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Christianity and Reincarnation
by Philip St. Romain, M.S., D. Min.
July 28, 2016
7:00 p.m. C.D.T.
Can a Christian believe in reincarnation? This webinar will review evidence for and against reincarnation, history of Christian beliefs on this topic, and differences between Christian and Eastern views of liberation.
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The New Wine of Dominican Spirituality:
A Drink Called Happiness, by Paul Murray, OP. Burnes and Oates,
2006. This book gives some of the aspects of
Dominican spirituality which are not commonly talked about. Openness to the world is one of those characteristics which shows forth clearly in the lives of Catherine of Siena, Thomas Aquinas, and Jordan of Saxony, as well as in the life of Dominic himself. Defenders of nature, celebrants of grace, these holy ones learned to drink deeply from the wine of God’s world. They witnessed not only the great moral and doctrinal truths, but witnessed them with unimaginable joy. Dominic came to be called
“joyful friar” and he wanted his followers also to be joyful people.
Chapter four is especially rich in relating the drinking habits of the
preachers, who drank deeply of the New Wine of the Gospel, and shared it with enthusiasm and intense joyfulness. Dominic was one who not only drank of this Wine, but was one who also loved wine and shared it with the nuns on many occasions.
Dominic patterned a life that was apostolic, exuberant, evangelical, risk-taking, mystical, and robust. He never believed in watering down the wine, either of the Gospel or wine from the tall bottle.
- Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for this
review. Paperback
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St. Bonaventure: (1221-74): July 15.
Born at Bagnoregio north of Rome in 1221, he joined the Franciscan Order and became
one of its most distinguished theologians, tending to mystic rather than to ‘rational’ theology; he is called the ‘Seraphic Doctor’.
In 1257 he became Minister-General of the Order. As Franciscans preached and ran missions, and thus needed to
study, he had to defend the possession of property: books, buildings (including the new Universities). He defended his position against the ‘Spirituals’, those who rejected all property and claimed that only they were faithful to the Franciscan spirit. Bonaventure’s gentleness and courtesy were proof enough of his authentic Franciscan nature, and one only has to see the humble cell he used in the friary at Greccio to see he was no lover of materialism. He was named Archbishop of York in 1265,
but declined; in 1273 he was named cardinal-bishop of Albano and ordered not to refuse.
In 1274 he was a leading light at the Council of Lyons which sought reconciliation with the East; St. Thomas Aquinas died on the way there, and Bonaventure
just after it, before the East rejected the agreed terms. Canonised in 1482, he was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1588. americancatholic.org site
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