Pilgrim seeking the beatific vision. Wife to Jai, mommy to Thomas, servant of Caesar 🐈⬛. Essays, novels, book reviews. Encourager of the Four Families. Servant of the Secret Fire. 🔥
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Did Pope Leo miss a chance to preach the gospel? Did he define the gospel correctly? I take on these questions and more in my final consideration of Magnifica Humanitas.
“Alone with none but Thee, O Lord,
I journey on my way.
What need I fear when you are near
O Lord of night and day?
Safer am I within Thy hand
Than if a host should round me stand.”
Prayer attributed to St. Columba, missionary to the British Isles, whose feast day is today.
The tone of our communication is really about virtue. Out of the overflow of our heart, we speak. Virtue is not elitist, for no one suffers more cruelly at the hands of vice than the lower classes, who often reap the harvest of the sick hearts of the elite.
The completion of one of the most beautiful churches in the world. May God be glorified in this work of architecture that points us to spiritual realities, and in this sacred place where people will come to seek his face.
Today at Sub-Creations, I consider a question raised by the pope’s recent encyclical: is technology morally good, bad, or neutral? And how does J.R.R. Tolkien help us to understand this?
