A catechism of Nature (4): The sea What can the sea tell her, That she does not now know, and know how to bear? She knows, as the sea, that what came will recur, And detached in that wisdom, is aware How grain by slow grain, the last sun heat fr... Read More...
Dispatch from a white priest in Dallas Like many people, I feel a sense of foreboding about what is coming on our nation and our world.
A catechism of Nature (3): Edge effect We were again on the edge of something exceeding our competence, a patchwork of boundaries.
A catechism of Nature (2): the vernal transgression of boundaries Late winter's dormant destinies are disclosed by the spring.
A catechism of Nature (1): Reason and the destiny of animal life Reason, the thing that separates us from brute beasts, does not liberate us from animality, but it liberates animality itself, for the actualization of a potential that cannot be actualized without reason.
The deterioration of nature: on the running out of time Oceans of ink have been spilled on the subject of time’s sanctification according to the Church’s calendar, and, certainly, conforming one’s life to the calendar, observing feasts and fasts and seasons, affords... Read More...
Benedicite: a meditation on language and transcendence I thought of how the landscape is an icon of our predicament. The insularity of humanity, the impermeable boundaries of our selfhoods, of our discourses and desires; it is all a great conspiracy of alienation.
The Cross, the form of marriage The Cross is the nuptial bed on which is consummated the union of divine nature and human nature in the “one flesh” of Jesus. Nothing connotes this more powerfully than our Lord’s final “word” from the cross.
