Domenico Giani Speaks

Just over a year after this exit, Domenico Giani, formerly believed to be one of the most powerful people in the Vatican, has given an interview offering details as to his current career path and his thoughts on papal reform.https://t.co/tJFlq65Dpg

— Crux (@Crux) January 7, 2021

Holy John the Forerunner, Pray for Us!

Happy Nameday to all celebrating the feast of St John the Baptist today, including John M Boyer and Ioannis Arvanitis of @cappellaromana - the first 2 soloists on this 2001 recording of an anagrammatismos for Theophany by St John Koukouzeles https://t.co/F8HNaUS33M

— Alexander Lingas (@ALLingas) January 7, 2021

This is a Crux Article

The most obvious conclusion is that the Vatican, in effect, made a deal with the devil: Allow Kondrusiewicz to return, and we’ll take his job away so that he has no official standing to challenge you anymore.https://t.co/g5LkEk9k5t

— Crux (@Crux) January 6, 2021

Church of the East!

Hello, I'm @ChenHuailun and I'll be continuing to tweet about Christianity in Tang China. Yesterday, I introduced the Xi'an stele and its narration of Christianity's entrance into Chang'an. Today I'll continue the story and add some of its context. ~ahc #jingjiao /1 pic.twitter.com/KLJDRsdts4

— Tweeting Historians (@Tweetistorian) January 5, 2021

Fr. Edmund Waldstein on Thomas Howard

The latest issue of @EuroConOfficial has a little obituary on Thomas Howard from me. https://t.co/4A5hz9ILSB pic.twitter.com/m6zLvu3eWI

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) January 6, 2021

An Upcoming Lecture by Andrew Louth

Upcoming lecture by Andrew Louth: "The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology"

(...I mean, what else?)https://t.co/Xf4EM1d84M

— Jonathan Greig (@jabgreig) January 5, 2021

"Conservative"

Gripping. @CatholicPillar has hit the ground running. https://t.co/gSFDezDeOx

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) January 5, 2021

Another 13ce Latin Icon

María, Madre de gracia, Madre de misericordia, en la vida y en la muerte ampáranos gran Señora. Amén.

(Madonna del Bordone, Siena, 1261) pic.twitter.com/p60BVm1Qiy

— Amigo de Frodo (@bpdflores) January 4, 2021

But What Will Rome Do about the German Bishops?

Cardinal Müller says “all parts of the universal Church” are coming to him concerned about the synodal path. The path, he says, is “based on anti-Catholic resentment” and stresses that bishops’ “disciplinary power should never serve to enforce heretical doctrines or immoral acts” https://t.co/qXGQaS9m1Y

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) January 4, 2021

The Final Frontier

Mysterious asteroid the size of a dwarf planet is lurking in our solar system https://t.co/oM21sXAHTE

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 3, 2021

This takes the breath away. https://t.co/4IGIsEtNqV

— Dr. Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy) January 3, 2021

The Jesus Psalter

As we commemorate the Most Holy Name of Jesus, I cannot help but think of the Jesus Psalter, beloved by English Christians before the Reformation and on the lips of many of the Martyrs: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, be to me a Jesus! pic.twitter.com/21HvMgi8rN

— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) January 3, 2021

The Motive of the Incarnation

New episode on the motive of the Incarnation. @FrDylanSchrader @kevinmclarke @dlendman2 and @thomaesplendor discuss. https://t.co/PsQP0xbRTO

— The Sacra Doctrina Project (@sacradoctrina) December 10, 2020

Thinking Orthodox by Dr. Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou

On the religious side of things, I most enjoyed @james_ka_smith’s On the Road with St Augustine and Eugenia Constantinou’s Thinking Orthodox. pic.twitter.com/fHaUA42254

— Joel J Miller (@joeljmiller) December 31, 2020

AFR

Holy Sylvester, Pray for Us and for the Bishop of Rome!

January 2: Saint Sylvester, Bishop of Rome (icon); Venerable Seraphim of Sarov; Saint Cosmas, Archbishop of Constantinople; Saint Theodota, Mother of the brothers Cosmas and Damian; Venerable Ammon of the Tabennisiot Monastery in Upper Egypt pic.twitter.com/wOjPUGFyqu

— Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada (@GO_Metropolis) January 2, 2021

The Church commemorates Saint Sylvester, Pope of Rome#orthodox_times

https://t.co/Sfpnb0TITP

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) January 2, 2021

John Cavadini on the Theotokos

Today is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. @JohnCavadini presents a renewed Marian dogmatic in this essay:https://t.co/dltqxqkZId

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) January 1, 2021

January 1

You willed, o Jesus, to be born of a virgin maiden, Your Mother, and as man, You were circumcised on the eighth day. Glory to Your all gracious will, glory to Your providence, glory to Your condescension, o You who alone love mankind. pic.twitter.com/ZRfuVE9iHf

— Pontifical Oriental Institute (@theorientale) January 1, 2021

On the first of January we celebrate St. Basil the Great!
For the Church art thou in truth a firm foundation, granting an inviolate lordship unto all mortal men and sealing it with what thou hast taught, O righteous Basil, revealer of heavenly things. pic.twitter.com/uXIoCQ3pc5

— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) January 1, 2021

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds... pic.twitter.com/FKr0W4H3ow

— Basilica.ro (EN) (@BasilicaNews) January 1, 2021

Saint Basil the Great was born about the end of the year 329 in Caesarea of Cappadocia, to a family renowned for their learning and holiness#orthodox_times https://t.co/b8Tojcg4Ov

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) January 1, 2021

Your voice resounded throughout the world that received your word by which, in godly manner, you taught dogma, clarified the nature of beings, and set in order the character of people. Venerable father, Royal Priesthood, intercede to Christ God to grant us great mercy. pic.twitter.com/BeRctpZgL8

— Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada (@GO_Metropolis) January 1, 2021

Holy Father Basil, Pray for Us!

…and with nobody watching the clock, the 15th-c. kalophonic sticheron too https://t.co/dynYNrO6fy

— Alexander Lingas (@ALLingas) December 31, 2020

"Our Orthodox Faith"

We invite you to hear the chant 'Our Orthodox Faith' performed by the Festive Choir of St Elisabeth Convent (precentor Nun Juliania (Denisova)) at the Royal Voice Festival in 2018. The words are written by St Nicholas of Serbia.https://t.co/dDq9JkDZat#StElisabethConvent pic.twitter.com/zUSR1191fx

— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) December 10, 2020

Eucharistia and Prayer

Is receiving God through Holy Communion greater than receiving God through prayer? https://t.co/TwA1jepeoX

— OCN (@MyOCN) December 17, 2020

Question: Is receiving God through Holy Communion greater than receiving God through prayer?

Answer: We receive God through grace and grace comes to us in many ways. It comes when we invoke His Name with reverence and humility; when we pray and live by the word of God; when we receive Holy Communion with the testimony of a good conscience. We accumulate grace in every instant of our life, if we meet our fellows with a good heart, respect and honour. There are many means of acquiring the grace of God in order to preserve our heart alive with the sensation of God, and this is essential: for as long as our heart is warmed up by the grace of God, no alien thought can approach us and we are unassailable by the enemy.

We are able to invoke His Name with reverence and humility thanks to God's grace. The following answer has a more exact elucidation of our total dependence on God.

Question: I have a philosophical proud mind. How can we acquire stillness if we are proud?

Answer: Pride seems to accompany every our attempt to present ourselves before God in prayer and come close to Him. The most practical way to acquire humility is continual thanksgiving. The Spirit of God always inspires gratitude (1 Cor. 2:12). Father Sophrony makes a distinction between spiritual humility and ascetical humility. Ascetical humility consists of always reproaching and considering ourselves as worse than all, as we are commanded in the Gospel: ‘When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do’ (Luke 17:10). As for spiritual humility, it is indescribable. It is granted to those who have already contemplated the beauty of the Risen Lord, the Light of His Face, which wounds them with the deep conviction that they are unworthy of such a loving God as Christ is.

I do note that he doesn't really answer the first question.

Robert Grosseteste's Integralism

Robert Grosseteste’s stormy career as bishop of Lincoln offers guidance for postliberals thinking about Church and state. https://t.co/LtYqG6PiWl

— Semiduplex (@semiduplex) December 23, 2020