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Like 150 pages of positive birth stories? I’m down. Need these to keep in mind to balance out any negatives ones I hear…

The writer from The Jupiter and the archdeacon turn out to be similar characters! Neither are concerned about justice and truth in these matters.

Uproars caused when the papers get involved! It’s like a slanderous reel/video/post going viral.

Although Medievals saw the world as symbol, this did not mean that all of their art was necessarily symbol rather than just pure delight in the created world, and an effort to bring all of creation into parishes.

“Reading the life of St. Joan of Arc, she came to realize that her own glory would consist in being hidden…”

The Hidden Life. Something I think about often (and I love the movie in part because it illustrates it, but it is not alone in talking about it).

“He is even so much closer when He hides Himself.”
“He hides Himself to beg for our love. Jesus does not want us to find our repose in His adorable presence. If He hides and clothes Himself in darkness, if He keeps silence, it is that we may practice charity towards Him as to one who is in want. He puts Himself at our mercy…He stretches out His hand to receive a little love.”

“We compliment our ancestors, with infinite condescension, believing that they were trying to take their first primitive steps toward science, toward being us, but Lewis thought ancient mythology was instead driven by this spiritual longing to metabolize the beautiful.”

Ugh it’s already soooo gooodddd hfdjkhfskjbfsakjbfsa

“Ugh, I don’t know what to read. I need something besides pregnancy, parenting, and spiritual reading. Oh hmmmm maybe I’ll try this one. Yep, this is fun.” No guarantees I will finish it. And I don’t think it’s only worth reading if I can finish it. I might skip parts and stuff. CSL was a legend.

The whole “Mother appearing in blue cloak” (mentioned more than once)—is that an intentional reference? Anyway, the whole Magic talk was perhaps too explicit/preachy, but I wasn’t too bothered by it. It is akin to grace. The garden is a source of grace in the story, a place of transformation and redemption.

“Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.”