The Passion Narratives Are The First Pieces

The One, The Good, The True, And The Beautiful, These Are What We Call The Transcendental Attributes Of Being, Because They Surpass All The Limits Of Essences And Are Coextensive With Being.

Every Experience Of Beauty Points To [eternity].

Without Easter, Good Friday Would Have No Meaning. Without Easter, There Would Be No Hope That Suffering And Abandonment Might Be Tolerable. But With Easter, A Way Out Becomes Visible For Human Sorrows, An Absolute Future: More Than A Hope, A Divine Expectation.

When You Say Yes To God Unconditionally, You Have No Idea How Far This Yes Is Going To Take You. Certainly Farther Than You Can Guess And Calculate Beforehand... But Just How Far And In What Form? At The Same Time, This Yes Is The Sole, Non-negotiable Prerequisite Of All Christian Understanding, Of All Theology And Ecclesial Wisdom.

Beauty Is The Disinterested One, Without Which The Ancient World Refused To Understand Itself, A Word Which Both Imperceptibly And Yet Unmistakably Has Bid Farewell To Our New World, A World Of Interests, Leaving It To Its Own Avarice And Sadness.