The Light of the East April 1946

In fact if the mind of the Church is to be found anywhere it is in the Missal the book which records the prayers that priests daily recite all over the world in the name of the whole Catholic Church and in connection with her supreme act of worship Holy Mass. [...] After all the only thing matter can do is to move about and it seemed to me unbelievable that a world consisting of moving particles of matter could account for could in fact be the inspirtion that produced the sonnets of Shakespeare the beauty that is enshrined in the Quartets of Mozart and also our recognition of the inspration and our appreciation of the beauty. [...] In other words the transition from the first step to the others is not a tranition from concrete to abstract objects ; it is a transition from the contemplation of the concrete through the senses which can only ascertain its sensible phenomena to a deeper conteplation of the same concrete objects through the mind which understands divines and justifies the sense-hidden implications of th [...] From the viewpoint of the quality of the symbolism displayed in them the history of these cemeteries may be made to comprise three periods : (1) While they are under private control ; (2) When they become Church propety ; (3) From the Peace of Milan 313 till the translation of relics ( circa 750 ). During the first of these We witness the rise of the firscentury cemeteries of St. [...] From the second century till the early years of the fourth there is a great development in the specifically Christian character of the symboism as one finds it inceptive in the cemeteries of the first group and more particularly in that of St.