The two or three of you who regularly look at my blog may be wondering if I have fallen off the face of the earth since I have been posting so sparsely. I could make excuses and say it was because I was out of town on vacation, which I was. But the main reason is that I do not feel I have had much to say. There is a reason for this.
I have mentioned in previous posts that I have been reading more books of a philosophical nature. It started with von Hildebrand and from there to Josep Pieper. I have learned a great deal from these two wonderful authors but I have also learned something else – how much I do not know. Unlike most of my brothers in the priesthood I do not have any background in philosophy. The reason for this is that philosophical studies are not a part of the curriculum at the Episcopal seminary I attended (or any other Episcopal seminary as far as I know). Due to this lack of knowledge I have felt that I have nothing worth saying.
I addition to this general feeling of ignorance I have also been mentally kicking myself for all the time I wasted earlier in my life. I spent so much time just watching TV or playing video games and had no real desire to learn. All that time I wasted that I could have been laying the groundwork for what I now need to know. Instead, I indoctrinated myself (through the seemingly tame influence of television) in the wrong thinking of our modern society. And now, how much I have to unlearn and how much I have to learn!
Thanks be to God I have a friend at the parish (who is a systematic theologian) who has agreed to help me get ‘up to speed’ in my deficiencies. And I ask you, the reader, to pray that God may open my mind to understand.
Dear Fr. Moore, I was unable to post my comment on your blog… I know it is my deficiency in learning how to do this. Thank you for your honesty. This is valuable information especially for our youth. If you are able to reach our youth this will certainly help sooo much. Please keep sharing, even if you change one teenager it will be wonderful… hope its my teenager!!! Annie Gonzales Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:13:09 +0000 To: plus-phone@hotmail.com
Thanks for your comment and thanks for reading. Yes we most certainly need to reach our teenagers. But this can be so hard when we are competing with the secular society that surrounds us.
You don’t need a background in philosophy to have something worth saying. You went from TV and video games to an Episcopalian seminary. Something’s obviously going around in your head:)