"Faith... is a great cannon which hurls man out beyond the boundaries of the universe into the world of the infinite. It is not to be conceived of as something mild, sweetly enfeebling. Rather it must be thought of in terms of strength, of an explosion which has broken down the walls of the world, of a storming of nature by the hosts of heaven that man might be released from the limitations of his humanity. It grants to man the freedom by which he can surpass not only the limits of the present, of the past, of space, of material things, but even the limits of all nature. By it his mind walks into the limitlessness of God."
- Fr. Walter Farrell, from Magnificat, February 2026
My word! I sort of knew all that but had never thought to explain faith that way. So much better than Startreck and we don't need a starship to do it!! I hope you don't think I am being rude or facetious :)
ReplyDeleteNot at all! :D "Faith, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the faithful Christian."
DeleteBut when you think about someone like St. Lawrence, who, when they were roasting him alive, said something like, "turn me over, I think I'm done on this side" - well, there are some amazing things.
My favorite is the saint who hung his cloak on a sunbeam. I'm sure that must have been in the "dark ages"; only those living in the supposedly Dark Ages would have had enough faith to try such a thing. (imho)