{"id":19025,"date":"2023-12-30T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolbecenter.org\/?p=19025"},"modified":"2023-12-28T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T20:06:56","slug":"kolbe-report-12-30-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolbecenter.org\/kolbe-report-12-30-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolbe Report 12\/30\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center,<\/p>\n

Christ is born!\u00a0 Glorify Him!<\/p>\n

As we enter the holy season of Christmas, I would like to highlight two of our new publications.\u00a0 In a previous newsletter I announced the publication of Our World Created and Redeemed: A Family Treasury of Poems<\/a>, <\/em>which uses poetry and holy icons to show the parallels between the work of Creation and the work of Redemption.\u00a0 To give you a better idea of the format of the book, which begins on the \u201cfirst day of the week\u201d and ends on \u201cthe eighth day,\u201d I am reproducing \u201cDay Four\u201d of the Hexameron and \u201cWednesday\u201d from the work of Redemption.<\/p>\n

Day Four<\/h3>\n

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Now the roof of the world He makes
\nBright on the fourth day.
\nBillions and trillions of stars
\nShine forth at His word \u2013
\nRed, blue, and white,
\nFaint and bright \u2013
\nSpangling the dome
\nOf the soon-
\nTo-be-
\nLoved-
\nMan\u2019<\/strong>s
\nNew
\nHome.<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/h3>\n

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Word-made-flesh said to His friends:<\/p>\n

Some of you shall not see death\u2019s hour<\/p>\n

Until you see the Kingdom of God<\/p>\n

Coming with power.<\/p>\n

To Tabor\u2019s peak, He took three \u2013
\nPeter, James, and John \u2013
\nShowed them God\u2019s light in His flesh, making
\nNight of the light of the sun.
\nHe who numbered and named the stars
\nBlinded their bright stares.
\nWith Moses and Elijah the Tishbite,
\nJesus stood in that Tabor light,
\nWrapped in a cloud.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlways Be Prepared to Give an Answer\u201d<\/h3>\n

Many of you have read the first volume in our series<\/a> \u201cAlways be Prepared to Give an Answer: Replies to Common Objections to the Traditional Doctrine of Creation.\u201d\u00a0 I am happy to announce the publication of the second volume in the series<\/a>, in which the Kolbe leadership team answers fifteen additional objections.\u00a0 As an example of the kind of questions and answers the book contains, here is Objection #5 and the team\u2019s response:<\/p>\n\n\t\t

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\u201cThrough the Incarnation, man is revealed as the pinnacle of Creation.\u00a0 In the light of the evolutionary hypothesis, one can see that everything has an obediential potentiality to become a human being, and this is much more wonderful than the idea of the separate direct creation of all of the different kinds of creatures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reply:<\/p>\n

The idea that theistic evolution is more wonderful than special creation because everything in nature is seen as tending toward the evolution of man appears to be quite attractive to some Catholic intellectuals.\u00a0 But this vision of all things tending towards man through evolution is actually a perversion of the true Catholic vision of man as the specially created microcosm <\/em>of the entire cosmos.\u00a0 The theistic evolutionist notion that all things animate and inanimate have an \u201cobediential potential\u201d to become a human body can easily be misunderstood.\u00a0 To say that a material thing has the obediential potential to become a human body makes it sound as if the material thing contains that power within itself.\u00a0 But that is false.\u00a0 Rightly understood, the \u201cobediential potential\u201d to become a human body is a purely \u201cpassive\u201d potential.\u00a0 It can only be actualized by God\u2019s creative power.\u00a0 As St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, only:<\/p>\n

Divine Power, being infinite, can produce things of the same species out of any matter, such as a man from the slime of the earth, and a woman from out of man (St. Thomas Aquinas, ST,<\/em> I, q. 92, a. 2, ad 2).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n

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In other words, the \u201cobediential potential\u201d of the \u201cslime of the earth\u201d to become a human body is entirely \u201cpassive.\u201d\u00a0 It can only be actualized by God\u2019s creative action.\u00a0 Thus, the grandiose notion of various kinds of animate and inanimate creatures \u201ctending\u201d toward the actualization of a human body through a natural process of evolution has no roots in the Tradition of the Church.<\/p>\n

An Introduction to Latin Based on Genesis<\/h3>\n

My wife Maria has completed the first volume in a series of textbooks that teach Latin using the text of Genesis.\u00a0 If any of you have some knowledge of Latin and would be willing to review the first volume and give us your comments, please email me at howen@<\/span>shentel.net<\/a> and we will send you a pdf.<\/p>\n

Kolbe Leadership Retreat 2024<\/h3>\n

The 2024 Kolbe Leadership Retreat will take place at the Apostolate for Family Consecration retreat center near Steubenville, Ohio, again this year, from August 25 to August 31.\u00a0 To register or for more information, please email me at howen@shentel.net<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yours in Christ through the Immaculata in union with St. Joseph,<\/p>\n

Hugh Owen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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