What's the next line of the poem?

It is! Also, Katee's lip-biting, excited smile extended my life by roughly a year and a half. What a gift!

I was so intrigued by this comment that I looked it up... Gods, this is amazing! Thank you, whoever you are! You've made my evening!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVki...

Ale ten w masce to nie Rymanowski?

Glory!

This is the same reason why I still enjoy and benefit from reading Tomas Halik or Thomas Merton 🤷‍♂️

The choices of Frodo, Aragorn or Faramir speak to me, now atheist, just as powerfully as when I used to be a Catholic. My personal guess is that Tolkien was one of those Christians for whom faith and tradition deepened their humanity - and it shines through the text

In my head, I read this is in Cullen's voice

Having watched Alex play the creepiest, nicest Tzimitsce on Earth, this picture gives me so much joy!

Thank you for sharing this!

Teilhard de Chardin, Tomas Halik, Thomas Merton, Ignatius of Loyola and Hildegard of Bingen.

Also, Loreena's voice is otherwordly. Beyond my ability to express my delight

I wish more Christians in general were familiar with this part of their tradition. I remember the first moment, decades ago, when I was intruduced to the legacy of Christian mystics. Even now, as an atheist, I find myself surprised by the fruits born from those encounters with St. John of the Cross,