Category: Book 2
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(II) 13.Is it permissible to peek at secrets, intimate things?! Or: is it permissible to photograph and record videos of the Eucharist mystery?!
Modernity always poses new challenges and unsolved problems for all people, related to new discoveries. Each new discovery generates thousands of questions—the realm of the unknown expands geometrically in proportion to what is known. Similarly, theologians of all ages have always had numerous problems to resolve for the present day: to convey the Gospel (interpretation,…
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(II) 14.Church – The Theanthropic Sacrament – Eucharist – Kingdom of God.
Jesus answered them (the Jews – V.A.): Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give…
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(II) 15. Trust. Faith. Fidelity.
What does the Church talk about when it talks about faith? What is faith in the language of the Church, and what reality does the Church point to with that word? Who does the Church call a believer, or who is a believer according to the Church’s testimony? In the Epistle to the Hebrews (11:1)…
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(II) 16. Recommended Interlocutors, Advisor-Friends
Our communication and understanding of each other, especially when it comes to God and spiritual life, can be described by the phrase: ‘The deaf heard how the mute narrated what the blind saw how the lame ran swiftly…’. To make this picture of our communication a bit more cheerful from being sadly dismal, and to…
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(II) 17. Give thanks for everything! Always rejoice!
Three things steal Happiness from us: sadness for the past, anxiety about the future, and ingratitude for the present! The past is no more, the future has not yet arrived, only the present exists! The past is present in the present in the form of consequences (actions in the past), from the future – responsibility…
