Profane Hearts Make Pious Hands Unclean
The Problem
Scrutiny is a thorn in the Church’s flesh and unrepentant sin is her insufferable throbbing.
“What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning, so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?”
Herein lies the enigma above all enigmas: If our ecclesiastical vocation is to be a light in the darkness, how, then, could we who existentially oppose the darkness reconcile ourselves with the darkness existentially? Empty outwardness must be smashed with the force of a hammer by an absolute inwardness.
Truth Needs Witnesses
Piety without content is a heart issue that violates the law of logic no more than the conviction that jest and earnest, difference and sameness, perfection and defect, lightness and weight, beginning and end are neither one nor the other but both at once.
Existence does not precede, but follows from, essence. To be a light in the world means more than the mere casting of shadows. It is the collective calling to dispel the all-pervasive darkness therein as beacons of the light of Christ.
