tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41720933115310331.post2302977706611559468..comments2024-03-13T08:15:40.468+00:00Comments on Beauty in Education: A religious lifeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41720933115310331.post-41917528300116099682013-11-11T10:11:46.672+00:002013-11-11T10:11:46.672+00:00I like the idea of a day of rest from devices and ...I like the idea of a day of rest from devices and internet. I may try that...Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15758556902359096640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41720933115310331.post-49477872303256455832013-11-04T10:24:07.882+00:002013-11-04T10:24:07.882+00:00It turns out that the Canadian Jesuits have a rece...It turns out that the Canadian Jesuits have a recent (if less theoretical than Stratford's piece) blogpost on this subject too:<br /><br />http://www.ibosj.ca/2013/10/voluntary-simplicity.html<br />Kennethhttp://www.secondspring.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41720933115310331.post-26831322104989017422013-11-02T20:30:18.276+00:002013-11-02T20:30:18.276+00:00Thanks for this excellent and thought-provoking po...Thanks for this excellent and thought-provoking post.<br /><br /><i>The modern way of life, a society driven by consumption and sustained by debt, was built on the systematic destruction of contemplation and the idea of vocation, from the dissolution of the monasteries onwards.</i><br /><br />I've been giving a lot of thought lately to the things a society "driven by consumption and sustained by debt" tends to destroy. I had not considered how it destroys something as foundational and basic as contemplation. It seems obvious to me that you are correct. It also seems obvious to me that the this is a great loss.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640663629610290592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41720933115310331.post-90194433110606027772013-10-16T15:27:21.820+01:002013-10-16T15:27:21.820+01:00I cannot resist to quote here a "classic"...I cannot resist to quote here a "classic" passage from Tolkien' letter to Milton Waldman: "The Machine is our more obvious modern form though more closely related to Magic than is usually recognized. . . . The Enemy in successive forms is always 'naturally' concerned with sheer Domination, and so the Lord of magic and machines." In my opinion the destruction or (at least) the marginalization of any form of Christian contemplative life is the root of the our (post)modern civilization. As a simple exercise through which we can get closer to that "withdrawal from the world" (Lat. "fuga mundi") I would like to propose something that we (in our family) try every Sunday: a whole day without any digital device. A Sunday just for family and friends, for books and readings. And last but not least, a Sunday for our Lord... as it was always meant to be.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01158923307465346376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41720933115310331.post-88774712660301007352013-10-15T11:32:42.684+01:002013-10-15T11:32:42.684+01:00This is an intriguing and challenging post – espec...This is an intriguing and challenging post – especially given that our use of the new media and social technologies is such a large and integrated part of the way we live now. Are we called to be signs of contradiction to this most characteristic feature of our age? There are surely hidden depths to the evangelical counsels that, whatever our own state of life may be, are there to be explored by Christians in these digital times.Kennethhttp://www.secondspring.co.uknoreply@blogger.com