Along with Adele, another new musical passion over the past few months, is Mumford and Sons. Hence, Roll Away Your Stone is our traditio for Fri-hodie
It seems that all my bridges have been burned/
But you say, "That's exactly how this grace thing works"
Fr. Giussani insists that the existential questions, foremost among which is, "What is the purpose of my life?", constitute my personhood. Hence, the answer "has to touch me" because "it directly concerns me." This is so necessary that there is no answer "unless it is given to me, for me" (The Religious Sense 76).
Blogito ergo sum! Actually, as N.T. Wright averred, "'Amor, ergo sum:' I am loved, therefore I am." Among other things, I am a Roman Catholic deacon. This is a public cyberspace in which I seek to foster Christian discipleship in the late modern milieu in the diakonia of koinonia and in the recognition that "the Eucharist is the only place of resistance to annihilation of the human subject."
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