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2021-08-10T15:57:00-06:00

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Jesus’ Second Coming Should Be the Rosary’s Last Mystery

Last updated on: August 10, 2021 at 3:57 pm By Jack Hartjes

Missing Mystery is also missing in many Catholics’ Faith Ever since my long-ago younger days I’ve thought that there were some mysteries missing from the Rosary. (For previous posts on the mysteries of the Rosary, see here.) There were all the years between Jesus’ childhood (the Joyful Mysteries) and his passion and death (the Sorrowful Mysteries). It seemed that Jesus’ life between these two ends, especially his public ministry, ought to count for something. I would have liked a spot... Read more

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2023-02-13T08:30:21-06:00

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Resurrection: For the Apostles, It Took a While to Sink In

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:30 am By Jack Hartjes

With the concepts of altered states of consciousness and conversion, I argue for the truthfulness of the apostles’ experience of Jesus’ resurrection. Surely a better time to write about the resurrection is during Easter Season, which ended with the Feast of Pentecost. And yet, it’s appropriate to think about resurrection now if the suggestion I’m going to make is correct. That is: The certainty that Jesus was alive after he died on the cross may have taken a while to... Read more

Stories of Jesus

2023-02-13T08:30:39-06:00

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The Liturgy of the Word: More than Listening

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:30 am By Jack Hartjes

The first of the two main parts of the Mass is a sharing of God’s word of salvation. We sit to listen to the Word of God except that we stand for the Gospel. That ought to tell us that there is more than listening going on in the Liturgy of the Word. This post on the Liturgy of the Word is the second in a series that will take a look at the way the Mass is celebrated in... Read more

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2021-10-28T10:20:15-06:00

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Fragments Disrupt Oppressive Systems in ‘Fragments’ by David Tracy

Last updated on: October 28, 2021 at 10:20 am By Jack Hartjes

On Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time, “Introduction” The first of David Tracy’s two new volumes of essays is about fragments and also a collection of fragments. As I begin this series of posts on Tracy’s latest published work, I have in mind a few key ideas. They are: fragments, the other, and the infinite, topics among which Tracy’s more recent thoughts have wandered. At the moment I’m thinking mostly of fragments. Dangerous fragments I see three ways Tracy... Read more

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2023-02-13T08:31:06-06:00

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The Living God and Some New Quests

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:31 am By Jack Hartjes

Elizabeth Johnson Maps ‘Frontiers in the Theology of God’ My favorite book store is the St. Vincent de Paul in Madison, Wisconsin. There for a dollar I picked up a copy of Elizabeth A. Johnson’s 2007 book Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God. I was visiting my daughter, who posed a couple questions. Why does it say God is living? What does “living God” mean? And, Why are there still new things to say... Read more

Elizabeth Johnson

2023-02-13T08:31:43-06:00

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Civil Defense Protest, June 15, 1955: 17 Sane People Arrested

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:31 am By Jack Hartjes

The 1950’s was a scary, insane time. I didn’t know then how insane it was, but I knew how scary. My elementary school years pretty much coincided with the “duck and cover” era of civil defense. That phrase told us what to do if there ever happened to be a bright flash in the sky. That would, of course, indicate a nuclear bomb blast nearby. Schools had civil defense drills like fire drills, except instead of going outside we ducked... Read more

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2023-02-13T08:32:36-06:00

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American Families Plan: Is Biden’s Proposal Liberal Enough, Catholic Enough?

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:32 am By Jack Hartjes

Or could a proposal by a Republican writer be more liberal, more Catholic? President Joe Biden proposes an American Families Plan, which may or may not make it, with or without changes, past Republican opposition in Congress. The Catholic Biden diverges from his Church on some issues and is more Catholic than most Republicans on many others. These latter would include the many ways governments support, or could support, families. The Catholic Church has always been supportive of families. For... Read more

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2023-02-13T08:32:57-06:00

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Address the Prayer of the Faithful to God, Please

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:32 am By Jack Hartjes

I notice something odd about the Prayer of the Faithful that I hear at Sunday Masses. Many of the petitions don’t ask God to do anything. Liturgical Press is a resource for which I have great respect and even a passing relationship. In 2004 they published my book Read the Way You Talk: A Guide for Lectors. They also publish annually a helpful resource for people like me who compose their parish’s Prayer of the Faithful. It’s called Living Liturgy:... Read more

Liturgy

2021-10-28T12:58:49-06:00

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Theologies and a New Paradigm: Mutually Critical Correlations

Last updated on: October 28, 2021 at 12:58 pm By Jack Hartjes

Part 7 On David Tracy’s Fragments, Chapter 6, on Interpretation Theory David Tracy has repeated consistently a description of the task of theology since his early work Blessed Rage for Order. In Chapter 6 of his new book Fragments, he makes the case again for a concept of theology that is shared by many but not all theologians. Theologies, of which there are a plurality, Tracy holds, attempt to “develop mutually critical correlations between contemporary experience and the Christian tradition.”... Read more

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2021-02-02T15:29:17-06:00

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“The Pillar,” New, Interesting Catholic News Source

Last updated on: February 2, 2021 at 3:29 pm By Jack Hartjes

The Pillar on Joe Biden, Science, and Two Catholic Issues The new Catholic online source for news analysis, The Pillar, is always an interesting, worthwhile read. Editors JD Flynn and Ed Condon have lots of experience in national Catholic affairs and Catholic journalism. They’ve also published in the secular press. They seem to me to stand pretty solidly in the middle between theological and political conservatism and liberalism with maybe a lean to the conservative side. But then maybe I... Read more

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