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Veronica Hodge
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"Freedom? Capitalism is reducing it to the freedom of profit. The essential sin of democracy is its bond with capitalism. Capitalism needs the freedom guaranteed by democracy, but that freedom is there and then betrayed and distorted by capitalists. The vicious circle of the western world is democracy without morality...the ["left" and "right"] both have the same disdain for man and for life. "
Yeah, what he said.
— Aug 23, 2021 06:47AM
Yeah, what he said.
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Veronica Hodge
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Written in 1977 but relevant today I think, "To fight the left in the name of the right is as meaningless as to fight the beginning of fall or spring. Therefore, most frightening in the contemporary world is the weakness of Christianity-it's own self-reduction-to the right...left, to religion...Frightening perhaps but unavoidable, because until Christianity overcomes all these reductions, it will not resurrect."
— Feb 24, 2025 03:57AM
Veronica Hodge
is on page 96 of 353
Fr. S writes, "I feel a sort of bad, 'unkind' tiredness. Bad because I want to run away from all the little passions, from the turbulent muddy waters where I have been floating for so many years. I want to leave, I am so tempted-and this temptation is so tiring!"
It's hard to be kind when I'm tired. Rather than running away, I should run to Jesus, who takes the burdens of my life upon himself. A timely reminder.
— Jul 05, 2022 02:27PM
It's hard to be kind when I'm tired. Rather than running away, I should run to Jesus, who takes the burdens of my life upon himself. A timely reminder.
Veronica Hodge
is on page 70 of 353
Funny watching Fr S and Solzhenitsyn's relationship break down due to a differing "Hierarchy of Values," namely what Fr S believes to be ecclesial nationalism in A.S. To Fr. S, the east could collapse into the west and it wouldn't make a difference. Not the case with A.S.
Also, how wonderful to see my own cycle of rebellion and reorientation, the universal Christian fight, present in Fr. S's life. It humanizes him.
— Sep 10, 2021 11:44AM
Also, how wonderful to see my own cycle of rebellion and reorientation, the universal Christian fight, present in Fr. S's life. It humanizes him.
Veronica Hodge
is on page 61 of 353
"The mission of the Church is to carry to the world the experience of the Kingdom, not to reduce the Kingdom of God to anything in the world."
— Sep 02, 2021 06:40AM
