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Tag: Fr. Karl Rahner SJ

  • Rahner at the Oscars?

    Near the end of Neil Patrick Harris’s 2015 Oscars’ opening number, he aims to answer the question with which he opened the performance: why do we care so much about films when we know that their stories are carefully planned and presented representations of reality, but nonetheless, representations.

  • Ed Foley’s Homily for the First Sunday of Advent

    “The quality of this reform will not be judged by the beauty of our speech, the rhythm of our cursus, the distinctiveness of our rhetoric, or the sacrality of our prayers, but by the justice and mercy this liturgy of the church calls forth from us in the liturgy of the world.” – Fr. Edward…

  • St. John Chrysostom’s message to liturgists

    “Adorn your house if you will, but do not forget your brother in distress. He is a temple of infinitely greater value.”

  • Symbolic loss

    I found my wedding ring today about noon.

  • September 8th, Birth of Mary

    For our salvation you said Yes, for us you spoke your Fiat; as a woman of our race you accepted and bore in your womb and in your love him in whose Name alone there is salvation in heaven or on earth.

  • Real symbol and the Sacred Heart of Jesus

    We tend to have a standing assumption that a symbol is a symbol precisely because it doesn’t serve any real purpose — a bell is a bell because it performs a function by making a sound, but a bell on a Christmas tree, without a clapper, is merely a symbol. See how quickly that “merely”…

  • On the Holy Spirit

    I have for many years meditated on the meaning of Pentecost with a beautiful text by Karl Rahner.

  • Why I Stay: A Liturgical Reflection

    At a time of scandal and embarrassment, let us treasure the reformed liturgy. Let us treasure the bonds which unite us with Catholics around the world. And when we hear the familiar words of the Eucharistic prayer at Mass, let us pray more than ever “for Benedict, our pope.”