Tolkien says that it is what all literature is ultimately about.
I don't know if he's right, but I've been thinking about it, and Heidegger's philosophy that Man is a being-toward-death
"What doth it profit a man if he gain the world world and forfeit his soul" - Mk. 8:36
I wonder if I'll ever overcome the friday anxiousness over saturday confession.
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Confession provides for the death of our old ways and the revitalization the soul by God's grace. Death to sin, everlasting life for the soul: what a wonderful sacrament, thanks be to God!
ReplyDeleteIn many ways I feel it is the most important sacrament (though theoretically baptism is)
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