tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post2539108939884392031..comments2023-12-28T01:11:49.188-08:00Comments on Cum Lazaro: Blooming buzzing confusionLazarushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09716412032074416331noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post-7228722934682531632014-11-24T09:01:42.824-08:002014-11-24T09:01:42.824-08:00Sorry to hear about your recent travails, Lazarus....Sorry to hear about your recent travails, Lazarus. As a true Thomist, though, you know full well that fortitude is a cardinal virtue, and that endurance is central to fortitude.<br /><br />Excellent penultimate paragraph, by the way. Our incompleteness is, of course, part of our finitude which is in turn an essential aspect of what we are as created beings. This is the human condition.<br /><br />Catholicism tells us the truth about ourselves and death is clearly part of this reality. When my own times comes, I would also like to die clinging to the Cross of Christ. Balthasar's astonishing words on Judgement from Credo are apposite: 'In the end, what is left to all of us is a unity of fear and hope, an attempt to throw ourselves blindly into the arms of the Lord, who knows and loves us.'Kennethhttp://www.secondspring.co.uknoreply@blogger.com