Homily Notes by Fr. John

"If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long since cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber." Flannery, O'Connor

"Therefore, it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.” Eph. 5:8-14

“Shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed. They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by their conduct.” Psalm 106

Insight is that mental (or inward) activity by which the mind grasps the intelligible connections between things that previously had appeared merely disparate. This act of understanding “sees” a pattern in data, where “seeing” is only a metaphor from physical sight. Tekippe, Terry J.. What is Lonergan Up to in "Insight"?: A Primer (Zacchaeus Studies: Theology) (p. 50). Liturgical Press. Kindle Edition.