Miraculously discovered, of course, by Saint Helena. At the Christian city of Jerusalem. Ah, those were the days...
Those of us whose spirituality is centred on Eucharistic Adoration should make a particular effort to keep all the Feasts of Our Lord. I wish that I had included in Essays Radical and Orthodox, on which I am receiving mountains of complimentary and stimulating correspondence, the fact that the more that people are devoted to the Communion of Saints, so the more that they are devoted to the Person of Him Who unites it: the Blessed Sacrament, the Holy Name, the Sacred Heart, the Precious Blood, the Divine Infancy, and so on.
And, correspondingly, the fact that the more that people are steeped in the Fathers and Doctors of Sacred Tradition and in the documents of the Magisterium, so the more that they are steeped in the text of Sacred Scripture, constantly open to insights that can never begin to be provided, either by sola scriptura fundamentalism (Lutherans and Calvinists, the latter including Anglican Conservative Evangelicals, are not really sola scriptura people, even if they think that they are), or by secular and secularising Biblical criticism.
But there will be plenty more opportunities.
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"on which I am receiving mountains of complimentary and stimulating correspondence,"
ReplyDeleteFunny that not one single review has appeared and it's been trashed by every reader on Lulu.
I'm talking about rather a better class of reader than that, darling. And I receive daily requests for review copies, though not from anything of which you would have heard. These things take time in the thinking classes. If and when a review ever appears in Nuts or Heat, then do let me know.
ReplyDeleteOh, leave them alone, David. Anything with a preface by John will be reviewed everywhere that matters, and anything that does not review it does not matter.
ReplyDeleteIf they do not know that, then nor do they matter. But at their extremely early age, how could they?
Wonderful post, by the way. Keep up the good work.
They will be lucky to find anyone capable of reviewing all of it. That is the trouble with being the one-man Chesterbelloc of the twenty-first century, David. Who's a pretty polymath? You are.
ReplyDeleteThe more opportunities, the better. Those second and third paragraphs moved me very deeply. How right you are.
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