Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Whose Body?

'I've left my catalogue behind,' said Lord Peter deprecatingly, 'uncommonly careless of me. D'you mind puttin' back to where we came from?'
'To the Seville Club, sir?'
'No - 110A Piccadilly - just beyond - thank you.'
'Thought you was in a hurry,' said the man, overcome with a sense of injury.
'I'm afraid it's an awkward place to turn in,' said Lord Peter, answering the thought rather then the words.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Don't worry, be happy!

" To escape the distress caused by regret for the past or fear about the future, this is the rule to follow: leave the past to the infinite mercy of God, the future to His good Providence, give the present wholly to His love by being faithful to His grace." de Caussade, Spiritual Counsels.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Trust

GOD, my Lord, is my strength;
he makes my feet swift as those of hinds
and enables me to go upon the heights.

Habakkuk 3:19

Friday, June 17, 2011

The natural meaning of marriage

Fr. Koterski again:
Natural marriage as something whose full meaning is extremely difficult to put into words, let alone be understood by young people when marrying. Yet it is something one can readily see enough of so as to desire intensely. The commitment of marriage then serves as a means by which those who do not yet know how to say well all that the act of sexual intercourse means by binding themselves to live in such a way as to grow into expressing what are the most appropriate aspects of their activities.

The desire to make one’s partner a parent seems to be more prominent in some cultures than others. A man desires to make his wife yet more of a woman by making her a mother, and a woman desires to make her husband yet more of a man by becoming a father.

A good definition of symbol from Fr. Joe Koterski, S.J.

“symbol” – a sign whose structure or activity or appearance signifies not only what it conveys by resemblance at the level of material likeness but that can lead us to a higher realm by virtue of some sort of likeness to the immaterial and spiritual reality it signifies.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

"[W]hat fills and satisfies the soul consists, not in knowing much, but in our understanding the realities profoundly, and in savoring them interiorly." --St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Friday, June 10, 2011

The Ballad of the White Horse~G.K.

For not till the night's blue slate is wiped
Of it's last star utterly,
And new strange signs writ there to read,
Shall eyes with such amazement heed
As when a great man knows indeed
A greater thing than he.