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In Cath-O-Land and most of Christendom we celebrate the Solemn Feast of Pentecost which brings the Easter season to its conclusion. For 50 days we have been celebrating the Victor over sin & death. Many may scoff, and perhaps rightly so that people keep on dying and sinning, so what kind of victory is that? For the souls that disciple to Him, the journey to conquering sin & death begins with for each individual. It is far from a perfect process, sin is present along every step of the way and regressions and abandoning the call abound in our modern world.
One cannot be a Disciple and remain the same, either become like the Master or quit following. Sadly Christians have a very marred history of following the Master, it seems that when a church possesses power, it almost always faces corruption and interior decay. The good life, the easy life, rarely leads Her to the virtuous life. Persecution and hardship, self-denial and living a life that is meager does Discipleship good.
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” - G. K . Chesterton
I mostly agree with G. K. but there are some who have found it. The play Our Town provides a glimpse.
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.
Nothing is more fundamental than life - without it there is nothing else. Life without meaning is pointless. What bring s meaning to your life? I hope there is something more than the ever present, so utterly endearing, yet massively frustrating, and equally disappointing as the relentless ME. I hope your ME has found a THEE to cling to. If not, well good luck in this crapshoot called life. If our horizon ends with us, it is a very small and more often than not, cruel and empty world. Believe in a THEE and commit yourself to the quest that such a endeavor invites us to pursue.
Tom Miller - Son, Brother, Disciple of Christ, Friend to Many, Neighbor to Most, Seeker of Communion with the Holy Trinity and someone trying to get his crap together before the clock runs out. Blessed Pentecost fellow Disciples, Happy Sunday other worshipers of A Divine and Happy June 5th to all of the rest of my dear Digital Neighbors.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Good morning, digital neighbors! Happy Wednesday, my friends across the inter-webs! Today we celebrate the feast of St. Jerome, who gifted the early Church with the Vulgate, the Latin translation of Sacred Scripture from the Hebrew and Greek. It was not without its faults; to translate is to lose something in the process. There are subtleties of language and nuances of speech that do not always carry over from one language to another.
Jerome's big conversion moment was a dream in which Jesus told him that he loved Latin literature more than Him. And Jerome did love Latin; he was fond of Cicero, Virgil, and Horace, and many minor authors. He had difficulties with other languages and was not overly fond of Greek or Hebrew, but even with all his complaints, he strove to learn them so he could faithfully translate the Scriptures into Latin, making them available to any who wanted to read them in the common tongue of the West. The eastern part of the empire still relied on Greek as its common language.
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The Proud Minister
One day there came into the Garden a man in torn clothes badly bruised and cut, who said to the Lover, “In the name of the Beloved I demand your help.”
So the Lover and the Disciple let him in and dressed his wounds and prepared the best of the vegetables from the Garden for him to eat. When his wounds had been dressed and he had eaten and rested the Lover asked him how he had fallen into this plight, to which the man replied, “I was Minister of the Beloved in a city near this place, where I preached His gospel and expounded His doctrine to the people. I pointed out to them how their sins had made them wholly hateful to the Beloved and how therefore they were utterly beyond the range of His love and He would condemn them to eternal torments, whereon some fell into despair and wept bitterly but many were angry. One day the magistrates called me before them and begged me to leave the city and preach elsewhere for they said I had made many people so angry and desperate that they feared there might be a riot and they might not be able to protect me but that I might suffer some injury. I, however, very zealous for the Beloved and believing that the magistrates only feared that their own sins might be proclaimed, preached the more vehemently, denounced the magistrates and made it abundantly clear that the whole wicked city was foredoomed to eternal punishment by the just provision of the Beloved. Whereon a mob, stirred up no doubt by the corrupt and venal magistrates, fell upon me with sticks and stones, nearly killing me and driving me out of the city in the state in which I came to you.”
“My friend,” said the Lover, “this was not a good deed of yours, for besides denying the unfathomable compassion of the Beloved, you have by your obstinacy caused these people to commit a grievous sin, and this cannot be pleasing to the Beloved, that through you who profess to be His minister the people should become worse. Surely you remember that He Himself said, ‘If they persecute you in one city flee to another.’”
Therefore the man was very angry, and cursing the Lover, said, “I see that I have had a very false report of you and I do not believe that you are a servant of the Beloved at all. When I came to you so injured for the Beloved’s sake you set before me only herbs and fruits although the garden is full of birds which you could have killed to make me a worthy meal. I shall proclaim everywhere that you are no true servant of the Beloved but a mere falterer who dares not suffer in the cause of the Beloved. Be sure that you are foreordained to eternal torments who suffer nothing here.”
For the man was so blinded by his own pride that he could not perceive the scars on the hands and feet and the brows of the Lover nor how the cloth beneath the armpits of his tunic was dyed with a red dye. So he went out of the Garden cursing and shouting.
But the Lover looked sad and said, “A man like this does much harm to the cause of the Beloved, for by thus speaking falsely about the Beloved he may bring men to fear Him but none to love Him, and by love alone can any man approach the Beloved.”
