![]() His example informed the Desert Fathers, who gave away their worldly possessions and removed themselves from social and political distractions in order to achieve as much as possible an unmediated encounter with God-a way always beset by demonic temptations. Anthony of Egypt, whose Memorial the Church celebrated earlier this week. It was an unforgettable day that brought home an extraordinary version of the life inspired by St. One day that May, I joined a group traveling out into the Atlantic to Skellig Michael seven or eight miles off the western coast of Ireland, the starkly beautiful site of monastic withdrawal-the stone beehive huts still stand-dating back to the Sixth Century. ![]() The end of a liberal education should not be escape from the corrupt contemporary world or the achievement of a purity that increasingly excludes others, but rather the cultural incarnation of the Word in our own time and our own history.Īlmost fifteen years ago, my wife and I took a trip to Ireland-part vacation, part pilgrimage, part occasion to see our oldest daughter in action while she was working with the Irish Studies program at Notre Dame. ![]()
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