Jean Leclercq --A Study in Monastic Culture

Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study in Monastic Culture-- book here.

Contents and Preface

Leclercq on Monastic Culture

Introduction:

Love of Letters and Learning

Learning and Spirituality

Inquiry and Seeking

Chapter One

Angusto Initio

"The gates are drawn apart"

Learned Monks

Supplemental

From Grace to Grace -- on Jean Leclercq's memoirs

Comments

The ideas of all things are in God

Substack is an interesting platform, and currently it is rather interesting to browse through the substacks of people who have ended up there -- sometimes, people whose writing I haven't seen for a long time. Fr Fessio might be a good example of that. But I am kind of stuck in the early 2000s, as far as social media goes, and I think I will have to stay here on Blogger with this site, and much as I admire focused blogs I don't think I can write one. I think if I'm going to post with any kind of regularity, it will have to be a patchwork or a mosaic. One of my earlier blogs I described as a commonplace book and some form of that is the most viable model, I think. That actually brings to mind what I was reading this morning -- St Thomas Aquinas on Ideas -- this is from Msr Glenn's Tour of the Summa, which is available online. He says: An idea or concept is the mind's grasp of an essence. It is the understanding o...

Exousia and Potestas

I've been thinking a lot about power and authority, as one does nowadays. It's the meta-topic in many of the Catholic ecclesial struggles nowadays, of course. I don't think anyone would dispute that, but it's odd how little it is actually mentioned specifically. Maybe it's not odd. Maybe the principles are simply assumed for the most part. Today I looked up the Latin for "authority", specifically the Vulgate word used in the Luke 20:2 passage , which has been on my mind. Here's the passage -- the pronoun refers to Jesus: One day as he was teaching the people in the temple area and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and scribes, together with the elders, approached him 2 and said to him, “Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Or who is the one who gave you this authority?” The Latin word used i n the Vulgate is " potestas " et aiunt dicentes ad illum dic nobis in qua potestate haec facis ...

The Wind and Where it Blows

There was a recent commentary by Massimo Faggioli at Commonweal called Vatican II at Napa . In the context of a somewhat critical look at the Napa conference, the article referenced the talk given by Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim , who is as Faggioli says one of the most interesting figures in a European Catholicism that is emancipating itself from the dominance of the French, Belgian, and German conciliar theology. Here is the written version of Bishop Varden's talk . Here is what he calls a brief antiphonal response of his to Faggioli's article. Here is his conference on the Creed , which is as he notes the main feature of his attendance at the conference.... I think the comments on Vatican II were part of a panel he participated in ? There are a few things that came to my mind when I was reading through this interchange. One is the civil tone between two Catholic thinkers who come from very different contexts. ...

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