Life of St. John of the Cross was not "flying the mystic clouds", but it was very hard, practical and concrete. Holy remained imprisoned for 9 months, subjected upokorzeniom and to physical and moral. At the end of the night from 16 to 17 August 1578, he managed to escape ...
St. Joan of Arc was "burned at the stake at age 19 by churchmen and theologians ... She asked one of the priests, before holding a stack of processional cross. And so died, many times saying the name "Jesus" out loud ...
N adrabiam arrears. I read the last catechesis, Benedict XVI. It's interesting for five years, almost every Wednesday, the Pope presents the life and work of the following saints: apostles, church fathers, theologians, mystics, reformers ...
with astanawiam up, why? Maybe he wants us to give into the hands of our original Church history book ... to show that the history of Christianity is not the sum of anonymous contacts, documents soulless, impersonal crowd and ideas detached from reality. History of the Church has a human face, wearing specific names, is full of close encounters. There is room in the Catherine of Siena, who barely learned to read and write, and the great mind and a smooth pen of Thomas Aquinas. These memories are woven of prayer and action, with beautiful Friendship and brutal persecution of daring escapes and burning piles, from falls, powstawań, exploration ... Oh, the fate of the living God and the people of flesh and blood.
A can Benedict XVI wants to give us a compendium of theology? He, a distinguished Professor at the Cathedral. Peter is doing a lecture from dogma, ecclesiology, together with another and still another with eschatology ... What's important: his method is very "personalistic". Benedict speaks of God by showing the people who live in Him. He says a human being. He says to the man. He once said: theology must cultivate and teach so to serve not only professors and students, but also a simple old lady.
A may yet be different? Maybe he wants to show something else? A journalist once asked Peter Sewald Cardinal. Ratzinger: how much is the road that leads to God. Able to answer: one, either: a lot. Meanwhile, he, without thinking for a long time, he said, as many as there are men.
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straight from Rome, a weekly column in the Radio Bonus
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