Visiting Associate Professor of Systematic Theology in Edmonton, AB. Doctoral Candidate @MaryvaleInst. Amazon Wishlist for Doctoral Studies in the link.
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gonna post a thread of the Rivendell Lego set.
Took a break for a while because doing Lego with a sling became too hard. so some of these are older. Fun way to keep track of progress
So ive thought about this a bit since the last Superman movie
I really enjoyed it & thought it had that Comic book feel the Marvel movies even lacked
But it didnt have the grabability and rewatchability that is necessary for a cultural franchise. It’s probably the right move
Inside James Gunn, Peter Safran's DC Ouster: Exec Tensions and a Fateful David Ellison Visit hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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Here is my take:
Robert Pattinson as Bond.
Cuando anunciaron que Daniel Craig sería el nuevo James Bond, internet se volvió en su contra.
Era 2005.
El rubio, el físico compacto, la ausencia del aire clásico de Sean Connery o Pierce Brosnan causaron rechazo inmediato. Lo bautizaron “James Bland”. Surgió un movimiento online llamado *Craig Not Bond*. Firmas, foros, burlas. Para muchos, Craig simplemente no encajaba.
Craig no respondió con declaraciones grandilocuentes. Se limitó a trabajar. Llegó a Casino Royale (2006) con una interpretación más áspera, más física, más vulnerable.
El Bond de Craig dejaba de ser un ícono impecable y se convertía en un hombre que sangraba, dudaba y envejecía.
La apuesta de Eon era clara: menos seducción de escaparate, más desgaste real.
La franquicia cambió con él.
Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) y No Time to Die (2021) construyeron un arco más largo y personal de lo que la serie había intentado en décadas.
Craig sostuvo al personaje durante quince años, atravesando el escepticismo inicial hasta convertir su versión en una de las más influyentes del catálogo de 007.
El final llegó en el rodaje de No Time to Die.
En el discurso de despedida frente al equipo, Craig no pudo contenerse. Con la voz quebrada dijo:
“Mucha de la gente aquí presente ha trabajado conmigo en cinco películas. Sé que se han dicho muchas cosas sobre lo que pienso de estas producciones... pero he amado cada segundo de estas películas, y especialmente de esta, porque me he levantado cada mañana y he tenido la oportunidad de trabajar con ustedes. Y ese ha sido uno de los mayores honores de mi vida”.
El actor que había sido rechazado por no parecerse a Bond terminó despidiéndose del personaje entre lágrimas, rodeado de la gente con la que lo había reconstruido.
El rechazo fue ruidoso.
El compromiso, silencioso y largo.
Y al final, más elocuente que cualquier campaña en su contra, consciente de que su paso por la franquicia cambió a 007 para siempre.
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This aint it. Not saying the lay gesture is right or wrong: but this is a bad bit of reasoning. Furthermore, I think “legislating lay natural gestures” is pretty impossible. People will do whatever is natural to them. No amount of legislation or catechesis will change it.
Our Office of Divine Worship explains why the faithful should refrain from extending their hands during the Our Father at Mass:
"Further, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, states that “no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.” (SC 22.3) Since the GIRM is very specific that the priest is instructed by the GIRM (152) to extend his hands when he prays the Lord’s Prayer, for the deacons or the laity to extend their hands would be adding to the liturgy. Therefore, the practice of the lay faithful extending their hands (or holding hands) during the Our Father should not be done."
Read more: archdpdx.org/news/divine-wor…
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"Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matt. 25:37-40
Prayers for Krakow. 🙏🙏
My favourite city and location in Europe. That square is a sign of life and human community! How tragic that violence such as this could happen in a place like this. Prayers especially for the dead, the victims, and the first responders!
Today is a first: get to witness the marriage of two students of mine from
Newman last year.
Prayer for Austin and Angela today please.
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Only a few pages in. But this book seems to be saying in a more post-modern philosophical way what Ratzinger says about the relationship between history and metaphysics and the disaster of their mutual separation
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Pope stops Palpatine from dissolving the Senate.
“Pope Pops Palp‘s Program” would be a great headline
Iconic singer/songwriter Bob Dylan met our beloved Pope Leo XIV, our first American-born Pope at the Vatican on Wednesday.
Now if you’re shaking your head thinking:
“Who in the world is Bob Dylan??”
…you might be the only one–and I am fairly positive your parents have an album stashed away somewhere!
The 85-year old Nobel laureate in literature, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, but known the world over as Bob Dylan, took the music industry by storm in the 1960s and 70s’...
While this Fall November day brought the two together in person, their connection was forged earlier this past summer in July.
In the preface to a book published by the Vatican Publishing House (LEV) titled Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift, Pope Leo XIV used words from one of Dylan's poetic compositions to issue a stern warning against global rearmament and the nightmare of nuclear weapons:
“I hate you cause yer man-made and man-owned, an’ man-handled.”
The verses come from the protest song, "Go Away You Bomb,” written by Dylan in 1963 at the height of Cold War tensions. The piece remains a unique part of Dylan's catalog — it was never officially recorded or released on any music album, and its original manuscript remained unpublished until its discovery in 2013.
This isn’t the first time Dylan has met the Vicar of Christ. Back in 1997, Pope John Paul II famously engaged with the poet, playing in front of a huge Catholic crowd with 300,000 young people gathered for the Eucharistic Congress in Bologna Italy.
More: churchpop.com/knockin-on-hea…
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Just finished this book…one of the most evocative books I have read for a long time. Who would have thought a story about a woman living in 14th Century Norway could be so affecting. Would highly commend.
eagerly awaiting for it to get on amazon.ca so I can order it. Having written my MTh on Blondel, I am firmly convinced that the thought of this Servant of God needs to be more thoroughly disseminated
🌟NEW RELEASE🌟If you are a philosopher, this is for you! ⬇️
A major study of the life & writings of French philosopher Maurice Blondel, the main philosophical influence behind the so-called new theology in modern Catholicism by Dominican theologian & philosopher Aidan Nichols.
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well “the” truth is a Person, Jesus Christ. He is also the Wisdom of God. Because of this, He purifies our sense of truth rather than the other way around.
And will take whatever is good, true, and beautiful of any other religious tradition, including Buddhism. Since the world embodies the “seeds of the Word”, the
wisdom of Buddhism that is true will find its fullness in Christ.
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Please pray for our pastor, Fr. Tim MacDonald, who found out he has stage 4 melanoma with a cancerous tumor in his skull causing mobility problems. The tumor is bleeding and growing. He needs prayers desperately, as does our whole parish. This young man has been a blessing to us.
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“Most of what we call education is total destruction of the perceptual and other acquisitions of people.
There is more affinity between peace-time education and war-time aggression than might at first meet the eye.”
Marshall McLuhan
‘Good News Upsets Everybody’
1967
In the age where person and office are so integrated in our mindset, the recent papacies of Leo and Benedict doing real distinction between person and office is a healing balm to the world.
Criticism of Pope Leo’s decision to vote mostly boils down to the argument that Robert Prevost, the man and private citizen, no longer exists. But is that the case?
pillarcatholic.com/p/pope-le…
