The Spirit Who Embraces Both East and West, Part 3
Practical Mysticism and the Paraclete This matters to us as more than a mere abstract question for reasons similar to those involving the atonement in Chapter 7. Just as some
Practical Mysticism and the Paraclete This matters to us as more than a mere abstract question for reasons similar to those involving the atonement in Chapter 7. Just as some
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit,That my thoughts may all be holy.Act in me, O Holy Spirit,That my work, too, may be holy.Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit,That I love
Over on the Book of Face, I noted this story with a prayer that Jesus’ prayer for the unity of the Church would be answered: Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew
No book, not even an inspired one, interprets itself. Humans do that. So when Philip asked the Ethiopian eunuch if he understood the meaning of the passage from Isaiah he
As we saw in Chapter 8, Jesus taught the Church to read the Old Testament with the assurance that Scripture had a literal sense, but also more than literal senses.
Another vital likeness between drama and the Faith is… faith. The theatre asks us for a willing suspension of disbelief—in other words, an act of faith. That’s not exceptional. That’s
Catholic worship, like Jewish worship before it, is deeply liturgical. Liturgy means “the work of the people” and is the great communal and ritual act of self-offering to God whereby
So far I have listed negative reasons for worshipping God: namely, the evils we avoid by doing so. But the overwhelming reason to worship God erupts in majesty from the
Another reason God commands we learn to worship him is to save his creatures from our inveterate habit of “unduly demanding of them something which they, in their smallness, cannot
My mother-in-law, one of the wisest women I have ever known, summed up the cheat of idolatry this way: “You can never get enough of what you don’t really want.”
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