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Understanding God's Anger Compline, Anger, and God What, then, are we to say of anger ... particularly God's anger? Is not anger one of the Seven Capital Sins? How can we, then, ascribe this to God Most Holy? We are perplexed by references to God's anger, most often dismissing them to the cultural peculiarities and obscure literal nuances of Jewish literature evident, most notably, in the Old Testament, where, we are told, God was simply misconstrued as a "God of wrath" --- unlike His Son Who revealed Him in terms of love. But even in the Son we find,...

ON THE PSALMS OF COMPLINE Commentaries on Psalm 4, Psalm 90, and Psalm 133 by Damasus Winzen, O.S.B. ©1975 by Mt. Saviour Monastery, Pine City, NY 14871 Anybody who wants to write a theology of the everyday life, or wants to practice such a theology, will find a starting point in Psalm 3, verse 6: "I lie down to rest and I sleep. I wake, for the Lord upholds me." Nothing is more basic in our life than this daily lying down, surrendering, giving in, accepting the fact that without rest we are unable to continue with the business of...

Introduction V/.   Deus X in adjutórium méum inténde.R/.   Dómine, ad adjuvándum me festína.Glória Pátri, et Fílio, *    et Spirítui Sáncto. Sicut érat in princípio, et nunc, et sémper, *    et in sæcula sæculórum.  Ámen. V/.   O God, X come to my assistance.R/.   O Lord, make haste to help me.Praise the Fáther, the Són, and the Holy Spírit    bóth now ánd foréver. The God Who ís, Who wás, and ís to come    at the énd of the áges.  Amén. A brief examination of conscience is made, followed by an act of contrition such as: Confíteor Deo omnipoténti...