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“And to you, little one,” he said, “I give the gift of finality. And to you, who are the least of my creations, I give the gift of never knowing it is so.”

All the contemporary triumphalism about choices and decisions simply represses the deep sadness of being trapped in a world of constrained options and limited resources. It is a self-imposed existential dishonesty, tarted up in consumer culture optimism, hiding the grim realities of the consequences of our actions in the bright store lights of a grocery aisle mentality.

Calixtus is said of caleo, cales, that is to say, eschauffe or make warm. For he was hot and burning, first in the love of God, and after, he was hot and burning in getting and purchasing souls, and thirdly, he was hot in destroying the false idols, and also in showing the pains for sin.