America's Gandalf

I went back to Tolkien for inspiration, to an old catechism for answers, and employed some real skepticism at last. I saw that my newly cultivated doubts were cheap excuses, blasé retorts to the ultimate questions, graffiti sprayed across the Sistine ceiling. As once I'd read The Silmarillion to explicate The Hobbit, now I delved into the Catholic Encyclopedia, delighting in the real complexity, the exquisite depths and heights and breadth of God's love and truth, His works and world. I found my very own Gandalf in Rev. John Hardon, S.J., who graciously let me sit in on his college classes.
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Our Gandalf has fallen into Shadow(earthly death), but perhaps through his canonization God might reveal to us our Gandalf the White. 

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1 comment:

James K Savonarola said...

next to Ven. Fulton Sheen Fr. Hardon is my favorite to play on the MP3 for car trips, so easy to understand