Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation and eternal joy! - Alexander Schmemman

“Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?” - from Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins

So much for their motto…

In today’s NYT, certain Americans express their delight with the incoming administration’s cabinet nominees. One described them as a “masterpiece… a Picasso.”

Guernica comes to mind…

Freedom is found under the dark tree that springs up in the center of the night and of silence, the paradise tree, the axis mundi, which is also the cross.

- Thomas Merton, May 1965