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God does not confront us with a boundary, he presents us with an infinite horizon.
(James Hanvey - The Tablet 29/11/08)
ON RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY
Because “God” is infinite, nobody can have the last word (Karen Armstrong, The Times 27 June 2009. Read the full article here)
DREAMS
“It’s gone,” sighed the Rat, sinking back in his seat again. “So beautiful and strange and new! Since it was to end so soon, I almost wish I had never heard it. For it has roused a longing in me that is pain, and nothing seems worth while but just to hear that sound once more and go on listening to it for ever. No! There it is again!” he cried, alert once more. Entranced, he was silent for a long space, spellbound. “Now it passes on and I begin to lose it,” he said presently. “O Mole! The beauty of it …”
We are congenitally overcharged for this earth. We are infinite spirits in finite conditions. We carry a helpless attraction for the beauty that gave us birth. We are capax mundi, capax Dei (knowing Creation, knowing God) but trapped in the limit-ocnditions of time and space.
There is an undertow of unfulfilment that only union with our source and our destiny will heal and complete. To be tormented by restlessness is one of the many frustrating consequences of being both human and divine at the same time! There is no escape from the echoes of an infinite horizon. We live in the thin place where mysteries meet.
(Daniel O'Leary in The Tablet 18th July 2009)
HOME BEFORE DARK
One way of preparing for old age is to focus "on the eternal energy which never leaves us; a kind of energy that sleeps, neglected within us while we are relentlessly obsessed with the driven routines which must be melted down in retirement. ....
A new homeland draws into view when, as senior citizens, we start living from within. Our souls are always young. They have preserved, in a safe place, the field of dreams that once lay beautifully across the landscape of our childhood. It is in these fields and in no other, where the seeds of our God-like beauty were first nurtured, that our eternal harvest will be reaped....
And if, one of these summer evenings, you faintly hear again your mother's voice calling you in because the night is coming, your eyes will start to shine, because, as the house of heaven draws ever closer, you will recognise it with astonishment, as the home you never left.
(Danile O'Leary - The Tablet 28 Jume 2008 p.11)
ON SUPPOSED SECULARISATION
"Three times in history people have said Christianity has gone to the dogs but each time its the dog that's died" (G.K. Chesterton)
ON READING THE BIBLE
"It is not so much that the Bible neatly answers all our questions, as that it questions all our answers" (Mark Oakley, Church Times, 28 Mar 08)
If it's true that we do not speak language, but language speaks us, then is it also true that we don't read the Bible but the Bible reads us?
When we 'do theology' we are going to be exposed to the object of our study and open to the risk of being changed.
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