Thank you Dr Storm I found your presentation very informative particularly your explanation of the allegorical nature of the interaction between the serpent and the angels, the need for guides to help us through our life's journey and humility.
Fabulous! Thanks so much! I wondered if I was missing something, as I didn't understand the "easy" allegory. Thank you so much for your insights on this Canto!
Wow, that was so rich!!! I've listened over and over! Thank you for your marvelous study, your joy, and how you wove the meanings and teachings together so well!! So it's like humility is our rescue from sin's lure? Yes, let us ascend!!!! Thank you again!!
Thank you, Dr. Storm for your thorough and enjoyable walk through Canto VIII. I was especially struck by the focus on focus and how Purgatory is constantly refocusing us on grace and love and the journey ahead. I have been pondering how we as Christians must understand aesthetics and the role it plays in the spiritual life. Grace is the focus. How can we rational animals learn and remain devoted? Big questions in a very important Canto. Thank you!
Canto 08: The first night in Purgatory for Dante and Virgil commences peacefully, like dreams of home, as Sordello leads them downward into the Valley of the Negligent Princes. Two Angels, each bearing a flaming sword, indicating God’s justice, with a blunted tip, promising His mercy, appear as protectors above them. Dressed in the hopeful green of “Ordinary Time” for the liturgical year, which is about to recommence following Easter, the angels easily ward off, when it briefly appears, a serpent of temptations that might slither into the dreams of sleeping penitents. A cantor initiates a hymn of the evening hour of Compline, “Te luce ante” (To Thee before the light is done), that others join. Dante enters into a pleasant conversation with Judge Nino and Currado (Conrad) Malaspina who, while on earth, were political enemies but now are fast friends. As the time of the Pilgrims draws to a close in Ante-Purgatory, the four stars of the Cardinal Virtues (Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance), originally visible at dawn, now descend in the sky as the three stars of the Theological Virtues (Faith, Hope and Charity) begin to ascend; the Old Order passes away as the New Order begins.
Thank you Dr. Storm for a very interesting, informative, and well done presentation. The only "oops" is that the intro is mislabeled but that is a technical error, not yours. P.S. I like the tie.
Thank you Dr Storm I found your presentation very informative particularly your explanation of the allegorical nature of the interaction between the serpent and the angels, the need for guides to help us through our life's journey and humility.
Fabulous! Thanks so much! I wondered if I was missing something, as I didn't understand the "easy" allegory. Thank you so much for your insights on this Canto!
Wow, that was so rich!!! I've listened over and over! Thank you for your marvelous study, your joy, and how you wove the meanings and teachings together so well!! So it's like humility is our rescue from sin's lure? Yes, let us ascend!!!! Thank you again!!
Thank you, Dr. Storm for your thorough and enjoyable walk through Canto VIII. I was especially struck by the focus on focus and how Purgatory is constantly refocusing us on grace and love and the journey ahead. I have been pondering how we as Christians must understand aesthetics and the role it plays in the spiritual life. Grace is the focus. How can we rational animals learn and remain devoted?
Big questions in a very important Canto.
Thank you!
Much to ponder. I enjoyed the reference to Jones’ family.
Canto 08: The first night in Purgatory for Dante and Virgil commences peacefully, like dreams of home, as Sordello leads them downward into the Valley of the Negligent Princes. Two Angels, each bearing a flaming sword, indicating God’s justice, with a blunted tip, promising His mercy, appear as protectors above them. Dressed in the hopeful green of “Ordinary Time” for the liturgical year, which is about to recommence following Easter, the angels easily ward off, when it briefly appears, a serpent of temptations that might slither into the dreams of sleeping penitents. A cantor initiates a hymn of the evening hour of Compline, “Te luce ante” (To Thee before the light is done), that others join. Dante enters into a pleasant conversation with Judge Nino and Currado (Conrad) Malaspina who, while on earth, were political enemies but now are fast friends. As the time of the Pilgrims draws to a close in Ante-Purgatory, the four stars of the Cardinal Virtues (Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance), originally visible at dawn, now descend in the sky as the three stars of the Theological Virtues (Faith, Hope and Charity) begin to ascend; the Old Order passes away as the New Order begins.
Very helpful - thank you professor Storm.
Excellent discussion, thank you!
Thank you Dr. Storm for a very interesting, informative, and well done presentation. The only "oops" is that the intro is mislabeled but that is a technical error, not yours. P.S. I like the tie.
FYI: the intro says "Canto 7"
…and a great Sean Connery impersonation
Very well spoken young man. Yes, I said young man.
Whipper Snapper. 🤣
:) - It went fast, didn't it Jennifer?
If I knew that I were to be this widely viewed, I really would have learned to tie my bow-tie.