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What Happened in the Tomb?

14 Thursday Apr 2011

Posted by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. in Christology, Spiritual Theology, Theology

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[We’re posting this at a liturgically inopportune time. It’s a matter of scheduling. Read it after the Easter Vigil, if you will.]

Every year around Holy Week, the refuse that forms America’s popular reading material comes out with a volley of blasphemies against our Lord’s holy Resurrection. Citing one or another perfidious “noted scholar,” the glossy-covered journals that accost us at the checkout counter vie with one another to see who can pervert the populace with greater contempt for the divine. These reheated leftovers from last year’s editions would be laughable in their dogmatic adherence to pseudoscientific “scholarship,” but we dare not laugh at the offense against our Savior. Continue reading →

The Church, The Mystical Body

04 Monday May 2009

Posted by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. in Christology, Ecclesiology

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(from a talk I gave at the 1997 St. Benedict Center Conference)

I will begin this talk with a basic question, but a question I’m afraid most of us don’t think enough about: What was the purpose of the Incarnation? Strange question, is it not, since what we are talking about is not only the focal point of all human history, but the central mystery of our Faith? Let a Father and Doctor of the Church answer it: St. Athanasius tells us that God became man so that we might become deified, that is, made gods. Continue reading →

Aristotelian Ontology in Thomistic Christology

29 Saturday Mar 2008

Posted by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. in Christology, Philosophy

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In the study of Christology, St. Thomas’ use of Aristotelian natural science helps to avoid two extremes: 1) the neo-modernist “Christology from below” with its Nestorian and Arian tendencies and 2) the Monophysitism implicit in any theology which denigrates our Lord’s Sacred Humanity. The key concept in Aristotelian philosophy ad rem to this subject is the “analogy of being.” Continue reading →

Jesus Christ and the Church: The Fullness of Divine Revelation

14 Thursday Feb 2008

Posted by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. in Christology, Ecclesiology

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The assignment: Write a three page paper responding to the following questions. How can the finite man Jesus be the fullness of divine revelation? How can the finite Roman Catholic Church transmit the fullness of divine revelation? Include reference to the way in which Dominus Iesus shows the interdependence of claims for the uniqueness of Christ and claims for the uniqueness of the Church.

Certain neo-modernist theologians of our day deny the complete character of Our Lord Jesus Christ’s revelation. Their argument is as follows: “Being finite, limited, and conditioned historically, linguistically, and culturally are part of what it means to be human. Jesus was fully human. Therefore, Jesus’ humanity must also be finite, limited and conditioned historically, linguistically, and culturally. One further step is required: since Jesus’ humanity is thus limited, it can only communicate a limited truth about God.” Continue reading →

Saint Maximus the Confessor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Christ’s Two Wills

14 Wednesday Nov 2007

Posted by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. in Christology, Church History, Grace

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St. Maximus, the monastic mystic and eminent controversialist of orthodoxy against the Monothelites, earned his title “the Confessor” because he died in exile for his heroic confession. In his defense of the orthodox faith against an heretical emperor and supine ecclesiastics, he continued the work of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, St. Sophronius (whom he considered his master), and did much to lay the foundations of the Third Council of Constantinople. Continue reading →

Imitating Christ’s Humility: Philippians 2

03 Saturday Nov 2007

Posted by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. in Christology, Sacred Scripture and Tradition: Sources of Revelation, Spiritual Theology

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The Challoner edition of the Douay-Rheims Bible gives a good description of Philippians 2 at the head of the chapter: “He recommends them to unity and humility, and to work out their salvation with fear and trembling.” In broad overview, what St. Paul delivers in this chapter one of his many exhortations to unity, but he turns the entreaty into a deep meditation on Christ’s humility and sufferings.

The four-verse exordium which opens the chapter has an admirable architecture. The Apostle expresses his wish that the Philippians be of one mind (v. 1-2). To bring this about, there must be humility in each individual (v. 3), for perfect unity will not be achieved unless each subordinates his own personal good to the common good of the Church (v. 4). As an example of this humility, St. Paul points to the Exemplar of all virtue himself, Jesus Christ, whose Incarnation and Passion show in a man the humility of God (v. 5-8). As Christ’s humility was rewarded (v. 9-11), the reader would logically infer that those who imitate him will also be “exalted,” mutatis mutandis. In imitation of Christ’s exinanation, they should obey the Apostle, a joyful and willing “victim” for them, and persevere in good works, with all patience and in the fear of God (12-18). He ends with some practical and intimate missionary details of his fellow laborers, at the same time giving his readers a glimpse of his own humility by praising Timothy (“as a son with the father, so hath he served with me in the gospel”) and Epaphroditus (“for the work of Christ he came to the point of death… that he might fulfill [what] was wanting towards my service”), who are deserving of honor for their service in the gospel (19-26). Continue reading →

The Word was Made Flesh

01 Thursday Nov 2007

Posted by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. in Christology, Fr. Leonard Feeney, St. Benedict Center, and Friends

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This offering comes from a favorite author of mine. I will reveal his name at the end. This is a simple but deep excursus on the familiar phrase from the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel.

We are told in the beginning of the Holy Gospel according to Saint John that, “the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.”

That is a magical phrase, “the Word was made flesh.” “Word” has a great deal of meaning for us. Our memories are all tucked away in the shape of words. Our utterances to those we love are impos­sible without words, and even when we are thinking by ourselves and not speaking, we are somehow wording our thoughts for the hidden ear — which is the bliss of solitude. Continue reading →

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