By Amber Noel
Jesus our brother, strong and good
Was humbly born in a stable rude,
And the friendly beasts around him stood,
Jesus our brother, strong and...
We talk about helicopter parents, but society has become filled with helicopter observers, who presume tragedy would be averted if they were in control.
Reason, the thing that separates us from brute beasts, does not liberate us from animality, but it liberates animality itself, for the actualization of a potential that cannot be actualized without reason.
Lesser Feasts and Fasts: "Of all the saints, Francis is the most popular and admired, but probably the least imitated; few have attained to his total identification with the poverty and suffering of Christ."
