What does that last sentence mean? How do we allow God to answer us in faith? The Bible itself is full of questions that people asked Jesus. The Bishop points out that the prophet Zachariah and the Blessed Mother asked the Archangel Gabriel the exact same question, but only one asked in...
This doesn’t mean they there around the altar with their hands in the their pockets (though I have seen that happen, not rarely). Rather, they are there morally and spiritually “around” the altar, participating each according to their vocation and capacity. So, circumstantes is used to...
As it does inevitably happen the question came in: “What is the Ave Maria Bell you keep mentioning?” I wrote about that in greater detail HERE. Here’s a compressed version. The Ave Maria Bells signals the end of the “religious” day and the beginning of “religious” night. It is...
Reflections on Key Issues in Human Life: Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan, Dante’s Divina Commedia, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Michael Ende’s Momo, and Fatih Akın’s Soul Kitchen—Manifesto in Support of the Humanities—What Truly Matters in the End? by Albrecht Classen Department of ...
There is no life without death, and there is no death without life, a beautiful but also fundamental chiasmus, which was expressed perhaps most powerfully by Dante Alighieri in hisDivina Commedia(completed ca. 1320; see my discussion below), and the German poet Johann von Tepl in his famous...