Spanning the Globe To Bring You The Constant Variety Of PostsQ is for Quote you like – “Never let anyone outside the family know what you're thinking.” Don Corleone in the original Godfather. Good advice. Which I violate daily. Right here. - Ellyn of Oblique House
You see, if it isn't some external crisis, I can conjure enough profound internal crises to plunge me into my semi-annual funk. I don't think I'll do that this year--it's tiresome and tedious and not conducive to my own mental health. - Steven Riddle of Flos Carmeli
Well, it's always awkward to have to correct the Pope, but isn't that why God made Dominicans? - you know who said this :)
As Thoreau said, we are fools to box up one of the most beautiful sights in the world—a living fire—and keep it in the cellar. Smash the television set, turn out the lights, build a fire in the fireplace, move the family into the living room, put a pot on to boil some tea and toddy and have an experiment in merriment, a sudden, unexpected hearth, the heart and first step in the restoration of a home... - John Senior, author of "The Restoration of Christian Culture"
And, mirabile dictu, about halfway through Mass I got a gentle nudge to the ribs. In a whisper, I heard: "Look, Daddy--I'm praying!" So she was. - Dale Price of "Dyspeptic Mutterings" on a first trip to a Tridentine Mass. (Funny, that's my problem with prayer. As soon as I'm aware that I'm praying, I'm no longer praying.)
I don't want to blog but I would feel like the wicked and slothful servant who hid his one talent in the earth. That talent—perhaps quite common—is a singularity that leads me to make and write things that would otherwise not exist—not because they are difficult but because they are not wanted, at least before they are made, and perhaps for a long time afterwards. But the Giver of the talent wants a return on it, and I try to give it back with interest. Actually, of course, it is not my talent, but “thy talent”—“his lord’s money.” If I have identified it right, I have obeyed my vocation; if not, then, still, “all is grace.” Unlike you I crave an audience and praise, but I have had enough of both to know that I shall only be satisfied by One. - Leo Wong on St Blog's Parish Hall on why he blogs
I have noticed that when it comes to discussions on liturgical music and church architecture on my blog and on others that there is a direct correlation between the theological views of the commenter and whether they like or dislike something pertaining to those subjects.... Why is that? If beauty is supposed to be so subjective and in the eye (or ear) of the beholder, then why does opposing or support develop along theological fault lines? - Jeff of The Curt Jester
Our conversation grew out of the sense that God did not so much need Christ to die as we needed Christ to die. I think of it in terms of what Jesus told the Jewish people regarding the law of divorce. It was not that divorce was a good thing, or even really an acceptable thing, but rather that it was a thing granted to them because of their hardness of heart. If there had been any other way to break the hardness of the human heart other than the death of God Himself, God would have used it. Indeed, through time He sent prophet after prophet after prophet to tell the people of Israel how much He loved them and how enduring His love was. They could not hear this--they killed the prophets or ignored them. The hardness of the human heart sets diamond to shame. - Steven Riddle
[Blogs] can give a sense of communion to Catholics who for whatever reason don't feel close to their fellow parishioners. (This has some obvious limits beyond which bad things start to happen.) - Tom of Disputations on why some St. Bloggers blog
Personally, I find it outstanding that Shelley (of all the Romantics, Shelley!) was so well attuned to the idea of grace that he could write a poem that shares themes with St. Therese's The Story of a Soul and Thomas a Kempis' The Imitation of Christ. Shelley is spot on about many things, too. He recognises, for instance, that we are completely dependent on (God's) grace in our spiritual lives, but also, paradoxically, the only way to stay faithful to this grace is to shoulder on when it is denied to us, and to trust that it will not let us down if we remain true to it. - Enbrethiliel of Sancta Sanctis
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