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Tag Archives: Hans Urs von Balthasar
The Act of Contemplation
In whatever ‘fire storms’ one finds oneself in these days (and we have just come through another literal one here in Sonoma County) the following from Hans Urs Von Balthasar is offered to assist in finding freedom from our fears … Continue reading
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Tagged Eucharist, existence, Hans Urs von Balthasar, meaning
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Becoming worthy of the beauty of Being
Recently some friends of the Cornerstone Forum spent an hour with Gil Bailie in a group Skype call in which Gil shared a short draft excerpt from his current writing project. The excerpt was entitled ‘Conversion’ and introduced two examples. … Continue reading
a solitary Christian…without earthly hope
Rereading what Hans Urs von Balthasar (quoting in passing Dietrich Bonhoeffer) has written brings to mind the role that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is now performing for the Church and the world. “There are moments when a solitary Christian undergoes … Continue reading
Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground Episode 3: Nothing Remains Intact Without Effort
It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process. Fr. Henri de Lubac, S.J. Recorded in August 2009 at … Continue reading
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Tagged George Niederaurer, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Joseph Ratzinger, Michael Polanyi, René Girard, sacramentality
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Love your neighbor as yourself…
“In vain we shall search the world before Christ for this kind of outlook of man on his fellow man; we shall find it neither in Plato, who speaks nobly of Eros, nor in the treatises of Aristotle and Cicero … Continue reading
Turning Ourselves into Gifts
“The modern world insidiously brings back forms of self-enslavement from which Western society had largely escaped during the Christian centuries.” – René Girard “Our gratitude for the gift of ourselves must tend toward fashioning our whole … Continue reading
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Waning days of Summer Newsletter
New to the Cornerstone Forum Store This is the last of Gil Bailie’s Reflections on the works of William Shakespeare – and appropriately The Tempest was the Bard’s final play. All those who have signed up for our episodic email … Continue reading
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Tagged belonging, communion, community, globalization, Hans Urs von Balthasar, newsletter, René Girard, Shakespeare, The Tempest
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The Longing…
C. S. Lewis: The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country … the place where I ought to have … Continue reading
Suffering: A New Situation
I gave a short talk at the Good Friday service at my parish on the question of vicarious suffering. I spoke from notes, but I began with this: In the David Mamet film Heist, the dubious character played by Danny DeVito … Continue reading
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