Learned Ignorance

We do not know what we would really like... and yet we know that there must be something we do not know towards which we feel driven.

Spe Salvi 12

Imagining Eternal Life

To imagine ourselves outside the temporality that imprisons us and in some way to sense that eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality -- this we can only imagine.

Spe Salvi

The Instruments of Good Works

Fear the Day of Judgment: be in dread of hell. Ardently desire everlasting life with deep spiritual longing. Keep death daily before your eyes.

Rule of Benedict, Chapter 4

The Instruments of Good Works

Put your hope in God. Attribute any good that you see in yourself to God and not to yourself; but recognize and always impute to yourself the evil that you do.

Rule of Benedict, Chapter 4

The Instruments of Good Works

Do not murmur or speak evil of others.

Rule of Benedict, Chapter 4