"Everything is of one piece. Whenever we don't take that seriously, we pay a price.
"The
renowned theologian, Hans Urs Von Balthasar gives an example of this.
Beauty, he submits, is not some little 'extra' that we can value or
denigrate according to personal taste and temperament, like some luxury
that we say we cannot afford. Like truth and goodness, it's one of the
properties of God and thus demands to be taken seriously as goodness and
truth. If we neglect or denigrate beauty, he says, we will soon enough
begin to neglect other areas of our lives. Here are his words:
"'Our
situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much
courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow
herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking
then along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be
sure that whoever sneers at her name, as if she were an ornament of a
bourgeois past, whether he admits it or not, can no longer pray and soon
will no longer be able to love.'"
In a recent commentary, Father Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I.
reflected on the interconnectedness of everything and on how, if we separate a thing from its sisters, we soon pay a price.
To access Father Ron's complete post, please visit:
The Boston Pilot: Echoes: Snake-bitten (23 JAN 19)
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