The Bellarmine Forum Podcast

BFD: Maria Magnificata 25th Day — Jesus is placed in His Mother’s arms.

This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 25th Day — Jesus is placed in His Mother’s arms..  The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.

BFD: Maria Magnificata 24th Day — Mary at the foot of the Cross.

This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 24th Day — Mary at the foot of the Cross..  The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.

BFD: Maria Magnificata 23rd Day — Mary meets Jesus carrying the Cross.

This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 23rd Day — Mary meets Jesus carrying the Cross..  The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.

BFD: Maria Magnificata 22nd Day — Mary during our Lord’s Public Life.

This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 22nd Day — Mary during our Lord’s Public Life..  The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.

BFP 2020 Ascension Thursday and De Novo Catholics

43 Days (not 40?) After Easter, Jesus Ascended

Mark-up your bible… Correct the maths… Jesus rose 43 days after Easter. But, when nobody is obliged this year, and since the putative reason that the Bishops conference moved the date of ascension was to encourage attendance, why have Ascension Sunday this year? Shouldn’t it be today?

This is a perennial ax I grind. See just these two (but there’s many many more if you search the site):

Introducing the “De Novo Catholics.”

A play on the term Fr. Vincent Miceli S.J. coined of the “new Catholics” — a post-Vatican II phenomenon. When I heard it long ago, and when discussing it with Bill Marra, I thought it referred to progressives only… but as time is moving along, I see better what Dr. Marra was predicting: we’ll see a whole Church full of people who are naive, ignorant of tradition, and self-certain they know it all. We deal with it today across the board, even among those who purport themselves to be good.

Even as I was listening to Fr. Miceli today, I got a message from our esteemed Executive Secretary Cindy who said she was listening to Dr. Carroll (who addressed the Forum conferences in the past).

It’s a developing idea. Inspired mostly by the sudden interest of the Catholic “zeitgeist” today to be interested in Communion in the hand. Where have they been for the past thirty years? Communion in the hand has been a pressing issue for the folks I admired:

• Fr. Hardon S.J.
• Mother Angelica
• Fr. Vincent Miceli S.J.
• Dr. Bill Marra
• and many more…

When I go back and listen to them, they took these issues seriously and with imminent concern. They had a style that was engaging and admirable for its sincerity and richness in that quintessential earthiness of reality.

Contrasting it to the discussion today, and realize that a lot of the zeitgeist today is sanitized and a narrow band of “safe” discussion informed by a naive approach.

developing…

Are you familiar with some of those forgotten (and since then marginalized) characters of Catholicism? who’s your favorite? leave a comment on this page - click here

BFD: Maria Magnificata 21st Day — Mary at Cana.

This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 21st Day — Mary at Cana..  The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.

BFD: Maria Magnificata 20th Day — The Death of St. Joseph.

This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 20th Day — The Death of St. Joseph..  The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.

BFD: Maria Magnificata 19th Day — Mary’s loss of Jesus for three days.

This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 19th Day — Mary’s loss of Jesus for three days..  The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.

BFD: Maria Magnificata 18th Day— Mary’s Life at Nazareth.

This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 18th Day— Mary’s Life at Nazareth..  The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.

BFD: Maria Magnificata 17th Day — The Flight into Egypt.

This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 17th Day — The Flight into Egypt..  The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.