If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspire
Month: June 2017
Sunset
The task of a theology teacher
Rainbow
God’s self chosen symbol We can see Trinitarian symbolism: the arch speaks of God the Father’s over arching love, the light tells of the Son, the Light of the Word, raindrops softly falling act as a prism revealing the arch and the colors as the Spirit reveals Christ and the Father.
Eco-spirituality in the key of Three
We can say that “alongside revelation properly so-called, contained in sacred Scripture, there is a divine manifestation in the blaze of the sun and the fall of night”.[58] Paying attention to this manifestation, we learn to see ourselves in relation to all other creatures: “I express myself in expressing the world; in my effort to decipher […]
Teachers in the new creation
In John’s gospel Mary of Magdala is given a unique role which is that of apostle (teacher) to the apostles. For John the Beloved, the Resurrection is a new creation and in the new creation woman is restored fully to her position as equal with man, as man’s full complement including in man’s teaching/ordering roles. […]
Sacramental Mentality
St. Ignatius of Loyola is a great example of the principal of Catholic Sacramentality. Before we can appreciate the Sacraments and things sacramental we have to understand the theological context of Sacramentality. While the Church today recognizes seven specific rituals as moments of encounter with God, the early Church recognized many more: washing of feet, […]
Scripture’s Supreme Teacher–John the Beloved
John the Beloved is seen in this beautiful icon. He is the author of the fourth gospel, the only one written by an eye witness. The other gospels scripture scholars tell us, were written by persons who knew persons and in some cases person who knew persons who knew person who knew Jesus. The first […]
To be ignorant of the Scriptures is to be ignorant of Christ–St. Jerome
In this beautiful icon of the Christ of the gospels from St. Talka’s we see the symbols of the four gospels in the four corners: the eagle for John, the Man for Matthew, the Ox for Luke and the Lion for Mark. St. Jerome was an early great scripture scholar who in his passion for […]