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Seven Ways Love Triumphs | Incarnation and Modernity
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039;The Incarnation continues'. Seven Ways Love Triumphs. Pietro Lorenzetti, Christ’s Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. 1320, Basilica di San Francesco, Assisi, Italy. Charity — the unconditional love which is divine love. There are seven corporal works of mercy explicitly mentioned by Christ. These are implicit commandments, oriented by Christ himself to be holy works, aligned with the promise of Paradise:. 8211; Gospel of St. Matthew. To feed the hungry. To give drink to the thirsty. To clothe the naked.
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Christ the Fetus | The Value of Human Flesh | Incarnation and Modernity
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039;The Incarnation continues'. Christ the Fetus The Value of Human Flesh. Leon Cogniet, Scène du Massacre des Innocents. 1824, Oil on Canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France. In contrast to such waste, we see the elevation of human flesh made evident in the Incarnation. Human flesh has Incarnate value. 8211; Theodore the Studite. On the Hypostatic Union. 8211; Caryll Houselander,. The Passion of the Infant Christ ,. As we show compassion for the many who have and provide abortions, for those who ...
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Kelly Thinks (Occasionally): Coping With Suicide: 6 Months On
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People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life." — Henri J.M. Nouwen. Thursday, June 6, 2013. Coping With Suicide: 6 Months On. Six Months, hey? Well, it's suprising that i ti s. I'm not coping really well. But I'm aware that I'm looking like I'm coping a fair bit better than, say, 3 months ago. I can't even think about death or suicide or dad or parents or fathers without tears coming to my eyes. So I don't think about those things,. And if they come up, I switch off.
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Call Me Free | Incarnation and Modernity
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039;The Incarnation continues'. Leonard Porter, Saint Paul Preaching to the Athenians on the Areopagus. 2009, Oil on Linen, The Liturgical Institute, Mundelein, Illinois. And you shall know the truth’, which now is hid from you, and speaks to you. ‘And the truth shall free you.’. Commentary on the Gospel of St. John. To the modern mind, Truth and freedom seem at odds with one another. We join Pilate in asking ‘What is Truth? Could we return to the original unity between freedom and Truth? In a cultural c...
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The Hidden Face of Love | An Open Letter to Women (and Men) Who Have Lost Children, and Those Who Know Them | Incarnation and Modernity
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039;The Incarnation continues'. The Hidden Face of Love An Open Letter to Women (and Men) Who Have Lost Children, and Those Who Know Them. Robert Reid, 1888 The Brooklyn Museum, New York. So, let’s get personal. First and foremost, I am so sorry. The circumstances are tragic. I am so sorry. I am so sorry. I am so sorry. So, yes, there is hope. Union is the answer. Our maternity will not die. The image is divine. In order to receive all this as consolation in the heart of grief, the will to believe, the.
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Incarnation and Modernity | 'The Incarnation continues' | Page 2
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039;The Incarnation continues'. July 18, 2016. Pour Out Thy Heart Like Water. Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia, Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ. Siena, ca. 1475, Tempera and gold on wood The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. But believing this to be true is a choice, a choice of faith, a choice that requires us to exercise both the fullness of our freedom and its total surrender a choice that reveals to us what human freedom itself truly means. What kind of heartache can propel u...
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Hide Not Thy Face | Remembering a Daughter III | Incarnation and Modernity
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039;The Incarnation continues'. Hide Not Thy Face Remembering a Daughter III. Fred Appleyard, A Secret. 1914-1915, Oil on Canvas, The Tate, London. A trinity of years has passed, each distinct in grief but one in hidden love. I hold a secret. It is your life. And I live to tell the story of its hope. Ye blesséd Creatures, I have heard the call. Ye to each other make; I see. The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;. My heart is at your festival,. My head hath its coronal,. What is this end? I keep a se...
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Shower of Felicity | The Rosary – Cord to Paradise | Incarnation and Modernity
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039;The Incarnation continues'. Shower of Felicity The Rosary – Cord to Paradise. Caravaggio, Madonna del Rosario. 1605-1607, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The Rosary seems to many an outdated mode of pietistic expression —. Repeated in an endless litany, often in slumber, half alert and redundant — and yet it is one of the Church’s oldest Marian devotions. 8221; ‘…Into the face that most resembles Christ. Now look: for by her radiance only she. Can render you prepared for seeing Christ.’. So deeply ...
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On Modern Poverty And How St. Thomas Aquinas Changed My Life | Incarnation and Modernity
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039;The Incarnation continues'. On Modern Poverty And How St. Thomas Aquinas Changed My Life. Gentile da Fabriano, Valle Romita Polyptich (detail), ca. 1400 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano. I remember being in a class on philosophy of religion and encountering in a reading of the. Words that struck me then quite differently than they strike me now. St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae. Reveals to us that we are ‘religious beings’. To deny this is to deny an existential truth. Self-deception on this fa...We su...
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The Playground of Grace | Incarnation and Modernity
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039;The Incarnation continues'. The Playground of Grace. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Children’s Games. 1560 Oil on panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. If the spiritual life were a playground, we would discover in it a lost innocence. Everything in a playground requires a climb. For the small children, it is the low climb into the jigsaw, or the duck on a spring. For the bigger ones, the capacity to get up steps and freely slide down plastic spiral speedways onto hot sand. 8220;Stop holding on to me fo...
