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PODCAzT 64: Bonaventure on Christ “the door”; Interview - Fr. Timothy Finigan
Today I have an interview with His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Timothy Finigan. We talk togther about Summorum Pontificum and matters liturgical and spiritual. I think you’ll find this pretty interesting.
But first, we hear from St. Bonaventure (+1274) speaking to us from across the centuries in his De itinerario mentis in Deum (The journey of the mind to God). This is the in Office of Readings for the Saint’s feast in the post-Conciliar calendar. In the older, traditional calendar, we observed the Seraphic Doctor’s feast yesterday.
I then drill into a couple of his remarks, especially talking about how entering a church for Holy Mass prepares us for an encounter with Mystery.
Bonaventure on encountering Christ; Interview - Fr. Timothy Finigan [52:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe iTunes feed is working again… mysteriously. Check it out!
Some of the last offerings (check out the PODCAzT PAGE):
064 08-07-15 Bonaventure on Christ “the door”; Interview – Fr. Timothy Finigan
063 08-07-12 Interview: Fr. Justin Nolan, FSSP; consecrated hands, Holy Communion and the Rite of Baptism
062 08-06-26 Interviews with and by Fr. Z; What has Bp. Fellay really said?
061 08-05-17 Pope Leo I on a post-Pentecost weekday; Fr. Z rambles not quite aimlessly for a while
060 08-05-16 Pentecost customs; St. Ambrose on the dew of the Holy Spirit
059 08-05-15 Leo the Great on Pentecost fasting; Benedict XVI’s sermon for Pentecost Sunday
058 08-05-14 Ember Days; Chrysostom on St. Matthias; Prayer to the Holy Spirit
057 08-05-13 John Paul II on the unforgivable sin; Our Lady of Fatima and the vision of Hell
056 08-05-12 Octaves – Fr. Z rants & Augustine on Pentecost
055 08-05-03 Tertullian, again; Fr. Rutler and Fr. Z on Archbp. Marini’s book
054 08-04-29 Pro-Abortion Politicians and Communion; St. Ambrose and Emperor Theodosius
caritas, that was the anti-spam word. very appropriate to my comments, I shall try to follow it.
1. Please cut down the singing bit at the beginning, people who listen to podasts want to get on with it, [Is that so.] not go through loads of introduction, especially if one is trying to show it (what is the English transitive form of “listen” – “fare ascoltare”?) to a visitor.
2. There is something wrong with your mikes, your voice is twice the volume of the interviewee. Awkward while listening in the summer with the window open, I had to keep adjusting volume. [I am working to learn the technology. Some of us learn as we go. So, I have a choice: make them – don’t make them until they are perfect for John. What to do? o{]:¬) ]
These are NOT criticisms…! [Oh?] Really excellent article, so good to hear an ordinary priest being a priest. Deo gratias.
In Domino.
Comment by josephus muris saliensis — 15 July 2008 @ 3:48 pmExcellent podcast. Thank you for putting these up, Fr. Z.
Comment by Mac McLernon — 15 July 2008 @ 4:21 pmjosephus: BTW… the words in all that singing really is “getting on with it”. The words mean something. I picked them on purpose. They tie into the reading from Bonaventure.
The music often, but not always, has a point.
FWIW
Comment by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf — 15 July 2008 @ 4:39 pmI could listen to you all day Father. And I like the music, even if I don’t know what it is.
Comment by Katherine Therese — 15 July 2008 @ 4:48 pmI posted this on the previous PODCAzT’s comment box, but in an effort to have my questions both seen an answered, I repost here:
Maybe Baron Korf and I just don’t get it: How do we download PODCAzTs from iTunes? Can we only get it by subscribing? (Is there no way to download them one at a time?) Most especially: how do we download a previous PODCAzT once a newer one has been posted on the Blog? Any guidance would be helpful!
Comment by Terth — 15 July 2008 @ 5:08 pmDear Fr Z,
You are a gem; and I love the i-Pod version of the priest. Like you I am not a great technophile but how can I download the podcazt to my computer so I can listen while I am travelling or at home without being on on the Internet?
Comment by antonb — 16 July 2008 @ 6:38 amI am sure you would be pleased with the activity here Down Under in Sydney – there is a great feeling, a sense of grace and love with so many people celebrating their Catholic faith and life, a negative media notwithstanding.
Father Z,
Absolutely keep the singing part. Some of us are never priviledged to have that quality of singing in our parishes so we must get it from somewhere
Comment by Greg Hessel in Arlington Diocese — 16 July 2008 @ 8:36 amFather,
Great Podcast, and I for one like the singing…
I would agree about needing to equalise your sound volume with that of your interviewee; maybe your recording software can do this for you?
Keep up the good work!
Comment by Mark M — 16 July 2008 @ 10:32 amMark
Mark: I figure this out as I go, in my copious free time. I have no one to work with on this.
Comment by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf — 16 July 2008 @ 12:06 pmThank you Fr. Z.
I have only downloaded podcasts a few times; being on dial-up, well, I’m sure you know…. I did download this podcast, though, and want to thank you for it. I love to learn and always know that I am a little smarter every time I leave your blog. The podcast is the icing on the cake and I will certainly download again.
Carthusian
Comment by Brian — 16 July 2008 @ 1:26 pmFather, I appreciate that; I was hoping another commenter might have the solution!
Comment by Mark M — 16 July 2008 @ 2:47 pmThat was a truly wonderful interview Father. At age 66 I am in that middle category and indeed in my teenage years leading up to the Council I bought or subscribed to everything I could get concerning Liturgical reform. A priest I knew who was sparing with his compliments told me I really understood the Liturgy. But I was rather alone in my enthusiaism.
Then, around 1965 as the changes began to come in I felt an ever growing disatisfation. Many of my friends were seminarians and whereas they had not been iterested before they were now enthralled, ofen over what I felt to be drivel. IT WASN’T SUPPSED TO TURN OUT THIS WAY! I heard all the cliches e.g. “relavant to our modern age” or “the spiriti of Vatican II” and was accused of being all caught up in the externals when I complained about all the things they were doing ot the extrnals. But I stuck to my guns.
So now I am at an age where I am supposed to be upset at what the Pope is doing but I’m thrilled.
And by the way, there were many things in the reign of Paul VI which I was not fond of but he was spot on in Humanae Vitae and it’s tragic that the world didn’t listen to him.
Comment by David O'Rourke — 16 July 2008 @ 3:25 pmUnderstanding the Mass is the work of Eternity! The glorious mysteriousness of latin in the Mass is but one introduction to the enormity of that work. Fr Finigan is right that even the mentally weak, and I include myself in that category, can sense “holiness going on” (my own term) in a well conducted Mass.
The reintroduction of the widespread availability of the Latin Mass is most assuredly a gift from God, through his Holy Church. Gloria in Excelsis Deo!
Pray for me, please, Frs. Z. and Finigan, and God bless you both.
Comment by Brian Campbell — 16 July 2008 @ 5:57 pmALL: You might want to follow the Latin, which was posted on the blog Quantitative Metathesis.