September 2007
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Prepared to Love If I am not at least prepared to love God, I cannot “see” him. —Roman Guardini “Prepared” can mean “willing” or “able” or both. In context, Msgr. Guardini’s remark has more to do with “willing,” but taken alone it is equally applicable to “able,” and in fact it is difficult to separate…
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Earlier today I read a very interesting post on another blog which was, in part, about the possibility that pornography is damaging relations between the sexes, and in fact damaging the capacity to enjoy and appreciate sex itself, to experience sexual pleasure with another person, or maybe at all. I was going to link to…
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Last weekend I finally saw this (The Eclipse), the last in the so-called (not by the director) trilogy that also includes L'Avventura and La Notte. Judging by other comments I've read here and there, I'm not alone in thinking L'Avventura the best of the three. And I might have said this is the worst if…
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I almost believe in synchronicity. Let's say I don't believe it doesn't exist. On the face of it I don't see why it shouldn't be considered an aspect of God's providence. And those weird little coincidences just happen too often. Case in point: for the past few days I've been pondering the fact that the…
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Louis Philippe: An Unknown Spring (again) In an unprecedented development, Light on Dark Water devotes two weekly reviews to one piece of music. I suppose—no, I know—that part of the reason popular music has such a hold on me is that it makes use of both words, my natural and favorite medium, and music. Really…
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A Few More Notes on the Question of Doubt This is a follow-up to the journal of August 5 on the mixture of doubt and faith which I, and apparently quite a few others, experience. In passing: it seems to be happening to me more often than usual lately that a spiritual matter that’s on…
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I read this piece by George Weigel earlier today and, however accurate or otherwise his specific observations may be, I think he gets at the reason why the thing seemed so strange and even disturbing to some of us: it just was not what we expected of England. It was more like something you'd see…
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I had a scary thought while watching/listening to this one, Looking for the Summer: would I sell my soul to have this voice? For an instant "yes" seemed a real possibility. This man is scandalously under-appreciated. I was so knocked out by "The Blue Cafe" that I went to Amazon to buy it and found…
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