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"What Aristotle obscured, [Enlightenment thinkers now] see. This conceit of course was, as such conceits always are, the sign of an unacknowledged and unrecognized transition from one stance of theoretical interpretation to another. The Enlightenment is consequently the period par excellence in which most intellectuals lack self-knowledge"

Time for a reread

As we crossed Burgundy the next morning...we passed valley towns whose names sounded like a carillon: Montrachet, Pommard, Vougeot, Volnay, Meursault, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Beaune. The nuns, the wine, the lovely courtyards--there were so many extraordinary things to see, and by the end of the day our cups had filled to the brim. By eight-thirty we were back at the Roo de Loo, where we unloaded armfuls of mimosas.

In the light of Easter, Christians see themselves as people who truly live. They have found their way out of an existence that is more death than life. They have discovered real life ... Deliverance from death is a the same time deliverance from the captivity of individualism, from the prison of self, from the incapacity to love and make a gift of oneself.

Young man, do not forget to pray. Each time you pray, if you do so sincerely, there will be the flash of a new feeling in it, and a new thought as well, one you did not know before, which will give you fresh courage; and you will understand that prayer is education.

But before going to sleep, [Alyosha] threw himself down on his knees and prayed for a long time. In his ardent prayer, he did not ask God to explain his confusion to him, but only thirsted for joyful tenderness, the same tenderness that always visited his soul after praising and glorifying God

Sorry sorry, more ad orientam:
"Just as God assumed a body and entered the time and space of this world, so it is appropriate to prayer...that our speaking to God should be...turned through the incarnate Word to the triune God. The cosmic symbol of the rising sun expresses the universality of God above all particular places and yet maintains the concreteness of divine revelation"

Christians look toward the east, to the rising sun. This is not a case of Christians worshipping the sun but of the cosmos speaking of Christ... "[The sun] comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber...Its rising is from the end of the heavens..." Christians interpret [this psalm] in terms of Christ, who is the living word, the eternal Logos, and the true light of history...

"The torn curtain of the Temple is the curtain torn between the world and the countenance of God. In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up--here we see who God is and what he is like. heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of his hiddenness."

"[In the Fall] love is seen as dependence and is rejected. In its place come autonomy and autarchy: existing from oneself and in oneself, being a god of one's own making."

Things are not looking good for Madame Blueberry