Religion

I got to bed after midnight Saturday night after drinking too much Oberon beer. Johnny Cash sang to me Sunday morning [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cru2ld06-A] (lyrics [http://www.songfacts.com/lyrics.php?findsong=3904]), but I couldn't sleep past 6:00 a.m., so

"Hell is not to love any more." Bernanos

"Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams." Dostoyevsky

"I love God as much as I love the one I love the least." Father Hugo

"A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil." St. Dominic

It's the memorial of St. John Vianney. Because I'm pressed for time this morning, I present an excerpt from a work I abandoned awhile back. It's a bit (just a wee bit!) more serious than normal TDE fare, but it'll have to

"Love makes all things easy." Dorothy Day

"God ordinarily reveals His indwelling presence not through visions but by prompting virtuous actions within us." Thomas Dubay, citing Saints Teresa of Avila, Thomas Aquinas, and Bernard.

Church teaching is unequivocal, but the "faithful" don't listen. The result: Silence. I've been Catholic for 17 years, and I honestly don't think I've ever heard a priest comment on the contraception issue from the pulpit. This article discusses it

"Many may not find giving up food and drink and a soft bed too difficult . . . But bearing an insult, a wrong, or hurtful words . . . this is something to be borne not by many but by few." St. John Chrysostom