Jan 31, 2023
Welcome to Episode 111 of the Being Human
Podcast: Insights from the East (Part One), w/
Mother Natalia & Her Parents
Joining Dr. Greg to discuss
the differences and complementarity of the traditions of the East
and the West is Byzantine Catholic nun, Mother Natalia (and her
parents)! In this first of a two-part episode, Mother Natalia
reveals fascinating and surprising differences she’s experienced
between the two traditions, and shares her journey from the Roman
Rite to falling in love with the Eastern liturgy and eventually
joining a Byzantine Catholic monastic community of
women.
Discussed in this episode:
- Meet Mother Natalia and her parents, David and
Barbara Olsen;
- Mother’s struggle with scrupulosity and its
impact on discernment;
- How the diversity of rites that exist within
the Catholic Church can all be in communion with Rome;
- Differences between the East and West despite
the fact that there is no actual East/West split in the body of
Christ;
- The lack of Eucharstic adoration in the Eastern
tradition;
- How “the cure fits the disease” and the
specific traditions that developed in each rite as ways to
counteract particular heresies;
- The East as a more feminine counterpart to the
more masculine West, and how we can look to both to learn more
about complementarity;
- The particular ways that all five senses are
engaged during celebration of the Eastern liturgy;
- Differences between the East and West as
impacting spirituality but not what is fundamentally
Catholic;
- Making room for the cultural differences that
impact the liturgy;
- Our call as Catholics to “breathe with both
lungs” of the Church and grow through complementarity as manifested
in the Eastern and Western traditions.
Resources mentioned or relevant:
- Check out Mother Natalia’s
podcast: What God is
Not;
- Support Mother
Natalia’s non-profit ministry, Photina;
-
Breathing with Both Lungs
- podcast episode on the
differences between Eastern and Western rites;
- Learn more about Christ the Bridegroom
Monastery;
- Flight From
Woman by Karl
Stern;
- Read
Orientale Lumen (The Light of the
East),
Pope St. John Paul II’s apostolic
letter;
- Listen to Episode #99:
Diversity, Gender, and the Genius of Women, w/ Simone
Rizkallah;
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