And I think there is another arguing for pre-70 Johannine priority. And the author is the Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity at Cambridge!
Lovely to hear!
And I also.
I listened to his book on Benedict as an audiobook, and it was not bad in terms of syntax. But certainly, you are not alone in feeling this way. I have heard similar complaints from others.
I think I did listen to that! Many years ago perhaps. Especially because the title of that book sounds familiar, and it made me realize that a lot of leadership books are actually attempting to be manuals of public virtue. Not that they always succeed! Or inculcate true virtues!
Yes, the Rule has certainly had its influence on Anglicanism. Another example: It's pretty clear from Rowan Williams's book on the Rule that he got a lot of his leadership philosophy from listening to St. Benedict.
At least in my circles: it seems like people are desperately trying to find a way to live amid chaos. The monastic traditions have this incredible practicality that is very attractive right now. I'll be interested to hear how your class as a whole progresses. Sounds wonderful.
Don't know how this is possible, but: I've never been a monk and yet the Rule of St. Benedict has profoundly shaped my life, challenging me to listen more deeply and to live life with deep roots. Very happy to share these reflections with you all. ⚓ drawnfromthechalice.substack.com/p/how-the-ru...
Oh yeah no worries. I thought your joke was very funny.
Nah we can just have an endless library of online PDFs and rectors can spend their time copying and pasting from that and printing it up fresh each week.
Did he not walk so we could run??
Truly the most threatening thing anyone has ever said to me on Bluesky. 😂 I admire your passion and clarity on this issue.
You do realize that if Hooker beats Cranmer, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity immediately becomes an authorized liturgy of the Episcopal Church, and we'll just start reading that aloud for Sunday service?
btw the point of spiritual direction is not for your director to say: “Ignore your conscience and listen to me!”
I’m just convinced. Raïssa Maritain’s life as a contemplative in the world informed the positions taken at Vatican II.
Her reflections on conscience should strike fear into every abusive spiritual director, even as her words on spiritual freedom will give courage to the timid.
I believe this.
The most recurrent and persistent insight spoken by retreatants, visitors, guests, and students is that we monks are so peaceful and welcoming to them.
My honest response to them usually entails something akin to, "Yes, it's because we take naps, and don't work ourselves to death."
I've been waiting for this to come out! Thank you for posting about it in advance. It was a very interesting read, and a good introduction for me to Lonergan.
hey if the article can help the first-year seminarian and the 76 year-old priest, that is great news. Thanks for taking an interest.
"I wish every seminarian would read it on their first day of liturgical studies."
Just one of the heartening comments on my latest. Thank you for the warm responses! ⚓
My own training/tradition is that stoles are removed for the foot-washing, but to see the Bishop of Rome in a deacon's stole says some very good things.
I did not notice that! Thanks for pointing that out. A beautiful testament to the way Pope Francis carried his diaconal ordination all the way into the papacy.
we can then say that each country also belongs to the foreigner, inasmuch as a territory’s goods must not be denied to a needy person coming from elsewhere.
Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti 124
we are obliged to respect the right of all individuals to find a place that meets their basic needs and those of their families ... Our response to the arrival of migrating persons can be summarized by four words: welcome, protect, promote and integrate.
Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti 129
If every human being possesses an inalienable dignity ... and if the world truly belongs to everyone, then it matters little whether my neighbour was born in my country or elsewhere. My own country also shares responsibility for his or her development.
Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti 125
Whatever is opposed to life itself … whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation … all these things … poison human society … Moreover, they are supreme dishonor to the Creator.
Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes 27
As someone very interested in trying to help theology along in the university, I love both the daring and the humility of this approach. Universities study things that exist. God exists—ineffably so. Therefore universities should include a place for the study of God.
A beautiful definition of reason from Rowan Williams: reason as our capacity to behold the world together, to listen to one another.
"We’ve lost sight of the notion that what God gives us is the capacity to listen to one another and learn from one another in a common world."
But in his passion to become superhuman, man becomes subhuman, estranged from the source of his being, threatening and threatened by his neighbor, transforming a situation destined for intimate human fellowship into a spider web of conspiracy and violence.
—James H. Cone
Amazing! Congratulations!
