Saint John Henry When we feel that His mysteries are too severe for us, and occasion us to doubt, let us earnestly wait on Him for the gift of humility and love. Gregory Pine are considered the faces of American Catholicism and not Trad Crusader 1488 who talks about Jews controlling central banks and the immorality of eye contact more than Jesus. Joseph Just grateful voices like Trent Horn, Jimmy Akin, Karl Keating, Christopher West, and Fr. When you tell people the truth on what Christ willed for the Church, they often say, “If He were alive now, He would do it differently.” He is alive now. It simply means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist” –Catherine DohertyĪnnoymous Carmelite: Proclaiming the Catholic faith is the bravest thing we as Catholics must do, but we must do it charitably. Jonathan “To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda to convert people or in stirring them up to movements of hatred and violence against one another. The Catholic Talk How terrible would Christians be if they TRULY believed that Christianity is THE truth and leads to eternal life and happiness but NOT CARE if others would get the same? Any religion that doesn’t think everyone should follow it seems either lukewarm or selfish.įr. Rabbi Dr Laura Duhan-Kaplan Why do so many Christians feel everyone in the world should be Christian? Serious question, not a subtweet. No matter how noisy your “monkey mind” might be, beneath all the chatter is endless, limitless, vast silence. ♀️81581Mr The contemplative life must provide an area, a space of liberty, of silence, in which possibilities are allowed to surface and new choices-beyond routine choice-become manifest.” - Thomas MertonĬarl If a moment of silence is a word from God, then your heartbeat is the period at the end of the sentence. They need time to untwist & untangle a LOT & they need someone to listen w/o jumping down their throat with apologetics. Being cruel, condescending, patronizing to broken individuals is not helpful or encouraging them to reconsider the Church. Joseph PearceĮmily, praying for peace lot of people like to say “You don’t leave Jesus because of Judas,” but they forget that the people scandalized were very well likely *formed* by a Judas, and then *we* put the onus on someone purposely spiritually deformed by that Judas to sort it out themselves & have faith. Like the lembas which sustained Frodo and Sam on their journey through Mordor to Mount Doom in The Lord of the Rings, great literature is manna for the mind and food for the soul. This side of the grave, there is no better company apart from the saints themselves. Book It The great works of literature are works of enchantment which have the power to re-enchant the most weary of souls. Macbeth is interesting here bc it brings in a supernatural order – just not a Xn one tho there is M’s tantalizing ref to having given his “eternal jewel” (usually parsed as soul) to “the common enemy of man” (usually parsed as the prince of the Bad Place).īut Hamlet, the 1st of this artificially defined tetralogy, brings the big exceptions, w the Ghost’s adventures in Purgatory, Hamlet’s speech on Claudius’s fate if killed at prayer, and the priest at Ophelia’s funeral. In Othello, references to God and holy things turn up in ppls’ oaths, mainly Iago’s, and ofc there’s Iago’s “faith of man.” Also refs to Othello’s baptism. It has a pre-Xn setting, but even so, Gloucester’s remark about gods and flies seems to sum it up – and that’s a long long way from cheerful agnosticism.
True, the “great tragedies” (Coleridge’s term) are remarkably non-attached to a Christian order.
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