“We have walked with pleasure for many a mile and we have smiled and smiled, and learned nothing. But what a vista of the mystery which lies in the heart of the world’s redemption was unveiled when we, as a people, walked with sorrow! People become more united in sorrow than in pleasure. Across the nation, citizens were enjoying theaters, sports, parties, cocktails, and a thousand and one pursuits of eros in which the ego satisfies itself under the guise of a love of another. Then all these disparate and separate enjoyments, like scattered drops of mercury, suddenly came together in one center – the broken heart of America. There were no longer political parties, business competitors, grasping fingers – there was beating only one heart. It is well to be proud of our country, but if the memory of a death means anything, we will no longer boast as if the peacock were our national symbol, saying: ‘I am an American,’ but, in the full consciousness that our symbol is an eagle mounting ever upwards, we will say: ‘May I be worthy to be an American.’” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Power of Love)
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:50:00 +0000
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