Dec 03 2014

Mary Did You….

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December 3, 2014

10802069_10152415019616954_8031511730790288575_nIf you’re listening to Christmas music on the radio in the Nashville are odds are you’ll hear the song “Mary Did You Know?” Mark Shea does some yeoman work in answering the question verse by verse about what Mary did know. An example below.

Did you know that your Baby Boy has come to make you new? This Child that you delivered will soon deliver you.

A: Yes. In fact, she knew that her Son had *already* delivered her, because she, the most saved person in the world, was immaculately conceived by his grace and preserved from all sin both original and actual. That’s why the angel greeted her with “Kaire, Kecharitomene” or “Hail, Full-of-Grace” (Luke 1:28) and why she thanks God her Savior.

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Dec 03 2014

Pope Francis: Knowledge Alone Doesn’t Reveal God

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December 3, 2014

At his Tuesday homily Pope Francis reminds us that knowledge alone will not teach us what we need to know about God unless we also approach God in humility like children.

Although studying “will tell them many things, they will not understand anything,” he (Pope Francis) said.

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Nov 27 2014

Does God love some people more than others?

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November 27, 2014

Br. Timothy Danaher, O.P. has an article on the topic “Does God love some people more than others?” on the Dominicana blog. It’s an interesting question and any article that uses football and Thanksgiving dinner for analogies is right for today.

The first is Thanksgiving dinner and how it relates to heaven. As in the Gospel, a great feast is ready and all are invited, with more than enough food to go around. But none of us goes to a feast and spends the evening watching how much more everyone else is getting – we pay attention to the food! We are lost in the sight and smells of all the succulence before us, and we’re happy together, and we give thanks for the meal because each person (regardless the size of their appetite) gets their fill. Then, just like heaven, we “enter into our rest” as we find a couch to sleep on for the rest of the day – “Let the faithful exult in their glory, let them sing for joy on their couches” (Ps 149:5).

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Nov 25 2014

The Wealthy Church

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November 25, 2014

There are those who believe that the Church has a massive amount of wealth that it hoards instead of helping the poor. This tidbit from John Allen should help put things into perspective:

The Vatican has an annual operating budget of under $300 million, while Harvard University, arguably the Vatican of elite secular opinion, has a budget of $3.7 billion, meaning it’s 10 times greater. The Vatican’s “patrimony,” what other institutions would call an endowment, is around $1 billion. In this case, Harvard’s ahead by a robust factor of 30, with an endowment of $30.7 billion.

Those who point out the resources of the Church also never stop to think of the value of the services that the Church provides in terms of education, hospitals, and other social services. But from the earliest days, from St. Lawrence onward we know the true riches of the Church.

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Nov 25 2014

The Pope is entitled to his opinion

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November 25, 2014

During the just completed USCCB General Assembly there was an initial report of a large survey on the views of some segments of the laity in the pews. The video can be found at http://www.usccb.org/about/leadership/usccb-general-assembly/video-on-demand.cfm. The video with this presentation is Day 2 Morning Session 3. There’s quite a bit of dead time at the beginning. The session being called to order and introductory remarks by Cardinal O’Malley run generally from 27:30 to 35:00. Archbishop Wenski gives an overview of the data from 35:00 to 58:00. Bishop Malone announces a convocation for July 2017 in Orlando in response to the data of the survey. Questions continue until about 1:20:00. CNA had a news article last week that gives an overview.  Screen captures of the slides used by Archbishop Wenski are reproduced below. 

Even for an initial update there is an awful lot to chew on in this presentation. I’ll do my due rumination and hopefully have another post with some thoughts in the next day or so. For Lay Dominicans I think there is much here to think about in terms of what and how we should be doing.

 

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