intercessions from this evening's prayer of the whole Church weigh in on the controversy 👀

the revolutionary & counterrevolutionary fantasies in the Church must stop.

algorithmic sorting is driving a lot of it nowadays.

"go outside & touch grass"

"anthropocentric vs theocentric theology" pretty clearly indicates a christological problem

...a time to Concilium, and a time to Communio...

I liked Fr. Tomáš Halík's "The Afternoon of Christianity", but one note of caution:

i don't think "kairology" should be limited to a "signs of the times" rehash. you'll just arouse the same old biases against it.

kairology is about ministering to a concrete a person, not vibes in society.

"My wounds are foul and festering,
the result of my own folly
...
O Lord, you know all my longing:
my groans are not hidden from you"

He knows my longing better than i do.

beneath the tapestry of lies & deceit that clouds my view & protects & justifies laziness, malice, contempt, etc

“In chronos there is no illumination. Temporality is fallen. There is a darkness that cannot comprehend and participate in the operation of grace. In chronos there is only Macbeth’s ‘tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.’”

Graham Ward