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3 comments
01 Dec 2024 – 1st Sunday in Advent, C
December 1 2024
Mary fidelis Ezemaduka
I am very happy with this reflection. It instills more hope in me and fear is diminishing. I will continue to reflect on it till the 2nd Sunday of Advent.
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01 Dec 2024 – 1st Sunday in Advent, C
December 1 2024
Kishore Raju Gorantla
Exactly these were the thoughts running in my mind as I was going through the readings today. Thanks a million for your wonderful message for me.
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Séamus Ahearne: Maybe we are a long way from being made in God’s image. (Tennessee Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire.)
November 28 2024
Pat Rogers
Me too. A belated Happy 78th Birthday to you. And please keep up your good work reflecting on the passing scene.
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Seán Ó Conaill: Patsy McGarry and Catholic Atonement Theology
November 26 2024
Sean O’Conaill
Many thanks, Pádraig, for flagging up Fr Richard Rohr’s presentation of the Franciscan alternative to St Anselm’s ‘satisfaction’ theory of atonement, from which the notion of penal substitutionary atonement naturally followed - the fundamentalist notion that Jesus takes our place to receive the divine punishment that our sins deserve. That too relies on an understanding of the Father that is simply the opposite of the one that Jesus himself presents, especially in the parable of the Prodigal Son. In that parable the father of the prodigal son is not waiting stiffly for his son’s afflictions to satisfy his injured ‘honour’ but running towards the suffering son he has seen ‘far off’. So does our father in heaven come running, through Jesus, to assure us all that we have never been unloved. In Feb 2019 Richard summarised this Franciscan alternative of e.g., St Bonaventure and Duns Scotus in a series of daily reflections which we in ACI reproduced on the ACI site, linking to Richard’s ‘Centre for Action and Contemplation’. This page still receives consistently high rates of daily visits from all parts, under the title ‘Richard Rohr - Jesus and the Cross'. https://acireland.ie/richard-rohr-jesus-and-the-cross/ Cardinal Bergoglio's choice of 'Francis' for his papal name in 2013, and his turn to 'synodality' in 2021, surely signal an opportunity for this Franciscan theology to overcome the retributive understanding implicit in St Anselm's understanding of atonement. Your own references to the likely influence of that inadequate theology upon the scandalous abusive regimes in many Catholic institutions of the last century, in Ireland and elsewhere, point us towards a deeper understanding of that phenomenon, and of the healed and restored future that now beckons. Christus Vivit!
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