After we, as the Church, lift up our hearts, we are called to give thanks to the Lord. Our response is to state quite specifically our belief that it is proper and just to worship the Father, Son and Holy … Continue reading
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What I have been trying to do in this article is to give my readers some thoughts about what we, as Catholics, think about inspiration and the Bible. What I have been sharing is background about this topic. As I … Continue reading
In the last several issues of the Bulletin, I have been sharing thoughts about St. John Climacus’ 23 Step on his Ladder of Divine Ascent. His ladder presents the incremental steps we must go through in order to become truly … Continue reading
According to St. Gregory Nazianzen, there is no interior process in the Godhead; no dialectic of the three persons; no becoming; no tragedy in the Absolute, which might necessitate the Trinitarian development of the divine being in order that it … Continue reading
I have suggested that in order to acquire the mind of Christ we must understand how He prayed. Therefore I have been presenting my reflections on the petitions in the OUR FATHER. The next petition that we encounter in the … Continue reading
As we bring to an end the tenth week after Pentecost, we hear words from St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians and from Matthew’s Gospel the story of Christ curing a possessed boy. I find that the combination of … Continue reading
In last week’s Bulletin, because we remembered the Fathers of the first Six Ecumenical Councils of the Christian Church, I deviated from my thoughts on Sacred Tradition and presented a brief synopsis of each Council. These six Councils are the … Continue reading
Rabbinical tradition, with its doctrine of the pre-existence of Scripture and later bestowal of Scripture upon the human race through selected prophets, obviously tended to view the human person involved as a mere channel. Philo developed basically the same concept … Continue reading
I have suggested that one of the ways to acquire the mind of Christ is to reflect upon the way He prayed. In order to understand how He prayed, I have been presenting thoughts on His perfect prayer, the OUR … Continue reading
The call to holiness, expressed in yet another way, is a call to understand creation, which includes us humans, the way that God understands and knows it to be. We are called to a deeper understanding of creation as a … Continue reading