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The temptation to be distracted from our own precious plots of land is terrible, as every man, looking into his pocket palantír, sees the forces of evil arrayed to destroy the world he loves. 

By Julian Kwasniewski, Crisis Magazine, Dec. 19, 2022

Julian Kwasniewski is a musician specializing in renaissance Lute and vocal music, an artist and graphic designer, as well as marketing consultant for several Catholic companies. …

Julian Kwasniewski

Most of us will never be Aragorns, or Gandalfs, or Frodos, or even Sam Gamgees. The vast majority of us will be the hobbits who never really understood what was going on and perhaps were even oblivious to the danger they were saved from by the heroism of a few unknown adventurers fighting a long, long way from home. But the temptation to be distracted from our own precious plots of land is terrible, as every man, looking into his pocket palantír, sees the forces of evil arrayed to destroy the world he loves.

What can we do? How can we avoid abandoning our duty to follow a call to save the world which is not rightly ours? We can do this by rediscovering how the small material realities—because of our Lord’s incarnation—can “become part of a large business which may lead to Beatitude”; how weak and fragile things are actually stronger and more enduring than the machinations of those who seem powerful in this world. …

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