Fr. Matt Fish
@frmattfish
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I am a Catholic priest. I went into the woods to live deliberately. I love to hear the steel belts hummin' on the asphalt. Otherwise my opinions are my own.
Washington, DC
Joined November 2012
Reflection on the Gospel for today: Why does Jesus heal? Jesus heals so that we would believe in him and hope for the redemption in which all things are not just replaced but healed and made new again.
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To you before the close of light, Creator of all things, we pray: Be our protector, keep us safe in your unfailing clemency. Incline our hearts to dream of you, to sense your presence as we sleep; as light returns, so let us sing your praise and glory evermore. Grant us the grace of health and strength, renew our warmth and joy of life; and let your radiant light dispel the dreaded darkness of the night.
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What we're seeing in the ordo amoris vs Gospel precepts debate in a venue absolutely unsuited to it is an unwitting and clumsy relitigation of the debate about nature and grace (de Lubac et al) from the last century. Amirite?
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Now sunrise fills the sky with light, so let us beg with humble prayer, that God protect us from all harm in all our works and acts this day. May he restrain and calm our tongue, lest voices clash in dreaded strife, and may he shield our sight with care, lest eyes be lured by vain delights. Then let our inmost heart be pure and free of senseless ignorance; may sparing use of food and drink wear down the lustful pride of flesh, That, when the daylight hours have gone and time has brought us night once more, with hearts kept pure by self-restraint, we may extol him in our song. To God the Father glory be, all honor to his only Son, one with the Spirit Paraclete, from age to age for evermore. Amen. -- "Iam lucis orto sidere", 8th c.
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Fr. M. Eugene Boylan: "The Mass does not exist to give us Holy Communion; on the contrary, Holy Communion exists to make us participators in the Mass. "Let us hear St. Thomas: Whoever offers a sacrifice ought to become a partaker in it, because the external sacrifice which is offered is a sign of the interior sacrifice by which one offers oneself to God. Hence by the fact that he partakes in the sacrifice the offerer shows that he really shares in the interior sacrifice. (ST III 83.4)" -- Boylan, This Tremendous Lover, p. 163 (Painting is the "Mond" Crucifixion by Raphael)
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As Christians, we should pray for kings and all in authority and be subject to them. Nonetheless, we are strangers and resident aliens here, for our citizenship is in heaven. We should not love the world nor the things of the world, for we are seeking another homeland. - "Fear God. Honor the emperor." (1 Pet 2:17) - "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities." (Rom 13:1) - "I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high positions." (1 Tim 2:1-2) - "Here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city which is to come." (Heb 13:14) - "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?" (Jas 4:4) - "Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world." (1 Jn 2:15-16) - "Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.... Their minds are set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven." (Phil 3:18-20) - "I urge you as foreigners and exiles (hōs paroikos kai parepidēmos) to abstain from desires of the flesh, which wage war against your soul." (1 Pet 2:11) - "These all died in faith, not having received what was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland." (Heb 11:13-14)
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Note on the "reform of the reform": it's already been happening, for decades. Remember how crazy liturgies were in the 70s and 80s! It may not be yet where many would like it to be, going as quickly as they'd like, but the trend has been undeniable, and is continuing steadily.
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@johnnyjoe1083 It's a pithy tweet, mea culpa. Caveat lector, it's not meant to posit a dichotomy, but an order of precedence and causality.
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