The Dignity of Man Part II



In the early 1400’s, there lived a man named Nicholas of Cuza, who was, among other things, a great mathematician. In one of his better known work, entitled, ”Learned Ignorance,” he attempted to apply math to philosophy and theology. In one segment, chapter 14, he expounds upon the notion of how ‘maximum’ and ‘minimum’ coincide. Now this is not to be construed as ‘infinite and finite’, for that is another task. Nor is this a mere exercise in… Continue

Up to Now



Part I





For those who have been with me from early on, you now have enough patches for a quilt. It is now the time to provide the connecting thread to interlace them. In turn, you should have a warm pall in which to envelope your self and stay of the chill. As we come to a close of another year, it is best to scan and survey the year accessing what has transpired. Now gather what you find at either extreme, it is the same as is you grasp the ends of a cloth… Continue

Spiritual blindness and sluggishness



The virtue of faith, perfected by the gift of understanding, is the clear eye of a pilot spotting a landing field in the dusk, a landing field to which the heart rushes on the wings of hope. Blindness of the pilot means the end of hope and the crash of the flight of the heart, indeed, sleepiness, heaviness, sluggishness are almost as surely fatal. That is exactly the attack made on the gift of understanding by spiritual blindness and spiritual… Continue

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The Pain of Growing Old

This one factor has plagued humanity, perhaps more than any other factor arising from their existence.

This is because quite often we experience, first hand, the dilemma of inability. Paul remarked: “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak,” for the elderly, this takes on a whole new meaning.

Even when we are not as old as others, as we scan the spectrum of individuals up and down life’s by-way, we may find ourselves not as we once readily recall. Our… Continue