Imitatio Machina
The machine cannot be our mirror.
8 min readSep 7, 2022
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The essay below, Imitatio Machina, is being re-published with permission. It originally appeared at Return.Life.
I spent nearly five years seriously discerning a religious vocation, several of them in Italy. One year I went on a retreat at a monastery in Umbria, where I got to know the abbot during my five-day stay. One evening he noticed that I…