Time According to St. Basil the Great

Time is linked organically with space and cannot be understood without it. It was created instantaneously. In other words, both time and space were created outside time, by the will of God. https://t.co/sP4aXefCNK

— OCN (@MyOCN) January 14, 2021

Lord Have Mercy

His Eminence, @CardJosephZen spoke with @NCRegister at length this summer—giving a background to this new article by @EdwardPentin.

“My last act of protest will be to do just that, to now disappear with everyone knowing why.”

Ref: https://t.co/gBLR77KQ2f https://t.co/wN1xgXimbL pic.twitter.com/91npAk4biO

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) January 16, 2021

Chinese law professor Teng Biao, a victim of “severe torture” at the hands of Chinese authorities, said it is “high time for the world to stop appeasing the Chinese government and pay attention to human rights in China.”
https://t.co/eZ3wcJLAL8 @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) January 16, 2021

Who Heeds the Prohibition of Usury?

The tenderness for usurers is especially touching, but not especially coherent: the magisterial pronouncements against usury are no less in the Denzinger than "Humanae vitae."https://t.co/weYRLmbMZJ

— Pat Smith (@smithpatrick08) January 14, 2021

Pre-Lenten Retreat with Fr. Khaled Anatolios

Mark your calendars! Upcoming Lenten retreat here @Sheptytsky @uStMikes with Fr Khaled Anatolios of @NotreDame pic.twitter.com/tyFXRgzwfK

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) January 15, 2021

Minor Indignities

Thank you @JoshHochschild for writing this splendid review and to @FrontPorchRepub for publishing it. https://t.co/o3m3vxd8Fw

— T.C. Merrill (@cribbenMerrill) January 15, 2021

The Seven Gifts of the Spirit of the Liturgy

New @IgnatiusPress: "The Seven Gifts of the Spirit of the Liturgy: Centennial Perspectives on Romano Guardini's Landmark Work", edited by Christopher Carstens: https://t.co/zuIBNyqmsR pic.twitter.com/ynJtpV24Wz

— Ignatius Insight (@ignatiusinsight) January 13, 2021

Final Causality

Final causation https://t.co/eNriVTIq4Q

— Joe Norman (@normonics) January 15, 2021

Aristotle posited 4 categories of causality

3 of them are covered by contemporary physical theory

1 of them, final cause, where the end state of an action serves as its cause, is not. it is assumed to be en epiphenomenon and not "real" causality

the snake doesn't care. https://t.co/Oj5D2B6LbH

— Joe Norman (@normonics) January 15, 2021

The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion

Looking forward to seeing my chapter on Anglican Patrimony and the Virtue of Religion in this book, edited by Ratzinger Prize winner Tracey Rowland, later this year, as we mark the tenth anniversary of the Personal #Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. https://t.co/mkFg4S9w3k pic.twitter.com/aKbMlHs0nr

— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) January 13, 2021

On 15 January 2011 the Personal #Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was established by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Today is our 10th anniversary, and I give thanks with my whole heart for the graces received, and look forward in faith to all that will come! pic.twitter.com/EO8iemM3v6

— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) January 15, 2021

An Indictment against the German Bishops

Latins and also Protestant leaders. The German Protestants may deny that the Reformation was a failure, but it was.

Amazing map showing the long term effect of Germany’s partition, on religious beliefs.
ht @urbanthoughts11 pic.twitter.com/VNtRQOzkHP

— Lionel Page (@page_eco) January 14, 2021

Christian Legal Thought. Materials and Cases by Patrick M. Brennan and William S. Brewbaker III.

https://t.co/AutfTRaiRr

— University Bookman (@ubookman) January 14, 2021

West Academic and companion site

More on the Byzantine Office

Follow-up on a Recent Article about the Byzantine Office https://t.co/2jamO2YvKv pic.twitter.com/jJ1YGNlCfy

— NLM (@NLMblog) January 14, 2021

NLM

Carl E. Olson Interviews Peter Seewald

CWR: The life, faith, and struggle of Joseph Ratzinger: An interview with Peter Seewald

The veteran German journalist discusses his new biography of Benedict XVI, and reflects in detail on Ratzinger’s childhood, personality, education, and role in key Church events.

Actually, It is Utopian

“Recognizing that all people are our brothers and sisters, and seeking forms of social friendship that include everyone, is not merely utopian. It demands a decisive commitment to devising effective means to this end” Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti, par. 180

— Dr. Tim Uhl (@drtimuhl) January 14, 2021

What does Bergoglio kniw of friendship? Eve if he has read the Nicomachean Ethics, that wouldn't be enough.

Receptivity

Crisis: Far from the Spirit of the Lord: On the Pope’s New Motu Proprio by Peter Kwasniewski

What we need to see, and see clearly, is this: the highest dignity of the baptized is to welcome Christ the Lord in Holy Communion. Period. Nothing else they do, no other function or service or activity, can compare to the Marian privilege of receiving God. When we elaborately multiply functions, services, and activities, we introduce distractions, invert priorities, build false hierarchies, and undermine simple faith, devotion, humility, and reverence. The participatio actuosa or actual participation of the faithful in the liturgy is not about doing, but about being, or more precisely, being a good recipient of the Word, so that this Word may be fruitful in us. It is not about busyness with much serving, but about contemplation, the union of love.

There is also the receptivity of the Son, who receives everything from the Father. Marian receptivity is symbolized by her, as a woman, becoming the Theotokos. Marian receptivity on a spiritual level is the receiving of the Divine Life by being a filia in Filio, just as the Son receives everything He is from the Father.

Does God Make Us Precious?

Or is our "worth" or goodness a result of God's creative act?

We possess a great wealth that depends on what we are: the life we have received, the good within us, the indelible beauty God has given us by making us in his image. All these things make each of us precious in his eyes, each one of us is priceless and unique in history.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 12, 2021

St. Paisios the Athonite

On 13 January, the Church commemorates St Paisios the Athonite.
Read more at https://t.co/Ad4UPd3Kgi
Photo: Hand-painted Icon of St Paisios, the icon-painting studio of our Convent.
To order this icon and also other products of the Convent’s workshops: https://t.co/jftGf7p8Ln pic.twitter.com/K2wKdw2lRO

— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) January 13, 2021

What is Parolin's Guilt?

A letter by Cardinal Pietro Parolin leaked to an Italian outlet shows that the Secretariat of State was aware, and approved at its highest ranks, of the disgraced purchase of a luxury real estate in London now at the center of a Vatican investigation. https://t.co/ROGYgBhRTe

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) January 12, 2021

Fr. Fessio Turns 80

CWR Dispatch: Happy 80th Birthday, Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J.!

The founder and editor of Ignatius Press entered the Society of Jesus in 1961, was ordained a priest in 1972, founded Ignatius Press in 1978—and continues to go strong at the age of 80.

Thomas Pfau, "From Genealogy to a Hermeneutics of Tradition"

“Modern theology has often been receptive to the siren call of genealogical thinking, as became once again apparent in the early stages of Vatican II”

Thomas Pfau at ⁦@GenofMod⁩ https://t.co/YG9XFtIMmB

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) January 5, 2021

Genealogies of Modernity

Who Among the Greeks Will Take His Place?

No one in Goarch.

Happy 90th birthday to Metropolitan John Zizioulas of Pergam! https://t.co/9W4N5xcQTV

— Basilica.ro (EN) (@BasilicaNews) January 12, 2021

May God grant him many years.