The Love of the Beautiful: November 2007

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNSCRuxMoTU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta29rp7k2po

My two youtube creations. Perhaps they may be of interest?

"And how shall I call upon my God, my Lord and my God? because that when I invoke Him I call Him into myself: and what place is there in me fit for my God to come into me by, whither God may come into me; even that God which made heaven and earth? " - St. Augustine, Confessions Book I chapter II.

It is divine providence I just happened to come accross this in my search for a decent blog name , for Augustine has uttered in these few lines a statement that all of us can ask ourselves. I have always felt an affinity for the Bishop of Hippo for I feel I can relate to him. I, a person who once made no effort to not live a sinful life who now continuosly (or well most of the time...) travels the path of repentence and yearns for a union with God.

What is the point of this blog? I don't know. I once had a blog before but I felt it was not very useful and abandoned it, left like the various pieces of space junk that orbits our planet as I type. Why am I creating a blog when I should be writing exegisis on Paul's letter to the Romans for college? Thats the question that should be asked here lol. Anyways, perhaps it will be a good place to reflect or gather my theological wanderings into some sort of coherent body. Or another outlet to distract me from school haha, we shall see.

Zoghby Initiative

I believe everything which Eastern Orthodoxy teaches.
I am in communion with the Bishop of Rome as the first among the bishops, according to the limits recognized by the Holy Fathers of the East during the first millennium, before the separation.

" We must fight to insure that Latinism and Catholicism are no longer synonymous, that Catholicism remains open to every culture, every spirit, and every form of organization compatible with the unity of faith and of love. At the same time, by our example, we must force the Orthodox Church to recognize that a union [...] with the See of Peter can be achieved without their being compelled to give up Orthodoxy" -His Beatitude Maximos IV, Patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkites

"It is true that we have been latinized. And this is the great merit of Metropolitan Sheptytsky at the beginning of the 20th century: that he tried to reverse this process. Personally, I consider myself a follower of Metropolitan Sheptytsky, together with many others who would like to get rid of all that has illegally entered into our spiritual, theological, liturgical, canonical heritage. We were told: If you want to be a real Catholic, you have to be Latin. And they pushed us into it. And it is only with Metropolitan Sheptytsky that we could say: Dear brothers from Rome, one can be Catholic without being Latin. And we were attacked on two fronts, Catholic-Latin and Orthodox-Byzantine. And we said: No, dear brothers, one can be Ukrainian, one can be Byzantine, one can be at the same time Catholic. These different elements do not contradict one another. So this is why neither the Latin Church nor the Orthodox Church is very happy with us. "- His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar, Patriarch of Kviv-Halych

"In other words, Rome must not require more from the East with respect to the doctrine of primacy than had been formulated and was lived in the first millennium." - former Cardinal Ratzinger