tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post5850060006807290296..comments2024-03-25T11:09:41.538-04:00Comments on a minor friar blog: CanaBrother Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-29704303330894852802007-01-22T01:27:00.000-05:002007-01-22T01:27:00.000-05:00Awesome... "Confessions" is all I've read by Augus...Awesome... "Confessions" is all I've read by Augustine, and it's taking me a while since I tend to read books in spurts, taking month-long breaks in between. I think C.S. Lewis included the same example of rain turning into grapes and then wine in "Miracles." If not, he used similar examples to show how God is always working miracles through the course of time, but sometimes they occur instantaneously.Jason Ramagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330557979308235782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-168982050738289112007-01-21T14:33:00.000-05:002007-01-21T14:33:00.000-05:00Jason, take a look at Augustine's Tractates on Joh...Jason, take a look at Augustine's Tractates on John, (Tractatus in Iohannem) either 10 or 11 is I think the Cana episode. Not only does he make the point you make about the new and old wine, and how out of the old water of the ceremonial purifications comes the new wine of the Christ, but he goes on and on about the six jars and the six ages of the world. Check it out, online or the library.Brother Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-71256881074152857662007-01-20T17:58:00.000-05:002007-01-20T17:58:00.000-05:00I'm on a different computer and used the wrong acc...I'm on a different computer and used the wrong account to login. This is Jason from Richest Man in Assisi, also known to some of my high school friends as "haise," which was their abbreviated translation of Jason into Spanish.Jason Ramagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17928351213181419401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-73157209826134150472007-01-20T17:46:00.000-05:002007-01-20T17:46:00.000-05:00Thanks for the recent comments on my blog. I took ...Thanks for the recent comments on my blog. I took a break there for about a month, so it's good to know some people are still reading. :) <br /><br />It seems that Jesus calling His mother "Woman" makes perfect sense in the context of her role as the New Eve. Baffling how so much ink is spilled over something that seems pretty simple. For all we know, Jesus never literally called His mother, "Woman," but Luke may have added that for its theological importance. <br /><br />What do you think it means that Jesus' glory was revealed by this miracle? It's not like His glory was revealed all at once (we are still looking forward to Christ's full revelation in glory) and this particular miracle wasn't the beginning of His revelation (I'd say that was the Anunciation, at least within the NT). Did any of the Church Fathers or other Doctors ever expound on the correlation between the Mosaic Law being the good wine served first while Christ, the better wine, God saved until later?Jason Ramagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17928351213181419401noreply@blogger.com