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Friday, March 27, 2009
Mary MacKillop Centenary Breakfast
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Karl Rahner, S.J. (1904-84)
When Karl Rahner died on March 30, 1984, just a few weeks after his 80th birthday, he left a legacy of theological writings that is remarkable for its sheer volume as well as for the scope and variety of its contents. 
Rahner was a prophet! How unfortunate that his words have never been fully appreciated and now we are "falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
The breadth and depth of his vision have led some to call him the greatest Catholic thinker of the century
Rahner's theological work was always centered on grace as the presence of God in the individual human person and in the whole created order.
For Rahner, religious experience is not to be found or sought in some separate or exotic compartment of life, but in its ordinary moments and events.
For him, salvation is available to all people of good will. The church is the sign and instrument of what a loving and compassionate God is doing on behalf of everyone, both inside and outside the Body of Christ.
[taken from: http://ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/saintly-figures-bowman-rahner-and-climacus]
Karl Rahner saw Christianity emerging as a “world church”. At the Second Vatican Council, the Church “appeared for the first time as a world Church in a fully official way.”
For the first time a truly world-wide episcopate was present at the Council, and this episcopate gathered not “as an advisory body for pope but rather with him and under him the final teaching and decision-making body in the Church. For the first time a worldwide episcopate came into existence and functioned independently”
In addition to a worldwide episcopate, signs of the Church's emergence as a world church can be seen in various decrees of the Council, including the Church's allowance of the vernacular in liturgy. Rahner says that “the documents on the Church, on the missions, and on the Church in the modem world proclaim a universal and effective salvific will of God which is limited only by the evil decision of human conscience and nothing else”
As a world church Christian proclamations would be different from region to regions but at the same time would be source of unity in the church in that they would “criticize and enrich one another”
Vatican II was “the active subject of the highest plenary powers in the Church” The question that must be asked, however, is a question of how this plenary authority can be able to act and exist. Rahner warns that the Church has yet to fully answer this question and that if the Church does not act on the reforms mandated by Vatican II then the Church risks falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
[taken from: http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/resources/rahner.htm]
Rahner warns that the Church has yet to fully answer this question and that if the Church does not act on the reforms mandated by Vatican II then the Church risks falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
Rahner's theological work was always centered on grace as the presence of God in the individual human person and in the whole created order.
For Rahner, religious experience is not to be found or sought in some separate or exotic compartment of life, but in its ordinary moments and events.
For him, salvation is available to all people of good will. The church is the sign and instrument of what a loving and compassionate God is doing on behalf of everyone, both inside and outside the Body of Christ.
[taken from: http://ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/saintly-figures-bowman-rahner-and-climacus]
Karl Rahner saw Christianity emerging as a “world church”. At the Second Vatican Council, the Church “appeared for the first time as a world Church in a fully official way.”
For the first time a truly world-wide episcopate was present at the Council, and this episcopate gathered not “as an advisory body for pope but rather with him and under him the final teaching and decision-making body in the Church. For the first time a worldwide episcopate came into existence and functioned independently”
In addition to a worldwide episcopate, signs of the Church's emergence as a world church can be seen in various decrees of the Council, including the Church's allowance of the vernacular in liturgy. Rahner says that “the documents on the Church, on the missions, and on the Church in the modem world proclaim a universal and effective salvific will of God which is limited only by the evil decision of human conscience and nothing else”
As a world church Christian proclamations would be different from region to regions but at the same time would be source of unity in the church in that they would “criticize and enrich one another”
Vatican II was “the active subject of the highest plenary powers in the Church” The question that must be asked, however, is a question of how this plenary authority can be able to act and exist. Rahner warns that the Church has yet to fully answer this question and that if the Church does not act on the reforms mandated by Vatican II then the Church risks falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
[taken from: http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/resources/rahner.htm]
Rahner warns that the Church has yet to fully answer this question and that if the Church does not act on the reforms mandated by Vatican II then the Church risks falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
Rahner was a prophet! How unfortunate that his words have never been fully appreciated and now we are "falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
More information: http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/bce/rahner.htm
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Jesuit Lenten Series 2
This year's Jesuit Lenten Podcast Series looks at Reversals: Finding God in times of crisis and change.
This is the second podcast of the series.
Catherine Marshal speaks with Michael*, a father of two who last year lost his home and his business and has found himself without a job amid growing economic uncertainty. He talks about how he's coped in the face of these difficulties, finding his faith and family bonds growing stronger even as the rest of his life got more difficult.
*Surname withheld.
God on my side - A family faces economic uncertainty.
Click here to listen to the full interview
(Duration 10:40
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This is the second podcast of the series.
Catherine Marshal speaks with Michael*, a father of two who last year lost his home and his business and has found himself without a job amid growing economic uncertainty. He talks about how he's coped in the face of these difficulties, finding his faith and family bonds growing stronger even as the rest of his life got more difficult.*Surname withheld.
God on my side - A family faces economic uncertainty.
Click here to listen to the full interview
(Duration 10:40
To save this audio file to your computer Right Click and "Save Target As...)
World Water Day 2009
Whether we live upstream or downstream,
we are all in the same boat.
View this very interesting website by clicking the picture.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Jesuit Lenten Series
This year's Jesuit Lenten Podcast Series looks at Reversals: Finding God in times of crisis and change.
The Victorian bushfires and floods in Queensland have reminded us how vulnerable our communities are to disaster. The rebuilding of lives for those affected is only just beginning. But many others are also facing uncertainty in their lives, either through economic hardship as the result of financial crisis, or personal issues such as relationship breakdown and life-changing illness.
Facing these challenges requires faith and hope. The promise of Easter is that God is present in these difficult times, and that He shares in our pain and offers us solace. But how do we experience this presence?
The first of the Jesuit Lenten Podcast Series
Understanding trauma and the path to healing - Fr Peter Hosking SJ
Catherine Marshall talks to Fr Peter Hosking SJ, a psychologist and counselor with experience working in refugee and other communities that have experienced disaster and upheaval. He talks about what families affected by bushfires will be going through, and how communities respond in these situations.
Click here to listen to the full interview
(Duration 10:38
To save this audio file to your computer Right Click and "Save Target As...)
The Victorian bushfires and floods in Queensland have reminded us how vulnerable our communities are to disaster. The rebuilding of lives for those affected is only just beginning. But many others are also facing uncertainty in their lives, either through economic hardship as the result of financial crisis, or personal issues such as relationship breakdown and life-changing illness.
Facing these challenges requires faith and hope. The promise of Easter is that God is present in these difficult times, and that He shares in our pain and offers us solace. But how do we experience this presence?
The first of the Jesuit Lenten Podcast Series
Understanding trauma and the path to healing - Fr Peter Hosking SJ
Catherine Marshall talks to Fr Peter Hosking SJ, a psychologist and counselor with experience working in refugee and other communities that have experienced disaster and upheaval. He talks about what families affected by bushfires will be going through, and how communities respond in these situations. Click here to listen to the full interview
(Duration 10:38
To save this audio file to your computer Right Click and "Save Target As...)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
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