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The news that Not only does the Christian encounter the great act of thanksgiving at every Mass, at moment of prayer, at the very realization that every point of life is given –and not taken– but also that everything is total grace given by God for our happiness in this life and in the next. Happy Thanksgiving, friends!<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The news that some Europeans have been wrecked on a desert island is gratifying, in so far as it shows that there are still some desert islands for us to be wrecked on. Moreover, it is also interesting because these, the latest facts, actually support the oldest stories. For instance, superior critics have often sniffed … Continue reading Everyone “owes something to the world” –Chesterton reminds us: give thanks!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2212,2579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsome Europeans have been wrecked on a desert island is gratifying, in so far as
\nit shows that there are still some desert islands for us to be wrecked on.
\nMoreover, it is also interesting because these, the latest facts, actually
\nsupport the oldest stories. For instance, superior critics have often sniffed
\nat the labours of Robinson Crusoe, specifically upon the ground that he
\ndepended so much upon stores from the sunken wreck. But these actual people
\nshipwrecked a few weeks ago depended entirely upon them; and yet the critics
\nmight not have cared for the billet. A few years ago, when physical science was
\nstill taken seriously, a very clever boys’ book was written, called
\n“Perseverance Island.” It was written in order to show how “Robinson Crusoe”
\nought to have been written. In this story, the wrecked man gained practically
\nnothing from the wreck. He made everything out of the brute materials of the
\nisland. He was, I think, allowed the advantage of some broken barrels washed up
\nfrom the wreck with a few metal hoops round them. It would have been rather
\nhard on the poor man to force him to make a copper-mine or a tin-mine. After
\nall, the process of making everything that one wants cannot be carried too far
\nin this world. We have all saved something from the ship. At the very least,
\nthere was something that Crusoe could not make on the island; there was
\nsomething Crusoe was forced to steal from the wreck; I mean Crusoe. That
\nprecious bale, in any case, he brought ashore; that special cargo called “R.
\nC.,” at least, did not originate in the island. It was a free import, and not a
\nnative manufacture. Crusoe might be driven to make his own trousers on the
\nisland. But he was not driven to make his own legs on the island; if that had
\nbeen his first technical job he might have approached it with a hesitation not
\nunconnected with despair. Even the pessimist when he thinks, if he ever does,
\nmust realise that he has something to be thankful for<\/u>: he owes something to the
\nworld<\/b>, as Crusoe did to the ship. You may regard the universe as a wreck: but
\nat least you have saved something from the wreck.
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