THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE LITURGY TO TIME AND SPACE

by Joseph Ratzinger November 02, 2018

 McGrath Institute for Church Life Church Life Journal

Can there really be special holy places and holy times in the world of Christian faith? Christian worship is surely a cosmic liturgy, which embraces both heaven and earth. The epistle to the Hebrews stresses that Christ suffered ‘‘outside the gate’’ and adds this exhortation: ‘‘Therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp, bearing abuse for him’’ (13:12). Is the whole world not now his sanctuary? Is sanctity not to be practiced by living one’s daily life in the right way? Is our divine worship not a matter of being loving people in our daily life? Is that not how we become like God and so draw near to the true sacrifice? Can the sacral be anything other than imitating Christ in the simple patience of daily life? Can there be any other holy time than the time for practicing love of neighbor, whenever and wherever the circumstances of our life demand it?

CATHOLIC COLONIALISM AND ITS SUBALTERN CELIBATES

by A. A. J. DeVille

In researching my book Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed: Ridding the Church of Abuses of Sex and Power, which features extensive discussion of Orthodox and Anglican ecclesial structures, I came across a curious tranche of letters and legislative documents from Anglican churchmen in my native Canada in the pre-confederation period.

ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗ ΒΟΛΟΚΟΛΑΜΣΚ ΙΛΑΡΙΩΝΑ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΤΙΜΟ ΠΑΠΑ ΡΩΜΗΣ ΒΕΝΕΔΙΚΤΟ ΙΣΤ’

ΡΩΣΙΚΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ. Τμήμα Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων

Στη Ρώμη από τις 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017 πραγματοποιεί επίσκεψη εργασίας ο Μητροπολίτης Βολοκολάμσκ Ιλαρίωνας, Πρόεδρος του Τμήματος Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας.