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michael jaffray king

Father Barron uses this opportunity to take us on a spiritual journey deep down into one's soul.
This journey in the movie was just for secular reasons but for the first time in my life, I saw the need to search for God deep down in myself.
I seek him in the Bible and I see him in Creation.
So along with Thomas Merton we make this search together WITHIN and you can find God too as Merton makes his nightly fire watch trip around the Monastery.. A great and wonderful experience..
Thank you Father!

8/23/2010 11:59:29 PM

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Gregory Sadler

Excellent review of a number of different Catholic authors who journey within.

Given the density and voluminousness of the "cloud of witnesses," one could multiple examples indefinitely. I'll just mention two more Medievals: Bernard, who harnesses the imagination, cleaning out the heart to welcome Christ within. Anselm, who realizes that the rational mind reflecting on itself discovers its similitude to the triune God.

One theme that is missing here, at least explicitly: when you go deep down into the self, you find God, but you find all much that is not God and has to be redeemed as well. And, as Anselm would say -- a good Augustinian here -- you also discover at last your genuine self, who is not God, but is loved by and made in the image of God.

Many mystics seem to aim at losing themselves in God. Better, though, is finding God and one's true self in Him

12/7/2010 7:33:54 AM

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Tim S.

Father- I love your commentaries. On "Inception" I was hoping you would comment some on the main character's ulterior purpose to free himself to go "home" to become a father again to his children. It seems that there were deeper motives in the film that related to the primary relationships of spouses and parenthood- and the risks one is willing to take proper care of these relationships. This is where I felt a deeper impact in watching this film. The driving need of a father to get back to his children, even if he has to put memories of his loving wife aside so that he can be free to love their living children. Of course, as a Catholic I know we are part of the communion of saints and so we can still communicate and love our loved ones who have died.

2/8/2011 2:10:55 PM

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