Deus te Amat Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 I'm pestering you because it's fun. I hope you don't mind. Also: [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]My Teacher gave a curious smile. "Look," he said, and with the word he went down on his hands and knees. I did the same (how it hurt my knees!) and presently saw that he had plucked a blade of grass. Using its thin end as a pointer, he made me see, after I had looked very closely, a crack in the soil so small that I could not have identified it without this aid.[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"I cannot be certain," he said, "that this is the crack ye came up through. But through a crack no bigger than that ye certainly came."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"But-but," I gasped with a feeling of bewilderment not unlike terror. "I saw an infinite abyss. And cliffs towering up and up. And then this country on top of the cliffs."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"Aye. But the voyage was not mere locomotion. That bus, and all you inside it, were increasing in size."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"Do you mean then that Hell-all that infinite empty town-is down in some little crack like this?"[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"Yes. All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World. Look at yon butterfly. If it swallowed all Hell, Hell would not be big enough to do it any harm or to have any taste."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"It seems big enough when you're in it, Sir."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good. If all Hell's miseries together entered the consciousness of yon wee yellow bird on the bough there, they would be swallowed up without trace, as if one drop of ink had been dropped into that Great Ocean to which your terrestrial Pacific itself is only a molecule."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"I see," said I at last. "She couldn't fit into Hell."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]He nodded. "There's not room for her," he said. "Hell could not open its mouth wide enough."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"And she couldn't make herself smaller?- like Alice, you know."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"Nothing like small enough. For a damned soul is nearly nothing: it is shrunk, shut up in itself. Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouths for food, or their eyes to see."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"Then no one can ever reach them?"[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend-a man can sympathize with a horse but a horse cannot sympathize with a rat. Only One has descended into Hell."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"And will He ever do so again?"[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"]"It was not once long ago that He did it. Time does not work that way when once ye have left the Earth. All moments that have been or shall be were, or are, present in the moment of His descending. There is no spirit in prison to Whom He did not preach."[/size][/font] [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"][/size][/font] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 [color=#282828][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2]Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouths for food, or their eyes to see."[/size][/font][/color] That's beautiful, DtA. By the way, what page are you on???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 5.75. I'm using Lewis in my paper. He's da bomb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 I lied. I'm on 4.75. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 (edited) In other news, I looked up a quote by Catherine of Siena to send to you. And the first thing that came up was womenpriests.org. Sad day. Edited May 2, 2012 by Lisa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 That's a disgrace. Here's one! [b][size=5]Whatever you do, do it bravely, and banish darkness and establish light, without considering your own weakness. Believe there is nothing you cannot master when you rely on Christ crucified.[/size][/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Most excellent!!!! I love our Dominican saints! I raise you Blessed Jordan As a beekeeper, I couldn't resist. " From the flowers of the earth bees collect an earthly honey and, solicitous for their future they bring it when collected to their hive. Thy spirit will die unless refreshed with spiritual honey, for I know that it is delicate and disdains to use coarse nourishment. Do thou therefore, dearest, "send forth thy spirit" in order that it may gather the honey by which it lives. In the gathering, however, let not all the honey be consumed but let some be stored in the recesses of the heart so that, if ever thy spirit tire of desiring, it may find at home within itself something by which it can be delighted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil'Monster Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 You people are weird...but I am weirder though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 [size=5][i]O Eternal God, accept the sacrifice of my life for your mystical Body of Holy Church. I have nothing to give, except what you have given me, so take my heart and impress upon it the image of your Son.[/i][/size] ~ St. Catherine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 Page 5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil'Monster Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Dominicans..Dominicans....Dominicans They seemed to be everywhere........They are sneaky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 (edited) Another good one! [color=#006600][size=4]"Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist,"[/size][/color] [color=#006600][size=5]-----[/size][size=4]St. Catherine of Siena[/size][/color] Sometimes my soul absolutely hungers for Jesus. The last few days have been really hard (my granddad passed away, so it's been funeral arrangements and family, etc.) and I didn't get to daily Mass a couple of times. It seemed like my heart would break... that I would starve without the nourishment of the the Mass. And Lil Mon- Thanks! I like being weird ...and sneaky. Also, DtA, did you ever see your pre-acceptance pep-up thread? [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/120551-deus-te-amat/"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/120551-deus-te-amat/[/url] Edited May 2, 2012 by Lisa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Yay for page 5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 A THREAD! YOU MADE ME A THREAD! We're like twinsies. My schedule this semester is really odd, and I've only been able to make it to mass 3-4ish times a week. There is such a difference in my ability to persevere. I Thirst, too. I'm sorry for the loss of your grandfather. Be assured of my prayers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil'Monster Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 [quote name='Lisa' timestamp='1335931184' post='2425951'] Another good one! [color=#006600][size=4]"Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist,"[/size][/color] [color=#006600][size=5]-----[/size][size=4]St. Catherine of Siena[/size][/color] Sometimes my soul absolutely hungers for Jesus. The last few days have been really hard (my granddad passed away, so it's been funeral arrangements and family, etc.) and I didn't get to daily Mass a couple of times. It seemed like my heart would break... that I would starve without the nourishment of the the Mass. And Lil Mon- Thanks! I like being weird ...and sneaky. Also, DtA, did you ever see your pre-acceptance pep-up thread? [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/120551-deus-te-amat/"]http://www.phatmass....1-deus-te-amat/[/url] [/quote] Aww I am sorry about your grandpa! Anyways..I am glad that you like to be weird..I like to be weird too! I don't know if I am glad that you are sneaky though........ Speaking of sneaky dominicans........are you going to the May retreat or not? If not....I will cry..... jk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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