(August reflections are all short pieces from Travelling Light) We forget that the world is the body of God, that, as the poets remember, eternity is caught in the most complex moment, infinity in a passing gesture and divinity in every aspiration of the human heart. Without the fact of the enfleshing of the Word, no poet or mystic could hold, with absolute certainty, what Hebrew authors glimpsed- that every drop of water, every grain […]
(August reflections are all short pieces from Travelling Light) In his celebrated Jubilee letter, Pope John Paul engaged with a theology of creation. As well as telling the mythical tale of humanity’s fall from grace and a subsequent salvation, this rich understanding of revelation holds that creation and incarnation can also be read as the greatest love story, revealing all of us as being a delight to God, carefully fashioned in God’s image. With or […]
(August reflections are all short pieces from Travelling Light) What I’m setting out to do is to show that any attempt at reaching union with God that is based on the deepening awareness of one’s own inner being, or of the inner heart of anybody or anything, has a basis in the true meaning of the mystery of creation and of incarnation. This is how I see it. Out of the overwhelming intensity of divine […]