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Lent in the Economy of Salvation
Lenten Reflection I presented way back in 2018. Presented at John Paul the Great Academy Mt 4: 1-11 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry. The tempter approached and said to him, “If Continue reading
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Christ the Educator, the Triduum, and St. Clement of Alexandria
One of the Early Church Fathers, St. Clement of Alexandria (c.150 A.D.-215 A.D.), wrote about Christ as an Educator. (A work worthy of our time and contemplation as we seek to teach as Christ taught.) At the end of Book 1 Chapter 1, St. Clement writes the following: Therefore, the all-loving Word, anxious to perfect Continue reading
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Episode 4: On Reading Imaginative Literature
Summary In this episode, I wanted to share an essay I recently presented at a Great Books group on reading imaginative literature. Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren describe a paradox regarding the reading of imaginative literature: it is the most difficult kind of reading and yet it is also the most common. It is Continue reading
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