Adventus

"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kierkegaard

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

O, Christmas Tree

NPR told the story of people in World War II moved, perhaps even saved, by books. One story was of a Marine hospitalized with malaria, wh...

Casting aspersions on the asparagus

Ecce Homo "The various vitalities of human history are moreover not only in conflict with Zeus but in conflict with each other....

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

The Massacre of Innocence

Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing all comfort, because they were no more.... We interrupt this discussion or religion, death...

Monday, December 08, 2014

Song of Mary

My soul extols the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has shown consideration for the lowly stature of his slave. As ...

A Time for All Reasons

I've mentioned before the essay I once taught , an essay about how we define "rape." It gave no answer, but gave examples ...

Sunday, December 07, 2014

Making Things Go

Sam Harris has written another book, this one about spirituality without religion (look it up yourself). Which leads me directly to the...

Saturday, December 06, 2014

December 6 2014

SAINT Nicholas. Day of death: (according to the martyrology) December 6, about 360. Grave: originally at Myra; since 1087 at Sari in Italy...

Friday, December 05, 2014

All Things Shall Be Well

We are a wounded people; we can love each other, forgive each other and celebrate together our oneness. Perhaps we can only truly acc...

December 5: The Day of the Lord

Whatever was written previously was written for our instruction, that by eundurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might h...

Thursday, December 04, 2014

December 4 2014: What Wondrous Love is This?

Suppose, then, that there was a king who loved a maiden of lowly station in life. The king's heart was unstained by the wisdom (loud...

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

December 3, 2014: The Diffusion of the Illustrious Religion of Ta-ch'in in the Middle Kingdom

Some point to the creature, to trust in it as the ultimate. Some take things and nothingness, and destroy the two. Some pray and sacr...

Courtesy of "some guy in Iowa"

I grow disgusted with the New Atheists (they hate that term; so I employ it freely) because their arguments are so free of intellectual co...

Tuesday, December 02, 2014

December 2 2014: "Because the destruction of death was being worked out"

The virginity of Mary and her giving birth eluded the ruler of this age, likewise also the death of the Lord--three mysteries of a cry whi...

December 2: The Martyrs of El Salvador

I repeat this every year. This year, I finally heard the story mentioned on NPR, in an announcement about a news story about the murders. ...

Monday, December 01, 2014

And so this is Advent, and what have we done?

Pretty much how the season feels, right down to the cold.... More blasts from the past: lumped together and injudiciously edited for you...

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