Interesting Quote - A Catholic Worldview

[Luigi]

I found this on the Prior's blog at St. Anselm Benedictine monastery in New Hampshire.

 

 

The Catholic Writer Today

Posted on December 18, 2013 by brotherisaac

 

Dana Gioia has an interesting piece in First Things entitled “The Catholic Writer Today” where he ventures to describe a Catholic worldview that a writer might manifest:

 

“Catholic writers tend to see humanity struggling in a fallen world. They combine a longing for grace and redemption with a deep sense of human imperfection and sin. Evil exists, but the physical world is not evil. Nature is sacramental, shimmering with signs of sacred things. Indeed, all reality is mysteriously charged with the invisible presence of God. Catholics perceive suffering as redemptive, at least when borne in emulation of Christ’s passion and death. Catholics also generally take the long view of things – looking back to the time of Christ and the Caesars while also gazing forward toward eternity… Catholicism is also intrinsically communal, a notion that goes far beyond sitting at mass with the local congregation, extending to a mystical sense of continuity between the living and the dead. Finally, there is a habit of spiritual self-scrutiny and moral examination of conscience – one source of soi-disant Catholic guilt.”

 

[Didacus]

That is a very precise description - I don't think I could have expressed any where nearly as well as that.

Thanks for posting!

[Luigi]

That's why I like it - very broad topic, expressed very concisely. I might even be able to remember it!