My favorite part of the Enchridion consists on St. Augustine musing on the nature of the General Resurrection—and that if we retained all matter from our corporeal lives our fingernails would be outrageously long! I’m paraphrasing from memory, so I don’t have the exact quote, but it was amusing.
I used the Enchridion once for an Advent piece some years ago when writing of the Four Last Things. The theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love must be present within the Christian soul who gazes on the Eternal Beatitude (God).
It does. The original good (from creation) is never extinguished in any person. It’s possible that someone is so desensitized to cruelty that the person seems irredeemably evil. But the person is still human and good in that sense.
My favorite part of the Enchridion consists on St. Augustine musing on the nature of the General Resurrection—and that if we retained all matter from our corporeal lives our fingernails would be outrageously long! I’m paraphrasing from memory, so I don’t have the exact quote, but it was amusing.
I used the Enchridion once for an Advent piece some years ago when writing of the Four Last Things. The theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love must be present within the Christian soul who gazes on the Eternal Beatitude (God).
https://meaningofcatholic.com/2019/12/04/that-which-abides-the-end-of-all-things-and-what-lasts/
Thank you so much for the comment and the link to your Advent piece.
Interesting. If evil can only exist in something good, does that mean that people are inherently good or at least always have 'some' good in them?
It does. The original good (from creation) is never extinguished in any person. It’s possible that someone is so desensitized to cruelty that the person seems irredeemably evil. But the person is still human and good in that sense.