Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Eastern Christian Books: In Honour of Thomas Hopko
Eastern Christian Books: In Honour of Thomas Hopko: The news has been circulating for more than a week that the Orthodox presbyter and theologian Thomas Hopko is in his last days. I met him b...
Figuring Him Out?
Chiesa: Vatican Diary / The two-step of the Argentine pope
Perfectly in keeping with tradition when he talks about abortion, divorce, homosexuality. But also open to changes in doctrine and practice. An anthology that intensifies the mystery
Perfectly in keeping with tradition when he talks about abortion, divorce, homosexuality. But also open to changes in doctrine and practice. An anthology that intensifies the mystery
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Actuosa, Again
NLM: A Note on Participation: What Can We Learn from the Word Actuosa? by Peter Kwasniewski
Funny that he cites Fr. Bouyer: "Louis Bouyer's definition is therefore perfectly on target: “Participation in the liturgy is the reception of sacramental grace through a living faith illumined and enflamed by the liturgy itself.”" After all, Fr. Bouyer was no Latin traditionalist.
Interior participation is nonetheless founded upon intelligibility of the liturgy.
Funny that he cites Fr. Bouyer: "Louis Bouyer's definition is therefore perfectly on target: “Participation in the liturgy is the reception of sacramental grace through a living faith illumined and enflamed by the liturgy itself.”" After all, Fr. Bouyer was no Latin traditionalist.
Interior participation is nonetheless founded upon intelligibility of the liturgy.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Progress in the Spiritual Life
As one makes progress in the mystical life, do the different roles of the Persons of the Trinity become more apparent? And does one become more explicitly oriented to God the Father?
Sunday, March 15, 2015
The Devotion to St. Joseph
Saint Josemaria and the Role of Saint Joseph in Christian Life
Devotion to St. Joseph and to the Holy Family - one can say that in the industrial west, with the loss of the family and misandry, there is a need for the devotion to St. Joseph as foster-father to Christ, husband to the Theotokos. Would it have gained such prominence if deification and supernatural adoption had remained at the forefront of Western spirituality, though? And we were thus properly engaged with Christ's and our relationship with God the Father? (Similarly, is devotion to the Holy Family as circumscribed as the Western devotion to the infant Christ at Christmas (which Louis Bouyer critiques in Liturgical Piety)?
Again, there may be a need now for St. Joseph as a role-model for men who wish to be good husbands and fathers. And perhaps depictions of the Holy Family, with Christ as a child, are not so out of place when we remember that icons of the Theotokos also have Christ depicted as a child. Is it part of Byzantine canon for St. Joseph to be depicted with the Christ child?
While there may be an older Latin devotion to St. John the Baptist comparable to the one in the East, it does not seem to be so prominent, at least in American churches?
The Importance of Devotion to St. Joseph
QUAMQUAM PLURIES
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON DEVOTION TO ST. JOSEPH
Devotion to St. Joseph and to the Holy Family - one can say that in the industrial west, with the loss of the family and misandry, there is a need for the devotion to St. Joseph as foster-father to Christ, husband to the Theotokos. Would it have gained such prominence if deification and supernatural adoption had remained at the forefront of Western spirituality, though? And we were thus properly engaged with Christ's and our relationship with God the Father? (Similarly, is devotion to the Holy Family as circumscribed as the Western devotion to the infant Christ at Christmas (which Louis Bouyer critiques in Liturgical Piety)?
Again, there may be a need now for St. Joseph as a role-model for men who wish to be good husbands and fathers. And perhaps depictions of the Holy Family, with Christ as a child, are not so out of place when we remember that icons of the Theotokos also have Christ depicted as a child. Is it part of Byzantine canon for St. Joseph to be depicted with the Christ child?
While there may be an older Latin devotion to St. John the Baptist comparable to the one in the East, it does not seem to be so prominent, at least in American churches?
The Importance of Devotion to St. Joseph
QUAMQUAM PLURIES
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON DEVOTION TO ST. JOSEPH
Saturday, March 14, 2015
St. Josemaria Institute Podcast
Opus Dei: New Prayer Resource
Talks and meditations by priests of Opus Dei. Recent additions include 3 talks on “Pope Francis: His Life and Papacy and the Synod on the Family,” and meditations for the Sundays in Lent.
Talks and meditations by priests of Opus Dei. Recent additions include 3 talks on “Pope Francis: His Life and Papacy and the Synod on the Family,” and meditations for the Sundays in Lent.
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