Fr. Dwight Longenecker
@dlongenecker1
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Evangelical home, then Oxford and an Anglican priest, now Catholic priest, blogger, husband, dad, read my autobiography "There and Back Again"
Greenville, South Carolina
Joined October 2011
If Trump's taste in interior design is anything to go by this is what he means by "King"
Trump's Louis XIV taste in interior design. Ugh.
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Trump's Louis XIV taste in interior design. Ugh.
OMG 😂😂😂. Somehow, someway, Trump has managed to install even more gold scroll work to the area around the fireplace. Absolutely embarrassing.
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Classic hymns have a worthy place in traditional Catholic liturgy. The best ones have singable tune, theologically profound texts and deep Biblical allusions. The best ones are also from the Anglican and Methodist traditions--and most fully congruent with Catholic theology.
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OLD MONK sample: The Desert Fathers on obedience: The Holy Syncletica said, "I think for those living in community obedience is a greater virtue than chastity, however perfect. Chastity carries within it the danger or pride, but obedience has within it the promise of humility.".
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This is Downside Abbey church in England. The monks have departed leaving the church and extensive monastery buildings vacant. An idea: why not invite some monks from Clear Creek to re-build Benedictine life there?
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Moralistic Therapeutic Deism isn't the Christian religion. Heck, its not a religion at all.
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RT @Rosary_College: Is English Catholicism truly separate from Roman Catholicism? 🤔💭. Fr. Dwight Longenecker debunks the myth of an ancient….
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When it comes to religion I don't have any opinions.
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However, it takes some digging and discernment. This is what I hope to continue doing in this Benedictine spirituality channel. Go to my profile to subscribe.
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Because of this beautiful truth, Benedict's wisdom is universal. Like the gospel, the truths locked in the Rule are relevant and applicable to all Christians everywhere.
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In his case the ordinary life of Galilean peasants in the time of the Roman Empire. In Benedict's time--sixth century Italian hill farmers. In our time--maybe suburban Americans in high tech 21st century.
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The theology of this is beautiful because it is profoundly incarnational. What I mean is that God himself, through the miracle of the Son's incarnation, is embedded in ordinary life.
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Instead spiritual progress is locked into the life of a monastery in sixth century Italy. Benedict expects his followers to be disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ within their ordinary lives.
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Today's OLD MONK post is a "taster" for all my followers as well as subscribers: Benedict's Rule is not a lofty treatise on prayer or on the stages of mystical union with God. If you know the classic stages of spiritual progress you can trace them within the whole context of
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