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A COMFORTING THOUGHT
From the Meditations of Guigues du Chastel, alias Guigo de Castro, the 11th-century Carthusian who was the Order's major founder after St Bruno, comes this passage (no. 399):
"The human soul is justifiably tormented for as long as it can be, in other words for as long as it loves something else more than God. No one cam lose God without wanting to ( Read more... ) -
WINTER SLANT
Laudator Temporis Acti's blog (see left) reminded me of this breathtaking piece by Emily Dickinson:
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter afternoons-
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes-
Heavenly Hurt, it gives us-
We can find no scar,
But internal difference,
Where the Meanings, are-
None may teach it-Any-
'Tis the Seal Despair-
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FOR EBENEZER
Around this time of year, beside the combatants in the so-called 'War on Christmas', the denouncers of commercialism and the venomous atheists, one is confronted also with what I will call the Ebenezers. These appear to hate everything, but everything, connected with Christmas. They denounce commercialism in pungent terms, lambasting the ( Read more... )
