tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10566794.post116355848801483044..comments2023-10-25T02:02:54.753-07:00Comments on The Permanent Things: St. Gregory Palamas and All Souls of the Benedictine OrderBenedictushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906513699896036425noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10566794.post-1163730638050942072006-11-16T18:30:00.000-08:002006-11-16T18:30:00.000-08:00Thanks, Ben! After having read the Triads, I didn'...Thanks, Ben! <BR/><BR/>After having read the Triads, I didn't make the connection, simply because I didn't read the endnote (I have the Classics of Western Spirituality version). Goes to show how reading the endnotes, no matter how inconvenient it may be, yields a great deal of rewards. I read the 150 Chapters more closely for a paper in one of my doctoral classes. Actually found, among other things, a clear support for the doctrine of "felix culpa."Benedictushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11906513699896036425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10566794.post-1163728770388197712006-11-16T17:59:00.000-08:002006-11-16T17:59:00.000-08:00It's in the Triads, I believe. I can't seem to fin...It's in the Triads, I believe. I can't seem to find my copy at the moment, however.<BR/><BR/>Palamas cites an incident from the Pope Gregory's life of Saint Benedict (chapter 35 of the 2nd Dialogue):<BR/><BR/>"Standing there, all on a sudden in the dead of the night, as he looked forth, he saw a light, which banished away the darkness of the night, and glittered with such brightness, that the light which did shine in the midst of darkness was far more clear than the light of the day. Upon this sight a marvellous strange thing followed, for, as himself did afterward report, the whole world, gathered as it were together under one beam of the sun, was presented before his eyes"<BR/><BR/>In the context of his discussion of the Divine Light, Palamas mentions this incident and calls Benedict "one of the most perfect" in his vision of the Divine Light upon earth.<BR/><BR/>Pretty cool, huh?D. Benedict Andersen OSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14666112025416568912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10566794.post-1163725446117568542006-11-16T17:04:00.000-08:002006-11-16T17:04:00.000-08:00Ben says: I recall Saint Gregory's own reference t...Ben says: I recall Saint Gregory's own reference to Saint Benedict as "one of the most perfect" of God's Saints on earth! <BR/><BR/>Fascinating!!! Do you have the source for that?Benedictushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11906513699896036425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10566794.post-1163724819993246832006-11-16T16:53:00.000-08:002006-11-16T16:53:00.000-08:00This is a very interesting coincidence, isn't it?I...This is a very interesting coincidence, isn't it?<BR/><BR/>I recall Saint Gregory's own reference to Saint Benedict as "one of the most perfect" of God's Saints on earth!D. Benedict Andersen OSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14666112025416568912noreply@blogger.com