tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103151442024-03-13T10:53:44.356-04:00The Truth Will Make You FreeReflections on the Teaching of Vatican II Through the Magisterium of John Paul II, Benedict XVI and FrancisRev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.comBlogger2115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-14681260328591523872019-05-22T22:20:00.001-04:002019-05-22T22:20:48.404-04:00Ennio Morricone - The Mission Main Theme (Morricone Conducts Morricone)Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-10312525189206980132016-10-14T09:53:00.001-04:002016-10-14T09:53:21.124-04:00The Creator is "Father," Not Merely "Supreme Being"
Blogger: If God were "Supreme Being," He would be supreme as a part of creation, and therefore neither Creator nor God. As Transcending Creator, He dreamed of you, as you. Because He transcends, He is totally immanent to the creation - and particularly to you.
The Father Dreamed of You, as Expectant Parents Dream, Pope Says
Posted by ZENIT Staff on 13 October, 2016
Just Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-88742534714372953222016-10-14T09:30:00.000-04:002016-10-14T09:30:19.770-04:00
This is a classic Robert Barron of hitting the nail on the head and shifting the hammer and nail into the right context. His title is a steal from Joseph Ratzinger at the presentation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church - when asked by the press if the CCC was a document of morality, answered: Yes! But you don't know what a man should do until you know who he is, and you don't know who he isRev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-75959430424534811702016-10-07T09:14:00.000-04:002016-10-07T09:14:06.384-04:00
I received the following email from Fr. Martin Henehan (Ireland) concerning Donald Trump's letter to the Catholic Leadership conference in Denver:
Read Donald Trump's letter to Catholic leaders
Oct 6, 2016 (CNA/EWTN News).-
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wrote a letter to Catholic leaders during a two-day conference in Denver this week, identifying himself as Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-64638570453959692202016-08-05T10:29:00.000-04:002016-08-05T10:29:04.490-04:00I am in another computer without the password for wordpress, so I want to try this (blogspot) again hoping I can post from here.
Today is August 5 and feast of Our Lady of the Snows - the first Marian basilica of the West in honor of the Council of Ephesus. Ephesus is the magisterial proclamation of metaphysical Christology in that Christ is duly affirmed to have a total and complete humanRev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-59403971597184106092016-06-20T21:32:00.000-04:002016-06-20T21:38:27.817-04:00I've just revisited this blogspot page and looked at the stats. They seem to say that people keep coming to blogspot although I'm not putting anything new on it. Like yesterday I found
Pageviews today
8
Pageviews yesterday
126
Pageviews last month
2,563
That seems better than what's going on in "actingpersonblog.wordpress.com," but I haven't put anything here on blogspot Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-8176287502352653402016-04-10T12:03:00.001-04:002016-06-20T21:29:48.918-04:00
I'm glad to let you know that I've been modernized, and after receiving much advice, I've decided to move my blog to another platform.
You can find my stuff on www.actingpersonblog.wordpress.com and you can follow me on facebook www.facebook.com/actingpersonblog. I am writing this on June 20, and I don't know if the new blog and pictures is any help.
I'm trying to learn how to post Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-69221567237206566762016-04-10T07:02:00.003-04:002016-04-10T07:02:43.681-04:00Barron: Amoris Laetitia
On a spring day about five years ago, when I was rector of Mundelein Seminary,
Francis Cardinal George spoke to the assembled student body. He congratulated
those proudly orthodox seminarians for their devotion to the dogmatic and moral
truths proposed by the Church, but he also offered some pointed pastoral
advice. He said that it is insufficient simply to drop the truth on people and
then Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-8241763876504009742016-04-07T10:43:00.000-04:002016-04-07T15:45:42.544-04:00The Ultimate Reality: Jesus Christ, and Therefore, The Epistemic Trump.
All authentic indicators point to Jesus Christ - God Man - as the ontological center of all that is. Therefore, Christ is the Epistemic Trump and only key to authentic Knowledge.
1) Joseph Ratzinger: " Psalm 18... It begins like this:
“In aeternum, Domine, verbum tuum constitutum est in caelo... firmasti terram,
et permanet”. This refers to the solidity of the Word. It is solid, Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-7160453145225519692016-04-06T06:19:00.001-04:002016-04-06T06:38:38.064-04:00Dying To Self
Dying to Self
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
In truth, we must change our very self-image rather than just be
told some new things to see or do. To be a Christian is to objectively know
that we share the same identity that Jesus enjoyed as both human and divine,
which is what it means to "follow" him. In fact, I believe that
this is the whole point of the Gospel and the Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-12393103779485121042016-04-05T08:59:00.001-04:002016-04-05T09:00:00.771-04:00Deals Make Contracts; Covenants Engender Identities
How Covenants Make Us
David
Brooks APRIL 5, 2016
When
you think about it, there are four big forces coursing through modern
societies. Global migration is leading to demographic diversity. Economic
globalization is creating wider opportunity but also inequality. The Internet
is giving people more choices over what to buy and pay attention to. A culture
of autonomy valorizes Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-15273213145633852512016-04-04T18:15:00.000-04:002016-04-04T18:18:53.614-04:00Feast of the Annunciation – April 4, 2016 (because Good Friday and the Annunciation of Our Lady fell on the same day: the date of the Incarnation of God and the date of His death].
<!--[if !supportLists]-->1)
<!--[endif]-->Our Lady is the first Christian believer. What
she has done is the meaning of Christian faith. The absence of sin in her made
her capable of saying “Yes” to the invitation to receive God in her, and to
give Him a complete humanity. All the humanity of Christ [soul, body, faculties
of intellect and will, etc.] are all from Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-45410037108009655782016-03-31T22:44:00.003-04:002016-03-31T23:35:43.275-04:00I Just Visited Mimi Silbert's Delancy Street in San Francisco and It Taught Fr. Paul Donlan, Fr. Mark Manion and Myself that the Following Text of Richard Rohr Holds For Us
Rohr
In Need of Mercy
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Why does the Bible, and why does Jesus, tell us to care for the poor and the outsider? Is it first of all because people need help? Maybe, but I believe it has a much deeper genius. We are the ones who need to move into the worlds of powerlessness for our own conversion! We need to meet people whose faith, patience, and Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-38349378524244662792016-03-31T12:54:00.001-04:002016-03-31T12:54:04.377-04:00The Disturbing Fact of the Resurrection
“If
Jesus was not raised from death, Christianity is a fraud and a joke; if he did
rise from death, then Christianity is the fullness of God’s revelation, and
Jesus must be the absolute center of our lives. There is no third option”
The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the be-all and the
end-all of the Christian faith. If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, all
bishops, priests, and Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-80868551171162670762016-03-30T19:48:00.000-04:002016-03-30T19:48:02.328-04:00Pope Francis: Mercy and love have conquered sin at Easter
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2016-03-28 Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said “we also stand today before the empty tomb of Jesus, and meditate with wonder and gratitude on the great mystery of the Resurrection of the Lord” during his Easter Monday Regina Coeli address.
“Life has conquered death. Mercy and love have conquered sin! There is need of faith and hope to open this new and Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-14533844362775453542016-03-30T19:46:00.002-04:002016-04-12T17:14:51.727-04:00Damage Done to the Human Sexuality as Self-Gift (and therefore the Holiness and Validity of Marriage)
Cardinal Carlo Cafarra asks the following question: ""Theologians, canonists, and pastors are rightly asking about the faith-sacrament relationship of marriage. But there is a more radical problem. Those who are asking for sacramental marriage, are they capable of natural marriage? Has there been such devastation, not of their faith but of their humanity, that they are no longer capable of Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-62928312490212452602016-03-28T06:33:00.002-04:002016-03-28T06:33:54.658-04:00Anniversary of the Priestly Ordination of St. Josemaria Escriva (March 28, 1925)
Historically, Opus Dei began with celibate laymen. There was
need for ministerial priests who had the same spirit of becoming “other
Christs” in secular life. It was not enough to be a good priest to serve these
men and women with Holy Mass, preaching the Word and, above all, the sacrament
of penance. To have this same spirit, Escriva understood that the priests had
to come from among the lay Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-84870728795142231602016-03-28T06:22:00.004-04:002016-03-31T23:38:29.932-04:00Learning To See: An Extraordinary Truth
Learning to See:
Monday, March 28, 2016
I would have never seen my own white privilege if I had not been forced outside of my dominant white culture by travel, by working in the jail, by hearing stories from counselees, and frankly, by making a complete fool of myself in so many social settings--most of which I had the freedom to avoid! And so recognition was slow in coming.Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-84768016114915719802016-03-27T17:30:00.002-04:002016-03-27T17:30:38.348-04:00Pope Francis: The Church Grows From the Bottom Up. Slowly. Not like An Organization. On April 24, 2013, He Affirmed:he Church, Body of Christ - Person
“And when the Church wants to flex its muscles and sets up organizations
and offices, becoming a bit bureaucratic, the Church loses it main substance
and runs the risk of becoming an NGO. The Church is not an NGO. It is a love
story. But there are bureaucrats who say – sorry, everything is necessary, the
offices are necessary… okay, fine! But they are necessary to a certain point:
as Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-33812214573274026862016-03-27T16:27:00.002-04:002016-03-27T16:27:25.828-04:00Easter 2016
Blogger: The Message is neither doctrine nor morality, but Personal
Encounter and dialogue with the Lord. &Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-83535600576394607972016-03-27T14:01:00.001-04:002016-03-28T06:03:04.116-04:00Faith and Ideology: Francis, John Paul II and Benedict XVI
Francis: Faith and Ideology
John
20, 16: Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned toward him and cried
out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means "Teacher").
Ideology is an abstraction of reality. Abstractions
falsify the Gospel. The Gospel is a narrative of the living Christ. Francis:
“Ideologues falsify the Gospel. Every ideological Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-34260916023409432932016-03-27T13:08:00.003-04:002016-03-27T13:08:35.197-04:00Judge From Within the Perspective of the Other
You never really
understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you
climb into his skin and walk around in it. --Harper
Lee (1926-2016), To Kill a
Mockingbird
Once in a place of power, after the 4th century, the Church
began to interpret Scripture in a very different way. Once Pharaoh is your
benefactor and protector, there are many questions you can no Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-85406191834717404592016-03-27T10:47:00.001-04:002016-03-27T10:47:28.691-04:00
Pope washes feet of Muslim migrants
LUIGI NAVARRO AND NICOLE WINFIELD
Last updated 10:21, March 27 2016
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OSSERVATORE ROMANO/Reuters
Pope Francis kisses the foot of a refugee during the foot-washing ritual at the Castelnuovo di Porto refugees center near Rome, Italy.
Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Christian and Hindu refugees on Thursday, Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-51612831685732070762016-03-27T10:41:00.001-04:002016-03-27T14:01:26.332-04:00LearnRev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-91527776013795284642016-03-27T09:38:00.002-04:002016-03-27T09:38:59.636-04:00Easter Sunday The Victory of Easter
Christ is Risen! Alleluia!Today we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. But what does it mean to say, “Jesus conquered the grave”?In the Gospels, Jesus is depicted, not so much as ethical teacher, but as cosmic warrior, come to do battle with the powers of sickness, disease, hatred, and sin. He shows his Lordship over fallen nature itself as he calmsRev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.com0