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Truth is an Antinomy

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Creation is born and dies, but truth is immortal, it is above arguments and contradiction. It must be fulfilled only under the condition that “we follow universality, antiquity, and consensus”. But how is it possible to construct the unconditional formula of Divine Truth from the conditional material of the human mind?  If knowledge is given in the form of certain judgments, i.e. as the synthesis of S and P, or of another S and another P, or even of S with not-P, then it follows that every judgment is contradictory, it can encounter an objection to itself. Life is infinitely fuller than rational definitions and therefore no formula can encompass all the fullness of life. No one formula can replace life itself in its creativity. A rational formula can be above the attacks of life if and only if it gathers all of life into itself, with all of life's diversity with all of its present and future contradictions. Hence, it follows that truth is a self-contradictory jud
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Cardinal François Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan

Ten Rules of Life I WILL … 1. … live the present moment to the fullest 2. … discern between God and God's works 3. … hold firmly to one secret: prayer 4. … see in the Holy Eucharist my only prayer 5. … have only one wisdom: the science of the Cross 6. … remain faithful to my mission in the Church and for the Church as a witness of Jesus Christ 7. … seek the peace the world cannot give 8. … carry out a revolution by renewal in the Holy Spirit 9. … speak one language and wear one uniform: charity 10. … have one very special love: the Blessed Virgin Mary
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St John of the Cross

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What more do you want, 0 soul! And what else do you search for outside, when within yourself you possess your riches, delights, satisfactions, fullness, and kingdom -your Beloved whom you desire and seek? Be joyful and gladdened in your interior recollection with Him, for you have Him so close to you. Desire Him there, adore Him there. Do not go in pursuit of Him outside yourself. You will only become distracted and wearied thereby, and you shall not find Him, nor enjoy Him more securely, nor sooner, nor more intimately than by seeking Him within you.  Spiritual Canticle , I.8 Having been made one with God, the soul is somehow God through participation. Although it is not God as perfectly as it will be in the next life, it is like the shadow of God. Being the shadow of God through this substantial transformation, it performs in this measure in God and through God what He, through Himself, does in it. For the will of the two is one will, and thus God's operation and the
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John Lewis' "The Journey"

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The Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple

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The solemn dedication of the Church of the Mother of God near the Temple in Jerusalem took place on November 21, 543; this felicitous association of the Mother of God with the Temple supports the ancient tradition of the Blessed Virgin Mary's presentation in the Temple as a child. Saint John Damascene -- interpreting the Holy Name of Mary as "Lady" -- tells us that the "Lady of every creature and the Mother of the Creator . . . first saw the light in Joachim's house, hard by the Pool of Bethesda, at Jerusalem, and was carried to the Temple." Secundum Verbum Tuum In the hidden recesses of the old Temple, the Holy Spirit prepares the new Temple, the all-holy Virgin, to become the Mother of God . She who is destined to be the living Temple of the Word dwells in the Temple of the Old Dispensation. She hears the chanting of the psalms, the prophets, and the Law. Was it there that she learned Psalm 118, the long litany of loving surrender to the Word? And was i
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Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

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Executed by R  Buchbinder Wiener Philamoniker
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The Church in Egypt

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For Christians in Egypt the rise of Islamist political groups and a spate of violence targeting churches suggest that the cataclysmic events of the past 12 months have turned Arab Spring to Winter. In late November, the first round of parliamentary elections – the first since the February 2011 fall of President Hosni Mubarak – produced shock results favouring hard-line Islamic groups. With turn-out reported at 62 percent, the hard-line Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party polled 45 percent, as had widely been expected. But the big surprise was the Nour Party – backed by the even more extremist Salafist Islamists – which polled 21 percent. In the first round of the elections, held at the end of November 2011 in nine of Egypt's 27 provinces including Cairo and Alexandria, a coalition of secular parties polled only 25 percent. Father Antoine Rafic Greiche, official spokesman for the Catholic Church in Egypt, warned that the success of the Salafists was a grave
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