C. S. Lewis - Video conversation,

COMMENT:

Dear William,

The Video of Bishop Michael Marshall at London City is invaluable commentary, with true inner grasp of the writings of CS Lewis.  

Michael first pins his college WW2 time acquaintance in Broadcast Talks 1941 and 1942.

At the end he dramatizes CS Lewis, 'A Grief Observed', the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage Painfully honest. in its dissection of his thoughts and feelings. ..

I trust that the Video will play from Internet Church.

Yours 

Donald

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On Monday, 3 November 2014, 13:53, 

William J Wardle ....> wrote:

Dear Father Donald,

It is such good news regarding Sr P....

The CS Lewis video has ignited my interest as you knew it would! His journey ‘rings bells’, just as that of (as quoted) St Augustine (perhaps that of Bl Cardinal Newman?). I have never read any of his books, and will now be burrowing amidst the paperback titles that I have seen in the 2nd hand bookshop!

Thank you for this ‘link’ and most especially for sharing news with me.

With prayerful concern

and my love in Our Lord,

William

From: Donald ...

Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 8:37 PM

To: William J ....

Subject: Fw: LIC London Internet Church

Dear William,

Just in passing

- good news of ...

It so happens. this is a glorious VIDEO on the remarkable CS Lewis.

You will love this Link

Video Playlist - London Internet Church

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On Sunday, 2 November 2014, 20:37, Donald Nunraw <nunrawdonald@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear William,

Just in passing

- good news ....

It so happens this is a glorious VIDEO on the remarkable CS Lewis.

You will love this Link

Video Playlist - London Internet Church

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  God love,

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On Sunday, 2 November 2014, 19:29, 

Donald ... > wrote:

Hi, Anne Marie,
London Internet Church.org.uk, many thanks, interesting. Anglican Videos rather eloquent.
See previously Premier TV, powerful stuff UK Christian, brilliant. Asking for extension of licence.
.........
God love -- Compline Bell.

Donald
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 The Problem of Pain written in the War time

   http://londoninternetchurch.org.uk/video/video-playlist/#clip=1112328&time=26.674

Video Playlist

Received William's response to the Chapter Talk of Br. Barry. As Columba Marmion wrote ‘when in choir, we bear a twofold personality, that of our misery, our frailty, our faults but also that of members of Christ’s Mystical Body’.

COMMENT from William - appreciated

                                                 Br. Barry

On Thursday, 30 October 2014, 14:40, 

William ....> wrote:

Dear Father Donald,

What an amazing homily at Chapter, and a privilege for me to share! Br Barry is a deep thinker, and expresses himself with honesty and with remarkable perspicacity. Is it not the case that the silent ones are the wise ones! When he has given me a lift as I leave Nunraw, I consider it a privilege to share that time with him.

To say 'look at our Nunraw misjudgements as an example' in illustration of the Rule, is stunning in its honesty and its humility! I hope it may have been taken in good part by all present. It seems to me that Nunraw must be a personally deeply centred community in order to fulfil its vocation AND to be a beacon of the Church to the surrounding neighbourhood, "a local or particular or individual church". The monastery of Atlas was just that, exceptionally: whilst you are not constrained by such physical hostility, you [we all] are surrounded by the negativism of disaffection. As an expression, as Nature's beautiful sunrises of this season towards Advent, one day will be revealed the wonder of the eternal dawn...

I recognize Br Barry's point of 'monasticism' being often misconstrued as a way of expressing one's religion regardless of one's religion. As I often speak to those to whom I may of Nunraw, describing it in the first place as being a monastery 'towards Scotland', I am often asked 'is that the Buddhist monastery on the border?' One like another, "a part of a wider inter religious monastic culture"? It is often of Zen that they first imagine that I speak, but then they react (excuse the pun) in quite a xenophobic way!

"When the monastery is seen as an individual church, the Divine Office.. is carried out not just on behalf of the Church but as a means, second only to the Eucharist, to deeper communion with the Church"...and "in Lectio these two, monk and Church, coincide.." It is as I quite recently read in the introduction to 'The Cloud' by William Johnston SJ, using an expression of Teilhard de Chardin (a writer whose thinking I understand has influenced Br Barry) of the 'cosmic Christ', the thrust of contemplative consciousness towards 'Omega' leaves no corner of the universe untouched, resulting in the great paradox that in monasticism you should help people precisely by 'forgetting' (being removed from) them... something that is known only to the experience of faith. Nunraw as a community is a unique Church, part of the universal Church, but distinct in its cosmic and social dimension of contemplation.

What a delight for me to enter into these thoughts, thank you - and please, thank you to Br Barry. How greatly I am missing this autumn his lift back to Haddington.

From my own little cell of appreciation,

with my love in Our Lord,

William

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Br.Barry - Wednesday Chapter Talks 29 October 2014

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On Thursday, 30 October 2014, 

Br.Barry ...

Chapter Sixty Four.

Chap. 64 of the Rule is entitled ‘The Election of an Abbot’. Verses 3 -6 give an indication of how St. Benedict viewed the monastery’s relation to the local Christian community.  .....  

Paul VI in Holy Land 1964. Beatification Rome 19/10/2014

COMMENT:

World Sunday of Mission.

The Conclusion of the Catholic Synod of the Family.  

The synod was attended by about 200 bishops

  Announcement of the Beatification of Pope Paul VI.

Pope Paul VI bestows the Ring on the newly
created Cardinal Wojtyla  June 1967

Mosaic showing Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, Jan 1964.

19^th October 2014

SUNDAYS IN ORDINARY TIME

DAY BY DAY.

Courtesy of MAGNIFICAT.com

Graces of Mission Sunday

By Blessed Paul VI

It is appropriate first of all to emphasise the following point: for the Church, the first means of evangelisation is the witness of an authentically Christian life, given over to God in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to one's neighbour with limitless zeal. As we said recently to a group of lay people, "Modem man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses." Saint Peter expressed this well when he held up the example of a reverent and chaste life that wins over even without a word those who refuse to obey the Word. It is therefore primarily by her conduct and by her life that the Church will evangelise the world, in other words, by her living witness of fidelity to the Lord Jesus-the witness of poverty and detachment, of freedom in the face of the powers of this world, in short, the witness of sanctity.

What is the state of the Church ten years after the Council? .. Is she firmly established in the midst of the world and yet free and independent enough to call for the world's attention? Does she testify to solidarity with people and at the same time to the divine Absolute? Is she more ardent in contemplation and adoration and more zealous in missionary, charitable, and liberating action? Is she ever more committed to the effort to search for the restoration of the complete unity of Christians, a unity that makes more effective the com­mon witness, "so that the world may believe"? We are all responsible for the answers that could be given to these questions.

BLESSED PAUL VI (+ 1978) reigned as pope from 1963 to 1978.

Paul VI (Bessed)

From Apostolic Exhortation of His Holinesss Pope Paul VI to the Episcopate, the Clergy and to all the faithful of the entire world. 1st Paragraph #41, 2nd Paragraph #76.

Used with permission of the Librcriu Edltrice vatlcana.

An Ecclesial Embrace - C.

May 26-June 2, 2014

Thomas Stransky

The historic meeting of Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras

Mosaic showing Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem.

The dates of Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to the Holy Land are no accident. Pope Francis intends to visit from May 24 to 26, primarily to commemorate with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople the 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras in Jerusalem in January 1964.

Narratives of that first encounter presupposed that the primary purpose of Pope Paul’s pilgrimage was to provide an occasion for meeting the ecumenical patriarch. The editors of America, for example, wrote on Jan. 18, 1964, that they felt “the ultimate objective of Pope Paul in going to the Holy Land was precisely the chance this offered for such a dramatic confrontation.”

Not so.

Two weeks before the new pope opened the second period of the Second Vatican Council on Sept. 29, 1963, he wrote an appunto, a private memorandum to himself, in which he expressed the hope to be a “papal pilgrim in the Holy Land.” One subordinate purpose was for him to have “a fraternal encounter with the various Christian denominations there.” In his address to the council on Dec. 4, 1963, however, this reason was absent when he shared his decision to make a “pious pilgrimage to the homeland of Jesus our Savior” in January. For some reason, he and his tight-lipped planning committee of five had not envisioned ecumenical meetings. Their sole preoccupation, it seems, was to visit Catholic communities at holy sites in Israel and in Jordanian East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and to negotiate with the two warring countries that were at each other’s throats.

The pilgrimage had been the best kept secret in the Roman Curia, which has a reputation for being leaky. It was a complete surprise to Cardinal Augustin Bea, Msgr. Johannes Willebrands and people on their staff in the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, like Pierre Duprey of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, who until April 1963 had been the rector of the Melkite Saint Anne’s Seminary in Jerusalem, where he was quite familiar with the Christian leaders and their sensitive interchurch protocols for visiting heads of churches. Father Duprey quickly foresaw the possibility of Paul VI’s meeting with the Greek and Armenian patriarchs in Jerusalem, Benediktos I and Yeghishe Derderian. If the Holy See would not even propose the possibility to them, one could face an interchurch setback by a papal snub, a lack of courtesy no matter how unintentional.

Making It Happen  

Saint Bruno 6th October 'Chartreuse crucifix' COMMENT

COMMENT:

From previous Blog Post William recalls the St. Bruno association.

Interesting pictures.

Thank you.

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Fw: [Blog] Chartreuse crucifix

On Monday, 6 October 2014, 11:49, William     ...> wrote:

[Attached photos to share with you - I would need a forensic camera to really display it]

Dear Father Donald,

It is now many years ago, when gainfully employed, that I wandered around the 'collectors' stalls' at fairs, but this has always DELIGHTED me and remains a 'treasure', which I subsequently attached to a 'chotki' prayer companion that I made out of many odd wooden beads. A very damaged hand-carved 'paste' crucifix signed across the back "Sct de la Grd Chartreuse", with the image sorely damaged (I remade Christ's right arm out of a sliver of wood in order to complete the dear image of Our Saviour).

A little piece of the history of life in the Grand Chartreuse. I wonder often who it was that carved it.

With my love in Our Lord,

William

 

St Benedict's Vision of the Universe (Glasgow University)

COMMENT: following St. Benedict, Solemnity

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW LIBRARY
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT

Book of the Month

See previous books of the month

Perhaps the most striking illustration is that which couples the rapturous visions of God that were experienced separately by Saint Benedict and Saint Paul through contemplation. A blazing light appeared to Benedict while he was in prayer, in the splendour of which he saw the soul of Germanus, Bishop of Capua, being carried to heaven by angels. Paul is said to have experienced a similar blinding revelation. According to Sandler, the two visions are brought together here as meditative models to bring the reader closer to God.Divided into three compartments, the giant face of God - surrounded by flames and radiant streams of light - is at the top. In the background are four angels, one holding up the naked soul of a mitred Bishop Germanus. In the middle - positioned between heaven and earth - are Benedict and Paul. Benedict holds a crozier in his left hand, gazing upwards as he kneels and points with his right forefinger to the diagram of the Universe below. Paul kneels in adoration behind a huge sword, point downwards. In the lower compartment, Roger and another figure (possibly Roger again), are shown praying on either side of a diagram of the twelve spheres. The two speech scrolls read: "All creating I beg, as I hope, have mercy on Roger" and "May all things created by God be my medicine". The figure of God found here is a possible model for a similar miniature found in the Omne Bonum manuscript (BL Royal 6 E VI-VII), a fourteenth century encyclopaedia of universal knowledge.

full page miniatures accompanying St Benedict's Vision of the Universe (page 85)

detail of lower compartment of full page miniature from St Benedict's Vision of the Universe depicting the spheres (page 85)

  http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/june2008.html

COMMENT: Mt. 7:3 The Parable of the Mote and the Beam

COMMENT:    

 Domenico_Fetti_-_The_Parable_

of_the_Mote_and_the_Beam  

It is interesting to compare the translations of the Verse Mt. 7:3.

The Jerusalem Bible variant speaks  better  of Jesus language of his foster-father, Joseph’s carpenter work shop, ‘splinter' and 'plank'. 
Greek Strong Numbers to English added synonyms  'a dry twig or straw:- mote', 'a stick of timber:- beam'.

Matthew 7:3

(AMP)  Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye?

(ASV)  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

(Darby)  But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?

(DRB)  And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?

(GNB)  Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the log in your own eye?

(GNT)  τί δὲ βλέπεις τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, τὴν δὲ ἐν τῷ σῷ ὀφθαλμῷ δοκὸν οὐ κατανοεῖς;

(KJV)  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

(KJV+)  And^G1161 why^G5101 beholdest^G991 thou the^G3588 mote^G2595 that^G3588 is in^G1722 thy^G4675 brother's^G80 eye,^G3788 but^G1161 considerest^G2657 not^G3756 the^G3588 beam^G1385 that is in^G1722 thine own^G4674 eye?^G3788

(NAS77)  "And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

 Mote in eye

Safer in XML

It is interesting to compare the translations of the Verse Mt. 7:3.

The Jerusalem Bible variant speaks  better  of Jesus language of his foster-foster, Joseph’s carpenter work shop, ‘splinter and plank.

Matthew 7:3

(AMP)  Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye?

(ASV)  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

(Darby)  But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?

(DRB)  And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?

(GNB)  Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the log in your own eye?

(GNT)  τί δὲ βλέπεις τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, τὴν δὲ ἐν τῷ σῷ ὀφθαλμῷ δοκὸν οὐ κατανοεῖς;

(KJV)  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

(KJV+)  And^G1161 why^G5101 beholdest^G991 thou the^G3588 mote^G2595 that^G3588 is in^G1722 thy^G4675 brother's^G80 eye,^G3788 but^G1161 considerest^G2657 not^G3756 the^G3588 beam^G1385 that is in^G1722 thine own^G4674 eye?^G3788

(NAS77)  "And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?