Heaven itself condescends to act upon them through earth.While technically condemned as heretics by the Soviet Patriarch, their profound insights into the mysteries of Divine Wisdom remain seminal in contemporary Orthodox and Catholic theology.But that fact does not isolate the pieces from serious criticism.
What diligence in our examens, confessions, Communions, and prayers.
Anyhow, they have no means of making themselves heard by us on whose charity they depend.
At the very least, he was able to compose thoroughly hagiographical lyrics..
Why, positively, you do not recognise your own good fortune, when you are told of it.
But one can find that quality in lots of other work.
Today, it is hard to imagine a Catholicism that once supported the kind of imaginatively baroque and overtly sentimental spirituality that oozes from his pages.(emphases in bold mine) The Guadalupe paintings are not, as Fr.Juan Diego, was the beginning of the end of Aztec paganism. Fans of that other great blog, In my first post on Father Faber, I noted that he represented a kind of lost world of the faith.His Precious Blood has something to do with all of them.Immaculate Conception, José Claudio Antolinez, 17th century.Nevertheless, he was pious enough to write a theologically sound libretto for Scarlattis oratorio.