Personal Prayer
Fr. Thomas Acklin, Fr. Boniface HicksOn no other source, therefore, does the maintenance of Catholic belief and behavior so depend—lacking which it soon falls away, blown apart, as it were, by the refusal to speak to God, to lay bare our vulnerability before Him. He Who has, amazingly, already placed His own infinite vulnerability before us. This is because there can be no real lasting love without first putting oneself at risk. “Be worthy,” says Paul Claudel, “of the flame consuming you.” Be like God, in other words, who, the authors tell us, “never hedges His bets or counts the cost. He gives without measure. This divine vulnerability was already revealed when God exposed His image by placing His ‘fingerprints’ all over His creation. Then He revealed His vulnerability more radically in making creatures with free will, in His image and likeness, who could relate to Him by sharing vulnerably with Him, but who could also choose to reject Him.”