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of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time] Reading 1 1 Peter 1:18-25 Beloved: Realize that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious Blood of...

truth. It does not make appeal to might nor triumph. It does not command obedience nor seek to prove how pitiful and futile are your attempts to plan defenses which would alter it. It merely wants to give you happiness, for such its...

of a woman giving birth as the price of sin, and the labor to fight against sin. With the sin of the first Adam came futile labor, and with the victory of the second Adam, the work of toiling to achieve righteousness began...

He viewed the essence of the world as a blind "will," and defined life, which swings between unfulfilled desire and futile boredom, as suffering itself. Therefore, he advised escaping this cycle of suffering through artistic...