tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post1608624654679028825..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Pope Benedict on Dei GenetrixFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-63215015633897900252010-10-16T00:42:51.070+01:002010-10-16T00:42:51.070+01:00I think that this impromptu meditation might be on...I think that this impromptu meditation might be one of the seminal statements of the Holy Father's pontificate. Aside from being a profound theological reflection on Dei Genetrix, it is a salvo across the bow of militant secularism.<br /><br /><i>These ideologies that are so dominant that they impose themselves by force are divinities. And in the suffering of the saints, in the suffering of believers, of the Mother Church of which we are part, these divinities must fall, what is written in the letters to the Colossians and Ephesians must come true: the dominations and powers fall and become subjects of the one Lord Jesus Christ.</i><br /><br />Powerful stuff.wheat4paradisehttp://wheat4paradise.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-78097973284822633162010-10-12T17:28:33.586+01:002010-10-12T17:28:33.586+01:00I agree with you, Father - it's an astonishing...I agree with you, Father - it's an astonishing reflection on the Incarnation, Our Lady, Redemption, the Church.<br /><br />It's also a brilliant analysis of why St Cyril of Alexandria and the Council of Ephesus are so important.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285355080459130149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-74018633548028678132010-10-12T10:26:32.042+01:002010-10-12T10:26:32.042+01:00Wonderful! Am so looking forward to part II of ...Wonderful! Am so looking forward to part II of 'Jesus of Nazareth', which will no doubt contain more such reflections.Deliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01383433319373651830noreply@blogger.com