Sunday, March 22, 2020
One Take on the Eucharist
CWR Dispatch: Sacramental inefficiency and liturgical uselessness: Insights from St. John Paul II and Romano Guardini by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
Perhaps in this time of pandemic we may appreciate anew—but from afar and with real hunger and renewed appreciation—the sacraments we have hitherto taken for granted, now temporarily lost to us.
Perhaps in this time of pandemic we may appreciate anew—but from afar and with real hunger and renewed appreciation—the sacraments we have hitherto taken for granted, now temporarily lost to us.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
A Quick Response to DBH?
Would this be sufficient for him?
Universalism may be true but it may be false in so far as it is possible that I may reject God and "end up in Hell."
Universalism may be true but it may be false in so far as it is possible that I may reject God and "end up in Hell."
Friday, March 20, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Monday, March 16, 2020
Written by a Latin
"It is a time for them to challenge themselves and us, their priests and flocks, as to whether the Tabernacle changes who and how we are as human beings. Do we miss Our Lord? Do we long for Him?"
Objectification of the Eucharist.
NLM
Remember that charge against Joseph Ratzinger about denying the Real Presence? Papal Heresies.
Objectification of the Eucharist.
NLM
Remember that charge against Joseph Ratzinger about denying the Real Presence? Papal Heresies.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Saturday, March 14, 2020
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
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
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
Friday, March 13, 2020
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
"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
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
Monday, March 09, 2020
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
I personally don't see the need to combine Byzantine and Latin views of soteriology in this way but apparently Anatolios does.
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.
Sunday, March 08, 2020
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
CNA/CWR: Why a new consecration to St. Joseph is spreading like wildfire
Saturday, March 07, 2020
A Confusion Regarding the Christian Priesthood
What Catholic clergy and laity have in common: a Gospel mission
McGrath Center
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
Related: Eastern Christian Books: Shaun Blanchard on Jansenism, Pistoia, and Catholic Historiography
Friday, March 06, 2020
Thursday, March 05, 2020
A Latin Group Issues a Latin Document with a Latin Conclusion Produced from Latin Premises
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
Tuesday, March 03, 2020
Opening the Remaining Archives of Pius XII
CWR: History Redeemed: Justice for Pope Pius XII by William Doino, Jr.
The March 2nd opening of the last remaining archives from Pius XII’s pontificate will likely reinforce what historians already know about the war-time pontiff’s actions on behalf of endangered Jews.
The March 2nd opening of the last remaining archives from Pius XII’s pontificate will likely reinforce what historians already know about the war-time pontiff’s actions on behalf of endangered Jews.
Time to Move the Chairs on the Deck Again
"Younger." Sure.
CNA/CWR: German bishops’ elect new conference chairman
Erstes Pressestatement von Bischof Bätzing nach seiner Wahl zum Vorsitzenden der DBK
Der neue Vorsitzende der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz Bischof Georg Bätzing zu seiner Wahl
CNA/CWR: German bishops’ elect new conference chairman
Erstes Pressestatement von Bischof Bätzing nach seiner Wahl zum Vorsitzenden der DBK
Der neue Vorsitzende der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz Bischof Georg Bätzing zu seiner Wahl
A Product of Western "Semi-Arianism"?
For contemporary monothelites, by contrast, Jesus’s humanity is firmly in the driver’s seat. To the extent that we may say that Jesus is divine, this is at best a secondary claim, derived from the historical Jesus, the product of a scientific quest.
First Things: Jesus: Less Than Divine by Hans Boersma
Monday, March 02, 2020
Sunday, March 01, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Changes in Personnel for the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
Magister: From the East Not Light But Darkness. Strange Shufflings in the Roman Curia
And in fact, rather than a promotion, the new role given to Vasil is a downgrade. His ambition was to return home as the major archbishop of an unprecedented and transnational Church of the Ruthenians, with its metropolitan see in Presov, which would bring together Slovaks, Croats and Hungarians of the Greek-Catholic rite, plus the the annexation of a Ukrainian diocese, that of Mukachevo, also populated by Ruthenians, for a total of about 200 thousand faithful.
Of course, this project was hardly pleasing to the Greek Catholic Church of Ukraine. It was counting instead on the promotion to Rome, as the new secretary of the congregation, of one of its bishops, Teodor Martynyuk, auxiliary of the Greek Catholic diocese of Ternopil.
But neither aim has hit the mark. Instead of the Ukrainian Martynyuk - or at least another easterner - a Latinizing Italian has been made secretary. While Vasil is for now only temporary administrator of a diocese subordinate to Presov, that of Kosice, whose bishop, Milan Chautur, is still in office, albeit under investigation by the congregation for the doctrine of the faith for allegations of sexual harassment against a minor.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Debating Theological Explanations for the Real Presence
First Things: The Theology of Transubstantiation
From First Thoughts
Brett Salkeld and Mark discuss Reformation-era debates over the Real Presence and what Catholics and Protestants believe about the Eucharist. Continue Reading »
From First Thoughts
Brett Salkeld and Mark discuss Reformation-era debates over the Real Presence and what Catholics and Protestants believe about the Eucharist. Continue Reading »
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Un'altra libertà
Un'altra libertà by Camillo Ruini, Gaetano Quagliariello
Contro i nuovi profeti del paradiso in terra
Magister: Praise of Freedom, the Real Kind. Dialogue Between a Cardinal and a Lay Thinker
Il cardinal Ruini contro il multiculturalismo: "Non è valore in sé"
Contro i nuovi profeti del paradiso in terra
Magister: Praise of Freedom, the Real Kind. Dialogue Between a Cardinal and a Lay Thinker
Il cardinal Ruini contro il multiculturalismo: "Non è valore in sé"
In the Foosteps of Marx
CNA/CWR: Secretary of German bishops' conference steps down
Fr. Hans Langendörfer, SJ, has held the position since 1996.
Langendörfer made the announcement Feb. 26, through the official media outlet of the Church in Germany. He said that he is stepping down to make way for someone younger.
“I have come to the conclusion that it is now a good time to hand this position over to younger hands,” he said Feb. 25. Langendörfer is 68.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Erich Fromm
CWR Dispatch: Lent, fear of freedom, and love of slavery
This year, during Lent, I am going to focus on this question: “In which areas am I unfree, and why do I prefer this slavery to freedom?”
Eastern Christian Books: Ivan Illich and Erich Fromm on the Corrupt Church
This year, during Lent, I am going to focus on this question: “In which areas am I unfree, and why do I prefer this slavery to freedom?”
Eastern Christian Books: Ivan Illich and Erich Fromm on the Corrupt Church
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Friday, February 21, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Advertising New Wine New Wineskins
Church Life: How to Do Moral Theology Today by Alessandro Rovati
But what future for Roman Catholic academia in the United States? And for academics living in the ivory tower?
But what future for Roman Catholic academia in the United States? And for academics living in the ivory tower?
More on Offering and Sacrifice
CWR: Priest diagnosed with brain tumor offers his sufferings for abuse victims by Bree A. Dail
Last week, Father John Hollowell announced to readers of his blog and followers on Twitter that he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, and that he will be offering his sufferings for the victims of the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis.
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CWR: When you announced your diagnosis, you said that after the revelation of clerical sex abuse scandals in the summer of 2018, you asked God to let you share in the sufferings of the victims. This self-offering is not one that is taken lightly—were you afraid of what God would send as a cross?
Father Hollowell: That day I did it, yes. I was in the rectory saying Morning Prayer. It was clear, this calling. There was a part of me that—looking back on it now makes me smile—even then a part of me knew I was in trouble…in a good way. It’s not something to enter into lightly. I guess everything that I have read, and come to know—all the theological studies I was able to take in the seminary, reading St. John of the Cross and being really formed by him, and Mother Teresa’s autobiography—all of these seem to have gotten me to this point, being totally comfortable making that prayer. I said, “Lord, if there is something I can suffer to bring healing to the Church, I would do that willingly with great joy.”
Latin Notions of Sacrifice
Holy Mass: You Cannot Do Anything to Glorify God More by Peter Kwasniewski
Jesus Christ delivered us from the abyss of sin and death by the mysteries of His life and, above all, by His death on the Cross, when He offered Himself to the Father as an infinitely pleasing sacrifice of love.
Pope Francis on Tradition
The pope who is "not a theologian" and apparently it shows.
CWR: The Idea of Tradition in Querida Amazonia by Eduardo Echeverria
Pope Francis leaves unspoken the relation of Tradition to the normative Scriptures, the Sacraments and Liturgy, creeds and confessions, councils, the theological exposition of the Church’s dogmas and doctrine, and the magisterium of the Church.
CWR: The Idea of Tradition in Querida Amazonia by Eduardo Echeverria
Pope Francis leaves unspoken the relation of Tradition to the normative Scriptures, the Sacraments and Liturgy, creeds and confessions, councils, the theological exposition of the Church’s dogmas and doctrine, and the magisterium of the Church.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
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