These are the quotes/memes posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X/what used to be Twitter in the past week: [In contemplation] conceptual knowledge of revealed truths is not in any way laid aside, or in any way got rid of, it is merely for the moment covered over. All the dogmas thus subsist in the faith of the contemplative, but …
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For Blessed Pope Paul VI
Today is the first memorial day of Blessed Pope Paul VI, beatified less than a year ago by Pope Francis. Since before my reception into the Catholic Church (from a Protestant background), Pope Paul has been my favourite pope – or at least my favourite pope after the age of the Church Fathers. He walked …
Prayer (Hans Urs von Balthasar)
This book was recommended to me by a reader: Prayer by Hans Urs von Balthasar. I probably wouldn’t have had any interest if it hadn’t been explicitly pointed out to me that the title in French is Contemplative Prayer. OK, that is a much more interesting book! This book exists, as von Balthasar himself notes, as a kind of …
How Far Along the Spiritual Journey Can Non-Christians Go?
This is a long post. But it asks what I’d consider a relevant and important question: In this life, how far along the spiritual journey can non-Christians go? It seems to me that, if anyone cares about God and about his neighbours in an environment that is not primarily Catholic or Christian, then this question will surge into …
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Dogma and Contemplation
Dogma – unpopular word – is a constituent of the progress of the Church on earth. The divine deposit was given once for all with Jesus and transmitted in human words with the Apostles, and will not be altered or surpassed by anything spoken or written since. However, dogmas develop. We make truths of the faith more explicit and conceptualized, …
Contemplative in the Mud 