Which Way Is Heaven?
J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystic west was inspired by the legendary voyage of St. Brendan, who sailed on a quest for a Paradise in the midst and mists of the ocean.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystic west was inspired by the legendary voyage of St. Brendan, who sailed on a quest for a Paradise in the midst and mists of the ocean.
COMMENTARY: Hell exists not despite God’s love but precisely because of it.
Here, it seems, is the flash point of the crisis we now face; indeed, we’ve been facing it for a very long time.
We are finite beings, but our longings are infinite, and we long for an infinite God who loves us infinitely.
During their lifetimes, some saints were given a peek into the happiness of heaven and the horrors of hell.
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The Pope gave his weekly public audience in the Paul VI hall, where he noted that it would be his final catechesis on the theme of old age.
If you were the only person in the whole world in the whole of human history whom God needed to redeem, he would have sent his only-begotten Son.
To give life is the greatest of all gifts; to save one is the next. Mary gave Jesus life; St. Joseph saved him.
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