February 2012
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Janet sent me this several days ago and I forgot about till this afternoon. It's about fifteen minutes long, so you have to set aside a bit of time for it, but it's very much worth it.
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God does not value what the poor have but what they do not have: self-sufficiency, a closed attitude, a presumption of being able to save themselves. –Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap.
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Hitchens vs. Chesterton The last essay by the late Christopher Hitchens appears in the March issue of The Atlantic, and I finally got around to reading it this morning. Craig Burrell has written about it here, and I'm pretty much of the same mind, though he is a little more generous to the piece than I…
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In order to reach ourselves, to fulfill ourselves, we must take an infinite distance, which is the distance of God, because, between us and our selves, the only way to reach our selves is through the divine presence. The only way to reach others is through the divine presence. The only way to enter the…
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We may cavort for a time on our high horse of vanity and self-deception, but sooner or later the animal will throw us and make off leaving us stranded in the wilderness. We must abandon the fictions we have labored to polish so as to increase their plausibility. –Fr. Alfred Delp, S.J.
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Get down for Lent with Pentimento.
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That was the situation in my parish church for this evening's Ash Wednesday Mass. There had been one at 8:30, presumably less well attended. This was very close to Christmas and Easter levels. I was a few minutes late, and when I was about a block from the church I realized I was in a…
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On Not Reading Books Don't worry, I'm not about to argue against reading books–just asking myself why I've hardly opened one since sometime around Thanksgiving. It began with the fact that I had a project at work that had to be finished by the end of the year, and that was going to require working…
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Weekend Music Yes, same sonata as last week. But I listened to the last movement again and decided I like it as much as the first two. And I guess to be fair to the harmless little scherzo I should include it, too. Is the scherzo ever anybody's favorite movement of anything?
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I keep forgetting that I need to transfer all the pre-blog Sunday Night Journals from the old web site to here, so that I can shut the old site down. I just did two more: Divine Office and Philosophy of Evolution, Science of Geology. It's obvious what the second is about, the first not quite so much.
Light On Dark Water 