Monday
Words and Aprons
"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." That's Bill Clinton's
grand jury testimony during Monicagate. He has now come a long way, though:
"What we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should
Religion
Something for Sunday Morning
"In the face of the apparent failure of so many of our attempts, we should
remember that God asks not so much for success as for the humility to begin
again without allowing ourselves to get discouraged and pessimistic. . . ".
Francis Fernandez
Holy Saturday
Nyssa, Tolkien, and Gibson
By killing Jesus, Satan had swallowed God's bait. He didn't know he had
swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of
nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the
words of St. Gregory of Nyssa:
Something for Palm Sunday Morning
“The story of each man is the story of God's continual watchfulness over him.
Each man is the object of the Lord's special love. Jesus was ready to do
everything for Jerusalem, but the city was not willing to open up her gates to
his mercy.
Something for Sunday Morning
"In dealings with one's neighbor, self-love makes us hyper-sensitive,
inflexible, proud, impatient; it causes us to exaggerate our ego and our rights,
to be cold, indifferent, unjust in our judgments and in word. One delights in
speaking about one's actions, of one's insights
Something for Sunday Morning
"Holiness . . . is not produced by intellectual speculation about it." de
Caussade, Abandonmnent
Something for Sunday Morning
"The greatest obstacles to the soul's trying to follow Christ and to help others
have their origin in a disordered love of self. At times this leads us to
overestimate our strength. At other times, it brings discouragement and
despondency as a result of our own weaknesses
Something for Sunday Morning
The Oath of Humility
I will make an effort not to be too preoccupied with my own concerns: my health,
my rest, whether people think well of me and take me sufficiently into account.
I will try to speak as little as possible about myself, abouy my affairs, or
about
Something for Sunday Morning
"We need fortitude to be faithful in the little things of each day which, when
all is said and done, is what brings us close to the Lord or separates us from
him. We show this fidelity, this firm stance in the way we tackle our work, in
our
From the Notebooks
Groping Toward a Catholic von Mises
I like to find connections in different areas of knowledge. If I discovered a
connection between Flannery O'Connor's practice of fiction and Augustine's
criticism of Pelagianism, complete with concrete examples, I'd be delighted.
Fifteen years ago,