Wednesday, March 25, 2020

The Byzantine Liturgy of St. James

Passion Service

A Tabernacle with Icons and a Reliquary

St. Gregory I the Great

Following Luther?

First Thing: “Wittenberg” in Synodal Slow Motion by George Weigel
CWR

Jerry Salyer on Jacques Maritain

1P5: Jacques Maritain: Visionary or Leftist Ideologue? by Jerry Salyer

Related:
Saul Alinsky and Jacques Maritain by Christopher Blosser
Saul Alinsky and "Saint" Pope Paul VI: Genesis of the Conciliar Surrender to the World by Christopher A. Ferrara

The Philosopher and the Provocateur. The Correspondence of Jacques Maritain and Saul Alinsky. Edited by Bernard Doering. University of Notre Dame Press. 118 pages. $25.95.

Did it go out of print? Not seeing it at the UND website.

New Preface Options for the EF Missal

Some Latin traditionalists will probably complain. Maybe there is a legitimate critique of how they were composed -- would skilled liturgical scholars of the past approve of these new prefaces?

Rorate Caeli: VERY IMPORTANT #2: SEVEN NEW OPTIONAL PREFACES FOR THE TRADITIONAL ROMAN MISSAL



NLM

Related:

Icon of the Annunciation



Blessed Feast of the Annunciation

Petros Gaitanos et al.







Aidan Hart Reviews Treasure in a Box



OAJ

Institute of Sacred Arts



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Monday, March 23, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: John Jillions on God's Guidance in the World

Eastern Christian Books: John Jillions on God's Guidance in the World

Discernment of spirits, part of the Christian patrimony, "East and West":

AD: At the very end of your last chapter, you briefly work in Lev Gillet and also Kallistos Ware. Tell us a bit more about their experience and relevance to your study. 
Their experience, as recounted in the book, is of interest because it took place in the context of an academic study at Oxford University on religious experience. The Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, which is now based at the University of Wales, was collecting thousands of accounts of religious experience in the 1970s. As a way of reflecting on all this material interviewed a number of scholars, theologians and pastors about how they understand this persistent phenomenon.

Interviewed separately, Fr Lev Gillet and Fr Kallistos Ware (as he was then) gave very similar criteria for evaluating such experiences. They said it must be repeated. It can be short and authoritative, or come through gradual “infiltration by God.” It can be tested by asking others who understand your problem to pray for a solution and to ask for guidance, and see whether the answers converge. But the most definitive criterion is to pay attention to the feelings and actions that the experience produces. “Does this guidance create in you sorrow, bitterness, hatred? Or does it create in you joy and love for God and other people? Judge the tree according to its fruit.”