Het zal weinig betoog behoeven dat de Katholieke Kerk een solide en intellectueel eerlijke verdediging nodig heeft in tijden van 'nieuwe atheïsten', 'secularisten', 'relativisten', 'valse oecumenisten', etc. die luid van zich laten horen.
De nieuwe website 'Defensio Fidei' komt hieraan op een intelligente en belezen wijze tegemoet. Wij ondersteunen dan ook van harte dit prachtige initiatief.
Wat ons betreft is de 'Katholieke dogmatiek' van de Dominicanen Maltha en Thuys uit 1951 de leiddraad. Wie waagt zich aan een update: dringend nodig voor onze toekomstige priesters!
dinsdag, juni 28, 2011
maandag, juni 20, 2011
De persoonlijkheidscultus van de priester en de buitengewone vorm
Father Ray Blake heeft een aantal zeer interessante observaties over de "pre-conciliare liturgie" versus de huidige liturgie in het licht van de persoonlijkheidscultus die ook in onze contreien voor sommige priesters geldt.
De oplossing: 'versus Orientem' en méér theologie en catechese over 'ex opere operato' en de klassieke sacramententheologie
One of the reasons for vesting priests, keeping them behind roodscreens, closely prescibing their movements, even their voices, I am sure, was to disguise or hide them them, or at least to say this man at the altar is somewhow different from the man who drinks in the tavern, collects tythes, has a close relationship with his housekeeper, or flogs mercilessly the boys he teaches. Pre-concilliar liturgy did its best to emphasise liturgy was the work of God, not man. God worked, even if the man was corrupt and depraved.
They knew the truth of, "Put not your trust in Princes", there is something healthy in loyal anti-clericism that typified so much of Pre-Concilliarism continental Catholicism.
Nowadays vestments, sanctuary furnishings, the orientation of the Mass, the liturgy itself tends to put the priest front and centre. People talk easily about Fr X's Mass or Fr Y's Church, never I suspect has a priest's personality been so exalted in the life of the Church and never has there been a time when priests have so dissappointed and damaged people's faith when they fall.
De oplossing: 'versus Orientem' en méér theologie en catechese over 'ex opere operato' en de klassieke sacramententheologie
donderdag, juni 16, 2011
New publications by Leo Elders s.v.d.
The Dutch Thomist Leo Elders s.v.d., or "Father Elders" continues his travels around the globe, teaching the doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas at universities, institutes, seminaries and monasteries.
At the same time he continues his academic writing.
He has published a new book on Thomas Aquinas's ethics: La vie morale selon saint Thomas d'Aquin. Une éthique des vertus (Parole et Silence/Presses Universitaires de l’IPC, Paris, 2011, 336 p. ISBN 978-2-84573-974-1).
As part of a series of articles on Aquinas and the Fathers of the Church, in which he had already studied this topic in general and the influence of Jerome and John Chrysostom, Nova & Vetera (Fribourg) 2011/2 has published La présence de saint Grégoire le Grand dans les œuvres de saint Thomas d’Aquin.
He also has published the introduction to the French translation by the monks of Fontgombault of Aquinas's commentary on Isaiah and provided the introduction to the monumental translation of Aquinas's entire Disputed Questions De Veritate in French, which will appear shortly.
While other publications on topics such as tolerance in Aquinas, Cajetan, the concept of conversion are being prepared, one looks forward with great expectation to his opus magnum: a historical and systematical study of all of Aquinas's commentaries on Aristotle. The chapters on the Posterior Analytics and the Peri Hermeneias are ready, substantial work on the Ethica, De Anima, Metaphysica and De Caelo has already been done.
At the same time he continues his academic writing.
He has published a new book on Thomas Aquinas's ethics: La vie morale selon saint Thomas d'Aquin. Une éthique des vertus (Parole et Silence/Presses Universitaires de l’IPC, Paris, 2011, 336 p. ISBN 978-2-84573-974-1).
As part of a series of articles on Aquinas and the Fathers of the Church, in which he had already studied this topic in general and the influence of Jerome and John Chrysostom, Nova & Vetera (Fribourg) 2011/2 has published La présence de saint Grégoire le Grand dans les œuvres de saint Thomas d’Aquin.
He also has published the introduction to the French translation by the monks of Fontgombault of Aquinas's commentary on Isaiah and provided the introduction to the monumental translation of Aquinas's entire Disputed Questions De Veritate in French, which will appear shortly.
While other publications on topics such as tolerance in Aquinas, Cajetan, the concept of conversion are being prepared, one looks forward with great expectation to his opus magnum: a historical and systematical study of all of Aquinas's commentaries on Aristotle. The chapters on the Posterior Analytics and the Peri Hermeneias are ready, substantial work on the Ethica, De Anima, Metaphysica and De Caelo has already been done.
donderdag, juni 09, 2011
60 uur aanbidding voor 60-jarig priesterjubileum van Paus Benedictus XVI
Het aartsbisdom Utrecht heeft een brief van kardinaal Piacenza, Prefect van de Congregatie voor de Clerus, verspreidt met een oproep tot 60 uur aanbidding ter gelegenheid van het 60-jarig priesterjubileum van Paus Benedictus XVI op 29 juni 2011! Het aartsbisdom heeft ook een mooi gebed verspreid.
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