We need to develop a closer relationship with sacred Scripture; otherwise, our hearts will remain cold and our eyes shut, struck as we are by so many forms of blindness.
… Christ Jesus is knocking at our door in the words of sacred Scripture. If we hear his voice and open the doors of our minds and hearts, then he will enter our lives and remain ever with us.Pope Francis, Apostlic Letter “Aperuit Illis,” #8
Tag: relationship
Life is a conversation
When we reclaim conversation and the places to have them, we are led to reconsider the importance of long-term thinking. Life is not a problem looking for a quick fix. Life is a conversation and you need places to have it. The virtual provides us with more spaces for these conversations and these are enriching. But what makes the physical so precious is that it supports continuity in a different way; it doesn’t come and go, and it binds people to it. You can’t just log off or drop out. You learn to live things through.
Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, 331.
We, this small portion of Your creation
To praise You is what humanity desires,
we, this small portion of Your creation,
“carrying our mortality around” (2 Cor 4:10),
carrying around the testimony of our sin
and the testimony “that You resist the proud” (1 Pt 5:5).
And yet to praise You is what humanity desires,
we, this small portion of Your creation.You stir us that we take delight
in praising You,
for You have made us for Yourself,
and our hearts are restless ’til they rest in You.St Augustine, Confessions 1.1.
Text from Augustine in His Own Words, edited by William Harmless SJ.
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