It’s a little unclear what it means when the Psalms say that God has “established strength from out of the mouths of very babes,” but I’m convinced this is it. Language means putting the world in rational order, understanding universals and particulars, grasping that *this* man fills a role called “dada” which, you will one day learn, other men fill for other children. In other words it means internalizing the principles that hold the universe together—principles like one and may and time and number, the foundations of music and of physics alike. And see how all this is drawn out from within into speech, the very foundations of heaven and earth coaxed tenderly from mind to lungs, across the teeth, into the very air, to form a shape the meaning of which is love. And for this the universe was founded, and in this the universe is made anew each day, with unfathomable might, the power that ignited a septillion nuclear reactors in the sky, drawn out again—again!—from the mouths of very babes.
How it started - how it's going.
Yuri Gagarin was the first, 65 years ago today.
Artemis 2 crew, safely back from the Moon this week.
I salute the bravery, and marvel at what we can do.
We've only just begun.
“Rejoice today, both you who have fasted and you who have disregarded the fast. The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.”
A cutting reflection from Cardinal Ratzinger, Good Friday 2005:
"Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the condemned man is innocent, and he looks for a way to free him. But his heart is divided. And in the end he lets his own position, his own self-interest, prevail over what is right.
Nor are the men who are shouting and demanding the death of Jesus utterly evil. Many of them, on the day of Pentecost, will feel "cut to the heart," when Peter will say to them: "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God... you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law."
But at that moment they are caught up in the crowd. They are shouting because everyone else is shouting, and they are shouting the same thing that everyone else is shouting. And in this way, justice is trampled underfoot by weakness, cowardice and fear of the diktat of the ruling mindset. The quiet voice of conscience is drowned out by the cries of the crowd.
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think."
I know now that I cannot home school my future kids because this entire week would've been all about the Iran situation (all the way since the Persian Empire days), after spending an entire month on Venezuela and the Cartels, despite us lagging seriously behind on Maths.