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“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural cure for suffering, but a supernatural use for it.'“
—Simone Weil
Blessed Holy Week to all—
With Holy Week approaching, I was thinking of sharing a short daily meditation from St. Thomas Aquinas. Nothing from me—just his wisdom—but I’d do my best to walk you through it and help you understand it. Would that interest you?
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This is insightful. As a Catholic — a cradle Catholic, but an intellectual one — I spent a long time jumping, like Qoheleth, from one pursuit to another in order to find meaning, to “prove” myself, as it were. That included a lot of intellectual pursuits and attempts to master Catholic theology.
Like many who attended Steubenville — defi…
God? Ha. As I progress in age to my twilight years my wisdom has evolved. My faith in God isn't what it used to be in the days of my youth. Today I believe two things about God. 1; God created us and has long since died off. 2; God created us and then took off with its buddies to play eternal golf on a golf paradise world and doesn't give a flying f___ about its creations.
I don't deny there is or was a God. But I no longer have faith that God is intimately involved with humanity. Either way, we…
Life has a way of stripping everything from us. In a certain way I agree. He has given us all free will to live and do as we wish. I won’t get into much here except to say He gets involved in our personal lives only as much as we let Him in but he will do His will. No matter your or my opinions. Our will isn’t the last word on anything
"I won’t get into much here except to say He gets involved in our personal lives only as much as we let Him in but he will do His will. No matter your or my opinions. Our will isn’t the last word on anything"
Do you see the internal contradiction in what you wrote? That your first sentence is your opinion which your second sentence nullifies? The mysterious Creator saw to it that the truth can only be known by the absence of contradiction.