George Weigel on the Ever-accelerating Passage of Time

". . . Somewhere after one's 55th or 60th birthday, time seems to accelerate to what Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise might have ordered up as 'Warp Factor Nine, Mr. Sulu.' In Cracow, recently, I had lunch with two friends I hadn't seen since the Pre-Plague Era (2019), and they startled me with the reminder that we'd first met 14 or 15 years ago. . . ."

In a recent commentary, George Weigel (columnist and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC) reflected on how only at the moment of death, or in anticipation of it, can one offer back to God the "entirety of our earthly journey: in gratitude for the divine gift of life, in humble thanks for the divine mercy, in prayerful hope of a merciful judgment, and in anticipation of a transfigured life beyond the shadow of death."

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