Friday, 27 August 2010
Pope's theological seminar on hermeneutic of continuity
The Holy Father has continued the custom that he maintained as a Cardinal, of meeting each summer with his former students of theology at Tübingen and Regensburg. Since he has become Pope, the meetings have been held at Castel Gandolfo.
This year, the theme is the hermeneutics (or interpretation) of the Second Vatican Council. The video above has a clip of the Holy Father giving his speech to the Roman Curia in December 2005. That speech was the inspiration for this blog.
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Fr. TF, I love your blog. I first learned about the hermeneutics of continuity from you! It puts into perspective things I couldn't put my finger on, for example, a priest in Ireland, who has a weekly radio show and keeps talking about how Vatican II was never fully implemented and always refers to the spirit of VII! Needless to say his main guru is John O'Donoghue and also JM Talbot.
Thanks for your great insights and work.
Cailín
@ Father Finigan
Pope Benedict XVI is a "Mozart amongst theologians".
And you Father Finigan, are a great instrument playing the master's tune to the IT masses.
Your picture appears among those included in the core group 'My friends' on Friends Reunited, yet for some reason the Friends Reunited Team have excluded my photo from your 'My friends' core group, which at present only features Paul Kelham. I am sure that you have many more people who consider themselves to be your friend, and the FR Team should correct their omissions.
The Friends Reunited Team once arbtrarily censored my photo featuring me and HRH The Prince of Wales, after the late Guardian of Walsingham, David Diamond had invited him to Deptford. I now use the formerly censored picture as my profile photograph :-)
In the 1987/88 football season I was working as a site agent in Albury Street , Deptford SE8. This early Thames Gateway regeneration project involving English Heritage and the Church of England's Guardian of Walsingham, the late Canon David Diamond of St Paul 's SE8, stimulated my creative and artistic talents.
Midway through the underpinning and demolition contract, that I was supervising for PGM developments, I had a big dream in which Our Lady of the Assumption called me "Vesper". I have used this nom de plume ever since.
Canon David Diamond was old school Oxford Movement who didnot support the Ordination of Women. When I converted to Rome , Father Diamond gave me a giant Rosary which I gave to Father Tony Pyle at Our Lady of the Rosary Blacken.
Canon David Diamond once thanked me for my qualified professional Planning & Development work in relation to the CRITICAL Deptford Power Station & Creekside planning brief.
Addey & Stanhope School's Steve Pratt can confirm that Canon Diamond also used my poetry to invite HRH the Prince of Wales to the opening of St Paul 's Court in the 1987/88 football season.
SONGS & DREAMS FOR SAD SISTER DEPTFORD A Deo et Rege : PART 6
SE8 MATE
DIRTY SMELLY DEPTFORD.
HOW WE LOVE YOU SO.
THE POWER THAT ONCE CAME FROM YOU.
HAS LONG CEASED TO FLOW.
ARCHER'S DREAM NO LONGER DWARFED.
16 ACRES FREE.
A FUTURE KING FINDS HIS LAND.
AND PLACE IN HISTORY.
Canon Diamond and I are both recorded as being professional Thames Gateway contributors to the Civic Trust report which preceded Deptford City Challenge.
Our Lady of the Rosary ( http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2010/08/gaudeamus-omnes-in-domino.html ) pray for us in BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP's EU/GLA/LDA/ODA NEO-NAZI DEVELOPMENT TIMES Amen
PAPA RATZI ( http://www.thepapalvisit.org ) ORA PRO NOBIS!
"That speech was the inspiration for this blog."
Thank God for that speech.
Is that what "hermeneutics" means?Sorry..I'm a bit slow! lol
I know you have an explanation somewhere but I don't read blogs especially my own!
Since Vat 11, I have watched the Church in the Western Europe decline drastically in numbers, but more importantly in belief.
Benedict XV1 has analysed the situation brilliantly.
The "Hermeneutic of Rupture", so beloved by progressives and neo-modernists explains the situation. Crucially, they understood that the quickest way to change belief, and bring about this rupture, is to change the way belief is publicly expressed i.e. the liturgy. Hence the crass distortions, of the intent of Sacrosanctum Concilium, we had to endure in the 70s and 80s.
These talks, exploring "renewal in the continuity of the one subject-Church" are vital.
Benedict has pointed the Church once again in the right direction - but we have lost so much ground.
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