Six years ago today, my daughter Emily broke her back in a fall. We are thankful that she healed well, but in such a young woman, a fracture is an indication that she needs to take extra care to keep her bones strong. Keep on walking your dog, Emily!
December 03, 2004
Ari with family and friends.
Degree Confluence Project: 16 degrees north, 120 degrees east One year ago today, my daughter-in-law, Ari, visited this confluence in the Philippines, where she was visiting her family.
The goal of The Degree Confluence Project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. From the home page, you can search for other Nordhagen confluence adventures!
Ari with family and friends.
December 02, 2004
Degree Confluence Project: 16 degrees north, 120 degrees east
One year ago today, my daughter-in-law, Ari, visited this confluence in the Philippines, where she was visiting her family.
The goal of The Degree Confluence Project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location.
From the home page, you can search for other Nordhagen confluence adventures!
One year ago today, my daughter-in-law, Ari, visited this confluence in the Philippines, where she was visiting her family.
The goal of The Degree Confluence Project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location.
From the home page, you can search for other Nordhagen confluence adventures!
November 15, 2004
October 28, 2004
Phobia?
Telegraph News Cave dig unearths world of the 'Hobbit': "'You are going to find many more weird homo species running around south-east Asia.'"
Telegraph News Cave dig unearths world of the 'Hobbit': "'You are going to find many more weird homo species running around south-east Asia.'"
October 19, 2004
October 06, 2004
September 17, 2004
September 09, 2004
February 25, 2004
February 14, 2004
From Bill Cork's blog, "ut unum sint": I quoted to my son from Cardinal Ratzinger's fine book, Eschatology. Yes, Cardinal Ratzinger can be of great assistance in explaining purgatory to a fourteen-year-old:
Purgatory is not, as Tertullian thought, some kind of supra-worldly concentration camp where one is forced to undergo punishments in a more or less arbitrary fashion. Rather it is the inwardly necessary process of transformation in which a person becomes capable of Christ, capable of God, and thus capable of unity with the whole communion of saints. Simply to look at people with any degree of realism at all is to grasp the necessity of such a process. It does not replace grace by works, but allows the former to achieve its full victory precisely as grace. What actually saves is the full assent of faith. But in most of us, that basic option is buried under a great deal of wood, hay and straw. Only with difficulty can it peer out from behind the latticework of an egoism we are powerless to pull down with our own hands. Man is the recipient of the divine mercy, yet this does not exonerate him from the need to be transformed. Encounter with the Lord is this transformation. It is the fire that burns away our dross and re-forms us to be vessels of eternal joy.
Purgatory is not, as Tertullian thought, some kind of supra-worldly concentration camp where one is forced to undergo punishments in a more or less arbitrary fashion. Rather it is the inwardly necessary process of transformation in which a person becomes capable of Christ, capable of God, and thus capable of unity with the whole communion of saints. Simply to look at people with any degree of realism at all is to grasp the necessity of such a process. It does not replace grace by works, but allows the former to achieve its full victory precisely as grace. What actually saves is the full assent of faith. But in most of us, that basic option is buried under a great deal of wood, hay and straw. Only with difficulty can it peer out from behind the latticework of an egoism we are powerless to pull down with our own hands. Man is the recipient of the divine mercy, yet this does not exonerate him from the need to be transformed. Encounter with the Lord is this transformation. It is the fire that burns away our dross and re-forms us to be vessels of eternal joy.