🇬🇧🎙️​When words lose their connection to reality: The importance of Universals

In this fourth episode of “A Healthy Reason for a Strong Faith” Series we analyse the importance of words and their necessary connection to reality. Words are signs: they point us to a meaning beyond them and require a clear bond with reality to be significant. The crux of the matter is the problem of the Universals, i.e., that which can be attribute to many things. The denial of universal essences as real, so as to reduce them to only sounds for a mere communication sake, can only lead to subjectivism. This is deleterious. In turn, the State, the Police, or a powerful political group, will decide what (new) meaning words should have. Precisely what happens today in our society, where culture is influenced by controlling the language.

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🇬🇧 🎙️ Our Lady’s 7 Words & the Offertorial Silence

Our Lady pronounced only 7 words recorded by the Gospels: from the Annunciation through the Visitation, the finding of Jesus in the temple, up until Cana. As Jesus manifested His glory at that significant wedding, Our Lady ceased to speak publicly. Why? Moreover, in two central moments of Jesus’ life, the Presentation in the temple and Calvary – two offertorial moments – no word by the Virgin Mary is recorded. Mary’s silence is obedience to God and praise of His majesty. It is oblative. Her silence is the very pattern of Christian life and of liturgical offering at Mass.

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🇬🇧 🎙️Does objective reality depend on my thought?

In this third episode of “A Healthy Reason for a Strong Faith” Series, we deal with the problem of perception of reality. Realism vs. Idealism or Anti-realism. The question that arises is this: Are we sure that there are things beyond our own comprehension and that there is an external world wider than our sensation and thought? This seems an ongoing doubt. How to go about it? We deal with the thought of George Berkeley (1685-1753) still relevant and influential today.

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🇬🇧 🎙️Our Lady as the Gebirah – the Queen Mother in Mt 2:11

Why is St Joseph not mentioned in the account of the Magi upon their arrival at Bethlehem (cf. Mt 2:1-11)? Joseph of Nazareth plays a prominent role in Matthew’s Gospel, though. His presence is well outlined in what just precedes the moment of the adoration of the Magi (the Angel telling Joseph in a dream about the divine Incarnation) and what follows it (Joseph alerted by the angel to flee with Jesus and Mary into Egypt). So he is definitively not forgotten by the evangelist.

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