tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post2912810143203556234..comments2023-06-20T07:19:44.412-04:00Comments on The Four Mass'keteers: Saint Norbert —1080-1134.David Nybakkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13172189118334371454noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-30059340312962946952007-06-06T19:08:00.000-04:002007-06-06T19:08:00.000-04:00add: ... is ignored, trampled upon, or scorned.<EM>add:</EM> ... is ignored, trampled upon, or scorned.Athoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-32492294781611680542007-06-06T19:07:00.000-04:002007-06-06T19:07:00.000-04:00Our symptom is that we have fallen under the “vict...<EM>Our symptom is that we have fallen under the “victory of Pilate” when he asked “What is truth?” And anyway, who has time for that question?</EM><BR/><BR/>That is my point: who <EM>shouldn't</EM> make time for <EM>that</EM> question? The allure of the "bright, shiny object" being dangled in front of <EM>everyone's</EM> face by the market, by television (wait, that's the same thing), by the internet (except this blog, of course) is what perpetuates the "attention deficit disorder" of human life today.<BR/><BR/>We are simply <EM>programmed</EM> to look at the consumable objects of desire and stop far short of asking the BIG questions of human life. The distractions keep us from asking about mortality, eternity, our purpose (why we're here in the first place), and reality of "mattering".<BR/><BR/>The <EM>imago dei</EM> and all that that should mean to us is ignored for trinkets, baubles, mindless and meaningless "stories", and joining ourselves to the metanarrative of salvation history.Athoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-37631344632417613672007-06-06T17:44:00.000-04:002007-06-06T17:44:00.000-04:00I was too hasty in pushing the "publish your comme...I was too hasty in pushing the "publish your comment" button. Our symptom is that we have fallen under the “victory of Pilate” when he asked “What is truth?” And anyway, who has time for that question? Pilate must have ended many a great party asking questions like that.David Nybakkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13172189118334371454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-56686907569207687552007-06-06T17:36:00.000-04:002007-06-06T17:36:00.000-04:00Ath, I think it goes deeper than that... Virginia ...Ath, I think it goes deeper than that... Virginia Woolf <A HREF="http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91w/complete.html" REL="nofollow">"The Wave"</A>: But for ourselves, we resent teachers. Let a man get up and say, “Behold, this is the truth,” and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. So Neville, at school, in the dim chapel, raged at the sight of the doctor’s crucifix. I, who am always distracted, whether by a cat or by a bee buzzing round the bouquet that Lady Hampden keeps so diligently pressed to her nose, at once make up a story and so obliterate the angles of the crucifix. I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found that story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?David Nybakkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13172189118334371454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-50784059749950242712007-06-06T13:57:00.000-04:002007-06-06T13:57:00.000-04:00A principal reason for this failure was—and is—the...<EM>A principal reason for this failure was—and is—the indifference of vast numbers of nominal faithful, their indifference to ecclesiastical authority and essential doctrines of the faith.</EM><BR/><BR/>Do you think, Aramis, that this "indifference" is due to the sheer number of distractions in a culture that has turned its back on the true transcedence of the Gospel? That is, given away its birthright, Christendom has gone "looking for 'love' in all the wrong places?"<BR/><BR/>People will have their religion one way or another: if not the deposit of faith in the perfect revelation of God in Jesus Christ, then in gutter forms of religion <EM>via</EM> the primitive sacred?Athoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-4272818078199146512007-06-06T12:20:00.000-04:002007-06-06T12:20:00.000-04:00Magnificent reflection, Aramis. Thank you. I was...Magnificent reflection, Aramis. Thank you. I was just now (over lunch) reading an essay by Peter Milward, SJ in Saint Austin Review entitled, "Being and Non-Being in Shakespeare."<BR/><BR/>St Norbert's words at his ordination rung like thunder: <EM>You are not yourself because you are the mediator between God and man. You are not from yourself because you are nothing. What then are you? Nothing and everything.</EM><BR/><BR/>From Milward's essay: <BR/><BR/><EM>...Shakespeare dares to put into the mouth of his heroine Cordelia the twofold affirmation, "And so I am, I am!" -- as it were echoing the very name of God revealed to Moses. On the other hand, lest pride go before a fall, as in the case of the fallen angels, it belongs to the virtue of humility in man to confess that he might not have been, that even in his inmost being lurks the possibility of non-being.</EM><BR/><BR/>Best as always,Athoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com