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"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery o'Connor

"Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, stewards of the new day that is dawning."
- NT Wright

"When we think our brother or sister has sinned against us, such an affront is not just against us but against the whole community. A community established as peaceful cannot afford to let us relish our sense of being wronged without exposing that wrong in the hopes of reconciliation."
- Stan Hauerwas

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
- Thomas Merton

"All the believers were of one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possesions was their own, but they shared everything that they had."
- Acts of the Apostles

"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself."
- St. Augustine

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The Eucharist of the Early Christians

The Collected Short Stories, Flannery o'Connor

The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy

(have read)

Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II

God is Near Us, Pope Benedict XVI

Heretics/Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning

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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Trinity Sunday

"I bind unto myself today
The strong name of the Trinity
By invocation of the same,
The Three in One and One in Three."

-St. Patrick's Breastplate

Today I just feel like giving a quote and a link. I am actually finishing up "Cruelty of Heresy" today and have a lot to think about. I've learned a lot these past few days in learning what exactly heresy is, why it is caused, and how it lives on in the modern church. I have learned that heretical teachings do not allow for "life to the fullest" and inevitably "clamp off" blood flow to our spiritual selves. I will spend some more time reflecting on the book and blogging it later on tonight. Thanks for the recommendation, Kyle.

Here's my thought for the day:

"The members of the Trinity show us what being a "person" means - The Father gives himself by offering his Son in love for the world, the Son gives himself by being sacrificed in love to the Father for the world, and the Holy Spirit gives himself by presenting the Father and the Son to us in love. Self-sacrifice is the only way to perfect self-fulfillment and happiness in the peace of God.

The Trinity teaches us, moreover, that our existence as persons is dependent on the inner being of God. It is because we are created in his image and likeness that we have a capacity for relationship, which means that our primary relationship must always be with him. In the Trinity we see the sacred tie of kinship (Father and Son) perfectly balanced by the equally sacred Spirit. The ancients knew that a love relationship between two was imperfect; it required a third to give it balance and fulfillment. Love between two would be self-devouring and destructive, but the third Person, dwelling in complete equality with the other two, provides the balance needed for a complete expression of the essence of God."

- Gerald Bray, "Creeds, Councils, and Christ."

Kyle Potter leaves us with a thought for Trinity Sunday.

posted by -mike- at 12:02 PM

 

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