Thursday, March 26, 2015

The humility of the eternal Son

Cod. Vat. Reg. lat. 316, fol. 85v
"O God, who by the lowliness of thy Son hast raised a fallen world: Grant to thy faithful people perpetual gladness; and as thou hast delivered them from eternal death, so do thou make them partakers of everlasting joys; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord."


"God, who by the humiliation of thy Son hast lifted up a fallen world, grant abiding gladness to thy faithful, so that we whom thou has rescued from the perils of eternal death may come to enjoy everlasting bliss:  through."


"Deus, qui in filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti:  fidelibus tuis perpetuam concede laetitiam; ut, quos perpetuae mortis eripuisti casibus, gaudiis facias perfrui sempiternis.  Per" (Bruylants no. 364 (vol. 2, p. 100)).

"Deus, qui in filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti, laetitiam concede fidelibus tuis, ut, quos perpetuae mortis eripuisti casibus, gaudiis facias sempiternis perfrui" (Corpus orationum no. 1737).

     Gelasian sacramentary no. 541.  And others of the 8th century.  Lots of variant readings.  Heading taken from Bruce Lindley McCormack, The humility of the eternal son:  Reformed kenoticism and the repair of Chalcedon (Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge University Press, 2021).  Current Roman missal, Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:

"O God, who in the abasement of your Son have raised a fallen world, fill your faithful with holy joy, for on those you have rescued from slavery to sin you bestow eternal gladness.  Through."

Monday, March 23, 2015

“that entity—beloved of modern sectarians and romantics, but unknown to the early Middle Ages—‘the Celtic Church’.”

     T. M. Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2000), chap. 6 ("The organization of the early Irish church"), p. 241.
     I have not read this book, nor even this chapter.

"ideological extremism. . . . happens whenever a social movement requires us to deny reality. . . ."

     R. R. Reno, "The gay movement," First things no. 252 (April 2015):  6 (4-6).