Academic literature on the topic 'Sacramentum caritatis (Catholic Church'

The important question in this article is “How important is the construction of the tabernacle, on the sanctuary texts, especially in Exod 39:32-43 (in the larger context of Exod 25-31.35-40), for our church today, especially in Asia – in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic?” Therefore, this article tries (1) to develop some theological thoughts of the Construction of Tabernacle in Exod 39:32-43 for Our Church Today; (2) to explore their theological implications for our situation today – in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic; and (3) to improve some theological thoughts on “Tabernacle” in the Catholic Church, especially regarding Sacramentum Caritatis 69 which describes the location of the tabernacle in the church by using the strong words, “The correct positioning of the tabernacle”. We try to go deeper on it by examining the richness of theological thoughts behind “the tabernacle” – not just focus on “the location” but try to go beyond.

This paper traces the developments in the Catholic law on mixed marriages beginning with an outline of the canonical provisions that were in force prior to the Second Vatican Council. The impact of the Council teaching on ecumenism and religious freedom became apparent with the promulgation of Matrimonii sacramentum (1966), Crescens matrimoniorum (1967) and Matrimonia mixta (1970). These documents put the legislation on mixed marriages on a new footing and provided the basis for the legislation of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. Bishop McAreavey analyses various ecumenical dialogues on mixed marriages: ARCIC, the dialogue between the Lutheran World Federation, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Catholic Church, and ongoing dialogues between the Methodist Church and the Orthodox Church (primarily in the United States) and the Catholic Church. He notes in particular what those discussions have to say on the issue of ‘the promises’ and canonical form and comments on the provisions of the 1983 Code of Canon Law on mixed marriages. He considers the basis of the commitment required of the Catholic party ‘to remove dangers of defecting from the faith’ and the commitment ‘to do all in his or her power in order that all the children be baptised and brought up in the Catholic faith’. He accepts the view of Fr Navarrete that whereas the former obligation is of divine law the latter obligation goes no further than ‘to do his or her best’ (pro viribus in the Latin phrase). In the final section, he reflects on the pastoral impact of developments in the canon law regarding mixed marriages, noting the statements of the World Gatherings of Interchurch Families in Geneva (1998) and in Rome (2003).

Concerns that arise currently are the development of a culture of hatred, the fading of a culture of love, secularism and social injustice. In the midst of that situation, the Church stands as a concrete manifestation of the face of God's love in the middle of the world. In the Ecclesia de Eucharistia encyclical, John Paul II asserted that the eschatological character emphasize the Christian commitment to the world, especially establish the social life order (cf. EE 20). The Eucharistic dimension of the Eucharist implies that the world order must be transformed as a form of participation towards fulfillment at the end of time. Whereas in the Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis, Benedict XVI, asserted that the Eucharist celebration brings our whole lives into spiritual worship that pleases to God (cf SCar 70). From this research, it is known that the Eucharistic social dimension becomes a spirit of love culture according to the writer. This love culture finds its source and power in the Eucharist. Through the celebration of the Eucharist, people are mystically united with Christ. In the light of the theology of the Eucharistic social dimension of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, mystical union with Christ refers to the oneness of God's thankfulness to the fulfillment of the last days (cf. John 15:13).

Based on the premise that the task of systematic theology is to promote an understanding of doctrines by relating different doctrines to one another, and in dialogue with the religious-cultural context, this article provides a systematic proposal for understanding the Roman Catholic doctrine that affirms the church as the universal sacrament of salvation. This doctrine will be clarified by relating it to the doctrine that interreligious dialogue is part of the Catholic Church's evangelising mission. The context for this understanding is one in which religious diversity is both a fact and often times, a problem. The reflections begin with a survey of several terms and relations that are central to the doctrines that are being discussed. Bernard Lonergan's notion of mutual self-mediation is then explained and presented as a tool for both Christian and ecclesial self-understanding. Mark Heim's so-called “theology of religious ends” is appealed to as a concrete way for mutual self-mediation to be practised, and Lonergan's ecclesiologial suggestions allow the notion to be applied on an ecclesial level.

Newman’s way to conversion was made possible by his overcoming of his youthful convictions adopted from Protestant theologians (Luther, Cranmer, Bale, Fox, Sandys, Warburton, Isaac, and Thomas Newton), that the office of the pope was related to the case of the Antichrist. Their accusation is summed up in the statement that the pope, by enacting and enforcing ecclesiastical laws, has obscured the true primary meaning of God’s commandments and has thus established himself in the place of God, making himself the master of Catholic consciences. Newman’s idea of the Antichrist evolved from associating him with the place and the office of the pope to recognizing only his hallmarks as significant: open infidelity, ungodlieness, arrogance, worldly spirit, and false liberalism. At the same time, he took a futuristic position, not excluding the view that the “secret of godlessness” is already at work, and the Antichrist has his precursors, types, images and shadows. He overcame the mental flaw that identified the pope with the Antichrist through in-depth studies of the history of the Church, a change withwhich was signaled in A Letter to the Rev. Godfrey Faussett (1838), matured in an apology of the papacy in The Protestant Idea of Antichrist (1840) and led to the recognition of the pope as the true Vicar of Christ and Sacramentum Unitatis and the revocation of anti-Roman views in 1843, and again in 1845. Newman understood that the primacy of the pope is part of an evolving Catholic doctrine, and the pope has become the goal of prosecution because of his close resemblance to Christ, whom Satan is trying to imitate.

The Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy (DPPL) upholds that Christian worship originates and is brought to completion in the Spirit of Christ, which dispenses truthful liturgical devotion and realistic manifestations of popular piety. A vigorous engagement of evangelization and culture is embodied in the Sabuaga Festival, an Easter Sunday celebration in Sto. Tomas, Pampanga. It is a collaboration of the Catholic Church (St. Thomas the Apostle Parish) and the Local Government Unit (Sto. Tomas). This paper argues how a true and fruitful harmony between liturgy and popular piety is achieved in the Sabuaga Festival. Hence, the researcher articulates the following, namely: First, the dimensions of the Sabuaga Festival that make it an expression of popular piety. Second, the principles offered by DPPL for the true and fruitful harmonization of liturgy and popular piety. Third, the pastoral action plan, entitled: “An Authentic Pastoral Action of the Liturgy: Towards Building upon the Riches of the Sabuaga as a Popular Piety,” which provides suitable catechesis for the harmonization of Liturgy and Popular Piety in the Sabuaga Festival. References Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, “What Is ‘Liturgy’? Why Is It Important?” Accessed last March 29, 2021 from https://www.archspm.org/faith-and-discipleship/catholic-faith/what-is-liturgy-why-is-it-important/. Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth. Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection. London: Catholic Truth Society. Catholic Church. Catechism of the Catholic Church: Revised in Accordance with the Official Latin Text Promulgated by Pope John Paul II. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. Acts and Decrees of the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines. Manila: CBCP, 1992. Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. 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Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments. Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy, Principles, and Guidelines. Promulgated on December 2001. Accessed from http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20020513_vers-direttorio_en.html Deguma, Jabin J. Melona S. Case, and Jemima N. Tandag. “Popular Religiosity: Experiencing Quiapo and Turumba.” American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science Vol. 2, 6 (June 2019). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337158384_Popular_Religiosity_Experiencing_Quiapo_and_Turumba Duggan, Robert D. “Good Liturgy: The Assembly,” America: The Jesuit Review. Last modified, 1 March 2004. Accessed last 4 April 2021 from https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/475/article/good-liturgy-assembly Ecclesia in Asia, Post Synodal Exhortation solemnly promulgated by His Holiness: John Paul II on November 6, 1999. 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God and the world: believing and living in our time: A Conversation with Peter Seewald. Translated by Henry Taylor. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2002. __________. “Sacred Places: The Altar and the Direction of Liturgical Prayer,” The Institute for Sacred Architecture. Accessed last March 31, 2021 from https://www.sacredarchitecture.org/articles/the_altar_and_the_direction_of_liturgical_prayer/. Rosales, Daniel Montoya. “The Influence of the Missionary Heritage on Liturgical Forms.” International Review of Missions, 74, 295 (July 1985): 373-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1985.tb02595.x Sacramentum Caritatis. Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of the Church's Life and Mission, solemnly promulgated by His Holiness Benedict XVI on 22 February 2007. 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$. e Greek-Latin dispute over the communion of infants is an integral partof the dispute over Eucharistic worship. e reason for the dispute are thechanges in the western liturgy as a result of the reaction against Berengar. echanges themselves were based on drawing consequences from the traditionalEucharistic realism, but they are a novelty in relation to specific traditional customs. us, Orthodox theology accused the West of illegitimate noveltyin relation to traditional rites, while Catholic theology justified the changes withfidelity to the traditional worship of the Blessed Sacrament. Both approachesreflect two different approaches to ecclesiastical tradition. In the East, moreattention is paid to the permanence of the deposit received, while in the West,the need for the organic development of tradition is appreciated.+. In addition, the dispute revealed separate positions on the necessity of theEucharist for salvation. Some emphasised the sacramentum, while others emphasisedres. Eastern theology taught about the necessity of material consumptionof the Eucharist, and Simeon of essaloniki or Gregory Dattivensis evenclaimed that anyone who has never consumed the Eucharist can never be saved.Western theology, on the other hand, emphasised that already through baptismman really becomes a member of the Body of Christ.%. e dispute revealed the different links between the theology of the Eucharistand theology of grace. e Eastern followers of infant communion saw in theEucharist, above all, the food of a new creation, food for eternal life. Defendersof the Western custom emphasised that infants are free from temptation, sothey do not need the help of the Eucharist in the fight against evil. e firsttheology links the Eucharist rather with the grace of holiness, the second withthe grace of works.*. e diversity of liturgical disciplines is also reflected in pastoral ministry.In the churches that administer all three sacraments of initiation to infants,there is less awareness that anyone, not only a priest, can baptise someonein life-threatening circumstancs.?. e original attitude towards the other party’s otherness was characterised byaggressive reluctance on both sides. However, the allegation of a deviation from thetruth appeared only in Eastern theology. is is not some particular merit of Westerntheology but is due to objective reasons. Western theology, by its very nature,could not sharply stigmatise a custom, the tradition of which was indisputable.3. At the Florentine Council, which clearly distinguished heresies from legitimatedifferences, the communion of infants was placed on the list of the latter.However, as the Florentine solutions were not widely accepted, they increasedthe original diversity of positions. In the Orthodox Church, it is still generallyconsidered dogmatically unacceptable not to grant communion to infants.e position of Orthodox theology has become established especially duringanti-Uniate polemics. In the Western Church, on the other hand, the admissibilityof the Eastern custom is now clearly proclaimed, however, quite o;en itsown custom is considered to be more appropriate. is teaching was officiallyconfirmed by the Council of Trent. 0. Uniate theology, in defending the legitimacy of Western custom, basicallyuses classical Western argumentation, which sees in the Eucharist above all thesource of works and graces.5. In the post-reform period, especially in the polemic a;er the Brest Union,Catholics of both rites o;en invoke the communion of infants as a testimonyto the legitimacy of communion in one form.4. e Uniate opponents of the Latinisation of the union most o;en did nottake a clear position on the western influences on the Eucharistic spiritualityof the Uniate Churches. e subject of their criticisms were, by their very nature,those manifestations of Latinisation which have no connection with dogma.e silence about transformations in Eucharistic spirituality expressed ratherthe conviction that these changes were correct. Partly, however, it could havebeen tactical silence. History also knows of the silence caused by the disregardfor theology, which was replaced by official orders and repressions during theliquidation of the union.$@. Using the example of the communion of infants, the difficulty of carryingout a strict borderline between the catholicisation and the Latinisation of theEastern liturgy is revealed. With regard to Eucharistic customs, this distinctiondepends on the extent to which the doctrine of concomitance and the liturgicalconsequences drawn from it in the Western Church belong to the essenceof Catholicism, and to what extent they are only a specific feature of Westernspirituality. Traditionally, the first alternative was rather accepted, but in thetwentieth century there were opinions in favour of a second solution.

María de Jesús (1690s-1776) was a white-veiled Discalced Carmelite nun of the San José convent in Santa Fe de Bogotá, founded in 1606. She professed in the year 1714, and her spiritual journal was printed in a chronicle about the convent in the 1940s. The aim of this study is to examine the love of God and of neighbour, as expressed in the spiritual journal of María de Jesús. In this study I will proceed from the understanding of love as charity. In Christian thought God Himself is love, and its source. Charity, the third, and greatest, of the theological virtues, is a state of being in and responding to God’s love and favour. This way of loving consists in loving God wholeheartedly and loving our neighbour as ourselves. Included in loving our neighbour are acts related to his or her spiritual benefit and salvation. These are all present themes in María de Jesús’ text, but my aim is to examine how she incorporates these themes in her spiritual testimony by analyzing the imagery she uses, and the affective language in her spiritual journal. I will also seek to understand her way of writing by analyzing her text against the background of the tradition of women’s spiritual writings. Being a Discalced Carmelite, it will also be interesting to discover the Teresian presence in María de Jesus’ text, i.e. the influence of her predecessor and the reformer of the order, Teresa of Ávila (1515- 1582). I suggest that this can be noticed in certain rhetorical techniques. I also aim to examine if there are any similarities and differences in their expressions of love of God and of neighbour.

Abstract Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians says: “This is a great mystery (5: 32).” Paul is speaking of the relationship between husband and wife, which for him is a metaphor for the relationship between Christ and the church. His words are constantly used in Christian discussions of marriage. “Mystery” is rendered as sacramentum in the Vulgate-one reason that marriage is included among the Catholic sacraments. For historians the relationship between husband and wife is a mystery for a different reason. It is, after all, mainly a private matter. Its most interesting aspects are hidden from us and we must make do with maddeningly contradictory hints. Those who speak to us from the past on this subject either express personal feelings, which we should think twice about before taking them to be representative, or are engaged in polemics and sermonizing. Recent research has thrown some light on the material conditions of marriage and new questions, based on modern psychological and sociological theories, are being applied to familiar texts. Apart from these slight advances, however, we are not much better informed than we ever were. And what a pity, since so many of us today consider the married couple to be the essence of what a family is, and nearly everybody feels that the personal relationship between husband and wife determines the quality of family life.