tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post1188231578754300657..comments2024-02-04T15:10:18.485-05:00Comments on The Continuum: Second Sunday in LentFr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-82490835003922721212015-03-06T17:06:01.691-05:002015-03-06T17:06:01.691-05:00It is, in meaning, what C.S. Lewis also said.It is, in meaning, what C.S. Lewis also said.Fr. Robert Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-71825101384775340752015-03-03T05:13:39.965-05:002015-03-03T05:13:39.965-05:00What do you think of the Ratzinger quote? What do you think of the Ratzinger quote? Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17686738325565738419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-74236829791749547562015-03-02T17:49:44.983-05:002015-03-02T17:49:44.983-05:00This was the classic position of the Church of Eng...This was the classic position of the Church of England. http://anglicancontinuum.blogspot.com/2008/03/hooker-on-unity-with-rome.htmlFr. Robert Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-88482824175316939582015-03-02T12:19:46.449-05:002015-03-02T12:19:46.449-05:00I ask such questions because many early Anglicans ...I ask such questions because many early Anglicans and some later ones considered the Papacy the anti-christ and Rome an apostate non-christian church. I am aware that position is no longer the dominant one though. Anyways I found the following from Ratzinger about purgatory, tell me if his is an acceptable model of it:<br /><br />Purgatory is not, as Tertullian thought, some kind of supra-worldly concentration camp where man is forced to undergo punishment in a more or less arbitrary fashion. Rather is it the inwardly necessary process of transformation in which a person becomes capable of Christ, capable of God and thus capable of unity with the whole communion of saints. Simply to look at people with any degree of realism at all is to grasp the necessity of such a process. It does not replace grace by works, but allows the former to achieve its full victory precisely as grace. What actually saves is the full assent of faith. But in most of us, that basic option is buried under a great deal of wood, hay and straw. Only with difficulty can it peer out from behind the latticework of an egoism we are powerless to pull down with our own hands. Man is the recipient of the divine mercy, yet this does not exonerate him from the need to be transformed. Encounter with the Lord is this transformation. It is the fire that burns away our dross and re-forms us to be vessels of eternal joy. (pp. 230-231)Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17686738325565738419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-38176279885680990202015-03-01T17:39:02.446-05:002015-03-01T17:39:02.446-05:00I really don't know why you ask such questions...I really don't know why you ask such questions.Fr. Robert Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-8436103494384961182015-03-01T17:38:15.976-05:002015-03-01T17:38:15.976-05:00http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?...http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-04-037-bFr. Robert Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1684192647745708042015-03-01T14:18:41.844-05:002015-03-01T14:18:41.844-05:00Father Hart what is your opinion of Josef Ratzinge...Father Hart what is your opinion of Josef Ratzinger? Is he a fellow believer or a heretic?Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17686738325565738419noreply@blogger.com