Benedetto XVI celebra la Domenica delle Palme con mons. Georg Gänswein e una delle Memores Domini (28 marzo 2021) pic.twitter.com/RRCnO0QEmi
— La Vigna del Signore (@vignadelsignore) March 29, 2021
Monday, March 29, 2021
A Recent Photo of Benedict XVI
G*d Bless Cardinal Sarah
Cardinal Sarah Asks the Pope to Lift the Ban on “Individual” Masses at St. Peter's - Settimo Cielo - Blog - L’Espresso https://t.co/FscjkxhFig
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) March 29, 2021
Exclusive. Cardinal Sarah Asks the Pope to Lift the Ban on “Individual” Masses at St. Peter's. https://t.co/xiduQJGxnw
— Cardinal R. Sarah (@Card_R_Sarah) March 29, 2021
The Mosaics of the Basilica of St. Praxedes
The Mosaics of the Basilica of St Praxedes https://t.co/QFU3wHRlVa pic.twitter.com/7cl03tcEgt
— NLM (@NLMblog) March 29, 2021
Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research
Video: "The Byzantine #Anthropocene, the #GreatDivergence, and #GlobalHistory"
— J. Preiser-Kapeller (@Byzanzforscher) March 25, 2021
Talk for "#Climate and the Roman, Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds" @OxfordByzantine , organised by @peterfrankopan (24 March 2021)https://t.co/5B5A2ftI5t#Byzanzforschung, @imafo_oeaw, @oeaw
What a fantastic afternoon! Many thanks to all our speakers and to everyone who joined us 😀 https://t.co/HBM6q7PVJe
— Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (@OxfordByzantine) March 24, 2021
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?
“And there really is only one way to become Orthodox, one way to become a Christian, and that is to become disciples of the contemporary Elders, Saints, and spiritual fathers. To be grafted into their experience, to become one with that.” -@frpeterheers pic.twitter.com/ilJ3svUZRG
— Timothy Honeycutt (@AudioScribeOW) March 26, 2021
Temples of God
Are we temples of God, or temples of our own making?
— OCN (@MyOCN) March 26, 2021
Join the conversation in our continued series with Christina Hanegraaff as she welcomes Fr. Barnabas Powell on Mon, 3/29 at 7pm EST as they explore what it means to be a Created Icon. https://t.co/AypOZxkV2M
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?
'I gave myself to God. Totally. And utterly.'
— Fr Gary Dench (@garydench) March 28, 2021
The monastery also produces beer and honey. I've tried the honey and it is delicious! Well worth supporting them in their life and work. https://t.co/udq2a229eG
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?
“Christ is at once priest and sacrifice, God and temple. He is the priest through whom we have been reconciled, the sacrifice by which we have been reconciled, the temple in which we have been reconciled, the God with whom we have been reconciled.” -St. Fulgentius of Ruspe
— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) March 26, 2021
Hosanna to the Son of David
Music for #PalmSunday:
— John Wilker-Blakley (@parishofmarch) March 27, 2021
Hosanna to the Son of David
(composed by Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625)
sung by @TheGesualdoSix and the Sixth-Form Choristers of @TruroCathChoir https://t.co/eGQvf4a8LZ
A Latin View on Concelebration
Two from Fr. Hunwicke:
Pope Innocent III on Concelebration
Vandalism in S Peter's, and S Thomas on Concelebration
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
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
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Another Book by Olivier Clément
NEW RELEASE! Just in time for Great Lent. This little book includes a translation of The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete, which is the perfect companion to Olivier Clément's essay on repentance and the Great Fast of Lent. Order now: https://t.co/auew5ylCS3 pic.twitter.com/oh1Cg2mGZq
— SVS Press (@SVSPress) March 26, 2021
NEW RELEASE! Just in time for Great Lent. This little book includes a translation of The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete, which is the perfect companion to Olivier Clément's essay on repentance and the Great Fast of Lent. Order now: https://t.co/RcCZGasYgr pic.twitter.com/h1Q2ntAMK6
— Orthodox Church OCA (@ocaorg) March 26, 2021
Middle Byzantine Temples in Athens
Some Middle Byzantine churches in Athens
— The Byzantine Legacy (@ByzantineLegacy) March 23, 2021
Hagioi Apostoloi in the Athenian Agora (c. 1000)
Panagia Gorgoepekoos/Little Metropolis (before 1204)
Kapnikarea (c. 11th century)
Hagioi Theodoroi (c. 11th century) pic.twitter.com/Gu8UgK7fpj
What Agenda?
In final warmup before his major annual preach – Good Friday in St Peter’s (now for the first time as a Cardinal) – Fra Raniero talks the person of Jesus & evolution of dogma, quoting Whispers’ Doktorvater: “Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living” https://t.co/WvNER8tmaz pic.twitter.com/z32y5c3fSe
— Rocco Palmo (@roccopalmo) March 27, 2021
Cardinal Burke on World Over
++Burke on suggestion #PopeFrancis may revisit same-sex union blessings: “The papal magisterium can only explain & foster the understanding of what the Church has always taught & practiced...so the idea that the Pope has the power to change [it] is absurd”https://t.co/6EWR8seZgf
— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) March 27, 2021
Vatican III?
Head of influential German lay group ZdK: “I have the impression more and more that issues are pushing towards a Council. This will only be convened if issues have become so virulent they must be brought to a solution. This was also the case at Vatican II” https://t.co/kurcKMRowa
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) March 27, 2021
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