I want to welcome you, or maybe just welcome you back, to my site, The Eighth Way. It's been a long time. Six years have passed since I last authored a post here. However, given the times and the circumstances I felt that it was the right time to take up this project once again. In addition to the cosmetic changes, there will also be style changes. I have a roadmap in my mind for how I would like this site to grow and develop. I believe that both old and new readers will appreciate the changes. In particular, I will no longer be using the link post style that was perfected by John Gruber. If there are any links at all they will be of a more traditional sort. Speaking of John Gruber, I will, however, continue the practice of not permitting comments. I want to add something positive to the internet. One more comments section on the internet would be the opposite of that positive endeavor. So be at peace! The battles you seek can be found elsewhere. I'm sure they will be inescapable.
For those of you who are new, the name is an allusion to the Nine Ways of Prayer of St. Dominic, the founder of my Religious Order. The Eighth Way is the way of study. Through enriching our minds with true knowledge we cannot but grow in humility before the vastness of what is knowable and be awestruck by the poverty of what is yet to be known. In and through this same enrichment the mind is able to enter into communion with the Author of all that the mind knows rightly. If one is disposed well to study, then one will be well disposed to contemplation. And, that most noble act, whereby we are drawn into communion with God, will reveal to us the very nature of our destiny, that is, theosis.
Again, I welcome you to my little corner of the internet, where we can investigate the mysterious and the mundane. I hope you are pleased with that which you will read as much as I will enjoy the crafting of the words.
In Our Holy Father, St. Dominic,
Fr. Gabriel, OP
