Comments for Bringing Home the Word: Exploring the Catholic Lectionary http://bhtw.wordpress.com Linking our everyday lives with the weekly Scripture readings Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:25:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on What God Does Is Who God Is by irishanglican http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/what-god-does-is-who-god-is/#comment-453 irishanglican Wed, 21 May 2008 16:42:36 +0000 http://bhtw.wordpress.com/?p=161#comment-453 Thank God for the Orthodox Church! They know that the Oecumenical Councils have spoken in the Church with truth and conlusiveness! Christianity can really only be fully expressed by and in dogmatic theology. Here is the expression and charm Truth. "The dogma of consubstaniality, which safeguards the unity of the Holy Trinity, that remains a sealed book so far as we are concerned - for in a religious sense it has neither assimilated nor unfolded." (Fr. Serguis Bulgakov) It was Fr. Bulgakov's observation that in the Church there is a very well-developed theology of the Divine Persons, but there is hardly any development of the Divine Essence. The Father being the regal - the cause or origin of the Godhead, from whom the Son is begotten eternally and also from whom the Holy Spirit proceeds eternity. And this is much more than anthropomorphic, but both God's eternal essence, which is totally transendent, but reaches us in His "uncreated energies". The God who is transcendent and the God who touches us are one and the same! But indeed the mystery and beauty of God are expressed in the dogmatic nature of theology...here is great charm, beauty and truth! Fr. Robert Thank God for the Orthodox Church! They know that the Oecumenical Councils have spoken in the Church with truth and conlusiveness!
Christianity can really only be fully expressed by and in dogmatic theology. Here is the expression and charm Truth.
“The dogma of consubstaniality, which safeguards the unity of the Holy Trinity, that remains a sealed book so far as we are concerned - for in a religious sense it has neither assimilated nor unfolded.” (Fr. Serguis Bulgakov)
It was Fr. Bulgakov’s observation that in the Church there is a very well-developed theology of the Divine Persons, but there is hardly any development of the Divine Essence.
The Father being the regal - the cause or origin of the Godhead, from whom the Son is begotten eternally and also from whom the Holy Spirit proceeds eternity. And this is much more than anthropomorphic, but both God’s eternal essence, which is totally transendent, but reaches us in His “uncreated energies”. The God who is transcendent and the God who touches us are one and the same! But indeed the mystery and beauty of God are expressed in the dogmatic nature of theology…here is great charm, beauty and truth!

Fr. Robert

]]> Comment on Ashes on the hearth by Joe http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/ashes-on-the-hearth/#comment-445 Joe Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:15:42 +0000 http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/ashes-on-the-hearth/#comment-445 I would love you to visit my site and perhaps include my site in your blogroll. This is a such a good site I have already included it in my blogroll. I would love you to visit my site and perhaps include my site in your blogroll. This is a such a good site I have already included it in my blogroll.

]]> Comment on Bringing Home the Word by Bosco Peters http://bhtw.wordpress.com/about/#comment-430 Bosco Peters Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:32:09 +0000 #comment-430 Awesome! I'm delighted to have found this site from the Deacon's Bench. I run a liturgy site which includes a weekly introduction to the readings. I hope you will visit it and link as "Liturgy" to www.liturgy.co.nz Blessings Awesome! I’m delighted to have found this site from the Deacon’s Bench. I run a liturgy site which includes a weekly introduction to the readings.
I hope you will visit it
and link as “Liturgy” to http://www.liturgy.co.nz

Blessings

]]> Comment on Not Needing to Be Right by Meg http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/not-needing-to-be-right/#comment-405 Meg Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:05:19 +0000 http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/not-needing-to-be-right/#comment-405 Okay, this made me laugh, but probably not for the reason you think. I'm a member of the O Dea clan -- which includes O'Days and Deas and Days. And I have NEVER heard that expression!! Ever! I will have to pass it along to the relatives. ;) Nice homily too. Okay, this made me laugh, but probably not for the reason you think. I’m a member of the O Dea clan — which includes O’Days and Deas and Days. And I have NEVER heard that expression!! Ever!

I will have to pass it along to the relatives. ;)

Nice homily too.

]]> Comment on Minding God’s Business by Bosco Peters http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/minding-gods-business/#comment-371 Bosco Peters Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:25:09 +0000 http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/minding-gods-business/#comment-371 “In Mary God has grown small to make us great.” St. Ephrem (d. 373) Christmas blessings from one liturgical blog to another Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz “In Mary God has grown small to make us great.”
St. Ephrem (d. 373)

Christmas blessings from one liturgical blog to another
Bosco Peters
http://www.liturgy.co.nz

]]> Comment on The Silence of Advent by talmida http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/the-silence-of-advent/#comment-336 talmida Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:47:38 +0000 http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/the-silence-of-advent/#comment-336 I bought my Beloved the volume of Psalms for Christmas -- I can't wait until he opens it so that I can see it! :) I bought my Beloved the volume of Psalms for Christmas — I can’t wait until he opens it so that I can see it!

:)

]]> Comment on Counting the Cost? by crystal http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/counting-the-cost/#comment-275 crystal Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:29:29 +0000 http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/counting-the-cost/#comment-275 <I>Counting the cost isn’t always the best way to approach our lives.</I> I think you're right. There are so many things I never attempt because I'm afraid I won't be able to accomplish them, but even things that end up unfinished can teach us a lot. Counting the cost isn’t always the best way to approach our lives.

I think you’re right. There are so many things I never attempt because I’m afraid I won’t be able to accomplish them, but even things that end up unfinished can teach us a lot.

]]> Comment on The Dangers of Social Climbing by crystal http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-dangers-of-social-climbing/#comment-258 crystal Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:05:48 +0000 http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-dangers-of-social-climbing/#comment-258 That's interesting about the dogs. I had four cats, a mother and three adult kittens, and the mother was alwyas the leader - the others adored her, but would pick on each other. Kermit is the only one left now. <I>who we are in relationship to God.</I> That's what I keep trying to figure out about myself. That’s interesting about the dogs. I had four cats, a mother and three adult kittens, and the mother was alwyas the leader - the others adored her, but would pick on each other. Kermit is the only one left now.

who we are in relationship to God.

That’s what I keep trying to figure out about myself.

]]> Comment on More than saying ‘Lord, Lord’ by crystal http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/more-than-saying-lord-lord/#comment-251 crystal Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:21:22 +0000 http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/more-than-saying-lord-lord/#comment-251 <I>There’s always going to be tension between being committed to one’s own beliefs and open to dialogue with those of other faiths.</I> It's really a challenge to do both at once, but sometimes tension is a good thing, I guess. There’s always going to be tension between being committed to one’s own beliefs and open to dialogue with those of other faiths.

It’s really a challenge to do both at once, but sometimes tension is a good thing, I guess.

]]> Comment on More than saying ‘Lord, Lord’ by Steve Bogner http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/more-than-saying-lord-lord/#comment-250 Steve Bogner Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:23:02 +0000 http://bhtw.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/more-than-saying-lord-lord/#comment-250 Faith can not be expressed in soundbites - how true! I'm not sure it can even be described by words at all. The more I see of politicians mixing it up with religion and religious leaders, the more skeptical I become of them. But we'll see more of it as we get closer to the election. Faith can not be expressed in soundbites - how true! I’m not sure it can even be described by words at all. The more I see of politicians mixing it up with religion and religious leaders, the more skeptical I become of them. But we’ll see more of it as we get closer to the election.

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