Something beautiful
Something beautiful to begin the weekend…
Tag: Love
Wise Words on Wednesday: Suffering is love
“Always remember to love your neighbour; always prefer the one who tries your patience, who test your virtue, because with her you can always merit: suffering is Love; the Law is Love”
– Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified (“The Little Arab”).
Is it unloving to speak out against abortion?
Those who are pro-choice will often chastise those who are pro-life for “judging women who have abortions” and “failing to love them”. Today I’d like to look at the substance of these charges. Is that true? Is it unloving to speak out against abortion?
Wise Words on Wednesday: Wanting a woman
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he ‘wants a woman.’ Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want.
“He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged by his attitude to her five minutes after fruition (one does not keep the carton after one has smoked the cigarettes).
“Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.”
– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Wise Words on Wednesday: Meat
“You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage.
Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?”
– CS Lewis, Mere Christianity (Book III)
How to make the world a (slightly) better place
Love and Hatred
Given what’s going on around the world, particularly in Iraq, on his Feast Day St. Maximilian has some wisdom to share with us…
