Greetings from lreland! Thanks guys and gal, I've picked up a lot from your discussion. Not being overly defensive but for the sake of information, the Catholic mystic in the Poem of the Man-God (visions received), Maria Valtorta (She never left ltaly but described the Holy Land in scientific detail,) said that Anne and Joachim came together briefly , especially being senior citizens, but Anne still had the stain of original sin. Impeccable Grandma was very humorous. Regarding the Immaculate Conception, the saintly "eagle of Meaux" stated: As fountains lift their bubbling waters to the same height from which they have fallen, so the blood of the Saviour will cause its power to be lifted up even to the conception of his mother to honour the place from which it first flowed. Fr. Donald Calloway in his book, Consecration to St. Joseph, argues for a young St. Joseph, despite much artwork to the contrary and quotes Fulton Sheehan: Instead then, of being dried fruit to be served on the table of the king, he was rather a blossom filled with promise and power.
A reply from Crystal Downing: "Thanks very much for this nuancing of the Immaculate Conception. In a future podcast we will communicate the insight you and others sent us about this long-debated topic. I was assuming that the Church declared it dogma in 1854 based on the apocryphal Gospel of James, which teaches that Anne gave birth to Mary, the mother of Jesus, without sexual intercourse involved. Thanks for the clarification-and for the quotation from Bishop Sheen’s 1952 text “The World’s First Love.” I have come to respect Fulton Sheen immensely, based on the superb scholarship of a Wheaton colleague."
okay, okay, I'll read the literary criticism stuff. :) It's kind of a shame he didn't go back further. The Greeks aren't divorced from their predecessors either. Go back far enough you run into Mesopotamia, and back into biblical themes.
Greetings from lreland! Thanks guys and gal,
I've picked up a lot from your discussion.
Not being overly defensive but for the sake of information, the
Catholic mystic in the Poem of the Man-God (visions received),
Maria Valtorta (She never left ltaly but described the Holy Land
in scientific detail,)
said that Anne and Joachim came together briefly ,
especially being senior citizens, but Anne still
had the stain of original sin.
Impeccable Grandma was very humorous.
Regarding the Immaculate Conception, the
saintly "eagle of Meaux" stated:
As fountains lift their bubbling waters to the same
height from which they have fallen,
so the blood of the Saviour will cause its power to
be lifted up even to the conception of his mother
to honour the place from which it first flowed.
Fr. Donald Calloway in his book, Consecration to
St. Joseph, argues for a young St. Joseph, despite
much artwork to the contrary and quotes Fulton
Sheehan:
Instead then, of being dried fruit to be served on
the table of the king, he was rather a blossom filled
with promise and power.
A reply from Crystal Downing: "Thanks very much for this nuancing of the Immaculate Conception. In a future podcast we will communicate the insight you and others sent us about this long-debated topic. I was assuming that the Church declared it dogma in 1854 based on the apocryphal Gospel of James, which teaches that Anne gave birth to Mary, the mother of Jesus, without sexual intercourse involved. Thanks for the clarification-and for the quotation from Bishop Sheen’s 1952 text “The World’s First Love.” I have come to respect Fulton Sheen immensely, based on the superb scholarship of a Wheaton colleague."
Taurus is a Fixed Earth sign ruled by Venus and likes everything to be comfortable, peaceful and nice, including the creature comforts.
okay, okay, I'll read the literary criticism stuff. :)
It's kind of a shame he didn't go back further. The Greeks aren't divorced from their predecessors either. Go back far enough you run into Mesopotamia, and back into biblical themes.
Medieval literature and history was Lewis's specialty, so it's his focus.
He would probably have been interested in biblical themes.@@ProfesserLuigi