The Church often speaks of sin. Perhaps we have been guilty too often of morbid obsession in this regard. As often as not these days, on the other hand, it seems that the Church speaks too little of the reality of darkness. In both cases, the Church seems unable to speak with much inner authority or vitality: the weary have walked away; the darkness laughs, and breeds.
Only through the total embrace of love, absolute self-offering for the sake of all people, and the humble pursuit of virtue, to be able to give ourself away in love, have we any hope of delivering light and life to our human family and to our world.
God, give us your Spirit, that we might love.
