Romano Amerio
Romano Amerio (1905 – 1997) was a Swiss-Italian theologian and a late critic of post-Conciliar evolutions in liturgy and ecclesiology. His magnum opus is Iota Unum. It is a work dedicated to the study of the ruptures in Church teaching and tradition following the Second Vatican Council.
Quotes
[edit]- The problem of man is the problem of worship, and everything else is done to bring you light and substance.
- From Di un bisogno dei contemporanei, Pagine nostre, June 1926; quoted in Zibaldone.
Zibaldone
[edit]- Romano Amerio, Zibaldone, Enrico Maria Radaelli (editor), Lindau, Torino, 2010
- Autumn is the season of man, because it is like us: a death that is not without fruit.
- Wisdom is not absolute autocracy and independence of the soul, but obedience and subordination of the soul to higher things, through which it acquires the ability to dominate and subordinate lower things. Only in this way does it become subordinate and mistress. “'Servire Deo libertas est”'. Humility and freedom are equally necessary.
- The “”vanity“” of life and pleasure can be clearly seen when we consider that pleasure is everything in the perspective of pleasure and never in the perception of it.
- In the “'world”' we must not only desire “'few”' things, because few things are desirable, but we must also desire those few things “'little”', both because they are not very desirable and because, if greatly desired, they become a source of pain.
