{"id":52825,"date":"2020-07-31T13:40:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=52825"},"modified":"2020-08-17T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:37:34","slug":"ad-majoram-dei-gloriam-the-glorification-of-god-and-sanctification-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/31\/ad-majoram-dei-gloriam-the-glorification-of-god-and-sanctification-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam: The Glorification of God and Sanctification of People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola who, with several first companions, founded the Society of Jesus<\/a> in 1540. Ignatius also provided the church with his Spiritual Exercises<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following our founders’ tradition, we Jesuits regularly mark our writings with the phrase Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam<\/em>, often abbreviated, A.M.D.G. But can we human creatures really add anything to the divine glory?<\/p>\n

Such was the quandary my doctoral mentor, a liturgical scholar steeped in Wesleyan and Benedictine spiritualities, generously shared with me more than two dozen years ago. I could readily appreciate his theological concern to guard God’s utter transcendence from human hubris thinking that we can, by words or actions, augment the Eternal Holy One.<\/p>\n

Well, we Jesuits have a deserved reputation for demonstrating, for better or worse, an excess of hubris at times — a character trait traceable to the personality of Father Ignatius. I nonetheless found my mentor’s concern genuinely humbling, such that my response was a listening silence.<\/p>\n

Much silence and, in the broadest hermeneutical sense, listening has ensued for me over these ensuing decades. On this Saint Ignatius Day, making my morning’s prayerful Examen<\/a>, I seem finally to have arrived at a response to my mentor’s troubled concern with our Jesuit A.M.D.G. The response arises from decades of reading and writing sacramental-liturgical theology, in conjunction with early church and contemporary fundamental theologies.<\/p>\n

Fundamental to understanding the entire Christian life as worship of God and, thus, the function of ritual<\/em> worship (i.e., liturgy) therein, is the recognition that God’s glory and humanity’s sanctification comprise a single, integral activity. Gloria dei<\/em> and human salvation are, as I like to say (and write), two sides of one coin.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Vatican II’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy,<\/a> drawing on “sound tradition” (no. 4), asserts among the general principles for restoring and promoting the liturgy, “Christ indeed always associates the Church with himself in this great work wherein God is perfectly glorified and [people] are sanctified’ (no. 7).<\/p>\n

That principle harkens back to the famous assertion of the second-century Saint Irenaeus of Lyons that the Glory of God resides in the human being fully alive. Edward Schillebeeckx explicitly invoked Irenaeus as he drew to conclusion his voluminous soteriology<\/a> (human liberation imperfectly anticipating eschatological salvation). French liturgical scholar I. H. Dalmais, in his “Theology of the Liturgical Celebration<\/a>,” posited the “Double Movement” of the liturgy: “Glorification of God and Sanctification of the Human Race.”<\/p>\n

How can we add anything to God’s glory? It’s only possible by the gift of the Holy Spirit, making us participants in the divine work of creation and redemption. The greater measures of sanctifying grace actively shared among us, in liturgy and life, comprise the “greater” glory of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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