‘Canto fermo’ is the term for an existing melody used as the basis for a new composition. The prose and poetry of mystics like John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Edith Stein – all informed by the Gospel – is my ‘melody’. The ‘new composition’ is this blog and my indie novel ‘The Age for Love’. To buy my book go to amazon.com or smashwords.com and download to your kindle, iPad, phone or any reading device.
Thursday, 3 July 2014
AS A COLLECTION OF INDIVIDUALS WE'RE CALLED COMMUNITY (Letter to Dom Post, July 3)
‘No harm being an individual’, says Rosemary McLeod (July 3). Of course not -
but as a collection of individuals we’re called community, and our community is
broadly based on a set of rules (the Ten Commandments) which teaches the
individual to put others’ interests before their own. And the further these
‘rules’ recede from our national consciousness, the more violent and
high-maintenance our community becomes.
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