How the Word Made Flesh Vanquishes Barbarism, Servility, and Despair
Thursday, February 23, 7:30 PM, at the UW Newman Center, 4502 20th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Many of you will remember last year’s evening of discussion with Professor Michael Matriotti on the spirituality of Russian monastics, their tradition of spiritual direction, and its amazing legacy. If you were there, you know the level of intensity, interest, and depth of spiritual reflection that Prof. Matriotti brings to his subject. To listen to this speaker is not merely to be informed, but to have one’s heart kindled.
Well, Professor Matriotti is back again to speak to us about Hilaire Belloc, author of The Servile State and many other works, advocate of distributism, and of course the dear friend of our hero, G. K. Chesterton.
“For Hilaire Belloc,” says Matriotti, “the doctrine of the Incarnation was not an abstraction but a palpable historical event affecting the reality of all things. “The Incarnation is the inspiration of the romanticism of the real so characteristic of Christian civilization. The loss of the sense of the reality of this historical event is destroying inevitably the ability to make traditions live anew, is bargaining away economic freedom, and is sapping the zest for life.”
See you there! And please bring a friend!
