THE THIRD EPISTLE OF ST. IGNATIUS
CHAPTER VII.
And my love is crucified, and there is no fire in me for another love.
I do not desire the food of corruption, neither the lusts of this world.
I seek the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ;
and I seek His blood, a drink which is love incorruptible.
June 02, 2002
St. Augustine's Prayer to the Holy Spirit
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 but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
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 but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
"I say that we are wound
with mercy round and round
as if with air: the same is Mary, more by name
She, wild web, wondrous robe,
Mantles the guilty globe,
Since God has let dispense
Her prayers His providence.......
Through her we may see him
Made sweeter, not made dim
And her hand leaves his light
Sifted to suit our sight.
Be thou then, O thou dear
Mother, my atmosphere;
My happier world, wherein
To wend and meet no sin........
Stir in my ears, speak there
Of patience, penance, prayer:
World-mothering air, air wild,
Wound with thee, in thee isled
Fold home, fast fold thy child."
~G. M.Hopkins
with mercy round and round
as if with air: the same is Mary, more by name
She, wild web, wondrous robe,
Mantles the guilty globe,
Since God has let dispense
Her prayers His providence.......
Through her we may see him
Made sweeter, not made dim
And her hand leaves his light
Sifted to suit our sight.
Be thou then, O thou dear
Mother, my atmosphere;
My happier world, wherein
To wend and meet no sin........
Stir in my ears, speak there
Of patience, penance, prayer:
World-mothering air, air wild,
Wound with thee, in thee isled
Fold home, fast fold thy child."
~G. M.Hopkins
June 01, 2002
We began with the mystery, not just of suffering but of suffering in a world supposedly created by a loving God. How to get God off the hook? God's answer is Jesus. Jesus is not God off the hook but God on the hook. That's why the doctrine of the divinity of Christ is crucial: If that is not God there on the cross but only a good man, then God is not on the hook, on the cross, in our suffering. And if God is not on the hook, then God is not off the hook. How could he sit there in heaven and ignore our tears?
There is, as we saw, one good reason for not believing in God: evil. And God himself has answered this objection not in words but in deeds and in tears. Jesus is the tears of God.
~Peter Kreeft
There is, as we saw, one good reason for not believing in God: evil. And God himself has answered this objection not in words but in deeds and in tears. Jesus is the tears of God.
~Peter Kreeft