I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.
The September 11 tragedies provided the Bush Administration with all the psychological, diplomatic, and administrative pull it needed to turn Americans’ controllable “fear of terror” into uncontrollable “terror of fear”, amid hysteria and rhetoric, topped often with outright lies, or unsubstantiated claims here and there, by some of the highest United States Administration officials.
