{"id":352,"date":"2004-04-09T22:35:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T22:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=352"},"modified":"2004-04-09T22:35:22","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T22:35:22","slug":"from-mary-lou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"from Mary Lou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"> Since joining the St Vincent&#8217;s community over a year ago, I have perceived that two models of church have been endeavoring to operate on the same venue at the same time. For me, this problem was focused on Holy Thursday as I listened to Gerry&#8217;s reflection on the significance of the liturgy. He claimed that his dogmatic formulations arose with the apostles, but, as claimed by a higher source than me, notably Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger:<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> &quot;Liturgical forms and custom, dogmatic formulations thought to have arisen with the apostles now appeared as products of complicated processes of growth within the womb of history.&quot; <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">                         <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ratzinger wrote in 1966 that this insight was one of                            the theological highlights of Vatican II.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> I think that complicated process that resulted in the priesthood as we now have it must be accepted as given. How else can we explore such important issues as &#8216;the priesthood of the People of God&#8217; or, for example, &#8216;what should be the criteria for ordination?&#8217; Matters that matter in our church! <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since joining the St Vincent&#8217;s community over a year ago, I have perceived that two models of church have been endeavoring to operate on the same venue at the same time. For me, this problem was focused on Holy Thursday as I listened to Gerry&#8217;s reflection on the significance of the liturgy. He claimed that his dogmatic formulations arose with the apostles, but, as claimed by a higher source than me, notably Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morsels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}