Today is the Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, more commonly known as Corpus Christi, the day set aside by the Church in honor of the Eucharist. Traditionally, the celebration of Corpus Christi includes the Lauda Sion sequence, which I was fortunate enough to hear sung in Latin at Mass today. [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Corpus Christi (Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ)
Posted in Jesus, Liturgy, Sacred Music, The Real Presence on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chance Meetings
Posted in The Holy Spirit on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Spring of 2006 marked the end of my four years at UC Berkeley. By early May I was in the process of finishing up my remaining requirements and bidding farewell to friends and familiar surroundings. I had spent most of my final semester working at a psych lab and ignoring my classwork in favor of [...]
Fr. Alvin Kimel on Ecclesiological Relativism
Posted in Theology on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fr. Alvin Kimel’s outstanding blog Pontifications needs little in the way of introduction. Started in 2003 as a place for the author—an ordained Episcopalian priest—to explore the Anglican Communion’s ongoing collapse, its focus gradually shifted to the question with which Cardinal Newman grappled in the years before his conversion: where is the true Church established [...]
Romano Amerio on the Role of Public Opinion in the Church
Posted in Church History, Theology on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From the English translation of Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the XXth Century, published in Italy in 1985:
Cardinal Suenens [a Belgian prelate and an influential liberal at the Second Vatican Council] asserted in an interview that “most importantly, after the council there was a recognition of public opinion in [...]
