El Filósofo

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Filosofical Fragments

  • What I Learned in ’22

    Last last year, my spiritual director recommended I read God’s Voice Within written by Fr Mark Thibodeaux SJ. I practically devoured it, and since then I have been adamant in saying that this is the book I wish I’d read earlier in the year because, for me, 2022 was a year of discernment in epic…

  • The City of God

    Recently, a friend and I were caught up in discussion about the temptation of many Christians to dismiss cities as hotbeds of degeneracy, cesspools of Satan, and wretched hives of scum and villainy. (That last one’s from Star Wars!) It would be much better, in many minds, to retreat into the country, and avoid such…

  • Choosing Heaven

    This country was no use to him at all. Everyone here had ‘survived’ already. Nobody took the least interest in the question. There was nothing more to prove. His occupation was clean gone. Of course if he would only have admitted that he’d mistaken the means for the end and had a good laugh at…

  • The Greatest Story Ever Told

    Merry Christmas, everyone! I’d be remiss if I didn’t reflect—today of all days—on the spirit of the season: that is, the coming of the Lord, our Saviour, when he was born on this day thousands of years ago in a manger. That is, after all, what Christmas is all about. For us men, and for…

  • The Four Last Things: Heaven

    Advent is not only a time to prepare for Christmas: it is also a time to reflect on the Four Last Things (Death, Judgement, Hell, and Heaven) as I have done these past few weeks. I hope you’ve found these meditations helpful. And with only a few days until the Big One, I want to…

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    Socrates, Jesus, and Truth

    The first philosopher I fell in love with was Plato. In my undergrad, I took a number of courses about him and read a variety of his works. (I still haven’t read everything.) At first, I would have probably thought myself something of a Platonist, but as I furthered my studies, that changed. There are…

  • The Four Last Things: Hell / The Fatal Vanity of Dorian Gray

    Advent is not simply only a time to reflect on the birth of Our Lord, the Word made Flesh, but also a time to reflect on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Hell, and Heaven. Over these four weeks of Advent, join me as I follow along with meditations of St Francis de Sales, as…

  • Neustra Señora de Guadalupe

    Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and I thought I’d share my thoughts because it is a miracle that has particular significance to me. It’s not that I’m Mexican or have any attachment to the area: rather, these Marian apparitions were the first miracle of private revelation that was explained to…

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    In No Strange Land (A Review)

    For some time now, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of the Oratory. I’d heard the word pop up in various readings about the lives of the Saints, such as John Bosco, John Henry Newman, and Frère André Bessette. It was only when I visited the Toronto Oratory that my curiosity was piqued, and I…

  • The Four Last Things: Judgement

    Advent is not simply only a time to reflect on the birth of Our Lord, the Word made Flesh, but also a time to reflect on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell. Over these four weeks of Advent, join me as I follow along with meditations of St Francis de Sales, as…