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“Unite with me in prayer.” The Marian element - Mater Ecclesiae - in the Meaning of Catholic - Mary is Lady Wisdom. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren (Acts i. 14). * Aristotle rejected Lady Wisdom (“woman is a misbegotten man” - I q92 a1) and hence ahistorical, Aristo-Thomism can be led into subtle intellectual idols * “Catholic Patriarchy and the Traditional View of Women” * Garrigou-Lagrange is true Thomism - deeply Marian and deep in the interior life. * Jewish Wisom is לב חָכָ֣ם וְנָב֔וֹן - leb ha-kam wenbown * καρδίαν φρονίμην καὶ σοφήν * cor sapiens et intelligens * Wisdom is a Woman * “In Proverbs, Solomon attains wisdom that leads to temporal success * “In Ecclesiastes, he despairs of temporal success because death renders it vain. * “In the Song, he discovers that love is stronger than death (Cant. viii. 6). * “In Wisdom, he falls in love with Lady Wisdom and so attains immortality.” * Lady wisdom (created wisdom) gives birth to Eternal Wisdom * Union of the “one and many” * Man and woman * Logos and Sophia * Christ is Logos (uncreated) and Sophia (“God’s Body”) * The Seraphic Doctor vs. the Angelic (Common) Doctor * Plato vs. Aristotle * Bonaventure vs. Thomas * Woman vs. Man * “Jewish” despair * Young Edith becomes an Atheist - foreshadows the passion of Elie Wiesel “God died at Auschwitz” * Is the Holocaust the cross for Jews and Gentiles? * The mystery of Vatican II and the restoration of Jewish-Catholic dialogos * Jewish Realism founded by Edmund Husserl * But Fr. Franz Brentano had two students * Edith Stein was converted to the Messiah by Jewish Realism * Augustinian Phenomenology lifted the “Jewish” veil from her heart * The manifestation of the cross by her Protestant friend Anna Reinach * Protestant (future Godmother) Hedwig Conrad-Martius gives St. Teresa Benedicta her namesake * St. Teresa of Jesus, who grandfather was a “true Jew,” converted Edith Stein in one sitting * St. Teresa Benedicta, under obedience, continues her Augustinian practice of wisdom * Jewish Husserl to St. Thomas: “We are both convinced that a logos is the force behind all that is.” * She provides the Metaphysical basis for the synthesis between Vatican I and Vatican II for the Modern World * Vatican I is Aristotle and Vatican II is Augustine * The Nοῦς of head and heart * The life-giving union of Husband and Wife * The Family is the “final battle” with Antichrist * Universal call to holiness: climax of her magnum opus: St. Teresa of Jesus and true humanism * “It is altogether foreign to [St. Teresa of Jesus] to wonder whether the structure of the soul has any meaning apart from God’s indwelling.” The metaphysics of God’s indwelling in the heart. * The Science of the Cross - completed in the year before her martyrdom For both the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness: But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men (I Cor. i. 22-25). * “Hearts Unquiet” - St. Monica’s tears are her birth pains for Western civilisation * The Novus Ordo Missae reunites them * Collect for St. Monica * (New) Collect for St. Augustine 30+ HOURS of Content on the JEWISH QUESTION:
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