The world we study and experience —every atom, cell, mountain and thought— rests on an invisible but real ordered structure. Reality exists across a meaningful hierarchy of forms, where each level participates more deeply in existence (life of God), intelligibility (wisdom of God), and love. At the bottom of the hierarchy lies simply a concept: pure potential for physical form (called “prime matter” in classical metaphysics). Above this exist five real distinct kinds of form: structured physical matter, physical vegetative life, physical sentient animal life, rational human life (integrated physical...
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Half asleep at a 6am Mass for maybe 20 people my soul was awakened when a group of elderly women behind me began singing in such beautiful harmony. If I hadn't turned to look I would have believed anyone if they said it was a choir of angels floating above us. The logic and reason of Jesus had already made sense, but this was the first memorable encounter I'd ever had with the Mother of God and the Holy Family of her Son.
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