The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing—to reach the mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from—my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing?

@riecker I jest. And as a Lutheran who thinks John 6 is eucharistic, I agree with you

@IMPERATORAUS ask the average RC or EO if they pray to saints

@IMPERATORAUS I don't pray to Mary, but not for a silly excuse like "she's dead."

@TaylorLoy *should*? no, you don't have to. Can? I mean i'd better think so considering my username lol

@pearlythingz they don't need sex! no one does! thanks be to God the world is wide and full of good things to do

@pearlythingz I'd rather live in delusion than be married to a cheater. The real sun beats your lamp hollow

@pearlythingz sex is not a need actually!

@pearlythingz sex is not like food. no one needs sex

@JonnyRoot_ @KristanHawkins Thanks for bringing this to my attention, so I can support her even more!

@Andrewnsnyder All are cool but like can I come take the TWHF class??!

RT @LatineLoquimini: angusta est domus animae meae quo venias ad eam: dilatetur abs te. "The house of my soul is too small to receive The…

@badazn I don't see this as an exception

RT @PastorMcKinley: “Of course it’s real. Where do you suppose the songs come from?” “I was never certain. I hoped. I dreamed. But it all…

@Tuor_ofGondolin @JustusMeek Sure, that's fair. I don't think they're mean to answer all our questions. We definitely shouldn't approach them as if they are trying to be hard fantasy with perfect magic systems

@Tuor_ofGondolin @JustusMeek If you want to learn more about Lewis' intentionality and the depth of his interaction with the western canon, try Planet Narnia and The Discarded Image. Read his letters too.

@Tuor_ofGondolin @JustusMeek Bacchus is present to represent the Dionysian philosophy and revel which is tempered by the presence of Christ.

@Tuor_ofGondolin @JustusMeek You're asking the wrong questions. Lewis didn't put Father Christmas in Narnia because Narnia had a nativity in the past. He put him in to represent the joy of celebration and the real Christmas of Christ.