As we pray for our dead, we remember that all the living will enter eternal life in their time. We also realise how vain and fragile our earthly lives are, how finite are our worldly comforts and wealth, how small are many of our daily concerns.
In his view, this ‘practical wisdom’ was “the foundation of the edifice and the edifice itself”, logic was its “embellishment”, and contemplation its “crown”. He wrote thousands of epistles. His surviving writings contain deep theological reflections…
It is the tradition of the Holy Church to commemorate after great feasts the saints who had a part in them. On the day following the Meeting of our Lord, we remember two people who knew about the coming of the Saviour and spent many years waiting…
