tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post5890735298673593103..comments2024-03-27T17:29:51.954+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: December 8: avoiding anathemasFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-13643956035918930542019-12-10T09:26:13.783+00:002019-12-10T09:26:13.783+00:00Three comments. First, ist any such thing as human...Three comments. First, ist any such thing as human merit when we speak of justification? 'Merit' is the effect of the grace of Christ at work within us - for Our Lady, in a unique and privileged manner admittedly, as for us. Cf the preface of All Saints, which affirms that in crowning the merits of the saints God crowns His own gifts. Second, a new zygote ( a newly fertilised egg) does PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-7357527316464704832019-12-09T12:57:35.621+00:002019-12-09T12:57:35.621+00:00Requesting a clarification of the Orthodox anathem...Requesting a clarification of the Orthodox anathema: are they saying that Mary was brought into the Holy of Holies that only the Cohen Gadol entered and only on Yom Kippur?<br /><br />That would have been extraordinary.Ed the Romanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646391834821547517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-24298710183675133192019-12-09T01:48:47.226+00:002019-12-09T01:48:47.226+00:00All of this is very well. But hasn't the Pope&...All of this is very well. But hasn't the Pope's recent adherence to the Pachamama cult changed all of this? I mean the endorsement of the identification of the Blessed Mary with a cosmic force on the model of pre-Christian religions. The Orthodox often if not always baptize Roman Catholic converts. Does this not suggest a disparity of cult which renders further mariological reflexions in Paul-A. Hardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11625698481730141561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87316086261227100832019-12-08T16:15:52.768+00:002019-12-08T16:15:52.768+00:00Dear Father. ABS wonders how many Catholics are aw...Dear Father. ABS wonders how many Catholics are aware of the radical nature of the theology of Gregory Palamas?<br /><br />https://tinyurl.com/vqp8rr6<br /><br />Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22394137014501141052019-12-08T14:25:16.897+00:002019-12-08T14:25:16.897+00:001. What was the purpose of that anathema? To prote...1. What was the purpose of that anathema? To protect the historicity of the Presentation? Is some theological school nowadays denying it?<br /><br />2. The convergence discussed here is bought by a very high price. I think that the Catholic belief is that both the obedience of Mary and disobiedience of Eve (and Adam) were exercise of (prelapsarian) free will. If we take the words of the "Pulexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13164993172745639593noreply@blogger.com