Peripheral beauty

The Cross is the fullest revelation of God's love that man has received. So the Cross is the most beautiful creation, insofar as it most fully reveals the hidden depths of God's-being-love. And perhaps we could say that the pinnacle of this revelation was Christ's cry of thirst from the cross, his thirst for our love, to love and be loved by us. And we find this beauty, today, at this moment in history, on the periphery of existence. If we are looking to discover beauty in our life, if we want to find something more meaningful--what are we waiting for? Duc in altum. Launch into the deep! Into the depths of the love of Christ, into uncertainty, into a life lived in radical trust.

Asymptotic existence

If Christ is the outer limit of existence, the beginning and the end, the origin and destiny of creation--thereby encompassing all of reality...then let us live an asymptotic existence, throwing ourselves closer and closer to the limits of reality, conforming ourselves to his life and love. Above all, in imitating and making present in our world that universal icon of love--the Cross, the true limit of existence, beyond which lies the mystery of infinite life and therefore infinite possibilities of existence.