Tolkien gave maybe the best answer to all of this in The Silmarillion, where the Creation is a song, and where the discordant music Melkor adds to it gets woven into the music and makes it even better, the way a harsh diminished chord can lead satisfyingly to a harmonic resolution.

Yes pls I’m in!

Would your Dad enjoy your posting his homilies here or not really? I’d like to read them! But no pressure!

“The change is limited. Its aim is filling out the old by the new, *vetera novis augere et perficere*.”

- Fr. Lonergan

“It is not any undiscriminating acceptance of the modern…

“The change is carefully motivated. It is not the too frequent blind and total rejection of medieval achievement. It is a recognition of precise shortcomings that have been brought to light by modern science, modern scholarship, modern philosophy…

“The change has been long awaited. It dates not from 1965, when the Second Vatican Council closed, but rather from 1845, when Newman completed his *Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine*…

This too is poetry

I love memoir. A healing, beautiful, and revelatory genre. Like poetry, memoir imo is best delivered aloud by the author to a live audience. As empathetically received voice art, the healing revelatory beauty of memoir is made manifest, like Christ in our midst.

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What are your thoughts on Doran developing Lonergan’s cognitional model with psychic conversion?

So… Just saying… St. Jonathan Heaps does have a nice ring.

From what I gather Balthasar says the church in the modern age needs theologian-saints whose humble ecstatic holiness brings forth the symphonic harmonies of truth in love, thereby attuning all dimensions of human experience to the Holy Spirit.

Interesting! Can you give an example?