Only In Christ Are All Things In

The Inner Reality Of Love Can Be Recognized Only By Love.

To Be Sure, The Response Of Faith To Revelation, Which God Grants To The Creature He Chooses And Moves With His Love, Occurs In Such A Way That It Is Truly The Creature That Provides The Response, With Its Own Nature And Its Natural Powers Of Love.

But The Saints Are Never The Kind Of Killjoy Spinster Aunts Who Go In For Faultfinding And Lack All Sense Of Humor. (nor Should The Karl Barth Who So Loved And Understood Mozart Be Regarded As Such.)for Humor Is A Mysterious But Unmistakable Charism Inseparable From Catholic Faith, And Neither The "progressives" Nor The "integralists" Seem To Possess It - The Latter Even Less Than The Former.

What The Father Gives Is The Capacity To Be A Self, Freedom, And Thus Autonomy, But An Autonomy Which Can Be Understood Only As A Surrender Of Self To The Other.

If God Wishes To Reveal The Love That He Harbors For The World, This Love Has To Be Something That The World Can Recognize, In Spite Of, Or In Fact In, Its Being Wholly Other.