tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72314389709340235812023-11-16T00:00:46.838-08:00Johannes Paulus IIUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-21625169698752436222021-01-30T12:42:00.000-08:002021-01-30T12:42:22.134-08:00Year of St Joseph: Remptoris Custos!<p>How fitting in this year dedicated to St Joseph in the Universal Church, that the work of Karol Jozef Wojtyla should have a prominent place as well:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5gzavJ-LtTSq4g2ylXYoM9S68pRytirsPlT39X485qPx6S2KMSqieRe_SpDG_gNdA0Lk18xip_thFuPT-Aa2NoDnBCcXaL-q3duh18QMiynBIQzQfuZoxId54WDlG1auKA9bZBiq1pxq//" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="466" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5gzavJ-LtTSq4g2ylXYoM9S68pRytirsPlT39X485qPx6S2KMSqieRe_SpDG_gNdA0Lk18xip_thFuPT-Aa2NoDnBCcXaL-q3duh18QMiynBIQzQfuZoxId54WDlG1auKA9bZBiq1pxq//" width="254" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of note, especially, is paragraph# 6 which highlights Joseph as guardian of the Incarnate Word, and somehow of the Redemption:</div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Joseph's way of faith moved in
the same direction: it was totally determined by the same mystery, of which he, together with
Mary, had been the first guardian. The Incarnation and Redemption constitute an organic and
indissoluble unity</div><p></p></blockquote><p>St John Paul II goes on to emphasize in this vein, the significance of Joseph being added to the Roman Canon by Pope St John XXIII:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> Precisely because of this unity, Pope John XXIII, who
had a great devotion to St. Joseph, directed that Joseph's name be inserted in the Roman Canon
of the Mass-which is the perpetual memorial of redemption - after the name of Mary and before
the apostles, popes and martyrs.</p></blockquote><p>For nearly 2,000 years, St Joseph was not even mentioned in the official prayers of the Church. Yet now, the "protodulia" or piety always owed to him only behind that of Mary's "hyperdulia" is fully realized in the Liturgy of the Mass.</p><p><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-79882099661105282772020-05-18T08:58:00.001-07:002020-05-18T11:50:23.450-07:00Ephesians 5:21 [Mulieris Dignitatem, Patristic Scholars & NFP]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am particularly grateful to the Van Schaijik family of The Personalist Project in Pennsylvania for initially bringing to my attention the topic of Mutual Subordination. While we may not see eye-to-eye on everything, I have come to appreciate their explanation of the Church's teaching on this matter. Indeed, it has become a central dynamic in my view of marriage along the lines of St John Paul II's work in #24 of "Mulieris Dignitatem". <a href="https://juanpablodostribute.blogspot.com/2014/03/dr-john-grabowski-and-jpiis-take-on.html">Dr John Grabowski</a> has written extensively on the topic, especially as it relates to the <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44617280?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Trinitarian&searchText=mutual&searchText=submission&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DTrinitarian%2Bmutual%2Bsubmission%26amp%3Bacc%3Doff%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3Aca4d3932609c4c266a86a2463a5f5a37&seq=1">development</a> of the Church's understanding of Matrimony between two equal, complementary, and distinct persons (man & woman).<br />
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In 2016, an essay entitled, <a href="https://stpaulcenter.com/07-nv-14-3-clark-whitters/">"The Patristic Origin of 'Mutual Subordination'"</a> was published at the St Paul Center for Biblical Theology from the perspective of a divergent view on the more high-profile topic of Mutual Subordination. While the authors were willing to compromise with a potential for "mutual service", the divergence stemmed largely from an insistence on asymmetrical and non-reciprocal (one-way) marriage dynamics. While I can agree with an asymmetrical perspective to a degree based on the philosophical explanation of Angelo Cardinal Scola's <a href="http://www.marriageuniqueforareason.org/2011/12/01/sexual-difference-asymmetrical-reciprocity/">Nuptial Mystery</a>, I cannot dismiss the call for reciprocity (two-way) in the relationship between husband and wife. Our own local <a href="https://www.stthomas.edu/sienasymposium/events/eventsarchive/2019-siena-summer-seminar.html">Bishop</a> has been very clear on the need for reciprocity based on St John Paul II's teaching as well (<a href="https://stthomas.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8256978e-2e6b-43d3-827c-aaa1000caec4">min. 18ff</a>). <br />
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A logical illustration of the two perspectives can be formulated as follows:<br />
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<u>Non-reciprocal (One-Way)</u><br />
If asymmetrical & non-reciprocal<br />
Then one-way relationship w/ wife's submission to head<br />
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<u>Reciprocal (Two-Way)</u><br />
If asymmetrical & reciprocal<br />
Then two-way relationship w/ mutual submission<br />
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The most common argument against the latter is that the two-way dynamic is not practical in application. On the contrary, Dr Grabowski <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44617280?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Trinitarian&searchText=mutual&searchText=submission&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DTrinitarian%2Bmutual%2Bsubmission%26amp%3Bacc%3Doff%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3Aca4d3932609c4c266a86a2463a5f5a37&seq=1">illustrates</a> how practical a dynamic it can be when Natural Family Planning (<b>NFP</b>) is involved! After all, it is not the choice of any one individual to cooperate in pro-creation. As the saying goes, "it takes two to tango".<br />
<br />
Sr Prudence Allen makes some crucial distinctions worth noting in her paper "<a href="http://www.laici.va/content/dam/laici/documenti/donna/filosofia/english/mulieris-dignitatem-twenty-years-later-overview-of-the-document-and-challenges.pdf">Mulieris Dignitatem Twenty Years Later</a>":<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>egalitarian complementarity--a distortion which emphasizes too much sameness between men and women</li>
<li>hierarchical complementarity--a distortion which emphasizes male authority to the detriment of female equality</li>
<li>Ontological complementarity--the proposal of St. John Paul II for how best to approach understanding human dignity embedded in Mulieris Dignitatem</li>
</ul>
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Lastly, it is important to recall the often neglected Person in the mutual submission verse as written in St Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 5:21, "Be subordinate to one another, out of <b>reverence for Christ</b>". As Archbishop Sheen explains in his <i>Three to get Married</i>, there is a Third-party involved in the Sacrament of Matrimony. In the end, He is the head of the Christian family that accepts His reign. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-76793400186176888722019-09-12T08:28:00.001-07:002019-09-12T08:28:51.337-07:00Theology of Risk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Primarily drawing from the work of Mother Angelica and Blessed John Henry Newman, the
development of a “Theology of Risk” (as identified by Mother Angelica herself) has garnered an
increasingly high profile since the passing of the great founder of EWTN1
. Likewise, Newman’s broad-
reaching verbiage concerning risk runs along the lines of a business venture in what he calls “Making a
Venture of Faith”
2
. The consensus between the two proposes that modern man has lost a sense of the
value of what Christ offers in reconciling him to the Father, so much so that man is unwilling, or
oblivious to, the call of God to risk his life and livelihood for the Gospel just as Christ did for his sake.<br />
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On the other hand, magnanimous men and women (like Mother Angelica) have taken enormous risks as
acts of faith in the providence of God. As a result of this Imitatio Christi, they may very well have
bridged the chasm between the “rich man” and Abraham’s bosom. In contrast, there are more than
enough examples of rich young (and old) men who walk away from such a challenge in sorrow: Charles
Dickens’ tale about Ebenezer Scrooge is one such example that could have ended similarly to more and
more cases of modern men of the world.
In general, men have lost a sense of what it means to risk for the Gospel. Particularly those men whose
job it is in the business world to minimize risk, be adverse to risk, or to only risk what is nearly
guaranteed to make a return based on a cost/benefit analysis. These parameters could be applied to
the Gospel, as in the parable of the talents and the building of the tower, etc. Yet, worldly men who
might even darken the door of a parish each week, do not desire to “make a venture” for eternal life.
Instead, they experience peer pressure to store up treasures for the moth to destroy; they go the way of
mammon in the hopes that insurance, stocks and bonds, etc. will pass on their legacy to the next
generation without pause. To be clear, these prospects are not evil unless the “love of money” for its
own sake is involved.<br />
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Pope Leo XIII and St John Paul II stressed the great good and potential that work, capitalism, and private
property engender in the economy
3
. Simultaneously, their treatment of legal immigration and mission
speaks to the need for mobility as well as stability, the willingness to “move” mountains if necessary by
faith so as to make a claim in the reality of the Resurrection. Without such a claim, there is little proof
in the relationship between a man and the “father of faith”, Abraham. Abraham, who himself was as
well as his son Isaac, were successful businessmen throughout their long lives: risked his home, his only
son of the promise, his herds and crops by tithing to Melchezidek, and so on. Chief of these risks, of
course, is Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac in the belief that “God could raise him from the dead”
4
.<br />
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In Isaac, as a type of Christ, Abraham had a sense of being a type of the heavenly Father (Imitatio Patri)
by not withholding his beloved son. He underwent a Kenosis, that is, a self-emptying with tremendous
risk for his livelihood. As a result, it is Abraham who welcomes the downtrodden Lazarus beyond the
grave. It is Abraham, and not the rich man—famous for making corporal demands of Lazarus only when
it was too late--, whom we call, “father of faith”. His lofty title is as a result of “becoming obedient unto death”, an extraordinary paradox in which Abraham is both a type of Christ and a type of His Father
(Imitatio Christi et Patri). After all, Abraham was “as good as dead”, meaning essentially that he had hit
rock bottom. Nevertheless, God made him the “father of many nations” with “descendants as
numerous as the stars and sands of the seashore”.<br />
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What assurance did Abraham have of the fulfillment
of this promise? He was eventually given the son of the promise, and even then, Abraham was willing to
risk losing him out of obedience.
Had Abraham not engaged in a “Theology of Risk”, his story would be that of the “rich old man”. He
would have walked away to Ur of the Chaldeans “sad for he had many possessions”. This is the plight of
many men today, young or old, unwilling to take on the adventure of being a father of faith and risk
losing their lives for the Gospel. Perhaps an Ebenezer Scrooge moment may still loom on the horizon for
them while they passively sleep and dream, but making that presumption after many missed
opportunities may undermine the prospect of taking an active risk for the greater glory of God today.<br />
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1 Mother Angelica. Arroyo, 151-153<br />
2 “Sermon 20”. Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman<br />
3 Rerum Novarum * Centessimus Annus<br />
4 Heb 11:19</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-62449888929031155492019-06-28T07:42:00.000-07:002019-06-28T07:42:03.831-07:00JPII & Paul Ricoeur vs Masters of Suspicion <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With news of scandal plaguing the Church’s every level in current events; an understandable reaction
could continue to gain considerable traction, namely Donatism.<br />
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This is a heresy that raged in the time of
St. Augustine, when Emperor Constantine reinstated former apostates (Traditors) to the episcopacy, etc.
1 The Donatists held firm to the belief that not only these reinstated Church leaders, but all clergy who
were potentially in mortal sin could not administer valid Sacraments.<br />
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Under St. John Paul II, extreme situations arose with a range of men like Archbishop Lefebvre to Marcial
Maciel. Some deem Lefebvre as saintly in his rejection of the Second Vatican Council, and most rightly
deem Maciel as a scoundrel. In either case, there is room to question the Holy Spirit’s guidance of the
Church, and to even reject certain aspects or persons in authority as a result of mistrust. An outright
rejection such as with Archbishop Lefebvre’s unlawful ordination of SSPX bishops in 1988, could easily
be judged by objective behavior as Donatism, especially since the original Donatists were named after a
bishop who was also consecrated out of rivalry against the Traditors
2
.<br />
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In the Theology of the Body, I believe that St. John Paul II addressed Donatism under a different guise,
and he identified it as the “hermeneutic of suspicion” after philosopher Paul Ricoeur.
3 JPII pointed out
three men in particular who propagated this way of approaching the world as Nietzsche, Freud and
Marx.
4
In our day, this constant suspicion has run rampant in the Church, even to the point of certain
scholars accusing the Pope of heresy without substantial proof or outright defiance on his part. I am not
proposing that a healthy skepticism is out of the question, rather, I am pointing out the similarity
between Donatism and even Manicheanism and being a “Master of Suspicion”.<br />
<br />
The opposite of suspicion, according to St. John Paul II, is the “Ethos of Redemption”. This is a trust in
the Redeemer of man who has the power to dynamically transform the sinful human condition into that
which is even able to overcome concupiscence.
5 While I am not excusing abuse in any way, I do find
abundant consolation in the “Ethos of Redemption” because it Christologically orients my gaze away
from the fallen world to the Redeemer.<br />
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It may be said that naïveté may have caused St. John Paul II to elevate men like Theodore McCarrick or
Marcial Maciel to positions of authority in the Church. More importantly, it was his confrontation with a
suspicion propagated by the Communist innovator Marx and others that helped him to see men as
innocent until proven guilty. In Communist Poland, so many false accusations against priests could
easily have brought one to the same suspicious attitude that pervades today. Instead, JPII stood fast
against it while also administering justice as seen in the case of Archbishop Lefebvre.<br />
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1 Cantor, Norman F (1995), The Civilization of the Middle Ages. P. 51<br />
2
Ibid.<br />
3 Paul Ricoeur, “Existence and Hermeneutics,” in The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in
Hermeneutics, 13<br />
4 St. John Paul II, Theology of the Body 46:6-<br />
5
Ibid.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-6022363778257584632017-07-10T14:03:00.001-07:002017-07-10T14:03:08.539-07:00JPII Locates "Patron of Europe": St. Benedict of Nursia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">T.S. Eliot lhad the European Continent in mind when he
composed “The Wasteland”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Georg
Ratzinger</span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
was present and on-site when the oldest monastery in the world, Monte Cassino,
was destroyed by American artillery in World War II.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Much of the visible roots of Christian Europe
were literally ‘uprooted’ by open warfare in the 20</span><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> century,
including July 11</span><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">’s Saint’s final resting place, as I said
regarding Monte Cassino.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thankfully, new
monastic life is taking root at the very site of Benedict of Nursia’s original
monastery despite a few natural disasters</span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">As Patron of Europe, St. Benedict’s
intercession is not limited to the post-war “Wasteland”, but can truly help to
rejuvenate a “new springtime” in more ways than one (Lectio Divina, Ora et
Labora, etc.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">St. John Paul II located Blessed Paul VI’s Apostolic Letter
Pacis Nuntius of 1964 as the first time that St. Benedict was named “Patron of
Europe”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">It’s no small title as JPII
linked the Saint with the likes of Cyril and Methodius, the former of whom
still has owns the secular right of claiming the Russian language under his
namesake, Cyrilic. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wojtyla writes: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic; font-size: x-small;">The ever-living relevance of the eminent figures of
Benedict, Cyril and Methodius, as concrete models and spiritual aids for the
Christians of today, and especially for the nations of the continent of Europe,
which, especially through the prayers and work of these saints, have long been
consciously and originally rooted in the Church and in Christian tradition</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">These three saints launched never before seen waves of
culture that still inspire hope and consolation in the midst of the “Wasteland”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">After all, once the Roman Empire fell, the
dark ages posed a similar threat to today’s paganism and degeneration.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">I’m reminded actually of the present day
situation in inner city Detroit, a veritable “wasteland” that has hints a
tremendous spiritual renewal with the latest “Unleash the Gospel” from
Archbishop Vigneron</span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">!</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Furthermore, St. Benedict’s legacy contributed immensely to
Christian culture in the USA as well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Abbot Boniface Wimmer brought the Benedictine Rule to Pennsylvania in
the 19</span><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> century and founded the Archabbey of St. Vincent</span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
where I have visited multiple times and learned Lectio Divina.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">There are also Benedictine Universities
across the country, some in need of renewal (especially in Minnesota) and some
in excellent standing, like Wimmer’s own St. Vincent’s!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">There is still much to be accomplished through the living
and prophetic intercession of St. Benedict of Nursia all over the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">St. John Paul II did well to emphasize patron
of Europe in the letter of Paul VI, and Pope Emeritus Benedict was on the mark
by choosing Benedict as his namesake.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Despite the wasteland, there is over generations of faithful in the land
a guarantee of a new springtime in Europe. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-52726741668416751832017-05-16T13:57:00.002-07:002017-05-16T13:57:38.587-07:00Wojtyla's Confirmation and Cardinal Sapieha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The response of Karol Wojtyla to a challenge from <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mazurczak/cardinal-sapieha-foe-of-nazis-and-communists-shepherd-of-john-paul-ii">Adam Cardinal Sapieha</a> is what every hard-working DRE would hope for from the youth:<br />
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Cardinal Sapieha played a key role in Karol Wojtyła’s vocation. In 1938, he went to the town of Wadowice <strong>for confirmation</strong>. Among those confirmed was Wojtyła. Sapieha asked him what his plans for the future were. When he learned that he planned on studying Polish literature in Krakow, Sapieha lamented that he didn’t choose the seminary instead. During the war, Wojtyła studied in Sapieha’s illegal seminary. After the war, the future pope – smitten with the writings of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila – asked him if he could leave the diocesan seminary and become a Carmelite monk. Sapieha denied the request, instructing him to instead finish what he had started. (Many believe that Sapieha was in part motivated by the fact that Poland, whose clergy was murdered on a massive scale in concentration camps, desperately needed new diocesan priests.)<br />
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I recall teaching Confirmation classes in Detroit and praying for responses like Wojtyla's. More often than not, however, the students wanted to be confirmed simply for the Quinceañera which was promised them by their padres...After that celebration though, what next? Hopefully both men and women would desire Carmel like Wojtyla!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-39735496877602978742017-01-09T07:20:00.003-08:002017-01-09T07:20:57.035-08:00Wojtyla's Comradeship + Friendship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><em>Love and
Responsibility</em> goes into great depth about the difference between Comradeship
and Friendship; so much so, that I think Comradeship deserves its own formula
as does Karol Wojtyla<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He emphasizes the objective qualifiers<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> in
Comradeship as prerequisites for friendship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In other words, somewhat like sympathy, comradeship is a great aid to
friendship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would attempt to formulate
it like this, with explanation to follow:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ᵾ Work
or ᵾ Company + ᴲ individual’s role at work or company → ᵾ public ᴲ identity with
both ᴲ role & ᵾ Company <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Wojtyla’s
argument for the value in comradery is that it fosters community; it
essentially brings the existential into the universal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While not sacramental, like a marriage
involving the friendship between a man and a woman, comradeship does allow for
a kind of stewardship of family in the broader environment of neighborhood and city,
etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply put, it brings people
together for a common purpose akin to solidarity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In other
sections of <em>Love and Responsibility</em>, he calls the process of fostering
community “integrating”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
the exclusive love between man and woman into the broader network of
relationships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He even warns that if a
couple fails to integrate; their own relationship may not succeed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In terms of comradery then, it can determine
the success or failure of a friendship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Seen
side by side, the two formulas (friendship and comradeship) look like this. *Please note, sympathy as defined by Wojtyla simply means "shared life together": <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span><span><span><span>ᴲ Sympathy→ Conformity of Wills- ᵾ -( ᴲ Trust & ᴲ Sympathy, ᴲ Forgiveness & ᵾ Reconciliation) → ᴲ Virtue of Hope ᵾ (ᴲ Trust & ᴲ Sympathy)</span></span> = Friendship</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ᵾ Work
or ᵾ Company + ᴲ individual’s role at work or company → ᵾ public ᴲ identity with
both ᴲ role & ᵾ Company = Comradeship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Integrated
together, I would say they look like this (where “Comradeship” respresents its
own formula in the form of just the single word) : <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span><span><span><span style="color: black;">ᴲ Sympathy→ Conformity of Wills- ᵾ -( Comradeship ᵾ, ᴲ Trust & ᴲ Sympathy, ᴲ Forgiveness & ᵾ Reconciliation) → ᴲ Virtue of Hope ᵾ (ᴲ Trust & ᴲ Sympathy)</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"> = Friendship</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I added “Comradeship”
to the “Conformity of Wills” section of the Friendship formula on account of it
being integral to function of community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even St. Paul refers to the “proper functioning of each part” of the
Body of Christ, and if certain parts compete or are envious of each other, then
functioning is disintegrated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Karol.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Love and Responsibility.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">“From Sympathy to Friendship”. P. 94</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ignatius: San Francisco, 1993<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Wojtyla,
Karol.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Love and Responsibility.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">“The Problem of Integrating Love”. P. 114-118</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ignatius: San Francisco, 1993</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span>Fr. John Nepil has a thorough <a href="http://thosecatholicmen.com/articles/what-scotch-can-teach-us-about-friendship/">article</a> on the quality of certain friendships: pleasant or true, according to Aristotle and the process of either making beer or scotch.<span> </span></span><span>I found it interesting in that the chief distinguisher between a true friendship and a pleasant one is reconciliation.</span><span><span> </span></span><span>In other words, true friendship—like the intense process of making scotch (chemical change and transformation after distilling) —requires painful and transforming demands of forgiveness and reconciliation.</span><span><span> </span></span><span>His approach adds wholly new (ᴲ) existential and (ᵾ) universal qualifiers to my formula for friendship derived from Karol Wojtyla: </span></span><br />
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<span><span>ᴲ Sympathy→ Conformity of Wills- ᵾ -(ᴲ Trust & ᴲ Sympathy, ᴲ Forgiveness & ᵾ Reconciliation) → ᴲ Virtue of Hope ᵾ (ᴲ Trust & ᴲ Sympathy)</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-76674010706120262452016-12-20T13:29:00.001-08:002016-12-20T13:29:06.710-08:001994, St. Dominic of Silos' Chant and JPII<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is hard to believe that in 1994 when the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos released an album of Gregorian chant, my little league baseball coach played it for us. He was a former bull-pen catcher for the Boston Red Sox and truly reached heroic status for our team (hitting homers from both sides of the plate @ 350 yards!). When he started playing chant though, we were a bit skeptical...until we started hearing it everywhere. St. John Paul II had been Pope for nearly 16 years!<br />
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I still love this chant, and had memorized the whole album by the time I was 12.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-7687042565221751062016-11-17T12:37:00.000-08:002016-11-17T12:37:23.317-08:00Thatcher and JPII<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a cross-continental alliance between Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul
II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, she celebrated the fall
of the Berlin Wall: but to her dismay, the Euro, the Maastricht treaty (EU) and
political integration followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recent
events with Brexit, however, may prove to be her last laugh!</span></span></span></div>
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raised in the Methodist tradition in rural England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John O’Sullivan calls her, “the incarnation
of provincial Methodist virtues—a very simple person, not riven by doubt about
essentials, and decisive for that reason.” (ibid)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was decisive about a few principles that appear in the Pope’s
<em>Centesimus Annus</em>: subsidiarity and moral free-market capitalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These two Catholic social teachings
unconsciously informed her worldview, although she may have called them simply “Euro-skepticism”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I mentioned, the EU formed soon after
Thatcher’s resignation, but her legacy continues even to the present day, as
seen in the British patriotism of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2016/oct/28/the-man-who-brought-you-brexit-podcast">Daniel Hannan</a> .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">But for a British Prime Minister to align herself with the
Bishop of Rome in the Cold War is truly an irony of history as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly Elizabeth the 1st would not have
made such an alliance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, Thatcher and
the Pope were not necessarily aligned afterward as best indicated by the dispute over
the Falklands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Pope openly opposed
her aggression in that regard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this
and other reasons of sheer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjpUFoIu_rA&index=39&list=PL2YhagjmWvB95qyq6jvIZ1FD7Zb_klYzd">stubbornness</a>, she was known as the “Iron Lady
Thatcher”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-88109868245829524022016-10-14T08:50:00.002-07:002016-10-14T08:50:39.997-07:00The "Banker" turned Undertaker St. Callistus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Along the lines of St. Matthew and T.S. Eliot, Today’s St.
Callistus the 1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup> was a repentant banker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early on in his life, he squandered the
entrusted funds of widows in Rome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sent to the mines to do hard labor, Callistus later
encountered the mercy of Christ in his exile and was released on account of his
own confession of faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As proof of his
repentance, he took charge of a cemetery in Rome, which was posthumously named
the Catacombs of St. Callistus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">«I am conscious of the important historical and spiritual
significance of these monuments» John Paul II said in a recent address to the
Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology. «By visiting these monuments, one
comes into contact with the evocative traces of early Christianity, and one
can, so to speak, tangibly sense the faith that motivated these ancient
Christian communities... How can we fail to be moved by the humble but eloquent
traces of these first witnesses to the faith?». Then considering the goals of
the Year 2000, the Pope concluded: «Today attention is focused on the historic
event of the Great Jubilee, when the Roman catacombs will again become a
favourite place of prayer and pilgrimage... Together with the great Roman
basilicas, the catacombs should be a necessary destination for the Holy Year
pilgrims».</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From squandering money at the bank for widows to his
conversion as an undertaker, St. Callistus could have been remembered merely
for the events of his early life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he
actually was elected Pope in the 3<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup> Century AD!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he was martyred in Rome, not far from
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-9127392486241469362016-10-10T14:04:00.001-07:002016-10-10T14:04:10.847-07:00Santa Maria<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Coming from Columbus, Ohio I have always admired Christopher
Columbus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a beautiful replica
of his flagship, Santa Maria, in my hometown and I have boarded it many times
for tours, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <a href="http://www.kofc.org/en/johnpaulii/index.html">Knights of Columbus</a>
are named after the Explorer of course and JPII was a staunch advocate of
theirs, including in his native Poland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rather than try to defend Columbus or the Knights, who are easily
defended in the faith, I was impressed a few years ago to see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto">Apocalypto.</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the story of a native of the new
world who was captured and nearly subjected to human sacrifice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then escaped, and after finding his family
well, views in the distant a ship much like the Santa Maria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The question is, were the natives of the New World better
off without the Conquistadors like Columbus?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Were they better off with human sacrifice and slavery by dominant
tribes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-26589957308511130722016-09-21T08:44:00.002-07:002016-10-07T05:40:11.659-07:00T.S. Eliot, St. Matthew, and JPII<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Ex-patriot poet Eliot worked at Lloyd’s Bank in London
from 1917-1925</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon
leaving, he published his more famous <em>Waste Land</em>, but I have come to thoroughly
enjoy his <em>Choruses from the Rock.</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Especially on this feast of St. Matthew, who was himself called from “el
banco” to follow the Word Incarnate, I find Eliot’s story fascinating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says in <em>the Rock:</em></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We will build with new timbers/ Where the Word is unspoken[…]/
When the Stranger says: “what is the meaning of this city?/ Do you huddle close
together because you love each other?”/ What will you answer? “We all dwell
together/ To make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?/ Oh my
soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger./<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be prepared for him who knows how to ask
questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">St. Matthew rose and followed “the Stranger/ the Word”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eliot did the same, though in sickness,
heartache and feeble attempts at marriage and family life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He may have known well the words of Jesus: “Those
who are well need not the Physician, but the sick do” as his health
deteriorated after the death of his father:</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yet the years of Eliot's literary maturation were
accompanied by increasing family worries. Eliot's father died in January 1919,
producing a paroxysm of guilt in the son who had hoped he would have time to
heal the bad feelings caused by his marriage and emigration. At the same time
Vivien's emotional and physical health deteriorated, and the financial and
emotional strain of her condition took its toll. After an extended visit in the
summer of 1921 from his mother and sister Marion, Eliot suffered a nervous
collapse and, on his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">physician's</b>
advice, took a three month's rest cure, first on the coast at Margate and then
at a sanitarium Russell's friend Lady Ottoline Morell recommended at Lausanne,
Switzerland[…] Whether because of the breakdown or the long needed rest it
imposed, Eliot broke through a severe writer's block and completed a long poem
he had been working on since 1919. Assembled out of dramatic vignettes based on
Eliot's London life, The Waste Land's extraordinary intensity stems from a
sudden fusing of diverse materials into a rhythmic whole of great skill and
daring.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Only after he passed through <em>the Waste Land</em> (1922) did he
stumble upon <em>the Rock</em> (1934).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wife
loved his tenure at Lloyd’s, as it was conducive to family life and
stability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He himself spoke highly of it
at times, despite pressure from his communist peers to abandon it (esp. Ezra
Pound) <u>[<span style="color: blue;">2b</span></u>]. Unlike other radical poets of those days, Eliot had the combination of business and art at his disposal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> However, t</span>he time came in what appeared
to be a prolonged conversion for Eliot (not to communism!), immediately following his sickness:</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A lucky chance allowed him to escape from the demands of his
job at the bank. Geoffrey Faber, of the new publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer
(later Faber and Faber), saw the advantages of Eliot's dual expertise in
business and letters and recruited him as literary editor. At about the same
time, Eliot reached out for religious support. Having long found his family's
Unitarianism unsatisfying, he turned to the Anglican church. The seeds of his
future faith can be found in The Hollow Men, though the poem was read as a
sequel to The Waste Land's philosophical despair when it appeared in Poems
1909-1925 (1925). In June 1927 few followers were prepared for Eliot's baptism
into the Church of England. And so, within five years of his avant-garde
success, Eliot provoked a second storm. The furor grew in November 1927 when
Eliot took British citizenship, and again in 1928 when he collected a group of
politically conservative essays under the title of For Lancelot Andrewes,
prefacing them with a declaration that he considered himself a "classicist
in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion."</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">He followed the Word from despair to hope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Not long after the<em> Rock</em>, Eliot also published a Catholic
play based on the life of St. Thomas Becket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><em>Murder in the Cathedral</em> marked the proof of a profound change of his
worldview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s no wonder that these
later works of his are not recognized in the secular canon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in the life of the Church, they are small
memorable and instrumental steps in re-uniting the Anglican to the Catholic
Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. John Paul II said of St
Thomas Becket:</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In making my pilgrimage to the shrine of the martyr, Saint
Thomas Becket, I sought to play a part in healing the terrible wounds inflicted
on the Body of Christ in the sixteenth century. We prayed together there, Your
Grace and I, for that wholeness, that fullness of life in Christ which is God’s
gift of unity[…] My pilgrimage to Canterbury was motivated by obedience to the
will of Christ our Lord who, on the night before he died prayed “that they all
may be one”. Today the divisions among Christians require that the primacy of
the Bishop of Rome should also be a primacy in action and initiative in favour
of that unity for which Christ so earnestly prayed. I see our celebration of
Evening Prayer together as a further moment in that ecumenical pilgrimage that Catholics
and Anglicans, together with other Christians, are called to make. Our goal is
to discover once more that common inheritance of faith which was shared before
the tragic sequence of events which divided Christian Europe four centuries
ago.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><br />
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And again, Eliot and JPII intersect in the person of Emmanuel Mounier whom Eliot featured in his 1937 edition of his periodical The Criterion. Eliot's French Catholic friend, Montgomery Belgion, introduced Eliot to Mounier:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By the January
1937 number of The Criterion (XVI, 63), a very incisive analysis of the
fast-shrinking economic middle way is given once again by Montgomery Belgion in
the “French Chronicle.” After observing that “To-day the French Right is as
revolutionary as the Left,” Belgion points to a corrective third path, to be found
in the work of Emmanuel Mounier.<u> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">[2c]</span></u></span><br />
<u><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "calibri";"></span></u><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And the footnote given for the above quote goes on to say:</span> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In “The Need for
Economic Personalism” can be found the major influence that Mounier’s work had
on Karol Wojtyla’s development of the tenets that would become personalism: ‘Wojtyla
and his Polish colleagues read Mounier with intense interest. In Mounier, they found
the first philosophical account of the human intellect and intersubjectivity’ <u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">[2d]<o:p></o:p></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also recommend Wyoming Catholic College’s
study of Eliot’s life in the light of Christian hope:</span> </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-24965012393041018332016-09-02T10:16:00.003-07:002016-12-28T09:54:10.136-08:00Friendship, Chaput and JPII<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Update 12/28/16:<br />
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<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It’s
been a long while since I took a course in symbolic logic, but I have
thoroughly appreciated the method ever since 2005.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an excellent reminder that communicating
can be as simple as an equation, whether using a validly deductive method or a validly
inductive method.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Here’s a
stab at an ongoing approach to friendship that I put together from Wojtyla’s
Love and Responsibility:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ᴲ Sympathy→ ᴲ Conformity of Wills ᵾ (ᴲ Trust
& ᴲ Sympathy) → ᴲ Virtue of Hope ᵾ (ᴲ Trust & ᴲ Sympathy)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The key to interpreting the above is as
follows:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ᴲ=Existential/Particular<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ᵾ=Universal/Absolute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In summary, the ᴲ’s and ᵾ’s serve as ends in
themselves for the qualifiers (means) expressed in concepts like “trust”, etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, no one would argue that “Trust” is
an end, but is rather an aid toward friendship of persons. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Overall,
it’s easy to see how particular friendship is with 7 out of 9 ends being ᴲ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The few absolutes may need some explanation then,
seeing as how they could easily be argued as either/or.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I assign ᵾ to “conformity of wills”, I
am referring to what is ideally being conformed to, namely, God’s laws/the
natural law in terms of chastity, well informed conscience, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, when I assign</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> ᵾ to hope, I am referring to the end of
hope which is the Lord Himself.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Update 9/5/16:<br />
A few great points by Chaput, differentiating between loyalty and fidelity,<br />
<br />
"The root of loyalty is the French word loi (law). The root of fidelity is the Latin word fides (trust). Loyalty is ordered to duty and fidelity is ordered to love. And real love, as every mature adult knows, is both beautiful and demanding." (213). <br />
<br />
I find this striking insofar as cuts to the quick of much of Jesus' own critique of his contemporaries. It also speaks of St. Faustina's image: Jezu ufam tobie. Loyalty can be done for all the wrong reasons, as in adhering to the illogical conclusions of <i>Roe v. Wade</i> in America. Fidelity, on the other hand, clings to the trustworthiness of a Person, the Son of God. <br />
<br />
This makes all the difference in the world for Wojtyla's approach as well; since without trust, there is no sympathy down the road, and vice versa:<br />
Sympathy→ Conformity of Wills (Trust & Sympathy) → Virtue of Hope (Trust & Sympathy)<br />
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A few lessons I've learned from the Capuchin Archbishop Chaput after reading his <em>Render Unto Caesar</em>:<br />
<br />
Evangelization should accompany friendship<br />
<ul>
<li>If it does not then the friendship is not genuine (190)</li>
<ul>
<li>The reason being that Christ himself is the 1st love and Cause of friendship</li>
</ul>
<li>An aspect of missionary activity should also be involved (193)</li>
</ul>
His main premise is that "the Gospel spreads by personal contact and friendship" (190). It is hard to argue against this, seeing as how many saints were close friends: Ignatius and Xavier, Francis and Claire, to name a few.<br />
<br />
But what exactly mission would have to do with a potentially insular relationship like friendship would be a harder sell. For this reason, immediately following his statement on friendship, Chaput references JPII's Centesimus Annus: <br />
<br />
We need to root the social dimension of our Catholic faith, and everything else we do, in God's love, which is the fuel for our mission of evangelization. Pope John Paul II reminded us that Catholic social doctrine, at its root, is missionary. It is 'an instrument of evangelization'. (193)<br />
<br />
When I speak of friendship on this level of evangelization I am often met with a major misunderstanding and offense. "You mean friends aren't those I choose to 'just get along' with?" and, "there needs to be some kind of agenda when it comes to spending time with my friends?"<br />
<br />
My answer, for theirs and for one's own sake, is "that's correct, friendship is for evangelization and mission too".<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-52285535591271278952016-08-19T14:07:00.000-07:002016-12-29T12:35:02.731-08:00Wojtyla y Amistades<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Differing definitions of friendship: “people who hang out
together”, “people who just get along”, “share each other’s interests”,
etc. Rather than friendship, I would classify these explanations under
what Karol Wojtyla called in <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Love
and Responsibility</span></em>: “sympathy”<a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[1]</a>.
Sympathy certainly has a place in many relationships, but it is not true
friendship.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Wojtyla draws his definition of friendship unmistakably
from St. Thomas Aquinas<a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[2]</a>.
While sympathy plays an initial and later supplemental role in fostering
friendship, it is ultimately the will according to Wojtyla and Aquinas which
sustains friendship. Even more specifically, the will as gifted with hope
in turn provides for true friendship. Placed in sequence then, ideal
friendship between persons runs this course: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sympathy→ Conformity of Wills → Virtue of Hope
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Far too often today, “friendship” remains on the
sentimental and sympathetic level. And unfortunately, Wojtyla indicates
in romantic relationships especially, “As soon as sympathy breaks down they
often feel that love too has come to an end”<a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[3]</a>.
Yet, the other danger, in which Wojtyla seems to differ from Aquinas, is that
when friendship grows cold it must be supplemented by sympathy<a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[4]</a>.
As in the case with marriage, a “union of wills” does not necessarily provide
for a successfully long-term relationship. Likewise, Daniel Schwartz
notes about Aquinas’ view of friendship that the virtue of hope must be active
in addition to “conformity of wills”<a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[5]</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The necessity of sympathy is a given as it fosters many
relationships anyway, strictly based on “subjective intensity”<a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[6]</a>
of encounter with another. Hope, on the other hand, does not reveal
itself as necessary until the temptation towards distrust begins to creep into
relationships. That is to say, <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">uncertainty about what a friend or potential friend wants
and desires can be an obstacle to friendship. And the same goes for certain
sorts of uncertainty about what a friend will want and desire in the future. In
chapter five Schwartz discusses, first, Aquinas's view that we should presume
good of others, unless there be evidence to the contrary, and hence that we
should presume that people mean what they say, other things being equal and
unless there be evidence to the contrary. (Schwartz calls this a ‘presumption
of authenticity’.) Second, Schwartz tries to show how hope, for Aquinas, can be
an aid to friendship, by being a cause of friendship, by sustaining friendship,
and by warding off the ‘destructive social impact of despair’.<a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[7]</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">So again, Wojtyla appears to differ from Aquinas in this
respect by supplying sympathy as a ‘cause’ of friendship while Aquinas supplies
‘hope’. But as I have indicated <a href="http://www.thepersonalistproject.org/members/comments/Fr.-Giertych-explains-Aquinas">elsewhere</a>,
St. Thomas Aquinas does not exclude emotions from the dynamism of love as many
suppose he does! Rather, Aquinas’ proposal of hope as crucial to
sustaining friendship includes the emotions and sympathy just as Wojtyla would
not exclude the virtue of hope either. The following sequence continues
to apply to both Wojtyla and Aquinas’ view, though I would note a supplement of
sympathy moreso in Wojtyla’s approach: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Sympathy→ Conformity of Wills (& Sympathy) →
Virtue of Hope (& Sympathy)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This sequence would readily agree with Pope Francis’ more
recent insistence on the necessity of tenderness in relationships, or more
aptly named “mercy” which Aquinas deemed as God’s most potent attribute! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[1]</a>
Wojtyla, Karol. <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Love and
Responsibility</span></em>. “From Sympathy to Friendship” 88-94ff
Ignatius: San Francisco, 1981.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[2]</a>
Aquinas’ own definition surprisingly differed from Aristotle’s: Justice was
essential to Aquinas’ view of friendship whereas to Aristotle, ‘when men are
friends they have no need of justice’ (Nicomachean Ethics 1155a 26).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[3]</a>
Ibid, 90. See also Wojtyla’s ‘Libidinistic’ Interpretation (61).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[4]</a>
Ibid, 91. See also Wojtyla’s ‘Rigorist’ Interpretation (57). Pope
Francis has also termed sympathy as ‘tenderness’.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[5]</a>
Daniel Schwartz, <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Aquinas on
Friendship</span></em>, Oxford University Press, 2007, 189pp.,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[6]</a>
Wojtyla, Karol. <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Love and
Responsibility</span></em>. “From Sympathy to Friendship” 90<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/What%20is%20True%20Friendship.docx">[7]</a>
Michael Rota, University of St. Thomas reviews: Daniel Schwartz, <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Aquinas on Friendship</span></em>,
Oxford University Press, 2007, 189pp.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Although originally 2 different posts I have combined these under common theme<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">A
group of friends drawn initially together by the philosophy of Edmund Husserl,
included: Max Scheler, Edith Stein, Hedwig Martius, and Roman Ingarden. There
were many more great minds in the following of Husserl (including Heidegger and
Von Hildebrand) but I find the relationships of these four significant on the
feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross because of the effect that they had
on the person of Edith Stein and her legacy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Max
Scheler, for his part, is credited by lecturer Benjamin Gibbs as having
empowered Stein “to take religious ideas and attitudes seriously for the first
time since her adolescence”<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx#_ftn1" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx">[1]</a>
In Stein's own words, Max Scheler had almost mythic status:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">One’s
first impression of Scheler was fascination. I have never encountered the
phenomenon of genius so clearly in any other person. His large blue eyes seemed
to radiate the light of amore exalted world. His features were handsome and
noble; yet life had left some devastating traces in his face.<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx#_ftn2" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx">[2]</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">It's
interesting to note, that Husserl and Scheler authored philosophical works
which provided an alternative to 'psychologism' or the scientific pretentions
of psychology.<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx#_ftn3" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx">[3]</a>
Since Freud's work would have been popularly widespread in their day, I can
only guess as to why they would be formulating a much more sound phenomenology
than the be-all/end-all discipline of psychoanalysis. I have written <a data-mce-href="http://juanpablodostribute.blogspot.com/search?q=Max+Scheler" href="http://juanpablodostribute.blogspot.com/search?q=Max+Scheler">elsewhere</a>
of Scheler’s refutation of psychology and was unaware that this was also one of
Husserl’s tenants of Phenomenology. Indeed, Gibbs notes that this point
was one of the first things that drew Stein to Husserl. Gibbs notes,
“Edith studied psychology at Breslau University for four semesters. By then she
had become discontented with psychology’s lack of a scientific basis”<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx#_ftn4" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx">[4]</a>
What is meant by “science” here is simply an ordered, logical basis in accord
with reality. Something she found much more apparent in Husserl’s <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Logical Investigations</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Besides
Scheler, Stein found lifelong friends in Hedwig Martius (later Conrad-Martius),
Roman Ingarden and Adolf Reinach (and his wife Anne). Though Hedwig
decided to convert to Lutheranism, it was in her family library that Edith
found the <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Life of St. Teresa
of Avila</span></em>. Famously, though the exact details are lacking,
Edith’s own words relate: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">For
twelve years Carmel had been my goal, since the summer of 1921 when the Life of
our holy mother Teresa came into my hands and put an end to my long search for
the true faith.<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx#_ftn5" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx">[5]</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Her
friend Roman Ingarden, a Polish philosopher from Krakow, would later become a
teacher of Karol Wojtyla. The two friends corresponded about numerous
topics, both philosophical and personal. Gibbs notes that both Ingarden
and another professor named Hans Lipps may have been romantic interests for
Stein, <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">According
to Hedwig Conrad-Martius – Edith’s philosophical colleague and friend Hans
Lipps. But her love for him was not reciprocated; at least, it was evident that
Lipps didn’t want to marry her. Another object of Edith’s affections may have
been Roman Ingarden, to whom she wrote over 150 letters, mostly reporting the
details of her work with Husserl. In one letter Edith addressed Ingarden as
‘Mein Liebling’ – ‘my dear’. But he returned to Poland early in 1918 and
married a school doctor the following year. Edith wrote congratulating him on
his marriage, and asked him to burn any personal letters from her that he might
have kept.<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx#_ftn6" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx">[6]</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Roman
Ingarden would have been the teacher to relay Max Scheler to the young Karol
Wojtyla in Poland. Gibbs notes, “The future Pope wrote his <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Habilitationsschrift </span></em>on
the ethical theory of Max Scheler”. Through Ingarden as well, Wojtyla
must have been introduced to the person and though of Stein. He too would
later canonize her as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">It’s
fascinating to trace how the friendships that arose from the initial followers
of Husserl made a tremendous impact on history, even to the degree that Karol
Wojtyla would adopt much of the thought of the Phenomenologists. However,
a sad note is the subsequent break of Husserl with his students as he distanced
himself especially from Stein on account of her being an ambitious woman in a
“male profession”. His own thought became more and more disjointed,
whereas his students carried the integrity of the Göttingen school far beyond
his reach. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Benjamin
Gibbs study of Edith Steins life, to which I refer often here, does not claim
to cover the entirety of her story and makes no mention of her sister Rose’s
journey to Carmel with her. What he intended to do was to collect
previously untranslated German letters of Stein, as well as include her
unfinished Autobiography, <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Life
in a Jewish Family</span></em>, as major sources in the corpus of Stein’s life
(because only the popular but imprecise memoir of Teresa Benedicta as written
by Sr Teresia Renata Posselt was available as yet). He does well to fill
and blanks in her life, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the network of
philosophers who influenced her ultimately toward Catholicism. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">A
final note regarding Stein's "friendship" with Husserl. It
lacked "sympathy", even though Stein herself attempted to reconcile
"empathy" with Husserl's discipline in her own painstaking work on
the subject. Their relationship only reflected the "conformity of
wills" aspect of the following sequence (although the conformity of
Husserl's will is questionable):<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Sympathy→
Conformity of Wills → Virtue of Hope <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Indeed
she often refers to him as "the master", which unfortunately reveals
a master/slave dynamic at work, especially since he would not allow her to
become his peer professionally and kept her at the level of secretary.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">On
the other hand, her longstanding friendships e.g. Roman Ingarden did reflect
this sequence:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Sympathy→
Conformity of Wills (& Sympathy) → Virtue of Hope (& Sympathy), <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">and
she found that they too disagreed with Husserl. Her work with empathy
turned out to be the last scholarly chance for Husserl to change his thinking,
and unfortunately he did not.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><br />
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Gibbs, Benjamin. ‘My long search for the true faith’: <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The Conversion of Edith Stein</span></em>.
www.carmelite.org/documents/Heritage/gibbsconversionofstein.pdf, May 2012 p.12.
It's important to note also that Gibbs mentions often how Stein was not an
atheistic philosopher in principle, she merely 'stopped praying' at one point
in her young life, and she did not begin again until interacting with brilliant
philosophers in Gottingen, Germany.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx#_ftnref2" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx">[2]</a>
Stein, Edith. <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Life in a Jewish
Family, An Autobiography</span></em>. translated by Josephine Koeppel, OCD.
http://www.sistersofcarmel.com/edith-stein-life-in-a-jewish-family/ 1933<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx#_ftnref3" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/A%20group%20of%20friends%20drawn%20initially%20together%20by%20the%20philosophy%20of%20Edmund%20Husserl.docx">[3]</a>
Gibbs, Benjamin. ‘My long search for the true faith’: <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The Conversion of Edith Stein</span></em>.
www.carmelite.org/documents/Heritage/gibbsconversionofstein.pdf, May 2012 p.7.
“For Edith, the attractive features of Husserl’s phenomenology were:(1)
Husserl’s repudiation of the scientific pretensions of psychology, and of
‘psychologism’ -<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">the
error of conflating the formal sciences of logic and pure mathematics with the
empiricalmethods of psychology.” Psychologism is essentially the belief
that psychology can explain all phenomena.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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Gibbs, Benjamin. ‘My long search for the true faith’: <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The Conversion of Edith Stein</span></em>.
P.6 Edith herself says, All my study of psychology had persuaded me that
this science [phenomenology] was in its infancy; it still lacked clear basic
concepts; furthermore, there was no one who could establish such an essential
foundation. On the other hand, what I had learned about phenomenology so far
fascinated me tremendously, because it consisted precisely of such a labour of
clarification and because, here, one forged one’s own mental tools for the task
at hand. (LJF 222)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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in die Hände gefallen war’. The translation in Posselt (2005) renders the
German incorrectly as ‘had happened to fall into my hands’, thus appearing to
support Posselt’s claim that Edith came across the book by chance. (ESGA I,
350; cf. Posselt 118).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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Gibbs: Letter of 1948 to Fr John Oesterreicher, in Never Forget, ed. W. Herbstrith
(ICS 1998), 266.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Final Installment: 12/29/16</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wojtyla and Tymieniecka’s
friendship</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">I was unaware of a 30+ year relationship between Karol
Wojtyla and the Polish-American philosopher Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: a student
of Roman Ingarden, a first-hand Polish follower of Husserl as I expressed in my
post, “Wojtyla y Amistades”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">She is the
founder and former president of the <a href="http://phenomenology.org/index.php/about-wpi/history">World Phenomenology Institute </a>, and a
translator of Wojtyla’s own </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Acting Person</span></i><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Her entrepreneurial spirit garnered the
support of not only her former teacher, Roman Ingarden, but also a crucial
contributor to the Theology of the Body: Paul Ricoeur.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">The Institute’s founding president and principal
intellectual guide for more than three decades was the European philosopher
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, a student of Roman Ingarden and close associate of
Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="color: black;">Ingarden, Levinas, and Ricoeur joined together with other well-known
philosophers such as Hans-Georg Gadamer and Stephan Strasser in supporting and
advancing the Institute’s programs and publications during its early years and
ever after.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">It is but one measure of
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s personal accomplishment that she was</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">able to attract and engage the very best
philosophical minds of our time in the Institute’s programs and publications,
in large part as a direct consequence of her own reputation and philosophical
achievements.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Tymieniecka was married to Hendrik Houthakker, an economics
professor in the United States, and together the couple hosted Wojtyla in 1978.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">She became good friends with the Pope in 1973,
while he was Cardinal of Krakow, and they remained “pen-pals” of sorts until
his death in 2005.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">She passed away in
2014, leaving the <a href="http://phenomenology.org/index.php/about-wpi/history">World Phenomenology Institute </a>in the hands of:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Dr. William S. Smith, Executive President, and to
Co-Presidents, Dr. Jadwiga S. Smith and Dr. Daniela Verducci.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">These three have been involved with the
Institute for nearly thirty years, and Dr. Tymieniecka entrusted the future of
her life-long work to these three individuals.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black;">
</span></span><span style="color: black;">Dr. Jadwiga Smith will organize conferences and programs on the American
front, while Dr. Verducci will continue her excellent work in Europe and beyond.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Together these three talented organizers and
scholars will continue the work of the WPI.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black;">
</span></span><span style="color: black;">They very much look forward to working with a newly constituted
Editorial Board of peer reviewers, who will continue the high-quality</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">of scholarship for the WPI’s three major
publication, Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research,
Phenomenological Inquiry: A Review of Philosophical Ideas and Trends, and
Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
prominent figure in the latter days of Karol Wojtyla’s life was (now) Cardinal
Stanisław Dziwisz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A native son of
Poland, born in 1939 in Raba Wyżna, he received his Doctoral degree in Krakow and
was appointed Secretary to then Archbishop Wojtyla in 1966.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Among
many other duties and offices, the Cardinal serves as head of the WYD Local
Organizing Committee in Poland and spoke some timely words in connection to the
theme of the Pilgrimage itself: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">''Sister
Faustina wrote in her diary that a spark will come out from Krakow that will
make the world ready for the final coming of Jesus Christ. We would like to
pass this secret of Divine Mercy onto youth. May they gather the thought and
spark of peace from Krakow. At this time, we have unrest, peace is at risk here
in Europe – there is terrorism and a brutal terrorism at that. This is why we
would like to create peace, reconciliation, solidarity, mutual kindness, and
may this atmosphere cover the whole world, starting from this meeting here in
Krakow”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Having
just finished the Diary, I know the exact passage to which the Cardinal refers
in Paragraph 1732 of Notebook 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
fact, that same passage about the “Spark” appears in the official WYD prayer as
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is a
fitting theme as events begin to escalate toward violence aimed specifically at
Christians worldwide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am referring
especially to the martyrdom of Fr. Jacques Hamel yesterday during his
celebration of the Mass in Normandy, France (a place of great bloodshed in WWII).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Final Coming of the Lord would be much
welcomed in the face of increased terrorism by ISIS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cardinal specifically referenced the slain priest in his homily for the opening
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“During
this Mass, let us pray for all the victims of the recent terrorist attacks. Let
us pray for the priest who was murdered today while celebrating the Eucharist
in France.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dioceses in the USA are celebrating <a href="http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/fortnight-for-freedom/index.cfm" target="_blank">Fortnight for Freedom</a> at
this time of year, and the Bishops have proposed the Little Sisters of the Poor
as the first example of Religious Freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor, <a href="http://littlesistersofthepoor.org/saint-jeanne-jugan/sayings-of-jeanne-jugan/" target="_blank">St. Jeanne Jugan</a> was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1982.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the past few years, my wife and I have
visited nursing homes for Christmas Eve and played Christmas Carols on piano
for the residents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since moving to St.
Paul in 2014, we have been able to go caroling at the Little Sisters Holy
Family Residence down town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There, I
have begun to learn more about the Sisters and have truly appreciated their
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Whereas at other nursing homes the employees smiled and
waved at me for playing piano, the Sisters brought us a gift basket, sang
along, and truly have been interested in our family ever since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They just downright care about people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-87215633569615144262016-06-21T12:15:00.002-07:002016-06-21T12:15:27.901-07:00Venerable Solanus Casey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fr. Solanus Casey was declared Venerable by St. John Paul II
in 1995.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I first visited the Capuchin’s
tomb at St. Bonaventure Monastery in 2008 and continued to do so nearly every
week until 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never figured that I would
be living in the State where <a href="http://www.solanuscasey.org/portal.php" target="_blank">Solanus worked as a logger, prison guard, andstreetcar operator</a> and also where, honestly, he is more often invoked for
intercession than in Detroit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are
more pilgrimages from Minnesota and Wisconsin to his tomb, than anywhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yet, despite my proximity to his burial place in Detroit I
admit the least impression of his holiness on me while I was there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not until I moved to Minnesota have I begun
to realize his influence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am rooting
for his canonization (insofar as that’s possible), and can fully reflect on how
fruitful his prayers are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His simplicity
in particular is an attribute that I most want to imitate, with his
characteristic emphasis on gratitude to Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-17708619513904218012016-06-03T10:25:00.000-07:002016-06-03T12:26:00.277-07:00Cor Jesu: Furnace of Charity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">While visiting the Parish where my wife and I married in
2012, St. Isidore of Grand Rapids, I came across a book by Dr. Timothy O’Donnell
entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heart of the Redeemer</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In it, devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
is thoroughly accounted for both historically and mystically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>References from early Church Fathers, Thomas
Aquinas, and especially St. Margaret Mary Alacoque make a compelling argument
for the authenticity of the Heart of Christ as a revealed source of grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the Redeemer vivifies the whole Church and draws men who have opened their
hearts to the ‘unfathomable riches’ of this one Heart” (p. 229 of O’Donnell as
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I have had the privilege to participate in the <a href="https://enthronements.com/congress-events/" target="_blank">Sacred HeartEnthronement</a> offered at St. Patrick Parish in Columbus, as well as the <a href="http://www.sacredheartcongresscolumbus.org/#!" target="_blank">SacredHeart Congress</a> in Ohio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There, a priest
said to those listening, “I am going to bless the hell out of your homes!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truly, hell cannot abide the “furnace of
charity” (fornax ardens caritatis) that is the Heart of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-2673970496255832162016-05-31T11:43:00.001-07:002016-05-31T11:43:21.584-07:00Conrad and Wojtyla<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first novel of Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad
Korzeniowski) I read in 1998, by recommendation of a priest—himself a
navyman/sailor, was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…of the Narcissus</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even then, I was impressed by how well a Pole
could write in English as a second language. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turns out, Conrad (the Author’s) father Apollo
was quite a linguist and translator: French, German, and English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apollo’s father, Teodor Korzeniowski, was a captain
of the Polish army during the 1830 Insurrection against Russian rule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much like Captain Wojtyla, Karol’s father,
the military influence of the family brought a sense of honor and belonging to
the Polish cause for independence (from Russia, etc.)—not to mention the fact
that the Konrad Korzeniowskis were devoutly Catholic</span><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/Joseph%20Conrad.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unlike Wojtyla, however, Joseph Conrad has been accused of
ex-patriotism, as though his exile were chosen and voluntary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In reality, Conrad’s father was imprisoned by
occupying Russian officials in Warsaw and then his entire family was sent to
Vologda in Northern Russia in 1862.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
1863, the family was allowed to move to Chernihiv in the Ukraine, but Joseph
lost his mother there to tuberculosis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Six years later, Joseph would also lose his father even though they had
returned to Poland—specifically Krakow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, Joseph Conrad and Karol Wojtyla held a number of things
in common, the most severe of which was being orphaned—though Conrad at a much
earlier age than Wojtyla.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This, and not
ex-patriotism, was the reason for Conrad’s British citizenship after more than
20 years as a seaman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, it’s
interesting to note that Conrad appealed to the British government on behalf of
Poland, acting as a kind of ambassador to his homeland for the sake of freeing
her from the clutches of Soviet Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Accompanied by his wife and two sons, Joseph Conrad visited
Poland only once and was subsequently detained there by the First World War in
1914.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Concerning his popularity in
Poland: During World War II, his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lord Jim</i>,
“<span lang="EN" style="color: #1b1b1b; mso-ansi-language: EN;">became one of the
leading moral authorities for the young members of the Polish underground army
and civil resistance.”<a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/Joseph%20Conrad.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1b1b1b; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“The
first ever full edition of Conrad's works (27 volumes) was published in Poland
in 1972-74, with one supplementary volume containing material confiscated by
the Communist censors, and published by Polish émigrés in London.”</span><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/Joseph%20Conrad.docx" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore, Conrad’s physical absence from Poland allowed him
to be much more influential the world over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Secondly, it put him in touch with a more lucrative English-reading
audience which in the wake of the British Empire still fed on stories of the
sea and colonies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My favorite of his works has become his largely
auto-biographical Mirror of the Sea which details his prosaic and poetic
account of nearly every nautical circumstance imaginable to a pre-iron ship
sailor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He personifies all the winds and
their characteristics, and boasts of his recognition of them in contrast to
other “deaf” sailors who subsequently risked the lives of the crew on account
of their deafness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also specifically
mentions rosary beads when trying to describe his perception of business on the
river Thames: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Such as the beads
of a rosary told by business-like shipowners for the greater profit of the
world they slip one by one into the open: while in the offing the inward-bound
ships come up singly and in bunches from under the sea horizon closing the
mouth of the river between Orfordness and North Foreland</span><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/Joseph%20Conrad.docx" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">His imagination
is thoroughly Catholic on many accounts, and I admire his recognition of
devotional prayer in such things as ships.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had the good fortune recently to travel with my nuclear
family on an iron Steam Ship, much like the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Patna</i>
of Conrad’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lord Jim</i>, across Lake
Michigan from Manitowac Wisconsin to Ludingtion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original ship owners name was Conrad too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While on board, I envisioned the predicament
of Jim--although in my case with two children—as the 900 foot depth of waters
surrounded us on every side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I showed my
oldest son the lifeboats and the waves, knowing with conviction that he, my
wife, and youngest son would all take my place in the event of an
emergency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would see to it that they
survived or else I would be left with the same shame as Lord Jim. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the type of
circumstantial courage-testing that Joseph Conrad is able to evoke in his
works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It brings out a kind of
magnanimity akin to Karol Wojtyla’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I looked at the open water onboard the SS Badger, I could almost
breathe in the strength of soul necessary to lay down my life for my
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very passage inspired me to
greatness and memories of the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wojtyla's way of laying down his life was celibacy. Conrad's was marriage and family, although in those days much of that vocation was spent on the ocean. Nevertheless, he loved his wife and sons amidst tremendous danger and hardship caused by World War--and for that, in addition to his written works, he should be commended.</span><br />
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Joseph. <em>Mirror of the Sea</em>.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chapter 31, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1058/1058-h/1058-h.htm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">See
also Peter Kreeft's History of Charismatic Renewal <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-QDOcDGDWA&list=PLVnh-RJrG2kV-eo-6ByPYmjFCy0Yht3Dr&index=6">here</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Before
the Duquesne outpouring of the Holy Spirit in 1967, before the
New Evangelization asked for by Paul VI and John Paul II, and just
before Vatican Council II: St. John XXIII prayed for a
"Pentecoste Novella". It is a <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/it/homilies/1959/documents/hf_j-xxiii_hom_19590517.html">documented
request</a>, and not just a rumor. The Pope did, in fact, refer
to a "New Pentecost". He may have been overly
optimistic in his hopes for VCII. Nevertheless, those were
his exact words and they deserve attention in the light of what many,
including Father Raniero Cantalamessa, call "The Baptism in
the Holy Spirit". </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">St.
John Paul II appointed Fr. Cantalamessa Papal Preacher when he heard
him joyfully preaching on the streets of Rome to any and
everyone who would listen. How wonderful that this
formerly reserved and quiet Capuchin Priest had suddenly unleashed on
the world all of his contemplative fruit and apostolic labor!
He received the "Baptism in the Holy Spirit" and defends it
vigorously as a verifiable means of grace that God uses to
supplement (but by no means replace or overshadow) the Sacraments of
Initiation. And particularly in terms of Pentecost, Fr.
Cantalamessa <a href="https://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/library_article/1028/Baptism_in_the_Holy_Spirit___Fr._Cantalamessa.html">says</a>:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />In
addition to the renewal of the grace of baptism, the Baptism in the
Spirit is also a confirmation of one's own baptism, a deliberate
"yes" to it, to its fruit and its commitments, and as such
it is also similar to Confirmation too. Confirmation being the
sacrament that develops, confirms, and brings to completion the work
of baptism. From it, too, comes that desire for greater involvement
in the apostolic and missionary dimension of the Church that is
usually noted in those who receive the Baptism in the Spirit.
They are more inclined to cooperate with the building up of the
Church, to put themselves at her service in various ministries both
clerical and lay, to witness for Christ -to do all those things that
recall the happening of </span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Pentecost</span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and
which are actuated in the Sacrament of Confirmation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Thus,
there is an unmistakable link between the prayer uttered and
documented for a </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Pentecoste
Novella", and the "Baptism in the Holy Spirit".
The </span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">link</span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> is
the actual Person of the Holy Spirit manifesting Himself with
Charismatic gifts in the lives of the Baptized! And this
is nothing modern or contrived, Saints have experienced the same
"Baptism in the Holy Spirit", e.g. St. Patrick's </span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Confessio</span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />"</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">More
and more did the love of God, and my fear of him and faith increase,
and my spirit was moved so that in a day [I said] from one up to a
hundred prayers, and in the night a like number; besides I used to
stay out in the forests and on the mountain and I would wake up
before daylight to pray in the snow,in icy coldness, in rain, and I
used to feel neither ill nor any slothfulness, because, as I now
see, </span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
Spirit was burning in me</span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> at
that time." (Par. #16)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />St.
Simeon's </span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Catéchéses</span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />"If
one is not baptized in the Holy Spirit, one cannot become a son of
God and co-heir of Christ." (Cat. XXXIII (112, 259))</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />St.
Cyril of Alexandria's </span></span></span><em><a href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cyril_christ_is_one_01_text.htm"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">That
Christ is One</span></span></span></span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />"How
then does He Who has been baptized and Who received the open Descent
of the Spirit, </span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">baptize
with the Holy Ghost</span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and
perform what belong to and beseem the Divine Nature alone? for He is
the Bestower of holiness. And in proof of this the Incarnate Word
breathed, as a bodily act, His own proper good, upon the holy
Apostles saying, </span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Receive
ye the Holy Ghost" </span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(LFC
47 (1881) pp.237-319)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Yves
Congar agrees with St. Cyril's reference above by clarifying:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The
nouns 'baptism in the Spirit' are not used by New Testament authors,
who instead used the verb '</span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">baptize</span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> in
the Spirit', always precisely in order to mark the difference between
this and the baptism of John, because the verb drew attention to the
One who was baptizing. This was Jesus, inaugurating, especially
from the time of his own anointing as the Messiah and the gift of
Pentecost onwards the eschatological régime of the Spirit (191,
Volume II of </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><em>I
Believe in the Holy Spirit</em></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: medium;">And here are Congar's own words concerning an actual time of prayer and laying on of hands for a Life in the Spirit Seminar(196, Volume II of <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><em>I Believe in the Holy Spirit</em></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">)</span></span></span>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: medium;">There is usually a certain preparation and instruction together with prayer. When the moment has arrived, several members of the group pray over the 'candidate' and lay their hands on his head or shoulders. Although the brethren, the community are mediating, it is only God who is acting. Sometimes nothing may seem to be happening to the 'candidate'. At other times an experience of peace and joy and a deep feeling for prayer ensues in a few days. At yet other times, he is invaded by the power of God, who seizes hold of his whole being--his heart, his mind and his feelings. He is perhaps conscious of a gentle inner pressure which makes tears flow. A desire to give thanks rises from his heart to his lips, and this may be expressed as praying in tongues. The Spirit is making himself manifest. His coming is powerfully experienced.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I
first learned of the "Baptism in the Holy Spirit" from a
Benedictine Monk, and have seen and heard many other Religious teach
about it (Diocesan Priests, Bishops, Dominican Nuns, even Trapists!)
It is by no means a mere "experience" reserved for lay
members of Charismatic Groups. Fr. Cantalamessa continues:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />It
is also not difficult to discover in the lives of the saints, the
presence of a spontaneous effusion, especially on the occasion of
their conversion. The difference with the Baptism in the Spirit,
however, is that it is open to all the people of God, small and
great, and not only to those privileged ones who do the Ignatian
Spiritual Exercises or make a religious profession.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Lastly,
"Baptism in the Holy Spirit" is a phrase taken directly
from the mouth of St. John the Baptist, "He will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit and fire!". It is not meant to be
isolated in time or place but seen as integral to the life of
every baptized Catholic. Saints endured martyrdom in the
power of the Spirit and not just on their own strength.
How else would St. Lawrence have said in the flames, "Turn me
over, I'm done on this side"! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>Four Heresies
to avoid in regard to life in the Spirit</u></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1)
Montanism--exemplified by Tertullian under the leadership of
Montanus: overemphasized prophecy and asceticism to the point of
suggesting two different churches (the church of the Bishops vs. the
church of the Spirit)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2)
Modernism--See my post on <a href="http://juanpablodostribute.blogspot.com/search?q=Modernism">St.
Pius X</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3)
Donatism--The belief that only priests in a state of grace can confer
valid Sacraments</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4)
Pneumatomachism--The view of the Spirit as Object rather than as
Person. A utilitarian belief in the Spirit vs. a true Theology
of the Holy Spirit</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />For
more info on these Four see Yves Congar's </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><em>I
Believe in the Holy Spirit</em></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>.</em>
Crossroad Publishing Company: New York, 1979 & 1997.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">See Also Cardinal L.J. Suenens</span>: <a href="http://sites.jcu.edu/suenens/pages/cardinal-suenens/">http://sites.jcu.edu/suenens/pages/cardinal-suenens/</a></div>
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Update 7/13/16: St. Faustina heard Christ say of Poland: <br />
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As I was praying for Poland, I heard the words: <strong>I bear a special love for Poland[...] From her will come forth the spark that will prepare the world for My final coming.</strong> (Paragraph 1732, #6)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Come August 2016, there will have been 2 World Youth Days in
Poland: <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>Czestochowa and Krakow</strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I am particularly
glad for my brother and his family who will be attending the upcoming WYD!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The previous WYD occurred in 1991 (when I was
6 and my brother was 4) and was themed, “’You have received a spirit of sonship’
(Rom 8:15)</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In preparation for
that event, Pope John Paul II said in his message in 1990: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Holiness is the
essential heritage of the children of God. Christ says: ‘Be perfect, as your
heavenly Father is perfect’ (Mt 5:48). This means doing the will of the Father
in every circumstance of life.</span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif";">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I recognize in the quotation of St. Matthew’s Gospel by JPII
a chief aspect of the person of the Father that will be reflected differently
at the WYD in Krakow: “Be merciful as your heavenly Father is merciful” (Lk.
6:36).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason for this reflection is
that the theme of the 2016 WYD in Krakow is “Blessed are the Merciful” and “Have
mercy on us and on the whole world” (Kowalska)</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is to say, that we who seek the
perfection of the Father are capable of seeking Him on account of his Mercy.</span></div>
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to the goal of such sonship, the Father!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Already, with more than 6 months to go, I can notice on the horizon a
reminder of JPII’s legacy in Krakow but superseded by the greatness of the
Heavenly Father as revealed to us by the merciful Christ Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though I won’t be there in person, I am aware
of a kind of “Philadelphia”—or a brotherly love for the city of Krakow where my
blood brother will be and where Jesus our Brother is, was, and is to come. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our original family name “Wroeblewski” is
common in much of Poland, and is in fact taken from a common Polish sparrow (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wr%C3%B3bel" target="_blank">Wróbel</a>)
that can easily be found throughout the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this in mind, I really enjoy the aerial
views represented in the official hymn “Błogosławieni miłosierni” video for the
event—as though a sparrow were soaring throughout the country and surveying
what the Father is about to do there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
prayer is that St. John Paul II’s legacy and especially written works will not
be forgotten but more and more incorporated into the life of families, priests
and religious for the greater glory of God!</span>
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I have included above the Spanish version entitled: <em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Bienaventurados los misericordiosos</em><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The Latin word Misericordiae captures well the essence of the devotion to Divine Mercy. It literally means "sorrowful heart" which links together the Sacred Heart devotion of St Margaret Mary and that of St Faustina. Lyrics below:</span><br />
<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #b8312f; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Levanto mis ojos a los montes.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />¿Quién me ayudara?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />La ayuda me viene del Señor<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />por Su gran compasión.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Aun cuando estamos en el error,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />nos abraza con Su amor.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Con Su sangre nuestro dolor<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />¡al fin se sanará!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bienaventurados los misericordiosos,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />porque ellos alcanzarán misericordia. (x2)<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Si no perdonamos, ¿quién ganará?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />¿quién puede sostenerse en pie?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Si Él nos perdona, nosotros también<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />¡hagamos como nuestro Dios!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bienaventurados los misericordiosos,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />porque ellos alcanzarán misericordia. (x2)<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />En la cruz Él nos redimió,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />de la tumba resucitó.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />¡Jesucristo es el Señor!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />¡Al mundo hay que anunciar!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bienaventurados los misericordiosos,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />porque ellos alcanzarán misericordia. (x2)<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Hay que soltar el miedo y ser fiel,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />con la mirada en Su amor<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />confiar porque Él resucitó<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />¡Vive el Señor!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bienaventurados los misericordiosos,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />porque ellos alcanzarán misericordia</span>.</strong></em><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-49645176366787753592016-01-08T11:45:00.003-08:002016-04-20T12:04:00.717-07:00Max Scheler, Aristotle and JPII<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fr. Wojciech Giertych, O.P., a Thomist, explains my points in this post much more succinctly than I could. Here's a quote of his that sums up my thoughts below: "The methodical presentation of the moral ethos that Aquinas gave was suspended upon the basic structures of human psychology." I strongly recommend listening to his lecture on Virtue </span><a href="http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/news/lecture-rev-wojciech-giertych-op-faith-reason" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a> before reading the rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In 1954 Wojtyla became professor of ethics at the University
of Lublin in Poland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His courses
centered around St. Thomas Aquinas and Max Scheler, with much attention also
given to Kant (in particular his personalistic norm).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing as how Scheler was such an influence
on JPII, here then is my assessment of Scheler in relation to Aristotle:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The fundamental
concepts</span><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">
of Max Scheler’s noölogical</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> method are: “World of work” (</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arbeitswelt</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">) and “form of spiritual life”
(</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Geistige Lebensform</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">).
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I were to re-state the above summary about
Scheler’s work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Die transcendbntale und
die psychologische Methode</i>, I would use the Benedictine “Ora et Labora”
which may serve as a more familiar definition (</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">λόγος</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> of
Scheler’s German verbiage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Max Scheler’s
use of “Lebensform”—literally “form of life”, closely equates to Aristotle’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">εἶδος</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (or character formation) and St. Benedict’s Regula (or rule of life).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is to say, Max Scheler observed two
major influences on the human person: “work” and “form of life”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of these, I am most interested in the latter
as it concerns the character (</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">εἶδος)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> of unique persons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, interestingly enough, his
identification of “work” closely aligns with Aristotle’s </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">ἔργον and St. Benedict’s “labora”.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The reason why I
refer to Regula Sancti Benedicti and Aristotle, is to provide a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">historical</b> framework for Scheler’s
modern attempt to synthesize philosophy and psychology in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Die transcendbntale und die psychologische Methode</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, Scheler divides his work into
three parts</span><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">:
the first being the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">historical</b> survey
of philosophic method, the second devoted to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arbeitswelt</i>, and the third to </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Geistige Lebensform (</i>as opposed to mere psychological method)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>As
I have said, of these three, I want to focus most on the third in order to
provide a reason/definition for why formation is necessary and indeed
unavoidable for all human persons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
other words, Scheler’s “form of life” occurs especially in the mind of every
human person</span></span><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">,
whether he or she consciously participates in it or not (i.e. a conscious
effort to grow in virtue {ἀρετή}).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
not going to go into the extensive subjective questions Scheler raises with
psychology or the interiority of the human person per se.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, I simply intend to argue for a noölogical
defense of the formation of the human person.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">To simplify, it is often said of a unique and impressive
person, “He or she is quite a character!”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Such a reference is not to be confused with “caricature”, as in a
larger-than-life or play-acting personality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rather, the use of the word character, or “building character” is in
reference to the “form of life” that a person has undergone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aristotle understands this to be the result
of the practice/function (<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">ἔργον)</span>
of virtue (ἀρετή) or the lack thereof, i.e. virtue is either understood in
human beings to be potential or actual and the fully formed human being has
virtue actually</span><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, I am arguing that we recognize
either a potentiality or an actuality of virtue in persons as “character
building or formation”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. Benedict’s
“Ora et Labora” adds a theological component somewhat lacking in Aristotle, and
Scheler’s critique of the contemporary psychological method would agree with
St. Benedict based on the following: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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definite and original data such as ‘here and now given feelings’ as a pure
fiction, and charges the method with confusing mere psychic existence with
living Spirit as expressed in the concrete relations of society, in law,
religion, etc., at any stage of culture</span><a href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/U336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In other words, Max Scheler converted to Catholicism in
large part because he recognized the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Geistige
Lebensform</i> he desired in the religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is, his own decision making was based on his noölogical method as
divided into his understanding and assessment of the historical, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Arbeitswelt,
</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Geistige Lebensform.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">John Paul II found in Scheler a suitable complement to
Aquinas for developing much of his own philosophical thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aquinas, of course, drew largely from
Aristotle--which explains why I referred to him most often in the above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When adding the virtues of faith, hope, and
love to Aristotle’s more natural assessment, it is easy to begin to see the
potential in the study of individuals’ own virtues inter-subjectively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, each person can gain a degree
of understanding of the level of virtue that he or she has attained with
self-knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, a person can
determine how deficient a virtue is in his or her life, even in relation to
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have JPII and his predecessors to
thank for such understanding. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/u336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx#_ftnref1" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/u336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> <em>Die transcendbntale und die psychologische Methode:</em> Eine grundsützliche Erürterung zur philosophischen Methodik. Von Dr. Max F. Scheler. Leip zig : Verlag der Dürr'schen Buchhandlung. 1900. Pages, 178.<em>The Monist</em>, Vol. 12, No. 4 (July, 1902), pp. 633-634 Published by: Oxford University Press</span><br />
<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/u336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx#_ftnref2" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/u336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">[2]</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> "In Aristotle’s view the thing defined by a definition of x is the FORM of x. Hence ‘the logos of x’ is often equivalent to ‘the form of x’." All references to Aristotle taken from Terence Irwin and Gail Fine. <em>Nicomachean Ethics and Glossary</em>. Hackett Publishing: Cambridge 1995.</span><br />
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<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/u336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx#_ftnref4" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/u336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">[4]</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Verlag der Dürr'schen Buchhandlung. “Mind, and therefore also its constituent ‘intellect,’ is at the beginning of the quest for its contents a perfectly problematic conception.”</span><br />
<a data-mce-href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/u336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx#_ftnref5" href="file://dtcnas-mnmi004.ent.wfb.bank.corp/C_MTGSVC_Users/u336542/My%20Documents/SRWORDExcel&amp;PDF/CLASSICS/SchelerForm.docx"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">[5]</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Terence Irwin and Gail Fine. <em>Nicomachean Ethics and Glossary</em>. Hackett Publishing: Cambridge 1995 "Form is the actuality that realizes the potentiality of the matter."</span><br />
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John Henry Cardinal Newman was a profoundly comprehensive thinker. Some have attributed to him a degree of inspiration behind Vatican II, and certainly, he has been credited with most University parishes throughout the United States--in name if not in teaching. JPII declared that John Henry Newman had lived all of the Christian virtues in a heroic degree and was thus henceforth to be called by the title “Venerable” on 1/22/91. <br />
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I just want to <a href="http://www.newmanreader.org/works/development/chapter7.html" target="_blank">cite</a> a simple statement he makes about Christianity, not so as to limit his teaching on it, but to show his prioritization of truth:<br />
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For the convenience of arrangement, <strong>I will consider the Incarnation the central truth of the gospel</strong>, and the source whence we are to draw out its principles. <br />
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1. The principle of <i>dogma</i>, that is, supernatural truths irrevocably committed to human language, imperfect because it is human, but definitive and necessary because given from above.<br />
2. The principal of <i>faith</i>, which is the correlative of dogma, being the absolute acceptance of the divine Word with an internal assent, in opposition to the informations, if such, of sight and reason.<br />
3. Faith, being an act of the intellect, opens a way for inquiry, comparison and inference, that is, for science in religion, in subservience to itself; this is the principle of <i>theology</i>.<br />
4. The doctrine of the Incarnation is the announcement of a divine gift conveyed in a material and visible medium, it being thus that heaven and earth are in the Incarnation united. That is, it establishes in the very idea of Christianity the <i>sacramental</i> principle as its characteristic.<br />
5. Another principle involved in the doctrine of the Incarnation, viewed as taught or as dogmatic, is the necessary use of language, e.g. of the text of Scripture, in a second or <i>mystical sense</i>. Words must be made to express new ideas, and are invested with a sacramental office.<br />
6. It is our Lord's intention in His Incarnation to make us what He is Himself; this is the principle of <i>grace</i>, which is not only holy but sanctifying.<br />
7. It cannot elevate and change us without mortifying our lower nature:—here is the principle of <i>asceticism</i>. {326}<br />
8. And, involved in this death of the natural man, is necessarily a revelation of the <i>malignity of sin</i>, in corroboration of the forebodings of conscience.<br />
9. Also by the fact of an Incarnation we are taught that matter is an essential part of us, and, as well as mind, is <i>capable of sanctification</i>.<br />
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In connection with a quote I selected from Gaudium et Spes, "By his Incarnation, he, the Son of God, has in a certain way united himself with each man" (22:2).<br />
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Together, these truths communicate to me that both March 25th and December 25th of each year are awesome feasts to celebrate our Lord, because they focus our attention on him, "pitching his tent/tabernacle among us"! That is to say that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (the Angelus), and Newman does well to choose this as central to Christianity. He goes even further by nearly <a href="http://newmanreader.org/works/development/chapter2.html" target="_blank">locating</a> the Incarnation today in large part with the Magisterium's Infallibility (in matters of faith and morals):<br />
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The doctrine of the Incarnation is a fact, and cannot be paralleled by anything in nature...We have no reason to suppose that there is so great a distinction of dispensation between ourselves and the first generation of Christians, as that they had a living infallible guidance, and we have not...As creation argues continual governance, so are Apostles harbingers of Popes. <br />
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In other words, the first Apostles had an Infallible teacher in Christ--and we too, have an Infallible teacher in Christ via his Church. </div>
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Billy Graham identified himself as a good friend of Karol Wojtyla. They corresponded regularly, and met in Rome several times. Graham had a special respect for the Pope's emphasis on the suffering of the cross. In an <a href="http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/biblestudyandtheology/perspectives/ans_popegrahamcaviezel.aspx?mobile=false" target="_blank">interview</a> with Larry King, Graham the following of Wojtyla:<br />
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GRAHAM: I think it was his background in Poland. And I had finished preaching all over Poland, gotten to know many people, and I knew a little bit about where he came from. <br />
"And he was a suffering pope, too. He suffered as much as anybody you could ever imagine. His mother died when he was young. And he had that terrible assassination attack. And through it all, he taught us how to suffer. And I think in recent days he's taught us how to die.<br />
KING: There is no question in your mind that he is with God now?<br />
GRAHAM: Oh, no. There may be a question about my own, but I don't think Cardinal Wojtyla, or the Pope -- I think he's with the Lord, because he believed. He believed in the Cross. That was his focus throughout his ministry, the Cross, no matter if you were talking to him from personal issue or an ethical problem, he felt that there was the answer to all of our problems, the cross and the resurrection. And he was a strong believer.<br />
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They also held in common a goal to wipe out Communism, and were both successful in their own lifetimes. Here is a clip of Graham preaching against Marxism (min 7:40-8:15)):<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231438970934023581.post-24869526661336118392015-12-08T08:02:00.000-08:002015-12-08T08:03:22.986-08:00St. Maximilian, JPII and 12/8<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">During the month of All Saints/souls, my second son was born: Maximilian
Kolbe-Joseph Roeble (No Pressure). My wife and I agreed on that name soon after we
finished the Saint’s specific Marian Consecration, and I am so profoundly
impressed with the Saint’s understanding of the Immaculate Conception that I
use it in my daily rosary. That is, St. Maximilian Kolbe understood there
to be essentially two personally distinct Immaculate Conceptions: Mary and the
Holy Spirit. One human and one Divine, one created and one Uncreated.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">While awaiting execution at Auschwitz, St. Maximilian received the answer
to a question he had long wondered, “Who are you, O Immaculate Conception?”.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Here is the answer he received just before his martyrdom: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This eternal ‘Immaculate Conception’ (which is the Holy Spirit) produces in
an immaculate manner divine life itself in the womb (or depths) of Mary’s soul,
making her the Immaculate Conception, the human Immaculate Conception.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">After all, Mary did tell St. Bernadette at Lourdes, <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I am the Immaculate Conception</span></em>.
That is, the identity of her person just as the Tetragrammaton was revealed to
Moses on Sinai. So too, St. Maximilian Kolbe understood the identity of
the person of Holy Spirit to be the uncreated “Immaculate Conception”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">St. John Paul II references this same understanding, along with a story of
the Saint’s acceptance of two “crowns” from the Blessed Virgin Mary: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Maximilian prepared for this definitive sacrifice by following Christ from
the first years of his life in Poland. From these years comes the mysterious
vision of two crowns-one white and one red. From these our saint does not
choose. He accepts them both. From the years of his youth, in fact, Maximilian
was filled with the great love of Christ and the desire for martyrdom.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This love and this desire accompanied him along the path of his Franciscan
and priestly vocation, for which he prepared himself both in Poland and in
Rome. This love and this desire followed him through all the places of his
priestly and Franciscan service in Poland and in his missionary service in
Japan.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The inspiration of his whole life was the Immaculata. To her he entrusted
his love for Christ and his desire for martyrdom. In the mystery of the
Immaculate Conception there revealed itself before the eyes of his soul that
marvelous and supernatural world of God's grace offered to man.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I find it particularly fitting on this Feast of the Immaculate Conception
today 12/8/15, that I can celebrate with my family, the very community for
which St. Maximilian offered his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is, when he saw that Jewish father and husband had been selected by
the Nazis for execution, Father Kolbe offered his life instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is how highly he esteemed marriage and
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, the man he “saved”
(Francis) went on to tell his story to everyone he met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only that, but he and his family
personally attended the Beatification of St. Maximilian in Rome.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Days to Morning Glory</span></em>, esp. section on St. Maximilian Kolbe
pp.49-64. Stockbridge, MA: Marian Press, 2013.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Manteau-Bonamy, OP, <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Immaculate
Conception and the Holy Spirit</span></em>. Libertyville, IL: Franciscan
Marytown Press, 1977.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For THE CANONIZATION OF St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, October 10, 1982</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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