The book manuscript is slowly approaching its First Draft Form. . .almost ready to be sent to my lovely editor, Deb, at Liguori!
I thought I would share a few titles from the table of contents:
Three Mystical Novenas (Via Negativa, Via Positiva, Via Sophia)
Litany to Mary, Co-redemptrix
Novena of the Lord's Prayer
Litany to the Unsayable God
Novena Sacramentum caritatis (as in Pope Benedict's post-synodal exhortation)
Litany on the Way
Psalm Novena for Growing in Holiness
Novena for the Discernment of a Priestly Vocation
How's that sound?
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Three Mystical Novenas
Sounds mysterious
:)
Ok-
Sounds like Father Son HolySpirit are a thought or heartbeat away
Litany to Mary, Co-redemptrix
Sounds pointed corrective relentless
Novena of the Lord's Prayer
Sounds creative obedient comprehensive grounding reining-in
Litany to the Unsayable God
Sounds vast consuming words-for-the-way-to-wordlessness
Novena Sacramentum caritatis
Sounds Latin
:)
Ok-
Sacrament of Charity?
Sounds inspired of Jesus
Litany on the Way
Sounds like the first one I'll read (to feed my own work, my own evolving expressed definition of the Way and the way)
Psalm Novena for Growing in Holiness
Sounds anchored sweeping
Novena for the Discernment of a Priestly Vocation
Sounds loved of the Father
All in all, given the thoughtful logical militant champion of the faith we have in you, and your orthodox 'base of operation,' and your precision and adeptness with words, I must ask: may I have my copy now please?
God be with you, Fr. Philip Neri Powell, 0P
Ah, Apiring! I can always rely on you for thoughtful (and funny) comments...
ReplyDeleteA copy right now, uh? Well, not even my editor has a copy yet...but she will by Monday morning!
The three mystical novenas are: via positiva, via negativa, and vis Sophia...how's that sound?
Oh that... yes, yes... theme of (Pseudo-)Dionysius... referenced often by Aquinas I daresay.... theosis by way of expressive progressive discernment of what God is and, then, is not, like...
ReplyDeleteOk, so I'm winging it here. I'm open to correction if necessary.
:)
I'm enthused to learn how you will present Sophia alongside this spectrum of method and result. I'm not asking. I'll wait to read it not-tomorrow.
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In answer to 'how's that sound?'
Sounds like you're going to break molds, engage minds, enrich our experience - in a word, enable us further. Channeling your gifts to our prayer, Father
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p.s. Channeling "your gifts" - not as in gifts from you, but as in gifts to you and shared beyond you. (Perhaps such, constitutes a generational spiritual inheritance, not unlike the body's generational genetic material inheritance.)
ReplyDeleteLet's see: Mary as co-redemptrix, yet she did not (or could not) have her feet washed at the Last Supper. Hmmm
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ReplyDeleteCorrect. But I'm not clear on what the foot washing of the apostles has to do with Mary's Yes at the annunication...