Leo Wong

20141209 Neither inspired nor infallible, but obedient.

“Who can really pray to a Being, about whose existence he is seriously in doubt?” —Newman’s Apologia

[But: Sir, I believe: stop my not believing. Sc. 54 (Mark 9:24)]

20141205 Free will does not mean free choice.

20141203 Once you’re in Heaven, there are no more tests [or temptations?].

20141201 It is not so important to be right as to be with.

All good come from God.

“Many things are uncertain. God is pleased and rejoices when a soul distrusts Him for His own sake; because it loves Him, it is prudent and itself asks and searches for help, to make certain that it is really God who is acting within it.” —Diary of St. Faustina Kowalkska, Marian Press, 2005, 64.

20141120 Confession.

20141119 Are there no saints on the Internet?

20141112 One can always be of Love’s party.

20141110 Forgiveness must be asked for.

20141109 Abstract art is sauce without meat.

20141028 Difference between trying to do good and trying to do good for God.

20141024 Confession

With prayer, things happen that would not have happened.

Every Catholic is in a culture in time, but Catholicism is “beyond culture” and eternal.

“It is a mark of the professional that he knows the books he does not need to read, indeed ought not to read, because they get in the way of his pursuit of the truth.” —Frederick D. Wilhelmsen, “The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom.”

“We no longer live in a book-dominated culture; to treat our students as though we did is to violate their very psychic structure. Today we enter a new kind of Middle Ages, but Great Books people still absent-mindedly behave as though they were living in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. Ibid., published in Modern Age, Summer/Fall 1987. [https://incudireddere.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/wilhelmsen.pdf]

I would rather live under a good king than a good president. Viva Cristo Rey!

20141022 To love God, be a Catholic.

The Church wants an open-admissions policy, but has not plans for remedial education. Evidence of the latter is the ignorance of today’s Catholics.

It may take a while for a girl to appreciate the phrase “her most chaste spouse.”

20141021 The Church wants to say welcome but doesn’t say why anyone should want to come in.

The wrong thing to say is that the Church has changed – and worse: that it needs to change.

20141020 Priests should not wear, much less look at, their wristwatches during Mass.

I would like to die praying.

20141009 Christendom vs. Christianity; or rather: the idea of Christendom vs. Christianity.

One cannot imagine Jesus being a team player.

20141006 Is the Gospel still news.

20141002 If I knew, I would pray. Since I don’t know, I will pray. Since I shall know, I do pray.

He lived, he loved, he prayed.

20140923 Adam’s sin was no worse than the sins I commit at least seven times a day. “Rise up again.”