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"Brothers and sisters: You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and lust, not in rivalry and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh." Romans 12

G.K. Chesterton's great book, "The Everlasting Man" penned in 1925 as a response to H.G. Well's atheistic take on human history effectively explains how Christ, born in a cave, is God reaching out to humans who first gave evidence of culture through primitive cave paintings. The four last things, death, judgment, heaven and hell are the Christian witness to the Divine plan for all of creation, but just human life. OVC discusses "The Everlasting Man" and Christ's prophecy about the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple and the Cosmos.

"The weight of these gold rings is not the weight of metal, but the proper weight of man. Man's own weight. Yes, the proper weight of man. It's the weight of constant gravity, riveted to a short flight. Freedom and frenzy trapped in a tangle. And in that tangle, in that weight which at the same time is heavy and intangible, there is love - love which springs from freedom, like water from a rift in the earth. So tell me, my young friend, what is the proper weight of man?" The Jeweller's Shop, but St. John Paul II.

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne, MEDITATION XVII Devotions upon Emergent Occasions John Donne

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"But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, O God, be merciful to me a sinner.' I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted." Lk. 18

"All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy

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"Jesus said in reply, "Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?" Then he said to him, "Stand up and go; your faith has saved you." Luke 17

"If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree,, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you." Luke 17

Abraham replied, 'My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.' Lk. 16

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Dogma speaks to our intellects and erects the boundaries of understanding expressed in the Nicene Creed and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Poetry, a much more ancient religious language, speaks to us in delight, the experience of beauty and is capable of touching us very deeply. Why should we meditate on the poetry of the great Catholic poets in prayer and adoration? So that we might overcome the inertia that hampers our ascent to the Father. Poems discussed by Dana Gioia are "The Burning Ladder" and "The Seven Deadly Sins" by Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. " “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”