Toward Attention

"More Fundamental and Ultimately More Fateful Issues"

I was reading a review of A People Adrift, and the reviewer I was reading wrote this about the conservative--liberal divide in the Roman Catholic Church in the US after Vatican II:

each side feels beleaguered by the other which feeds an undue emphasis on contentious aspects of church life or teaching at the expense of more fundamental and ultimately more fateful issues.

Those lines should be engraved in gold on wooden  plaques and placed in prominent positions everywhere in every major institution in the world.

The Holy and Wise Moses

"If we are on the watch to see our own faults, we shall not see those of our neighbour. It is folly for a man who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over his neighbour's dead. To die to one's neighbour is this: To bear your own faults and not to pay attention to anyone else wondering whether they are good or bad. Do no harm to anyone, do not think anything bad in your heart towards anyone, do not scorn the man who does evil, do not put confidence in him who does wrong to his neighbour, do not rejoice with him who injures his neighbour."

St. Moses the Ethiopian.

Atheist Rocker Turned Priest-Monk

Here there is an interesting story from the MYSTAGOGY website.