Comments for What is man? at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 14:18:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-man.html#comment-13163 Thanks Kristina. I think that in the future parishes will be working on community much more. - Fr. Bramwell Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:23:33 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-man.html#comment-13145 Father, I really like this comment you made: "Perhaps parishes have to become the places to learn real personal communication again?" What a lovely light that sheds on the parish. - kristinajohannes Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:43:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-man.html#comment-13143 A nice piece of poetry but since it is not based on revelation it is more sentimental than factual which if you think about it is the point of the column this week. - Fr. Bramwell Sun, 26 Aug 2012 07:40:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-man.html#comment-13142 Pets do fill a void that humans don't. "If there are no dogs in heaven then I want to go where the dogs go." - Will Rogers. Lord Byron's epitaph for a dog: Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog. - Grump Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:57:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-man.html#comment-13140 Pascal puts it very well, when he says, “The greatness and the wretchedness of man are so evident that the true religion must necessarily teach us both that there is in man some great source of greatness and a great source of wretchedness. It must then give us a reason for these astonishing contradictions.” He concludes, “Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves... Thus, without Scripture, which has only Jesus Christ for its object, we know nothing and see only obscurity and confusion in God’s nature and ours.” - Michael Paterson-Seymour Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:25:43 +0100