May 20, 2016

Is anything truly secular? Dante’s Beatrice thinks not. And by wild ways he wandered, seeking for False phantoms of the good, which promise make Of joy, but never fully pay the score. With inspirations, prayer-wrung for his sake, vainly in dreams and other ways as well I called him home; so little did he [reckon]. […]

“Ask and it will be given you, seek and you shall find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Is Christ speaking to all? For Dante’s most accomplished reader, Christ’s promise in Matthew’s Gospel is a promise that extends not only to the faithful, but to all mankind. Reading Dorothy Sayers’ notes on