“In Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence titled Magnifica Humanitas, we are reminded of our responsibility in creating a civilization of love, beginning with our grassroots community, namely, the family, the Church/parish, and the school. Below is a brief snippet that caught my attention because of my nerdiness with The Lord of the Rings.
“The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: ‘It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” [187] The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization. For this reason, it is worthwhile pausing to reflect on some aspects of how we, each in our own way, can cooperate in building the civilization of love.” – MH, Pope Leo XIV, no. 213.
([187] J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. The Return of the King, Part III, Book Five, Chapter IX, New York 1965, 190).
The continued call for unity stems from an understanding of our responsibilities to our communities that will surely ripple into the greater communities.” — Headmaster Eric Schreiber
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