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DECEMBER 2001

pastoral

review

Knowing

the Holy Trinity

By John Young

Does God really love us?

By John M. McDermott

The moral life in

biblical perspective

By E.J. Echeverria

Thanksgiving after

Holy Communion

By Edwin Gordon

homiletic &

Catholic Revolution

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pastoral

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Editor

Kenneth Baker, S.J.

Managing editor

Charles F. Harvey

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DECEMBER 2001

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7 Does God really love us?

By John M. McDermott

The cross proves God loves us.

18 Thanksgiving after Communion

By Ed Gordon

Our response to Communion should be gratitude.

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22 Knowing the Holy Trinity

By John Young

The Trinity is the sina qua non of our Faith.

28 The moral life in biblical perspective

By Eduardo J. Echeverria

Jesus came to fulfill the Old Testament.

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50 Story of a parish

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57 St. Philip Neri: Model for renewal

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80 Jesus and the dignity of man — Editorial

DECEMBER 2001

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worth noting . . .

DOES GOD REALLY LOVE US? . . . Since Vatican II many who call themselves

“Catholic” have been bitterly criticizing the Church for being dogmatic

and legalistic. This reflects a type of subjectivism in both philosophy and

theology which is closely related to what has been called “transcendental

philosophy.” It tends to locate truth in the judgment and to dehistoricize

the facts of salvation history contained in the Bible and in the Tradition of

the Church. This month Fr. John M. McDermott, S.J., points out some of the

weaknesses in the transcendental approach and also reminds us that our

faith is based on the deeds and words of God—not on some philosophical

theory of knowledge.Yes, God does love us and he proved it by dying for us

on the cross (p. 7).

THANKSGIVING AFTER MASS . . . Recently more and more people have

complained to me about talking and laughing in church; there is also a

problem of casual dress and casual conduct, men and women dressed in

shorts and scanty sportswear. One result of this casual approach to God is

that now, in many parishes, it is almost impossible to make a quiet thanks-

giving after receiving Holy Communion. In this issue Fr. Edwin Gordon

addresses this serious problem. He analyzes the source of the problem

and offers some suggestions on how to remedy it (p. 18).

ONE GOD—THREE PERSONS . . . The fundamental mystery of our Catholic

faith is that of the Holy Trinity. The word “trinity” means three in one, that is,

God has revealed himself as one in nature and three in persons. In this issue

Mr. John Young, who has had much experience in teaching the Catholic

doctrine on the Trinity, gives us a brief and clear explanation of what the

Church understands by the mystery of the Holy Trinity.We who are priests

should preach on this matter and explain it to our people, at the very least

on Trinity Sunday. For if our people do not have a basic knowledge of the

Trinity, they cannot understand who Jesus Christ is (Second Person;Word

of God) (p. 22).

THE BIBLE AND MORALITY . . . The homosexual lobby bombards us with

arguments from many areas, including the Bible, in their vain effort to try to

prove that homosexual acts are not sins but perfective of human love. In this

issue Professor Eduardo J. Echeverria shows that attempts to use the Bible

do not hold up under scrutiny. He demonstrates that a distinction must be

made between the moral demands of the Old Testament and the cultic/legal

prescriptions. Jesus came to fulfill the OT as the perfect sacrifice for sins, so

the cultic/legal laws of the OT were abolished. But the Ten Commandments

remain (p. 28).—K.B.

HOMILETIC & PASTORAL REVIEW

letters from our readers

Hopefully optimistic

Modern Alternative, August-September 2001

HPR), which slices through the current babel

and contrasts and differentiates the gospel of

the post modernist (the sixties crowd and their

descendants) with the gospel of Christ, I know

that hope is not in vain or one of foolish opti-

mism. Then above the cacophony so preva-

lent in the Church congregation at present, I

can hear Christ say: The gates of hell shall not

prevail against my Church.

Thanks again, to you, Fr. Baker, and thanks

to HPR. You bring great honor to the Society

of Jesus.

Editor: I am writing this letter simply to

thank you for all you have done to make Hom-

iletic and Pastoral Review the finest Catholic

magazine on the market. I have always known

HPR to be a professional magazine for priests

and deacons and other religious, but for a

layperson as myself it has been a godsend. St.

Basil the Great said the activity of the mind

can move in two directions, towards fantasy

and towards truth and it is the movement to-

wards truth that leads to the likeness of God.

Since the late seventies in my experience

down here in Alabama, the control of the

Church from my vantage point in the congre-

gation appears to have been one of constant

hostilities waged by battle or propaganda be-

tween the liberal or progressive Catholics who

have turned the truth into fantasy and the char-

ismatic Catholics who have turned their fan-

tasies into the truth, each having the same re-

sult with the only difference being a matter of

taste. The tragedy is the Body of Christ con-

tinues to bleed. Your magazine has helped me

see the plight of both the religious and the lay-

men who have been stonewalled by the con-

fusion and din set up by these two groups who

constantly seek to divide and conquer. Some-

times when I’m ready to give up, your maga-

zine arrives with its courage and intelligence

but most of all its hope.

I have recently become hopefully opti-

mistic at seeing the new priests who have been

ordained in our diocese. Wholesome and man-

ly, they are a real challenge to those spoiled,

supercilious and distant priests of my own

baby boomer generation. And when I am priv-

ileged to read the incisive and analytical work

of a young seminarian, Brother Michael

Callea, “Human Sexuality: God’s Plans vs. a

Edgar Wyatt Stephens

Montgomery, Ala.

Loaded with Catholic truth

Editor: The article by Michael Vere is

so poignant, so practical, so insightful. The

August-September issue of HPR seemed to

be loaded with Catholic truth; congratula-

tions!

May I add one item of discernment of the

Holy Spirit’s mind for each of us? Make a re-

quirement in each diocese that every postu-

lant for the priesthood, nay for religious life,

do what St. Ignatius required of those wish-

ing to enter the Society of Jesus—the Thirty

Day Retreat, the entire Spiritual Exercises .

Life will be successful for every one of us if

we follow God’s Will. And what better method

to find that Will than through the Spiritual

Exercises ?

Also, trust in God’s providence will come

through the Exercises; the money will follow.

If it is God’s Will that one follow Jesus as a

member of the Third Class of Men and of the

Third Kind of Humility, the means will cer-

tainly be given.

DECEMBER 2001

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