All These Egoisms
If there were fewer wars, less craving to enslave or exploit others, fewer national egoisms, egoisms of caste or egoisms of class, if man cared more about his neighbor and really wished to bring together…
Tag: Raissa Maritain
Today’s One-Liner (#332)
To meditate each petition of the Lord’s Prayer, trying to enter into the sentiments of Jesus himself when he pronounced it, would doubtless be a good manner of praying. –Raissa Maritain, Notes on the Lord’s Prayer,…
Being Cured
The Lord’s Prayer instructs, and while instructing us it puts ointment on our wounds. If there are some among us who think themselves perfect, they will be cured of their presumption. If there are some…
Deliver Us
Deliver us from that unparalleled sorrow of seeing those we love suffer without remedy. Deliver us from spiritual darkness. Deliver us from anguish, which is doubtless the state of suffering on which the Holy Spirit…