Thursday, April 15, 2021

A Good and Faithful Servant... of Bergoglio



Wednesday, April 14, 2021

A Presentation of Pure Thomistic Theology of the Presbyterate, No Doubt

Liturgical Bows

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

The Precious and Life-Giving Cross

Hesychasm?



Monday, April 12, 2021

The Word

An Article on Paul Kingsnorth

Sunday, April 11, 2021

Psalter of Basil II

Andrew Rublev

A Controversial Book for Latins

Charles Malik

No Movement Is Immune

A Dependable Endorsement?

"Exsultate Iusti in Domino"

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Daniel Codrescu

Fr. Marie-Étienne Vayssière , O.P.

Friday, April 09, 2021

What Is the Agenda of the Greek Churches?





And their allies?

Interview with Jonathan Pageau

Interview with Michael Hesemann

Holy Ephraim of Katounakia

Thursday, April 08, 2021

The Fake Synodal Path

Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Lord Have Mercy








The Worst Sort of Ultramontanism

Taking everything written by a reigning Roman pontiff as having value, merely because he wrote it.

A Documentary on Mount Athos

Monday, April 05, 2021

Byzantine Icons of the Crucifixion




The Good Shepherd

The Mission of the Church

Of Course a Latin View

CWR Dispatch: Full text: Pope Francis’ Easter Urbi et Orbi blessing 2021

“Dear brothers and sisters, once again this year, in various places many Christians have celebrated Easter under severe restrictions and, at times, without being able to attend liturgical celebrations. We pray that those restrictions, as well as all restrictions on freedom of worship and religion worldwide, may be lifted and everyone be allowed to pray and praise God freely.”

The crucified Jesus, none other, has risen from the dead. God the Father raised Jesus, his Son, because he fully accomplished his saving will. Jesus took upon himself our weakness, our infirmities, even our death. He endured our sufferings and bore the weight of our sins. Because of this, God the Father exalted him and now Jesus Christ lives forever; he is the Lord.



Sunday, April 04, 2021

Christ Is Risen!

Kabarnos Nikodimos - Hristos Anesti

Eastern Christian Books: The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies

Eastern Christian Books: The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies

OUP

Saturday, April 03, 2021

Gesualdo Six: "Ave verum corpus" by William Byrd

Eastern Christian Books: Eastern Christianity: a Reader

Eastern Christian Books: Eastern Christianity: a Reader

Eerdmans

Friday, April 02, 2021

Liturgical Differences Between the Russian and Greek Churches

Why Confession?

A New Edition of a Personal Favorite

And Why Is Fraternity among Roman Catholics Wounded?



Is there a source of divisiveness in Rome itself?

Tenebrae Choir Sings Tenebrae

Thursday, April 01, 2021

Mary: Co-Redemptrix?

"Ne Irascaris Domine"

A Latin Perspective, Naturally

The emphasis on giving back to God...




Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Defending the Faith Against Present Heresies

New Book about Pope Francis' Pontificate (Arouca Press) - https://mailchi.mp/0eafaddb64dc/defending-the-faith

Posted by Arouca Press on Wednesday, March 3, 2021


Rorate Caeli: Announcing the Publication of Defending the Faith Against Present Heresies

Latins Gonna Latin

Interview with Monsignor Steenson

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Gladden Pappin on Liberalism

Bissera Pentcheva Lecture

Julia Bridget Hayes Painting the Holy Apostle Paul

Is This a Correct Representation of Bergoglio's Pontificate?

Where Now, Patriarchate of Rome?



Maybe He Will Leave Soon

Introduction to Sacraments according to the Theology of the Syriac Orthodox Church

Monday, March 29, 2021

A Recent Photo of Benedict XVI

G*d Bless Cardinal Sarah



The Mosaics of the Basilica of St. Praxedes

Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research



O sacred head, sore wounded (Passion Chorale)

Eastern Christian Books: Byzantine Religious Law in Southern Italy

Eastern Christian Books: Byzantine Religious Law in Southern Italy

OUP

Gerondism

If taken literally and not as hyperbole that excludes the fact that the only way to become an orthodox Christian is to be incporated in Christ, then how can this be not wrong? We are first grafted into Christ and His Life, and we learn from others and their experiences. How does this differ from what St. Justin Popovic said: "Christians today can become true Christians only if they're guided on adaily basis by God's saints"? Teachers, guides, mentors are important -- but can these mentors be found outside monastics?

Temples of God

Sunday, March 28, 2021

The Symphony of Truth

Fr. Serafino Lanzetta's wonderful book is now available. The paperback edition arrived with the hardcover edition...

Posted by Arouca Press on Monday, March 8, 2021


Arouca Press

What Christian Shouldn't Give Himself "Totally" to God?



Love of God is first for all Christians -- love of others is subordinate to, and motivated by, this love of God. Can the monk says that he loves God alone? No -- even the monk must love the rest of the Church and mankind, even if he lives apart from them. And unless he is a hermit, he doesn't live apart from others, though the amount of time he spends with others is limited. So "totally" is the wrong way to describe this sort of calling. It would be more accurate to say that the monk lives alone for God. ("Living only for God" would be inaccurate, too.) Even religious must be careful of pride and any sense of Christian elitism.

What Notion of Sacrifice?

Hosanna to the Son of David

A Latin View on Concelebration

Two from Fr. Hunwicke:
Pope Innocent III on Concelebration

Vandalism in S Peter's, and S Thomas on Concelebration

S Thomas Aquinas, as his custom was, covers pretty well most of the problems of late C20 Christianity, and does so in a neat formulaic way. First, he crisply formulates an erroneous opinion; then disposes of it with Respondeo.

So first he states a propositio sometimes advanced in neo-traditionalist circles: That many priests cannot consecrate one and the same Host. He disposes of this - he was a good Catholic - by pointing to what the Church does. "According to the custom of a number of Churches the newly ordained concelebrate". The problem of rogue concelebrants Jumping The Gun he disposes of in exactly the same way as Pope Innocent III (see previous post) had done: "And it is not true that by this the consecration over the same Host is doubled; since, as Innocent III says, the intention of all must be referred (ferri) to the same instant of Consecration".

Having disposed of that little technical difficulty, he justifies the practice in itself: "Since a priest does not consecrate except in the persona of Christ, and the many are one in Christ, therefore it does not matter whether this Sacrament is consecrated through one or through many".

There is no doubt that the practice of Concelebration has become unseemly since the Council. Those of us who are hermeneutic-of-continuity traditionalists will do well to rethink the way we use Concelebration. But the fashion in some circles of ridiculing all use of Concelebration, and of even denying that what the newly ordained do with their Bishop really is true Concelebration, is ill-informed and gives 'traditionalism' a bad name. We must avoid the temptation (as we defend our Holy Faith against the latest aggressions of Bergoglianism) to propose our own narrow circumscriptions of 'Tradition'.


Understood in terms of Latin scholastic sacramental theology regarding the presbyterate and the Eucharist: in persona Christi, etc.


Update: One more...
Benedict XIV on Concelebration

Symbolism of the Beasts in the Book of Revelation

Saturday, March 27, 2021

A Cult...

Sandro Magister: The Founder of Schönstatt's Has Been Exposed. But His Own Insist on Wanting Him Sainted

Another Book by Olivier Clément



Middle Byzantine Temples in Athens

What Agenda?

Cardinal Burke on World Over

Vatican III?

Friday, March 26, 2021

The Origins of the Presanctified Liturgy

Who Is Jorge Bergoglio?




Is Intercommunion with Protestants Possible?

The Hymns of Kassianí

Holy Luke of Simferopol

Interview with Jared Ortiz



CWR

Prayer of St. Silouan

Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy



Cambridge University Press

Jonathan Pageau on Orthodox Art and Iconography

Some great discussion on icons, the problem of graven images and some subtle questions here for the Reason and Theology podcast.

Posted by Jonathan Pageau on Wednesday, March 24, 2021

A New Book by Olivier Clément



Thursday, March 25, 2021

A History of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia






Byzantine Soteriology

Rooted in Scripture...

Too Modern

Paul Kingsnorth on Orthodox Christianity

The Feast of the Annunciation





Retrenchment

St. Justin Popović Links








Jonathan Pageau Livestreaming a Carving of an Icon



Schmemann Speaks

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Three TI Lectures Tonight



Squishy, Not Pastoral

A Right Emphasis?

There is a sense of co-redeemer that is dependent upon her being the Theotokos, but there is another sense of co-redeemer that includes it but does not necessarily need that, and this sort of role is possible for all who are adopted in Christ.

Why, Indeed?

When the PBC isn't advancing something progressive, it's back to being "unauthoritative."

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

More Dead Sea Scrolls?

"Conservatism"

Gratitude is a central virtue for the noble life in general. It is time to stop talking about "conservatism"; others have already been talking about virtue ethics and the natural law, and the label "conservative" no longer means anything.

Fr. Panayiotis on Luke 12:16-21

Eastern Christian Books: Handbook of Theological Anthropology

Eastern Christian Books: Handbook of Theological Anthropology

Bloomsbury