one’s eternal destiny."

Person in the Christian Tradition

Theotokos Institute of Catholic Studies (alt)





(via Byz, TX)

The Marian Option



The Marian Option by Carrie Gress

Related: Why "the Marian Option" is not optional today



Wednesday, May 10, 2017

The Pascha Gospels of the Byzantine Rite

Before the Fall...

Would the body be indestructible or impervious to injury (a preternatural gift) or would it be subject to a miraculous healing immediately or mediately by some gift of God? If the former, would the emotion of fear (with respect to physical dangers) have existed?

Monday, May 08, 2017

CWR: He shall be called “Father Benedict” by James Day
Joseph Ratzinger has adopted many names throughout his lifetime. He is one of few popes known for his significant contributions to faith and culture before assuming Benedict XVI.

"Love Your Neighbor"

Saturday, May 06, 2017

A Difference in Traditions



CWR: Lessons from the Prophetess of Eucharistic Love by Paul Senz
Saint Mary Magdalene, says Fr. Sean Davidson, author of a new book on her life and example, "is the perfect adorer of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Gospels."

I Hope This is Good



Wow, Part 8 Already

I have not been keeping up with this series...

I'm Not Tempted to Look Back

Had a short talk with a friend and we touched upon the current state of the Roman rite...

A Temple to Visit in Vegas



St. Paul the Apostle

The Mystical Life

Religious Art

More by Aidan Hart

A Couple of Interesting Entries from Fr. Hunwicke

Uncreated Light?
The protohistory of the Ordinariates

Thursday, May 04, 2017

Holy Job

Why not St. John the Forerunner as Well?

Why shouldn't he be named a patron of the Universal Church?



Or is this feast really tied to the Latin devotion to the Holy Family?

Does Rome really speak for the Universal Church in this matter? (Like canonizations and naming doctors of the Church, isn't this only in reference to its own liturgical calendar and cultus?)

Wednesday, May 03, 2017

Biblical Thomism

The Present Crisis in the Patriarchate of Rome

It is probably not correct to trace it as a consequence of ecclesial trends prior to and culminating in the Council of Trent, much less to intellectual trends alone, but one must also take into consideration the development of the modern nation-state (with its roots in the centralization of power by nationalist kings) and how the Church responded accordingly.

It's not just neo-scholasticism or Tridentine Roman Catholicism that is the problem, though they do have a major effect on the Church's ability to evangelize.

Tuesday, May 02, 2017

What is the diaconate?

Fr. Hunwicke: What is the Diaconate? and Diaconia in the Tradition of the Roman Church (1)

Homo economicus is actually Homo servus

The illusion of economic freedom is just that.

Economic productivity has been extracted by powers outside the home, leaving little economic freedom that is rooted in a domestic economy. And now, even women have been taken out of the home so they can be turned into consuming/producing units in service of those holding economic power.

Without cheap energy to sustain the system and the consolidation of economic and political power by the few, feminism would not be possible.

Sunday, April 30, 2017

CWR: The Mosque, the Manger, and Modernity by Carl E. Olson

“Where secularism takes God out of the public forum,” says Peter D. Beaulieu, author of Beyond Secularism and Jihad, “Islam takes the public forum out of man.”

Christos Anesti

Lord have mercy

Wipf and Stock Interview with William Cavanaugh

Friday, April 28, 2017

Pope Francis in Egypt

CWR Dispatch and CNA: Full text of joint statement by Pope Francis and Tawadros II
"The tragic experiences and the blood shed by our faithful who were persecuted and killed for the sole reason of being Christian, remind us all the more that the ecumenism of martyrdom unites us and encourages us along the way to peace and reconciliation."



The Eucharist as Politics - William Cavanaugh

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Monday, April 24, 2017

Amusing

That the reviewer labelled Dreher a formal schismatic. And he finds the solution to the crisis facing Latin Catholic churches in the West to be Latin traditionalism. (Of course he would!)

Rorate Caeli: Review: The Benedict Option

Православие в Японии

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Стихеры Пасхе - старообрядцы

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A Thought

Do belief in the prophecies of St. Paisios and dreams of a resurgent Constantinople hinder restoration of communion between the Churches?

Perhaps the chastisement of Constantinople is not yet complete.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Sunday, April 16, 2017