Monday and hot in Massachusetts. This morning, Kara joined a ragamuffin assemblage of kids from church making pilgrimage to the beach. Lynn-nore slathered her with UV30 sunscreen, put a water bottle in her hand and off she went happy as a clam. The news later in the day was that Kara and peers played in water up to her chest and that all observed three different kinds of jellyfish and another, interesting looking spiny fish. (Lynn-nore and I appreciate the latter part, but are driven to knots of parental anxiousness at the former.) No action on the Caleb front. Electricity has started going off for lengthy periods of time during the day. Oh yes, yesterday we came home from church to find the power off. First thing we did after assessing the situation was send me to the local food mart. When I arrived, people were streaming through the permanently-open electric doors like so many ants. Sans electricity, everything is so quiet. The staff were hollering back and forth trying to cover the frozen section in some kind of tarp, and brown-skinned men and women waited in infinitely long lines to buy candy, magazines and soda. That was the strange part. Outside of a 40ish man who came in behind me, I was the only one piling on the ice. 10 bags went tightly pressed together into the freezer, and a few minutes later, the power came back on. I’ve finally begun reading a book assigned for review: Adam Cooper. The Body in St. Maximus the Confessor (Oxford 2005). Maximus is amazingly contemporary once you get past that Byzantine Greek and his dependence upon Gregory of Nazianzus and Pseudo-Dionysius. Here’s a good quote:
In apprehending the Word, a person receives, or better, is received by the complete holy Trinity. It is not finally the vision of the glory of the Son to which the worthy attain, but the vision of the glory of the Father – in the Son – through the Spirit….Scripture’s true purpose is to lead us in the Spirit from the multiple ‘words’ to the singular ‘Word’ in whom we come finally to the Father.
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Which of St Maximus' works is it pulling from, out of curiousity? I really need sometime soon to get around to reading at the very least the extracts from him in the Philokalia, particularly as Ss Nikodimos and Makarios felt his writings to be so important that they included more of him than of any other author.
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