"Let the famous Benedictine dual conept, Ora et Labora, be for you, my brothers and sisters, an inexhaustible source of true wisdom, of sure equilibrium, of human perfection. May prayer give wings to your work, purify your intentions, and defend you from the perils of boredom and carelessness; and may your work, after your exertions, allow you to rediscover the invigorating force of the encounter with God, in whom we once more recover our true, great stature. Ora et labora!" (Pope John Paul II, Address to workers, Turin, 13 April 1980, quoted in Agenda for the Third Millenium, p. 156)
Quotes, Word, other Miscellaneous: January 2005 Archives
Rae Stabosz writes:
I'm putting together a panel discussion for the upcoming ConSecration I SF convention sponsored by the Christian Science Fiction, Fantasy and Gaming Society. The convention will be held March 11-13 in Chicago. See http://consecration-con.org/ for details.
Would anyone like to join me on the panel? You'd have to come to ConSecration on your own dime (this is a self-supporting con) but it will be lots of fun and if you live near Chicago, it could be fairly inexpensive. I'm looking to maximize the Catholic participation. And if you are a professional author, we'll get them to put you on the web page and in the adverts as a Pro Guest.
The topic will be "Sex, Violence, and the Christian Speculative Writer." It's a topic of interest to me especially because my friend Mark Rogers writes some of the most violent and sexually explicit SF fare I know of that is also perfectly and beautifully theologically correct (he is a Catholic writer.) Also as a Pauline Cooperator I have participated in discussions of what it means to "meet the culture where it is at" and "uplift the culture with one's art." What makes this fun for me is that I have no hard and fast POV on what's appropriate and what is not — just a bunch of resources and opinions.
I may be able to find you someone to share a room with.
Email me at stabosz@UDel.Edu if you are interested.
"Safeguard above all the integrity of the word of God and of Christian teaching. ... Spare no effort in seeing that the word of Scripture reaches the hands of everyone, even if this entails much work and sacrifice."
— Pope John Paul II, To the Prelates of the Hungarian Episcopal Conference, September 7th, 1996
diriment (DIR-uh-ment) adjective
Nullifying.
[From diriment-em, present participle of dirimere (to separate or interrupt), from emere (to take). Ultimately from Indo-European root em- (to take or distribute) that is also the source of words such as example, sample, assume, consume, prompt, ransom, vintage, and redeem.]
"Arguably, sometime Illinois senatorial candidate Jack Ryan is a cad. One might even contend that he is a dummy. However, neither of these characteristics have ever been a diriment impediment to service in the United States Senate."
Andrew Greeley; Will Voters Reject the Media Feeding Frenzy?; Chicago Sun Times; Jul 2, 2004."Thus are we able to report that the Bishop of London's hamster has shuffled off the treadmill, that there is a lively correspondence over whether Worzel Gummidge may lawfully marry Aunt Sally ('surely there are two diriment impediments to such a union')."
Mike Amos; John North - In Search of Kate Adie; Northern Echo (Darlington, UK); Sep 27, 2001.
[I'm posting this since it's a term used in canon law and I didn't know what it meant until I got this in my A Word A Day (www.wordsmith.org) subscription.]
