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Fr Pius Noonan
In this wonderful article, Fr Pius teaches us something obvious; but long forgotten- both words and gestures matter. Whatever ideas we express and the language we use to express them must converge on the meaning we intend. This meaning is both captured and expressed in the actions we perform in the service of those ideas. This is perhaps nowhere more important than in those gestures that accompany the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. In particular, how we orientate our worship.
Father Matthew Solomon
Oftentimes, when we look for evidence for the transformative power of Christianity, we look to material things. In terms of how Christianity was the foundation for the Common Law, we look for those laws that seem most inspired by Christian revelation or we look for those jurists who were most known for their Christin faith. The difficulty is, that so much of Christian transformation is internal to the reality being transformed. The effects of our faith are not always as close to the surface as we would like them. This is why the world can sometimes convince us that Christianity was only a marginal actor in shaping Western civilisation. The problem is, Christianity is not an actor in Western Civilisation- it is the whole play and the playhouse in which it is set.
In this our eighth lesson, we begin to unpack how Christian Tradition shapes culture. Christianity is not a theory about the world. Christianity is revealed truth; and thus, necessitates that those who follow it, live according to it. Christianity does not have grand visions for creating a better world. Rather, it has an understanding about to form a better man, who then goes on to shape the world. The English Common Law, although quintessentially a Christian creation, is not a Christian project. No one sat down in order to come up with a system of laws. Rather it was the culture that Christianity created which shaped those laws.
Augustine is the greatest of the Latin Church Fathers. His life is not just a contribution to Western Civilisation- it is part of its foundation. The West would not be what it is without Augustine; and in particular, without his contribution to the doctrine of the human person. In this Lesson we learn how the West was won.
Father Peter Joseph
St. John Henry Newman, canonised in 2019, remains one of the most admired and studied intellectual thinkers of the 19th Century. His major work, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, remains one of the most influential works in recent history. In this essay we explore why that is, and why you should read.
Father Paschal Corby
Jesus, in your heart we find
love of the Father and mankind
these two loves to us impart –
Divine love in a human heart.