David Given Schwarm

It is characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and…

Deep sorrow does not come because one has violated a law, but only if one knows he has broken off the relationship with Divine Love.

As the “no” of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is, therefore, free, so [Mary’s] Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well.

The world might have expected the Son of God to be born in an inn; a stable would certainly be the last place where one would look for him. The less is: divinity is always where you least expect to find it. So the Son of God made man is invited to enter his own…