"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Today we have the siblings. The first is Melkor, who is clearly the baddie (you can tell by his tailor)…
…and we already met Manwë, the King of Arda:
Today we have another couple, Oromë and Vána…
Today’s “Wise Words on Wednesday” is a correction of a quotation I’ll periodically see people quote on the Internet:
The Church is a whore, but she’s also my mother
St. Augustine?
This is a poor paraphrase of something which St. Augustine wrote in Sermon 213:
“Let us honor the Catholic Church, our true Mother, the true Bride of her Husband, because she is the wife of so great a Lord. And what shall I say? How great is that Husband and of singular rank, that he discovered a prostitute and made her a virgin. Because she should not deny that she was a prostitute, lest she forget the mercy of her liberator. How can it be said that she was not a prostitute when she fornicated with demons and idols?”
Sermon 213 on the Creed
The ordering is really important here. The Bride of Christ was once unfaithful, but she was liberated by Him – the emphasis is on Christ’s ability to heal, save, and sanctify the lost.
I’m sure many of you out there are following along with Fr. Mike Schmitz’s Bible-in-a-year podcast.
One of the things which I’ve learnt from reading The Silmarillion this year (the Old Testament of Middle Earth!) is that it’s really helpful to periodically review the story so far and to remind yourself how you got here.
With this in mind, I’d like to direct you to some recent episodes from my friend Richaél from the Clumsy Theosis podcast who is currently working through the story of Salvation History at a high level, covering in five episodes the material covered in the last fifty episodes of Fr. Mike’s podcast…
Read moreWe have another couple today, who get married early on in The Silmarillion, Tulkas and Nessa:
It’s time to talk about more of the Valar! Today we look at another couple, Aulë and Yavanna…
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J.R.R. Tolkien