"Fire or Ice. [In his poem 'Fire and Ice', Robert] Frost characterizes the end of the world in anthropological terms: flaming desire or chill hate. Having written the poem in 1920 after the First World War, Frost was well aware of the destruction that man could wreak. He also knew personally, just as we all do, how strongly the passions of desire and hate can motivate us to become agents of that destruction.
"But Frost also recognizes what even a casual investigation of astronomy reveals. Whether humans cause it or not, Earth will eventually die, engulfed by an expanding sun in a few billion years - if nothing happens sooner. Even if we as a human race managed to make it to Mars and eventually ventured out of the Solar System, still, the heat death of the universe looms at the end of the line.
"Reflecting on the end of the world could lead one to despair, but Christian hope points us beyond that end. . . ."
In a recent commentary, Brother Bartholomew Calvano, O.P.,
reflected on the virtue of hope and the importance of focusing on "things that will really last instead of those things which are passing away."
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Dominicana: Heaven, Watching the World Burn (15 MAR 21)
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