Greetings fellow lovers of the Catholic Faith, Catholic tradition, and all that is good, true, and beautiful.
Getting chilly here in T-town. Snow maybe on Monday. But Oklahoma weather is as predictable as whether or not OU will beat OSU today in their annual "Bedlam" showdown. My money is on the Sooners.
Lack of charity in all its forms. Witnessing the daily decent on our local cultures into darker darkness is like watching a sun get pulled into a black hole. I think that is an actual astronomical phenomenon.
Let there be light. Christ is the light of the world. And so forth. There really is no actual substance in nature that makes blackness a color. Black is ultimately and merely the absence of electromagnetic waves on the color spectrum. Even in a black room if you open up your eyes long enough, you will atune to some light.
That seems to be our challenge, when the work place, market place, and cultural mileau spirals deeper into incivility, chaos, and rebellion against Catholic and Christian social order.
I mean even in the woods around Clear Creek monastery, you have the internet with porn, Pandora playing Black Sabbath across your smart TV app, and condoms sold at the country gas station. Darkness.
So ends my morning musing, before I stock up on artificial flies for my Sunday Fly-fishing outing tomorrow (still planning to post my outdoors pics). We are surrounded by what future Catholic historians will surely call the "Second Dark Age," but our mission is to not be stressed or depressed or oppressed by this darkness, but to keep our eyes ever open to the Light.
Happy Saturday and Happy Fall weather.