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Join the friars in Perth, Australia as they take part in celebrating the canonization of Australia’s First Saint – St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop

Filmed on location at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Perth and Notre Dame Campus, Fremantle.

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SOUTH BEND — Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said he found the secret to the University of Notre Dame during a nighttime visit to the campus Grotto.

During the 2013 commencement speech Sunday in Notre Dame Stadium, Dolan recalled meeting a man on a train who was an observant Jew who had graduated from the university.

“He turned out to be a fanatical, in-your-face, obnoxious Notre Dame alumnus. Have you ever met one?” Dolan joked. “I guess I’m one now.”

The man considered his four years at the university to be a gift beyond measure, said the cardinal, who also is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The alumnus suggested to Dolan that he visit the Grotto when he reached campus, and the cardinal took his advice.

“Last night, I snuck down to the Grotto to discover the secret of Notre Dame,” Dolan said. He saw graduates and their friends and family members there, and saw hundreds of candles burning. The man on the train was right, he said.

“At this Grotto, there’s a touch of the transcendent,” Dolan said. “There’s a whisper of the sacred that reminds us that we’re just not minds and bodies, we’re hearts and immortal souls.”

More than 3,000 graduates received their degrees under sunny skies Sunday.

Notre Dame is named for and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the mother of God. She is not just a patroness, but also a model, Dolan said.

Mary placed herself in God’s hands in order to give birth to Jesus and provide Him his human nature, the cardinal said. He urged the graduates to be just as ready to do God’s will.

“For at her best, this university has the heart of Mary. Meaning this university is us, Jesus and His church, and clings to them both with love, and loyalty and service,” he said. …

More at  Cardinal Dolan describes the secret of Notre Dame – South Bend Tribune.

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At the Symposium titled “Sursum Actio” at Notre Dame Univ. in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, F.I., from Jun 8-9, 2015, Fr. J. A. Wayne Hellmann, OFM Conv., Professor of Theology at Saint Louis University, gives the opening conference which he titles, “Charity in Bonaventure’s Ecclesiology, Charity in the Eucharist” the first part of which is based on a dissertation by Fr. Peter called the “The Role of Charity in the Ecclesiology of St. Bonaventure” which gave him early inspiration for his own studies. The second part is based on distinctions 8-13 of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences, Book IV. The talk is followed by a commentary by Fr. Peter and then a round table discussion with the other presenters.

This symposium, Sursum Actio (“Lift up your Actions” or more loosely “Lift up your Hearts”), was organized in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner after he won the Cardinal John J. Wright Marialogical Award of 2015 from the Mariological Society of America for his outstanding contributions to Mariology.

For more a complete list of all fourteen talks from this symposium:

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At the Symposium titled “Sursum Actio” at Notre Dame Univ. from Jun 8-9, 2015, in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, F.I.,  Dr. Robert Fastiggi, Professor of Systematic Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, gives the second conference which he titles, “Fehlner on Divine Maternity”. It is on the dogma that Mary is the Mother of God but more specifically she is the Predestined Mother of God, the Ever Virgin Mother of God, the Immaculate Mother of God and so the Mother of the Church in the order of grace and how these are all inter-connected with other Christological dogmas as is presented in the works of Fr. Peter Fehlner.

The talk is followed by a commentary by Fr. Peter and then a round table discussion with the other presenters.

This symposium, Sursum Actio (“Lift up your Actions” or more loosely “Lift up your Hearts”), was organized in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner after he won the Cardinal John J. Wright Marialogical Award of 2015 from the Mariological Society of America for his outstanding contributions to Mariology.

For more a complete list of all fourteen talks from this symposium:

http://airmaria.com/category/air-maria-shows/conferences/fr-peter-symposium-nd/

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At the Symposium titled “Sursum Actio” at Notre Dame Univ. in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, F.I., from Jun 8-9, 2015, Fr. John Ford, Ph.D., Professor of Theology at Catholic University of America, gives the third conference which he titles, “Fehlner on Newman and Scotus”. It is a reflection on an essay called “Scotus and Newman in Dialogue” which Fr. Peter contributed to the book The Newman-Scotus Reader: Contexts and Commonalities by Fr. Edward Andrako and to which Fr. Ford also contributed. He focuses on the ascent of faith and the New Evangelization which Newman calls the grammar of ascent. He refers to two groups in our modern world the “nones” who belong to no church or religion and “STEMs” those whose background is science, technology, engineering and mathematics, neither of which have religion on their radar scopes. He describes how we should ideally approach faith and how we actually do it in real life.

Samples of what is covered:

• Middle way between passive and active intellect in apprehension.
• Eskimos and Hawaiians
• Enlargement of mind
• Grammar of assent 3 steps: Apprehension, inference, assent
• Data collection: can always find more info, this is temptation of STEM
• Assent, notional is almost automatic: 2+2=4
• but going from notional to real is not automatic, thus pivotal state in the current situation in our culture
• Theology is not enough for Assent need to have action of will.

The talk is followed by a commentary by Fr. Peter and then a round table discussion with the other presenters.

• Fr. Peter:
  • Phenomenological is Scotus’ angle
  • Enlargement of apprehension is key
  • Knowledge is personal and so can not be used, just as people cannot be used
  • Refusing to assent is to lose a part of oneself, not being true to oneself.
  • Relation of Newman’s assent to John Duns Scotus in this regard.
  • How it effects epistemology
  • Will is not an appetite of the intellect, independence of the will.
  • Bonaventure, finding God in intellect
  • Synderesis – avoid what is evil and do what is good.

This symposium, Sursum Actio (“Lift up your Actions” or more loosely “Lift up your Hearts”, a term used by St. Bonaventure), was organized in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner after he won the Cardinal John J. Wright Marialogical Award of 2015 from the Mariological Society of America for his outstanding contributions to Mariology.

For a more complete list of all fourteen talks from this symposium:

http://airmaria.com/category/air-maria-shows/conferences/fr-peter-symposium-nd/

Link to the book “The Newman-Scotus Reader: Contexts and Commonalities”:

http://academyoftheimmaculate.com/the-newman-scotus-reader-contexts-and-commonalities.html

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At the Symposium “Sursum Actio” at Notre Dame Univ. from Jun 8-9, 2015, in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, F.I.,  Fr. Christiaan Kappes, S.L.D., from the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, gives the tenth conference which he titles, “Nazianzen’s Prepurified Virgin in Augustine, through Maximus and Theodore of Canterbury, into Visigoth and Anglo-Saxon Tradition”. He traces the roots of the Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception to the Eastern Father St. Gregory of Nazianzen and his doctrine of Mary being prepurified.  He points out that the Eastern idea of Mary’s purification in the Bible includes Jesus’ purification as well. Thus this positive idea of purification does not suggest any impurity in Mary which is one of the early objections to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in the West. He starts with Fr. Peter’s insights into the roots of the Immaculate Conception in Eastern Theology sighting his book The Immaculate Conception which he wrote with the help of Fr. Peter and was published by the Academy of the Immaculate. He then uses copious quotes and historical facts to trace the linkage of these roots  to the West and finally to England where the doctrine is given local acceptance and finally theological support from Bl. John Duns Scotus, paving the way for its dogmatic proclamation in 1854. This has Ecumenical considerations in regard to the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception and the Eastern Orthodox. The outline is as follows:

Part I – Fehlner and the Immaculata in Byzantium – 7:43

Part II – The Prepurification or Purified Virgin in Byzantium – 11:06

Part III -The Prepurified Virgin in the West, namely Augustine – 19:20

Part IV – The Prepurified Virgin of the Lateran Council 649 and Maximus the Confessor – 28:08

Part V – Prepurified Virgin in Anglo-Saxon England – 38:12

He includes quotes from:

Maximus the Confessor – Lateran Council of 649, Third Council of Constantinople in 680, Gregory Palamas and Palamite theology, Mark of Ephesus, Ildefonsus of Toledo, St. Gregory Naziansen, John Damascene, Mark of Ephesus, St. Augustine of Hippo, Rufinius Latinus, Theodore of Tarsius (Theodore of Canterbury), Sophronius of Jerusalem, Ephraim Greckus, Venerable Bede, St. John Damascene, Paschasius Radbertus who wrote  de Partu Virginis

The talk is followed by a commentary by Fr. Peter and then a round table discussion with the other presenters:

Fr. Peter: At council of Florence, Franciscans and the Greeks Palamites verses the Dominicans under John Torquemada who tried to condemn the Scotists and the Palamites
Only now is the value of Gregory Palamas and the Palamite school being recognized in the West.

Fr. Christiaan Kappes’ book: The Immaculate Conception, Why Thomas Aquinas Denied, while John Duns Scotus, Gregory Palamas and Mark Eugenicus Professed the Absolute Immaculate existence of the Virgin Mary.
http://academyoftheimmaculate.com/immaculate-conception-kappes.html

Also mentioned: Fehlner, Peter Damian M. “De metaphysica mariana quaedam” (Metaphysical Mariology) In Immaculata Mediatrix 1, no.1 (2001): 13-42.

This symposium, Sursum Actio (“Lift up your Actions” or more loosely “Lift up your Hearts”), was organized in honor of the life work of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner after he won the Cardinal John J. Wright Marialogical Award of 2015 from the Mariological Society of America for his outstanding contributions to Mariology.

For a complete list of all fourteen talks from this symposium:

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Here is a beautiful video of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris before the fire. Enjoy!

Apparently the structure of the cathedral is largely intact, including the facades, most of the vaulted ceiling, the belfries and most of the stained glass. Further huge amounts of donations have been pouring in so it looks like this most famous monument to Our Lady will be rebuilt in its full glory. Deo Gratias!

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In a truly iconic picture of this season of sorrow and our difficult times, Mary is seen with Christ rising from the ashes with a luminous cross above in the wreckage of Notre Dame Cathedral after the devastating fire. The almost miraculous survival of so much of the religious treasures in this ancient monument to the glories of Mary and Jesus, and the huge outpouring of offers for rebuilding it after a fire that seemed to be all consuming, bodes well for the truly difficult times that the Church is experiencing today when much seems lost. Let us all turn to Our Lady Coredemptrix for help in bringing a complete resurrection of the Church.

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Photos: Notre Dame Cathedral after the fire

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Here is some great drone footage that shows the damage to the top of the cathedral. Only three of the vaults to the ceiling are collapsed. This is after the very tall roof overhead completely burned and collapsed on top of the vaults, truly a testament to the medieval engineers who built it and the firemen who kept the blaze contained, minimizing the damage. Deo Gratias!

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