Off to the thousand-year-old Archabbey today. St. Martin of Tours -- Szent Marton -- pray for us.
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
To Pannonhalma...
Off to the thousand-year-old Archabbey today. St. Martin of Tours -- Szent Marton -- pray for us.
Monday, 27 April 2009
Thursday, 23 April 2009
From Fr Rutler
A heartfelt 'thank you' to Father Rutler:
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5845&Itemid=48
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5845&Itemid=48
Monday, 20 April 2009
With faith in the Resurrection
The sadness of losing Father Jaki so suddenly, during Holy Week, gave way to the hope of Easter. And I don´t think he would have wanted anything less than joy on the day of the Resurrection. This year´s Mass in St. Peter´s Square was made even happier by The Singing Deacons, James (from the U.S.) and Justin (from South Africa), and all of the servers for the Mass being from my own university, Santa Croce (with Scott as crucifer, Jean-Paulin holding the book for the Urbi et Orbi, etc).
Thursday, 16 April 2009
An update
Father Jaki's body will return to Hungary on Friday. Burial will take place on the 29th April at Pannonhalma, at 14:30 (2:30 p.m.).
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In the meantime, even the New York Times (a more virulently anti-Catholic rag would be hard to find) wrote the following:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/nyregion/13jaki.html?_r=2&ref=science
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Here is the link for Pannonhalma:
http://www.bences.hu/en
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In the meantime, even the New York Times (a more virulently anti-Catholic rag would be hard to find) wrote the following:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/nyregion/13jaki.html?_r=2&ref=science
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Here is the link for Pannonhalma:
http://www.bences.hu/en
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
From the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Stanley L. JAKI (1924 – 2009)
‘Give them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine on them for ever’
Dear Academician,
It is with deep sorrow and great sadness that we have to inform the Academic body of the death of Stanley L. Jaki on 8 April 2009.
Born in Györ, Hungary, on 17 August 1924, he became a Catholic priest of the Benedictine Order and was appointed Pontifical Academician on 5 September 1990. Of considerable importance is his application of Gödel’s theorems, first in The Relevance of Physics (1967) and, much more thematically, in God and the Cosmologists (1980), to physical theories that aim at fundamental completeness. Such theories are systems of elementary particles, unified field theories, and comprehensive cosmological models. Prof. Jaki maintained that these theories were heavily, and at times esoterically, mathematical and should embody a far from trivial system of arithmetic, therefore they were subject to the limitations set by Gödel’s theorems in the sense that they could not have proof of consistency within themselves. This would seem to undermine claims of a final physical theory having been formulated although not proven. Prof. Jaki wrote that, “if physics has a built-in incompleteness, reductionist and scientistic claims should be all the more suspect. This incompleteness of physics further supports what is known also as the contingency of all material beings, including their totality, the universe. The philosophy of science has indeed a theistic edge, although this by itself does not relate to the practice of the scientific method. Only when a scientific methodology is constructed which is either materialistic or agnostic would possible harmful precepts emerge for that practice. The history of science shows that all great creative advances in at least the physical sciences were made in terms of an epistemology which also underlies the classical proofs of the existence of God”. These two themes were given a detailed presentation in Prof. Jaki’s Gifford Lectures, The Road of Science and the Ways to God. Prof. Jaki also believed that historically, this theistic perspective of science emerged from what he called the repeated stillbirths and the only viable birth of science. The former occurred in all great ancient cultures, whereas the latter is intimately tied to medieval Christianity. It was Christianity, and especially its dogma about the divinity of the Incarnate Logos, that gave a special strength to the biblical notion of a coherent universe, fully ordered in all its parts, an idea indispensable to the emergence of Newtonian science. All these themes were set forth in his Science and Creation and The Savior of Science books.
The commemoration of Prof. Stanley L. Jaki will take place during the next Plenary Session (2010).
We invite all Academicians to remember our beloved colleague and friend in their thoughts and keep Fr. Jaki in your prayers this Holy Week. The memory of his valuable contribution to the growth of the Academy will always be cherished,
Yours sincerely,
+ Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Chancellor
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And from Seton Hall:
http://www.shu.edu/news/article/152011
‘Give them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine on them for ever’
Dear Academician,
It is with deep sorrow and great sadness that we have to inform the Academic body of the death of Stanley L. Jaki on 8 April 2009.
Born in Györ, Hungary, on 17 August 1924, he became a Catholic priest of the Benedictine Order and was appointed Pontifical Academician on 5 September 1990. Of considerable importance is his application of Gödel’s theorems, first in The Relevance of Physics (1967) and, much more thematically, in God and the Cosmologists (1980), to physical theories that aim at fundamental completeness. Such theories are systems of elementary particles, unified field theories, and comprehensive cosmological models. Prof. Jaki maintained that these theories were heavily, and at times esoterically, mathematical and should embody a far from trivial system of arithmetic, therefore they were subject to the limitations set by Gödel’s theorems in the sense that they could not have proof of consistency within themselves. This would seem to undermine claims of a final physical theory having been formulated although not proven. Prof. Jaki wrote that, “if physics has a built-in incompleteness, reductionist and scientistic claims should be all the more suspect. This incompleteness of physics further supports what is known also as the contingency of all material beings, including their totality, the universe. The philosophy of science has indeed a theistic edge, although this by itself does not relate to the practice of the scientific method. Only when a scientific methodology is constructed which is either materialistic or agnostic would possible harmful precepts emerge for that practice. The history of science shows that all great creative advances in at least the physical sciences were made in terms of an epistemology which also underlies the classical proofs of the existence of God”. These two themes were given a detailed presentation in Prof. Jaki’s Gifford Lectures, The Road of Science and the Ways to God. Prof. Jaki also believed that historically, this theistic perspective of science emerged from what he called the repeated stillbirths and the only viable birth of science. The former occurred in all great ancient cultures, whereas the latter is intimately tied to medieval Christianity. It was Christianity, and especially its dogma about the divinity of the Incarnate Logos, that gave a special strength to the biblical notion of a coherent universe, fully ordered in all its parts, an idea indispensable to the emergence of Newtonian science. All these themes were set forth in his Science and Creation and The Savior of Science books.
The commemoration of Prof. Stanley L. Jaki will take place during the next Plenary Session (2010).
We invite all Academicians to remember our beloved colleague and friend in their thoughts and keep Fr. Jaki in your prayers this Holy Week. The memory of his valuable contribution to the growth of the Academy will always be cherished,
Yours sincerely,
+ Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Chancellor
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And from Seton Hall:
http://www.shu.edu/news/article/152011
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
In paradisum deducant te angeli
A funeral Mass will be held for Father Jaki at the Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Montserrat in Madrid (plaza San Bernardo, 79) at 17:00 this evening (Wednesday the 8th April). Burial will most likely be at Father's abbey, Pannonhalma, in Hungary next week, where his two older brothers are also monks. More information soon.
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Father Stanley Jaki 1924 - 2009
Please keep praying for Father Jaki
Father Jaki during his recent visit to Rome. He is in critical condition in a hospital in Madrid. Please keep praying.(Top photo: in the cloister courtyard of Tor de´Specchi, the monastery of St. Frances of Rome, which Father had waited 60 years to visit. Center: overlooking the Forum. Photo above: at Trajan´s column.)
Monday, 6 April 2009
De consecratione patene et calicis
Up betimes and over to the Congregation on Saturday to have a deacon´s new paten and chalice consecrated (despite one of my canon law professors nearly failing me for "forgetting" that "only persons are consecrated; things are blessed or dedicated...") by Mons. Ranjith.
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Back in the Vrbs for the home stretch: 83 days and counting...
New view from new bedroom window; old view from old bedroom window.
This year's "Veronica"
St. Peter's, the station church for Passion Sunday, had all its relics out on the altar of the Confessio. It was an unusually beautiful blessing with the relic of the Veil, from "her balcony," this year.
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