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January 8, 2007
Piety and Sacrifice
In Union with God, in a paragraph introducing other instruction, this remarkable insight:
Piety without the spirit of sacrifice. . . is like an organism without a backbone.
--Blessed Columba Marmion
Now, I, for one, am very fond of organisms lacking backbones; however, I do not read this to be a slam of the invertebrate world, but rather the statement that such a situation is akin to a vertebrate lacking a backbone--and that observation is very sobering indeed.
Note: When I first typed and published this entry, I discovered that in the course of typing the quotation above, I had misspelled sacrifice as sacrafice. As anyone can tell, this is an obviously Freudian reference to the sacrum, an important part of any spine.
Posted by Steven Riddle at January 8, 2007 10:33 AM
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