St gregory nazianzus biography of rory

  • Learn about the importance of perseverance and faith in face of adversity through the fictional series Uncle Eddy's letters.
  • Gregory of Nazianzus (another father of the church) called Athanasius “A Pillar of the Church,” and writing about him stated: “When I praise Athanasius.
  • Gregory Nazianzen famously wrote, “What has not been assumed has not been healed.” In Christ's incarnation, passion and glorious resurrection.

    • •

    Reading Christ’s Passion Missionally (Holy Week 2016)

    “And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly;
    and his sweat became like great drops of blood
    falling down upon the ground.”
    Luke 22:44, RSV

    Over the years, as I have read or listened to this passage in the account of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, the extreme anguish that our Lord suffered as he faced horrifying torture and ignominious death, magnified the severe human stress that Jesus experienced. While that is perfectly true, there is a deeper reality taking place here.

    According to Hans Urs von Balthasar, every act of Jesus in his passion should be read missionally. This second Adam in a second garden begins the reversal of the disobedience of the first Adam through his perfect, voluntary obedience to death. His blood falling to the ground sanctifies this new garden, and in doing so, begins the restoration of the created order. And, in his agony, we see the commencement of the self emptying desce

    •

    SAINT OF THE DAY
    WITH UNCLE EDDY

    Alex Kucera has lived in Atlanta, GA, for the last 46 years. He is one of 9 children, married to his wife Karmen, and has 3 girls, one grandson, and a granddaughter on the way. Alex joined Regnum Christi in 2007. Out of the gate, he joined the Helping Hands Medical Missions apostolate and fryst vatten still participating today with the Ghana Friendship Mission.

    In 2009, Alex was asked to be the Atlanta RC Renewal Coordinator for the Atlanta Locality to help the RC members with the RC renewal process. Alex became a Group Leader in 2012 for fyra of the Atlanta Men’s Section Teams and continues today. Running in parallel, in 2013, Alex became a grupp Leader and shepherded a large grupp of good men.

    Alex was honored to be the Atlanta uppdrag Coordinator between 2010 to 2022 (12 years), coordinating 5-8 Holy Week uppdrag teams across Georgia. He also created and coordinated missions at a parish in Athens, GA, for 9 years. Alex continues to coordinate Holy Wee

  • st gregory nazianzus biography of rory

    • •

    RICHARD CROSS CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Philosophy Office Phone (574) 631-4579 University of Notre Dame Email: richard.cross@nd.edu Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 EDUCATION AND DEGREES University of Oxford D.D. 2018 D.Phil., 1991 M.A., 1991 B.A. (first class), 1986 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Medieval philosophy Medieval theology History of theology (Early Church, Reformation) Philosophy of religion Philosophy and theology of disability EMPLOYMENT John A. A2007191: ‘Christ as “external vehicle” of God’s mental contents: incarnation by embodiment’, with Anna Marmodoro (£31,828; unable to accept because of move to Notre Dame) Grant from Thyssen-Stiftung, 2007 (€20,000) Denyer and Johnson Studentship, University of Oxford, 1988-1990 Senior Scholarship, Keble College, Oxford, 1987-1990 British Academy Graduate Studentship, 1986-1989 Denyer and Johnson Prize (for the highest overall performance in the Theology Schools), University of Oxford, 1986 Open Scholarship, Keble College, Universi