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Christian peace involved the monastic or ascetic peace of a pure heart and life devoted to prayer; the episcopal peace, or pax ecclesiae, of a properly functioning free and unified church; and the social or imperial peace of the world.
[hotblock] The sign of peace has its liturgical and spiritual roots in Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness prior to offering gifts on the altar (Mt 5:23-24). That is, if someone had a grievance...
- Flee the media maelstrom. Our senses are constantly barraged by words, sounds, images: audio-visual noise that we must escape if we wish to enter into Christ’s rest.
- Live the liturgy, don’t litigate it. The Church offers the liturgy as a means of initiation into the mysteries of God; those who grasp its splendor should take care not to coarsen and (for lack of a better word) politicize it through interminable contention.
- Avoid the restless search for idle knowledge. An earnest desire to know God is quite distinct from a prying curiosity about theology. “I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me” (Ps.
- Shun the spirit of disputation. Although we are occasionally called to give a reasoned account of our faith, we should generally avoid arguing with nonbelievers and “weaker” brothers.
Aug 21, 2018 · The Catholic Peace Fellowship and Plowshares (the name refers to Isaiah’s command to hammer swords into plowshares) represent different points on a spectrum of Catholic peace activism. Acts of civil disobedience, like the break-in at Kings Bay, the world’s largest nuclear submarine base, were once common during the Vietnam War and the arms ...
Sep 22, 2016 · What is it we hear at Mass right before we exchange the Sign of Peace? “Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles, ‘Peace I leave you, my peace I give you;’ look not on our sins, but on the faith of your Church, and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will.”
Catholic peacemaking includes three major traditions: (1) evangelical nonviolence practiced by individuals, groups, and mass movements; (2) just-war theory and practice borrowed from Roman thought and expanded by Catholic moral ...
The Catholic Church, since it was founded by Our Lord over 2000 years ago, has always been an advocate for peace in the world. However, in the Catholic tradition, peace is not merely the absence of war and conflict; rather, it is the ordering of human nature according to the eternal law of God.
