Comments for That Tekhelet Sky at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:18:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/that-tekhelet-sky.html#comment-6899 People in every country get the mortgage loans from different banks, because it's comfortable and fast. - HURSTBernadette32 Tue, 24 May 2011 04:35:16 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/that-tekhelet-sky.html#comment-4543 loved this article! one of the best at TCT, at least as it personally relates to my relationship with God. (not to detract from the very wonderful "informational" articles...) but i want to also say to all the comment writers that i long for Heaven because i long to be with Him AND i cannot wait to meet all of you, my brothers and sisters, to fellowship with you forever and ever. i read your astute comments and although i am one of your lessor educated little sisters, your love for Him is so infecting! thank you all for wedding (as did St. Thomas Aquinas & St. Augustine, among others)scholarly thought with great devotion. keep posting and teaching! - debby Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:39:18 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/that-tekhelet-sky.html#comment-4537 Your essay seemed to me to be a manifestation of what Desert Fathers wrote. Byzantine theology was (as I am sure you know) all about unity of earthly (everyday and intellectual) and the mystical. Denys the Areopagite wrote about beauty as a visionary process that leads to the purification of man's soul that leads into the ultimate unification ... See Morewith God. St. Maximus the Confessor, similarly wrote about human act of work, in which he stated that "man is a living workshop." Everything is about unifiied human experience. You mention St. Teresa of Avila...who can know more about the earthly and the mystical than her? She was certainly not divorced from the everydayness of God's creation; she was straight forward and clear. - Emina Melonic Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:17:49 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/that-tekhelet-sky.html#comment-4532 Wonderful article! Very pleased to see the thoughts culminating with the holy liturgy - for that is of course our inheritance from the rending of the veil. When our Lord describes himself as the Temple, what was he claiming? What was the temple, but the specific means through which the Lord would mercifully condescend to dwell among his people. Christ is the fulfillment of that desire to dwell among us, hence the rending, He is for us forever the shekinah. And he said he would not leave us, so he gave himself up for us in an eternal sacrifice to the Father that we still celebrate today - the fruit of the rent veil is the Eucharist. Praise be to God. - Adam Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:17:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/that-tekhelet-sky.html#comment-4530 It is not just Jewish tradition that mentions Jeremiah hiding the ark. It is expressly stated in 2 Macc 2:7 that he hid the ark in a cave and the trail was hidden. I am not trying to be nitpicky. Just wanted to share that. - Barbara Kaine Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:18:32 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/that-tekhelet-sky.html#comment-4529 The noun, not the verb. Brad, you have packed so much into this brief article, that one could add water for days. As my mentor, Morris Smith would say, "That'll preach." - Scott Hesener Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:37:52 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/that-tekhelet-sky.html#comment-4528 Dear Mr. Miner, Your article is incorrect on an important detail. The Temple in the 1st Century was the Second Temple, rebuilt after the Babylonian Exile and "improved" by Roman client king Herod I "the Great". The Ark of the Covenent was lost during the Caldean capture of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple, the Temple of Solomon (e.g. see Jeremiah 52:12-27) - the lost of the Ark was not explicitly mentioned but presumed. Some Jewish traditions mentioned Jeremiah himself came into the procession of the Ark and hid it. In any case, the Ark was never found again, and in the Second Temple, the Holy of Holies did not contain the Ark but was empty. The Presence of the Lord, the Shekinah, was there, even with the physical absense of the Ark. Ching Yim - Ching Yim Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:23:50 +0100