One individual person is not a person.
…only a rich relational life – not an obsessively self-analytical one – will make us fully human. Furthermore, self-sacrifice is so important for our soul’s well-being that we can even say that we are meant to be priests, nothing more and nothing less. And finally, as persons and as a society we are meant to glorify God and to become beautiful.
-Timothy Patitsas in The Ethics of Beauty
Gladsome Lights 
How interesting. I’ve heard of that book.
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I’m loving it!
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Have you read Henri Nouwen’s The Return of the Prodigal Son where he explores this painting?
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I haven’t – I didn’t know about it! Do you recommend it?
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I think you’d like it. It’s sort of an indepth picture study and exploration of the character of God through the actions of the prodigal son’s father.
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“we are meant to be priests”
I love this.
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