TIME - II
Will beleaguered believers lose hope and delight in a living God unceremoniously dethroned by an elite whose success in probing the visible world has allowed their space-time-bound world view to dominate our culture?   Will fewer ordinary folk, attached by tradition and common sense to unobservable, unmeasurable beliefs, gather in vaulted enclosures to sing, pray, and exalt a timeless God no telescope or microscope can reveal?  Many among the educated and the prosperous no longer frequent such gatherings.

But not so many among the rest.  Stubbornly, they follow in the steps of ancients and primitives everywhere who have always known that time and space alone are insufficient to explain the world: the living devoutly bury the dead, singular events are significant, beauty ravishes the soul. . . .   
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Yes, in order that love be fully satisfied, it is necessary that it lower itself, and that it lower itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.                        St. Therese of Lisieux