Mark Derrane

[Mark Derrane @markderrane]

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[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

How can you justify reading or creating art when the world is falling apart?

C.S. Lewis asked this question in a sermon called "Learning in Wartime," delivered to university students while Germans were dropping bombs on London.

His first point is crucial:

"The war creates absolutely no new situation; it simply aggravates the permanent situation."

The belief that study belongs only to peacetime is a false illusion born of modern comfort. Our greatest thinkers pursued Beauty in times of war.

Moreover, our literary tradition itself accepts war as an inescapable truth of reality:

The Iliad, Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus — every founding myth of the Western Tradition wrestles with war, violence, and even fratricide.

Lewis reminds us that civilization was not built by scholars in times of peace; rather, it was built by courageous souls who sought virtue in the face of death. Abandoning study leads to grave consequences for our culture:

"If you don't read good books, you will read bad ones. If you don't go on thinking rationally, you will think irrationally. If you reject aesthetic satisfactions, you will fall into sensual satisfactions."

The fact is, culture is never neutral. If we abandon the pursuit of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, our civilization ceases to be True, Beautiful, or even Good.

Lewis insists the intellectual life is itself a form of resistance:

"Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."

Reading then, is not just a leisurely pursuit in peacetime, nor is it an escape from the troubles of the world.

It's the very practice that makes civilization beautiful, and makes your own life meaningful and worth living.

[Mark Derrane @markderrane]

@matthew_labosco Stress

[Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone @ArchCordileone]

Most of the devout young Catholics I meet grow up with the typical parish fare on Sundays, only later discovering the beauty of our authentic Catholic liturgical patrimony. Their reaction? Wonder, mixed with anger. They tell me—and this is a literal, word-for-word quote—“I’ve been deprived of my Catholic birthright.”

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@alexscottcook Happy Birthday!

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@AlexBerenson

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@IsleOfFitness You doing 93/7?

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@IsleOfFitness I LOL'd

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@IsleOfFitness So I'm watching thinking you are sharing a lot of takes and I'm wondering, "What does it mean that he always gets stuck at wife?" But then I realize, I'm listening to the same take over and over. And what does THAT mean?! 😄 Keep going, Sean!

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@IsleOfFitness Looks good! Have a great day!

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@IsleOfFitness Sean's the real deal, worth it!

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@IsleOfFitness Patrick himself would be proud ☘️

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@IsleOfFitness Awesome!👏

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@CalebGregory304

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@IsleOfFitness

[Dcn. Garlick, Chancellor 🇻🇦 @HarrisonGarlic1]

My friends, intellectual conversion comes *prior* to moral conversion.

Remember that knowledge comes before love! And love is prior to service.

Not all who truly believe “Christ is King!” have reconciled their morality with what their intellect knows to be true.

Be patient with those who are expressing an *intellectual conversion* but have not yet had a moral one.

Let the Gospel and the Holy Spirit work.

[Mark Derrane @markderrane]

@IsleOfFitness With the bread, tomato, whisk and sundries, where else would one keep it?

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@IsleOfFitness Looks good. Nice spoon. 😄

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@IsleOfFitness Wow!

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@IsleOfFitness I like these. Bread thighs or breasts and bake and then drizzle according to taste https://t.co/4lCBZleyd2