Acedia

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T.S. Eliot

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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero, Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo. LET us go then, you and I, When the evening is […]

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“Staying Put to Get Somewhere,” Dennis Okholm

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I heartily recommend a free subscription to Baylor’s Christian Reflection. It is free. “Ultimately, if we believe that by divine providence we have been placed in a community for the nurturing of our souls, then not to persevere but to flee that ‘cell’ in a fit of restless acedia is also to flee God: ‘…one

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