Coffin Dodger

12/21/2018

In reading a book about England I find out that the slangy nickname for old folks there is “coffin dodgers!”

I am always wondering why, aesthetically speaking, cat’s are so beautiful – Sebastian Mahfood of En Route Books and Media says that one is reason is because they are like tiny lions who won’t eat us.

Funny incident: The teen-ager I am hiring to take care of Cleopatra, my cat. while I am in New Hampshire for Christmas came to be introduced to the cat, check out the food supply, etc. He is hoping to join a community of charismatic priests someday. He is the son of a charismatic leader of the prayer group I go to. When I saw his father at the prayer group I said "You have a wonderful son." Indeed this teen seemed like an angel in his demeanor - all light and joy. The father said, "Oh, it was mutual. He told me that he thought that you live in a shrine!" Of course, my religious pictures need no upkeep so it is also the laziness of hating furniture because it has to be kept up, but still it was sweet.

Since I can’t drive, except to Mass, I can’t go to the Adoration chapel in Hot Springs which is in hard to get to place. Someone suggested on-line Adoration. I thought I would hate it, but I don’t. I go back to it between desultory tasks for a 10 minute God break.
It is making me more peaceful.

Adoration on line making me peaceful between things.

https://www.ewtn.co.uk/live/adoration

A letter from me to a friend in deep pain because his love for a woman is not requited:

Von Hildebrand says "love is a response to the unique preciousness of the other" and "a joining of God's stream of love for that person."

That is intensely valuable even if the other does not requite your love and is a foretaste of heaven where we will all love each other that way and it will be reciprocated.

But on earth you cannot make anyone requite your love.

Now Jesus experiences unrequited love for perhaps 1/2 of humanity!!!! So you can link your pain in this to his, including his pain for whatever ways you still don't totally requite his love, for example, by not trusting in an eternity of happiness awaiting you because of His love.

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Ronda Chervin received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University and an MA in Religious Studies from Notre Dame Apostolic Institute. She is a dedicated widow, mother, and grandmother.
Ronda converted to the Catholic Faith from a Jewish, though atheistic, background and has been a Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Loyola Marymount University, the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is an international speaker and author of some fifty books about Catholic thought, practice and spirituality. One of her latest is LAST CALL, published by Goodbooks Media.
Dr. Ronda is currently retired and living in Corpus Christi, Texas after her years of teaching philosophy at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut.
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3/23/2020 09:31:11 pm

I am sure that all people will have their own definitions when it comes to defining unrequited love. Lucky are those who were able to experience i. There are still some people who are waiting for love; a special love that will b give to them at the right time. But aside from romantic kind of love, we should also make sure that we desire the love that comes from God. You may not know it, but it is the greatest love of all.

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