Kingfishers, Dragonflies, and Stones

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; / As tumbled over rim in roundy wells / Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's / Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; / Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: / Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; / Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, / Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.// Í say móre: the just man justices/ [Gerard Manley Hopkins]

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In "Four Cultures of the West," John O'Malley, SJ, showed us how to read the open book of our own personal experience and look at what we find there. This is what I find about family and friends, academics and humanism, religion and the rule of law.

Monday, December 27, 2010

The Day After Christmas is The Day Back to Reality.


Discussion among those who disagree religiously is marked by the same discourtesy as is manifest in those who disagree politically. And the basic reason for those secular or religious is the same: their bent to the right or to the left. There are even similar identifying titles for right wing Catholics. CIA for Catholic Investigative Agency. CTP for Catholic Tea Party. RC for Real Catholics. PFJ as People for Jesus. BCI for Boston Catholic Insider.


Sounds humorous, silly even, for mature, God-aware men and women, rosaries in hand, calluses on knees, and that oh! so humble downcast look to be so militant in their defense of the Almighty, All-Powerful, Infinite Godhead, whether they be leftish or rightish in their fundamental views of fundamental reality. But, so it is. Amen


I see this immense to the death struggle as if it were two hostile forces mounted on wild horses, lances drawn and aimed, galloping across a barren field at each other, hooves thundering, voices screaming, impending death hovering in the dust of the turf, and for one silent moment, a great wind blows as softly quiet as the baby's voice from the crib in the middle of the field of religiosity: "Here I am, if you are looking for me."

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