Br. Charles Marie Rooney, O.P., on Doing and One's True Worth

"Americans are notorious the world over for being doers, people who get things done. We pride ourselves on designing and creating, organizing and executing and buzzwording about - and all at maximal efficiency. We esteem ourselves for these things because they are generally good and because we are quite good at them. One need only look around.

"But as with any good thing this side of heaven, we are wont to distort the importance of our doings and so idolize them. . . ."

In a recent commentary, Brother Charles Marie Rooney, O.P., reflected on how one can "lose sight of the fact that behind all of our actions, whether good or bad, and underneath all of our habits, whether good or bad, is a more fundamental reality: an eternal soul called to supernatural life". and on the true metric for judging worth - love.

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Dominicana: Doing, Being, Loving (20 DEC 21)