Both the person who is transported by natural beauty and the one snatched up by the beauty of Christ must appear to the world to be fools, and the world will attempt to explain their state in terms of psychological or even physiological laws (Acts 2:13). But they know what they have seen, and they care not one farthing what people may say. They suffer because of their love, and it is only the fact that they have been inflamed by the most sublime of beauties—a beauty crowned with thorns and crucified—that justifies their sharing in that suffering.—Hans Urs von Balthasar, Glory of the Lord, Vol. 1: Seeing the Form (1967)
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
They Suffer Because of Their Love
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