{"id":3949,"date":"2011-03-31T15:35:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/acquiring-the-mind-of-the-chur\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:35:28","slug":"acquiring-the-mind-of-the-chur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/acquiring-the-mind-of-the-chur\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquiring the Mind of the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Misa_MosaicoSMarcos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Misa_MosaicoSMarcos.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/Misa_MosaicoSMarcos-thumb-420x326-8876.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"326\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Authentic Method Instituted by the Church to Unite Souls to Jesus<\/strong><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>P&egrave;re Congar in 1963 quoted by Geoffrey Hull in <em>The Banished Heart<\/em>, 2010:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Nothing is more educative for man in his totality than the liturgy.  The Bible is certainly a marvelous teacher of prayer, of the sense of God and of the adult convictions of conscience.  Used alone, the Bible might produce a Christian of the Puritan tradition, an individualist and even a visionary.  The liturgy, however, is the &#8220;authentic method instituted by the Church to unite souls to Jesus&#8221; (Dom Maurice Festugi&egrave;re).  The sort of Christian produced by an enlightened and docile participation in the liturgy is a man of peace and unified in every fibre of his human nature by the secret and powerful penetration of faith and love in his life, throughout a period of prayer and worship, during which he learned, at his mothers knee and without effort, the Church&#8217;s language: her language of faith, love, hope, and fidelity.  There is no better way of acquiring &#8220;the mind of the Church&#8221; in the widest and most interior interpretation of this expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>I have always believed this.  It corresponds to my own experience of the traditional liturgy in the context of monastic life, and I agree wholeheartedly with the marvelous affirmation made by Dom Festugi&egrave;re.  It raises a question nonetheless.  Can the same thing still be said in so unqualified a way and to the same degree of the current reformed liturgy with its multiple options and opportunities for &#8220;personalisation&#8221; by the celebrant?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Authentic Method Instituted by the Church to Unite Souls to Jesus P&egrave;re Congar in 1963 quoted by Geoffrey Hull in The Banished Heart, 2010: Nothing is more educative for man in his totality than the liturgy. The Bible is certainly a marvelous teacher of prayer, of the sense of God and of the adult <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-11H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}