tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4794233508172686135..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Celebrity PontiffsFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66914937044753165282017-04-03T08:19:39.353+01:002017-04-03T08:19:39.353+01:00"Complete and utter" break seems somewha..."Complete and utter" break seems somewhat exaggerated.<br /><br />In St John's Gospel, the enemies of Christ are described as "Jews", but always by the narrator, never by Jesus Himself.<br /><br />Except when He is talking to Pilate.<br /><br />However, St John's Gospel is the last one. In the three synoptics, the enemies of Christ are never described simply as "Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22114703448432085992017-04-03T02:00:13.172+01:002017-04-03T02:00:13.172+01:00ABS there is no apostolic origin to "priestly...ABS there is no apostolic origin to "priestly" celibacy, because celibacy has nothing to do with the priesthood. Sometimes, the one man may have two callings- one to the priesthood and one to celibacy, but not always. Furthermore, ritual purity did not survive into NT times, so there is no basis in anything other than wishful thinking for people, even popes, some church fathers, some Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2412637471841204472017-04-02T22:29:54.309+01:002017-04-02T22:29:54.309+01:00There is a complete and utter break with the Aaron...There is a complete and utter break with the Aaronic led Synagogue and the Catholic Priesthood as the Jews who accepted Jesus as Messias were tossed-out of the Synagogue.<br /><br />It is true, of course, that the Catholic Church is the New iIsrael and the New Testament superseded the Old Covenant and that many features/practices of the Catholic Priesthood had their origins in the OT Priesthood -Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-10695337100483115162017-04-02T15:47:09.598+01:002017-04-02T15:47:09.598+01:00http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12651c.htm
"...http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12651c.htm<br /><br />"Rationale" --<br /><br />". . . From the tenth to the thirteenth century the rationale was also the name of an episcopal ornament similar to a large pectoral clasp, made of precious metal, ornamented with diamonds, and worn over the chasuble. It is frequently met with in pictures of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and is Confiteborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951083063448447552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45560508319417654872017-03-31T20:12:36.309+01:002017-03-31T20:12:36.309+01:00...he and St. John Paul II are not the first Catho...<i>...he and St. John Paul II are not the first Catholic bishops to wear a rational as a part of their episcopal vestments.</i><br /><br />ABS has heard the claim before and he'd love to have a link to a book or monograph or article that treats of that subject because that claim raises a ton of questions.<br /> <br />That aside, Pope Paul VI was the first Pope to wear one - the first Pope in Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26953739388800973532017-03-30T19:59:44.977+01:002017-03-30T19:59:44.977+01:00In reference to the comments of ABS regarding Pope...In reference to the comments of ABS regarding Pope Paul VI's wearing of a representation of the "breastplate of judgment" (or "rational") that was prescribed to be worn by the Aaronic high priest in the Sinaitic covenant, he and St. John Paul II are not the first Catholic bishops to wear a rational as a part of their episcopal vestments. For a while in the Middle Ages it Confiteborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951083063448447552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62248391854659500402017-03-30T18:55:17.418+01:002017-03-30T18:55:17.418+01:00oh for a quiet and prayerful pontiff who shunned t...oh for a quiet and prayerful pontiff who shunned the mediaJust another mad Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10503510474554718305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-46607945677932206682017-03-30T16:36:33.673+01:002017-03-30T16:36:33.673+01:00Father: as to your post itself, without commenting...Father: as to your post itself, without commenting on the preceding observations; yes, yes, and yes again.Pastor in Montehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-73171685583104217962017-03-29T18:40:32.954+01:002017-03-29T18:40:32.954+01:00"Next time, we could do with..."
Father,..."Next time, we could do with..."<br />Father, I'm sure you've heard the dictum that we don't get the Pope we want, or even the Pope we need, but the Pope we deserve.<br />In much the same way as the Israelites in Babylonian and Assyrian exile, perhaps we should rather be considering (with the aid of a modern Jeremiah, Isiah or Ezechiel) exactly what we have done to deserve John Vaschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00335331585265267754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2592408118489013862017-03-29T17:29:49.363+01:002017-03-29T17:29:49.363+01:00This book might be of interest. Bugnini at the sid...This book might be of interest. Bugnini at the side of Cardinal Pacelli.<br /><br />http://editionssaintagobard.lasapiniere.info/presta/index.php?id_product=14&controller=product<br />Fr PJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597780307057121375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35447629165425825332017-03-29T17:05:31.922+01:002017-03-29T17:05:31.922+01:00This is the ephod of the Hebrew high priest, known...This is the ephod of the Hebrew high priest, known as the breastplate ofjudgment. Aaron and his issue had to wear it as a ritual ornament, and its precious stones represent Israel's twelve tribes. The description of this peculiar thing is to be found in Exodus ... exactly as it can be seen today in many photographs of Paul VI .... [Editor's Note: The ephod appears to have been a<br />Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17543960587985915212017-03-29T17:05:17.639+01:002017-03-29T17:05:17.639+01:00Well, we are living n the last days which began wi...Well, we are living n the last days which began with Pentecost but in all of his days ABS has rarely seen a very popular Priest write so puissantly and profoundly about the perplexing papal praxis which got of to a ghastly start when Pope Paul VI went to the International Eucharistic Conference in Latin America with revolutionary goals that supplanted Savific Theocentrism with political and Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-34615919965661743872017-03-29T16:47:29.821+01:002017-03-29T16:47:29.821+01:00I am entering the Church (and the ordinariate) thi...I am entering the Church (and the ordinariate) this April, but the impression that the Pope had become a kind of "superbishop," rather than the bishop of the Roman see with special universal prerogatives, was a stumbling block for me for some time. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14690481887305839690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-44590602513307585012017-03-29T12:18:57.386+01:002017-03-29T12:18:57.386+01:00When Cardinal Pacelli visited the United States in...When Cardinal Pacelli visited the United States in the 1930's, he made his headquarters Mr & Mrs Brady on Long Island. There are a number of photographs of the visit and the vestments made for the occasion (Mr Brady enjoyed serving daily Mass)and worn in the Chapel are still in the possession of the Jesuits who, just recently, sold the grand (sixty room)house. It has since been demolishedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com