Home again, tired but happy after the Roman Forum Conference high up overlooking Lake Garda. (Incidentally, I have just been through comments offered while I was not reading in-coming mail, and I have enabled most of them).
Once again, the food was as splendid as the wine and the fellowship, and papers read, even more splendid than both.
These Conferences truly are focussed coalitions of the joyously broad spectrum within orthodox Catholicism. Clergy were present from the Society, the Ordinariates, and the Fraternity; and there were laity present attached to all these bodies and also to the Institute. As well, of course, as clergy and laity, young and old, from a wide variety of parishes. An Akathistos was celebrared by a priest biritual in the the Byzantine and classical Roman traditions. Professor de Mattei delivered a finely pointed lecture; Dr Eva with her splendid Gloria TV team was there; and Diane Montagna.
Trendy young people talk about "safe spaces". The Gardone Conferences provide safe spaces where orthodox Catholics can be safe together and can renew their fellowship without being jumped on by heterodox elephants.
We need more of this sort of thing. Long may these superb events continue!!
More later.
Welcome back!
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you enjoyed the Roman Forum Conference, Father Hunwicke. Had such a conference existed in the 17th century, I guess those attending might well have regarded Galileo as a "heterodox elephant".
ReplyDelete"E pur si muove."
Terry Loane