A review of "2012"

Please follow this link to an excellent Catholic perspective on this film: http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/11/fr-robert-barron-reviews-2012.html

(Thank you, Carl Olson.)

The beauty of holiness

Please follow this link to an excellent post: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2009/11/invisible-is-made-visible.html

(Thank you, Rorate Caeli.)

Happy Ending

In one of his essays, J. R. R. Tolkien distinguishes between different kinds of climaxes. The tragic tale, with its sorrowful ending, he calls a "dyscatastrophe"; for "the Consolation of the Happy Ending" he coins the word "eucatastrophe": the blessed cataclysm by which lovers are reunited after many tests and trials, or the true king is separated from all pretenders and finally ascends the throne. "In such stories," Tolkien says, "when the sudden turn' comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of the story, and lets a gleam come through."

--Patrick J. Wilson

This simple

"Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. This is not just a fable or a nice story. It is true. If we abandon ourselves to God and forget ourselves, we see it sometimes, and we see it maybe frequently. God shows Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events. It becomes very obvious that He is everywhere and in everything and we cannot be without Him. It's impossible. It's simply impossible. The only thing is that we don't see it.”

--Thomas Merton