Come, O true light! Come, O eternal life! Come, O hidden mystery! Come, O indescribable treasure! Come, O ineffable thing! Come, O inconceivable person! Come, O endless delight! Come, O unsetting light! Come, O true and fervent expectation of all those who will be saved! Come, O rising of those who lie down! Come, O resurrection of the dead! Come, O powerful one, who always creates and re-creates and transforms by your will alone! Come, O invisible and totally intangible and untouchable! Come, O you who always remain immobile and at each moment move all, and come to us, who lie in hades, you who are above all heavens. Come, O desirable and legendary name, which is completely impossible for us to express what you are or to know your nature. Come, O eternal joy! Come, O unwithering wreath! Come, O purple of the great king our God! Come, O crystalline cincture, studded with precious stones! Come, O inaccessible sandal! Come, O ...
A Reading from the Gospel of Luke (17:11-19) Now on his way to J erusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!" When h e saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed. One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him—an d he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, "Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" Then he said to him, "Rise and go; your faith has made you well." Reflection by Dr Scott Hahn A foreign leper is cleansed and in thanksgiving returns to offer homage to the God of Israel . We hear this same story in both the First Reading and Gospel today. There ...
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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