What Time Is It?

Raised Catholic

This week we are pondering our experience of time through a spiritual lens. We will look to Jesus as a great example of someone who marked and discerned His time, and who used it with intention and purpose.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. Article: Time's Passage is Probably an Illusion, from Scientific American

2. Video: Carpe Diem scene from Good Will Hunting

3. Article: St. Augustine's Relativistic Theory of Time, from Church Life Journal

4. Song: Who Lives, Who Does, Who Tells Your Story, from Hamilton Original Broadway Soundtrack

5. Song: Seasons of Love, from Rent Original Broadway Soundtrack

6. Quote: "Our life comes to us moment by moment. One moment disappears before the next comes along: and there is room for very little in each. That is what Time is like. And of course you and I tend to take it for granted that this Time series--this arrangement of past, present, and future--is not simply the way life comes to us but the way all things really exist. We tend to assume that the whole universe and God himself are always moving on from past to future just as we do. But many learned men do not agree with that. Almost certainly God is not in Time. HIs life does not consist of moments following one another...

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind. God, from above or outside or all around, contains the whole line, and sees it all."
- C.S. Lewis, from “Mere Christianity”

7. Journal prompt: What time is it?

-within myself

-in my family

-in my community

-in our church

-in the world