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Post by Tomas on Mar 22, 2020 12:44:03 GMT
Don´t know whether I posted this here before as a link. However, the tip is for a very interesting series on St. Catherine of Siena. It was broadcast (or podcast?? or whatever…) at a Catholic American site called Discerning Hearts. It is a series with several episodes where her life and writings are presented around the topics most central to her teaching. Splendid hours of basic education made for the laity and obviously everyone, and especially timely now when many happens to be turned off the ordinary work days.
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Post by Séamus on Mar 24, 2020 3:01:52 GMT
Don´t know whether I posted this here before as a link. However, the tip is for a very interesting series on St. Catherine of Siena. It was broadcast (or podcast?? or whatever…) at a Catholic American site called Discerning Hearts. It is a series with several episodes where her life and writings are presented around the topics most central to her teaching. Splendid hours of basic education made for the laity and obviously everyone, and especially timely now when many happens to be turned off the ordinary work days. She's a saint often mentioned in time of crisis,wonder what she would have thought of current mass-bans, seeing that she once petitioned the Pope to lift an interdict? Mother Henrietta Kerr,whose biography I'm reading,cited Catherine in a least one letter written during her time in Rome,which coincided with the fall of the Pope's temporal power,which seemed apocalyptic to the devout Catholics of the time. |
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Post by Tomas on Mar 24, 2020 10:59:25 GMT
Don´t know whether I posted this here before as a link. However, the tip is for a very interesting series on St. Catherine of Siena. It was broadcast (or podcast?? or whatever…) at a Catholic American site called Discerning Hearts. It is a series with several episodes where her life and writings are presented around the topics most central to her teaching. Splendid hours of basic education made for the laity and obviously everyone, and especially timely now when many happens to be turned off the ordinary work days. She's a saint often mentioned in time of crisis,wonder what she would have thought of current mass-bans, seeing that she once petitioned the Pope to lift an interdict? Mother Henrietta Kerr,whose biography I'm reading,cited Catherine in a least one letter written during her time in Rome,which coincided with the fall of the Pope's temporal power,which seemed apocalyptic to the devout Catholics of the time. Last week and this week in particular must go down in history as an absolute challenge for the politico-economical observer, whatever school he comes from. St. Catherine´s emphasis on Self-Knowledge is a great subject for study, maybe even for the not normally politically interested public, and even to some of the youngsters sitting lengthy hours at home instead of at the school bench for a while? |
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Post by Tomas on Apr 29, 2020 21:21:20 GMT
Perhaps today´s practical hands-on saint has the best solution for complexities in regard to sin (writing in the Dialogue on the subject "The Qualities of Good Ministers in the Church"): "... to keep the weak from being confounded with despair and to give them more room to expose their weakness, they would show their own weakness, saying 'I am weak along with you.' They wept with those who wept and rejoiced with those who rejoiced (cf. 1 Cor 9:22, Rom 12:15). Thus they knew how to give everyone the right food ever so tenderly. They encouraged the good by rejoicing in their goodness, for they were not gnawed up with envy but broad in the generosity of their charity for their neighbors and subjects. Those who were sinful they drew out of their sin by showing that they themselves were also sinful and weak. Their compassion was true and holy, and while correcting others and imposing penances for the sins they had committed, they themselves in their charity did penance along with them. Because of their love, they who were imposing the penance suffered more than those who received it. And sometimes some of them actually did the same penance themselves, especially when they saw that it seemed very difficult for the penitent. And by that act the difficulty became sweet for them."
Doers, in other words.
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