Leo Wong

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.”

20140913 No need to kill time in heaven.

20140909 “If you who are evil” applies to everybody, so no need to think that the finger is pointed particularly at you. But of course, “You can do good things” should be taken personally, since the good think I can do is before me personally. If you, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children." Matthew 7:11

20140905 The usefulness of sour grapes.

The consciousness of a dog is somewhere between that of a dead Jesus and that of the living Jesus.

20140904 Someone will benefit from a prayer.

Love responds to love.

Every time I pray someone benefits.

20140901 If it doesn’t matter to God, it needn’t matter to me. If it matters to me, I can pray for it to God.

20140828 It may not be what God wants, but at least it’s not what I want.

“Religion is not our concern; it is God’s concern: be still and know.” —Thomas R. Kelly

“Count on God knocking on the doors of time.” Ibid.

Experience over inference. Ibid.

An experience of the life of God. Ibid.

By an interior act and attitude we lift them repeatedly before the throne and hold lthem there in power. This is work, real labor of the soul. It takes energy but it is done in joy." Ibid.