📄St. Thérèse of Lisieux's Little Way as an Image of Trinitarian Love
The Holy Trinity is one of the richest and lofty mysteries. But it is to the Little Flower's great genius that her spiritual instruction perfectly proportions the nature of this mystery to everyday life.
In Platonic participation [μέθεξις], there exists three terms: (1) unparticipated, (2) participated, and (3) participant.
The term ‘unparticipated’ denotes what is presupposed by any phenomenological or sensible insight. These are the things-in-themselves [noumena], the unmoved.
Since my house is large and antique with a ‘baroque’ interior, I like to imagine it as a boarding school; a secretly revived Platonic Academy.
I wake up, put on my uniform, eat at the ‘dining hall,’ and read at my family's library. I even have imaginary classmates and teachers.
Attention! This is a thread of actual quotes from the Harry Potter books of fascinating interactions between Harry and Draco.
I will be attaching artworks of "Draco Malfoid" to each one.
Attention! This is a thread of actual quotes from the Harry Potter books of fascinating interactions between Harry and Draco.
I will be attaching artworks of "Draco Malfoid" to each one.
A sufficiently strong faith moves us to do good works.
These objections arise from a perceived equality of weight placed on the two terms. Faith is the principle, or very cause of works, and is thus what is prior. Separating them is akin to cutting the fruits from the tree.
I love my sex. I wouldn't want to be anything but a woman. If God asks me in the next life, what sex I want to come back as, I'm picking female every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
But I feel like some of us should be slaves again.