Wise Words on Wednesday: Sweet Melody of Faith
Faith is like the gift of a musical instrument. The true value of the gift is in learning its use
– Random quotation in my prayer journal after spending a weekend with the Elm Grove community
Church Alive! Eastern Catholic Churches
A came across this little introductory programme concerning the Eastern Catholic Churches:
In The Beginning: Not just a house, but a temple…
The other day I did a post in which I looked at the sequence of events in the creation narrative of Genesis. In verse two of Chapter 1, we are told that “the earth was without form and void” and I explained how God spends the rest of the chapter fixing these two problems.
He solves the problem of formlessness in the first three days by creating the domains of time, space and habitat. He then solves the problem of emptiness by then populating each of these realms with rulers: first sun, moon and stars, next fish and birds, and then finally land animals and humanity.
I compared Genesis chapter one to the building of a house, God first builds the structure of the house and then fills its rooms. However, at the end of the post I explained that God wasn’t just building a house, but a temple…
Why do I say that God was building a temple? Well, we know that other cultures at the time of Genesis’ authorship also considered the cosmos to be something of a temple in which the gods were to be worshiped, but we also find a similar strain of thought concerning the first book of the Pentateuch…
Lectionary Statistics
When talking about the Bible, we Catholics inevitably end up talking about the Liturgy of the Word at Mass. I had always wondered how much of the Bible we hear proclaimed in the Liturgy. The other day I got a little curious and tracked done some statistics…
Death of the Apostles
A little while ago I wrote a post about the Twelve Apostles. I recently came across a Google Map where somebody had tagged all the places where tradition says they died. Kinda cool… 🙂
Friday Frivolity: Friends or Food?
Horn/Chadwick Abortion Debate
Last week Trent Horn from Catholic Answers engaged in an abortion debate with Professor Cecili Chadwick. The title of the debate was “Should abortion be legal?”.
The debate was at California State University San Marcos and I managed to attend. In my “Drafts” folder I had begun a short review of the event prepared, but I saw yesterday that the video of the debate was already up on YouTube!
I found Professor Chadwick’s position rather problematic, particularly given what she was willing to admit concerning unborn. I also found it a little frustrating how, in her responses, she regularly presented false dilemmas, as though one cannot be both against poverty AND abortion. But rather than flesh out my review, I’d simply invite you to watch the debate and reach your own conclusions.