tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post860869708560230910..comments2024-03-28T22:29:52.666+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Christmas as FulfilmentPeter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-35363252096428451282022-01-14T09:39:57.763+13:002022-01-14T09:39:57.763+13:00When Was Modernism?
Raymond Williams explains--
...When Was Modernism?<br /><br />Raymond Williams explains--<br /><br />https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5147-raymond-williams-when-was-modernism<br /><br /><br />BWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-30154807623862551622021-12-22T09:29:04.759+13:002021-12-22T09:29:04.759+13:00This week's OP, like last week's, opines o...This week's OP, like last week's, opines on biblical narratives too seldom and too narrowly read. <br /><br />Unlike Byzantium's Nativity Fast (November 15-December 24), in which notes of the birth of Jesus crescendo through late autumn toward Christmas, the pre-modern West's Advent Fast (locally varied, about the same) had a judgy, apocalyptic tone only obliquely related to the birth of Jesus. To pivot from old Advent to Christmas, the perfect gospel would probably have been Revelations 12, although liturgists medieval and modern have handled that book like nitroglycerin. The most famous pivoting sermon is St Bernard of Clairvaux's on the three comings of the Lord-- first in Bethlehem, second in the heart, third at the end of the aeon.<br /><br />https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/125490.pdf<br /><br />BWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-22580492562980389772021-12-21T20:31:12.691+13:002021-12-21T20:31:12.691+13:00Mass-going Catholic President Joe Biden, upon hear...Mass-going Catholic President Joe Biden, upon hearing at mass that John the Baptist in utero "leapt for joy" when Mary visited Elizabeth, burst out laughing and exclaimed: <br />"Come on, man, that's a load of malarkey! That fetus ain't human, it ain't alive. You con/evo fundamentalists are always comin' up with weird stuff to take away a woman's absolute right over her own body."<br />President Biden the signed an Executive Order outlawing the Gospel of Luke as anti-science hate speech.<br /><br />Father Damien Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-17425471240787255782021-12-21T11:24:39.734+13:002021-12-21T11:24:39.734+13:00A Lovely Story, Dear Bishop!
And this is why, pre...A Lovely Story, Dear Bishop!<br /><br />And this is why, precisely, the person of Mary is especially honoured in orthodox Christianity - above ALL other human beings - excepting JESUS - the One to Whom she was destined, by God, to give birth. This is one reason why the Church is pleased, with Mary to "Proclaim thye greatness of The Lord!<br /><br />No wonder her cousin Elizabeth (herself about to give birth to John the Baptist) experienced the Holy Spirit's movement in her own womb at her meeting with the BVM. We are told that John the Baptist, in utero, 'Leapt for Joy', causing Elizabeth to say: "How should it be that I should receive a visit from the Mother of my Lord? Blest are you among women and Blest is the fruit of your womb, Jesus". <br /><br />(Mariolatry? NO! Good theology? YES!) Mary points to Christ, and Christ, to God.<br /><br />Have a wonderful lead up to Christmas, +Peter - together with Theresa and your family.Father Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17062632692873621258noreply@blogger.com