Status Updates From The Journals of Father Alex...

Written in 1977 but relevant today I think, "To fight the left in the name of the right is as meaningless as to fight the beginning of fall or spring. Therefore, most frightening in the contemporary world is the weakness of Christianity-it's own self-reduction-to the right...left, to religion...Frightening perhaps but unavoidable, because until Christianity overcomes all these reductions, it will not resurrect."

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Simple bourgeois happiness is often despised by activists of all sorts who quite often do not realize the depth of life itself; who think that life is an accumulation of activities. God gives us life…At home,when all is done, life itself begins.

“Eternity is not the negation of time, but time’s absolute wholeness, gathering and restoration. Eternal life is not what begins after temporal life; it is the eternal presence of the totality of life. Christianity is a blessed memory; it is really then inquiring all of fragmented time; it is the experience of eternity, here and now”