[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]What a map provides above all is connectedness:<\/strong> an articulation of unity-in-difference which alone can disclose the meaning of the site the student surveys. Without such orientation, our errands risk being aimless and ineffectual. Compare the indomitable sense of identity and assurance of the pre-conciliar Church, or the hopeful fervour aroused by Vatican II, with current tendencies toward vacillation and fragmentation, in which the whole is so easily obscured by contending enmities and loyalties, repudiations and retrievals. Obscurity of the whole can in turn inhibit real engagement and vitality.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”center” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text] <\/i><\/a><\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=”75″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”element_from_fade”][vc_column] But where can we find a map to help us navigate such a landscape?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>![\"Star001\"](\"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Star001-150x150.png\")
[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The apparent disconnectedness of past, present, and future <\/strong>sometimes confronts today\u2019s seminarian in an especially intense way.\u00a0His intellectual formation may look broken and discouraging, and as a consequence he entertains superficially attractive \u2018solutions\u2019: the Catholic past is repudiated in favour of a dogged adherence to \u2018what we do now\u2019,\u00a0or alienation from the Catholic present inspires an attempt to recreate a pre-Conciliar ‘golden-age’. In both these ways, of course, the perceived ruptures are actually reinforced. They are reinforced, as well, if the continuity of past and present is left unexamined and blindly assumed, on the basis that this is what \u2018orthodoxy\u2019 requires. In all these ways the challenge to understand the Faith historically is refused.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=”32″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n