That was apparent during Biden’s campaign against Donald Trump. It was not just an obligatory invocation of a benign Supreme Being, the kind of bromide that has often accompanied our civic rituals. The answers Biden gave-a somewhat perfunctory list that included “opportunity” and “security”-were less striking than the question he posed, which stood out for its unembarrassed particularity. “What are the common objects we love that define us as Americans?” Augustine, a saint of my church, wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love,” he said. When Biden took the oath of office, he placed his left hand on a century-old family Bible emblazoned with a Celtic cross, and, after he was sworn in, he gave an address that borrowed from both Scripture and Catholic tradition. Then, at the Capitol, a Jesuit priest and former president of Georgetown University, Father Leo O’Donovan, used an otherwise ecumenical prayer to remind the audience that a Catholic had asked for God’s blessing for George Washington’s inauguration. Matthew the Apostle, named for the patron saint of civil servants. Before the day’s public ceremonies, he attended a private Mass at the Cathedral of St. No one who watched the inauguration of Joe Biden could have missed that he was a Roman Catholic.
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Hitherto, all that you have attained has been-or at least has seemed to you-the direct result of your own hard work. But some word we must have, to indicate the real cleavage which exists between the second and third stages in the development of the contemplative consciousness: the real change which, if you would go further on these interior paths, must now take place in the manner of your apprehension of Reality. It at once suggests to him visions and ecstasies, superstitious beliefs, ghosts, and other disagreeable interferences with the order which he calls “natural” and inclines him to his old attitude of suspicion in respect of all mystical things. The hard separation which some mystical writers insist upon making between “natural” and “supernatural” contemplation, has been on the whole productive of confusion rather than clearness: for the word “supernatural” has many unfortunate associations for the mind of the plain man. 126 CHAPTER IX THE THIRD FORM OF CONTEMPLATION ISBN-13: 978-0940322882 Summary: Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland-and knew that he must go there. Winner of the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2003Īn African in Greenland Tete-Michel Kpomassie, 2001 Some publications: "Chemins de croix", "Atterissage," "Cola cola jazz," Canailles et charlatans", Un rêve d’Albatros"… He lives between Lomé and Bordeaux in France. His works explores the political and historic memory of African peoples through themes like slavery, dictatorship and racial and cultural métissage. He is professor of theater and literature at University of Lomé, Togo. 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