A little Marian levity

Yes, I’m still technically on retreat from blogging, but I just had to post a link to this post from Fr Hunwicke’s Liturgical Notes. No offence is meant to anyone, of course: just a bit of fun for today’s solemnity of the Assumption/Dormition.
Thanks to Dr Tighe for the link.

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Santa Maria Antiqua

Thanks to reader Sean for alerting us to Project Santa Maria Antiqua, concerning the study and restoration of a mid VI-century church in Rome, abandoned and sealed in the IX century, and rediscovered a millenia later. 
The mural above captures a theme dear to this blog, as it depicts Christ enthroned, flanked by Greek Saints (on [...]

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More catching up …

I was out of town again last week and came back to find an interesting combox discussion of what “modernity” is and how the Church ought to engage it. As always, the most valuable aspect of this blog is the discussion from readers, and yours truly is merely a facilitator.
I’m also catching up with some [...]

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Theology, Liturgy and Silence

Thanks to the blog Diligite Iustitiam, here’s a link to the Ecumenical Patriarch’s recent lecture at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, entitled “Theology, Liturgy and Silence.”

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Catching up …

I’ve been out of town for several days, and I returned yesterday evening to find all sorts of interesting blog posts in my RSS feed.
First, a very sad post from Dr Peter Gilbert at De unione ecclesiarum, announcing his intention to suspend his blog (for the time being?). I appreciate his kind words about this [...]

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Pistevo eis ena Theon

Listen to Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew recite the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 together in Greek (thanks to Fr Z).

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Filioquextravaganza

(Apologies for the cheesy title.)
Recently on some of my favorite blogs, there have been some excellent rebuttals to Orthodox contentions about the Filioque clause and the Procession of the Holy Spirit.
First, Sacramentum Vitae’s Dr Michael Liccione (a veteran of irenic, scholarly, substantive online Catholic-Orthodox debate) has added a new installment to an ever-growing series of posts [...]

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Marriage discipline, East and West

Wan Wei Hsien, over at Torn Notebook, has posted an essay by the late Melkite Archbishop Elias Zoghby on “The Indissolubility of Marriage”, in two parts, here and here.
Also, while we’re at it … I never got the chance to link to some comments on the same sticky issue of Eastern and Western marriage disciplines [...]

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Two from the Byzantine Rambler

The Melkite Greek Catholic priest who blogs at Byzantine Ramblings has an interesting response to an Orthodox parish priest’s take (in the pages of a local newspaper) on “church leadership”. Westall’s article on Canon 28 of Chalcedon, which I posted yesterday, is referenced.
And also, via the Rambler, the latest in the saga of Metropolitan Nicolae of Banat.

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“Rome, Constantinople and Canterbury”

Ancient Faith Radio has audio from the recent Fellowship of Ss. Alban and Sergius conference “Rome, Constantinople and Canterbury, Mother Churches”, held at St Vladimir’s Seminary, June 4-8, 2008. I have only listened to the first two lectures, by Metropolitan Philip of the Antiochian Archdiocese and Bishop Keith Ackerman of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, [...]

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