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The Loneliness of Conscience
John Henry Newman and the Terrible Intimacy of Truth “Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.” — St. John Henry Newman There is a loneliness that comes not from being unloved, but from seeing what one can no longer deny. This was the loneliness of St. John Henry Newman. Not the loneliness of temperament alone, though Newman possessed a profoundly inward nature. Nor merely the loneliness of intellectual brilliance, though his mind often moved beyond those around him. Dee
Father Charbel Abernethy
May 114 min read
Unarmed Before the Kingdom
A Geography of the Heart According to St. Isaac the Syrian Synopsis of Tonight's Group on The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian Homily 6 paragraphs 7 and 8: Here St. Isaac does not define virtues as behaviors but as states of being before God . He strips away external markers and leaves the soul alone with truth. What he offers is not a ladder of accomplishments but a geography of the heart. A stranger, he says, is not one who has left a place, but one whose mind has
Father Charbel Abernethy
Dec 313 min read
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