Tidbits

"A purely pure prayer would not be a prayer but union and it would have
nothing to supplicate, no promise of presence to fulfill... it would replace
prayer with presence, for after the prayer for presence is answered, as St.
Thomas saw, there would be nothing left but to die."

Nahmanides says somewhere that one "repents of the sins of which he is aware
and atones for the sins of which he is not aware." The sacrifice covers
hidden faults. A general confession is possible.

I have become old and stodgy. I am too tired to move by ten. My body wakes me like clockwork at 7:30. Everything feels stiff and swollen in the morning, especially my neck. And I read
theology in bed.