Every Experience Of Beauty Points To [eternity].

We Are Not Only Interested In Those Aspects Of The Mystery Of The Roman Catholic Church Which Set Her Apart From The Other Christian Communities, But Also To Show How Often They Are Central Beliefs By Describing What Is Specifically Catholic In Such A Way That The Partner In Dialogue Can See, Even From His Own Standpoint, The Inner Consistency.

Faith Means The Fundamental Response To The Love That Has Offered Itself Up For Me. It Thus Becomes Clear That Faith Is Ordered Primarily To The Inconceivability Of God's Love, Which Surpasses Us And Anticipates Us. Love Alone Is Credible; Nothing Else Can Be Believed, And Nothing Else Ought To Be Believed. This Is The Achievement, The 'work' Of Faith: To Recognize This Absolute Prius, Which Nothing Else Can Surpass; To Believe That There Is Such A Thing As Love, Absolute Love, And That There Is Nothing Higher Or Greater Than It.

Hence The Importance Of Patience In The New Testament, Which Becomes The Basic Constituent Of Christianity, More Central Even Than Humility: The Power To Wait, To Persevere, To Hold Out, To Endure To The End, Not To Transcend One's Own Limitations, Not To Force Issues By Playing The Hero Or The Titan, But To Practice The Virtue That Lies Beyond Heroism, The Meekness Of The Lamb Which Is Led.

Being Disguised Under The Disfigurement Of An Ugly Crucifixion And Death, The Christ Upon The Cross Is Paradoxically The Clearest Revelation Of Who God Is.

Without Easter, Good Friday Would Have No Meaning. Without Easter, There Would Be No Hope That Suffering And Abandonment Might Be Tolerable. But With Easter, A Way Out Becomes Visible For Human Sorrows, An Absolute Future: More Than A Hope, A Divine Expectation.